using HTC HD2 512MB version, with MIUI.COM installed into the NAND
Questions:
1) I went to setting, and check the disk space free for the phone, adding up the disk space used, and free space, I only have 250MB in my phone? Why? How do I see 512MB in my phone?
2) How do I make the SD card the place to install all applications? like making it default?
3) When an application has been installed onto the phone; it says "30MB on Phone" and I hit the button "move to SD", and after moving, it says "140kb on SD" - what happen? Does it mean that it couldn't move the application from phone to SD? Or file size reported incorrectly?
250mb is a lot of room still left on your device. i only have 73.5mb in my system and i partitioned my sd card to 1gb so i still have 686.1mb left for data.
a great tool to know what apps can be moved to your sd card is appmonster. i personally love the app and have the pro version. it will tell you what apps can be moved safely as well as create a backup of evey apk file you install. a lot of other features as well. im sure there are other ways of doing this but i'll stick with this app instead.
I think you have misread my post; I have using HTC HD2 which is suppose to have 512MB in the phone,
but when i go into the system setting and take a look, adding the used up space + free space, both of them adds to be only 250MB! where did the 256mb go to?
Thanks, I will try app monster, but please let me know how do i utilitise the whole 512mb? It seemed that I'm only using 250MB of the 512Mb in my phone
yes i thought you meant you had 250mb availible after you installed your ROM. also there is a app called Move2SD Enabler (root only) free in the market that will allow you to install to your sd card by default. to answer your question that you only have 250mb total it would seem this is wrong in some way. i mean if that was true you wouldn't be able to flash almost any sence ROM because they almost are always over 250mb. what miui ROM are you running and how large is that ROM? all i could think of is you partitioned your phone incorrectly but thats really just a quess so my advice would be to wait for someone with more experience. sorry i couldn't help out more.
Sense rom? I'm using MIUI rom, which is about 78MB when download from the website;
I wasn't saying that's what you are running only that if your device only had a total of 250mb that you wouldn't even be able to flash a sence Rom. Have you tried to look at a app that will tell you how much space you have as a way of double checking the numbers you've gotten?
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You have 512 but your Rom and system files are installed on there so you dont have much leftfor apps
You need a Rom with apps2sd support and you need a ext partition on your SD, cwm will partition for you, use this Rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010498 there is an app on there to move dalvic cache and apps2sd
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Thanks, I'll give it a try, but I still like to use the MIUI rom
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It is miui
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I'm reading the part there it says ext the SD, my question; I already have my rom with data in it, can I do it? or I will lose everything?
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I'm reading the part there it says ext the SD, my question; I already have my rom with data in it, can I do it? or I will lose everything?
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your question was answered earlier as you already have titanium "BACKUP" then use it no data will be lost
and also THIS page will help you out alot
Use miui backup its pre installed back everything up, install new Rom format SD via cwm (back up everything on SD first pictures videos and stuff and your miui folder) when you partition it using cwm it will wipe your SD install new Rom, go to the apps2sd GUI turn everything on, then go to miui backup and restore everything
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your question was answered earlier as you already have titanium "BACKUP" then use it no data will be lost
and also THIS page will help you out alot
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thanks guys for helping a complete newbie!!! the official miui tutorial should include this info too!
btw, from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010498
it says:
Choose EXT size (Maximum is 2048Mb) and Swap size (Recommand is 128Mb)
but there's a select to choose 4GB as EXT size........should i go with 2GB or 4GB?
I think my microSD class 2, which is way too slow for this; I've to get a class 6 or 10 one.
I tried to use 1GB ext, and it's working perfectly now; even with class 2 speed!
Stick to 1gb you'll have problems after that
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i had 1gb on my sd android version
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I tried to use 1GB ext, and it's working perfectly now; even with class 2 speed!
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Hi
1024 MB with 0 MB swap is all you need.
Any more will possibly give you problems.
0MB swap? i used 258 or 128,
is there an easier way to change swap to 0MB?
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So I've been searching online and I couldn't get any straight answer. Everyone else would rather talk about themes and status bar instead of functionality and performance.
