Android Apps

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Apps and storage management

Link2SD

When using SD-Cards bigger than 32GB be aware of the following problems:

Summary according to the above post (thanks to user "regli"):

  • all partitions need to start in the first 32GB
  • link2sd insists that the ext2/ext4 partition is the second partition
  • create a small Linux swap partition first (32MB)
  • then add a ext2 Apps partition (as /system often is only 2GB use e.g. 2, 4 or 6 GB)
  • there should directly follow a fat32 Data partition of your desired size
  • leave spare, unallocated room for overprovisioning
  • finally mark the fat32 partition "active" by setting the boot flag
e.g. SD-CARD 64GB

|           32GB-border -->  |        32GB           |

Partionioning sheme:
  
|swp |     ext2      |       fat32            | prov |
 
|====|===============|======/ /===============|      |

| MB |  max. 30GB    |                        | 10%  |

Cal / Card-Dav based calendars

Backup and restore

Backup with Titanium Backup. Restore

  1. CardDav
  2. CalDav
  3. JB Workarounds
  4. OpenTasks

Reboot the phone. Change to settings->accounts and activate the synchronisation for your saved accounts.

Voilà (completely without google :-) )

Terminal Emulator

Manually boot into recovery mode

You need the following free app called androidterm:

e.g. for booting into TWRP:

su
hit enter
reboot recovery
hit enter

Apps Launcher

KISS Lauchner

File Manager

Best file manager for me: ES File Explorer

Problems with accessing the SD Card: