Hi everyone!
I was reading some things in the forum and looking to my phone things and realized something: We have 16GB of internal storage, but it's very partitioned!
I have an Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Plus 16GB too, and I can use as internal mem an amount of, approximately, 12~13GB to store my things, while we can only use 8GB on Moto Razr XT910. I was looking to the partition table and saw that our storage is half partitioned. You can see by opening a Terminal Emulator and typing "df" on it. You should see something like this:
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As you can see, our storage is splited in many partitions. I want to know if it's possible to merge any of these partitions and have our space back.
For example, the webtop partition, which is not used by Android 4.0+.
Any of you have any idea about it?
Interesting
this was possible in htc, you had to have an unlocked bootloader and be s-off, achieved by running a script made by revolutionary team, and you could modify the partition sizes.. i don't think you can do this in our razr
When i started to look for a solution to increase internal storage size, i came up to an official 4.1.2 rom xml file for CHINA xt910 which was mentioned to be repartitioning the internal memory to 9.3gb.
Consider i'm using a cid7 (euro xt910) with cid deleted and flashed the following file with rsd lite.
fastboot-p2b_spyder-umts_spyder-user-4.1.2-6.7.2_GC-384-402-release-keys-ChinaRetail-CN_chn.zip
Now my device has 9.3gb internal memory and cdt.bin secure version had increased to v5. This means that i can't flash old ics roms with rsd lite.Well, i really don't miss the oppotunity to downgrade to ics anyway. In the meantime i have root and boot menu manager installed, so lurking between roms are as easy as it was.
Semseddin said:
When i started to look for a solution to increase internal storage size, i came up to an official 4.1.2 rom xml file for CHINA xt910 which was mentioned to be repartitioning the internal memory to 9.3gb.
Consider i'm using a cid7 (euro xt910) with cid deleted and flashed the following file with rsd lite.
fastboot-p2b_spyder-umts_spyder-user-4.1.2-6.7.2_GC-384-402-release-keys-ChinaRetail-CN_chn.zip
Now my device has 9.3gb internal memory and cdt.bin secure version had increased to v5. This means that i can't flash old ics roms with rsd lite.Well, i really don't miss the oppotunity to downgrade to ics anyway. In the meantime i have root and boot menu manager installed, so lurking between roms are as easy as it was.
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Great!
But it still not enought... If the full storage space is 16gb, 9,3gb still just "a little amount"...
I think I will still studying how the things are working on this phone so, maybe, I could someday give you all an solution to this problem...
fredamsouza said:
Great!
But it still not enought... If the full storage space is 16gb, 9,3gb still just "a little amount"...
I think I will still studying how the things are working on this phone so, maybe, I could someday give you all an solution to this problem...
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Sure keep looking fo it . I even need the solution fo it .. Many many thx if ya get rid of it :thumbup:
btw thx in advance
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I recently flashed cm10.1 on my GS3 and now I've got all my internal storage stuck in the storage/emulated/0/android/obb or storage/emulated/legacy/android/obb locations. Under settings it shows total space 12.05gb, available is 668mb but less than 1/4 of the visual bar is full and accounted for. Sd maid is showing the obb folder is holding 11.39gb but no matter what explorers I use it always appears empty. Anyone know how to free up this spae? I can't find anything anywhere about this. Thank you ion advance.
Edit:
Restoring it doesn't free the space up at all. Even tried restoring my backups and the space remains full.
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This is happening to me on my Nexus 4, no solution found yet
Same problem
I'm currently having this problem and used the SD Maid app and it says the exact same thing. Did anyone ever find a solution?
Only thing that worked was formatting the internal memory. A restore won't do it, must be a fill format. Feels great to have the space back.
that's because of the previous firmware's data saved on your phones. just perform a full emmc(only internal memory) wipe.
The answer is in my signature. No need to wipe anything
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The answer is in my signature. No need to wipe anything
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I just did what you said in your thread and it deleted everything on my internal SD Card...
Edit: Although I lost some stuff, it did fix my problem...
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I just did what you said in your thread and it deleted everything on my internal SD Card...
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No it didn't. If you deleted eveything on your internal sdcard you did not do what I said in my thread
Can you provide me the link to it? I failed to find your solution in your signature....
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Can you provide me the link to it? I failed to find your solution in your signature....
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My signature has changed.