So I just realized that my fascinate, running on MIUI FascinateMTD 1.7.15, doesn't support A2SD+ according to the SD card section on my ROM. I've formatted and partitioned my SDcard (EXT size 1024mb / swap size 256mb) and after rebooting the phone doesn't see or detect the EXT partition. So I ODIN'd my phone back to EB01. Then wipe data/cach/dalvik and re-flashed MIUI FascinateMTD 1.7.15. Then using the blue CWM, I reformatted and repartitioned the SDcard with the same EXT/swap size, then rebooted my phone. Same result. My phone doesn't recognize the EXT partition and it still said that it doesn't support A2SD+ . I tried using S2E and DarkTremor's a2sd but nothing worked.
What gives? Can ANYONE provide some guidance on this?
If I can find an old sdcard to use, I'll look I to it. When you said you formatted to ext, how did you format it? From Linux? Windows 3rd party partition program? Cwm recovery? Etc. Ext2, 3, 4?
You also mentioned functionality and performance, what performance increase you expecting to gain by going a2sd? I ask because there shouldn't be an increase by going a2sd. As for functionality, it should be the same unless you need over 1.5gb for apps which is your internal storage size.
But I don't mind trying to figure it out if I can find an old sdcard.
Uh you'd lose performance if you do A2SD because your internal flash speed is a lot faster.
Functionality being able to move some of the apps (that I don't use every day but will need in the future) over to the SD card freeing up more internal memory (performance).
I used the blue CWM recovery v4.0.0.9 that came with the MIUI Rom and the red CWM recover v2.5.1.x to format and partition the SDcard. I do plan on getting a class 4 SDcard this weekend as soon as I get my paycheck.
Been moving apparently to my class 10 d card with appadmin pro(in the market) for a while now. Is this what you guys are talking about?
Mine also states this, I had started another thread a few days ago.
I took all the steps you are, I finally gave up on what the settings say, I remember reading somewhere that the cm7 port doesn't currently support the sd ext partition, (maybe I dreamt this).
However I was able to move apps to my sd card.
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If you get the error about not having enough free space, uninstall and reinstall the app.
I'll also note I believe I first got this error after wiping data and installing miui, then restoring from a miui backup. prior to then I could move apps just fine, however the reason I wiped data was because I got stuck in a boot loop when flashing an update so it could of been the update as well.
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At one point, when I was on MIUI 1.7.8, it was still letting me move some apps to the SDcard. However, when I went to Manage Application and onto the "On SD card" tab and selected an app that was supposedly on the SDcard, the MOVE to SD card button is still active (not grayed out) as if it had never been moved in the first place.
mwestendorf said:
Mine also states this, I had started another thread a few days ago.
I took all the steps you are, I finally gave up on what the settings say, I remember reading somewhere that the cm7 port doesn't currently support the sd ext partition, (maybe I dreamt this).
However I was able to move apps to my sd card.
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If you get the error about not having enough free space, uninstall and reinstall the app.
I'll also note I believe I first got this error after wiping data and installing miui, then restoring from a miui backup. prior to then I could move apps just fine, however the reason I wiped data was because I got stuck in a boot loop when flashing an update so it could of been the update as well.
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dricacho said:
At one point, when I was on MIUI 1.7.8, it was still letting me move some apps to the SDcard. However, when I went to Manage Application and onto the "On SD card" tab and selected an app that was supposedly on the SDcard, the MOVE to SD card button is still active (not grayed out) as if it had never been moved in the first place.
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I guess I look at that tab as a poor
choice of words, to me it implies these apps "can" be moved to the sd card, the check mark tells you whether it is actually there or not.
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dricacho said:
Functionality being able to move some of the apps (that I don't use every day but will need in the future) over to the SD card freeing up more internal memory (performance).
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Moving your apps to the SD card will not help with performance. The 1.5GB that apps are stored on is used only for apps. If anything, your phone will be slower when using the apps on your SD card.
Sent from my CM7 Fascinate, bro.
I installed an app called Link2SD last night. It was able to detect the 2nd partition, mount it, and make the OS mount it at boot time. It can be formatted as ext2, 3, 4, or even fat32. What it does is it creates a link for apk, dex, and lib files of apps and moves it to the SDcard. So far its serving the purpose. I noticed that the latency isn't bad at all when opening apps from the SDcard. Takes a few seconds longer at most. It will get better when I get a class 4 micro SDcard this weekend. I want to allocate more internal space for frequently used apps, I'm an apps hog so my phone isn't going to perform as I expected it to if it isn't able to hold more apps that I want.
Ok so you want more space for the apps you use frequently so they load faster off of internal memory. That makes sense. I really don't believe that you have over 1.5GB of apps but I suppose its possible.
Sent from my OMFGB Fascinate, bro.
