Dear all
apologies probably for most of you this is a common topic
This is my first post on my first android devices
I bought a china phone running 4.2.1 with 4GB of internal storage not rooted
I'm very disappointed on how the device is managing storage
Currently the phone is reporting following partition:
phone storage: 1GB (600MB used)
SD: 4 GB
internal storage: 1,5 GB (not used at all)
Preferred disk writing: SD
I've all my application on the SD but the "phone storage" is increasing: some applications like firefox is storing cache on the "phone storage"
1) there is any way to install apps on "internal storage" partition?
2) If I'll root the phone there is any way to force the apps to use only SD and I mean only SD?
I've read about apps2SD but from my understanding there still some applications that will cache data on the phone storage
I'm looking forward to get help from you
Thanks you a lot!
Joy
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I did do a search for this but the only thread I found was for the original Galaxy S and I wanted to check that the answer was the same for the S II.
I currently have no SD card installed in my phone, but obviously have GBs of free space in the internal 'USB storage' partition. If I try and move any installed apps to SD I just get an error about 'not enough memory'. This makes sense because presumably the OS is looking for an actual proper external SD card to be installed and there isn't one, hence the 'not enough memory' error. What I'd like to do though is use the internal 'USB storage' partition instead of an external SD card, is it possible to get the OS to use that partitition instead? I've done a bit of Googling and the answer seems to be no but I thought I'd check with the experts here before I give up entirely. If the answer is no then that's pretty disappointing because it means that the 11.5 GB in the internal USB storage is near useless to me.
I've noticed that some applications will use the internal storage exactly as they used the proper SD storage on my old Desire. For example, Kindle, Airport Mania, Gameloft games and others will install their data files on the internal storage by default; so it seems odd that you can't force other apps to do the same, thereby meaning you'd need the 11.5GB internal storage and a physical SD card to get the most out of the phone.
Hi, I'm having some issues with the internal storage of my Galaxy S II
I'll start by noting that I don't have an external SD card inserted, what I'm trying to accomplish is using the internal storage of the device.
As everyone knows, the GSII has around 11.5GB of available internal storage, and 2GB of system storage (all part of the device's 16GB total internal storage). Anyway, normally when I download an app, it's installed to that 2GB reserve, which fills up quickly. In theory, I should be able to easily move the apps from the 2GB partition, to the ~11.5GB one using the inbuilt move to SD card function under Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>*application*, but I get a "Failed to move application: not enough memory" error. I've also tried using App2SD, and have read a few guides online on this issue (with the GSII and others), to no avail.
I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on to how I can move the application from the 2GB partition, to the ~11.5GB one? Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
This isn't my tablet, I used to have a Gtab from 2010-2012. This is my cousin's tablet and he recently bricked it. I just updated his boot loader from 1.1 to 2.2 and flashed a Jelly Bean rom. My question is, since he was in a Ginger Bread rom previously and had his internal storage partitioned. How do I partition the internal storage with 4.X.X to be able to use all ~12GB of internal storage for apps? Right now it is showing ~4GB available space for apps, but when you go to storage. It shows an internal storage of ~12GB. Only when you go to Applications does it show ~4GB.
Thank you.
Storage question
necromonger89 said:
This isn't my tablet, I used to have a Gtab from 2010-2012. This is my cousin's tablet and he recently bricked it. I just updated his boot loader from 1.1 to 2.2 and flashed a Jelly Bean rom. My question is, since he was in a Ginger Bread rom previously and had his internal storage partitioned. How do I partition the internal storage with 4.X.X to be able to use all ~12GB of internal storage for apps? Right now it is showing ~4GB available space for apps, but when you go to storage. It shows an internal storage of ~12GB. Only when you go to Applications does it show ~4GB.
Thank you.
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Hello, the 4GB yuo see is for internal application storage (sometimes referred to as "phone" storage). The 12GB is for photos, videos, etc. Some ROMs can use this storage for applications too - check with your ROM developer (andbe sure to thank them!).
I recently rooted my Android phone which is a china smartphone and i found many advantages with rooting my phone.
I currently installed link2SD application so that i could be able to link my internal memory to my SD memory so that i could free my internal memory. This resulted in being able to download various applications that before i couldn't as i didn't have enough storage on my internal phone memory. \
Yesterday i went to use my camera app and i got an error saying that i didn't have enough phone memory available so i went to Settings>Storage and noticed that i actually had 2 partitions in my phone excluding the SD card. I had a Partition for the phone and another for the internal. My question is, is there a way i could remove my phone memory partition and allocate the space to the internal memory?
Sorry but im quite a noob and new to this forum, any help is greatly appreciated,
Sincerely, D.
Hello.
I recently purchased a chinese off brand tablet and had an unexpected issue with the memory being partitioned. The model is vKB011B and it's processor is mt6592. It's running a Mediatek flavour of Lollipop 5.12.
The issue is that, while it has 64GB of internal memory, it's memory has been partitioned into one 4GB block of "Internal Storage" and one 60GB block of "Phone Storage". Apps, and most app data, all install to the 4GB partition so it runs out of memory very quickly. I can side step the issue to some degree by moving apps to "Phone Storage" but only some apps can be moved like this.
Basically I want to gain more access to this memory for the purpose or installing apps. I rooted the device and tried to use App2SD but it seems that this app only works with an External SD. I found a thread here describing a way to tell my device where to install apps but this doesn't appear to have any other option but "internal storage" and "external storage". I tested it just be sure and it doesn't change the install location without an external SD.
So I'm looking for what I can do to make my device install to the 60GB partition and preferably any app data as well.
Alternately I found this thread regarding altering partitions....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-l/general/guide-repartition-internal-memory-data-t3052242
But I am uncertain if this will work the same with my particular device since it sounds like his device has unified memory and he's just stealing from the system memory. It also seems fairly risky if there is a means of simply installing to the 60GB partition with out altering it.
Thank you very much for your time.