Move Applications to Memory Card

April 12, 2009 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comment 

This is little write-up assumes two things:

  1. Your Android device has Busybox installed. (You have either Haykuro 5.01+ or JesusFreke ROM) 
  2. You have the Android SDK installed on your computer and your environment includes the path to your Android SDK.

Now this was written for an HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1); however, I assume this can also be used for other Andoird based devices.

  1. Launch the Terminal or Command Prompt
  2. In the terminal or command prompt type:
  • adb shell
  • df -h (This will show you a list of partitions available to the device)

At this point you will see something like this:

 

# busybox df -h

Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on

tmpfs                    48.4M         0     48.4M   0% /dev

tmpfs                     4.0M      8.0k      4.0M   0% /sqlite_stmt_journals

/dev/block/mtdblock3     67.5M     64.0M      3.5M  95% /system

/dev/block/mtdblock5     74.8M     34.1M     40.7M  46% /data

/dev/block/mtdblock4     67.5M      1.4M     66.1M   2% /cache

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2    552.5M    432.0k    524.3M   0% /system/sd

/dev/block//vold/179:1

                          6.8G     42.5M      6.8G   1% /sdcard

 

I’m using a 8GB memory card, your volume sizes will differ. The location to where you’ll be moving your applications to would be the /system/sd partition. Make sure this exists and its size is the one your partitioned it to be earlier. If the partition doesn’t exist your partitioning went wrong somewhere so back up and try again, until you see it.
  • cp -a /data/app /system/sd (This will copy the applications from your applications directory to your memory card)
  • cp -a /data/app-private /system/sd
  • rm -r /data/app (This will remove the applications from the phone’s memory)
  • rm -r /data/app-private
  • ln -s /system/sd/app /data/app (This will create a “link” so that you can install applications on your memory card.)
  • ln -s /system/sd/app-private /data/app-private
  • reboot

That’s all. If you need additional help the wonderful folks at xda-developers can assist you. Additionally, a more in-depth version of this is available here.

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HTC Sapphire ROM ported for HTC Dream

April 10, 2009 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comment 

Written By: Adam Su

With all the talk of G2 and the ROM update known as “Cupcake” being circulated around the internet, one online user has decided to make it happen haykuro So how does one acquire this update?

If you’re already running a rooted Dream (T-Mobile G1) then proceed to download one of the updates located on the Sapphire Dream Port Google Code Site rename it to update.zip and copy to your memory card. Restart your phone holding the Power and Home buttons. When you see a Caution logo or a JF splash screen press Alt-W (this will wipe your phone) and the Alt-S (to apply the update). That’s all.

Now if you’re not running a rooted version of the Dream then you’ll need to do that. The instructions can be found somewhere here.

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