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How To Partition Your SD Card For Android Without PC by dabigjoe6(m): 1:45pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
How to Partition Your SD Card for Android Without PC? The Android OS has lot of scope in development and user flexibility. This helps developers and users to modify the architecture of the system. The mobile can be modified in several ways. Thanks the Open source by Google. Mobiles with low internal memory thrive a lot in terms of performance and usage. You can extend this limit by partitioning your SD card and expanding the ROM of your mobile. So let us know how to partition SD card and why is a partition needed. What is Partitioning SD card? In simple terms partitioning sd card is breaking your sd card into two parts and making one part accessible for mobile (making it as internal memory) and other part for user. No matter how large you make the partition, the more the internal space better the performance of the phone. Why is it needed? Primarily to increase the ROM of the mobile. To make the device link to the newly created partition. By this you can link the applications that are installed on phone memory to the created partition thus freeing up more internal space. Your mobile becomes faster and there will be lot of space available for you. How it is done? There are several ways by which you can partition your SD card. You can do it by few softwares available for PC. But in this guide I will show you how to make a partition without any tedious downloads and intense use of technical skills. Requirements 1)Rooted mobile - Your mobile has to be rooted for super user access. If your mobile isn't rooted this will not work for you. If you want to get your mobile rooted, contact me with your phone name, model, OS version and baseband number. I will be glad to help you. 2)Busy Box - Busy Box must me installed on your mobile. This will install required repositories for your mobile. Download Busy Box from Play Store. 3)Aparted - This is the primary app that does the partitioning process. Download it from here. NOTE: Aparted should be installed on phone memory only. Do not move this app to SD card. First backup your SD card to PC. The partitioning process will erase all you SD card contents. So be careful before proceeding. After the backup, install BusyBox described above. Then go to settings -> storage -> unmount the SD card. This process will work only when you unmount the SD card or else you will get error. Open Aparted and select the tab "create" and tap on green "plus" button. You will be prompted to create the first partition. This partition will be accessible for user as external storage. You can select the amount of space according to your choice. If you are using 4 GB SD card (3.69 will accessible) make a 2 GB first partition. Select the type as FAT 32 and select apply changes by pressing options menu. This will create a primary partition of your desired space by erasing all the SD card contents which is used as external storage. After finishing the primary partition select tools. You will be shown parts as part 1 and part 2 available for your SD card. You can make several parts of your SD card so. But preferably go for two partitions. Higher amount of partitions need more technical skill.. Now the first part is the primary partition you made and the second part is the remaining space which will be used by mobile as internal memory. Select the check box on the remaining second part and tap on create (or apply changes). Select FAT32 option for this part also. Now the app will create a second partition. That's it you have successfully created partition on your SD card. Reboot your device and go to settings -> storage, where you can see the external storage available is similar to the space you opted for first partition. Install Link2SD from Google Play Store and run the app. The app will immediately prompt you that second partition is found and asks you to mount the scripts. Mount the script as FAT 32 and once mounting is done it will again prompt you to reboot the device. Reboot the mobile and open Link2SD, select options and check the option 'Automatically link newly installed apps to SD'. This will enable the app to automatically link your new downloaded apps to the partition you have created. You can also manually link the previously installed apps to SD by clicking on the app in Link2SD and selecting create link. You can also see the partition space by clicking options in Link2SD and select storage info. It will show storage details of your phone, the partition you have created and also the external storage. Now enjoy by linking as many apps you can to partition and free up more internal memory. You will see increased performance of your mobile. NOTE: This process may damage your SD card if misused. Proceed with caution Tip: You can also repair the damaged SD card with Aparted app which will generally happen by faulty connections to PC or any other error during data transfer between SD card and PC. Bugs and Issues Fix for People having Problem in Partitioning: Please do a complete format after backing up your sd card. Don't forget to install BusyBox before starting the procedure. Install BusyBox after formatting your sd card. If you are having sd card greater than 4GB, go for ext2 option while creating partitions. If you are having 4GB or less go for FAT32. Some unsupported memory cards will show errors after creating partition during mounting scripts in Link2sd. Please use supported sd cards. UPDATE: The Aparted app might have been updated and there can be changes in the menu order or variety of options. But the overall procedure is same. Please look into the options carefully. 2 Likes |
Re: How To Partition Your SD Card For Android Without PC by dabigjoe6(m): 10:30am On Aug 30, 2014 |
AREACYRIL: thanks man you are welcome 1 Like |
Re: How To Partition Your SD Card For Android Without PC by mistayeancah(m): 6:46pm On Dec 03, 2014 |
I tried it but the link2sd is showing mount error. Invalid argument. What can I do to solve that?
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Re: How To Partition Your SD Card For Android Without PC by DealMogul(m): 9:41am On Jan 05, 2015 |
Great post, OP. However, I should add that Link2SD doesn't allow data files of apps to be linked to FAT32 partitions but only to ext2 or other partitions. I think this depends on the ROM or kernel being used. In case you get this error, it doesn't mean that the partition is bad or cannot be used. It just that it can take anything EXCEPT the data files of the apps. To correct this, simply go through the process of using Aparted app to partition from scratch. Remove already created aprtitions and start from scratch this time, firstly create Partition 1 as a FAT32 file and Partition 2 as a ext2,3 or 4 file block. Finish of process as before and reboot. Then open with Link2SD and try to link the card all over again. Simple. CAUTION: Ensure to follow the steps highlighted by OP religiously or else you stand the chance of damaging the SD card or even wrecking your phone in the process. Cheers! 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: How To Partition Your SD Card For Android Without PC by oneuniquemind(m): 10:27am On Jan 30, 2015 |
after d partition,it says damage sdcard pls format. and once I format, d apps I linked2sd will automatically go. wat sud i do. |
Re: How To Partition Your SD Card For Android Without PC by chriseric: 4:54pm On Feb 10, 2015 |
please help me solve my low internal memory space of tecno p3 |
Re: How To Partition Your SD Card For Android Without PC by cheeketo(f): 4:43pm On Jun 30, 2015 |
thanks for the insight but there is no link for the aparted in your explanation, can i get it on google play store? if its on a PC how do i transfer it to my phone? dabigjoe6: |
Re: How To Partition Your SD Card For Android Without PC by imsaurabh: 8:40pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
ohk ive done as ya said in the above tut but im still gettin low space error ext3 workin should i do ext4?? i get the followin error while linking them manually
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Re: How To Partition Your SD Card For Android Without PC by Colinf: 1:44am On Feb 18, 2017 |
Hello...thank you so much!! I bought a 100$ phone, and right away realized I would need more RAM. So I bet an expensive SD CARD. The phone I bought was an ALCATEL (android). So frustrated when I realized I was still restricted of adding more APPS because I could not access or even write to my SD card. I don't understand why this is so complicated and restricted. When you put the SD CARD into your cell phone, there should be user friendly options that allow you to select these types of things without customers having to go back and fight with the KITKAT system. Thank you again, for sharing this post. You have to follow all these steps one by one...very tedious! I also have an ICONIA TABLET a1-840 which I have found no way to root. Any ideas? So frustrating. It almost seems like ANDROID has gone the way of MICROSOFT and restricting the USERS from HAVING their own right to CHOOSE. What type of software they use, after purchasing the hardware. Thanks again man. I will like your post, but I am new to this forum...so I hope you give u credit as much as possible....Colinf |
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