Follow the first link in my signature and look foe a thread linked there about 4.2 and sdcards
Hey guys, my phone is full of sh*t, sorry for this. I mean I have a lot of folders, apps and stuff like this that I don't use anymore and the problem is I don't know how to delete it all. So I want to reinstall to default my phone, with no downloaded apps from market, old files and etc. What should I do? Also thinking about downgrading my 2.3.3 version to 1.6, but I can't find tutorial with details for my problem.
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Hey guys, my phone is full of sh*t, sorry for this. I mean I have a lot of folders, apps and stuff like this that I don't use anymore and the problem is I don't know how to delete it all. So I want to reinstall to default my phone, with no downloaded apps from market, old files and etc. What should I do? Also thinking about downgrading my 2.3.3 version to 1.6, but I can't find tutorial with details for my problem.
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Just wipe Your data in settings.
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Hey guys, my phone is full of sh*t, sorry for this. I mean I have a lot of folders, apps and stuff like this that I don't use anymore and the problem is I don't know how to delete it all. So I want to reinstall to default my phone, with no downloaded apps from market, old files and etc. What should I do? Also thinking about downgrading my 2.3.3 version to 1.6, but I can't find tutorial with details for my problem.
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Sounds like you're talking about a combination of internal data and the data you have 'collected' on the microSD card.
Stick a SanDisk Ultra 64GB microSD card in your phone, link all your data/apps to a second 2GB ext3 partition on the 64GB card using Link2SD.... job done.
Then you have almost unlimited room for junk in your trunk.
You can always take your microSD card out of your phone and place it in a PC and back it up as it's FAT32 and your PC can read it just fine.
Otherwise, a USB connection to the PC and backup the card that way.
Then you can replace the microSD card in your phone and format it.
Using PC companion or SEUS you can re-install the GB 2.3.3 fw anew.
[Myself] I'd root the phone and then remove all the bloatware in /system/app
This'll make resources available for the 'real' applications and improve the X10i response.
I can think of no valid reason to re-install Android v1.6.
Many applications only support GB 2.3 and greater now and you'll just be creating a whole world of pain for yourself.
I have a pseudo GB 2.3.4 fw build mostly sourced from the XPERIA LT26i on my XPERIA X10i with only 95 system apps and the phone is running brilliantly with 80MB memory free at idle.
If you respect the fact the XPERIA X10i is not an XPERIA Z1, I think it's still an amazing phone even this many years on.
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[QUESTION][GalaxyS2] Questions/Help with internal memory, customized ROM, "true" fact
(1) I need to completely wipe, remove, restore my phone to absolute stock. I am having some weird issues and want a "clean slate" to work off of. I currently have AJK (with custom initd and extweeks), cwm recovery, and cyanogen installed. I want all of it removed and want to start from scratch. What's the best way to accomplish this?
(2) upon completing Q1; I have a very small internal phone memory, somewhere around 1/2gb but I have a 32gb SDcard -- is it possible to format my SDcard to allow it to be used as "phone memory" so I can have more apps installed? I know there is the "move to SD" options, but this is not what I am looking for since this does not work for widget apps. Also I have a difficult time downloading apps without getting the "insufficient space" error via the play store during app installs.
I am so tired of having to uninstall apps just to install or test new ones. There has got to be a way to use my SDcard as phone memory
I have:
- 100mb out of 1.97gb on Internal Storage (/system)
- 7.82gb out of 11.36gb on Internal Storage (/sdcard0)
- 14.84gb out of 29.32 on SD Card (/sdcard1)
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So even if I could combine /system and /sdcard0 to become /system and only have 1 sdcard partition would suffice
(3) is it possible to customize/package CyanogenMod to install NovaLauncher (remove/replacing Trebuch) and SwiftKeyboard (instead of AOSP keyboard), amongst other apps (I have the .apk files) so they are installed by default? Also removing apps like Apollo and DSPmanager.
(4) what are some custom scripts, init.d, extweeks, etc you guys are using that I should look into using to get the best performance, battery life, speeds out of the GS2?
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bumping this, really need help with Question 2!!!!
please someone help me out here! there has to be a way!!
I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2412319
does anyone know if just from reading it, if it will work for my problem?
I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2412319
does anyone know if just from reading it, if it will work for my problem?
ksaul said:
I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2412319
does anyone know if just from reading it, if it will work for my problem?
