Hello
I just got the LG Optimus G AT&T, I thought the specification for phone memory is 16 GB, but it only has about 11 GB available to start with?
Is that correct? Just want to confirm.
Thank you,
YYW
yewai said:
Hello
I just got the LG Optimus G AT&T, I thought the specification for phone memory is 16 GB, but it only has about 11 GB available to start with?
Is that correct? Just want to confirm.
Thank you,
YYW
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That's all I ever had as well on internal.
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Yup 11GB usable to the user. The OS is installed on the other 5 GBs.
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Joecascio2000 said:
Yup 11GB usable to the user. The OS is installed on the other 5 GBs.
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WTF is in there? How can it possibly take up that much memory? That's more than a complete Windows 7 install including Office 2010 Pro Plus!
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The system partition is 1.4GBs alone but there are a couple of other partitions that vary in size. A lot of the reserved space is unused.
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The system partition is 1.4GBs alone but there are a couple of other partitions that vary in size. A lot of the reserved space is unused.
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Can it be reclaimed or do you know if there is a valid reason for the unused, reserved space? Thanks in advance for your feedback.
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Can it be reclaimed or do you know if there is a valid reason for the unused, reserved space? Thanks in advance for your feedback.
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Not sure. I guess technically speaking Yes is could be reclaimed but I doubt it would happen. When CM 10 came out for the Captivate they kept tweaking the partition layout because at first they allowed too much space and then they changed it again to allow less space. The big problem is when they kept changing it, it would wipe the whole device including internal SD. We may see a new partition layout when CM 10.1 comes out but again I doubt it. If you download SD Maid and click Advanced on the first screen you can see a list of locations and the allotted storage for each (see screenshot).
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WTF is in there? How can it possibly take up that much memory? That's more than a complete Windows 7 install including Office 2010 Pro Plus!
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Idk what win7 you have but mine is about 20gb. Lol
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its420oclock said:
Idk what win7 you have but mine is about 20gb. Lol
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Depends on what you install. Mine was like 9 gigs.
The storage device won't have 16GB of space anyway, not after it's formatted. You get 14.7GB. Then the stock ROM is about 1.2GB -- before installing it on the drive. The OS gets a partition of several gigabytes to reserve space and keep knuckleheads from stuffing the drive with crap.
The AT&T version comes with a blank 16GB SD card pre-installed, in addition to the 16GB of internal storage. If that's not enough space, you can buy a 64GB SD card separately.
Is that the biggest memory card you can use in OG, 64GB?
yep. havent tried a 128gb one (if they exist) but with 64gb it works fine and it's the max specified in specs.
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Is that the biggest memory card you can use in OG, 64GB?
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If you find a bigger one, let me know. :laugh:
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If you find a bigger one, let me know. :laugh:
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o_o; Do people really need all that space..? I think the ~27-32 is fantastic. Hell, I was fine with 8 on my Inspire 4g. Now people are talking about 128gb? Ya'll are nuts..
Be glad you get that much. the AT&T One X only had 9.7 GB free out of the box. HTC/AT&T used up almost HALF of the storage.
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If you flash ROMs to the 3d, on average how much storage is left out of the 4gb?
I know it depends on the ROM but just wanted to know?
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If you flash ROMs to the 3d, on average how much storage is left out of the 4gb?
I know it depends on the ROM but just wanted to know?
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4GB?
I think we have 1GB storage.
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4GB?
I think we have 1GB storage.
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Well yeah for apps and storage you have 1GB but if you flash ROM couldn't you change that limitation?
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1GB of the 4GB is user data. We don't have 4gb lol
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southern87 said:
1GB of the 4GB is user data. We don't have 4gb lol
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But can you change that?
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I'm using viper rom and I have around 781 meg free. I dont think it really affected anything.
What is the 3GB even used for, anyway?
The OS can't possibly take up that much space.
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What is the 3GB even used for, anyway?
The OS can't possibly take up that much space.
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Well I think it acctually does. Not Android itself but with Sense altogether. :/
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Well I think it acctually does. Not Android itself but with Sense altogether. :/
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Think about it - The Evo 4G had Android 2.3.4, sense 2.3 or something like that and it only used 750 MB of the 1GB.
Imo there is absolutely no way sense uses 3 gb of space..but I can't explain where the Hell it is unless its partitioned for something else..I feel a little duped about that ..they clearly advertised 4gb..but thank god for SD cards
Its probably saved for future updates.
how do we get this done?
By searching and or reading
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Try the app Directory Bind. You'll find it on the forums.
I believe the latest Rom toolbox can do it. Apps2sd can't do it right now
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By searching and or reading
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i actually did. each search would give me results on other phones and if it was this phone it was the IS9xxx or some ****.
thanks everyone else that actually had some good useful info for me. back onto my search.
any way to do this unrooted?
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any way to do this unrooted?
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Nope dye to MTP you just can't
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what's the point of putting apps to sd card nowadays? this was only relevant during the G1 days.
i play a lot of games on my phone. gameloft especially have them big files that is needed to play.
And 16GB is not enough?
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And 16GB is not enough?
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Not if you have a bunch if games.
