Need help altering partitions on a generic rooted tablet (without a PC) - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello all. Hoping for a touch of help\advice. I received a generic Chinese cheapie tablet for Christmas (a prontotec axius 8 inch. Not terrible considering the price point, with specs, which may be relevant, as follows: an Allwinner a31s quad core running android 4.4.2 with a gig of DDR 3 and the last random kernel update, 3.3.0 [email protected] #3 dated April 9th 2014 running stock firmware 4.6_20141201).
After trying virtually every one-touch root option, I finally succeeded with kingroot and get to have myself a bit of fun. Here is the problem: While I generally consider myself an old-school techie, this is my first rooted android device. This thing has 16 gigs onboard, but only 1 gig partitioned for data (app) storage. I've spent most of the night trying to figure out how to merge the media/internal SD partition into data without a PC/external SD/custom rom. I'm sitting at under 300 mb in the data partition after a few mandatory apps, and that just...stings.
If someone could kindly give me a rundown of my options (ideally with a stock ROM and no PC/external SD...I want to reallocate the space I have, my laptop is down with GPU issues, allocating critical files to an SD feels risky, and my system partition is also under a gig, so I don't want to play with custom ROMS until I have control of my storage...though if that isn't an option, any other advice would be greatly appreciated), I will be forever in your debt.

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I have a chinese android phone, it displays "SUSAN" when it starts up and here are the techincals:
Development Device ID
J3RF-M3EP-6USW-6
MODEL NUMBER
M5
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5.1
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I have NEVER flashed a firmware before so please, make the instructions as idiot proof as possible.
Thank you in advance.
Hey,
Did u get anywhere with this, I have been looking around for a ROM / flashing procedure for one of these phones to make it usable.
Thanks.
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Found this
https://www.needrom.com/download/susan-m5-x8-x10/
Although I haven't tried to flash it yet.....
I just replied to another member What a strange coincidence. I have a friend of mine who owns a pawn shop and he always lends me "acquired" phones so I can analyze them and see if I want to buy them I have on my person the X8 5.1 susan. I'm Canadian and usually were pretty limited to our choices from providers. how a china phone got here? i've never even heard of this brand I don't even know what it is root would be an option. if I could know if I can get it to nougat. I started up with S6 then s7 and now I'm at the S8 (oreo) can't root and S8 Plus rooted nougat. I can't have an unrooted phone it's like driving a Porsche that's an automatic. Anyway so far my used with it has been very frustrating because it's it's not very touchscreen friendly at least mine is in and I don't know what version of Android experience it is but it's not very opening to the user. I've come to the conclusion that I think pixels are the way to go I just don't want to pay 1300 bucks for one because I know that I'll drop it in the sewer two days after I own it. he wants $80 for it.
OS flawed
there must be bugs in OS ... 8GB but access to 2% ???
susan M5 Phone
Did you get a solution for the susan M5 phone not having enough storage to download an app as I have the same problem. thanks
hogman_1 said:
Hi
I have a chinese android phone, it displays "SUSAN" when it starts up and here are the techincals:
Development Device ID
J3RF-M3EP-6USW-6
MODEL NUMBER
M5
ANDROID VERSION
5.1
BASEBAND VERSION
SC7731
BUILD NUMBER
DW_X10_H2.0_GT022X_M5_BOE_QG_FL_V1.0_20171202
HARDWARE VERSION
HW_V2.0
I am trying to find ANY rom that will actually allow me to use the phone.
It has an Octa Core, 2GB ram, 32GB storage.
Problem is, the firmware that is installed at the moment will not allow me to install ANYTHING as it says there is not enough space.
I have done fill hardware resets and it still reports this. I have even put a 32GB Micros SD and set that to be the install location, and it still wont allow me to install anything.
The phone is already unlocked.
I have NEVER flashed a firmware before so please, make the instructions as idiot proof as possible.
Thank you in advance.
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Is a joke. It doesn't have 8 GB storage. It have 87 MB.
Same on RAM and CPU. It have 256 MB RAM and a 2 x @1.00 GHZ CPU (sc8825).
You can root this phone and put LINK2SD which moves your apps to sdcard.
Please keep the stock firmware (in this case, you can make a backup if you want to flash an firmware).
hogman_1 said:
Hi
I have a chinese android phone, it displays "SUSAN" when it starts up and here are the techincals:
Development Device ID
J3RF-M3EP-6USW-6
MODEL NUMBER
M5
ANDROID VERSION
5.1
BASEBAND VERSION
SC7731
BUILD NUMBER
DW_X10_H2.0_GT022X_M5_BOE_QG_FL_V1.0_20171202
HARDWARE VERSION
HW_V2.0
I am trying to find ANY rom that will actually allow me to use the phone.
It has an Octa Core, 2GB ram, 32GB storage.
Problem is, the firmware that is installed at the moment will not allow me to install ANYTHING as it says there is not enough space.
I have done fill hardware resets and it still reports this. I have even put a 32GB Micros SD and set that to be the install location, and it still wont allow me to install anything.
The phone is already unlocked.
I have NEVER flashed a firmware before so please, make the instructions as idiot proof as possible.
Thank you in advance.
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Hi There,
at first I would recomand to Root.
Try king root, Frama root and so one (playstore or use xda search)
Then You can look after read and Write permissions in your Device.
That should solve your Problem.
Susan X5
Your smartphone has less than 30MB of system storage. I have my brother's Susan X5 and I checked it via commands.
adb shell
df
The image shows it. Any app you want to install has to have less than 30 MB size and you have to forcefully install it to your sdcard. Even if your sdcard is not full, since the system partition is less than 30 MB, it will be not able to copy it from system to sdcard.
Install everything in sdcard with the storage option in settings, "install everything on sdcard".
That Chinese smartphone is not even lollipop. You can tell it from the icons size and ui. The sdcard directory is write protected, so you cannot check it and test the scam. The texts saying Android version number and storage size are fake. If you can build a rom you can fake these numbers.
My brother bought from the Wish company. I have seen Wish adverts, the products they sell... well, they lack any common sense.
Now you know why.
I have a phone which displays susan and model is y6,can i get its flash rom?

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