OK, I am going to ask a very noob question here. How much memory should be shown in the the "about tablet" section? I used the dual boot setup for a while and then removed it. I recently installed the 1.2 upgrade after factory reset but it still shows only 5GB memory total. Shouldn't it be closer to 8GB?
I don't mind wiping everything again and running additional flashes to get all memory back if anything is missing.
Thanks!
In my rom I see 5.00gb also.
RASTAVIPER said:
In my rom I see 5.00gb also.
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Do you think 3GB are for the recovery partition?
2Gb for recovery and 1Gb as internal app install location i think.
onclebob said:
2Gb for recovery and 1Gb as internal app install location i think.
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So it appears that I have all the memory that I should have? Thanks everyone!
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Hi,
I have recently update my Motorola defy plus to ICS CM9. After update i found out that whenever i download any app from Android Play store all my app installed in phone memory and i couldn't get the option to move the App to memory card. My phone memory almost full.
Can anybody help me about this issue.
Thanks in advanced.
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Hi,
I have recently update my Motorola defy plus to ICS CM9. After update i found out that whenever i download any app from Android Play store all my app installed in phone memory and i couldn't get the option to move the App to memory card. My phone memory almost full.
Can anybody help me about this issue.
Thanks in advanced.
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did u try droid sail???
Tapajyoti said:
did u try droid sail???
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yes i tried but it shows "there is not enough space left for moving". i have 16 gb SD card memory still it show this issue.
cloudpath said:
yes i tried but it shows "there is not enough space left for moving". i have 16 gb SD card memory still it show this issue.
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Try App2SD: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife.app2sd&hl=en
Also, don't want to sound rude or anything, but don't create duplicate topics, ask for a moderator to move your old one.
thiagoelg said:
Try App2SD: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife.app2sd&hl=en
Also, don't want to sound rude or anything, but don't create duplicate topics, ask for a moderator to move your old one.
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I am sorry for that...i wrongly create that thread.
i use this app also...it is not supported my phone
What do you mean by supported? It didn't let you install it or it didn't work?
You could also try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.krikun.s2e
But, CM10 is in a better development stage than CM9, you should consider switching to that. I have CM10 2ndboot builds and moving apps to SD is working fine.
Remember that not every app can be moved to the SD Card, that will depend on it's developer too.
thiagoelg said:
What do you mean by supported? It didn't let you install it or it didn't work?
You could also try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.krikun.s2e
But, CM10 is in a better development stage than CM9, you should consider switching to that. I have CM10 2ndboot builds and moving apps to SD is working fine.
Remember that not every app can be moved to the SD Card, that will depend on it's developer too.
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Ok...thanks for your help.
can you please share me CM10 thread please.
cloudpath said:
Hi,
I have recently update my Motorola defy plus to ICS CM9. After update i found out that whenever i download any app from Android Play store all my app installed in phone memory and i couldn't get the option to move the App to memory card. My phone memory almost full.
Can anybody help me about this issue.
Thanks in advanced.
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Did you do a factory reset before flashing CM9? What is your total internal storage showing? If it's not 2GB total then you will need to back your data etc up (not NAndroid, use Titanium or similar), then boot into STOCK recovery, do a full factory reset (wipe data and cache), then reinstall your ROM, then reinstall your data from backup.
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Did you do a factory reset before flashing CM9? What is your total internal storage showing? If it's not 2GB total then you will need to back your data etc up (not NAndroid, use Titanium or similar), then boot into STOCK recovery, do a full factory reset (wipe data and cache), then reinstall your ROM, then reinstall your data from backup.
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Hi
when i move my app to SD card via Titanium app..it is moving but after that it is still showing on phone memory.
Hello
I've recently flashed [Rom]Google Edition galaxy S4 rom for i9505 [27 June] [Pure Nexus Experience] onto my S4. After following all the instructions it's working fine. Except the internal storage size is still 9.25GB with 8.18GB allocated. I would have thought that removing the stock ROM would have freed the internal storage space?
Cheers.
re: allocated space
UrbanNZ said:
Hello
I've recently flashed [Rom]Google Edition galaxy S4 rom for i9505 [27 June] [Pure Nexus Experience] onto my S4. After following all the instructions it's working fine. Except the internal storage size is still 9.25GB with 8.18GB allocated. I would have thought that removing the stock ROM would have freed the internal storage space?
Cheers.
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I think you answered your own question, "allocated" means "reserved" so in other words even if you
did not have any rom flashed/installed at all the phone would still allocate/reserve the 8.18GB space
which cannot be used for normal storage.
Good luck!
Thanks for your reply. It's a bit of a bummer though, is there no way to release the total storage size of the phones internal memory for user allocation ? Would it be something the developers could work on. But then I guess it comes back to the old saying, just get an SD Card.
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Thanks for your reply. It's a bit of a bummer though, is there no way to release the total storage size of the phones internal memory for user allocation ? Would it be something the developers could work on. But then I guess it comes back to the old saying, just get an SD Card.
