1. Installing Big Apps on Galaxy S Froyo

    Just in case anyone else gets this issue. The Samsung Galaxy S with Froyo can’t download apps bigger than 30Mb from the Market as /cache is only 30Mb. 

    Here’s the fix:  get z4root, root phone, then use z4mod to change type of /data from rfs to ext2 (aka Lag Fix). You’ll want to do these anyway if you haven’t already lag fixed the phone.

    Then in a terminal window:

    mkdir /data/cache
    umount /cache
    mount -o rw,remount /
    rmdir /cache
    ln -s /cache /data/cache
    

    Now install away from the Market.

    To Undo

    rm /cache
    mkdir /cache
    chmod 770 /cache
    

    and reboot.

    Important This fix will not persist across reboots and you will want revert this before rebooting. Once the app is installed it’ll run fine with /cache set back to normal

     
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