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Ok how much free space do you have?

I have yet to unlock the bootloader and have decided to see what happens first. But i did root my play.
But as per the title, how much space is to little.
So the space i'm referring to is the 400 mb of internal storage.
I have remove alot of apps and ringtones to free up space. Well i can't seem to get more than 60 mb of free space on the internal flash drive.
So my question for everyone is have you been able to free up more space? and if so how did you do it.
Oh yeah, i have also moved all my apps to the sd card, well all the apps that thr app lets me.

Search & read my friend, this topic has been run over more times than a flat cat.

For starters any apps or data you remove from /system/ will not effect your internal storage, because it is a diffrent partition to the /data/ partition, the latter being your internal storage, i have 300 apps on my fone and just under 100mb and we do not get 400mb of internal storage, that is just the total, after a clean install you get about 230-240mb
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[Q] CM9/CM7 Out of space, but computer showing 27GB available

Hello all,
I have CM9 nightly installed on a 32GB microSD and I have just run into a weird problem. I still have 27GB left open BUT when I try to download magazines and install apps, it's saying I'm out of room or running out of room. Anyone have any idea why that might be?
Is it possible it's installing things to the EMMC? If so, how do I change that?
Sorry if this a n00b question. Thanks in advance for your help.

mikelav456 said:
Hello all,
I have CM9 nightly installed on a 32GB microSD and I have just run into a weird problem. I still have 27GB left open BUT when I try to download magazines and install apps, it's saying I'm out of room or running out of room. Anyone have any idea why that might be?
Is it possible it's installing things to the EMMC? If so, how do I change that?
Sorry if this a n00b question. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Android has 3 major areas where stuff is stored. The system partition holds all the OS stuff plus has an area for system apps. The data partition is were downloaded apps get stored normally. The media or sdcard area is normally used for music, videos, pictures and also where some apps store any working data.
The system and data areas are of relatively fixed sizes even though they are all on the actual SD card. For your 32GB SD card it is probably "460M system, 975M data, rest is FAT for sdcard" from veryGreen post.
So your error message is being triggered probably because the 975M data partition is full. Typically this enough to hold about 150 - 200 apps depending on their size, but some games can take quite a lot.
You can check memory usage by going into settings and looking under apps.
What can you do about it? On an SD card install the simplest way is to use ANdroids capability to move apps from the standard data partition to the sdcard partition. Not all apps can be moved but many can and this will then free up space in your data partition.
Get the Apps2Sd app to help you manage this process.

I haven't run from a sdcard in quitevawhile, buy it sounds like the card didn't get repartitioned after making it into a bootable. After you burn an image to a card, you need to use an application like Easus, a disk partitioning tool (free for home use for windows, I believe) t repartition the card and make use if the remaining space.

mateorod said:
I haven't run from a sdcard in quitevawhile, buy it sounds like the card didn't get repartitioned after making it into a bootable. After you burn an image to a card, you need to use an application like Easus, a disk partitioning tool (free for home use for windows, I believe) t repartition the card and make use if the remaining space.
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I think the partitioning must have worked otherwise it wouldn't function at all.
You could change data partition size to give more space to the data partition if you are careful. I've done that on emmc prior to install. I've never tried it on an SD card after install and it's possible it might muck something else up. However, the basic point is that apps and related content go into data by default. The big part of the SD card left over from the initial install is intended for media.
Compare it to a phone. The data partition in the internal phone memory is fixed and can run out of space if lots of apps are installed. If you plug an SD expansion card into a phone it allows you to store lots music, video, etc but unless you move apps to the SD card then your original data space is unchanged. That's why app users can complain if a memory hungry app can't be moved to SD.

