[Q] Use SD-Card as main storage?

[Goober420]

I saw a very lengthy and complicated way to use an sdcard as the primary storage (involving scripts, etc). So here's my quick question. I have rooted my device and want t know, is there an app or something very simple I can follow so I can start installing apps onto my 64GB sdcard? Right now it's just a piece of plastic with nothing on it.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Speedy Gonzalez]

I am using this app it works perfect with Samsung 64gb uhs1 sd just change dev access 179:17 https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiZXUuY29kbGFiLmludDJleHQiXQ..

 

[Goober420]

Quick questions

Thank you for the reply, I have figured it out now

 

[roustabout]

Interesting - let us know if it's got any gotchas, but it looks like it may do a lot of what the scripts I put together did.

 

[Goober420]

Only gotcha is...

Interesting - let us know if it's got any gotchas, but it looks like it may do a lot of what the scripts I put together did.

The only "gotcha" that this program has is as follows: If you reboot your device or power it off, you have to reapply the "fix". It doesn't know how to modify the boot rom or whatever it's called to reapply the patch. No big deal since it's literally just two clicks. One to open the app, the other click to "Apply fix".

Hope this helps someone

 

[roustabout]

For me, that'd be a big gotcha - I reboot mine all the time

I took a run at setting it up and I actually found it harder to be sure of what I was doing than when I wrote the scripts but that's really just down to taste.

One thing I saw in the writeup: if you do enable init.d (scripts that run at boot time) this app can create a script which does its magic at startup.

I have a sneaking suspicion that boot scripts are going to be available to everyone pretty soon.

 

[rtyagi2000]

Use SD Card as internal memory or RAM

You can use your SD Card as an internal memory storage space by using "Link2SD" app. There is another app known as "Swapper" (Swapper2 is the latest version), by using which you can use a segment of your SD Card as your RAM.
In both the cases you actually dedicate a portion of your SD Card to use as internal memory or RAM (whatever you desire).

NOTE: In both the cases, i.e for RAM and internal memory, you first have to repartition your SD Card and for that i must recommend you to use "MiniTool Partition Wizard" app.
For more info simply ask me

 

[skome]

Thanks for the information. MPW needs the card out of the Note I found out. Makes sense.

Minitool Partition Wizard doesn't see my Note. What am I missing?
Windows 7 64bit, GT-N5110

 

[Yokobln]

Thanks everyone for your contributions,

using the external microSD as RAM and/or internal storage sounds great, but.... how does it perform in real life?

I mean we all know that swapping RAM and HDD in a desktop PC isn't gonna speed up things, right?

And although it's an sd card and not an HDD it is none the less a lot slower than the built in memory I would guess.

Does somebody have solid knowledge about it? Is there an impact on app loading speeds and background OS operations?

Thank you very much in advance,

Yoko

 

[aven1217]

hi! i am currently using a 64gb sandisk micro sd as my external memory. can i ask if this app works with the note 8: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.codlab.int2ext#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiZXUuY29kbGFiLmludDJleHQiXQ

if it works, do i just follow the instructions on the description? if not, can someone give me a step by step guide? sorry, i'm new to android, it's my first time having a tablet actually, thanks!

 

[Yokobln]

Good sir.... that ist the app we are discussing since post #2

Regards,

Yoko

 

[aven1217]

thanks! i'll try..i'll post again if i have any more questions!

 

[hertsjoatmon]

Having been told by samsung customer services not to expect a larger memory device for a while, I'm jumping on this thread to explore my other options as I really had my heart set on the 32GB model. I had limited success when trying this with my ASUS Transformer but I didnt try very hard to make it work to be fair...

Once you have an app like link2sd up and running is there any limitation to what apps you can use it for? My plan is to use it with large games that would otherwise fill up the internal memory.

Are there any performance issues with doing this with large apps due to lower read and write times on a micro SD card vs the internal SD?

Are there any issues if you remove the external SD card when not running those apps (id like to review photos from my camera on my tablet while I am out and about)?

If the answer to these questions are all no, I'll likely order the 16GB tablet ASAP.

 

[hertsjoatmon]

Just found this thread.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2285221

Think I will go for FolderMount if I can confirm there are no issues using it with a rooted Note 8.0. Im not fussed about moving the APK files. I'm sure there will be enough room on the internal SD for those. I'll just move the data files.

I dont think there would be any benifit of using a partition of the SD card as SWAP (unless someone can correct me on this). It already has 2 GB and the SWAP will be slow due to the max read write speed of the microSD.

If all goes well I will be picking my tablet up on Sunday ready to start playing

 

[FaeMinx]

You may want to check out this thread as well:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2276193

Worked wonders for me. Easy as pie.