I have a few questions if anyone would mind answering them.
1) I have a 16gb phone, 10 gigs used up, and only 2 available. How can I clean up some of that memory? Where are the missing 4 gigs? (I have a 64gb micro SD running 4.4 kitkat Cm11)
2)can I put some of those apps on my SD card? If so how?
3) I read you can set up an extra gig or 2 as extra ram to make your device faster? How do you do that?
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If you came from 4.1.x file system and upgrade to a newer one your files are in the 0/ folder. Pretty much your file system may have made duplicate files in the 0/ folder and in sd portion of your memory card. I myself to avoid this by formatting my entire internal sd card so
system
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that way I have a completely formatted storage with no hidden files lingering around.
Is it possible to designate a GB of a phone memory to add extra ram? I read somewhere that can be done
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celyko said:
I have a few questions if anyone would mind answering them.
1) I have a 16gb phone, 10 gigs used up, and only 2 available. How can I clean up some of that memory? Where are the missing 4 gigs? (I have a 64gb micro SD running 4.4 kitkat Cm11)
2)can I put some of those apps on my SD card? If so how?
3) I read you can set up an extra gig or 2 as extra ram to make your device faster? How do you do that?
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1. It is used by /system, /cache, boot, recovery, modem, etc. It's 16GB total, not available. If I had to guess, your space is being taken up by pictures, or games that store everything on /data and /sdcard rather than the external SD.
2. Not that I know of, at least not easily.
3. You can't add RAM. You can add swap, but it will just make your phone slower over time, not faster.
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Got my new Note, this is my first droid phone, and I got LOTS of questions. I currently have the i717 version, unrooted.
1) Is currently is any reliable way to install ICS on the i717?
2) How do I check if there were any previous kernel or ROM flashes?
3) Is there a reliable way to root the device WITHOUT increasing the counter (assuming it is currently at 0)?
4) How do I move installed apps, which are currently under "System Storage" to "USB storage"?
I can answer all of your questions very simply. Search and read.
yep all ur answers are here just gotta read,
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Hi guys, found 2 answers so far, still looking for #1 and #4 if someone can point me to the right threads to ready it would be appreciated.
no ics for this device just yet and to move to sd there's an app u can use i just don't know the name or i think u can even use root explorer not sure on that one ill let someone else shine in on that
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funziebear said:
no ics for this device just yet and to move to sd there's an app u can use i just don't know the name or i think u can even use root explorer not sure on that one ill let someone else shine in on that
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Ya from what I gathered, there is ICS for the international version. I have yet to see something for the i717.
I dont have an SD yet, I was referring to moving them from System to USB storage.
I will be getting as SD soon though.
GalNote said:
Ya from what I gathered, there is ICS for the international version. I have yet to see something for the i717.
I dont have an SD yet, I was referring to moving them from System to USB storage.
I will be getting as SD soon though.
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There are two potential SD cards for the Note. One is the internal SD card. This is actually the part of the phone where you store your music and other files. It's the space allotted by the OS for storage. The Note comes with 16GB of internal storage, but 2GB is reserved for the system. You cannot access this for data storage. There is also a portion of the internal SD card that is used by the OS itself.
The remaining amount of storage is about 12GB. This is accessible through a file explorer such as Root Explorer, ES File Explorer, etc, and is located in the /sdcard folder. This is where any App2SD type app will move apps to. This is also where you store your music and other files like photos, etc.
The Note also has a slot for an external SD card. To access it, you take the battery cover off and right next to the SIM card, there is a little slot for the micro SD card. The Note is published as handling up to 32GB micro SD cards, but there are plenty of people using 64GB micro SD cards with their phone.
Using the external SD card would allow you to add additional music and photos and other files. It is not used at all by the OS or system, so you would have as much space on it as you can after formatting it. (You lose some space after formatting.)
So to summarize: the Note has 16GB, about 12GB available through the internal SD card. You can add additional storage using the external SD card (officially up to 32 GB, unofficially up to 64Gb).
lactardjosh said:
There are two potential SD cards for the Note. One is the internal SD card. This is actually the part of the phone where you store your music and other files. It's the space allotted by the OS for storage. The Note comes with 16GB of internal storage, but 2GB is reserved for the system. You cannot access this for data storage. There is also a portion of the internal SD card that is used by the OS itself.
The remaining amount of storage is about 12GB. This is accessible through a file explorer such as Root Explorer, ES File Explorer, etc, and is located in the /sdcard folder. This is where any App2SD type app will move apps to. This is also where you store your music and other files like photos, etc.
The Note also has a slot for an external SD card. To access it, you take the battery cover off and right next to the SIM card, there is a little slot for the micro SD card. The Note is published as handling up to 32GB micro SD cards, but there are plenty of people using 64GB micro SD cards with their phone.
Using the external SD card would allow you to add additional music and photos and other files. It is not used at all by the OS or system, so you would have as much space on it as you can after formatting it. (You lose some space after formatting.)
So to summarize: the Note has 16GB, about 12GB available through the internal SD card. You can add additional storage using the external SD card (officially up to 32 GB, unofficially up to 64Gb).
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Got it, but still have a little question. I noticed when I install any app, it goes directly onto the 2GB system reserved space. What if I run out of that 2GB, what happens in that case, can I move the installed apps into the 12GB or I have to move it into the purchased/external SD card?
GalNote said:
Got it, but still have a little question. I noticed when I install any app, it goes directly onto the 2GB system reserved space. What if I run out of that 2GB, what happens in that case, can I move the installed apps into the 12GB or I have to move it into the purchased/external SD card?
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Read this paragraph again.
The remaining amount of storage is about 12GB. This is accessible through a file explorer such as Root Explorer, ES File Explorer, etc, and is located in the /sdcard folder. This is where any App2SD type app will move apps to. This is also where you store your music and other files like photos, etc.
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^^ got it, thanks.
K I researched and read, I still cannot find out if I can safely root my Bell i717, without increasing the flash counters.
Also, it seems there is no ICS yet available for this device.
Can someone please chime in?
wow this thread cleared up a lot for me. Still got a few questions though...so when i go to settings and click on an app and click "move app to sd" it moves it to the "internal sd" which has about 12gb of space? so then what goes on the external sd card? is the storage on the SD card ONLY accessible when you plug it into a computer and put it in mass storage mode? I remember when I had my nexus one, moving apps to sd actually put it on the external sd card..
The note is not a DROID. Droid is a verizon marketing term.
You can reset your flash counter. So even if you increase it by flashing CWM or rooting then just reset it back to 0. That's what I did.
Once CWM is installed flash all the ROMs you want through CWM. Just back up nandroid first and you can always go back.
I use a 64GB microSD card and store nandroid backups, photos, videos, podcasts, etc.
The internal SD (USB Storage) is used for app data.
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Hi guys, found 2 answers so far, still looking for #1 and #4 if someone can point me to the right threads to ready it would be appreciated.
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Root ir phone throigh odin then go search dev thread for the rom u want read the requiements then flash they r all good
note @ 1.83
... You don't need root to flash a ROM.
Instead of rooting with Odin, just flash CWM with Odin then flash the ROM from there.
The only reason to root first, is to run titanium backup if you so desire
My phone recognized only the internal memory as apps data storage not my Sd card, so after downloading several games, my internal memory is full and my 32 gb Sd still empty. Any help is appreciated. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium
abakarxda said:
My phone recognized only the internal memory as apps data storage not my Sd card, so after downloading several games, my internal memory is full and my 32 gb Sd still empty. Any help is appreciated. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium
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Usually I hook up my phone to my computer. Under "My computer" it should have your cdrive and your phone. mine shows up "SGH-i717" and under that is my "card" and "phone" you can just move over pictures and movies from the phone to card. that should make some room for your phone. if this helped hit that thanks button
i know what u saying but i dont have any movies on phone. i only have games
If I understand your question then go to system settings, manage apps then click on the app and select move to Sd card.
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you know that the phone recognize only the internal memory as Sd so even if i move it still moving to the phone memory not to my micro Sd card.
abakarxda said:
you know that the phone recognize only the internal memory as Sd so even if i move it still moving to the phone memory not to my micro Sd card.
