So searching thru the threads here it seems that the only way to utilize the EMMC memory on the Nook Color is to repartition the NC so that it all looks like internal phone memory? Is this correct or has there been a way found to utilize both the EMMC memory area AND the SD card?
Not sure what you are asking specifically but you do not have to repartition the Nook to look like internal phone memory to use the internal memory.
1. You can use the internal memory stock or rooted and you can repartition the internal memory so that the system and data allocations are to your preference. Typical partitioning is 1GB system and 5GB data. Plus whatever size SD card you insert.
2. You can install a custom ROM and the use of internal memory is the same as above with the standard being 1/5GB. Plus whatever size SD card you insert.
3. You can run a ROM on a bootable SD card where the ROM sees 1GB of the card as "internal memory" (also some space is used for the system and ROM) and the rest of the space on the card is seen as "SD card external memory." You can also mount the data partition of the Nook's internal memory so that the bootable ROM on the SD card also sees another data partition of 5GB. This is handy for items you want to appear to both the Nook's internal ROM and the ROM on the bootable SD card.
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I'm not clear what you are asking either. Before I repartitioned I had 1/5 and ran apps that I worried about load times on from eMMC. Stuff like flashlight or aldiko that I don't sweat that much I loaded from the SD card. Because I felt the 5 was going to waste I flipped it to 5/1. Now I ignore the loss of the 1, load everything I run to the 5 and have 32 to store books, movies, music or whatever on. (Technically I could make use of the 1 if I wanted to but it's not worth it to me.)
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I have 5 gig sitting there doing nothing in EMMC partition. I would like to be able to access this memory as well as the external 8 gig card i have in it. Right now the space on the EMMC partition never gets touched.
So will the nook start to auto install to the EMMC partition if I fill up the one gig partition? or is it just going to sit there unused.
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I have 5 gig sitting there doing nothing in EMMC partition. I would like to be able to access this memory as well as the external 8 gig card i have in it. Right now the space on the EMMC partition never gets touched.
So will the nook start to auto install to the EMMC partition if I fill up the one gig partition? or is it just going to sit there unused.
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Except if you changed something in settings, the original installation place is the EMMC.
In case you fill all this space there, then you will have to start installing apps to SD.
For me there is no reason to install directly to EMMC, except if some app only runs from there and therefore should be installed only there (like widgets).
after the install of CM 7.2 the auto setting places apps in the 1 gig partition and apps2sd moves them to the 8 gig external card. the 5 gig EMMC partition is completely untouched.
If I fill up the 1 gig partition will they move to the EMMC? if not it appears this space will be completely wasted. I would prefer to use it as that frees up space to put music/media files on the SDcard for road trips.
I only leave apps on the internal memory I want to run faster. I noticed with my phone that once that spot start to fill up the phone runs noticeably slower.
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So will the nook start to auto install to the EMMC partition if I fill up the one gig partition? or is it just going to sit there unused.
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No and Yes. Unless you go to Settings>Cyanogemod settings>Application> check Use internal storage
Then you will lose the SD card and gain the 5G. You can easily go back by unchecking it again whenever you want to. (That's why I did what I did with the partition swappy stuff.)
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I have 5 gig sitting there doing nothing in EMMC partition. I would like to be able to access this memory as well as the external 8 gig card i have in it. Right now the space on the EMMC partition never gets touched.
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It's there, you can put anything you want in it, the question is whether the apps you use can find the files you've stashed there. Some apps can, some can't.
BeyondPod (RSS feeds) lets you put its storage anywhere you want, so I moved that and my music into /emmc, and Music found the mp3s without me having to tell it anything. I don't buy many mp3s from Amazon, so I don't know how that interacts.
Also, I swap to /emmc, which is still an experiment in progress.
So will the nook start to auto install to the EMMC partition if I fill up the one gig partition? or is it just going to sit there unused.
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No, it won't do it automatically unless you always use it, like another poster suggested.
To further clarify, once the system partition is full that's it, the only thing else it does is tell you it's full. No rolling over, no starting to install elsewhere.
