Feb 3, 2011

Data2SD on Boston

- Valid for CyanogenMod without App2SD
- Use a good sdcard with a minimum of class 4
- Sdcard partition into 2, that is FAT32 (to /sdcard) and FAT32 (for data2sd), remember not FAT32 and Ext2/3/4
- Size of FAT32 to data2sd is better no more than 1GB
- Download data2sd.zip

Copy files data2sd.zip to /sdcard
Log into recovery mode
Install data2sd.zip of recovery
Before rebooting, run the following command:

# Mount /data
# Cd /
# Mkdir /sd-ext
# Mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /sd-ext

# Df
Check whether as below:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 91 660 0 91 660 0% / dev
/Dev/block/mtdblock9 90 112 46 608 43 504 52% /cache
/Dev/block/mmcblk0p1 6706596 6302388 404 208 6% /sdcard
/Dev/block/mtdblock7 163 840 115 108 48 732 70% /system
/Dev/block/mtdblock10 175 616 2576 173 040 1% /data
/Dev/block/mmcblk0p2 998 032 4 998 028 0% /sd-ext

See the section / sd-ext Available size of its (998 028) depending on size of partition
Run the following command:
# Dd if = / dev / zero of = / sd-ext/ext2 bs = 998 028
will take about 5 minutes depending on size of partition


# / System / xbin / busybox mke2fs-m 0-F-L userdata / sd-ext/ext2
# Mkdir / sd
# / System / xbin / busybox mount-o loop / sd-ext/ext2 / sd
# Cd / data
# Cp-a * / sd
# Cd /
# Sync

# / System / xbin / busybox umount / sd


Reboot

FINISHED
CHECK:


Good luck

Note: Do not pull out when the phone is lit SDCard ...!!!

Thanks to mboisker

15 Comments:

Unknown said...

This is amaizing. It`s work for others roms like Apanda/Moto/Firetrap 2.2?

disaster85 said...

What program can partition SDCard ?

Nuno Silva said...

Forgive the question but all this is new for me.
After the installation in recovery mode were and how do I write this commands?

Anonymous said...

After
# / System / xbin / busybox mke2fs -m 0-F-L userdata / sd-ext/ext2

say mke2fs: invalid number '0-F-L'

Any ideea?

Anonymous said...

@Nuno Silva

http://www.londatiga.net/it/how-to-use-android-adb-command-line-tool/

Unknown said...

what is this? is kind of 1 gb ram instead of 256 internal?

Unknown said...

@dark
it's like having a 1gb rom

cipi said...

Its working,use instructions from here:"http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9432197&postcount=5"

cipi said...

PS:and steps from here, Boston Mania

DcupsaO said...

it's working :D

Eichiko said...

after finish my phone always airplane mode anyone can help

i use Froyo Phantom Rom Update 2 (01-02-2011)

DcupsaO said...

i tried on cm7 b28 and it works great!!

Unknown said...

Is it works on any rom?
I'm using Apanda

DeadlyData said...

"after finish my phone always airplane mode anyone can help

i use Froyo Phantom Rom Update 2 (01-02-2011)"

same thing happened to my phone after using this...
I guess its not working on other roms

hgn said...

Is there any way for using this in Apanda ROM ? Somebody help please.

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