apps to SD

[grock]

thanx hit. 1 more for ya, if aps2sd is supposed to trick the phone to think that the portion on the sd is actually phone storage... why dosent it display the correct amount? is this a bug on the hero?... and if I clear my cache(clear cachemate app) why dont I gain storage space?

personally, I'm begining to think its placebo effect or something, unless the hero just wasnt created to read this state.. I also read that after 70-100 apps there becomes an issue with your phone not working properly, this is a concern not for me but for my 10yr old that I got a hero for and hes app crazed now.... hooked into our wifi t1 line to dl apps faster, lmao... I'm creating a super nerd for the future that plays baseball and football.

[jonnythan]

AppsToSD doesn't trick the phone. The internal storage of the phone has a few different filesystems. One is for /data, one is for /system, etc. The free space on the filesystem mounted to /data is what is shown as available internal memory under Settings.

What AppsToSD does is mount a filesystem that exists on the SD card to a location under the /system directory (specifically /system/sd/app). It then deletes the /data/app directory and recreates it, but as a symbolic link to /system/sd/app. It essentially replaces the /data/app directory with a shortcut to /system/sd/app, which is on the SD card.

When the phone is reporting the free space, it's reporting the free space on the actual filesystem mounted to /data - it doesn't follow symlinks to other filesystems.

[grock]

Thanx hit again... perfect explaination! just what I was looking for!