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Please look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1914184, well it's said for MT6577, but it doesn't mean they can't be try to other type.. there are 3-option that worth to try..
Hello everyone. I have Samsung Galaxy SII (Stock ROM - Jelly Bean). Yesterday, when i was trying to download applications i got an error of "insufficient storage". I scrolled down to my Installed Applications section but, there it showed me about 200+ space. I also tried *#9900# and "deleted dumbstate
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/logcat" but no gain. I also deleted cache of all applications and move 2 applications to Internal USB Storage but still facing the same issue. Here are the screenshots for your better understanding.
I'm also getting this, not all the time though. Some apps update OK. I'm also on the stock ROM, 4.1.2. I just checked and I have 282 MB free of the 2GB device memory, 5.55GB of the USB storage and about 450MB on the SD card.
For me this started happening about 2 months ago, before that I used to have a 32GB card that I would move most apps to, not sure if that made a difference. That card died and I went back to my old 2GB card. My plan is to put a custom ROM on it, either one of the "slim" ones or CM10 or 11.
So what do you think so? Is it a memory script bug?. I am also in a mood to root but cannot find stock rom for my S2 thats why i am holding my task. My S2 region is COA (Romania - Cosmoto)
I have alot of memory including 200+ mb internal, about 11 GB USB storage & 6 GB of SD Card storage but error persists...
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Hello everyone. I have Samsung Galaxy SII (Stock ROM - Jelly Bean). Yesterday, when i was trying to download applications i got an error of "insufficient storage". I scrolled down to my Installed Applications section but, there it showed me about 200+ space. I also tried *#9900# and "deleted dumbstateView attachment 2988247/logcat" but no gain. I also deleted cache of all applications and move 2 applications to Internal USB Storage but still facing the same issue. Here are the screenshots for your better understanding.
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Android blocks installations when free space reaches 10%.
You may change this default - 'sys_storage_threshold_percentage' - to 5% or 2%.
You may also use a modified PIT file to repartition with Odin, but you will have to reinstall everything because all partitions will be reformatted.
Use the following threads:
[mod] How to reduce the threshold for displaying “Low on Space” warnings
[MOD][GUIDE]Partition your internal memory for better App management (Pit Files)
Thanks i will give it a try. Seems complicated.
its as the title says. ive spent 16ish hours researching and trying everything i could find to fix my stupid partition but ive given up and im going to see if anyone knows how to fix it. i have 9.16gb out of 16gb from a fresh install of aospe, i also went and put it back to the stock rom and bootloader and the storage decreased to 7.88 usable. i also went into twrp after installing the newest version and wiped/changed partition size/ changed the type of storage it was like 15 times. i also went into fastboot and deleted my userdata partition (bad move) and it came back to 9.16gb after spending 30mins on my mistake. its 2 in the morning, i give up, hopefully someone knows of something else i can try...
btw
actual system usage is 1.3/2.7gb
cache 256mb
cust 800mb
userdata 9336mb
im pretty sure im missing 2~4gb of storage because android itself says im using 6.4gb of my storage as system but i know for a fact it should only be using what the partition says, so more like 2.7gb, anyways if anyone wants to tell me otherwise let me know, its going to bug me for as long as i have the phone
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Yeah I have no idea what's going on... This is why I think it's the partition being messed up but I have absolutely no idea how to fix that. I'll let someone stumble across this and hopefully answer. The more detail the better cause I'm definitely a noob in this department
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Yeah I have no idea what's going on... This is why I think it's the partition being messed up but I have absolutely no idea how to fix that. I'll let someone stumble across this and hopefully answer. The more detail the better cause I'm definitely a noob in this department
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It's all fine. No idea what your problem is.
System uses 6,7 GB and your Apps 4,1 GB. Makes 10,8 GB out of 16 GB which your phone has. There's nothing missing
Does this seem right? I count approximately 13.7gb and I should have a total of 14.9 (where did that extra 1.2gb go?)
Note I didn't use a calculator I just very roughly added also it says my system is (maximum 3gb).. Android says 6.7 after gapps, 6.4 before gapps, also the system said 5.4gb before I reverted back to stock to see if there was a problem with the rom, when I went to stock the number went up to 7gb, then I went back to the same rom that I was using (aospe 7.1)and the system usage miraculously increased to 6.4gb (now I'm using aospe 8.1 and its still 6.7gb used by system)