There's only 12GB usable and that's like 9 big games plus abit so you can run out if your a heavy gamer
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oreo said:
There's only 12GB usable and that's like 9 big games plus abit so you can run out if your a heavy gamer
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Yep. Really don't know why Samsung has done this. Directory Bind is a good workaround, though.
lol, i thought it would be too!
turns out its this lucky patcher i am using that is telling lies that i ran out of space.
Lucky patcher = always bad news
so don't ever use it anymore?
i noticed my phone is running on edge instead of a 3/4g data network. the only thing i ever did to my phone was root it, i didn't use any roms from here. i was able to put the original back thru odin, and my phone no longer says modified. but my data is still the same and my imei info is still gone.
anybody else experience this? oh and i did do a nandroid backup after i had rooted it. i restored it but it still wouldn't change my data or imei issue. i also checked my counter and it says custom binary (1 counts)...does that mean i am screwed? everything else in that line reads samsung or official tho. and at the very top is odin in red.
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i play a lot of games on my phone. gameloft especially have them big files that is needed to play.
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Look for "GL to SD" on the play store. It moves most of the content of gameloft games to SD.
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This makes me crazy. Why do they claim 8gb when there is not even 5gb usable? Be honest, say 5gb so we are able to gauge what we are getting. At least when you get an SD card almost all of it is there.
You forgot 2 gb internal storage for apps..yes its not full 8 gb ..its 7 point something but it never is.
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It is the same reason for your hdd on your pc. The drive does have 8gb total but some of it is used up by the system's OS. Your usable space is actually 5.5gb with 1.3gb being used for apps. Any storafe medium does this. If you notoce on sd cards it may say 16gb but the user only has access to 14 gb
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-sigh- because there really is 8gb of memory and they would be lying if they said 5gb. Think about it; all tech companies list the memory as the total amount of internal memory, not just available memory. If Samsung had a guilty conscience and said the galaxy player had 5gb, how could you compare to the iPod, that still said 8gb? There really is 8gb, but only 5gb available. Life tends to not be perfect.
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-sigh- because there really is 8gb of memory and they would be lying if they said 5gb. Think about it; all tech companies list the memory as the total amount of internal memory, not just available memory. If Samsung had a guilty conscience and said the galaxy player had 5gb, how could you compare to the iPod, that still said 8gb? There really is 8gb, but only 5gb available. Life tends to not be perfect.
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I didnt understand why there is 2gb od system storage,why when i install an app the size storage is taken from the usb storage and the system storage?why do we need the system storage
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I didnt understand why there is 2gb od system storage,why when i install an app the size storage is taken from the usb storage and the system storage?why do we need the system storage
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System storage is for apps..some aps can be instaled on sd (usb) but you can move and them to system..be happy that SGP has a lot of system memory..i had phone with just 200mb of system memory and 8 gb card and that was nightmare.
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System storage is for apps..some aps can be instaled on sd (usb) but you can move and them to system..be happy that SGP has a lot of system memory..i had phone with just 200mb of system memory and 8 gb card and that was nightmare.
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but what is the different if i have 2 GB of system storage and 5 GB of usb storage?i prefer that it will be 7 GB of storage that apps will be installed because right now when i install an app it takes place in the system storage and the usb storage i think that it just make things more complicated.
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but what is the different if i have 2 GB of system storage and 5 GB of usb storage?i prefer that it will be 7 GB of storage that apps will be installed because right now when i install an app it takes place in the system storage and the usb storage i think that it just make things more complicated.
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Most apps can not be instaled on usb storage so you want be able to install them at all with out it ..also almost all aps have some librarys and they all go to system storage..also dalvic cache is on system storage..and every app that is on usb storage you can move it to system..just go to menage aplications in settings ..click on app and click on move to device
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caseyatbt said:
This makes me crazy. Why do they claim 8gb when there is not even 5gb usable? Be honest, say 5gb so we are able to gauge what we are getting. At least when you get an SD card almost all of it is there.
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Just buy a 64gb MicroSD and swap the internal with the external, then you'll have 64gb for apps to be installed on.
Simple fix.
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Just buy a 64gb MicroSD and swap the internal with the external, then you'll have 64gb for apps to be installed on.
Simple fix.
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I agree,i have done it with 32 gb.
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DZonikg said:
I agree,i have done it with 32 gb.
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I have 32gb too,how I do it?
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I have 32gb too,how I do it?
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Modify your hold.fstab file in /system/etc
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This just started happening to me this evening. I randomly get this message. .. Sdcard empty, unmounted, or not present. Never experienced an error like this in the past. I'm running Beans 7, sdswap, perseus kernel with 5g profile. Does anyone have a clue to this problem?
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What class of sdcard do you have? Sdcard specs, please. Bet it's crap. Lol. Seriously. Not being a jerk. Troubleshooting.
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What class of sdcard do you have? Sdcard specs, please. Bet it's crap. Lol. Seriously. Not being a jerk. Troubleshooting.
