apps to SD

[jonnythan]

"Phone memory" will still go down because only the apps themselves are on the SD card.

Open an adb shell and do this:

cd /data/app
pwd

What's the output?

[grock]

/system/sd/app

so this means ive done it correctly... thanx.

[jonnythan]

Originally Posted by grock

/system/sd/app

so this means ive done it correctly... thanx.

Yup. You're all set. Don't sweat the internal storage info. It'll go down with apps, since apps use other parts of internal storage to keep things (browser cache, app data, etc).

[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!

[willpower101]

again, there's an entire thread about how to do it, but no one seems to bat an eye at real time performance differences. has anyone actually compared two idential heros with apps2sd on one?

[thacounty]

Originally Posted by willpower101

again, there's an entire thread about how to do it, but no one seems to bat an eye at real time performance differences. has anyone actually compared two idential heros with apps2sd on one?

Try it, if you don't like it, it can be reverted.

[tokuzumi]

About to go in and setup my Apps2SD partitions. If I currently have apps installed in the phone memory, and I setup Apps2SD, will this delete the apps installed on the phone memory?

[jonnythan]

Originally Posted by tokuzumi

About to go in and setup my Apps2SD partitions. If I currently have apps installed in the phone memory, and I setup Apps2SD, will this delete the apps installed on the phone memory?

No, but it will delete everything on your SD card.