All Settings>Cyanogemod settings>Application> check Use internal storage does is trick the NC into thinking the internal memory is an SD card. When you have that checked and are loading all your apps to the External memory by choosing Settings>Cyanogemod settings>Application>Install location>External you are loading them to the 5G.
The bad part about it is that you can only use one or the other, if you load a bunch of stuff to the 5G and then switch to the SD card, (uncheck the Use internal storage box), you won't be able to count on the stuff on the 5G to load properly. Same with if you load a bunch of stuff on the SD and change to the 5G.
*I've* chosen to repartition the system partition to 5G and the eMMC to 1G. 5G is so much more that I should ever need for apps it's ridiculous and because I have a 32G SD card I can just forget about the 1G.
I suppose I should repartition but I don't want to have to wipe and reinstall everything.
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I suppose I should repartition but I don't want to have to wipe and reinstall everything.
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I waited till I had a genuine Sandisk class 4 16G SD. I know you shouldn't have to worry if you aren't booting from it but what the heck.
Oh and Titanium Backup is your friend. It'll even get your wallpaper back. The only thing I had to manually reload was the custom boot animation.
i tried titanium with my phone and it failed horribly haha. but I will try it again. i would like to have access to that space. also need to try loading my mp3s to it via the PC. that may work as well.
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i tried titanium with my phone and it failed horribly haha. but I will try it again. i would like to have access to that space. also need to try loading my mp3s to it via the PC. that may work as well.
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Download the latest Titanium and backup. If possible save the *.apk file to your SD Card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371 Choose the "c" repartition option. After completing the repartition and format you will have a virgin install of whatever ROM you are running. Either install Titanium from the apk or download it again and do a restore, (note the amount of memory you have at the bottom). If I remember right you have to click install and done for every third party app you have but what the heck, it's better than setting there watching pixels burn. Once the restore is done look at the memory stats in Titanium again and note what memory got used. Reboot one last time and you are done.
As for the mp3's, I do all that kind of stuff through Samba. The only time I plug a wire into the NC is to charge it. I guess you could take the SD card out to do that but I've been given to understand we want to avoid taking that in and out where ever possible as well.
Another alternative to above Titanium BU tip is to sync your BU to Dropbox, zip it and after reinstall of ROM upload your zipped BU file into the SD folder Titanium makes when first installed, unzip, overwrite, and everything's there. I've never had trouble with this method. And it's fast...
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i am just giving the same information here for my fellow g3 mates!!
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here the original thread!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742351
Nows here what we are here for!!! Clear your doubts guys!!!
Ok, so here's the deal, in a very longwinded way that should hopefully explain everything and answer ALL questions.
You have an SD card in your phone and, a bit like normal PC Hard Drives, you can "partition" them (split them into two or more sections of different filesystems). Normally, your SD card is just one big FAT32 partition, which is fine for storing your pics, messages, emails, etc.
Now, other then your Phone's SD card, your phone will have its own internal flash memory (or "NAND") storage. Tradditionally with Android, you could only install applications to this NAND storage, you cannot install them onto your SD card. So if you have an empty 32GB SD card, but only 5Mb of internal phone storage, you still wont be able to install many apps, if any at all.
This was done to protect the apps from things like piracy - it's not easy to access the location where apps are installed on your phone's internal storage (normally impossible without root), so you can't for example buy an app, copy it, refund it, then install it again.
Still, this is no good for those of us who like to install lots and lots of apps, legitimately, as we run out of internal storage very quickly.
So Google came up with a way to install apps to the SD card. A folder is created called something like .android_secure and this stores (I believe) encrypted versions of applications, but there's a few catches:
1) Apps aren't automatically stored here, you have to manually "move" them
2) Not all apps are capable of being moved, in fact most apps aren't, the developer needs to update their app and allow it. Some apps aren't and wont be updated and some developers may not want to allow it for whatever reason.
3) Not all app data is moved, most of it is but some data is left on your phone so many people still run out of internal storage quickly.
4) You can force ALL apps to be moved to this area by default, but it breaks incompatible ones - such as Widgets, which are unable to load due to the SD card not being "prepared".
