App2SD
A common problem with the G1 is that the internal memory is not enough. There are several ways how to put and run the apps from the sd card. I will only give you some guidelines.
The filesystem of the sd card is fat32. Its a file system both linux and windows can understand but its not good enough to use for the actual OS. Android is made from Linux and use either Ext2 or Ext3 (i don’t know) which are linux file systems. In order to make Apps2sd you will need to minimise the fat32 partition on the sd card with recomendably 500 Mb of space. This 500 Mb should then be formatted to EXT2. After you created this partition AFTER the main FAT32 partition on the sd card, it is ready for app2sd. One way to create a EXT2 partition on your sd card is to download the latest ubuntu linux, burn to cd, and run it on your computer from boot without installing. When Ubuntu is loaded, you can mount your SD card from android, start the program gparted in Ubuntu. In gparted you should try to:
a) find your sd card in the right top corner (understand its the right one by the size)
b) click on your large fat32 partition, right click and chose unmount
c) right click and chose resize. You should have 0 byte before the partition and what you need (maybe 500 Mb) for the ext2 after the partition. FAT32 shall be first.
d) Click on the empty space, chose format into ext2 (or ext3 if you have a rom supporting ext3).
e) click apply and wait
(There is also some paragorn software which you can install in windows for this purpose as an alternative.
Its difficult to explain how to do next becuase it seems to be different for each rom. But if you use Cyanogen v3.4, the rom will automatically install itself correctly as app2sd. This is also the rom I use myself and I recommend for app2sd at the moment.
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after i download the recovery image do i have to what do i use to run it.
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