[Q] How to clean up internal SD? - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I only have 1.4MB left on my internal SD.. And it is confusing as hell. I have all my music on my external SD. I tried cleaning out as much as possible (the things that i knew what they were, and i didn't need them anymore)
Idk what to do

I just copy all the important stuff to my cpu and format the card from the phone then put it all back
Vibrant - Bionix 1.3 - JAC's Xmod kernel- adb lag fix

Check your nandroids. If you backup alot you've probably got a crapload of old backups and they will end up rating alot of space. Delete what you don't need.
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Docavelli said:
Check your nandroids. If you backup alot you've probably got a crapload of old backups and they will end up rating alot of space. Delete what you don't need.
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I already deleted all of them except my last one..
And what exactly does formatting the card do?

formatting the internal SD card will just erased everything.. I think..

The K-Zoo Kid said:
I only have 1.4MB left on my internal SD.. And it is confusing as hell. I have all my music on my external SD. I tried cleaning out as much as possible (the things that i knew what they were, and i didn't need them anymore)
Idk what to do
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It's like this....The contents of your internal SD are....the contents of your internal SD. There's no real way for us to know what is in there. It will be different for you, me, and everyone else.
Music and video files eat tons of space fairly quickly, but since you say all your music is on your external...well it's hard to say what might be going on. You have SOMETHING eating nearly 14gb of space...
Time to get your learn on, browse through your phone's folders and see what's there. Best to do this from your PC...Best of luck

You can pretty much delete the entire contents, but I wouldn't delete the clockwork folder since it helps you recover. For some reason it doesn't like it when I delete the update.zip file thou either. Something about root and screwing around with LOL

+1 on the last two posts...
are you sure it's not 1.4GB? The 14GB internal SD is good enough for most. In fact I bet that most people with all the music and videos and other stuff still have a few GBs.
Definitely DO NOT get rid of your Clockwork folder and the update.zip. Those two will save you in a pinch. Now as for everything else, you can always re-flash a ROM and start from the beginning.
Good luck and keep an eye if that happens again. I'm not sure Samsung expected people to run out of space on the internal so quickly.

I just copied the contents of my internal card to my computer and it said there the only 620mb. WTF?? Im going to format it and report back.

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Random directory on SD card taking up 6gb of space. 'cpbdf' file Not sure what it is.

My phone just warned me about not having enough space. I store all my media on an external card so I was confused. I mounted the phone and began to go over each directory. I found the attached one which I have no idea what it is. It is using 6 gb of space.
It is in /sdcard/470808579740795203/. The two large files are in separate sub directories and are called "cpbdf". Thats it.
Anyone have any idea what this is?
Not a clue. What files are inside them/what's the files extension/type of file?
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Based on a little Googling: Do you use CrashPlan?
https://crashplan.zendesk.com/entri...k-3-0-external-hard-drive-files-are-gibberish
Entropy512 said:
Based on a little Googling: Do you use CrashPlan?
https://crashplan.zendesk.com/entri...k-3-0-external-hard-drive-files-are-gibberish
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I do! I wonder why the heck Crashplan was backing up crap there. I did install a new motherboard recently so maybe my drive letters of my external drives changed and when I plugged my phone in it start backing up to it.
Thanks for that!

