Is there a way to format internal SD? It seems after all these rom flashes I lost space.
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guido28 said:
Is there a way to format internal SD? It seems after all these rom flashes I lost space.
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Settings>SD card and device storage>format internal storage
Would have thought the steps was pretty obvious tbh
No such setting on Sprint Tab. Thanks anyway.
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guido28 said:
No such setting on Sprint Tab. Thanks anyway.
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Really?
Strange, don't see any reason why it wouldn't have the ability.
TheATHEiST said:
Strange, don't see any reason why it wouldn't have the ability.
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The CDMA Tabs only have 2GB of internal memory, all of which is allocated to Android partitions, so effectively they don't have an "internal" SD card in the same way GSM Tabs do.
To the OP - have you applied a lagfix to your Tab? If so, it's likely that is where your space has gone.
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Dave
foxmeister said:
The CDMA Tabs only have 2GB of internal memory, all of which is allocated to Android partitions, so effectively they don't have an "internal" SD card in the same way GSM Tabs do.
To the OP - have you applied a lagfix to your Tab? If so, it's likely that is where your space has gone.
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Dave
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Ahh now I see, I assumed the CDMA had same hardware as GSM and was only software difference. Glad im in EU then and got GSM plus a 16GB internal SD
I will look into that...thanks.
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foxmeister said:
The CDMA Tabs only have 2GB of internal memory, all of which is allocated to Android partitions, so effectively they don't have an "internal" SD card in the same way GSM Tabs do.
To the OP - have you applied a lagfix to your Tab? If so, it's likely that is where your space has gone.
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Ummm...I just got my Sprint CDMA Tab, and it comes with a 16gb. SD card. The option to format the card is greyed out however, but why couldn't you just format it in a PC?
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nojive said:
Ummm...I just got my Sprint CDMA Tab, and it comes with a 16gb. SD card. The option to format the card is greyed out however, but why couldn't you just format it in a PC?
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The format option is only available after you unmount the sd card.
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Got a vibrant and have a 4gb card full how do I move the data from the sd to internal 16gb storage?
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Alanrocks15 said:
Got a vibrant and have a 4gb card full how do I move the data from the sd to internal 16gb storage?
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Connect the phone to your computer and transfer it over...
When you connect your phone via USB, (2) drives will popup.
Is the avatar movie on the internal storage
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Alanrocks15 said:
Is the avatar movie on the internal storage
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No its on the 2gb card. Transfer that if ya want. I used phone to move it to internal, then put in my 8gb and moved it there from internal using astro file manager. ..
Hey guys, I just deleted a whole bunch of photos and videos (all saved to my desktop PC first) and my available storage space went from 4.8 GB to 8.48 GB, so only 2 GB short of the 11.50 GB total space which is great.
About the device memory, it says available space 1.61 GB. How much device memory does the phone come with and if I want to regain memory, how do I do that?
You've already made a thread in the (correct) Q&A section, no need to make another here.
Device Memory?
oinkylicious said:
You've already made a thread in the (correct) Q&A section, no need to make another here.
Device Memory?
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Lol, who cares, honestly? Noone answered and it went to page 2. In the time it took you to write your reply you could probably have made an attempt to answer my question. Everyone's a moderator..
Device memory is about 2gb. Its a seperate part where apps are stored, so if you want to regain memery there delete apps. But you will only gain about 400mb max and have no apps.
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sxi200 said:
Device memory is about 2gb. Its a seperate part where apps are stored, so if you want to regain memery there delete apps. But you will only gain about 400mb max and have no apps.
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Thanks matey. Ah, in that case, I'm fine with 1.61GB if I'm only down from 2GB. I was more curious than anything else.
So all apps get installed to the 2GB device memory only, and the USB storage is only for storing media right?
Roman5 said:
So all apps get installed to the 2GB device memory only, and the USB storage is only for storing media right?
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No, lots of apps also store their data on SD.
Usb storage is external flashdrive if your using an usbOTG adapter.
The SgsII has mainly a 16Gb version although some have reported owning 32Gb versions. That comes down to about 1.8Gb for apps separate, and 11.5Gb for your data.
Some apps can be installed on the 11.5Gb partition. That mainly depends on the app itself.
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Usb storage is external flashdrive if your using an usbOTG adapter.
The SgsII has mainly a 16Gb version although some have reported owning 32Gb versions. That comes down to about 1.8Gb for apps separate, and 11.5Gb for your data.
Some apps can be installed on the 11.5Gb partition. That mainly depends on the app itself.
