Saturday, October 13, 2012

Extend phone memory using Darktremor Apps2SD


One of the main problem of low cost android phones is the limited phone memory which gets full pretty quickly as you try new apps. This is because Android can't install all the apps to your mass storage.
This is where Darktremor Apps2SD comes in which effectively uses your mass storage for installing apps. For this i recommend a Class 4 or higher memory card with a size of 8gb or higher(Here is my post on some good memory cards Memory Cards for Idea Blade).
This method can be used for Stock Froyo rom and any Gingerbread custom roms.

Note:Backup your SDCard before this step
Note: You must root your phone How To Root Idea Blade

Step 1:The first step is to partition your sd card to create an EXT partition where the apps will be installed.

  • Install ClockWorkMod recovery if you haven't here is my guide for that How to: Install ClockworkMod recovery .
  • Now boot your phone into recovery by pressing volume key down and turning on the phone.
  • Go to Advance partition SDCard and select ext3 size of 512MB or above. Put swap size as zero.
Step 2:This applies to those having froyo or custom roms without Darktremor Apps2SD support. Swedish Snow users can skip this.
  • Download darktremor Apps2sd
  • move to your sdcard.
  • boot into recovery
  • now press install zip form sd card and select the file
  • reboot.
Step 3:Download Apps2sd gui from store and activate phone storage if not yet.

2 Responses to “Extend phone memory using Darktremor Apps2SD”

Darpan said...
January 23, 2014 at 6:43 AM

How to increase the ram i've installed jellybean by your instructions but much low ram. How this partition is useful? ?
I have made partition of 1 gb but it useless. And now I cannot get back that 1 gb is there any way to collapse that partition?


jerrin joe francis said...
January 23, 2014 at 8:55 PM

So if you mean RAM you must use swap http://ideabladeblog.blogspot.in/2012/08/back-up-and-flash-custom-rom-using.html. This will free up some ram. the maximum you have to set is 256mb. The above post is to install apps to memory card and not to extend RAM.
If you want to get back the memory just repeat the above steps with ext3 size as 0 and swao size as 256. BUT REMEMBER THIS WILL FORMAT YOUR MEMORY CARD. So backup your memroy card first.


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