Me neither. Was hoping that CM6.1 would have app2ext but it didnt and Cyanogen's tweet on a2sd implementation caused some backlash on XDA. I'll steer clear from CM for the time being. MIUI all the way!

Of course I can simply run Darktremor's script for a2ext on CM6, but that's not really the point. If you look at the predecessors of CM6 (namely, the awesome 5.08), the a2ext implemented in those versions is not just some script you execute post-ROM installation. The a2ext feature is built into the ROM framework. That is just something that sets apart Cyanogen's work from all the other custom ROMs. And when that feature is absent in the 6.x, it was just a huge downer. To make matters worst, CM6 doesnt play well with the native Froyo A2SD. That's my main gripe with CM6, if you have just a handful of apps and your internal mem is adequate to house them, then CM6 is an awesome ROM. I have like 300+ apps at a time and I certainly need the a2ext+. So if I need to hack DarkTremor's script into a ROM, then why dont I just use some other ROM with the script already pre-installed by default? That why I stuck with LeoFroyo until MIUI came out. MIUI just blew my mind away. A working FM radio (without any of that SenseUI crap), Darktremor's A2SD, that supercool notification bar and of course those cryptic untranslated or mistranslated random strings. Like shahz, I run ADW and do away with that iPhone-ish looks.

@benny888, how come you're not tempted with Desire HD? Is it because of you have Android on your HD2?

@davidwyl
That was my exact thought when I first flashed to CM6. I thought I could live with Froyo A2SD. 150+ apps later, I discovered how wrong I was. It was all fine when the app count was like 100+ or so. When it hit 150, things started to go awry. I had missing app icons in the drawer everytime I mount the phone as a USB storage, although TiB reported that the app is installed. And sometimes when I rebooted the phone, the only apps that loaded properly was the ones on the internal memory. It was kinda annoying as the only way to fix it was through uninstall/re-install procedure. FAT32 is not exactly the best filesystem out there for a 'read' operation, especially when the space it had to 'seek' is large, it'll just failed miserably. Even Microsoft themselves abandoned FAT32 as an OS filesystem when they launched WinXP back in 2000. Add that unreliability to the way Froyo A2SD stores apps. It doesnt just move the apps to the SD. No, no Froyo A2SD encrypts the apps too. So, that decryption process whenever you access an app on Froyo A2SD plus the FAT32 incompetence when seeking through a whole load of apps equates to disaster that bound to happen. If you want CM6.x and you have lots of apps, consider manually installing Darktremor's A2SD or use a bundled CM6 distribution like Kang-O-Rama or RoDrIgUeZsTyLe LimeMod, the ones that come with app2ext. Steer clear of Froyo A2SD. It is just not made to handle massive amount of apps. It'll just crumble under the weight.

This post has been edited by cleave: Nov 16 2010, 12:59 AM

Can you verify this? I mean is your internal memory shrinking after you do an install or something? When you use A2SD, the sd-ext part is seen as logical internal memory by the OS. So, app installation should be to the internal memory. The only exception is if its a system app, then it'll go to the system's apps directory which is on the physical internal memory unless you explicitly moved it.

What kept getting the signature error? A ROM or a recovery when flashing through fastboot? If it's the former, check the package again whether it is signed or otherwise.