My sister's I9100M came with stock Bell/Virgin GB so this morning I flashed it with Resurrection Remix v2.6.1 and I seem to be missing roughly 1.5GB of internal storage space. Is there a way to get it? When I mount the phone in the computer, there's two partitions on the phone, but the 2nd partition cannot be accessed and says there's 0 bytes of space on it. The ROM itself has a 2GB partition, and the internal storage is given 11.5GB, so there's another 1.5GB or so missing.
geokilla said:
My sister's I9100M came with stock Bell/Virgin GB so this morning I flashed it with Resurrection Remix v2.6.1 and I seem to be missing roughly 1.5GB of internal storage space. Is there a way to get it? When I mount the phone in the computer, there's two partitions on the phone, but the 2nd partition cannot be accessed and says there's 0 bytes of space on it. The ROM itself has a 2GB partition, and the internal storage is given 11.5GB, so there's another 1.5GB or so missing.
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That is normal. I have the same model and same rom and I'm getting the same internal storage space. I would advise just picking up an external sd card if space in an issue. I picked up a 16gig for 15 bucks at bestbuy/future shop. I believe Ice Cream Sandwich just simply takes up more space than Gingerbread with its system files and such. Anyways, to sum up...
1. Yes it's normal.
2. Go buy an external sd. Very affordable.
Is there a way to fix it? Would flashing official ICS + pit fix this?
geokilla said:
Is there a way to fix it? Would flashing official ICS + pit fix this?
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There is no "fix", as it's not missing. It's reserved and used by the system.
ctomgee said:
There is no "fix", as it's not missing. It's reserved and used by the system.
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Isn't the 2GB that I mentioned reserved for the system? On my i896, 2GB for ROM/System + 13GB internal storage makes up to roughly 16GB.
geokilla said:
Isn't the 2GB that I mentioned reserved for the system? On my i896, 2GB for ROM/System + 13GB internal storage makes up to roughly 16GB.
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No. The 2gb partition should be for apps, the 11.5gb for user files (music, pictures, videos, etc). The remaining is for system use.
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SG S2 has 16GB of internal storage, how can I expose ALL of this to Windows or Linux? At the moment I am only able to see a 11.5GB partition. I need to be able to read(no writing necessary) all of the 16BG in order to perform data recovery.
Prelude
I had "USB storage damaged" problem on a stock handset. Where this message was showing up in notifications and internal storage could not be mounted. I had to format the internal storage in order to make it accessible again.
Since then I've been running various file recovery tools on internal storage by making it accessible to Windows through Settings > Wireless and network > USB utilities > Connect storage to PC. A lof of the data was successfully recovered using this method, but I had no luck recovering content of /sdcard/DCIM , which has family photos.
Problem is, Windows sees the drive as a 11.5 GB device. I understand that internal storage contains several partitions and only one of them is exposed to Windows. I need to run data recovery tools on ALL of the 16GB, how can this be done?
I would greatly appreciate any pointers or suggestions. Thank you.
If you had files on /sdcard, it would be on the 11.5GB partition.
It seems unlikely Android specific software would be better, but you could always give http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1352515 a go.
@oinkylicious, thank you for the link, I'll give it a try.
I don't fully understand how internal storage is partitioned. How is 16 GB divided into different partitions? Camera pictures are stored on on /sdcard/DCIM , which partition would this be on?
Some data recovery tools are finding remains of two partitions, one FAT16 4 GB and one FAT32 12 GB, this seems to add up to 16 GB. I am assuming that because USB internal storage failed and had to be formatted, that all of the 16 GB were formatted.
Found how partitions are done on Galaxy S - http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_Series#Partitions
but no luck finding similar info for S2.
The answer isn't hard to find.
pulser_g2 said:
OMG WTF I was conned. Where's my 16 GB??? I WANT IT NAO!
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Your device uses 500 MB of space for the actual system software, plus around 2GB for your applications and their data storage. There are other partitions used for other system functions, and these take up some of the remaining space.
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pulser_g2 said:
OMG WTF I was conned. Where's my 16 GB??? I WANT IT NAO!
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Your device uses 500 MB of space for the actual system software, plus around 2GB for your applications and their data storage. There are other partitions used for other system functions, and these take up some of the remaining space.
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Is there any way to mount this 2GB partition(apps+data) on Windows/Linux?
Hello guys,
I've got a question...
When I connect the Tab to the PC, all the folders are about 4 GB,
and the Free Space is about 5GB.... so... 9 GB in total
Where are rest of the 16GB of storage?
zuperpailon said:
Hello guys,
I've got a question...
When I connect the Tab to the PC, all the folders are about 4 GB,
and the Free Space is about 5GB.... so... 9 GB in total
Where are rest of the 16GB of storage?
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The rest consists of various partitions for cache, system, data etc...
sendan said:
The rest consists of various partitions for cache, system, data etc...
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So it's normal that the Storage capacity that Windows shows me it's about 10 gb, thanks
This is true of all electronic devices nowadays (running any OS). They're advertised by the total flash storage, but the amount actually available to the user is reduced by the amount used by system and other partitions. It's annoying, but it's an advertising tool that everyone uses, so none of the manufacturers would get any benefit from being honest...
The previous posts are only partly correct. Honeycomb shares the 16GB between the internal memory and the 'SD-CARD'. If you install 1GB worth of apps (hard to do) your 'SD-CARDs' memory deminishes by 1GB. In the previous versions of Android, the partitions were fixed, meaning that if your predefined internal memory was full, you couldn't install anymore apps. Honeycomb overcomes this limitation by dynamically sharing the whole internal memory between internal storage and 'SD-CARD'. Additionally the system itself resides in this memory, deminishing it by the size of the OS.