panos are just getting up ans walking away

so my panos and just them not any picture are just gone outta my albums no other picture at all and its not like i dont have room on my sd card...im on cm9 2.1 and i really want them iv been looking around and seeing if they are in a cash folder or something but no luck. anyone have ideas about what happen to them? its not like my pocket is smart enough to just del my pano pictures and no others....please help me out
ruthlessbeatle said:
I hope somebody can help me. I'm excited, because Joker got the camera working in CM9 0.2.0, so I installed it, but now I can't find any of my pictures!
I tend to take a lot of panoramic pictures, so many that I have this cute little nickname for them. I call them "panos". Isn't that cute? Anyway, I know they take up a lot of space, but I've got plenty of room on my SD card.
I can't understand where they might have gone. My photos are pretty important to me (I take pictures of really cool things like my **** when I'm using the toilet [which is why I use panoramic mode], and my sister when she's in the shower), so I'd really like to get them back.
I've looked all through my SD card, even through directories that look like maybe they're just cache directories, but I can't find my photos for the life of me.
I thought maybe I "pocket deleted" them, but surely I wouldn't have accidentally deleted all of them in my pocket, would I have?
Please help me. I'm not sure I can catch my sister in the shower again.
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First of all, if you're running 0.2.0, I recommend upgrading to 0.3.3. It's really tits. But if that's what you're running, and you didn't edit vold.fstab, then you might not be seeing your SD card at all. Or, if you are running a new version, or you did edit your vold.fstab, but you have "Use internal storage" checked under Settings->Advanced, then your SD card is mounted at /emmc, and your internal memory is what's mounted at /sdcard.
So in either case, you may be looking at the contents of internal memory instead of your SD card, so what you expect to be there isn't.
If you took them with the stock camera, your pictures will be in /sdcard/DCIM/Camera as long as that's where your SD card is mounted.
Oh, and don't worry about those pics of your sister. I've got better ones I can send you.
P Daddy said:
First of all, if you're running 0.2.0, I recommend upgrading to 0.3.3. It's really tits. But if that's what you're running, and you didn't edit vold.fstab, then you might not be seeing your SD card at all. Or, if you are running a new version, or you did edit your vold.fstab, but you have "Use internal storage" checked under Settings->Advanced, then your SD card is mounted at /emmc, and your internal memory is what's mounted at /sdcard.
So in either case, you may be looking at the contents of internal memory instead of your SD card, so what you expect to be there isn't.
If you took them with the stock camera, your pictures will be in /sdcard/DCIM/Camera as long as that's where your SD card is mounted.
Oh, and don't worry about those pics of your sister. I've got better ones I can send you.
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hahahaha about that sister thing did that come from the cm9 thread? yea im on 3.1 i think i just hit the wrong key. i just thought of this should i just mt on my compter and look there? i did look thru emmc with no luck but i always have my sd card mounted

