I’ve decided to delay the release of Loop2SD since after the closed beta test I haven’t received even one beta report. Since I can’t just assume everything is golden I’m going to have to try all of the common roms myself and see how it works to set up an installer. If you’re interested in beta testing leave a comment.
It’s not unusual to see a hacked T-Mobile G1 on the streets anymore, especially with all of the cool themes and modifications that are being released every day it seems. One of the most popular it seems is a modification that allows one to move applications that would usually sit on one’s device over to a MicroSD memory card by various crude mountpoint hacks involving partitioning the MicroSD card in half. This has been the one hack that has irritated me from the first day I came across it.
Partitioning a memory card used in a consumer-level device, reguardless of it being hacked, is ridiculous! There are so many possible issues and with my own personal experience, each and every time I mounted my phone to my Macbook (10.5.7) it would tell me that my memory card is corrupt and would rarely mount on first try. So after a little thought and help from other projects I finally started hacking together Loop2SD.
Loop2SD is the first loopback filesystem implementation of moving Android applications to the MicroSD card. Loop2SD eliminates the need to partition your MicroSD card to ext2 since it creates it’s own partition on the MicroSD card within a loopback image. This is the same method used to load parts of the Android OS itself (cramfs).
I’m going to be launching Loop2SD in limited beta testing here this week. Stay tuned.
Since I’ve been hacking my T-Mobile G1 pretty much non-stop since I’ve gotten it I thought I might as well set up a blog online to document all of the little hacks and modifications that I’ve come along as well as all of the little issues that seem to come along with them. It’s been a good few years since I last had a blog so I figure this will be an interesting step back into the blogging community.