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Root [Virgin Mobile] Swapping SD Card Storage (Partial Success)

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mogulbuster

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After rooting my phone and doing some searching around the forums on increasing my Galaxy Victory's storage I decided to try an app called Root External 2 Internal SD (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.codlab.int2ext&hl=en)

I played around with this and a file explorer to locate the correct paths, and changed the app's settings accordingly. In the end I ended up successfully swapping my SD card's storage so that when I look in Settings>Storage my total space is listed as 29.71 GB (my external card) with 27.66 available.

However when I cannot install more than the standard 2 GB of apps to the phone. In Settings>Application Manager it still displays my device memory as 1.7 GB used and 135 MB available.

I would assume that the app I used told the phone to use my external as internal and vice versa, but failed to change some system limit set at 2 GB. Does anyone know a way to change this? Is there even a possibility this could work?

For anyone interested the paths I used for the app were:
-Original internal: /sdcard/
-Original external: /storage/extSdCard
-Ext. SDCard device access: dev/block/vold/179:33

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
That, I actulaly don't know. I've been hunting around for a way to do this myself that won't hit that limit, as I've seen it referenced before.
 
I spent a good deal of time today hunting around for a way to get this to work. I still can't get the device memory to increase in application manager. I'm starting to wonder if there's a more direct pathway to one of the cards that I'm missing, or something simple like that. Of all the videos and tutorials I've seen of swapping, there are never additional steps to increase the device memory limit or anything of the like.

From what I've gathered somehow data/data restricts the storage in application manager, but I could be wrong. I tried a method that supposedly worked for another samsung phone (maybe the note) that involved increasing the size of my data/data backup file on the computer then restoring it. This didn't change anything for me.

I also tried Link2Sd which worked in creating the link and linking the apps to my sd card. However the space remained the same in application manager for each app, regardless of the fact it was linked to my sd card. It sounded like this was typical for app linkage, from what I've read.

Finally I did find one app that does work. It's called GL(Gameloft) to SD: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp&hl=en
It is not the same as App2Sd because it moves the data to your sd card when the app is "unmounted" then moves the data back to the phone when the app is "mounted". I personally would rather just leave everything on my internal storage for the time being, but some of you might appreciate this as at least a temporary solution.

Once again, any help would be appreciated as I'm sure we'd all love to increase our storage!
 
I'm getting a lot closer to success now. I swapped the storage using the app listed in the first post. Before running the app I copied all the application files from the internal to external (I thought I had done this first time around but may be where I went wrong). After running the script the swap was successful and all my apps began saving to, and running off the internal card.

Something is still saving to my internal card, however. I have just over 8 gb of application data on my 32 gb card, but something is still taking up 1 gb of internal storage data. I'm not sure if somethings really there or it just thinks there is but nonetheless this is a big improvement!
 
mogulbuster said:
After rooting my phone and doing some searching around the forums on increasing my Galaxy Victory's storage I decided to try an app called Root External 2 Internal SD (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.codlab.int2ext&hl=en)

I played around with this and a file explorer to locate the correct paths, and changed the app's settings accordingly. In the end I ended up successfully swapping my SD card's storage so that when I look in Settings>Storage my total space is listed as 29.71 GB (my external card) with 27.66 available.

However when I cannot install more than the standard 2 GB of apps to the phone. In Settings>Application Manager it still displays my device memory as 1.7 GB used and 135 MB available.

I would assume that the app I used told the phone to use my external as internal and vice versa, but failed to change some system limit set at 2 GB. Does anyone know a way to change this? Is there even a possibility this could work?

For anyone interested the paths I used for the app were:
-Original internal: /sdcard/
-Original external: /storage/extSdCard
-Ext. SDCard device access: dev/block/vold/179:33

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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i use link2sd it work perfect for me, remember need to be rot and sd need to be partion ext 3 or 4
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD&hl=en
 
I was toying with this, trying to improve my data storage techniques and I think I figured out the solution, and why you think you still have 1gb of space taken up.
I'm pretty certain that what you are seeing here is your apps! They don't install on the internal SDcard, just their data files! So if you want to free up that extra space (which is being saved on the /data partition btw), you can use link2SD... I have instrutions in another post.

I do find it kind of odd that the storage window in settings seems to be grouping apps with the Sdcard storage (or maybe I'm just tired atm), but everything seems to be working great and I very much appreciate your post here as it resolved an issue with my methods that was causing me to get frustrated.

I recently did a factory reset to start from scratch using all these space saving methods, but I realized that I had copied my files on the huge games and not directly installed them the first time. When I went to reinstall, even with my folders mounted it didnt say that I was out of space, but just hung at downloading without showing progress. With this little swap, everything started working perfectly!

I actually left the defaults for original internal and external (/mnt) and then used the fs : vfat [the same one you used]

Would you mind if I wrote up a little how to on your method here and added it to my thread (I will of course give you credit as well)?
 
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