Maybe you can teach me something here. I am not sure I understand.
When I formatted an 8 gig card to run cm7.1, I was able to use it to boot but had the rest of memory unavailable for use. It wasn't until I redid the process and then reformatted the partitions to have the remaining space available. Only then was I able to use the remaining 6 gigabyte or whatever. I had the four partitions in both instances, and the card worked, it just wasn't available because all the space was allocated to the wrong partition. Which I rectified with Easus, I'm pretty sure.
What I guess I am saying, isbthat there are some tools that could be used, although I maybe wrong. It just seems counter-intuitive that the OP should have to use App2SD and otherworkarounds when theybhave 32 gigs to play with. I think Easus lets you define those partitions anyway you like, with the 29 gigs or so that is left once you allocate the system stuff.
Like I sad, I maybe just don't understand this very well, it is something I did when I was first learning about rooting, before I figured there was no real reason not to go internal.

mateorod said:
Maybe you can teach me something here. I am not sure I understand.
When I formatted an 8 gig card to run cm7.1, I was able to use it to boot but had the rest of memory unavailable for use. It wasn't until I redid the process and then reformatted the partitions to have the remaining space available. Only then was I able to use the remaining 6 gigabyte or whatever. I had the four partitions in both instances, and the card worked, it just wasn't available because all the space was allocated to the wrong partition. Which I rectified with Easus, I'm pretty sure.
What I guess I am saying, isbthat there are some tools that could be used, although I maybe wrong. It just seems counter-intuitive that the OP should have to use App2SD and otherworkarounds when theybhave 32 gigs to play with. I think Easus lets you define those partitions anyway you like, with the 29 gigs or so that is left once you allocate the system stuff.
Like I sad, I maybe just don't understand this very well, it is something I did when I was first learning about rooting, before I figured there was no real reason not to go internal.
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The various partitions have different purposes. It's not that they are unavailable for use. You want each area to have sufficient room for what you want but not necessarily too big because that then is wasted and is subtracting from the other areas.
First there is the boot partition containing the boot images. This can be small.
Next you have the system partition (~500MB) which can be fairly small because the OS does not take a lot of room and the system apps are relatively fixed in size and you don't need to add extra to that.
Next you have the data partition where downloaded apps and some of their associated data lives. You want this to be fairly big to accommodate a decent number of apps but it doesn't need to be huge. Apps vary in size from 100s of Kbytes up to say 20MB or more. So a 1GB data partition can typically hold about 200 apps.
On an SD card that then leaves the rest of space for a sdcard partition where media can be stored like video, pictures and music plus some apps will also require some working space on there.
So on an SD card install the main balance is between data and sdcard. If you were to make the data partition larger to accommodate more downloaded apps then you reduce the amount of space for music, video etc. But you do want enough space to hold a decent number of apps. The standard verygreen SD card installer sets the balance at ~1GB data and the rest sdcard for media. Now if you never wanted to put much media files on the SD card and you want to be able to download thousands of apps then that would be an argument for setting the balance the other way.
Now if you install to the internal memory the same scenario applies but you have an additional partition confusingly called emmc. Your boot, system and data areas are on the internal memory. The left over internal area is the emmc partition and the sd card is now normally set up to be a single sdcard partition.
Both the emmc and the sd card are typically used to hold media files.
The size of the data and emmc partition in the internal memory can be varied before you do the install by some partitoning zip tools and there is a thread dedicated to that.
By default as supplied new Nooks have a 5GB internal data partition and a 1GB emmc. Many people think that is not a great choice as it is really difficult to run out of app space with 5GB and it means there is only 1GB internal space for media and the unused data space is wasted. By repartitoning to say 2GB data and 4GB emmc then you get plenty of space for apps and release space for more media.
You are right that using something like Apps2Sd would seem unnecessary when you have lots of free space. It is effectively a work-around to let you use some of the sdcard as extra data area if you run out of the data area that has been allocated. Actually on an SD card install there is not much of a downside in that moving an app from data to sdcard as it is still all on the same SD card. For an internal memory install it is nice to have a big enough data partiton to make moving apps to the SD card unnecessary.