[Q] What's with the Amaze 4g ext_sd

The amaze 4g seems to think of its internal memory as an sd card. Its saves things that should be going to the real sd card to the phones internal memory. If you look in astro or other file managers the real sd card is listed as ext_sd and the phone dosent use it. What gives i cant find much info on this. If you manually move the files to the real sd card (ext_sd) then the game cant find the data and wants to re download it. Apps to sd and such just move things back and forth between the phone storage and the "sd card" which is really the 10gigs of internal phone space not the true sd card. Very strange. Please help.
A lot of newer apps have a setting to store in ext_sd... if they don't, you're gonna have to move the stuff manually. Aside from editing the system files and changing the variables I don't think its going to be possible unless the app supports it. Sorry, just the way it is.
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I have over 100 apps and don't have that problem. None of them are on my ext_sd... Quite a few big apps too... I've seen a few ppl with the same prob, but I don't get why. Maybe it's because I don't have any music or movies on my phone...
I guess I will consider myself lucky :screwy:
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hd2joel said:
The amaze 4g seems to think of its internal memory as an sd card. Its saves things that should be going to the real sd card to the phones internal memory. If you look in astro or other file managers the real sd card is listed as ext_sd and the phone dosent use it. What gives i cant find much info on this. If you manually move the files to the real sd card (ext_sd) then the game cant find the data and wants to re download it. Apps to sd and such just move things back and forth between the phone storage and the "sd card" which is really the 10gigs of internal phone space not the true sd card. Very strange. Please help.
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it is a true sd card, its just internal and its separate from the phones internal memory. i wish there was a way to default to the external sd, but no dice
I notice your rooted and from the looks of your memory it looks like your phone is using the real sd card not the internal memorh. Im not rooted and mine looks opposite of yours i have like 7gigs free on my sd card and like 700mb of internal memory. I wounder if rooting fixes this issue and thats why more people dont seem to be having the issue.
hd2joel said:
I notice your rooted and from the looks of your memory it looks like your phone is using the real sd card not the internal memorh. Im not rooted and mine looks opposite of yours i have like 7gigs free on my sd card and like 700mb of internal memory. I wounder if rooting fixes this issue and thats why more people dont seem to be having the issue.
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It's using internal for downloads and everything on my external was placed there by me manually (except for my cwm backups - I have 3 cwm backups on my SD which is hogging most of the space. I deleted 1 BU and now have 2GB+ available on my external.
I don't know if rooting makes a difference. I mean I deleted some bloatware, but none of the stock apps are that big in size, and I only removed about 10 stock apps/widgets. I only ran my phone stock for about 4 hours so idk
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hd2joel said:
The amaze 4g seems to think of its internal memory as an sd card. Its saves things that should be going to the real sd card to the phones internal memory. If you look in astro or other file managers the real sd card is listed as ext_sd and the phone dosent use it. What gives i cant find much info on this. If you manually move the files to the real sd card (ext_sd) then the game cant find the data and wants to re download it. Apps to sd and such just move things back and forth between the phone storage and the "sd card" which is really the 10gigs of internal phone space not the true sd card. Very strange. Please help.
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The internal memory is much, much faster (test it with SD Tools or AnTuTu Benchmark), so I wouldn't be in a hurry to move things to /mnt/sd_card/ext_sd. So long as you have the camera and other apps storing on on the ext_sd card, the 9GB internal should be fine for data, right?
i love how forum responses are always anything but a response to what op asked.
this is standard behavior for devices that have their own internal (mounted on android as /sdcard) storage partitions. the point is that, if this is not done, the a device with a large internal storage sees no benefit of it other than have a ridiculously large /data partition (we'd have over 13gb for apps on the amaze 4g for example).
