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Phone using SD card space

So, i havent seen anything about this.
but my phone puts about 2gb of things on the SD card. i have about 2gb of music and photos but 4gb of the sd card is being used.
i pulled all my files off and formatted the SD card before and at first it was fine but 5 min later the card was about half full again, any reason why?

Swap file cache maybe?
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Is it possible the phone is just thinking backup files are still on the SD?
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Cache files usually. Is you file browser set to view system/hidden files? Lots of folders start with a period as file names.
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Use cache cleaner NG should hopefully resolve the issue.
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Video resolution not supported by sd card?

I'm trying to record in 720p format but after about ten seconds that message would pop up on the screen. Why is it doing this? Is anyone else having this problem? I'm running the leaked gingerbread stock rom.
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Your sd card cannot write data fast enough to record at 720p

Pwned!!! Lol try using the app sd speed increase. Change the sd cache from 124 to 2048. Then download sd tools and run a speed test the change out. My card writes at a cool 6mb a sec and reads at 20+ mb.
Cheers!!
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RushAOZ said:
Pwned!!! Lol try using the app sd speed increase. Change the sd cache from 124 to 2048. Then download sd tools and run a speed test the change out. My card writes at a cool 6mb a sec and reads at 20+ mb.
Cheers!!
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Downloaded SD Tools, and without changing anything got 6.7 MB/s Write, 17.0 MB/s read.
Changed to 2048 cache, and now get 7.7 MB/s Write, 21.5 MB/s read. Not that much of a difference.
All on stock EC05.
Was able to record longer than 10 seconds, but didn't test how much longer.
I will still probably look for a higher class memory card anyway, but this helped for now. Thanks.

Thanks for all the help. I'm going have to root to try that app. I may have to go on ebay and get a higher class card.
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Swap Size

Just wanna ask, which is better, 32MB swap or 256MB swap? Also I've read somewhere swap size was supposed to be RAM x 2, but then again that would be pretty huge.

Neither, and 2x amount of RAM is only fitted for PC's. In reality it should be 1,5x. I myself tried using SWAP, but it slowed down my SD card a lot (reading, writing speeds). I suggest you should disable the SWAP completely because SGY has got a very good RAM management by default, thus no need for SWAP. I myself never ran into RAM-related issues. Also, as you know, SWAP is A LOT slower than RAM.

just use 256 bro.

I'm using 256 MB. Is stable with a2sd.

I'm afraid to try this one...i've read some threads about it, and is it safe for me to do it even if my sd card is not class 10?, sorry im just a newbie

When using swap the lifetime from sd card will go down.
GREEEEEEEEEETZ!!!

Does link2sd support for swap?
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Vire Holland said:
Does link2sd support for swap?
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No it doesn't
[ fly away with my SGY-5360 on creed3.5 and some magic spell ]

Vire Holland said:
Does link2sd support for swap?
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Yes, link2sd support swap but you Kernel must support swap to work.

What's the ROM size?

From the specs, it says 4GB ROM + 768MB RAM. But why am I getting 2G ROM + 600 RAM instead? I don't have a bad emmc. I bought mine a year and a half ago and this has always been a question I would like to see an answer.

I have 621MB RAM which is about standard on this device. That's just the way it works out. Ever checked the actual storage of a flash drive compared to what it says on the package?
Also, it's good to verify specs on multiple sites.
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=2993
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estallings15 said:
I have 621MB RAM which is about standard on this device. That's just the way it works out. Ever checked the actual storage of a flash drive compared to what it says on the package?
Also, it's good to verify specs on multiple sites.
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=2993
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Thanks. If I remember it correctly, the tmo website said it has 4GB ROM. And I also checked the gsmarena and it says it has 4GB too. However I've got 1.13GB for the app partition and about 800 for cache and system. That adds to 2GB total which is half of the stated ROM size. It's not a big deal but I would like to figure it out weather it actually only has 2GB or it's hidden.

There are several partitions for boot, recovery, bootloader, etc. Perhaps when all are added together they come close to 4gb?
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estallings15 said:
There are several partitions for boot, recovery, bootloader, etc. Perhaps when all are added together they come close to 4gb?
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Unfortunately no. I used storage analyser and disc usage apps to check my partitions and I added them up. It's close to 2GB.

ibuddler said:
Unfortunately no. I used storage analyser and disc usage apps to check my partitions and I added them up. It's close to 2GB.
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I just ran Storage Analyzer. It's not accessing all the partitions.
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What the size your mytouch 4g nand flash?

I have 542mb.
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The size is either 2.10GB or 2.17GB, depends on the exact chip used - there are 2 possibilities.
You're making 2 mistakes:
1) looking at the size of /system partition only, thinking that this is the size of your memory chip.
2) thinking that you have a NAND, while in fact you have eMMC.

Jack_R1 said:
The size is either 2.10GB or 2.17GB, depends on the exact chip used - there are 2 possibilities.
You're making 2 mistakes:
1) looking at the size of /system partition only, thinking that this is the size of your memory chip.
2) thinking that you have a NAND, while in fact you have eMMC.
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How to find my real nand flash size with adb.
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The simple answer is - you can't.
By the make of your memory chip you can know.
How to know the make of your memory chip? Read the "good or bad chip" thread.