[Q] Nook Color only shows 800mb of free space in Apps

I have a Nook Color that was deregistered. I never registered it and followed these instructions to boot to CWM, and I then installed the latest Encore CM9 and the CM9 GApps.
When I go into Apps, it shows that there's only around 700mb free.
I installed DiskUsage and it shows /mnt/emmc, /mnt/sdcard, /rom, and [Root required]. /mnt/emmc I'm guessing is the NC's internal memory - it's 5.1gb and full of B&N stuff, Good Housekeeping, etc. I tested by using a manga reader application to see where it downloads by default, and sure enough it saved to the SD card by default.
I'm guessing the rooting directions excluded something or I may have a different version of a NC than I thought. Is there any proper set of instructions I should follow? I just burned the 2gb image to a 2gb microSD card from here, but would that be the root cause of the issue - use a 2gb microSD, only have 2gb available? In any case, I've got that image burned and CWM set up per the same thread's instructions. Do I need to do anything else? Is there some kind of partition tool I have to use, kind of like diskpart on a Windows boot CD to delete and mount partitions on the NC before continuing?

You have everything right. With the older Nook Colors they came with 1000MB set aside for app storage and 5000MB for media storage. Usually the 1000 MB is plenty for apps. You have used about 300MB so far storing installed apps and settings for your system apps leaving you with 700MB left. That is a lot. Apps do not take much room. Media is where you eat up storage, pictures, movies, books, etc.
The CWM card you used does not effect your nook storage.
You can repartition if you want, but your setup works well for most people.

leapinlar said:
You have everything right. With the older Nook Colors they came with 1000MB set aside for app storage and 5000MB for media storage. Usually the 1000 MB is plenty for apps. You have used about 300MB so far storing installed apps and settings for your system apps leaving you with 700MB left. That is a lot. Apps do not take much room. Media is where you eat up storage, pictures, movies, books, etc.
The CWM card you used does not effect your nook storage.
You can repartition if you want, but your setup works well for most people.
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How hard is it to repartition? I've got around 2gb of manga I copied off my former Touchpad that I was hoping to copy over. I know, the easy answer would be to just buy a bigger microSD card but I wanted to see what I can get out of the Nook itself first.

MJPByron said:
How hard is it to repartition? I've got around 2gb of manga I copied off my former Touchpad that I was hoping to copy over. I know, the easy answer would be to just buy a bigger microSD card but I wanted to see what I can get out of the Nook itself first.
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It is not really hard to repartition. There is a thread here that tells you how to do it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14101197
As I said earlier, the original nooks had 1GB for app storage (/data) and 5GB for media (emmc). The newer nooks came with 5GB for apps and 1GB for media. The author of the above thread offers zips to repartition to either scheme and even included a 2GB app/4GB media version.
I don't know what manga is, is it media or apps? You already have the optimum setup for media. A bigger SD is generally used for more media storage. I really think you might not understand how each partition is used. The app partition (/data) only stores the app program itself and some minor settings files. All of the data that a program uses like books, document files, etc. or downloaded things like music, etc are stored on media partitions like the 5GB media partition (emmc) or sdcard. So I'm not sure you need to change anything. You only want to change if you want more room to store many very large programs (not the files they use).

leapinlar said:
It is not really hard to repartition. There is a thread here that tells you how to do it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14101197
As I said earlier, the original nooks had 1GB for app storage (/data) and 5GB for media (emmc). The newer nooks came with 5GB for apps and 1GB for media. The author of the above thread offers zips to repartition to either scheme and even included a 2GB app/4GB media version.
I don't know what manga is, is it media or apps? You already have the optimum setup for media. A bigger SD is generally used for more media storage. I really think you might not understand how each partition is used. The app partition (/data) only stores the app program itself and some minor settings files. All of the data that a program uses like books, document files, etc. or downloaded things like music, etc are stored on media partitions like the 5GB media partition (emmc) or sdcard. So I'm not sure you need to change anything. You only want to change if you want more room to store many very large programs (not the files they use).
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Manga's Japanese comics, so in this case media.
In the repartition thread, would I be using the 1.1 "old" partition zip? And am I just booting to a CWM SD card and running the zip after backing up the device? Or is there a different set of steps since it's a rooted device already?
I may give it the test of time and see if I do need to futz with the partition table after all, but if I do I'd like to have the basics ready to go.