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Same way with a few phones. The external SD is for media and such while internal is for apps and such. No real fix, but you can get titanium backup and backup all of them to your external, then uninstall the ones you're not using. Restore then when you want to use them. That's what I end up doing
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We would need something like this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433436
Quote from the thread of what that does (I would actually like something like this for Note as my internal SD is practically full)
mattiadj said:
You have misunderstood something . The situation is simple. Transformer has a 16gb internal sd (in my case, I have 16gb version) and so this internal sd card of 16gb is used to store all my data! For apps in /data, apps storage in /sdcard/android/data and so on.
So if I install for example games like front line commando, gta 3, or gameloft games, shadowgun or something which needs extra resources to download, these apps download what they need into internal sd. And so the space in internal sd (which is the internal memory of tablet) became full quickly!! Why? Because the internal sd is viewed as sdcard and mounted in /sdcard and /mnt/sdcard and so is used as normal sd by apps! So transformer has a sdcard which is used both for apps installation and data storage!!! No nand or real internal memory!
External sd is used for nothing!!!
So why my script? This script is essential to fix this stupid behaviour!!
Your internal sd card is mounted to store all apps you wants and apps install on it only their apk files and necessary data. On external they stored all extra data resources and all they need!!!! On external! And internal is untouched!
So android info see this new situation in inverted way since in our transformer (and i think this is a big issue of Asus) what is mounted in /sdcard is considered as INTERNAL MEMORY and what is mounted in /Removable/MicroSD is viewed as EXTERNAL MEMORY.
Since this mod inverts mount point... The information in memory tab is inverted!
Let's now with an example.
If you install shadowgun game without my mod, it installs in you internal both game package (in /data) and 250mb of resource in /sdcard/Android/data/gamefolder.
So you have 300mb less in your INTERNAL SD!!
With my mod simply the 250 of extra resources are downloaded in you external sd!!! So you have 250mb save on internal sd to install other apps!!!!
I hope is all more clear now and is better understood how this mod is important!
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Wait, to the OP:
Did you format the new SD card, then power the phone off, remove the card, pop it back in and then power up again?
If you don't format the card initially, the phone won't recognize it at all.
If that's not what you were getting at initially, then ignore this post.
-Ryan
Did we make any progress on this situation? Has anyone found a way to move apps to the external sd card. And let me point out to the few that have posted in this thread. When you move apps to the sd card through app manger or apps to sd they only move to the internal sd card.
I'd really like a fix for this as well. My 16GB MicroSD is going unused because of it. I don't store movies or music on my phone, I stream all that. But all the Internal SD memory is full because nothing recognizes that there's more than one "SD" storage space.
GET the free app called GLtoextSD or something like that name search on play store it i'll help you.(it requires root)
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Market Link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zbGYuTGlzdGdsQXBwIl0.
Swap External w/ Internal. Success!!
abakarxda said:
My phone recognized only the internal memory as apps data storage not my Sd card, so after downloading several games, my internal memory is full and my 32 gb Sd still empty. Any help is appreciated. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium
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Hi abakarxda,
I think I l already replied to your question in another thread, but just in case. I just tried this yesterday, and it worked for me:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45341162&postcount=2
I hope this helps.
I have 16gb of internal memory, from which OS is consuming some space, for apps and games1.9 gb is given to me and 10.6 gb for user usage. I want to use this 10 gb for apps how can I do that???
I have CM9 installed...
no one is answering, meanwhile i found a solution. I installed cm7 and it have a option in cm settings to use internal memory as sdcard. Now who needs external sdcard!!!
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ehm, on stock 2.3.6, several apps installs on the inernal memory, which the phone sees as sdcard... also you can move them manually from app management in the settings
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Very interesting thread but i live it all to android os
I just didn't put my sd card back in after my flashing ics
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Sigh.. you should learn how Android actually uses the storage memory. The "16GB" is only really 14GB when you convert it properly of which 2GB is dedicated to the internal System drive (formatted as EXT) and another 1GB towards the other system files leaving around 11GB free (FAT32). Yes, by default most apps prefer to install in the system drives but most people install apps like APP2SD or equivalent to move the apps to the larger FAT32 partition.
