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Fresh 2.0d and apps 2 sd.. Internal space decrease

ok so i did the command in the shell and i got /system/sd/apps which is good.
However everytime i install a app my internal memory decreases... My exact process is Wipe Factory wipe cache wipe ext partion... Then i create partion and convert 2 to 3.. I then flash 2.0d ..install a app ..internal memory decreases....WTF!

You shouldn't have converted the ext2 partition to ext3, as ext3 is a journaling FS.
Anyway, the internal storage is still used for /data/dalvik-cache, /data/data, and others. Only /data/app and /data/app-private are moved onto the SD card. It's normal for internal storage to go down after installing apps with Apps2SD.

i just installed sprint nav and went from 101mb to 93...thats right? Avaliabe space doesnt decrease at all!!
And i read on geekfor.me that your suppose to convert 2 to 3

I had to flash darktremors app2sd 2.5 for mine to work properly

Danokan said:
I had to flash darktremors app2sd 2.5 for mine to work properly
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+1 Danokan
also Mickdubs, .... ext 3 is more stable than ext 2 (less probability of lose of data) so you actually did do the right thing by converting it

is there any where in the process were im going wrong.
im using a a data class 6 turbo seris...8gb....
This is bothering me i already wiped twice now ..and im installing back all my apps and losing space..down to 50 mb right now

Did you do the test to make sure your a2sd is enabled properly?
http://geekfor.me/faq/apps2sd/

thats what my first post said!!
it says its working

mickdubs said:
thats what my first post said!!
it says its working
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your a2sd is working but installing a2sd 2.5 is the only way you will not see significant memory drop on your phone. everything except cache will be stored on your sd by flashing this zip
trust me, I went through the same thing as you til I read up and found this fix

so just flash as zip and be on the way..i apperciate all these quick replys ..xda comminity is strong!

mickdubs said:
so just flash as zip and be on the way..i apperciate all these quick replys ..xda comminity is strong!
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yes, flash through recovery but as always...do a Nandroid backup 1st. let us know how it goes

ok flashed and THANK YOU.... avaliable space is at 141mb... your d man

Interrnal memory problems

Hello,
I cannot wipe data trough CWM, and cannot install new ROM (it boots forever).
Looks like I have got internal memory problems...
I can boot CWM only.
Any idea how to format internal memory thru CWM?.. Or any other advice?..

tatuk said:
Hello,
I cannot wipe data trough CWM, and cannot install new ROM (it boots forever).
Looks like I have got internal memory problems...
I can boot CWM only.
Any idea how to format internal memory thru CWM?.. Or any other advice?..
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Have you gone into CWM "mounts and storage" and formatted system, data, and cache?

kjy2010 said:
Have you gone into CWM "mounts and storage" and formatted system, data, and cache?
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I just "wiped" it all. Is there any menu choice to format them?

tatuk said:
I just "wiped" it all. Is there any menu choice to format them?
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Well if you went into the "mounts and storage" menu as advised, you'd see only two options for system, data, and cache, which would be "mount" or "format".
Which would you choose?

Somehow all that CWM formats didn't work for me...
Even after I placed the empty file"eraseData" (according to Thor) to CWM folder....
Actually, hardware reset saved my tablet
It didn't format the whole thing too, but it cleaned /data/ at least.
Any way, thank you very much for your help.
Does there exist some tool like "checkdisk" for Android?
I believe I still have to check somehow my internal memory card...,

tatuk said:
Somehow all that CWM formats didn't work for me...
Even after I placed the empty file"eraseData" (according to Thor) to CWM folder....
Actually, hardware reset saved my tablet
It didn't format the whole thing too, but it cleaned /data/ at least.
Any way, thank you very much for your help.
Does there exist some tool like "checkdisk" for Android?
I believe I still have to check somehow my internal memory card...,
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I did an extensive search for an android disk utility, but couldn't find one, sorry
Oops, just found one, but it's only a defrag utility:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.disk.defrag.rubiks&hl=en

long shot.. but.. you haven't encrypted your tablet have you?
If you've encrypted your tablet in order to access corporate exchange servers then you will find that none of these will work until you've done a factory reset (through the annoying as hell switch flicking method )
-Dave

Formatting internal SD

After trying out some roms I want to start fresh. I plan on odining back to MDB and was wondering if it's possible to format the internal SD as well. Is there an option in Odin to do that or is it bad to wipe the internal SD?

do u mean phone memory by interal sd ?

