What is Reddit's opinion of AParted ( Sd card Partition )?

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These are just hacks with limited use. There's a reason why Link2SD is the best known app for moving apps to SD, and that's because it does things properly and you can move any app entirely and they will keep working.

The only reason more people don't use it is probably because you need to split your SD card and have a secondary non-FAT partition on it, and they probably don't know how. (As you can see by how many people leave 1 start ratings on AParted complaining they messed up their SD.)

It should theoretically work so long as the microSD is formatted to Fat32.

You might need a third-party app like APartes for this as I'm not sure of the default file system that android formats to.

You could also try popping the SD into a digital camera and using the camera's format option as most cameras use FAT32 by default.

You'd have to make sure you copy the actual letterbomb files corresponding to your wii's MAC address.

They come in a zip archive. You'd have to extract them to the root of your sd. This should result in both a boot.elf file and a private folder on the root of your SD.

Honestly it would probably be easier to just get a sd-to-USB adapter though. Especially since you could then look up homebrew apps on your computer to save to the sd with less hassle. They're usually pretty cheap online.

Are you able to copy files to/from the microSD when you plug your phone into your computer via USB? If so, that could be an option.

If all else fails, try your local library. Most libraries have computers available for public use, often with SD card readers built into them.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sylkat.AParted

try repartitioning with diskpart on PC, or aparted on a rooted phone

Oh crap, yes, I now remembered what a nightmare that was. I must've tried to block it out. Here's a link that helped me a lot to understand wth was going on.

Apparently MM has a weird disk partitioning scheme that most apps haven't been fully updated to support, and not even the busybox console commands can support (like fdisk and mkfs).

First you need to partition the card. That article says you need to either do it on a PC, or if you do it with AParted it needs to be on KK or earlier. But it worked for me with AParted on MM. YMMV.

So what you want to do is make the first partition the biggest (I assume) and FAT32 or vfat, and the second one (which will be for Link2SD) smaller and ext4. I had a 32GB card and I set aside only a couple of gigs for the second one. It depends on what kind of apps you want to move. If you're gonna have lots of huge games you may want more. For regular apps 2GB is plenty.

Good luck on figuring out AParted's horrifying interface. Apparently you need to press "create" IIRC, then there's a button that adds a second partition. Only then do you resize them. Don't forget to set the type. (Do NOT use f2fs even if it's offered, most likely your ROM does not have f2fs support, and it's not a big deal anyway.)

Next, you need to create the filesystems. This needs to be done with this Apps2SD app. And Link2SD must NOT be installed while you do this. I think someone, either AParted or the system, created the FAT32 filesystem on 1st partition for me. If this is so, Apps2SD will ask about the 2nd partition automatically when you start it, you say ext4 (see screenshot in article) and that's it, press OK, don't check any additional options. In a pinch, there's an option in the Apps2SD settings that can re-create the filesystems on the partitions. (But do not re-do the partitions themselves! Those can only be done with AParted).

If you've done everything alright, after a reboot you should (1) see the first partition available ok in Settings > Storage (ie. it should not say "corrupted"), and (2) when you open Apps2SD it should not complain or prompt about anything and just show you apps that can be moved.

At this point you can pay for Apps2SD (it's horribly nagging otherwise) or pay for Link2SD. But only use one, don't mix them, and it's best if you only keep one of them installed.

Some very important things I need to add:

• MM has a native ability to move apps to the sd card. It's called, surprise, "App 2 SD". Which is something else entirely from the app called "Apps2SD" which we used above. Yeah. In system settings this will appear under Apps, if you enter one app details, then under its storage settings, then you have an option to "move to sd card" or "move to internal storage". In Link2SD you will see a difference between "linked to SD card" (Link2SD's way of moving, to the ext4 secondary partition), or "on SD card" (the native way of moving, to the main FAT partition). Under app details there's a button all the way to the bottom (you may need to scroll to see it), which deals with the native way of moving.
  • YES, you can use this and forget all about Link2SD. It has some quirks (read on below), but it's just as good. In particular, this is the only way to move some stuff, such as OBB files, which is what some games (like Final Fantasy) use for the biggest blob of their data. The biggest drawback is that the system decides when and how you can move stuff around, and sometimes you can force it from the command line with pm, sometimes not.
• Once you have the card all set up, if you're running out of space on the internal storage, the system may decide entirely on its own to automatically use the native way of moving for newly installed apps. This has confused the crap out of me initially, especially since you are not allowed to move them back to internal, neither from the system settings nor from Link2SD. Fortunately, there's a way: there's a console command called pm. If you go into adb shell (or an Android terminal app), get root (su) then run pm get-install-location, you will notice it says 0|auto. If you don't like this and would rather decide yourself what goes where (which is how I like it), you can set it with pm set-install-location 1, which means "internal". This will persist between reboots.
• You can also use pm to move back those apps that were autoinstalled to the card. You can of course uninstall and reinstall them after you set the location as above; but maybe you don't want to lose their data. If that's the case, you can use Link2SD to filter for apps on external storage, and once you found them out you can use pm move-package PACKAGE internal. Where PACKAGE is the package name, such as com.alensw.PicFolder.

My bad I thought es file explorer had a format function, reading up on it shows it doesnt. Try this instead https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sylkat.AParted&hl=en_GB