How to Install Apps to SD Card on Android 2.1 Eclair (Xperia X8, Xperia W8, and more..)

Many people are wandering if the could install application when they run out the internal memory storage of the phone. This problem might be faced by people who have android phones using the operating system of Android 2.1 Eclair. This problem also occured when i bought Sony Ericsson Xperia W8 yesterday, when i wanted to install the app, it said that i should clean some memory on my phone so i will be able to install the app.

This problem do not occured on the android phones using the OS Android 2.2 Froyo or 2.3 Gingerbread, it is only on Eclair and below. So, this article will explain the steps to install the apps to SD Card on Android 2.1 Eclair.

The steps to install apps to SD Card on Android 2.1 Eclair (Xperia X8, Xperia W8, and more..)

1. First of all, you need to download Link2SD or mediafire link. It is free and can be downloaded from Android market. You can help the developer by donating it.

Link2SD is much better than App2SD. Try it! It only needs root. It runs on 2.1!vAs we all know already that we can install Apps to SD card with Froyo or Gingerbread. The thing that makes Link2SD so different from the others is that this one supports Android 1.6 and up. Yes, even with Android Eclair is possible to install games to SD card and get some free memory for using.

After installing Link2SD to your Android phones running Android 2.1 or even Android 1.6 you’ll be able to get much more apps than you can imagine. So, before using this free apps you should root your Android phones first. Don’t worry it’s much more easy to root than flashing the whole Android with new ROM.

2. Secondly, you should have two partitions on SD card and both should be primary. The first FAT partition is your standard SD card storage. The second partition is used for application files and can be ext2, ext3, ext4 or FAT32.

Some phones lack the ext2, ext3 or ext4 file system support and you may get mount errors like “no such device”, “invalid argument”. These phones need ext2.ko or ext3.ko modules and even some additional modules to be able to mount. Using FAT32 on the second partition will eleminate such problems, because FAT32 is supported on all phones.

Link2SD does not create the second partition, you need to create it yourself. You can use any partition manager such as Minitool, Paragon, Easeus etc. for this.

Tutorial Credit: xperia-x8.com

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