Not sure why you would need to format it--just back it up before you do anything
Why back to MD--just curious

As far as formatting internal, not sure
I rooted before looking into stock recovery to see if it had option. CWM did on the S3, but I have twrp and it does not have that option
there use to be codes to format internal also--don't remember them
some research needed--but still back up everything and pull ext sdcard before you do anything

I have a similar question, does formatting internal sd also wipe everything (except system) from root (/)?

seanpr123 said:
I have a similar question, does formatting internal sd also wipe everything (except system) from root (/)?
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It'll wipe /storage/sdcard0 and everything on it only. Not sure what you mean by root.

jd1639 said:
It'll wipe /storage/sdcard0 and everything on it only. Not sure what you mean by root.
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Kinda what I figured, so I'm curious is it possible to start completely fresh from / or maybe that happens on a ROM install anyway?
For instance under root I have the following directories:
acct,cache,config/d/data/data_1-3,dev,efs,etc,firmware,mnt,persdata,preload,proc,res,root,sbin,sdcard,sotage,sys,system,tombstones,vendor. Along with a bunch of files, many are init.something. I know how to wipe sdcard (as you mentioned above), and system but what about everything else.
Make sense?

seanpr123 said:
Kinda what I figured, so I'm curious is it possible to start completely fresh from / or maybe that happens on a ROM install anyway?
For instance under root I have the following directories:
acct,cache,config/d/data/data_1-3,dev,efs,etc,firmware,mnt,persdata,preload,proc,res,root,sbin,sdcard,sotage,sys,system,tombstones,vendor. Along with a bunch of files, many are init.something. I know how to wipe sdcard (as you mentioned above), and system but what about everything else.
Make sense?
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Flashing a Rom will write over those other folders.

lazard said:
After trying out some roms I want to start fresh. I plan on odining back to MDB and was wondering if it's possible to format the internal SD as well. Is there an option in Odin to do that or is it bad to wipe the internal SD?
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There's really no reason to do this before using ODIN. ODIN rewrites anything in it's way. If there's something it didn't rewrite it's probably because you need that.

agent929 said:
There's really no reason to do this before using ODIN. ODIN rewrites anything in it's way. If there's something it didn't rewrite it's probably because you need that.
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Not necessarily, I've odined many times and it hasn't touched my internal sd card.

jd1639 said:
Not necessarily, I've odined many times and it hasn't touched my internal sd card.
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....what do you mean internal SD card? I guess I'm just a little confused. I know there are many partitions (I think 7 total) but ODIN won't write to all of them. I'm assuming that if you format the internal storage completely it will mess your phone up.

agent929 said:
....what do you mean internal SD card? I guess I'm just a little confused. I know there are many partitions (I think 7 total) but ODIN won't write to all of them. I'm assuming that if you format the internal storage completely it will mess your phone up.
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The part where pics, etc are stored /storage/sdcard0. Yea, the other partitions get overwritten when you Odin. And you certainly don't want to try and format those.
Ps, there are closer to 30 different partitions that android creates.

Alright yeah I understand what you mean now. Your right ODIN won't do that part, to my knowledge the only safe way to do it through recovery on your phone.

internal memory formatted

when i was updating my Lg L3 E400 by cyanogen mode 9
Wipe /data, cache and dalvik
and by mistakenly i formatted internal memory by from mount options
plzzzz help wat shud i do nw i can't install any applications now it say no internal memory.........

omkar said:
when i was updating my Lg L3 E400 by cyanogen mode 9
Wipe /data, cache and dalvik
and by mistakenly i formatted internal memory by from mount options
plzzzz help wat shud i do nw i can't install any applications now it say no internal memory.........
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Are you sure? Formatted or unmounted?

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Are you sure? Formatted or unmounted?
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formatted yaar wat should i do ?

are you using sdmerge or not? may be you did somthing wrong or rom file problems. i am on sdmerge and always perform full format before flashing rom (all options: system, data, cache,.. except sdcard: becaus it store rom.zip ^^)

kien_vip said:
are you using sdmerge or not? may be you did somthing wrong or rom file problems. i am on sdmerge and always perform full format before flashing rom (all options: system, data, cache,.. except sdcard: becaus it store rom.zip ^^)
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[Rom][Stock 2.3.6][L3-e400][PureOS v4.0] now im using this rom in these my memory card has become sd card and no memory card option is available i can install appl n all
my system memory has become 1gb and sd card memory as 8gb

jst install cm9 again now phone get freeze after restart wat de hell is this now

omkar said:
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my system memory has become 1gb and sd card memory as 8gb
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Hello Omkar,
Maybe, I don't understand you well. For me, a memory card is... a sdcard. Have you got external and internal sdcard/memory card? what recovery have you used? What tool are you using to know what space is or not free?
The memory card where you flash the ROM has some partitions: /boot, /recovery, /system, /cache, /data, /sdcard, /misc
The system partition could be 1GB (but... I think is too much) and basically contains the entire operating system. The data partition contains the user’s data and the sdcard is not exactly a partition. In terms of usage, this is your storage space.
I'm not sure that you format the entire memory card... I've just read a guide to Android partitions yesterday and other about ClockWorkMod Recovery and how to use it. They are complete and good. I would like to share them with you:
Guide to Androit particion
Clockworkmod and how to use it

