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[FIX][TUT]Free some space to install apps on CM10 new layout

Hi,
I know everyone is facing the problem of low internal space after the change of layout......but if you notice the speed of processing has changed a lot.....BUTTERY SMOOTH.....
Remember this thread is indeed referring to external sd card and not the internal sd card which is glued to our motherboard........so please read this...
So here's a fix......
Step 1:
Remove your external sd card from the slot and put it in a card reader....Putting it in a card reader is the only way...You cannot partition the external sd card if it's inserted in the TAB....Connect the card reader to the PC
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Step 2:
Download the Home edition from this site( This tool is used for creating partitions.....we will create ext4 partition by using this on our external sdcard
http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html
Install it
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FORMAT YOUR EXTERNAL SD CARD
Step 3:
Open the partitioning tool and then you will see some disk 1, disk 2, disk 3, and more depending on number of things you have attached to pc...Select the disk which resembles your external sd card( Do not select wrong disk as it can cause serious trouble to your computer)Well you can easily make out which one's the external sdcard by the memory space info....
I'm Partitioning my pen drive so that you can understand
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1. Right click on that disk and click Move/Resize....( a dialog box like this appears)
Move the slider from the right to left and choose the space you want as the unallocated space(This place is which 'link2sd' will use to store apps....)Then click ok....You will see that the two partitions are created
Primary
Logical( the unallocated space)
2.Right click on the unallocated space and click on create..........A dialog box will open.........Select the settings as same as in this picture(Size and location may differ)
Click OK...
3. Apply the changes by clicking apply button and let it complete the process and then a successful message will come and Voila It's done!!!!!
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Step 4:
Remove your sd card from card reader and put it in your TAB...Go to settings>>>>>storage and check whether the size of the external sd card has been reduced.....If yes....you have successfully done it!!!!
Open Link2sd app in phone>>>>>A dialog box will appear asking you for the partition>>>>>select ext4>>>>>Then select any big app>>>>click on create link and let it complete the process...
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Link2sd Google play

Hi if I already installed tbe apps will.this still work? Or do I have to reinstall all the apps for link2sd to work amd transfer the data to ext4?
Thanks
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Remove your external sd card from the slot and put it in a card reader....Putting it in a card reader is the only way...You cannot partition the external sd card if it's inserted in the TAB....Connect the card reader to the PC
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How VERY true. Sad for those who can't access to micro SD on the PC. My adaptor should be somewhere in an unknown drawer.
Seriously, I tried to mess with this procedure to get the additional partitions on the INTERNAL SD. Here, Microtool allows you to delete all Partitions, but when you apply the changes, they are simply ignored. Well, not quite, the content of the SDCard are gone. Fortunately this is not a problem, because the relevant parts of the OS reside on the fast, invisible section of the internal storage, at least IF YOU ARE USING THE NEW CM10 memory layout. So you can recover, if you saved your data.
There is a second problem associated with internal SD partitioning. Apparently there are some instructions in INIT.RC which force the internal SD to "FAT32 only". On every reboot you will notice that your reformatted internal SD is just re-formatted to FAT32. While the details (see thread on SGT II) are pretty well documented , I found the same behaviour on my SGT7. I did not dare to mess with my P1000 CM10 for lack of documentation, if the fix works at all here, it would requiere reassembling zImage which can be very dangerous.

Thanks for the HOWTO.
Worth mentioning: configure your Links2SD to Auto Link, and default Install location to Internal. Worth reading their FAQ on their website.
After flashing a new ROM, Link2SD will ask you to recreat the mount scripts (warning in notification bar), and one more reboot and everything is working again.
I will get screenshots on my next flash.
You CANNOT partition your sdcards throught the Tab's USB mount. The USB mounts the FAT32 partitions, not the whole sdcard, so you don't actually see the partition tables for either internal or external sdcards.
That's why this procedure if for the EXTERNAL sdcard (very cheap on ebay. US$13 for a 16GB Class 10 sdcard, or just a couple bucks for an 8GB Class 4 sdcard).

[ Storage Card ] External SD card available for WP7.x & Android together ( Now )

We use WP7.x and Android NativeSD , we will have three Partitions of the SD memory:
1 - FAT32 - External SDcard ( available for Android)
2 - Ext4 - NativeSD
3 - WP - unallocated
Windows Phone can not see the external memory SDcard FAT32, which is available only for Android,
But I aspire the ability to be used in both systems Android & WP,
If only we used WP, ​​we get the Storage Card 200MB, but it will be hidden from the WP in any change in size!!!
I made several attempts
I finally succeeded by making the external memory SDcard readable for both systems and the size you want
very easy way
Format SDcard partition to NTFS
* If you're using Android & WP and your memory is divided into three sections
1 - Convert Partition 1 "SDcard" to the NTFS format,
Using one of the software division:
MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional Edition
Or EaseUS Partition Master 9.1.1 Home Edition
2 - run Windows Phone - "will read SDcard and re-converted to a special FAT32 (Other)"
Now, the external memory SD (Storage Card) are available in Windows Phone
Of course, remain available for Android, and is available when you enter PC
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Excuse
I am weak in English
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Note:
Storage Card does not work in the browser TouchXplorer
Can be used:
FILE BROWSER
FILE BROWSER with Killer Theme
Unique File Maneger
wPheExplorer
...