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I doubt that any of the devs could increase the user usable space on the internal sdcard.
But even if they increased it by 1GB or 2GB no one including you would be satisfied with
that for more than a few minutes anyway.
The external sdcards are really not that expensive and spending $20-30 bucks on
32GB sdcard for a device which cost over $650 is not that big of a deal.
I would think the actual GS4GE has a different pit file.
actually i thought it would free up internal storage after flashing cm10.1...
I already flashed and indeed its still the same space as TW.. puzzling..
mgear356 said:
actually i thought it would free up internal storage after flashing cm10.1...
I already flashed and indeed its still the same space as TW.. puzzling..
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People have answered this many times. The size of storage you get will not increase unless Samsung changes the partition size.
repartition
isn't possible to re-partition. I am sure samsung had a good reason to book 6 GB for OS. but stock edition will not need all this space! i would say maybe not more than 3.
so cant we repartition the reserved to achieve usuable of 13GB?
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isn't possible to re-partition. I am sure samsung had a good reason to book 6 GB for OS. but stock edition will not need all this space! i would say maybe not more than 3.
so cant we repartition the reserved to achieve usuable of 13GB?
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Yes you can but its very risky. See below
Skipjacks said:
In order to partition that internal memory you have to wipe it. And that means everything. System, recovery, download mode, boot loader, everything.
The connection with Odin or adb at this point would be totally housed in RAM. It would need to maintain that connection in order to complete the task of adding the new partition, adding the download mode back, adding recovery, and finally the ROM itself.
If the phone lost its connection during that process or lost power or the update process got pushed out of ram for any reason the phone would be hard bricked as there would be no way to reestablish communication with it to restart the process. You couldn't power it on or boot it to anything. It would be a $600 paper weight.
Meanwhile the alternative option is to just go buy an $8 external 16gb SD card or a $20 external 32gb SD card. That carries no risk whatsoever and expands your phone's storage well beyond the original 9gb of usable space you started with.
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Yes you can but its very risky. See below
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thanks for the info. but i dont see why i would lost power during the process or anything like that. is it the same risk as flashing a rom via odin?
Is this why I am only able to use about three gigs of my internal storage space? I see 3 or so are partitioned off for the ROM (See second attachment from within TiB), then I have 10 gigs, but 7 are full of something I can't locate - either from within my phone or through my computer (See first attachment from within ES File Explorer).
I've got to assume this is just something going on with my phone. I think everyone would be pretty upset if their 16 gig phone only gave them 3 gigs...
I wish we had something like DTa2SD for the S4! That would be great...
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thanks for the info. but i dont see why i would lost power during the process or anything like that. is it the same risk as flashing a rom via odin?
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When everything goes well you are right, you will probably reflash the partition 1000 times without having any issues... the problem is if you were to be unlucky
No the risk is not the same as flashing a rom. If the process of flashing a rom is interrupted you just wouldn't be able to reboot your phone normally but you could always reboot in recovery or download mode to retry flashing the rom.
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Is this why I am only able to use about three gigs of my internal storage space? I see 3 or so are partitioned off for the ROM (See second attachment from within TiB), then I have 10 gigs, but 7 are full of something I can't locate - either from within my phone or through my computer (See first attachment from within ES File Explorer).
I've got to assume this is just something going on with my phone. I think everyone would be pretty upset if their 16 gig phone only gave them 3 gigs...
I wish we had something like DTa2SD for the S4! That would be great...
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No you should have 8/9 Gb free on your Internal SD. The space you lose are the 2.19Gb in the system partition, but you have definitely something that is occupying your Internal SD.
Well crap. Any idea how to get rid of whatever it is? I can't get my phone to go into mass transfer mode at all (even with the SG USB Mass Transfer app) so the only thing I can do is browse on my phone through file explorers and nothing can see it.
which samsung galaxy s4 rom uses less memory? I am using Slim Beam 4.3. I have done a factory reset and it says I only have 513mb avaliable and I don't use alot of apps
Moved to Sprint S4 Q&A
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which samsung galaxy s4 rom uses less memory? I am using Slim Beam 4.3. I have done a factory reset and it says I only have 513mb avaliable and I don't use alot of apps
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Clearly you are confusing RAM and storage. Android fills your RAM with apps as unused memory is wasted memory. So Android will keep moving apps in and out of memory by use and priority.
Storage is what may be left on your internal memory by downloading a bunch of apps or creating many back ups on your phone and not deleting old ones. Where as AOSP ROMs may use about 500 MB less storage after gapps than Touchwiz ROMs, that is still not a big difference considering the 16 GB it comes with.
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Clearly you are confusing RAM and storage. Android fills your RAM with apps as unused memory is wasted memory. So Android will keep moving apps in and out of memory by use and priority.
Storage is what may be left on your internal memory by downloading a bunch of apps or creating many back ups on your phone and not deleting old ones. Where as AOSP ROMs may use about 500 MB less storage after gapps than Touchwiz ROMs, that is still not a big difference considering the 16 GB it comes with.
