I have an Samsung Galaxy S2 handphone and I feel Samsung has got this right with the design of its internal storage.
For Transformer Prime, when we need to flash firmware or we send it for servicing, all the internal storage will be wiped out. Why is there a need to wipe out internal sdcard storage?
I'm trying to understand this and also because my Transformer Prime just died and I had to send it for repair. They said that they will have no choice but to wipe up all data to do testing. All my precious pictures and videos taken the day before are gone.
For SGS2, the internal sdcard storage is treated as an 'external storage'. When you flash firmware because of sudden crash in OS or anything like that, it doesn't touch the internal sdcard, much like residing in a seperate partition or hdd in a desktop.
Why then do asus has to wipe out the internal sdcard everytime they need to factory reset? Does it reconfigure the internal partition?
We never know when the OS will crash so sometimes, daily backups might also not be enough.
I may be wrong but can someone clarify?
Thanks in advance.
Mankul said:
I have an Samsung Galaxy S2 handphone and I feel Samsung has got this right with the design of its internal storage.
For Transformer Prime, when we need to flash firmware or we send it for servicing, all the internal storage will be wiped out. Why is there a need to wipe out internal sdcard storage?
I'm trying to understand this and also because my Transformer Prime just died and I had to send it for repair. They said that they will have no choice but to wipe up all data to do testing. All my precious pictures and videos taken the day before are gone.
For SGS2, the internal sdcard storage is treated as an 'external storage'. When you flash firmware because of sudden crash in OS or anything like that, it doesn't touch the internal sdcard, much like residing in a seperate partition or hdd in a desktop.
Why then do asus has to wipe out the internal sdcard everytime they need to factory reset? Does it reconfigure the internal partition?
We never know when the OS will crash so sometimes, daily backups might also not be enough.
I may be wrong but can someone clarify?
Thanks in advance.
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they will probably use nvflash/apx to recover it, thus all partitions will be wiped and rebuilt.
Advice for you: don't trust completely on one way of storage, always backup important stuff elsewhere.
Folks after instaling LQ5, i had the green android guy instaling the OS for 7min.
I reflashed lpf, made a nandroid restore, everything was fine untill i saw that half of my internal storage is missing.
Navigation missing, a few photos, apps, and i had 4GB storage.
I tried everything i could to find the missing space but nothing.
Every app, system shows that i have 4 GB space (2.5gb full with files 1,5 gb free)
pls help recover my space
I know with i9000 had the same issue when applied woddoo lagfix and repartition to ext fat.
Tried reflash repartition with odin, nothing.................
You flashed a .pit not meant for your device. Read all about others making the same mistake and how to fix it (flashing a correct .pit) in the relevant threads.
Hello.
I have a rooted Motorola XT303 (Motosmart ME) with stock ROM (I think it doesn't have a custom rom yet... I think...), i'm using Link2sd to free some space.
Yesterday when I wanted to download Line it said something like "Not enough Space" and today trying again says "...Error 498".
Then i noticed that the /cache partition is almost full (10mb free or so). I tried everything I know to free that space, like 4 Market Apps (Cache cleaners and 'fixers'), Recovery factory wipe and Cache wipe and nothing...
Is there anyway to fix this?
Thank you for your help, bye!
Hi keishi16, I'm an owner of a XT303...
I recommend that you partition your SD card. With Link2SD application do the links to the partition (currently I have it in FAT32 format). Not simply move them "natively" to SD, because the libraries and other files are stored internally. We also recommend that when you make these links do quick reboot with Link2SD. For some reason the internal memory is "full" when you make the links, but returns to normal when you reboot. I hope that helped you, greetings!
Sorry for bad english, I used Google Translator.:cyclops:
Dear developers,
Recently I got a new phone Vivo Y22 with Funtouch OS v1.0 (Christmas present). Its was okay at first then it start telling me that storage has not enough space (with only factory apps and Clean Master). I realize the it had about 4GB internal storage but divided to 2 parts. 2.5GB for system space and 1.06GB as internal storage. In system space, i have only 150mb left I always need to use Clean Master to wipe cache before I download anything. I tried Link2SD, I formatted my SD card and set 4GB partition as EXT2 but did not detect. Same goes for EXT3 and EXT4. It only works for FAT32 but some files cannot be linked using this format. Read some threads in web, they mentioned some phone does not support EXT2,3,4 format. Maybe this is my case? I tried to look for informations about Vivo Y22 but very less and worst, some of them is in chinese.
So the 1st question is: How can I increase the system space? Could I adjust the system space to occupy my more of my Internal Memory?
Second question is, how do I update my phone from JellyBean to KitKat? Do I follow tutorials that uses the same Chipset (Y22 uses MediaTek MT6582)? How if I want to install custom ROMs like CM11 (can't find Vivo Y22 in Device section in CM site so i presume it is not supported?)? There is very less information about rooting and flashing when it comes to this phone. I only manage to root the phone using tutorials given for some other chinese phone.
Thanks in advance..
By,
adlfurball
(just started using smartphone 3 weeks ago, was using old flip phones before hand)
Did you ever manage to fix this? I'd love to root my Y22 and put vanilla Android on there but can't find how to do it. The memory problem is useless on this phone.
