I have a quick question about rooting and installing CWM recovery on the GS4 32GB model. Can it be rooted with motochopper and loki'd the same way as the 16GB? My 4 year old daughter flushed my 16 gig, so its gone.... On the up side AT&T sent me a 32 gig instead, just sent off the RMA'd 16 gb. Thanks in advance.
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So where do I start....I'm new and as such I obviously have a question.....Hey all!
I've been following this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2369130&page=36) for a while regarding rooting and flashing android 4.3 on my S4 (International LTE). I have done so and I love it.
My question is why can't I access all my internal memory (16GB of it), It only shows at 9.25GB ish free. I know the stock S4 used a lot of memory, but why, after a wipe/reset can I still not access it? I would have thought it would be gone.
Is it a case of it being needed for use by my newly flashed 4.3 ROM (is the ROM using it as the stock one did), or is it just sitting there being wasted? How could I wipe it and what are the implications of doing so?
If this has been asked before I haven't looked hard enough, please link me to the relevant thread and I'll dispose of this one.
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You can't use it because it is the system partition. It is reserved space.
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OK thanks for the reply
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i am unable to find an answer to this, i have a galaxy s4 i337m from rogers
i used cf-auto root to root,
then used the one click tool to install CWM Touch 6.0.3.2
and then in recovery did a full wipe and reset
and installed [ROM] Google Edition 4.2.2 [Clean][Slim][280MB][2013.09.07]
everything is working well (great)
but free space was only just under 9 gigs, i thought google edition phone has over 12gb of available space, is this normal, is there something i can
do to get more space, did i miss something?
please don't recommend sd card as i already have one, i am just concerned where is my phone memory going?
That's how the S4 is partitioned. User-accessible amounts are not rom dependant. Cheers
devils-haven said:
i am unable to find an answer to this, i have a galaxy s4 i337m from rogers
i used cf-auto root to root,
then used the one click tool to install CWM Touch 6.0.3.2
and then in recovery did a full wipe and reset
and installed [ROM] Google Edition 4.2.2 [Clean][Slim][280MB][2013.09.07]
everything is working well (great)
but free space was only just under 9 gigs, i thought google edition phone has over 12gb of available space, is this normal, is there something i can
do to get more space, did i miss something?
please don't recommend sd card as i already have one, i am just concerned where is my phone memory going?
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I would also like to know im having the same issue and was just going to make a post asking the same thing, and i have an sd card as well but i cant seem to move apps to the sd card like you can with with touch wiz 4.2.2. I used twrp so im wondering if there is a problem with that?
xBeerdroiDx said:
That's how the S4 is partitioned. User-accessible amounts are not rom dependant. Cheers
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Any way to repartition? Or will this case problems when u need to restore phone back to stock?
devils-haven said:
Any way to repartition? Or will this case problems when u need to restore phone back to stock?
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No you cannot repartition.
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after the main instal and everything i only have like 7 gigs available for use
I just got a new N3 about 2 days ago. I've rooted by using the safestrap and installed JellyBeans ROM that I loved from my Note2. With only a couple apps installed, I'm getting conflicting data.
Application Manager says 16GB free and my largest app is Chrome at 73mb.
Storage also says 16gb free with applications of .94gb. However it also says I have Miscellaneous files at 6.77GB.
So I have a 32gb phone, and 1gb of apps leaving about 31 gb. I'm sure there is probably 6gb for the OS. I'm still missing roughly 6-8gb of storage.
I think it is because the Safestrap keeps the factory ROM in place and I put JellyBean in a virtual drive??? I have two roms maybe? But ROMs are only about 1.2Gb.
I'm not very high speed on this stuff.
Thanks for any explination you can provide.
Bingo. Safestrap essentially loads a new rom over stock (unless you flash in the stock slot), so that storage is not available.
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Wrong forum section bro. Q A is where this belongs.
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serpa4 said:
I just got a new N3 about 2 days ago. I've rooted by using the safestrap and installed JellyBeans ROM that I loved from my Note2. With only a couple apps installed, I'm getting conflicting data.
Application Manager says 16GB free and my largest app is Chrome at 73mb.
Storage also says 16gb free with applications of .94gb. However it also says I have Miscellaneous files at 6.77GB.
So I have a 32gb phone, and 1gb of apps leaving about 31 gb. I'm sure there is probably 6gb for the OS. I'm still missing roughly 6-8gb of storage.
I think it is because the Safestrap keeps the factory ROM in place and I put JellyBean in a virtual drive??? I have two roms maybe? But ROMs are only about 1.2Gb.
I'm not very high speed on this stuff.
Thanks for any explination you can provide.
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How large did you make your ROM slot? Even though the compressed ROM isn't that big, the ROM slot can be up to ~8gb. Also keep in mind storage reporting tends to be inaccurate while booted into a ROM flashes onto a SS ROM slot.
BTW, for future reference questions should go in the Q&A subforum.
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I've had a Loki'd bootloader-unlocked S4 for about a year now.
I have CM11 and latest Gapps package installed as my one and only OS installed.
I am wondering if anyone has the answer of why I only have a total internal storage of 9.6gb available when it is originally 16gb?
Does Loki place the stock OS in a different partition and set it aside?
Any input is appreciated. Thank you!
You never get 16gb, android uses a bunch of it for it's partitions. The 9.6 looks like what everyone else has available
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hi guys i already fixed my problem.. just flash a previous 4.4.2 rom.. now i just want to remove those bloatwares... i know that s4 comes with a 16gig memory but mine was 8gb free,, so almost 7 gb used on bloatwares... any help on how to remoe them?
they said use NoBloat on playstore, is it helpful? if not what do you guys advise, do i have to install custom rom?
n2th2n said:
hi guys i already fixed my problem.. just flash a previous 4.4.2 rom.. now i just want to remove those bloatwares... i know that s4 comes with a 16gig memory but mine was 8gb free,, so almost 7 gb used on bloatwares... any help on how to remoe them?
they said use NoBloat on playstore, is it helpful? if not what do you guys advise, do i have to install custom rom?
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Even if you install a custom rom, you still won't get that 16 GB.
You have 9 GB for internal storage, 3 GB for the system partitions. So thats 12 GB. Where are the other 4? They got sucked into a black hole apparently.
GDReaper said:
Even if you install a custom rom, you still won't get that 16 GB.
You have 9 GB for internal storage, 3 GB for the system partitions. So thats 12 GB. Where are the other 4? They got sucked into a black hole apparently.
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Yeah, and of the space used on the internal storage, not nearly all of it is bloat ware. MOST of it is app data for stuff you actually use.
Bloat apps don't tend to be massive, even if they are memory hogs. The actual APK's are going to be between 300kb and 25mb (for the most part). So getting rid of the 10-15 totally bloat apps on your phone isn't going to free up multiple gigabytes of space.
Your best bet is to buy a 32gb micro sd card. They cost like $20 now. It will give you all the space you need for most users. If you really NEED more, $64 gb cards are available too.
n2th2n said:
hi guys i already fixed my problem.. just flash a previous 4.4.2 rom.. now i just want to remove those bloatwares... i know that s4 comes with a 16gig memory but mine was 8gb free,, so almost 7 gb used on bloatwares... any help on how to remoe them?
they said use NoBloat on playstore, is it helpful? if not what do you guys advise, do i have to install custom rom?
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Hi Guys!
My new Bloatware remove List is now online, just take a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47180192&postcount=2