Using EXT SD Card As Internal Storage

 

Hey Guyz!! I saw many people facing this issue of having a low Internal Storage capacity in their Android phone, because of this problem you all might be having issues while playing games that require a large amount of free storage, or the apps you are unable to use because the internal storage is full.. These issue is common in Cyanogen ROMs.. Do not worry as I am here with a trick for you to change your Internal Storage to EXT SD Card as default.. So, you would get a lot of space for playing games and installing applications of your choice dependent upon the storage of your SD Card. You don't need any applications like LINK TO SD or anything like these softwares to make this happen, This makes the article worth reading.

I would suggest you all to use atleast 8GB of external sd card (You can use more)  of class 10 as it has more read/write speeds but class 4 will also do that for you. So, You need these things to get over this topic, just follow..

1. A Rooted Android Phone (of low internal memory :) Yes your phone should be rooted for this to work.

2. A Micro SD Card.

3. A Root Explorer App with read/write permissons. (I use File Manager with root permissions)

Here are the Steps =>

1. You should firstly format your SD Card to NTFS Filesystem.

(This step is actually not needed for all, as NTFS is not supported by many KERNELS, you can continue with your SD Cards as it is)

2. Use your Root explorer as R/O and R/W and navigate to root folder of your phone and go to /etc 

3. Find this file vold.fstab, open it with text editor and change these lines as shown and save it.

 dev_mount flash /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/virtual/mtd/mtd9/mtdblock9
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/external_sd auto /devices/platform/rk29_sdmmc.0/mmc_host/mmc0 

TO

 dev_mount flash /mnt/external_sd auto /devices/virtual/mtd/mtd9/mtdblock9
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/rk29_sdmmc.0/mmc_host/mmc0 

NOTE: You might find in some android phones that instead of sdcard there might be written something else like STORAGE or anything, So use your Brains to edit the file.

4. Save the file, put in the SD Card Card and restart your phone. 

5.Check storage property in settings => storage. You should see your phone has size of  your external sd card, and SD CARD with size of internal memory.

6. Just RELAX coz your done, and enjoy the games and apps :)

 Having problems following this guide comment below to let me clarify you :)

REGARDS 

GAURAV 

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