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Achim
QUESTION
the size of my internal storage is 11.4GB (which is 12GB from 16GB, so the phone uses the 4GB as system)
BUT when i format it, it says only 10GB (9.9GB to be exact) is available.
WHY? and what is using the 1.5GB rest of the storage?
Can it be cleaned up?
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So, as you can see i did a full format of internal storage to START OVER CLEAN
and i copied every thing to "A folder" in my external memory
BUT after i formated the internal memory i went to the External memory to find that my folder turned into a NON recognizable sort of file with 0kb of size.
the memory size shows that my files are in there but WHERE?
my little girl's birthday videos and pictures are in there so i really really need them back.
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
omid_freesky said:
So, as you can see i did a full format of internal storage to START OVER CLEAN
and i copied every thing to "A folder" in my external memory
BUT after i formated the internal memory i went to the External memory to find that my folder turned into a NON recognizable sort of file with 0kb of size.
the memory size shows that my files are in there but WHERE?
my little girl's birthday videos and pictures are in there so i really really need them back.
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
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No idea what you are doing but to recover files you can try RECUVA .
Looks like you formatted external sd card .
jje
Take the card out and plug it into your computer.
(Or use my Usb mass-storage mode scripts around here somewhere if you're rooted, it makes no difference)
This is a known issue with the phone and exFAT, Fat32 seems to work fine.
Should the file really be damaged (and not only non-readable by the phone) you can use Recuva as suggested by the parent.
Thank you Guys for the help, and I GOT the whole thing back.
when i removed external memory and put it in my windows laptop (because i did it with mac the first time) i found the folder there.
i renamed it and put it back in the phone and it was OKEY.
QUESTION THOUGH:
as my first post i did this format to have a clean Empty 12GB of internal memory BUT i end up having less than 10GB even after format.
What is this and why can't i empty the rest?
You can't just format the internal memory as it is using a shared file system with the system. Can you tell us what you did to format it?
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i connected it to the computer and did a format.
it was totally fine but it shows the Total size is 11.9GB and after format it still uses about 2GB and says 9.9GB available (2GB used)
the total size of the internal memory is 16GB and 4GB is used by the System but why 2 more is taken from the 12GB too
Probably installed apps. They share the available space with the folder you see as /sdcard/. Check your storage in the settings.
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My RAZR MAXX is currently running the stock ROM, rooted with safestrap recovery. I discovered this odd problem when I went to create a ROM image in safestrap and it only showed 1.9gb available internal memory. I formatted the internal memory and even did a full factory reset to see if the problem would change, but no luck. What in the world would cause my /sdcard partition to be so small? How can I resize it to take up all available free space?
Look up the software g-parted. It will help you to see the partitions on the SD card. Windows cant see the Android ( linux ) partitions.
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Look up the software g-parted. It will help you to see the partitions on the SD card. Windows cant see the Android ( linux ) partitions.
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Downloading the live ISO now. Do I connect my phone as a mass storage device or some other way for gparted to see everything?
//edit: This is the INTERNAL "/sdcard" partition, not an external card (/sdcard-ext).
Gparted shows /sdcard as a 2.75gb "unallocated" space. No filesystem that it can detect. /sdcard-ext (my actual card) is there with the right size as fat32. It does not show any other partitions on the device, and no option to make /sdcard any bigger.
Weird. I too am stock and running Project Lense boot. My /sdcard is showing correctly in Root Explorer as about 8 gig with 4.69 used and 3.23 free. 8 gig like it should be.
Does safestrap say 1.9G internal memory or internal storage? Storage is not the same as memory. Too many people use them interchangeably.
Just for ****s and giggles I downloaded a couple of partition info apps from the market. All of them that I downloaded were crap and didn't work. Even paid for one and it FC's. Uninstall click refund!!!
85gallon said:
Weird. I too am stock and running Project Lense boot. My /sdcard is showing correctly in Root Explorer as about 8 gig with 4.69 used and 3.23 free. 8 gig like it should be.
Does safestrap say 1.9G internal memory or internal storage? Storage is not the same as memory. Too many people use them interchangeably.
Just for ****s and giggles I downloaded a couple of partition info apps from the market. All of them that I downloaded were crap and didn't work. Even paid for one and it FC's. Uninstall click refund!!!
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I factory reset and formatted. safestrap said I had ~2800mb of internal memory (/sdcard) available instead of the ~8gb I'm supposed to have. It's the same as it displays in the phone via Settings > Storage, or through gparted.
I know the difference between storage and memory, but the RAZR keeps referring to it as memory.
Hi,
how could I clean all the internal storage? Because I flashed many rom's and the avaible space os just 11GB at the moment. How could I clean, format, erase whatever.
?
THANKS :good:
daniel_costa_rj said:
Hi,
how could I clean all the internal storage? Because I flashed many rom's and the avaible space os just 11GB at the moment. How could I clean, format, erase whatever.
?
THANKS :good:
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Having 11GB available is normal, when we get sold a phone with 16GB internal memory that it total, what you see as 11GB is the data partition, there are many more which are needed for the phone to work, the system takes up some of the 16GB, so does cache and various other things.
You will only see 11GB available because of how the memory is partitioned.
Thanks for the fast answer...
From my 11gb, 3.5 GB are used from apps and 7gb are used from system.
So i have less than a GB left.
What is that 7gb of system usage?
How can I get rid of it?
thx, nearly
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