LobaJai said:
Hello Omkar,
Maybe, I don't understand you well. For me, a memory card is... a sdcard. Have you got external and internal sdcard/memory card? what recovery have you used? What tool are you using to know what space is or not free?
The memory card where you flash the ROM has some partitions: /boot, /recovery, /system, /cache, /data, /sdcard, /misc
The system partition could be 1GB (but... I think is too much) and basically contains the entire operating system. The data partition contains the user’s data and the sdcard is not exactly a partition. In terms of usage, this is your storage space.
I'm not sure that you format the entire memory card... I've just read a guide to Android partitions yesterday and other about ClockWorkMod Recovery and how to use it. They are complete and good. I would like to share them with you:
Guide to Androit particion
Clockworkmod and how to use it
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hey dude i read that i just wana say that i re-install cm9 and all things works perfectly but after restart while using my phone gets freeze now i don't understand whats the problem can u plzz send me cm9 files also all the require file so i can again do all the procedure again and see whether it works properly or not.....

omkar said:
hey dude i read that i just wana say that i re-install cm9 and all things works perfectly but after restart while using my phone gets freeze now i don't understand whats the problem can u plzz send me cm9 files also all the require file so i can again do all the procedure again and see whether it works properly or not.....
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Hello omkar,
I'm sorry, but I'm not using the same phone model than you. If you're following a XDA thread to install cm9, it should be work.
I had a similar problem (it got freeze after flashing). I'm not sure what didn't work of the tutorial that I followed. So I decided to update the cwm recovery version and try with other CM. I followed the steps and I also formated the /system partition to make a "clean" installation of the CM. Finally it worked.

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LobaJai said:
Hello omkar,
I'm sorry, but I'm not using the same phone model than you. If you're following a XDA thread to install cm9, it should be work.
I had a similar problem (it got freeze after flashing). I'm not sure what didn't work of the tutorial that I followed. So I decided to update the cwm recovery version and try with other CM. I followed the steps and I also formated the /system partition to make a "clean" installation of the CM. Finally it worked.
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Can't Find Backup

So I downloaded an update for Vemon Rom and went to flash it, I could remember the password I made for TWRP so I restarted my phone and ignored it, But the data on the phone got corrupted, I serarch online to see how to fix it and I saw Formating the userdata helps. So I did but now the phone is back to stock. I made a TWRP backup about a week before the update and now I can't find it no matter where I look, My SD card is merged with the phone memory, not sure if this info helped or am I boned and have to start completely fresh again?

Ragnell said:
So I downloaded an update for Vemon Rom and went to flash it, I could remember the password I made for TWRP so I restarted my phone and ignored it, But the data on the phone got corrupted, I serarch online to see how to fix it and I saw Formating the userdata helps. So I did but now the phone is back to stock. I made a TWRP backup about a week before the update and now I can't find it no matter where I look, My SD card is merged with the phone memory, not sure if this info helped or am I boned and have to start completely fresh again?
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I'm not up to date on SD-Card merged. But formatting userdata wipes internal storage, so it's possible your sd-card got wiped on the process as well.

andybones said:
I'm not up to date on SD-Card merged. But formatting userdata wipes internal storage, so it's possible your sd-card got wiped on the process as well.
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Well I tried looking for the backup before I did the Userdata wipe, also I'm sure it doesnt do internal storage, just system/data/cache its like a factory reset

Ragnell said:
Well I tried looking for the backup before I did the Userdata wipe, also I'm sure it doesnt do internal storage, just system/data/cache its like a factory reset
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Sorry, Yea was thinking of something else.
Anyway nandroid are held in internal or sd-card foldwr: TWRP/BACKKUPS/serial#/name_of_nandroid
I'm sure you know this, however.
Sorry I couldn't be of any help.

andybones said:
Sorry, Yea was thinking of something else.
Anyway nandroid are held in internal or sd-card foldwr: TWRP/BACKKUPS/serial#/name_of_nandroid
I'm sure you know this, however.
Sorry I couldn't be of any help.
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Rather gotten any helpful reply than none, thanks anyways bud

Formatting userdata is formatting the internal storage. If you had the Micro SD card added as adoptable storage, then your internal storage and Micro SD card can't be separated - what you do to one affects the other. So unless I'm misunderstanding something, all your storage got formatted.
Wiping doesn't erase your internal storage, but wiping alone wouldn't have solved your problem.