ics has a better way of dealing with this treating the whole internal storage (no partitioning anymore) but again, the internal storage takes priority over the sdcard.
in my opinion it's better. I hated android automatically making several directories on my sdcard, but I agree the media scanner still has a way to go including media in the sdcard.
your best option if you don't like the new setup is to get a device instead with no internal storage that relies instead on a microSD
No its not when all the new games need 700mb downloads and the only program that uses the real external sd card is the camera. I love the new games with console quality games that's why i got a phone with no battery life and a ton of horse power. It wasn't to send faster texts. But any app the has a check box to save to the sd card ends up using that internal space called sd card. So i have a full phone an empty "real" sd card and the only app the knows its there is the camera. I cant download my audio books unless i delete a game. I cant use that external space for anything but pictures. 16gb is a lot of space just for pictures. I get internal memory is faster i just wish other apps could use it. Not just the camera app. Its dumb to call that space sd card when every app thinks that space is an external sd card. No app looks for an ext_sd card. So your 32gig class 10 card you spenf $100 for cant be used for anything but pictures its a dumb programming move.
jubeh said:
i love how forum responses are always anything but a response to what op asked.
this is standard behavior for devices that have their own internal (mounted on android as /sdcard) storage partitions. the point is that, if this is not done, the a device with a large internal storage sees no benefit of it other than have a ridiculously large /data partition (we'd have over 13gb for apps on the amaze 4g for example).
ics has a better way of dealing with this treating the whole internal storage (no partitioning anymore) but again, the internal storage takes priority over the sdcard.
in my opinion it's better. I hated android automatically making several directories on my sdcard, but I agree the media scanner still has a way to go including media in the sdcard.
your best option if you don't like the new setup is to get a device instead with no internal storage that relies instead on a microSD
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Great answer if you don't like it get a phone with no internal memory brilliant! Why can't they just save the name sdcard for true external sdcards? The point of a ton of internal memory is to have a ton of internal memory so i dont get your point of no benefit. The benefit is i have 13 gigs for all these games that require almost a gig of space. I think thats why they started putting that much internal memory. With the new power of these phones the apps are getting huge. So put a lot of very fast internal storage space. And then you can use your real sdcard as you always have. Apps arnt 2mb any more. So 13gigs of app storage would be a great benefit in the day of gigabyte sized apps. SORRY FOR THE RANT IM DONE NOW. some people's kids just bother me with their logic.
Hey guys, ima level 3 technician and I use to work at a T-Mobile refurb center and have worked at RIM and to end some confusion.
The internal memory is in fact an sd card ranging in sizes from 4-32 gigabytes class 6, I've worked on my phone personally just to double check and found one as well
I'm currently in the process of decrypting the format of my internal sd card so I can transfer it and swap it with a 32gb patriot class 10 just a little info I wanted to share, also the capacitive buttons light leak is due to a physical malfunction in the amazes hardware where the screen and glass met which makes a slight crevice where in turn the light leaks thru creating that dreaded overshoot,
I fixed this by opening up my phone ( I do not advise this I am a professional and have all my equipment so I don't make mistakes) and putting a line of electric tape (black) between the two so there is no longer any way the light can leak thru.
again I don't advise any of this simply giving some information on these problems
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Alan Corona said:
Hey guys, ima level 3 technician and I use to work at a T-Mobile refurb center and have worked at RIM and to end some confusion.
The internal memory is in fact an sd card ranging in sizes from 4-32 gigabytes class 6, I've worked on my phone personally just to double check and found one as well
I'm currently in the process of decrypting the format of my internal sd card so I can transfer it and swap it with a 32gb patriot class 10 just a little info I wanted to share, also the capacitive buttons light leak is due to a physical malfunction in the amazes hardware where the screen and glass met which makes a slight crevice where in turn the light leaks thru creating that dreaded overshoot,
