I'm totally at a loss. I keep getting a notification that my internal memory its nearly full...yet I'm showing 11gigs free. Any ideas?
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gatesmarch123 said:
I'm totally at a loss. I keep getting a notification that my internal memory its nearly full...yet I'm showing 11gigs free. Any ideas?
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+1 i wonder this too. i get the same notification when tryign to download a 32mb file even tho i i have well over 10gb internal and 6gb external sd
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this was an extremely stupid response...not only was it ignorant,it WASNT even "being a smartass" as this is the Q&A section.
gatesmarch123 said:
I'm totally at a loss. I keep getting a notification that my internal memory its nearly full...yet I'm showing 11gigs free. Any ideas?
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The internal memory you're speaking of is the internal storage, of which we have about 14gigs to play with in total. This memory is formatted with the FAT32 filesystem, a filesystem which is often prone to allocation table corruption. This can lead to a filesystem reporting it's free space incorrectly.
The solution would be to backup any data on the internal storage to a known safe source (say to your PC temporarily) and then format the internal storage, which can easily be done from the phone's settings menu. Afterwards, copy all of the saved data back.
If the problem persists after this, then you will have to go on an errant file hunt, because files can also become corrupted individually and misreport their size. Such a file if found should be deleted.
Hope that was clear. Best of luck!
Just a thought....how many nandroid back ups have you saved and still have on your internal sd?
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Are sure it's not the phone memory where the apps are stored. Because some people who use a lag fix like oclf don't realize it could take up to half of phone internal storage.
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Thx For the input...I just did a factory reset through the dialer. Quick and painless.
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only 2 gigs of space is dedicated to apps. remember our phones have a 16 gig internal sd card. and 2 gigs of rom if im not mistaken. since its an internal sd card that means apps are installed to the phones memory,not the internal sd card.
hey all,
just wondering what's the difference between using the "phone memory (1.8gb)" vs "internal storage(25gb)" for apps?
i'm new to this phone (just arrived in the post this morning), and didn't realise the internal storage would be divided in this way.
to be honest 2gb for apps is still plenty really
so am i better off keeping all my apps on that 1.8gb section, or should i try moving them to the 25gb storage?
While u still have some free space in phone memory (internal) let the android decides. I still have 900mB in the internal but some of my games are installed in internal storage (sd card)
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I guess, there is no harm in utilizing your 28GB internal memory and freeing your 1.8GB phone memory...
I'm moving every APPs to internal memory whenever they are possible...
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Should be fine if you install everything in your internal memory, games that take up a lot of space can go to external to free internal memory. Be aware that some apps don't behave well when they are in the external memory.
HI all ! I just got my new phone and I used to have the SD-ext partition in my HTC desire. I want to know if there is any kind of similar setup for this phone or if its necessary...
Thanks in advance !
Anyone?
Well are you going to use the multiple gigs they give you for apps? The reason for sd-ext on other phones was because they didn't provide enough space for apps I think.
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Necessary?
No.
Awesome bonus though.
My sprint sgs3 has 16G internal storage (phone calls this the sdcard)
I have a 32G sandisk micro and the phone paths this as /mnt/extSdCard
I have 7 episodes from Google TV (movies) and 87 albums from Google music on the external and space to spare.
The best part is the internal memory of the phone (system and sdcard) have PLENTY of space available to download anything I want and what I plan to keep long term, I move to my external.
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Hi Guys, only a quick question really!
Is it possible to use internal storage as ram to boost the memory up a little?
reason i ask is that (for example) windows 7 lets you stick a usb stick in and boost the ram up.
I would have thought that the same could be achieved by some of the developers on here by borrowing some internal storage for use with ram.
( I searched and couldn't find anything that related to this. )
Paul. :fingers-crossed:
No
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And why would you want to? It would be on the order of magnitudes slower than RAM.
RAM operates in nanoseconds whereas storage operates in milliseconds. (Storage is 1000 times slower..)
Look in the dev section. There is a mod where you can use part of your external sd card as a swap partition.
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Siyah kernel supports swap partition. You need to have an external sd card for it. It's only for ics rom right now. More info? Check development section.
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It's possible.
Here's how to do it.
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And why would you want to? It would be on the order of magnitudes slower than RAM.
RAM operates in nanoseconds whereas storage operates in milliseconds. (Storage is 1000 times slower..)
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I just had a crazy idea that id be able somehow to borrow 1gb from my 32gb card and run 2gb of ram. but if what you explained is correct ill leave it as it is as its not that big an issue, however....... i have Siyah kernel installed already, might have to read up on 'swap partition' hopefully giving me more internal storage for downloading large sized games etc. I keep running out of internal storage memory when downloading games and for some reason on the latest 4.0.4 sammy build i cannot move apps to sd card.
ill have a tinker with swap partition and see how that goes, thanks for your info guys.
A swap partition won't help you download bigger files and all you have to do is download directly to external memory, and it's impossible to move Apps to external memory unless you Root and use App called Directory Bind.
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A swap partition won't help you download bigger files and all you have to do is download directly to external memory, and it's impossible to move Apps to external memory unless you Root and use App called Directory Bind.