Not yet.
sneakysolidbake said:
Ok so you want more space for the apps you use frequently so they load faster off of internal memory. That makes sense. I really don't believe that you have over 1.5GB of apps but I suppose its possible.
Sent from my OMFGB Fascinate, bro.
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Not yet.
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Lol I may be underestimating you but having more than 1.5GB of apps isn't exactly something most people worry about but hey whatever works for you.
Sent from my OMFGB Fascinate, bro.
Looking at the tab 16GB - when I check in storage - it shows only 13.1 GB total available - so it looks like almost 3GB are 'gone'
Has anybody else have the issue?
Is there a way to free up space?
Rest of the space is used for operating system
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ghislandi said:
Looking at the tab 16GB - when I check in storage - it shows only 13.1 GB total available - so it looks like almost 3GB are 'gone'
Has anybody else have the issue?
Is there a way to free up space?
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In short, no. You have a total of 16GB of storage, not 16GB of free available user storage.
So, out of that 16, 3GB is partitioned off for the OS, hence the other 13GB is what is left over for the user.
Is there any of getting most of the 13GB my tab says that there only 4gb left but i cant find what's using it all
A lot of big games usually stick stuff in the /android/data directory thats where i normally find the data usage growing from.
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I dont use it for games mainly for internet, emails etc and ebooks. It is rooted and any backups I store on my pc. Is there anyway for wiping it clean and starting again witout losing the root or CWM
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I dont use it for games mainly for internet, emails etc and ebooks. It is rooted and any backups I store on my pc. Is there anyway for wiping it clean and starting again witout losing the root or CWM
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You can use the "Factory Data Reset" in the privacy settings, it will keep root etc... But will nuke everything on the device.
And I mean everything, SD data, everything, it will be how you got it when you first turned the device on out of the box.
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Just download disk usage from the play store. It will give you a graphic representation of what is using your storage.
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As said above, it's a total of 16GB of space.
AndroZip is really good for finding space hogging dead folders...
I find that when flashing roms, my Spotify local files get forgotten by the app so have to be removed manually, as is the case with many apps....
Doing a factory reset didn't do a thing
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Doing a factory reset didn't do a thing
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What do you mean? Is your SD data still there? Are you using a stock or Custom ROM?
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You did do it from the privacy settings didn't you, as it mentions in the text on this screen, it gets rid of everything. I've done it a few times.
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Am on a custom rom it reset my tab but didn't do a thing to give me my space back Ill have another go. I cleared must of the stuff of my self but there's still a few gb i just cant clear
I can confirm this.I am also on CM9 and doing factory reset didin't changer a thing.
But here's what i did to get rid of the unused data :First open file manager HD and then on options (upper right corner) hit the disk analyze
(or something simmilar...translated from Greek).On trhe upper right corner it shows you the available space on your "sdcard".Now connect it to the pc and delete the unnecesary files .
P.S. if you had early gameloft games installed,they created a file called "gameloft" on your sd and when you deleted the .apks the downloaded game data was still there.So if you dont play games as you say delete the whole folder (if any !).
Hope i helped.
Perhaps the fact you're on a custom ROM is why this is not working for you. I'm using a pretty much stock setup.
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I can confirm this.I am also on CM9 and doing factory reset didin't changer a thing.
But here's what i did to get rid of the unused data :First open file manager HD and then on options (upper right corner) hit the disk analyze
(or something simmilar...translated from Greek).On trhe upper right corner it shows you the available space on your "sdcard".Now connect it to the pc and delete the unnecesary files .
P.S. if you had early gameloft games installed,they created a file called "gameloft" on your sd and when you deleted the .apks the downloaded game data was still there.So if you dont play games as you say delete the whole folder (if any !).
Hope i helped.
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The problem with doing it that way is not knowing what's safe and what's not safe to delete
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The problem with doing it that way is not knowing what's safe and what's not safe to delete
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The only way option in your current situation I think, is for you to have a totally fresh install.
Flash a stock ROM, do the reset, then flash what ever ROM you want, back on to the device ( Or stay on the stock flavour).
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What I suggest is that you get a usb memory to go with the tab. 13 gigs is enoug for everyday use and the external memory is where I store my movies etc.
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What I suggest is that you get a usb memory to go with the tab. 13 gigs is enoug for everyday use and the external memory is where I store my movies etc.
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What is the biggest external usb memory I can connect to device? Tried 1TB external hard drive but no success.