I fixed this by opening up my phone ( I do not advise this I am a professional and have all my equipment so I don't make mistakes) and putting a line of electric tape (black) between the two so there is no longer any way the light can leak thru.
again I don't advise any of this simply giving some information on these problems
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So... You will have the only 64GB Amaze with no light bleed? If you tape a folded piece of paper in your back cover to stop the squeaking, and somehow throw ICS on that, you can prolly sell that thing for $2M
Thanks for the clarification
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Lmao that made my night.
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Alan Corona said:
Hey guys, ima level 3 technician and I use to work at a T-Mobile refurb center and have worked at RIM and to end some confusion.
The internal memory is in fact an sd card ranging in sizes from 4-32 gigabytes class 6, I've worked on my phone personally just to double check and found one as well
I'm currently in the process of decrypting the format of my internal sd card so I can transfer it and swap it with a 32gb patriot class 10 just a little info I wanted to share, also the capacitive buttons light leak is due to a physical malfunction in the amazes hardware where the screen and glass met which makes a slight crevice where in turn the light leaks thru creating that dreaded overshoot,
I fixed this by opening up my phone ( I do not advise this I am a professional and have all my equipment so I don't make mistakes) and putting a line of electric tape (black) between the two so there is no longer any way the light can leak thru.
again I don't advise any of this simply giving some information on these problems
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Pics or it didn't happen I call full on bull**** that there is an internal "removeable" sdcard in this thing. It's a memory module aka a chip that is permanently attached to the board. I love it when kids make stuff up. Just because they named it sdcard your now super tech and going to remove and up grade it. Lol some peoples kids. Anything to make yourself sound cool get a life really. Or show me pic of this internal card shouldn't be hard for a super tech of your skill lol.
Alan Corona said:
Hey guys, ima level 3 technician and I use to work at a T-Mobile refurb center and have worked at RIM and to end some confusion.
The internal memory is in fact an sd card ranging in sizes from 4-32 gigabytes class 6, I've worked on my phone personally just to double check and found one as well
I'm currently in the process of decrypting the format of my internal sd card so I can transfer it and swap it with a 32gb patriot class 10 just a little info I wanted to share, also the capacitive buttons light leak is due to a physical malfunction in the amazes hardware where the screen and glass met which makes a slight crevice where in turn the light leaks thru creating that dreaded overshoot,
I fixed this by opening up my phone ( I do not advise this I am a professional and have all my equipment so I don't make mistakes) and putting a line of electric tape (black) between the two so there is no longer any way the light can leak thru.
again I don't advise any of this simply giving some information on these problems
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Lol a 12yearold T-Mobile rim working super tech you made my day, really thank you ,oh yeah & electric tape only comes in black just an fyi
I will post pics thank you
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hd2joel said:
electric tape only comes in black just an fyi
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Lol I hope you're joking
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hd2joel said:
Pics or it didn't happen I call full on bull**** that there is an internal "removeable" sdcard in this thing. It's a memory module aka a chip that is permanently attached to the board. I love it when kids make stuff up. Just because they named it sdcard your now super tech and going to remove and up grade it. Lol some peoples kids. Anything to make yourself sound cool get a life really. Or show me pic of this internal card shouldn't be hard for a super tech of your skill lol.
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This coming from the same guy that thought the s-off thread was bull**** because the hboot build date time stamp was the same in both pictures. Who are you again and why have you come to troll the amaze boards? You're clearly out of your league here pal....
this forum is full of haters. Why not just give the guy the benefit.
Chuck Norris CAN touch MC Hammer!
This thread has ran it's course.
Closed.