So that's Froyo's version. Before Froyo existed, some very clever people came up with a thing called "Apps2SD". Remember I said that your SD card normally is one big FAT32 partition? Well, Apps2SD works by having your SD card patitioned into TWO filesystems. A normal FAT32 partition for your usual stuff and a secondary "EXT" partition. EXT is just a filesystem, like FAT32 or NTFS, but it's the filesystem used by Android internally. The SD card is normally FAT32 because it's a "universal" filesystem, that just about any machine will be able to read, whereas EXT filesystems are generally Linux only, but I digress.
EXT has several different versions. The most common one you'll see is ext3. The main difference between ext2 and ext3 is "journaling", which is just a fancy way of saying that should an operation (such as copying, writing or reading) be interrupted unexpectedly (say, by you turning your phone off), then no data should be lost or corrupted. You know how when you turn your phone on, it says "preparing SD card"? It takes a few minutes, but what it's actually doing is checking that the FAT32 partition hasn't been damaged, because FAT does NOT have journaling. If you used a computer back in the Windows 98 days, you may remember that lovely blue "Scandisk" screen that had to run every time you didn't shut your computer down correctly - that's the same thing. But then Windows 2000/XP came along with NTFS, which also has journaling, meaning you had less chance of loosing data. But I digress once more.
So you have your SD card partitioned into EXT and FAT32. Generally it doesn't matter if it's ext3 or ext4, but you don't get any real advantage with ext4 over ext3 in this instance. Apps2SD then runs a special script on your phone which "symbolically links" the folder from your phone's internal storage where your apps are normally stored, to the ext partition on your SD card. A symbolic link is a bit like a shortcut for folders, except it's transparent to the OS: In other words, Android doesn't know that when it's installing it's apps to the internal phone storage, it's actually being stored on the SD card. This effectively boosts your internal phone memory from the previous 5mb that you had in my example above, up to whatever size you made the ext partition on your SD card (often 512Mb or 1Gb, but it depends on how many apps you install).
Plus, because it's "journaled", it doesn't need to be "prepared", meaning it's ready to go as soon as the phone starts - so your widgets and apps work immediately (unlike "forced" Froyo Apps2SD, where widgets disappear).
The catch with Apps2SD is that whatever space the ext partition takes up is taken away from the SD card. So if you have a 4Gb card (with something like 3.5Gb of actual storage) and you make a 512Mb ext partition, your SD card will "shrink" to 3Gb. The space isn't actually lost, it's just being used by the ext partition. If you reformat your card, you'll get it back.
Finally, there's a difference between "Apps2SD" and "Apps2SD+". Remember I said that your apps are stored on a special folder inside your Phone's NAND storage? Well, that was a bit of a lie. It's actually stored in TWO places. There's a second area which is called the Davlik Cache. You don't really need to worry about what this is for (Hint: IT's to do with the Java runetime your phone uses to run apps), all you need to know is that apps use it to store data, which also eats up internal phone memory. Apps2SD+ moves davlik cache to the ext partition on your SD card as well, freeing up even more space. Some people believe that this may come at the cost of performance, as the internal NAND memory should be faster than your SD card (Which is why you also get people arguing over which "class" SD card is better for Apps2SD - the logic being that a faster SD card means less impact from this move), but the truth of the matter is that your applications will be running from your Phone's RAM anyway, so performance isn't really impacted at all. Since most apps are only a few hundred Kb's in size, or a couple of MB at the most, it's a non-issue.
Finally, any recent version of Apps2SD/Apps2SD+ should work with an SD card that is or isn't formatted with an ext partition. It'll check for this partition when your phone first boots and if it's not there, just use internal phone storage.
Having an ext partition WITHOUT Apps2SD+ shouldn't cause any issues, either, so you can format your SD card whenever you're ready.
So in summary:
Apps2SD "fakes" your phone's internal memory and puts it all on a hidden section of your SD card.
Apps2SD+ pushes even more content to the SD card, freeing up even more space on the phone itself.