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What is the biggest external usb memory I can connect to device? Tried 1TB external hard drive but no success.
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It as to be a usb pen
reanimuotasis said:
What is the biggest external usb memory I can connect to device? Tried 1TB external hard drive but no success.
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32 gb mmc or usb flash drive. You can try a hdd as long as you use a powered usb hub and it is formatted in fat32.
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Hi all, I have just started using this app, I've discovered when ever you restart the phone, I have to recreate
All my desktop application shortcuts for the ones on SD, sand reinstall some apps like my keyboard etc, is there a way to fix this??
Thanks for your help guys
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Hi all, I have just started using this app, I've discovered when ever you restart the phone, I have to recreate
All my desktop application shortcuts for the ones on SD, sand reinstall some apps like my keyboard etc, is there a way to fix this??
Thanks for your help guys
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i think there's nothing wrong with the link2sd,
if theres really something wrong with the link2sd,
try to change the partition of your sd card to FAT32,
try it.
chitose_ndy said:
i think there's nothing wrong with the link2sd,
if theres really something wrong with the link2sd,
try to change the partition of your sd card to FAT32,
try it.
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You mean you all manage to format one partition in SD card to be the internal memory on Arc's Stock ROM?
chongbh said:
You mean you all manage to format one partition in SD card to be the internal memory on Arc's Stock ROM?
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no no no,
i mean, sometimes partition sd format ext2, ext3, or ext4 gives some error.
now try to make the partition sd format to FAT32,
i dont kno if this will work or not, but u should try it...
I installed the app, Links2SD, and started moving my apps over, I didnt partition the SD card at all yet.
Do I have to do this still, and is there an app on the market to help me with this, but now everytime I restart my phone, I loose all my shortcuts set up on my home page, and I have to reinstall my keyboard.
Can some one please help me with this ?
Thanks A
Devilbabi said:
I installed the app, Links2SD, and started moving my apps over, I didnt partition the SD card at all yet.
Do I have to do this still, and is there an app on the market to help me with this, but now everytime I restart my phone, I loose all my shortcuts set up on my home page, and I have to reinstall my keyboard.
Can some one please help me with this ?
Thanks A
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Thats the problem, LInk2SD requires a Partition, this is where the apps will be stored
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Thats the problem, LInk2SD requires a Partition, this is where the apps will be stored
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Ok thanks for that, is there an app I can use to partition???
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Ok thanks for that, is there an app I can use to partition???
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Search on the google "mini partition tool app"
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Make sure your kernel supports it.
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Sorry I am just running the standard ROM, nothing special and it seems to have installed etc ok.
I have followed the tut, used the mini partition app, and created the FAT32, created the mount script, restarted the phone, and I still am losing the icons off the desktop and the keyboard is uninstalling itself.
How can I check if the items I moved to SD, are actually on the partition, and how can I select that partition as the place to store moved items from now on.
THanks for all you help guys, I am very greatful
Devilbabi said:
Sorry I am just running the standard ROM, nothing special and it seems to have installed etc ok.
I have followed the tut, used the mini partition app, and created the FAT32, created the mount script, restarted the phone, and I still am losing the icons off the desktop and the keyboard is uninstalling itself.
How can I check if the items I moved to SD, are actually on the partition, and how can I select that partition as the place to store moved items from now on.
THanks for all you help guys, I am very greatful
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Hmm..
About the icons on the desktop,
I think u shud readd again on ur desktop.. then try te reboot ur phone again..
And if u want to know that the apps has already moved to partition or not,
Connect ur phone to pc.
Open mini partition.
See the partition (the FAT32)
See the "used" column.
If its still "0", then ur apps still not moved to partition.
If its not "0", then its already moved.
If u already created the mount script, then the apps shud be moved to the FAT32 when u link it 2 sd.
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So I moved the apps to SD, is that right or am I supposed to link the apps to sd and then move them.
I think there is something I am doing wrong at that part.
They are on the SD, not linked just moved.
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So I moved the apps to SD, is that right or am I supposed to link the apps to sd and then move them.
I think there is something I am doing wrong at that part.
They are on the SD, not linked just moved.
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Move 2 sd and link 2 sd are different things.
Move to sd >> move to sd primary.
Link to sd >> move to the sd partition
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Move 2 sd and link 2 sd are different things.
Move to sd >> move to sd primary.