[Q] Icons keep changing to little green android guys

Hello everyone, I seem to keep having an issue with my desktop (no sure if that is the right word to describe the main pages where you icons and widgets are) icons will change to images of the android guy. It seems to happen randomly and frequently when I reboot my phone. It never happened on stock but I am currently running Team Perfection's Objection #2 with its RC1. I have flashed it twice and still have the same problem. Both times I flashed, I did a clean install. I flashed the dalviek cache, wiped the partition, fixed permissions...... This issue has also come when I tried Goldie 5 rom also. So far to remedy the problem, I delete all the icons and then I add the shortcuts back. Not a deal breaker, just annoying and I am curious as to why. I have tried searching on the web and in the forums here but having no luck. I think it may be the way I'm typing in the search. Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated. I have included a screenshot of my issue.
p.s. this is my first question post so please tell me if I need and how to improve my posting skills.
Go into settings/applications, and move the apps from sdcard to phone.
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They will show like this when the OS has lost connection with your sd card. You can.go thru setting unmount and then remount your sd card and they should show up. Not to be a doomsayer, but there is a possibility that your sd card is getting ready to go out on you. Mine exhibited the same thing and then died 2 weeks later.
Cosmo D from outer space!
I came to rock the human race!
I can't seem to thank either of your guys posts. I just wanted to say thanks for both suggestions. Totally makes sense, kicking my self for not thinking of it. This is why I love this site and flashing roms. Thanks to both of you again!
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They will show like this when the OS has lost connection with your sd card. You can.go thru setting unmount and then remount your sd card and they should show up. Not to be a doomsayer, but there is a possibility that your sd card is getting ready to go out on you. Mine exhibited the same thing and then died 2 weeks later.
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Please dont say that! This has been happening to me too, and I figured it was because the apps were on the SD card....so if the card dies, I will loose everything wont i?
Unmounting the SD card and remounting didn't work but moving the apps back to the phone worked. I may invest in a new sd card with a higher class. I am currently using a san disk 4 class. I want to keep my apps on the sd card because the partition seem so small on the phone and I find it easier for backing up purposes.
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Please dont say that! This has been happening to me too, and I figured it was because the apps were on the SD card....so if the card dies, I will loose everything wont i?
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Not saying it is absolutely going to happen, but that is what happened to me. New card, no crazy icons.
Would at least back up everything important from the sd card.
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This has happened to me as well. I just go into app manager and clear the ram then all my icons return.
itsnowornever said:
Please dont say that! This has been happening to me too, and I figured it was because the apps were on the SD card....so if the card dies, I will loose everything wont i?
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I mean its possible. I learned from loosing over 500 pictures and videos how important it is to back up SD cards. There are many apps that can back it up for you. I personally use Google+ for backing up pictures and videos only when connected to a charger.
When my SD crapped out, it put my phone into a boot loop, which made me panic since I was an avid flasher on my atrix. Not sure every SD card acts that way. Of course, once removed, phone booted up normally
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ILuvRice said:
Unmounting the SD card and remounting didn't work but moving the apps back to the phone worked. I may invest in a new sd card with a higher class. I am currently using a san disk 4 class. I want to keep my apps on the sd card because the partition seem so small on the phone and I find it easier for backing up purposes.
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This phone has almost 2GB of storage memory for apps. And that is about the most I have seen for about any phone. So if you are using it up you must have alot of apps. Maybe too many as the phone is having issues keeping them alll in memory. Had similiar issues to this on previous phones when they were simply over loaded.
Also, I don't believe it is your SD card going bad. The phone doesn't save/move apps to your external (physical) sd card. It saves them to the built in internal/usb memory which is about 11GB. Even the EA/Gameloft extra downloads are saved on the internal/usb memory. You can connect your phone to your computer and see this. However when you unmout the external sd card the apps disappear. So how the 2 are linked is unknown to me. But that link may be the issue.
Got a 32 gb card just to be safe. I need a larger card anyway so I'll throw this older one on my camera. LOL
Thanks for saving me time
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This has happened to me as well. I just go into app manager and clear the ram then all my icons return.
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Thanks for the simple but effective tip. Don't know why I spend hours reading the non-geek forums, xda is the only one that has real, expert answers. Rather than "well if u press vol sideways and spin around three times while chanting gnusmas " or something like that.