"Froyo" Apps2SD has various limitations that "old" apps2SD does not, but is much easier to handle as it doesn't involve any kind of "partitioning".
I don't really claim to be an expert but I wrote this and nobody really chimed in to say anything was wrong, so hopefully it applies here.
I'll try to keep an eye on this thread in case anyone has questions.
I don't really claim to be an expert but I wrote this and nobody really chimed in to say anything was wrong, so hopefully it applies here.
I'll try to keep an eye on this thread in case anyone has questions.
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Thanks a lot buddy.. People may know all that but you have written in such a simple manner that even a small kid will understand..
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thanx soo muxh for this info...it's getting really confusing out there with everyone claiming this type is better than that blah blah blah etcetc....this is very helpful
thanks again
JohnstonF said:
thanx soo muxh for this info...it's getting really confusing out there with everyone claiming this type is better than that blah blah blah etcetc....this is very helpful
thanks again
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
Hi. Did my usual +3 hours googling but came empty handed.
Could size-agnostic CM7 SD installer script be modified so that /Data partition is set to 2Gb instead of 1Gb? I know that I can always do the "move to SD" routine but Android keeps bugging me that I`m out of space even when I have 170Mb free on /data. And also moving apps back and forth from internal to SD somehow wrecked my system process. As a result I now have constant rebooting of the launcher as my only Android experience. Uninstalling recent apps did not work. Neither did freeing up space on SD and denying root to all apps that previously asked for it.
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Hi. Did my usual +3 hours googling but came empty handed.
Could size-agnostic CM7 SD installer script be modified so that /Data partition is set to 2Gb instead of 1Gb? I know that I can always do the "move to SD" routine but Android keeps bugging me that I`m out of space even when I have 170Mb free on /data. And also moving apps back and forth from internal to SD somehow wrecked my system process. As a result I now have constant rebooting of the launcher as my only Android experience. Uninstalling recent apps did not work. Neither did freeing up space on SD and denying root to all apps that previously asked for it.
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If you are willing to start from scratch you can burn the image again to the SD, but don't put any zips in it. Boot and let the script create the new partitions. Then put the card back in the PC and use Mini-Tool Partition Manager to shrink partition 4 (sdcard) and grow partition 3 (data) That program will handle the ext partition (3) as long as there is no data written to it yet. You can get that program free on the internet. Do a Titianium backup of your apps and data and restore later.
Edit: Now after thinking about it, you may be able to doctor your existing card. Partition 4 is fat so you can shrink it with data in it. Take the space off the front. Then I think the program will let you grow partition 3 into the empty space even with data already in it. It is just trying to move it with data does the program balk. Windows does not know how to read ext. Of course if you are running linux, just use gparted to do everything.
Yes, you could do that or you could use a program like easeus partition manager and move the partitions around after the first boot of the card.
Edit (while typing): It looks like you might be talking about an internal installation in which case you don't need to use size agnostic SD installer. Just repartition the internal the way you want it (there are threads for this) then flash your CM7.
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Thanks for the idea of repartitioning prior to installing CM7. I`ll also try to repartition SD the way it is now- with data. I was concerned that /data partition is unmountable under Ubuntu when /boot and /system can be read without problems.
Hi again. I`ve managed to srink /sdcard partition under Windows and sort of grow /data partition under Ubuntu LiveCD (gparted froze right after doing its magic).
Boot loop on my Nook stopped as free space on /data increased from 175Mb to 1.2Gb. So I guess I wont be doing a fresh install at the moment.
Question is, exactly how much free space does CM7 need on /data partition? In a real world?
(at ~200Mb it starts bugging me about free space but overall Android stays stable)
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Question is, exactly how much free space does CM7 need on /data partition? In a real world?