Link to sd >> move to the sd partition
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If we using ext4 for second partition then its way faster than primary fat32. This mean better I/O speed and percomance.
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If we using ext4 for second partition then its way faster than primary fat32. This mean better I/O speed and percomance.
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Some devices have problem with ext4..
If it reallt have problem, then use format fat32
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So do you leave apps on phone and link to SD? How does that work though? That wont free up my internal memory?
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Devilbabi said:
So do you leave apps on phone and link to SD? How does that work though? That wont free up my internal memory?
Devilbabi Fine Arts
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No no...
Apps goes sd card. But phone thinks they into phone.
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Yes it free up my internal memory
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Yes it free up my internal memory
Ok so do you move the app to SD then link it, or do you link then move
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I don't think you can have a working ext partition without the phone having a different Kernel at the least or a different ROM (I'm using stock ROM and DoomKernel, with a 1GB ext4 partition for reference). Normal Apps2SD is possible since 2.2 but I think your Kernel/ROM has to support anything more advanced.
Tested and working on HC321 and ICS403
In this tutorial I will discribe a way to ‘upgrade’ your internal 16GB memory to 32GB, not by soldering a new memory module to the internals of the device but by the means of a ‘softmod’. This method involves changing some system files and is completly done through CWM and is totally reversable. This is the second version of the softmod and is much safer than the first one.
Someone mentioned another thread in the A100 section, and asked me if my way was the same as that one. I checked it out and seemed that all the system changes were done through scripting. The thread author had actually used the recovery killer script that Acer loads at every boot to our advantage. He wrote a damm nice script for doing the right mounts and unmounts at boottime.
The original thread can be found here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20907592
Anyway, I have adapted that script a bit so it can be flashed through CWM, added my own script to it which loads your internal SD in ‘mnt/internal_sd’ and added a modified ‘vold.fstab’ file for removing the ‘detach button’ from the storage info page.
CONS :
-if you use a slow 32GB micoSD card you might experience some speed loss
-by doing this mod, as it involves changing system files, there is always the possibility of ending up with a bricked device, you fully agree to the fact that when your device gets bricked in the process, you and only you are responsible for that !
PROS :
-you will have upgraded your internal memory capacity to 32GB
-you now have high speed access to this 'new 32GB internal' sdcard if inserted in a computer for backups or filling the card up with pictures, music, movies, documents, gamefiles, etc..
-CWM is not affected by this softmod. As a mather of fact if you select the option 'switch to internal storage' in CWM you can actually make use of your internal GB’s for storing CWM FULL backups of your device.
NEEDED :
-32GB sdcard
-CWM must be installed on your tablet
HOW IT'S DONE :
-format the 32GB sdcard to fat32 on your computer
-insert the newly formatted sdcard in your tablet
-reboot or start your tablet in CWM
-flash the ‘CWM - ROMUPDATER [sdsoftmod enable].zip’ through CWM
-reboot
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after reboot your storage info should look like this :
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REVERSING THE PROCESS :
-reboot or start your tablet in CWM
-flash the ‘CWM - ROMUPDATER [sdsoftmod disable].zip’ through CWM
-reboot
After rebooting you are back where you were before this mod, with all your files still on the 16GB internal memory. (as they were before this mod)
If you like the mod and want to keep using it, you might wanna transfer all your old folders and files from the ‘/mnt/internal_sd’ to the new ‘/mnt/sdcard’
FINAL WORD :
-Its best not to remove the 32GB sdcard for backup purposes or whatever when the tablet is running. I advise to shutdown the tablet first, then removing the sdcard, do your stuf, reinsert in the tablet en only then fire the tablet up.
Good luck !
Gersma ® 2012
document version 2.0
just a question, how will the cw recovery act. since it will before boot will the recovery just look for the actual sdcard?
BrianDigital said:
just a question, how will the cw recovery act. since it will before boot will the recovery just look for the actual sdcard?
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CWM stays unaffected, even more so, you can now use the 'lost' gigs on the internal 16gig for storing your CWM full backups. More info on this in the first post.
Is this only for 32 GB Sd card ore als for 16, 8 GB
Is this much faster then normal use of the sd card
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Oeps, i see its not smart to go from 16 internal to less.
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ruud said:
Is this only for 32 GB Sd card ore als for 16, 8 GB
Is this much faster then normal use of the sd card
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This method can be used with SD cards of any size, only when your internal memory is 16GB I wouldn't see why you would swap that with a 8GB external SD card, or a SD card of the same size. There's nothing to gain. When you do this mod on the other hand with a 32GB or a 64GB SD card you gain space.