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Thats the thing, for what the partitioning table (PIT in Odin) is used.
On my phone:
aroung 500MB for the system
2GB for appdata
12.5GB for userdata
These are around 15GB, to be correct i must say 15GiB, because if you convert it to the normal space everyone is talking about, you will get 16GB.
(1GiB = 1,073GB)
Silberpfeil3110 said:
Thats the thing, for what the partitioning table (PIT in Odin) is used.
On my phone:
aroung 500MB for the system
2GB for appdata
12.5GB for userdata
These are around 15GB, to be correct i must say 15GiB, because if you convert it to the normal space everyone is talking about, you will get 16GB.
(1GiB = 1,073GB)
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Also I heard Samsung include the 1gb RAM as part of the 16gb storage ...
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So I just seen that the SGS3 supports EXFat and files over 4gb's now. So if you want a really fast SD card, consider formatting from Fat32 over to exfat, and set block size to 16mb or 32mb. I know most if not all my files are 5mb or way over that, so not much space is wasted! I hope that helps someone
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Can you format ex fat in the phone itself or has to be pc? I purchased a 64gb sdxc card and will need to do this.
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Why on earth would you want a 32 MB block size? Seems like you would end up with a ton of wasted space.
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Can you format ex fat in the phone itself or has to be pc? I purchased a 64gb sdxc card and will need to do this.
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Well for me I have a lot of movies, huge pictures, music over 7mb. I myself use 16mb. But for people that want full speed from exfat will select 32mb.
smark72 said:
Can you format ex fat in the phone itself or has to be pc? I purchased a 64gb sdxc card and will need to do this.
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I don't have the phone or Id let you know. I do have my 32gb c10 ready to go when it gets here though
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So would that mean that any files I have under 16mb will in fact take up 16mb of space? Even files that are only a few kb?
Yes. I know it sounds scary, but most small items are stored on the phone sdcard.
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WARNING: Samsung's exFAT driver implementation is buggy!
exFAT is not an open standard. It is MS proprietary. Do not expect it to fully work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27415975&postcount=18
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698672&page=2
jnadke said:
WARNING: Samsung's exFAT driver implementation is buggy!
exFAT is not an open standard. It is MS proprietary. Do not expect it to fully work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27415975&postcount=18
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698672&page=2
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I didn't read the whole thread. But from what I saw, only 3 people had a problem. And at first he said he copied 1900 files and had corruption, then he states its a problem over 3000. I don't know if this is user error, or what. But thanks for the warning, Ill keep an eye out....... And if that guy was checking file by file for 1900 songs, that's some serious time, I call BS.
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TeamERA said:
I didn't read the whole thread.... , I call BS.
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A bunch of other people were having the same problem too.
jnadke said:
A bunch of other people were having the same problem too.
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It may well be correct, and now I can't wait to find out, damn 32gb PB pre order
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I unloaded my 64gb sd card, put it in the phone and it formatted it to exfat, I copied all my data back to the card and did a restore from mybackup pro, after the restore and reboot I then received a damaged sd card, i'm not sure what's going on, The only 2 options on windows is NTFS and exFat
Performance gain will be nominal. You're talking a phone here, not a database server dealing with heavy iOPS. I have a 64GB Class 10 in mine and performance could not be better. I also had a ***** of a time getting the card to register after I let my PC format it, had to, absolutely had to, let the device format it.
Note: I'm a heavy performance user who goes for maximum battery without overly sacrificing performance. Professionally, I build and configure SAN's for Exchange, SQL and vSphere. I make no claims to being a phone development god (thought about refreshing my skills there but frankly, don't have the time), BUT I'm also VERY good at what I do.
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ILA970JOSH said:
I unloaded my 64gb sd card, put it in the phone and it formatted it to exfat, I copied all my data back to the card and did a restore from mybackup pro, after the restore and reboot I then received a damaged sd card, i'm not sure what's going on, The only 2 options on windows is NTFS and exFat
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Had the same problem. I had no option but to let the phone format it. Delete the partition in windows and then you can format it. If you find another way though, let me know!
Sorry misread your post, I had the same error and had to let it reformat. Did you unplug it and put it into your PC? Were any corrective scans or anything done?
I removed everything back off the card, formatted it to fat32 and copied everything back to it, put it back in the phone and it's still saying it's damaged. Sucks, it's been in my EVO3D for a week now with no problems.
is the extra juice really worth the possibility of data corruption? Im not trying to be a wise guy, just really been wondering myself.
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is the extra juice really worth the possibility of data corruption? Im not trying to be a wise guy, just really been wondering myself.