(at ~200Mb it starts bugging me about free space but overall Android stays stable)
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Original Nook Color had 1GB for data. B&N upped it to 5GB on the new Nook Colors. I personally would make it 2GB unless you are going to be adding some really big apps.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Good night to all, well last night i install lates cm10 nightly (20130414) every thing good exept the storge problem but i found a way to use the 5 gb as storge i only use it for internet and games but when i want to download something it asks me for an sd card so i put in my 2gb sd card only for download and then i will transfer to the 5gb partition, but here comes the real problem:
When i insert my sd evertying is going well but after few moments my os put in the sd junk files that goes up to 5gb of space each, and my settings say i have in apps 42.70 gb of storge and 1.8gb free storge kind of wierd after that i cant write in it or copy from it and it becomes useless i dont know if i upgrade it wrong or if any parttition has some kind of virus(because the junk files looks like virus) in clockmod recovery i saw it has these options: formmat System, data, cache, sdcard, sd ext, wipe battery status and what most took my atention was wipe Dalvick cache does this has to do something please help me resolve this problem i know many are having this isisue too
irineo5 said:
Good night to all, well last night i install lates cm10 nightly (20130414) every thing good exept the storge problem but i found a way to use the 5 gb as storge i only use it for internet and games but when i want to download something it asks me for an sd card so i put in my 2gb sd card only for download and then i will transfer to the 5gb partition, but here comes the real problem:
When i insert my sd evertying is going well but after few moments my os put in the sd junk files that goes up to 5gb of space each, and my settings say i have in apps 42.70 gb of storge and 1.8gb free storge kind of wierd after that i cant write in it or copy from it and it becomes useless i dont know if i upgrade it wrong or if any parttition has some kind of virus(because the junk files looks like virus) in clockmod recovery i saw it has these options: formmat System, data, cache, sdcard, sd ext, wipe battery status and what most took my atention was wipe Dalvick cache does this has to do something please help me resolve this problem i know many are having this isisue too
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The reason I did not respond to this post is I don't understand what you are asking.
It is normal for the system to add a lot of folders to a new SD the first time it is inserted. But they are just empty folders and take no real space. How can there be 5GB files when you only installed a 2GB SD?
And the storage info in CM10 settings is misleading. The names for things are not consistent. The first internal storage is really /data and has nothing to do with your SD space or media space. And there cannot be 47GB of stuff there as /data is only 1GB in size. And the second internal storage is your 5GB internal media space.
And those wipe options in CWM do you no good. The only thing that might help is wipe dalvik when you flash a new ROM.
You do not have a virus, you just have things confused. Explain again what you want.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
leapinlar said:
The reason I did not respond to this post is I don't understand what you are asking.
It is normal for the system to add a lot of folders to a new SD the first time it is inserted. But they are just empty folders and take no real space. How can there be 5GB files when you only installed a 2GB SD?
And the storage info in CM10 settings is misleading. The names for things are not consistent. The first internal storage is really /data and has nothing to do with your SD space or media space. And there cannot be 47GB of stuff there as /data is only 1GB in size. And the second internal storage is your 5GB internal media space.
And those wipe options in CWM do you no good. The only thing that might help is wipe dalvik when you flash a new ROM.
You do not have a virus, you just have things confused. Explain again what you want.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Thats the problem i cant uderstand whats wrong The forum didnt let me upload pictures because im a new user but i took pictures of those facts, i saw some of youre posts and i was thinking in flshing muy nook with the p5p6p7p8. Zip and re-flash ThE cm10 may be it will work but you have another zip with p1, p4,p5, p6, p7,p8 what happens if i use that one will it help me in some way where can i send you pictures to you to see
irineo5 said:
Thats the problem i cant uderstand whats wrong The forum didnt let me upload pictures because im a new user but i took pictures of those facts, i saw some of youre posts and i was thinking in flshing muy nook with the p5p6p7p8. Zip and re-flash TVE cm10 may be it will work but you have another zip with p1, p4,p5, p6, p7,p8 what happens if i use that one will it help me in some way where can i send you pictures to you to see
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You just need to describe better what you are seeing. I don't think flashing a bunch of my zips are warranted until we know what is wrong.
Describe in words what the screens say. When you go to CM10 settings, and bring up storage, describe what you see completely.
When you look at your external sdcard with your file manager, what does it tell you?
I am just in the dark here by your current descriptions.