Hey everyone
Here's what's happening ... I have an Samsung Galaxy SM-J500FN 2015 model phone,
a while ago I rooted it (back then it was under Android v5) ... I wanted to tweak some settings but I did something terrible, I played with KNOX.
Apparently KNOX and root don't go well together, my phone wouldn't boot anymore (rebooting loop).
Anyway, it was nothing, I just used Odin and a fresh new Official ROM (Android Marshmallow v6.0.1) and my phone was working again.
But now I discovered something, my phone is supposed to have an Internal Storage of 8GB, and that's the amount my memory settings show, but something was wrong with that, so I searched and after some time I understood that even though it said 8GB, my true storage was 4GB.
(More exactly I had 8GB but 4GB were constantly full, not even used by the system).
After a day I understood what might have happened :
My older ROM that has crashed wasn't erased when I flashed the new ROM, so now half of my Internal Storage is occupied by default meaning that I have two partitions on my phone (similar to when you install Windows and Linux on one PC).
But I cannot find any way to erase/reset my phone totally to get back those 4GB of memory.
If you have some applications, tricks, advice of some sort that could help me, I would really appreciate
Thank you for your time.
TovMachin said:
Hey everyone
Here's what's happening ... I have an Samsung Galaxy SM-J500FN 2015 model phone,
a while ago I rooted it (back then it was under Android v5) ... I wanted to tweak some settings but I did something terrible, I played with KNOX.
Apparently KNOX and root don't go well together, my phone wouldn't boot anymore (rebooting loop).
Anyway, it was nothing, I just used Odin and a fresh new Official ROM (Android Marshmallow v6.0.1) and my phone was working again.
But now I discovered something, my phone is supposed to have an Internal Storage of 8GB, and that's the amount my memory settings show, but something was wrong with that, so I searched and after some time I understood that even though it said 8GB, my true storage was 4GB.
(More exactly I had 8GB but 4GB were constantly full, not even used by the system).
After a day I understood what might have happened :
My older ROM that has crashed wasn't erased when I flashed the new ROM, so now half of my Internal Storage is occupied by default meaning that I have two partitions on my phone (similar to when you install Windows and Linux on one PC).
But I cannot find any way to erase/reset my phone totally to get back those 4GB of memory.
If you have some applications, tricks, advice of some sort that could help me, I would really appreciate
Thank you for your time.
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Hi, how are you sir.
Ok, first thing you should know, that if your phone is labeled as an 8GB phone then you will only get 4GB no matter what you do, now there is no way that there are 2 roms on one system partition, what may be taking the space could be old data from the old rom like in /android folder and could possibly also be media files from apps that was installed in previous rom like Facebook photos, WhatsApp videos, pics, and voice messages...etc, installing stock rom with Odin doesn't erase any files, but it completely replaces the rom in system partition with new rom.
Okay I see, thank you.
But still, I've explored that 'Android' folder a few times, checked photos, documents, everything ...
Now what I don't really understand is this :
You will only get 4GB no matter what you do
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Why is that ? Isn't there a way to access this memory ?
BTW : I didn't flash with Rooted Stock ROM, I used an Official Android 6.0.1 ROM from Samsung's Website
EDIT : My phone when started in Recovery Mode first says "No Command" with the Android Red Error logo, then opens the recovery mode like there never was no error involved ... That's one the things that made me say that my phone definitely had some issues with my older ROM.
TovMachin said:
Okay I see, thank you.
But still, I've explored that 'Android' folder a few times, checked photos, documents, everything ...
Now what I don't really understand is this :
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Why is that ? Isn't there a way to access this memory ?
BTW : I didn't flash with Rooted Stock ROM, I used an Official Android 6.0.1 ROM from Samsung's Website
EDIT : My phone when started in Recovery Mode first says "No Command" with the Android Red Error logo, then opens the recovery mode like there never was no error involved ... That's one the things that made me say that my phone definitely had some issues with my older ROM.
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the reason why you will get 4 only is because the 8GB includes system partition, data partition, cache, preload (if there is one) in addition to the space taken from the formatting, it's pretty much the same like when you buy a 8GB sdcard and you get only about 7.3GB, or when you buy a 16GB phone and you only have 11.5GB for media (my case..), or when you buy a 32GB phone and you find about 8GB already taken from the phone and you get to use about 23GB for media files (my dad's case and you'll notice that in any other 32GB phone), that's what i meant, you also can check any 8GB phone and you will find that he only has 4GB for media...i hope i explained it in an easy way.
in my case i have an s2 with 16GB
i only have 11.5GB for media, and there is 512mb system partition and 512mb preload, and 2GB data partition, and small cache partition.., so that makes it about 14.5GB in total, the missing 1.5GB is due to formatting as far as i know, same as the sdcards thing i said earlier..
p.s: those partitions are unaccessible by default, they are hidden from the user, only way to access them is by rooting the phone and using a root explorer.
Yes I knew about that, but I never knew it took so much place
Thank you for your answer, I guess my phone is totally normal