If possible, i would like to add 100 mb from my 16 gb external sd to the internal memory so that the total become 202+100=302
Please give me the procedure
I am rooted using 2.3.6
Using XDA premium through A5
coolprateek.kumar said:
If possible, i would like to add 100 mb from my 16 gb external sd to the internal memory so that the total become 202+100=302
Please give me the procedure
I am rooted using 2.3.6
Using XDA premium through A5
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I'm fairly certain that you can't do that. The internal memory in your phone is actually internal memory on your phone and the external sd is actually an sd card. You can't just transfer memory from one to the other because they are physically different devices.
It's like trying to add a 4GB flash drive to your computer's hard disk, you just can't do it.
coolprateek.kumar said:
If possible, i would like to add 100 mb from my 16 gb external sd to the internal memory so that the total become 202+100=302
Please give me the procedure
I am rooted using 2.3.6
Using XDA premium through A5
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Yes, you can. By enabling swapping, you'll buy memory size at the cost of memory speed. This question pops up every week, and a quick search would have given you an answer like this.
coolprateek.kumar said:
If possible, i would like to add 100 mb from my 16 gb external sd to the internal memory so that the total become 202+100=302
Please give me the procedure
I am rooted using 2.3.6
Using XDA premium through A5
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Hm.. you can try using SD_Ext. Its a partition that can be used by apps to store Android apps, cache, etc. (Normally found in /data). I'm not too sure about the procedures, but you could do a google search on it. It basically requires you to resize your sd cards partition, add another partition, and requires some small mods to your current android system. (Installing an app, etc.)
Try here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1750888 and google for sd ext'
EDIT: If you meant extending your RAM, follow kuisma's post. But if you meant extending your ROM or Internal mem, this post applies to it.
thepenguin77 said:
I'm fairly certain that you can't do that. The internal memory in your phone is actually internal memory on your phone and the external sd is actually an sd card. You can't just transfer memory from one to the other because they are physically different devices.
It's like trying to add a 4GB flash drive to your computer's hard disk, you just can't do it.
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But you can completely exchange internal with external
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coolprateek.kumar said:
thepenguin77 said:
I'm fairly certain that you can't do that. The internal memory in your phone is actually internal memory on your phone and the external sd is actually an sd card. You can't just transfer memory from one to the other because they are physically different devices.
It's like trying to add a 4GB flash drive to your computer's hard disk, you just can't do it.
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You are both correct, but talks about different things.
You can not transfer physical memory from the SDcard or internal NAND flash to RAM, but you can use them to increase the virtual memory.
Hi all,
I have a SGP 321 with 16GB memory and a 64GB sdcard. I'm running Android 4.2.2. I am constantly running out of space on the 16GB memory and a message saying I'm running out of space is always there by default. My question is if there's any way to make the apps save to sdcard by default or to move app data to the sdcard manually. Any feedback will be appreciated. Thanks.
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The best work around i found so far is to root the tablet, install the xposed framework and the internalSD for xposed, which maps your internal SD card to external SD, use root explorer and copy all the content of internal SD card to external.
NB speed is not very good, installing large apps takes ages as its written directly to the sd card
c0ntagi0 said:
Hi all,
I have a SGP 321 with 16GB memory and a 64GB sdcard. I'm running Android 4.2.2. I am constantly running out of space on the 16GB memory and a message saying I'm running out of space is always there by default. My question is if there's any way to make the apps save to sdcard by default or to move app data to the sdcard manually. Any feedback will be appreciated. Thanks.
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you can root and use tools like FolderMount to keep game caches and other "heavy" files on SD.
First back up your apk's file. Go to settings, format your tablet/phone. Done Haha
I've been doing the folder mount option for about a month. Speeds are not very good. Loading games takes longer. One they load they are fine. Any way to speed up?
stew1411 said:
I've been doing the folder mount option for about a month. Speeds are not very good. Loading games takes longer. One they load they are fine. Any way to speed up?
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Internal memory will always be faster than SD-card, but, you may consider upgrading your SD (=buying a faster card), cause the bottleneck is in card speed.
Rootk1t said:
Internal memory will always be faster than SD-card, but, you may consider upgrading your SD (=buying a faster card), cause the bottleneck is in card speed.
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Is internal faster because it's a better card? I'm using a class 10 sdxc
stew1411 said:
Is internal faster because it's a better card? I'm using a class 10 sdxc
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internal is like an SSD. Try looking for an UHS-I which is usually faster than class 10.