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[Q] HTC HD2 with WP7 SD card storage issue

I have a HTC HD2 which dual boots into WP7 and Android. I have a 4GB SD card which is divided equally for both OS. My problem is that in the "about" Settings of WP7 I see the total storage as 1.99 GB & Available Storage as 580.23 MB; but in the Zune Software I see that there is not enough space left for adding anything after I added 52 songs (about 300 MB; also the 580 MB left earlier was AFTER this song addition). I see the following messages on the Zune Phone screen.[See screenshots]
Can somebody help me with resolving this? Is there any way to find out what part is taking up what space on the phone?

There's a setting in the zune software about how much space to dedicate to the storage of files on the phone. You need to change how much space is set aside. Not sure exactly where in zune it is without looking myself, but you should be able to find it in settings.
Another thing you can do for more storage is click the referral link in my signature below to setup a free dropbox account if you don't already have one. You will start out with 2.25gb of online storage, and then there's apps for both wp7 and android that can read that storage and stream music from it. It also makes it convenient to transfer files to other computers and your phone, or to send large files to other people easily. If you use my referral, we both will get an extra 250mb of free storage (which is why I'm pushing it).

5GB extra Dropbox storage

For those who use Dropbox this might be of interest; there's a new Android beta at http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=53013&replies=742
Quote:
"Hi everyone!
Even though the holidays have passed, we're really stoked to give you guys one more present -- a new experimental release! Under the wrapping you'll find a bunch of new toys, including a brand new Camera Upload feature. Here are the release notes:
• Automatically uploads photos and videos in the background using Wi-Fi or data plan
• 500MB of free space on first photo uploaded automatically
• Upload files of any size (no more 180 MB limit!)
• Support for resuming file uploads when there are network issues
• Various performance improvements & bug fixes
During this beta period, we are also offering additional free space to test automatic uploading of photos and videos. For every 500MB of photos and videos automatically uploaded, you'll receive another 500MB space bonus, up to 5GB total (including the initial 500MB space).
[Update: this space is not separate from 5GB given for uploading on our desktop clients. Uploading from either desktop clients or Android app will count towards the same 5GB free space.]"
Now, if you have not taken 4.5GB worth of pictures and videos the easiest way of getting that full bonus is... well, you just slap all sorts of smallish music videos, all those dirty hentai pictures you undoubtedly have on your PCs and so on on the sdcard/DCIM or sdcard/DCIM/Camera on your device and let Dropbox sync those. Easy 5GB.
Just don't bother with files over 500MB as they seem to only count towards 500MB uploaded once, ie. if you upload a 1.5GB file it'll still only count as 500MB uploaded.
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As for those who do not use Dropbox: just ignore this thread instead of starting some petty and childish argument how it sucks or how your favorite service is sooo much better.

Nice one! So....it applies if you use the camera upload feature, right?
Going to take some pictures then
https://www.dropbox.com/help/287

[Q] Cloud storage?

Since we are going to be limited on the amount of internal space I'm curious... what type of cloud storage do you use and why?
Personally I have a box.com account because I was able to get it when it they were offering 50g free for signing up. But I know 50g won't last forever so...
What do you recommend?

Dropbox mostly. I like how well it integrates into Windows and how easy it is to share files. And so far the 7GB I have has been enough.
Might try using Google Drive a bit more.

Stared to use Google drive lately and does the trick
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I think my 30GB dropbox will do me nicely. Also had a box acc. with 50GB, but didnt like their 100mb upload limit.

Between Dropbox and Drive I've got 10 GB of cloud storage, free. You can up Drive storage to 25 GB for $2.49 a month.

I've got 25GB on Skydrive, 3.6GB on Dropbox and not even touched Google Drive barely. I just spread things around between them, good to have the choice.

Main one is dropbox just so easy to use though the others pretty much do things the same way now. Tend to also use it to transfer small files to my phone/tab.
Google drive I mainly use for syncing backups from Titanium backup, don't like the way you can't just download a file somewhere sensible on android without hunting through folders for where it put it.
Sugar sync mainly on PC it syncs a few specific folders for backup, photos standalone apps I never forget where I got them from etc.
Box have an account not really used it for anything.
Sky drive not really used yet
Asus sync, have the old unlimited storage plan £20ish a year thats no longer available to new customers. It has backup of most of my PC, has a stupidly slow upload speed been backing up my computer for over a year.
No need to restrict yourself to one.
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Big_Den said:
I think my 30GB dropbox will do me nicely. Also had a box acc. with 50GB, but didnt like their 100mb upload limit.
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Do they still limit uploads to 100 megs?
DagsJT said:
I've got 25GB on Skydrive, 3.6GB on Dropbox and not even touched Google Drive barely. I just spread things around between them, good to have the choice.
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I thought I was supposed to have 25 gigs also. I sighned up b4 they announced they were lowering the limit to 7 gigs. But this morning I got a notice that I'm nearing my 7 gig limit!