Look at it as if you bought the cheaper 16GB model and upgrade it to a 32GB or a 64GB model, not by soldering in another memory module but the easy way with this softmod.
As for the speed it will be limited by the speed of the SD card. This may vary from SD to SD, faster SDs tend to be more expensive. The card I have used is slightly slower then the internal memory, but it is not an issue.
Hi, is this the same a100 mod with apply on boot? Or have you made some new changes to it. My only concern was the OS might create some file/directories in internal memory before your mod executes.
Thanks
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jaksau said:
Hi, is this the same a100 mod with apply on boot? Or have you made some new changes to it. My only concern was the OS might create some file/directories in internal memory before your mod executes.
Thanks
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I don't know about the 'apply on boot' mod, this is just a tuto I composed from scratch based on my findings when doing this to my own tablet.
If you want to go in detail about what happens : all of the stuff is done @ boot time, and because its based on setting a mount point, that would be done before the os starts writing stuff down. As for the affected partitions by doing this mod, it only affects the '/data/media' partition wich is mounted by default in 'mnt/sdcard'. This mod just disables the system from doing that and instead mounts your complete external SD to that mount point. After the mod the old files are stille accesable by browsing with your root explorer to /data/media.
Btw : I wouldn't recommend doing this mod on any other device than the A500/G100W as the program that does all the work, was specificly written FOR the A500/G100W !
Tutorial updated to v1.2
All needed files are in the attached zip (first post in this thread), including an easy readable pdf with word accentuation on the hard parts of the tutorial.
The title says 64G. I think SDHC is up to 32G. The 64G should be SDXC.
Does the Acer Iconia A500 really support SDXC?
Anybody tried a 64G SD?
Thanks!
qingz said:
The title says 64G. I think SDHC is up to 32G. The 64G should be SDXC.
Does the Acer Iconia A500 really support SDXC?
Anybody tried a 64G SD?
Thanks!
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You got a point ! Checked iconia's specs and it says 32GB max !!
Gonna change the title and the pdf !
any way to get this working with ICS? mount at boot doesn't seem to be working
Somairotevoli said:
any way to get this working with ICS? mount at boot doesn't seem to be working
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I don't have ics, so i can't realy test that. I think that the mount (read swap) is done at login time, thats when you see the superuser has granted acces message. Then again android could be supressing these messages until userlogin. Who will tell?
I'm just mounting manually at boot before the internal sdcard script runs. Working great! Only issue is storage crashes in settings. Must be an ics issue.
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First post updated, all is done through CWM now. Safer way of doing things ...
Besides settings crashing, new version works as should on ics. Thanks!
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Just to ask, does this work for the 8gb model too?
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Just to ask, does this work for the 8gb model too?
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I dont know for sure as mine is the 16GB model, but if its Iconia A500 or Packardbell G100W, it should work without a glitch. I would say, test it out and if it does Ill add 8GB to the thread title.
I have an 8GB A500 that is running Thor ROM vs12 and when I tried flashing the zip file it aborted the installation. Do you know if I needed to wipe the system before installing?
todds67 said:
I have an 8GB A500 that is running Thor ROM vs12 and when I tried flashing the zip file it aborted the installation. Do you know if I needed to wipe the system before installing?
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Thats odd. An abort during flash sounds like your recovery is not able to execute the commands during flash. You could have a number of problems there. What recovery version are you using (here it's thor v1.6), also is the downloaded zip in a good condition?
Hi guys,
I have an issue with memory space on SD.
When I check usage in ES explorer or in android I can see that only 1.95GB is free and 10.97 is used. But when I check usage of /sdcard it is 5.22GB
Where did the rest of GBs disappeared? I tried to find hidden files but there is nothing significant.
How can I found what is using the rest of my memory? How to clean it? I have tried with some cleaning apps
but with no success.
/sdcard is only the storage you see if you didn't root. Android has other files and folders that's not apart of sdcard.
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Rajnus said:
Hi guys,
I have an issue with memory space on SD.
When I check usage in ES explorer or in android I can see that only 1.95GB is free and 10.97 is used. But when I check usage of /sdcard it is 5.22GB
Where did the rest of GBs disappeared? I tried to find hidden files but there is nothing significant.
How can I found what is using the rest of my memory? How to clean it? I have tried with some cleaning apps
but with no success.