I guess you could upload pictures to mediafire and PM me the links.
If all of the issues you are seeing are with the SD, then try formatting it with SDFormatter that you can get free on the web. See, I don't even know what you are having issues with.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Well, two things are obvious from those pictures. First, your SD is horribly corrupted. You need to do a full format of the SD in your PC with SDFormatter to fix it.
Second, you have one of the newer Nook Colors and your /data partition is 5GB. That 5GB cannot be used for storing media files. Your internal media file space (emmc) is only 1GB (your picture cuts that part of the screen off).
If you want to have that 5GB /data partition reduced to 1GB so your internal media partition becomes 5GB, then go ahead and flash my 145678 repair zip followed by a reboot and flashing the 5678 format zip. All of your data including saved files, will be lost. Then reinstall CM10.
But flashing those zips will not fix your external SD. You must reformat it with SDFormatter. And it may just be a bad SD where data gets corrupted when it writes. What brand and class is it?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
leapinlar said:
You just need to describe better what you are seeing. I don't think flashing a bunch of my zips are warranted until we know what is wrong.
Describe in words what the screens say. When you go to CM10 settings, and bring up storage, describe what you see completely.
When you look at your external sdcard with your file manager, what does it tell you?
I am just in the dark here by your current descriptions.
I guess you could upload pictures to mediafire and PM me the links.
If all of the issues you are seeing are with the SD, then try formatting it with SDFormatter that you can get free on the web. See, I don't even know what you are having issues with.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Well, two things are obvious from those pictures. First, your SD is horribly corrupted. You need to do a full format of the SD in your PC with SDFormatter to fix it.
Second, you have one of the newer Nook Colors and your /data partition is 5GB. That 5GB cannot be used for storing media files. Your internal media file space (emmc) is only 1GB (your picture cuts that part of the screen off).
If you want to have that 5GB /data partition reduced to 1GB so your internal media partition becomes 5GB, then go ahead and flash my 145678 repair zip followed by a reboot and flashing the 5678 format zip. All of your data including saved files, will be lost. Then reinstall CM10.
But flashing those zips will not fix your external SD. You must reformat it with SDFormatter. And it may just be a bad SD where data gets corrupted when it writes. What brand and class is it?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Well I change my SD and all work fine I think it was corrupted after all thank you so much, about the storage fact I don't know ho is it but its installing the apps in the 5 GB partition and that's fine to me see it and tell e if its OK
mediafire.com/view/?f0fffo538c1j9pot here is the picture I put the link but you will have to copy past because xda sent let me put in links
irineo5 said:
Well I change my SD and all work fine I think it was corrupted after all thank you so much, about the storage fact I don't know ho is it but its installing the apps in the 5 GB partition and that's fine to me see it and tell e if its OK
mediafire.com/view/?f0fffo538c1j9pot here is the picture I put the link but you will have to copy past because xda sent let me put in links
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If you are fine with using the 5GB /data, just leave everything as it is.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
Sorry in advance if it's a big no no to reply in a late thread, but I seem to have the same problem..
I'm running the 20130621 nightly of 10.1 although it did this on the RC5) on my nook color and it seems that it's corrupting my SD card on it's own.
I've tested it out on my 8GB and 1GB SD cards and everything seems to work just fine, until I actually save something or if an app like Apollo tries to cache something to the SD card (album art always shows up half way, like the album art got torn in half) after it saves (sometimes successfully, kinda hit and miss) it will not let me write to it anymore, and I have to pull it out to run chkdsk just for it to do the same thing over (I've done a reformat too from both my computer and the nook itself and that gives the equivalent results of chkdsk, minus the retention of data)
when it goes through it's no write thing, the storage tab says that there's much more data on the card than there is capacity (for example 13GB data written on 8GB card)
What's odd is say, an app caches something it'll say that the app storage is 8GB+ over the capacity or if I save a screenshot it'll say that photos are over capacity.
I also cannot write to the 1GB partition, nor format it if that's not supposed to happen
I also didn't seem to have this problem with my brief use of CM7(.2 I think)