[Guide] Partition your Sd Card, Upgrade to Ext3, and Install Apps2SD

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WARNING: DO NOT FOLLOW THE APPS2SD AS MOST ROMS ALREADY DO THIS FOR YOU.
If you do, it will break things.
-ivanmmj


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Here we go!

Things you need:

A Rooted G1 Phone
Cyanogen ROM - Download v4.0.2
Cyanogen Recovery 1.4 - Download
Apps2SD - Download
Clean SD Card

Note: This will remove ALL files on your SD Card so please back it up

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Install the New Recovery Image

Download the recovery image

Place the cm-recovery-1.3.1.img file in the root of your SD Card (Root = not in any folder)

Go back to your phone (Dont forget to unmount)

Open terminal and type in the following

su (wait for a screen to popup and press "allow")
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.3.1.img

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Install Apps2SD

Download the Apps2sd apk from above
Place the apps2sd.apk on your sd card
Download a file manager like Linda or Astro from Market (They are both free)
Go to Settings > Applications and check the Unknown Sources button
Open up the file manager you just downloaded and find the apps2sd on your sdcard
Press on the app and install the Package Installer and press on Install
Apps2sd should now be installed


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Partition Fat32/Ext2 with App2SD

Open up Apps2SD
It will show you a screen telling you that your card is not partition and you will have a sliding bar to choose the amount of space you want for an EXT2 partition
I suggest a max of 600mb for EXT2 space (I use 500mb)
Press Ok
You will get a Force Close screen DONT PRESS FORCE CLOSE PRESS WAIT
You will get a reboot message, Press Reboot
You now have a EXT2 partition

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Upgrading your EXT2 Partition to EXT3

Note: You do need the Cyanogen Recovery image for this to work!

Reboot into Recovery (Home + Power)
Go to console (Alt+x)
Press Enter
Type the following in the Console:

upgrade_fs

Wait for it to finish
Congrats! You now have a Fat32/EXT3 partitioned Sd Card!

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Installing the Cyanogen ROM with Auto Apps2SD

Download the ROM
Rename the file from cm-xxxxxxx.zip to update.zip
Place update.zip at the root of your sd card (Root = Not in any folder)
Reboot into Recovery (Home + Power)
Wipe (alt+w)
and Flash (alt+s)
Wait for it to finish and reboot!

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Congratulations! You now have a Fat32/EXT3 Partitioned SD Card with auto Apps2SD enabled. You can check if you have both partitions in Settings > Sd Card and Storage. Remember, this is Auto Apps2SD, that means the everytime you reboot it will move all your installed apps to your sd card AUTOMATICALLY!

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Format your EXT3 Partition (ADB is needed)

adb remount
adb shell
rm -r /system/sd/*
reboot recovery
then flash the update.

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Here is another way to partition your sd card!

Note: You will need The latest CM recovery image


This guide will partition your SD card with 32 mb swap, and 512 mb EXT4 partitions!

WARNING! This will erase EVERYTHING on your SD Card!

Note: ADB Is needed for this script to work. If you dont have ADb working please read the ADB Sticky in the Q & A Forum

Step 1:

Download the necessary files HERE

Step 2:

Place the sdparted.sh file in C:\ Note: Do not place it in any folders!

Place adb.exe and AdbWinApi.dll in C:\Windows\system32

Step 3:

Run sdparted.bat


Thats it! All done!

Thank you 51dusty for the sdparted Script!
Batch file made by me!

Great guide...again =] But this way is MUCH MORE stable.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714

ya i know i saw that guide. I decided to put this one up becuase it uses minimal commands and doesnt involve a lot of terminal usage and stuff. Just another way to partition i guess.

Ok I looked in settings and storage. This is what I have....sd card total 6,501mb available space 5,813mb sdcard secondary 1,048mb available space 829mb but for internal space it's showing 86mb. Did I do this process right? Is my internal space suppose to have much more space? When I download something it takes away the internal memory.

Originally Posted by lazee_smurf

Ok I looked in settings and storage. This is what I have....sd card total 6,501mb available space 5,813mb sdcard secondary 1,048mb available space 829mb but for internal space it's showing 86mb. Did I do this process right? Is my internal space suppose to have much more space? When I download something it takes away the internal memory.

yup! you are all good! 86mb for a cupcake rom is perfect! Congrats!

So what goes into the secondary storage because if I download something the internal space gets used

Originally Posted by lazee_smurf

So what goes into the secondary storage because if I download something the internal space gets used

just reboot and your app will go to your sd card.

Originally Posted by nephron

just reboot and your app will go to your sd card.

Thanks for the help!

Greetings
I knew it all could'nt go as smoothly as the new rom install ^_^

When I try to run apps2sd wether out of astro or from the app panel, it goes to a black screen, and thats it. The phone is not locked, I just hit home (after waiting for minutes for something to happen) and I'm back at my home screen.
I did'nt think I skipped any steps. Idea's ?

Thanks for the Sticky Guide