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Hi
The 8GB or 16GB that come with the device are just the total.
To these we must subtract that used by the operating system.
In a nexus of 16G, only 11G is available to the user, the rest uses Android for your stuff.
I hope I have helped you and excuse my English, Google translate helps me.
Saludos!
This is why you don't buy the 8GB but also why you should invest on 16GB, they're trying to promote cloud computing.
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Try to read my post one more time.
I have 16GB nexus. Around 11GB is available for storage. I have files in total around 5GB but system shows only 1.9GB free. What is using the rest of the storage?
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Try to read my post one more time.
I have 16GB nexus. Around 11GB is available for storage. I have files in total around 5GB but system shows only 1.9GB free. What is using the rest of the storage?
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Try flashing back to stock and see what happens. Backup all data of course.
tykate said:
Try flashing back to stock and see what happens. Backup all data of course.
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How is this going to help me? I know I can format SD but I am trying to find out what is occupying memory.
console -> ./Android 2506248 KB -> 2566397952 Bytes -> 2.39GB
ES exp ->Android 1.19GB -> 1275463754 Bytes -> diff=1290934198 Bytes=1.2GB
It seems that amount of memory is some how doubled????
Am I seeing this wrong or?
Rajnus said:
How is this going to help me?
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It'll help by erasing EVERYTHING on your phone so the usage will be quite reasonable.
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It'll help by erasing EVERYTHING on your phone so the usage will be quite reasonable.
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Why to erase or change ROM? It is enough to format sdcard... but I want to know the reason...
I am having the exact same issue.
I have the 16GB variant, and after a clean Google stock rom flash, it sees only 5,27GB, just like being an 8GB variant.
How is this possible?
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I am having the exact same issue.
I have the 16GB variant, and after a clean Google stock rom flash, it sees only 5,27GB, just like being an 8GB variant.
How is this possible?
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bah, I have reading yesterday and today a lot about this but I cannot find a problem. Some people also have this issue.
1. /sdcard/ (along with /root/ directory and other system-level directory)
2. /storage/emulated/0/
3. /storage/emulated/legacy/
4. /storage/sdcard0/
All of those folders have same memory usage and amount of files 3.38GB but yet 8.96GB is being used, and only 3.96Gb free out of 12.93GB.
What is using 5GB of space I do not know....
EDIT:
When I check properties of a Andorid folder:
1.7GB 1826870517
2811 Files 580 Folders
When I check in console:
3584128kB->3.41GB
3392 Files
When I went on file level...
17952kB->17.53 MB
4249006B->4.05 MB
4934876B->4.70 MB
So directory usage is double then file usage.... how is that?
Hello Rajnus,
Since it seemed that we were the ONLY ones having this issue with our device, and no solution could be seen @ the end of the tunnel, I have sent my LG N4 to LG for service.
The verdict was that the memory chip on the main PCB was faulty, and they replaced it under warranty. I sent it to LG in the morning, and received it the same day in the afternoon.
Phone works flawlessly now, I suggest you take this step.
All the best!
Txn for the info.
Did you got a new phone or just new memory?
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Nope, unfortunately I did not get a new phone, they just replaced the main PCB, which, of course, affected the device IMEI as well.
Well, I will return to stock ROM and return it to the shop. There is big chance to get a new one because in Austria they do not bother to repair phones...
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I have wiped whole memory and it seems fine now. Maybe it was problem in ROM or something....but I will keep my eye on it
dragunov said:
I am having the exact same issue.
I have the 16GB variant, and after a clean Google stock rom flash, it sees only 5,27GB, just like being an 8GB variant.
How is this possible?
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Your issue is described below and was not faulty hardware:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2033692
The op could be running into the same thing, if I understand the problem correctly, or there are cwm backups taking up additional space.
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I already tried the described methods the night before taking it to LG without results.
I even installed AParted to check overall available space, and it too showed ~5,9GB.
I suppose that you have root and custom recovery. Did u check how much space takes all of the backups? info about it is no avaible from android. Just check in recovery, If u use CWM, check option "free unused backup data". Give me feadback if it works for you.
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/mnt/shell/emulated/clokworkmod/backup # du -d 1
4659840 ./2013-09-18.06.06.04
4786000 ./2013-09-22.20.47.46
3698344 ./2013-09-25.14.01.48
13144192
Backups where not the problem. Memory usage was doubled in my case.
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