Wouldn't A2SD SUpport be great?

Hey, don't know if a topic on this was already started, so please delete if it was, but this whole internal and external storage creates so much frustration. All the apps just save their content to /sdcard which is just the internal memory. I would personally just like to combine the sdcard with the internal memory and create one big storage...just a thought though.
I kinda solved my own problem with this simple fix: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27539066#post27539066
The only problem with that would be you would then never be able to remove your SD card without corrupting all of the data, or so I would think.
We have good enough app space I wouldn't want to tank performance on the phone for that. Those features are better off for older phones or phones without good specs
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That's why I like the Galxy Nexus. It's all one HD and none of this partition crap. The down side is that there is no card to remove. I hated with my Photon I had two internal partitions and then ext-sd. I couldn't move apps to my ext-sd only interal "sd" if you can call it that. Dealing with the pains of partitions makes me prefer that all Androids should only have one internal partition and then the removable SD. After the win95/98 days and HD sizes I thought I would be done with partitions until I ran into big HD Android devices. /end rant
Yea I'm having some issues trying to figure out how to move data around between storage on this device
I don't understand how this is complicated. Am I missing something? Why in the world would a device with 16GB of internal space and nothing else be preferable to one with 16GB of internal space PLUS a 32GB sd card?
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.... I never said i wouldn't want the extra storage im just trying to figure out what goes where and how to easily move data between internal and the sd card. Ive had some success astro.
lonnydub said:
That's why I like the Galxy Nexus. It's all one HD and none of this partition crap. The down side is that there is no card to remove. I hated with my Photon I had two internal partitions and then ext-sd. I couldn't move apps to my ext-sd only interal "sd" if you can call it that. Dealing with the pains of partitions makes me prefer that all Androids should only have one internal partition and then the removable SD. After the win95/98 days and HD sizes I thought I would be done with partitions until I ran into big HD Android devices. /end rant
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Regarding partitions, that's because Android is founded on the roots of Linux, if you use Linux you would understand where and why partitionsare used and needed
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firmbiz94 said:
.... I never said i wouldn't want the extra storage im just trying to figure out what goes where and how to easily move data between internal and the sd card. Ive had some success astro.
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Just use an app like Astro, Root Explorer, or ES File Explorer and it will allow you to easily move your data to basically wherever you want on the phone/external sd card.
lonnydub said:
That's why I like the Galxy Nexus. It's all one HD and none of this partition crap. The down side is that there is no card to remove. I hated with my Photon I had two internal partitions and then ext-sd. I couldn't move apps to my ext-sd only interal "sd" if you can call it that. Dealing with the pains of partitions makes me prefer that all Androids should only have one internal partition and then the removable SD. After the win95/98 days and HD sizes I thought I would be done with partitions until I ran into big HD Android devices. /end rant
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Yeah, that's one of the things I like about the galaxy nexus and the one x, is just having internal. The SD card option is great, but not much of use, if all apps are going to do is save to the internal memory (*cough* Google music) and leave it up to the user to bind the folders together...but I digress.
megabiteg said:
if you use Linux you would understand where and why partitionsare used and needed
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It's just a personal preferance. I have used many different distros of Linux along with Unix. I like to put all my money into one pants pocket. I don't like to have some money in the back, some in front, some in the left pocket.
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I could and have easily filled 16gbs of storage! Bluray rips lol
You probably don't need an sd card slot for this device if your an average user. Me on the other hand thinks its perfect that my apps are in internal storage and my photos,music,vids use my 64gb extsd. I'm pretty sure the internal flash is faster then my class 10 card. It seems they have it partitioned correctly. I don't understand why you would want to put your apps in the sd,probably slower & becomes non removable.
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lonnydub said:
It's just a personal preferance. I have used many different distros of Linux along with Unix. I like to put all my money into one pants pocket. I don't like to have some money in the back, some in front, some in the left pocket.
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I prefer my apps in one pocket and my videos/photos in the other. Otherwise I'd be spending to much time trying to find crap in one pocket lol
slowfncar said:
I could and have easily filled 16gbs of storage! Bluray rips lol
You probably don't need an sd card slot for this device if your an average user. Me on the other hand thinks its perfect that my apps are in internal storage and my photos,music,vids use my 64gb extsd. I'm pretty sure the internal flash is faster then my class 10 card. It seems they have it partitioned correctly. I don't understand why you would want to put your apps in the sd,probably slower & becomes non removable.
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I prefer my apps in one pocket and my videos/photos in the other. Otherwise I'd be spending to much time trying to find crap in one pocket lol
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See...I guess it's really a personal preference. It just bothers me, when I have a 32 GB card just sitting there with only 2 GB used, meanwhile my internal storage has only 2 GB free.
use link2sd....this thread has more info..basically use ext2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1678817&highlight=link2sd
megabiteg said:
Regarding partitions, that's because Android is founded on the roots of Linux, if you use Linux you would understand where and why partitions are used and needed
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Actually, I have a fair amount of Linux knowledge and have set up more than a few PC's and servers in my time. I've never understood the reasoning behind it, and it really isn't needed, as you can do a single partition install on even the most recent distros and it will operate normally. You don't need a separate system and homespace. It is unnecessary, and in my opinion managing multiple partitions in that manner is a pain and adds to clutter. I will install it that way if people want me to, but I don't enjoy it that way.
If you grab any older Linux CD, you will see that a lot of them will normally install and configure itself on one data partition unless you state otherwise, and there is a reason for that. It's bad enough that the OS by default dislikes you being an admin all the time, which I also find ignorant. If you can't use a PC without fear of breaking something then you probably shouldn't be using one. It's just another extra precaution taken to try and make it more user friendly.
I don't know if you ever have, but I wasted one hour doing some editing in vi just for me to try and save and realize I forgot to use sudo so I couldn't use the necessary admin privileges... If I have permissions to perform an administrative task, then saying "I want to be admin now" shouldn't be necessary. Most people wouldn't make that mistake, but I have, and now I'll probably never do it again.
Granted, I do see a use for apps like superuser as a seemingly legitimate app in the market could do something dangerous behind the scenes and you can't easily monitor that(and I don't have to approve root each time I use a root app, unlike having to sudo before everything)
What app are some of you are using that's taking up lots of internal storage. I can see games and game data would do that. In that case use GL to SD app. When you open the app it will list games installed (sometimes other apps) and when you click on any it will prompt for a download game data but instead of downloading to internal it will download to micro sd which will save your internal space. If you've already downloaded data prior to installing GL to SD you can just delete them and let GL to SD download it to card or you can transfer them to the games(this might be different with the current GL to SD app) folder in your sd card.
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