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Its a Sandisk Ultra 32gb Micro SDHC Class 10. Im very doubtful its a sdcard problem. U know of a better sdcard? Rebooting seems to fix the issue temporary
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Its a Sandisk Ultra 32gb Micro SDHC Class 10. Im very doubtful its a sdcard problem. U know of a better sdcard? Rebooting seems to fix the issue temporary
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Nope! That's what I got. Lol. You pop it out and back in?
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Yep.... still doing it
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Just noticed a message come across my notification bar also. ... sd card unexpectedly removed. ....
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I would transfer everything you can off it and format it. Step one.
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Its a Sandisk Ultra 32gb Micro SDHC Class 10. Im very doubtful its a sdcard problem. U know of a better sdcard? Rebooting seems to fix the issue temporary
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Did you get it from Amazon? If so it probably is a bad card. I've seen quit a few people who got a bad batch from ordering on Amazon. Try what Wolf said, backup and format
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Did you get it from Amazon? If so it probably is a bad card. I've seen quit a few people who got a bad batch from ordering on Amazon. Try what Wolf said, backup and format
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No I purchased it a month ago from best buy
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After doing a little research I see this seems to be a common issue. Just cant find a fix.... I'll try backing it up and reformatting it.
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Same issue I encountered after flashing a rom., I wiped card reformatted then put everything back on card to have it happen again .should i reformat and start fresh ? I'm using a 32 gb sandisk class 4. I think I've had since my thunderbolt .
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After doing a little research I see this seems to be a common issue. Just cant find a fix.... I'll try backing it up and reformatting it.
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Tried that. Several times. Been having similar problems with my sd card. Its a samsung 64gb class ten. I cant find any of my downloads. I am a noob but I think the sd swap does something to the card. Only causes a problem if you flash a new rom (or reflash same) that doesn't have swap.
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Aren't you supposed to delete a few files when returning from a swap? Though I read that.
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Well... After reformatting my scdard and also performing a fresh and clean install of my beans 7 rom, I'm still having the same problem once again.... I reformatted to extfat. Should I have went with fat?
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I slow reformatted mine and the error came up again after a few hours. Decided to just buy a new one so hopefully the card was just crapping out and not the phone. If end up posting again it must be the phone. Hope you don't hear from me again in this thread lol
Im having the same exact issue as you. Its very annoying
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Sandisk 64GB SDXC which happens to be Made in China is crap and confirmed by comments made by others on Amazon saying the same. Pay a little extra for Samsung 64GB SDXC and have the peace of mind.
Same issue for me and I bought my sdcard from Best Buy also...I am running Jelly Bean ROM B7. The card is only 2 months old so I doubt the card went bad, this has to be some app/process that is effecting the sdcard swap program. Very annoying and reboot of phone resolves issue but I have to reboot every hr, it is unreasonable. It only started happening to me since B7 which i installed about 7 days ago. I may trying going back to B6 which i was using with no issues for a while.
I'm just waiting for my Sandisk 64gb ultra cl10 to die bought it about 3 weeks ago so will see glad it has a 10year/lifetime warranty. Plenty of people are having same problems with these cards and not just in phones. Easy way to tell if its bad/going bad is to format it and stick it in another device see whats up... pretty sure if your card is not mounting or being seen it's going bad if it pops back up from time to time it's about to be dead.
Well I finally returned the sdcard at Best Buy which honors manufacturer warranties. Been a week on the new card, so far so good...
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Samsung is pushing out a 360mb update to snapdragon S4's that shaves off 0.8gb of "other" storage and allows you to add apps onto the SD card. Any chance a dev could implement these features into our ROM's one day?
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Samsung is pushing out a 360mb update to snapdragon S4's that shaves off 0.8gb of "other" storage and allows you to add apps onto the SD card. Any chance a dev could implement these features into our ROM's one day?
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I've been thinking the same since I read it. I would hope.
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Isn't there already a method to swap storage for this device
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Isn't there already a method to swap storage for this device
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Not what they are referring to here....nice try though. Better luck next time.
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universexda said:
How are the two things different? Other then perhaps method of implementation.
Ridin' a Note 2 blast
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The latter.
I'd rather have it native over some directory bind script.
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I mean it just makes all of your storage internal basically instead of having stupid restrictions on what the external card can hold. I know the SD swap does a very similar thing of course.
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Using an app called Folder Mount, does this but allows me to move the actual folders not just the apps (Which usually isn't where all the data is anyways). Works for pretty much any app that has an install folder stored on the internal storage.
Some apps I use this for include, both GTAs, Max Payne, Asphalt 7, MC4. Pretty much does all the work for me after the initial setup.
That would be pretty good to have actually.
. If the OP is using the phrase "adding apps to sd card" literally then I am inclined to believe this is nothing like Sd swap or directory binding since i am assuming here you would essentially move the app to sd card after the fact rather than installing it to external straight from the market or anything.
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Be respectful of others, if you cannot do that, log off. Not need for it in a development thread.
Stay on topic in here, troll at your own peril.
The article was on CNET or Engadget; they didn't specify if it gave you the ability to download to the external sd right from the market or if it had to be moved after the fact.
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The article on android central said it could install directly to the sdcard, provided the app developer allowed it. That's a feature the app had to have built in.
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