MJPByron said:
Manga's Japanese comics, so in this case media.
In the repartition thread, would I be using the 1.1 "old" partition zip? And am I just booting to a CWM SD card and running the zip after backing up the device? Or is there a different set of steps since it's a rooted device already?
I may give it the test of time and see if I do need to futz with the partition table after all, but if I do I'd like to have the basics ready to go.
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From what you said in your first post you already have the old partition scheme. No need to change anything. Anything you do will give you less media storage space which is what you need for your comix.
You do not need to be rooted. All you need is the ability to boot to a CWM card and backup and flash things.

Storage Space Running Out Warning

I am getting this message and it takes me to my storage via Settings. The main culprits appear to be Apps (consuming 3.57 GB) and Miscellaneous ( consuming 9.16 GB). Have not encountered this before so wondering what is recommended to do next to resolve this (besides just deleting apps). I have a SD card a LOT of unused space (about 60 GB).

The user usable storage space of the internal memory is 9 GB on the S4 16 GB version.
So I assume you have a 32 GB version?
Otherwise what you're saying - about miscellaneous using 9 GB and data 3 GB - doesn't make sense.
My idea would be to wipe the internal storage.

The device memory shows 16 GB. I installed a card which is what I was referring to with the additional storage. How do you wipe the internal storage and won't that negatively impact other things?

wedmiston said:
The device memory shows 16 GB. I installed a card which is what I was referring to with the additional storage. How do you wipe the internal storage and won't that negatively impact other things?
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How you wipe it depends on the recovery you're using.
Some apps store data on the internal memory, so that will get wiped, and everything on the internal memory with it.
ROM and user installed apps are stored on a different partition, so they should be safe.

So based on what you said, I'm not feeling comfortable the wiping the internal memory is such a good idea. Is there a more strategic, selective way to go about this rather than a broad-brush wipe and risk losing stuff or functions?
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How you wipe it depends on the recovery you're using.
Some apps store data on the internal memory, so that will get wiped, and everything on the internal memory with it.
ROM and user installed apps are stored on a different partition, so they should be safe.
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I just offered you an easy way.
The alternative is to go through each folder, see what it contains and delete unnecessary stuff.

You could always try SDMaid available on the play store
Edit....you *are* rooted right?
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg

Samsung J3 (2016) - internal memory almost full - who's using it?

I've got an almost fresh and empty J3 (2016) with stock Android 5.1.1
One of my friends has been complaining about low internal memory warnings.
So I installed TWRP and got it rooted.
It shows the following:
System memory - 7,02 GB
Used space - 664 MB
Available space - 310 MB
And when I do a TWRP backup, it says - ok, system partition is approx 1.4 GB, data 800 MB. In total, full system backup is slightly more than 2 GB.
Where did the rest 6 GB of internal memory go?
Mind you, there is *no* pictures, no video, no apps, nothing.
Wiped cache/dalvik.
But 5 or 6 gigs are still missing. Whats wrong with this picture?
Maybe there's a hidden partition? Can you give me a hint how to visualize ALL internal memory, all available partitions? And possibly kill and resize the useless ones.
I'd greatly appreciate it!

MiMuerto said:
I've got an almost fresh and empty J3 (2016) with stock Android 5.1.1
One of my friends has been complaining about low internal memory warnings.
So I installed TWRP and got it rooted.
It shows the following:
System memory - 7,02 GB
Used space - 664 MB
Available space - 310 MB
And when I do a TWRP backup, it says - ok, system partition is approx 1.4 GB, data 800 MB. In total, full system backup is slightly more than 2 GB.
Where did the rest 6 GB of internal memory go?
Mind you, there is *no* pictures, no video, no apps, nothing.
Wiped cache/dalvik.
But 5 or 6 gigs are still missing. Whats wrong with this picture?
Maybe there's a hidden partition? Can you give me a hint how to visualize ALL internal memory, all available partitions? And possibly kill and resize the useless ones.
I'd greatly appreciate it!
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friend, delete all the parts by twrp and install the stock by odin again that solves