I own a G1, the first generation Android mobile phone and have rooted it when I returned back to Mauritius because that meant that I would not be receiving OTA updates anymore 🙁 With root comes great power.. I guess..
Well if you have rooted your Android and wish to add some swap space to it, *will make it a little faster, will handle more applications running at the same time* .. with the warning sign *will shorten the life span of your SD card*, here it goes:
This will add 100Mbytes of swap space on your android where count=100*1024
Open up a terminal on your Android:
su –
dd if=/dev/zero of=/sdcard/swap bs=1024 count=102400
Your android will process this for 30-60seconds and you should get something like:
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
104857600 bytes (100.0MB) copied, 18.829346 seconds, 5.3MB/s
Then proceed with the following:
mkswap /sdcard/swap
Output: Setting up swapspace version 1, size= 104853504 bytes
swapon /sdcard/swap
free #to check if mounted
Please note that you will have to run swapon /sdcard/swap everytime you reboot your phone if you wish to use the swap space.
