Setting up your phone to work with Apps 2 SD (A2SD)
PROCEED WITH CAUTION
The SDcard will need two partitions, the first Fat / Fat32 & the second Ext2 For the Ext2 partition I wouldn't go higher than 1.5GB cuz you may run into some issues. I was staying around the 500MB / 750MB area & it was working nice. As all the guides I've read state not to exceed the 1.5GB Marker.
After you have both partitions setup you can install the OS, then it's just a matter of setting up the symlinks & moving the apps over / installing new ones. Now remember it may be best to do a wipe prior to installing this build if you aren't already on the same A2SD Build already.
Once the OS is installed first thing I would do is from a terminal on the phone / ADB Shell:
su
busybox df -h
If you don't see a row that has /system/sd on it then the process didn't pick up your SDCard. I'd suggest you to re-install / re-format the card.
Next if you didn't perform a wipe we'll move the data over, run these cmds either via terminal / adb shell:
busybox cp -a /data/app /system/sd/
busybox cp -a /data/dalvik-cache /system/sd/ (optional)
busybox cp -a /data/data /system/sd/ (optional)
The last two cmds here are optional (they are to move the cache for each app) & some have reported issues when copying these over so if you are having issues I would leave these on the /data partition.
1 Once your done with the above, power off your phone
2 Press & hold the Home Button & press Power to boot into Recovery Mode
3 Once the recovery menu opens & it's showing you JF's custom menu press ALT+X to enter the Recovery Terminal.
4 Press enter & a prompt should come up with a "#".
Next enter these cmds:
mount data
rm -rf /data/app
ln -s /system/sd/app /data/app
rm -rf /data/data (optional)
ln -s /system/sd/data /data/data (optional)
rm -rf /data/dalvik-cache (optional)
ln -s /system/sd/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache (optional)
reboot
Again the 4-7 cmds are optional & for the cache only of an app, so if you moved the cache over in the above cmds then on this section you will run them as well.
You must run the optional cmds in both sections for them to work, or run them in neither!
During the reboot process your phone might take a while at the android screen since it has to populate the apps tray. If it lasts >5-10 minutes then something likely went wrong. Make sure you did all the steps correctly & if you did try the steps in the recovery terminal section of this tutorial again. If it still doesn't work, post here & we'll try to get it sorted out. That aside, enjoy having your apps on SD card!
Also I wouldn't suggest you moving the /data/app-private.
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