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Well I must say now I'm worried. But I'm still going to test, I copy huge files to and from on a regular basis, if it saves me 3% in time each time, that is still worth it to me in the long run. I have very little patience, and all that time adds up.
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seems to be working now, I had 8,000 temp files in a MyBackup Pro Directory, Deleted them and now it's working
So if I were to format my 64gb card to exfat and download movies to my phone using adownloader or atorrent, I wouldn't be able to transfer them to my ps3?
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smark72 said:
So if I were to format my 64gb card to exfat and download movies to my phone using adownloader or atorrent, I wouldn't be able to transfer them to my ps3?
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I use xbox lol, I don't know if it would work on ps3.
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TeamERA said:
I use xbox lol, I don't know if it would work on ps3.
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Does it work and show up on the Xbox?
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smark72 said:
Does it work and show up on the Xbox?
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I don't have the phone yet, Ill let you know in here though.
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i did the sd card theory with my nook color. i did 10.0, 10.2, 7.2. they all work great, wifi works, touch works, etc... but am i supposed to actually install it to the internal storage and wipe/format the nook itself or just run it off the sd card? if i am supposed to install it to the internal storage and wipe my nook then how do i do it?
thanks in advance...
wmikes said:
i did the sd card theory with my nook color. i did 10.0, 10.2, 7.2. they all work great, wifi works, touch works, etc... but am i supposed to actually install it to the internal storage and wipe/format the nook itself or just run it off the sd card? if i am supposed to install it to the internal storage and wipe my nook then how do i do it?
thanks in advance...
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That solely depends on what you *want* to do. You have the *option* of installing it to internal storage (emmc), but you do not *have* to do it that way. You can have a dual boot system with stock internally and CM on sdcard. Of course, you can also do the reverse.
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wmikes said:
i did the sd card theory with my nook color. i did 10.0, 10.2, 7.2. they all work great, wifi works, touch works, etc... but am i supposed to actually install it to the internal storage and wipe/format the nook itself or just run it off the sd card? if i am supposed to install it to the internal storage and wipe my nook then how do i do it?
thanks in advance...
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I don't know what you mean by "supposed to". There is no "supposed to". It is your choice. Run it on SD like you said you did or choose to put it on internal memory. It works either way.
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leapinlar said:
I don't know what you mean by "supposed to". There is no "supposed to". It is your choice. Run it on SD like you said you did or choose to put it on internal memory. It works either way.
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Does it run faster on the internal memory? Not that I am expecting a speed demon.
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Does it run faster on the internal memory? Not that I am expecting a speed demon.
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Only if you have a bad SD. If you have a good SD you will notice no real improvement going to internal.
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leapinlar said:
Only if you have a bad SD. If you have a good SD you will notice no real improvement going to internal.
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I am stopping off at Radio Shack (strangely one of the cheapest local sources and generally have real SanDisk) on my way home. Not sure if my Kingston one is giving me issues.
I got a sandisk and now it is working much better.
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Does it run faster on the internal memory? Not that I am expecting a speed demon.
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As others have said, there's no speed difference and the choice is yours. I chose to move from SD to EMMC (internal) because I wanted to free up the SD for extra storage capability, so moving the operating system to the internal was my reason..
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As others have said, there's no speed difference and the choice is yours. I chose to move from SD to EMMC (internal) because I wanted to free up the SD for extra storage capability, so moving the operating system to the internal was my reason..
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Since I mainly use the SD card to store large books and encyclopedias, I have a class 4 SD. There was definitely a noticeable speed movement moving to boot from SD to EMMC.
Then again, most new SD cards are class 10.
Curious about buying this phone. Not so sure I want to do without an external SD card. So what exactly is the data partition size?
It has 24GB free if its not the international 16gb version.
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It has 24GB free if its not the international 16gb version.
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I'm asking how much space do you have to install user apps?
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I'm asking how much space do you have to install user apps?
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Thats how much app-install space you have for the 32gb versioin of this phone and the 16gb model has 10.4gb available for apps and user data.
Seriously? That's awesome. So how does it break up the partitions for the fat32 side? Or is it just one large partition?
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Seriously? That's awesome. So how does it break up the partitions for the fat32 side? Or is it just one large partition?
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Just one large partition.
Very adequate for app + data but lacking if you like to store a lot of music/video. Cloud storage.
The "SD card" is emulated. It's stored on the data partition and expands as necessary.
If you only need extra space for infrequent circumstances like road trips or flights, you can always get a Meenova.