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not the only app
there are other apps e.g. app2sd
dark tremors mod allows you to format part of the memory stick as either ext3 and use that to install apps on
this is done automatically on swedish snow which is a rom on zte blade,
i don't know if there is an app to do this on gs3 but it is possible to do it
shanky887614 said:
not the only app
there are other apps e.g. app2sd
dark tremors mod allows you to format part of the memory stick as either ext3 and use that to install apps on
this is done automatically on swedish snow which is a rom on zte blade,
i don't know if there is an app to do this on gs3 but it is possible to do it
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Nope it's impossible to use any Apps like App2Sd because the external memory now uses ExFat format and mounted as a separate device so can't move the cache like other phones, so only way is to use Directory Bind to use Android's folder Binding function to trick Apps into thinking it's reading from internal memory.
I just had a crazy idea that id be able somehow to borrow 1gb from my 32gb card and run 2gb of ram
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Take a look at another feature Siyah includes; zRAM. It basically reduces(!) your available memory by taking a chunk of it (up to 300MB can be set through STweaks) which is then used with GZip-Compression to create a in-RAM Swap partition.
This is based on the idea that in current phones/computers the CPU is far more powerful than is usually needed, so the performance impact of using it for Swap is not that high. On the other hand you don't save that much RAM - but it certainly helps without crippling down your phone and/or greatly reducing your SSD's capacity
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Nope it's impossible to use any Apps like App2Sd because the external memory now uses ExFat format and mounted as a separate device so can't move the cache like other phones, so only way is to use Directory Bind to use Android's folder Binding function to trick Apps into thinking it's reading from internal memory.
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I use 'GL to SD' from the play store. Worked great on the S2 as well.
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joey jojo said:
Hi Guys, only a quick question really!
Is it possible to use internal storage as ram to boost the memory up a little?
reason i ask is that (for example) windows 7 lets you stick a usb stick in and boost the ram up.
I would have thought that the same could be achieved by some of the developers on here by borrowing some internal storage for use with ram.
( I searched and couldn't find anything that related to this. )
Paul. :fingers-crossed:
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Windows uses it more to reduce hard drive access as this is slower than a memory stick
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Windows uses it more to reduce hard drive access as this is slower than a memory stick
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What? No! Unless you have a USB 3.0 or a SATA supported flash memory of some kind, most other means are slower than HDDs which get around 100 mb/s read and write. Compare that to a Class 10 at 10mb/s...
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A solution I use is something somehow similar to app2sd.
To achieve it just crop the first partition of your external sd fitting to the size you want to use as second partition and create an additional partition with a supported format (I personally prefer ext4).
Move the content of your /sdcard/Android folder to the new partition and write a mount script where you mount the /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 device to /sdcard/Android.
Execute it with script manager with su rights and mark on boot and you will gain more internal space for games and apps and only have to worry about moving files if you downloaded to much with the browser or such.
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What? No! Unless you have a USB 3.0 or a SATA supported flash memory of some kind, most other means are slower than HDDs which get around 100 mb/s read and write. Compare that to a Class 10 at 10mb/s...
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the "mb/s" stat is irrelevant in the case of ReadyBoost, the windows feature that boosts access time of cached files through flash memory on usb stick or memory card...
cant post a link but, wikipedia is your friend
the feature is more of a gimmick than anything else, but its there and it does what it say it does to the extent of its limitations which are very low...
Most Windows computers have HDD's and not like our S3 an SSD.
HDD's are faster than memory sticks ONLY in writing and continuous read (one big file without fragmentation)
Readyboost uses a SSD for small often-read fragments qualifying as random read where even your cheap USB2 stick is by far faster than a hard drive.
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Nope it's impossible to use any Apps like App2Sd because the external memory now uses ExFat format and mounted as a separate device so can't move the cache like other phones, so only way is to use Directory Bind to use Android's folder Binding function to trick Apps into thinking it's reading from internal memory.
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But my external SD is not ExFat.
I know that because I format it myself.
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I have a Samsung I9100G and my App storage is 1.97GB.Something like 1.1GB is consumed by android system which is not showing and the rest is my apps but its not enough for me this phone has 13GB Total space in it and i want it all in one place my apps and my downloads - musics etc. i looked around trying to find how to do that but all i have found was to format SD Card.But thats not what i want my space is showing like this
Device Memory: 1.97GB
USB Storage: 11.00GB
it shows my space as usb storage i wanna change that to device memory so that i don't have any problems
My phone is rooted and i'm using 4.1.2
Don't tell me to open space with link2sd or something like that my apps are already on sd card and my storage is still filled up.
Have you tried the app DiskUsage from the playstore? It gives a great visual of what exactly is taking up your space. Could help you work it exactly what us consuming your space.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
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Yes im using it and i know whats consuming my space but thats not what i want to know o wanna make that 11GB usb storage my device memory
Well you can look into repartitioning your internal storage through an Odin flash but I STRONGLY recommend that you don't. It's one of the quickest ways to turn you i9100G into a brick.
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