I use them all, and none of them work worth a **** for streaming videos.
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I downloaded a trial of Just Cloud. A pop up came when the trial was over. I followed the link to an offer for 50% off. I decided against continuing when they offered 70% off and I jumped 250 GB of storage for $27 a year. The only down side if the app won't work for my Nexus, just my phone.
I have Box, SugarSync, Drive and Drop box. I need to pare this down a bit I think

I use MegaCloud. A free account gives you 8GB for files, and 8GB for backup. It's easy to earn more free GB's too, and they have a free app in the Play Store to easily transfer your stuff back and forth to the N7. If you need more storage, they also have paid accounts.

SpiderOak - free and zero knowledge end to end encryption.

I suggest anyone to get the Pogoplug from walmart for $50 its an in house cloud device just hook up external HDD whatever size and it even has a slot for SD cards on the side. Then you can read anything off it from all devices you want to reach it. Its basically a cloud storage that's in house on your hard drive or SD card. check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzxKko1bzJw

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I suggest anyone to get the Pogoplug from walmart for $50 its an in house cloud device just hook up external HDD whatever size and it even has a slot for SD cards on the side. Then you can read anything off it from all devices you want to reach it. Its basically a cloud storage that's in house on your hard drive or SD card. check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzxKko1bzJw
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That's a good option for anyone without NAS
http://www.plugcomputer.org/ lists other home plug cloud options

I use:
Google drive mostly,
Sugar sync
Drop box
And sky drive
I Hare 16 Google accounts, so I get 80gb of storage on Google drive, plus 25gb on sky drive, 5gb on drop box, and another 7gb on sugar sync
I still haven't used up even half of all the space
Corey
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I got Box, SkyDrive, Dropbox, and Drive.
and i access all of them conveniently with ES File Explorer. full copy paste download options, except, of course, Box got 100mb filesize limit. silly Box.
i use GDrive as pictures as they have unlimited pic and video storage and my RAZR does all the shooting. everything with camera i upload using desktop Picasa. unlimited. storage.
sure it has some 5Gb of misc storage too or something.
DropBox is nice for quick document multi-location work as it syncs best between desktop and phone. but 3.75Gb only (click the link on my sig! ) also use Public folder for sharing public pics for forums n whatnot... and pretty much sharing public stuff.
SkyDrive i got 25Gb and that's where i store most of my office docs and misc files.
Box i got 50Gb but with the filesize limit i use it only for Titanium Backup and a couple Android stuff (fastboot and ROM and stuff). i use GSplitter to split/unify the files.
yeahmon said:
I use them all, and none of them work worth a **** for streaming videos.
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Dropbox + ES File Explorer + MX Player. Streamed xvid avi just fine for me. need to try SkyDrive i suppose...
edit: just tried Skydrive. it doesn't support AVI. but Box.net works just fine. And Drive too. maybe ill put my movies in Drive.... hmmm....
edit: spoke too soon. Box uploaded and stream just fine. But Drive won't stream. it uploads and it looks like its playing, but i only got black screen. oh well, i can always go to G+ app and open my videos there.

[Q] Best Place to Upload Large Files for Download

I have some TiVo shows that I want to watch. Currently, I am guessing I need to put them in the DropBox until the OTG Cable comes in (going into the hospital for a few days this week and I don't know if I am going to need to go to a rehab facility before coming home.
Is DropBox the best and / or Browser for SkyDrive also?
My Nexus 7 is not rooted
Thank you!

Sign up for the free Google Drive and put it on your computer and N7. Free 5Gb storage and native app for your N7. Dropbox would work, too. Put your shows in the Google Drive folder on the computer and sync or access them from the N7.

most cloud storage has individual file size limits...i can't remember what they all are, but i do remember that Sugar Sync has NO file size limits
...edit...this page shows file size limits
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/04/cloud-storage-a-pricing-and-feature-guide-for-consumers/

Is there a size limit per file that I can back up to MiMedia?
"If you have a Java compatible browser, you can upload files as large as 3 GB in size.
If you are using a Flash compatible browser, you can upload files up to 1 GB in size."