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Gotha. Thanks KennyGlass. But after I do a full wipe and flash a new rom, there shouldn't be only 513 left without even intalling an app.
seanpowell95 said:
Gotha. Thanks KennyGlass. But after I do a full wipe and flash a new rom, there shouldn't be only 513 left without even intalling an app.
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Where are you measuring this? Are you talking internal or RAM?
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Where are you measuring this? Are you talking internal or RAM?
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Inernal
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Inernal
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So no, a data reset will not delete pictures, backups, or any of that. You will need to go through your internal storage and delete things.
Move your pics to external sd card as well as your big app data files
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bonebeatz1234 said:
Move your pics to external sd card as well as your big app data files
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Sorry. I meant to say memory. But it i guess ill be doing the same
I'm only passing on information that worked for me today.
I cleared up storage by installing twrp
1st: back up
2nd: wiped everything
3rd: wiped system
4th: re-installed rom and gapps
reboot
wala!!!!!!! after reinstalling all my apps, I have 8.28gb available
Hello. So yesterday i wanted to restore my phone to stock, when I realised that I had deleted my backup folder by a mistake. Today I flashed a baltic (SEB) rom for i9301i that I got from sammobile. Now I believe my phone works slower than before. It only shows that I have 1.35GB ram when it showed 1.5GB before, but I might be wrong, because before kmy phone worked perfectly fine. I need your help. Could someone tell me a good firmware to flash? I don't really know what firmware I was running before. Oh, and when my phone rebooted, after the flash, it didnt boot for the first time, so I had to reset it via recovery.
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Hello. So yesterday i wanted to restore my phone to stock, when I realised that I had deleted my backup folder by a mistake. Today I flashed a baltic (SEB) rom for i9301i that I got from sammobile. Now I believe my phone works slower than before. It only shows that I have 1.35GB ram when it showed 1.5GB before, but I might be wrong, because before kmy phone worked perfectly fine. I need your help. Could someone tell me a good firmware to flash? I don't really know what firmware I was running before. Oh, and when my phone rebooted, after the flash, it didnt boot for the first time, so I had to reset it via recovery.
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I have a same problem also and i don't know why? May be i am wrong. And i don't remember the previous RAM status on original stock ROM.
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I have a same problem also and i don't know why? May be i am wrong. And i don't remember the previous RAM status on original stock ROM.
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1.35GB . My phone seems to get faster every use.
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1.35GB . My phone seems to get faster every use.
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Same here. But i am also confused with this 1.35 GB.
Arsal7R said:
Same here. But i am also confused with this 1.35 GB.
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its on every android phone. 2GB? Well you get 1.7GB. Its just how it is.
Laurisss said:
its on every android phone. 2GB? Well you get 1.7GB. Its just how it is.
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Hmmm so remaining RAM used by system?
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Hmmm so remaining RAM used by system?
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nah 1.35GB = 1.5GB. It's the same as you buy like 8GB SD card and you only get like 6.7gb to use
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nah 1.35GB = 1.5GB. It's the same as you buy like 8GB SD card and you only get like 6.7gb to use
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If you buy a 8gb sdcard you will use all of your 8gb. I dont know where you got that from..
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If you buy a 8gb sdcard you will use all of your 8gb. I dont know where you got that from..
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I have a 16GB SD card, and I can only use 14.61GB of it. It's how memory works. Can't find the post about it anymore tho.
This is totally normal. The advertised size of memory cards/hard drives is the unformatted capacity of the drive/card. When you format the card the File Allocation Table (FAT/FAT32/NTFS) AKA the file system- takes up the difference in space that you see.
Manufacturers sell the drive based on 1GB=1000MB, 1MB=1000kb 1KB=1000bytes....and so on.
Hard drives/Memory Cards are formatted like this: 1GB=1024MB, 1MB=1024kb, 1KB=1024bytes...and so on...
This works out to be approximately a loss of ~74MB per GB of advertised capacity so do the math:
16GB advertised space * 74MB = 1184MB or ~ 1.2 GB
16GB - 1.2GB = 14.8 GB which is what your seeing as your MicroSD card's usable capacity and it totally normal.
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On my redmy 4 prime on settings>storage I see only 24 GB tots instead of 32. I've even tried to wipe all stuffs from twrp but nothing changes. How can I fix it? I'm on LOS13
The remaining 8GB is used for system/os data. A phone with 32GB/64GB/128GB or any size of ROM storage doesn't mean that you can access all of its storage size for your own data without any deducted space for system. Same goes for PC as well.
Yes, I already know that, but 8GB even if the rom I downloaded is only 450MB? And system applications use up the 24GB
Oh silly boy.
Yes. That's TOTALLY NORMAL. Enjoy your phone.
OK :/ thank you
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OK :/ thank you
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An Android ROM is 450/500 MB right, but a Custom ROM haven't all files Inside, some files are only on your smartphone.