Do not change the size of Storagr Card again
Because you will need to re-format to NTFS

microSD card damaged?!

I've about 20gb of holidays photos and since I want to put them in my Android without reduce internal storage phone I bought from amazon 2 microsd XC-I 32GB (I've 2 galaxy note).
Every photo is about 1MB, so I first of all formatted sd with android in settings and then I connected the phone to pc and I tried to pass all photos. When transfer is finished I can see photos in gallery but when I reboot my phone a message appears "Your sdcard is damaged" and I can't do anything, only format another time my sd.
It's very annoying! I tried with both sd card, I tried to reduce photos size with irfanview or put photos directly in the card (with a computer card reader). Nothing worked.
So what could be the problem? How can I solve this issue?
I don't understand why a Samsung sdcard doesn't work with a Samsung phone. And it's not an old sd but latest samsung sd card.
Here is the card:
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Samsung SM-P9005 - Tapatalk

mouse100 said:
I've about 20gb of holidays photos and since I want to put them in my Android without reduce internal storage phone I bought from amazon 2 microsd XC-I 32GB (I've 2 galaxy note).
Every photo is about 1MB, so I first of all formatted sd with android in settings and then I connected the phone to pc and I tried to pass all photos. When transfer is finished I can see photos in gallery but when I reboot my phone a message appears "Your sdcard is damaged" and I can't do anything, only format another time my sd.
It's very annoying! I tried with both sd card, I tried to reduce photos size with irfanview or put photos directly in the card (with a computer card reader). Nothing worked.
So what could be the problem? How can I solve this issue?
I don't understand why a Samsung sdcard doesn't work with a Samsung phone. And it's not an old sd but latest samsung sd card.
Here is the card:
Samsung SM-P9005 - Tapatalk
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You what.

Android settings -> storage -> format sd
Samsung SM-P9005 - Tapatalk

mouse100 said:
Android settings -> storage -> format sd
Samsung SM-P9005 - Tapatalk
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OH crap my bad. I totally read your question wrong. Forgive me for that ><
Try putting it in your computer, formatting it as FAT32 (I believe that's the one), then transferring all of the photos directly onto the card, not passing through the phone.

SD Card Converted to RAW Data

Hey,
Guys I am using Mi A1, my SD card is not detecting on phone from the last couple of days. Its says to format the SD card but when I click on format, It will shows as 'Formatting SanDisk SD Card" after some time it will end up in error.
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https://imgur.com/a/kpw1X
When I connected SD card to Computer and tried to format using 'chkdsk' but it says files are in RAW format. Is there any way to recover? I am not sure whether this thread is in the right section. Can anyone shed some light, I badly need some files in that SD Card.
Thanks

https://imgur.com/a/kpw1X this is the screenshot

Cool Dad said:
Hey,
Guys I am using Mi A1, my SD card is not detecting on phone from the last couple of days. Its says to format the SD card but when I click on format, It will shows as 'Formatting SanDisk SD Card" after some time it will end up in error.
https://imgur.com/a/kpw1X
When I connected SD card to Computer and tried to format using 'chkdsk' but it says files are in RAW format. Is there any way to recover? I am not sure whether this thread is in the right section. Can anyone shed some light, I badly need some files in that SD Card.
Thanks
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Data recovery is possible using Easus Datoa Recovery in your conputer

vishal1286 said:
Data recovery is possible using Easus Datoa Recovery in your conputer
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I tried but no luck.

Cool Dad said:
I tried but no luck.
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Sorry bro out of ideas.

If you can't format that sd card on windows/Linux using disk management utilities. Then you should get new one.

sdcard formatted as internal doesnt show correctly in system storage settings

I tried formating my sdcard as an internal storage using the ActivityLauncher app to get the format as internal storage option from this thread https://c.mi.com/thread-1637511-1-1.html
I am using non-rooted Redmi Note 7, 32/3 GB with 32GB SD Card, on MIUI 10. Details below.
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It seemed to be working because in File Manager, the memory size was increased.
But in Setting > Storage it didn't show the size properly. When I tried install applications or download some files it was filling up the storage and I still got Insufficient Storage Available error/warning, even though I thought I did have enough space available.
By googling, I learn that some of people also have this problem. (from the comment on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/cgpowr/use_your_microsd_card_as_internal_storage_no_root/)
So, these are my question.
- Any way to fix system storage display or bypass the storage checking when try to install applications?
- Any other way to format SD Card as internal storage that working with this model (non-rooted method)?
- Will updating to latest MIUI 11 fix this?
- Am I doing this wrong or something?
I also tried this with adb shell command, aiming to bypass the notification warning.
settings put secure sys_storage_threshold_percentage 0
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Thank you.

If I remember correctly, the sd card would not show up separately (as is the case in your second image) if it is succcessfully formatted as internal storage. As for the third image, there it always shows storage combined (internal+sd) even when the sd card is being used as protable storage.
So I would guess your sd card has not been formatted as internal storage.

user0u said:
If I remember correctly, the sd card would not show up separately (as is the case in your second image) if it is succcessfully formatted as internal storage. As for the third image, there it always shows storage combined (internal+sd) even when the sd card is being used as protable storage.
So I would guess your sd card has not been formatted as internal storage.
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I guess so, then is there any method other than the ActivityLauncher trick that works on this model? I still can't find a wayto do this properly

what about this?