Really annoyed with HUGE game file downloads and low storage

I have a 16gb Samsung Ativ S.
Like most people I was curious about the newly launched Modern Combat game. It is over 1gig to download but that is fine, I had over 2gigs of free storage space. Except I could not download it as I got a low storage error. No problem I say, I will just delete some games and reinstall them after I tried the trial.
So I delete a game. Not enough. I delete another. Still not enough. Then I delete the largest sized game I have: Asphalt 7. Still not enough. Now I am getting angry because I have to start sacrificing my game progress and saves by deleting games just to try a flipping new game. Which do I delete? Which do I keep? Decisions decisions. I downloaded way too much. I then didn't want to delete anymore games so I had to start deleting apps. Here maps with downloaded map. Audiocloud app and saved songs. In the end when I had 5.11 gigs of free storage would it allow me to download and install the Modern Combat game. When it did install I checked phone storage and it said I had 2.45gigs left. So the 1gig download takes up 2.66 gigs of storage space and yet I had to have over 5gigs free to download? What the hec!!!
Some points...
I know games need additional space to unpack its compressed file but needing over 2gigs of additional space is just wrong.
I don't know who to blame.. the developers for making such games with HUGE storage requirements or blame Microsoft for low storage phones and storage allocation system.
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against the game. It looks and seems great and of course I would want plenty of games like this but if you are telling me I need to delete apps to gain over 5gigs of storage to install a 2.66 gig game, that is not on. God forbid I want to install and buy Modern Combat, Batman, Asphalt 7 and Real Football - they would probably be the only games I could fit in my phone (excluding apps). Also good luck if you have an 8gig phone.
Also the famous 'Other Storage' fiasco doesn't help where it is 6gigs on my phone. What the hec!!! I am being polite
I really think all phones should have minimum 32gig storage if this is the way games are headed. If only we could install games and apps to microSD - it would solve all problems. I am not a big music hoarder or photo hoarder as most my photos are on the cloud so I have a 16gig microSD card in my phone with a lot of valuable user space that I cant have apps on. What use is that Microsoft? Microsoft is pushing/suggesting we store photos/music and video on the cloud (Skydrive), then what is the point of having external microSD storage supporting media files only? Give us options Microsoft.
Anyway, rant over. I will go back to playing Modern Combat trial, deleting it and reinstalling my games back and playing them from the very beginning. Again! I cant buy the game because that means I cant play my other games because they would have to be deleted. £5.49 sale lost. Actually £10.98 sale lost because I want Batman game too!
What joy!

You need approximately 2.5 times the size of the file you download, because during install, you have the downloaded copy of the installation zip, and the decompressed copy, both existing at the same time. Considering the thing you download from the marketplace is somewhat compressed, you need much more space than what you download.
After full decompression, the compressed zip is deleted. Keep in mind that the size on the marketplace is the size of the download which does not always match the actual size of the game.

Thanks I am aware that the size quoted in marketplace is the size of the compressed file. I think Microsoft should make it mandatory to include the required space to download the file also. Eg over 5gigs for Modern Combat. This way we can make an informed decision of what we delete if any if we choose to download it.

I do not believe they measure the space as a requirement. They do, however, have issues if the game is too big for devices that should support the game as far as RAM and CPU are concerned.

One trick you could try though is to download the Game's XAP from the Online Marketplace at www.windowsphone.com. You then copy the downloaded file over to the SD card. It takes up to 10 minutes before the Store on the phone discovers the XAP-file. You can then choose to install the downloaded XAP from the SD card to internal memory. This should help you reduce the space requirement during installation by at least the amount the downloaded XAP file occupys.
For a better manual on how to install downloaded XAPs you'll have to do a Google search. I have a Lumia 920 which doesn't have a SD card slot and had to type this up from memory.
Hope it helps.

Yea, Download it from the Windows Phone store website, you wont get the error of lack of space. If you are really low on space, when it is downloading it to your phone, it will give you the error.
If your having problems with a large "other" folder, Download the "Shrink Storage" app from the market place. It really does work. Took my HTC 8X from having a 6gb down to a 2.54gb "other" folder. I use it time to time when my "other" folder starts to get large, and it does shrink it....Till MS fixes the problem.