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Root [Virgin Mobile] Storage Swaping issues!!!

Kiloroxx

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I am new to the Forums and I have a tiny bit of experience. I seem to be having trouble though, with swaping my internal storage and my external storage. Here is my Situation:
Running Stock ROM
Just barely Factory restored using TWRP
Have a 16gb sd card
Paths I used for the app were:
-Original internal: /sdcard/
-Original external: /storage/extSdCard
-Ext. SDCard device access: dev/block/vold/179:33

Since the Victory (VM) has a small amount of space that isnt big enough for nice games like GTA or other big games, I knew their had to be something to swap my Storage spaces. i was right, but i messed up as said before. I used an App called "root external 2 internal sd". It seems like a nice idea. So i tried it, and I didnt really understand how to use it.

I followed the instructions which were pretty simple.
It is supposed to Temporarily Swap my Internal Storage space with my External Storage space, just until i boot up again. Then it restores from a back up made by the program after rebooting. Well it did that, but instead of the internal storage Swaping with the external SD card to get back to normal, it Mounted the internal SD Card on the external SD Card.So when i went into check the size of the external sd card in application manager in the settings of the phone, it read: INTERNAL STORAGE 1.73 total
EXTERNAL SD CARD: 1.73 toatal. IT should have said 1.73GB for INTERNAL and 14.9GB for EXTERNAL storage on it. I had I decided to mess with it some more and I Finaly got the app to do what it was made to do and I swaped external and internal storage. (I thought the app was buggy) I Rebooted my Victory and after it booted up again I uninstalled the app and i cleared the cache and data from the app too. then i rebooted the phone again and i still cannot revert to default settings which is having the internal storage in the internal storage and the external storage in the external storage. but instead of that, the internal storage(1.73GB) is mounted with the external and external(14.9GB) mounted with internal storage. I ALSO CANNOT INSTALL APPS!!!
I NEED HELP PLEASE!!!!!
 
Did you tell it to set at boot? if you did it made scripts that need to be deleted.(11extsd2internalsd) in system/etc/init.d folder the easiest way for the swap if your stock rooted is to prepare your sd card with 2 primary partitions one bigger for pics and stuff second ext4 for apps to sd . then install links2sd then flash this script
http://jerryscript.vmobi.us/Victorious/components/Victorious-Scripts-Tweaks%28fixed%29.zip with twrp .from jerry script and it will swap and setup mount. on boot .
 
The program still messed up my stuff though. And their is no script to delete in that folder. When my phone has no External sd card in it, It says I have 1.7 gb available on internal sd. When I put my sd card in my phone while the phone is on, it accurately says internalsd: 1.7gb total. External sd: 14.7gb.
When I boot my phone with 16gb external sd it says: internalsd 1.7 gb
ExternalSd:1.83gb.
When I unmount then remount my sd card while my phone is still on, it does this:
Internalsd 1.7gb external 1.83gb ---> internalsd 1.7gb external 14.7gb.
Also, the program has been removed and I didnt make a backup of anything before i used that program, so I dont know if I need to wipe my system in TWRP and find a stock version online or just...?
Also #2 after I boot the Virgin Mobile logo doesnt appear. This happened after I wiped everything except system and external storage in TWRP. I hope this info will help you understand more.
Also#3 after my sd card has been mounted for a while, it will all of a sudden put the external sd card were the internal sd card is. So storage says this: internal sd card 14.7gb External 14.7gb
Also#4 thanks for reading all the alsos


Update: I did some more searching and with the app put that file that Teach Me told me about. It was hidden in that directory and also their was a duplicate of the same file 1 direcrory up from where Teach Me told me to look. After I deleted them with root browser my storage is normal now.
 
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