Hello. So yesterday i wanted to restore my phone to stock, when I realised that I had deleted my backup folder by a mistake. Today I flashed a baltic (SEB) rom for i9301i that I got from sammobile. Now I believe my phone works slower than before. It only shows that I have 1.35GB ram when it showed 1.5GB before, but I might be wrong, because before kmy phone worked perfectly fine. I need your help. Could someone tell me a good firmware to flash? I don't really know what firmware I was running before. Oh, and when my phone rebooted, after the flash, it didnt boot for the first time, so I had to reset it via recovery.
TotalErikas said:
Hello. So yesterday i wanted to restore my phone to stock, when I realised that I had deleted my backup folder by a mistake. Today I flashed a baltic (SEB) rom for i9301i that I got from sammobile. Now I believe my phone works slower than before. It only shows that I have 1.35GB ram when it showed 1.5GB before, but I might be wrong, because before kmy phone worked perfectly fine. I need your help. Could someone tell me a good firmware to flash? I don't really know what firmware I was running before. Oh, and when my phone rebooted, after the flash, it didnt boot for the first time, so I had to reset it via recovery.
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I have a same problem also and i don't know why? May be i am wrong. And i don't remember the previous RAM status on original stock ROM.
Arsal7R said:
I have a same problem also and i don't know why? May be i am wrong. And i don't remember the previous RAM status on original stock ROM.
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1.35GB . My phone seems to get faster every use.
TotalErikas said:
1.35GB . My phone seems to get faster every use.
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Same here. But i am also confused with this 1.35 GB.
Arsal7R said:
Same here. But i am also confused with this 1.35 GB.
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its on every android phone. 2GB? Well you get 1.7GB. Its just how it is.
Laurisss said:
its on every android phone. 2GB? Well you get 1.7GB. Its just how it is.
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Hmmm so remaining RAM used by system?
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Hmmm so remaining RAM used by system?
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nah 1.35GB = 1.5GB. It's the same as you buy like 8GB SD card and you only get like 6.7gb to use
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nah 1.35GB = 1.5GB. It's the same as you buy like 8GB SD card and you only get like 6.7gb to use
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If you buy a 8gb sdcard you will use all of your 8gb. I dont know where you got that from..
Laurisss said:
If you buy a 8gb sdcard you will use all of your 8gb. I dont know where you got that from..
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I have a 16GB SD card, and I can only use 14.61GB of it. It's how memory works. Can't find the post about it anymore tho.
This is totally normal. The advertised size of memory cards/hard drives is the unformatted capacity of the drive/card. When you format the card the File Allocation Table (FAT/FAT32/NTFS) AKA the file system- takes up the difference in space that you see.
Manufacturers sell the drive based on 1GB=1000MB, 1MB=1000kb 1KB=1000bytes....and so on.
Hard drives/Memory Cards are formatted like this: 1GB=1024MB, 1MB=1024kb, 1KB=1024bytes...and so on...
This works out to be approximately a loss of ~74MB per GB of advertised capacity so do the math:
16GB advertised space * 74MB = 1184MB or ~ 1.2 GB
16GB - 1.2GB = 14.8 GB which is what your seeing as your MicroSD card's usable capacity and it totally normal.
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i'm running out of internal memory on my tab (sprint). i haven't installed a lot of apps. i have more apps on my droid incredible so not sure how i filled up the 2G. maybe it's coincidence but it started going low when i installed clockwork mod. i verified that my backup for clockwork mod is in the sd card so that's not it. any other places i can start to look internally? i barely have 10 or so apps in here.
Maybe check if files and pictures are going on your sd card and not the internal memory.
Try moving some apps to sd card and see if anything changes.
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Ice dream angel said:
Maybe check if files and pictures are going on your sd card and not the internal memory.
Try moving some apps to sd card and see if anything changes.
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yeah, i moved all the apps that possible to move to the sd card. i've taken only 3 pictures. i still only have 28M left. i guess it's time to check all the folders.
I'm willing to bet that as far as Clockwork is concerned, that 2GB internal storage is seen as your SD card, and the MicroSD card is sdext, which Clockwork probably isn't aware of.
That's the way it works on non-CDMA Galaxy devices (though all those have like, useful amounts of internal storage so it's not really an issue like it is on the crippled Verizon/Sprint versions).
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I'm willing to bet that as far as Clockwork is concerned, that 2GB internal storage is seen as your SD card, and the MicroSD card is sdext, which Clockwork probably isn't aware of.
That's the way it works on non-CDMA Galaxy devices (though all those have like, useful amounts of internal storage so it's not really an issue like it is on the crippled Verizon/Sprint versions).
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I think I found the culprit. There's a file called /data/local/tsprsp . Wtf is this file? Can I delete it?
Just deleted that file and it's fine now. Saw it in another post.thx
mach330 said:
Just deleted that file and it's fine now. Saw it in another post.thx
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How big was the file?
mach330 said:
I think I found the culprit. There's a file called /data/local/tsprsp . Wtf is this file? Can I delete it?
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I installed that version of clockwork mod and yeah my memory said it was full so i did a factory reset and delete it and all is fine now,,,something is wrong obliviously with that version and not worth installing until it is fixed,,, looks like it can cause def problems if we fool around with it,,,nothing against then mods.
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How big was the file?
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around 1.7Gb !!!
camblue said:
I installed that version of clockwork mod and yeah my memory said it was full so i did a factory reset and delete it and all is fine now,,,something is wrong obliviously with that version and not worth installing until it is fixed,,, looks like it can cause def problems if we fool around with it,,,nothing against then mods.
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yeah, i think i'm going to do a factory reset and reroot.
Hi all!
I have a Legend recently rooted and running CyanogenMod. Great experience. Just starting play with and see how works.
My first problem is I put in to much rubbish during the process and just playing with new rom now want to optimize. I already have a 8 gb sd card.
how I should proced to made a clean instalation to be able to optimize as much as better and wich order shoud be done.
I gess to format the sd card and also ram from legend but...
wich is next step?
how many partitions and how bigger?
i would like to run the apks from sd insted of phone.
thanks a lot!
1Gb ext3 should be enough for moving apps too, since alot of apps won't even move, you'd have to install hundreds on the SD card to even get near filling it up.
You could always use Blayo's B.02 rom and use the data2ext to have ALL your /data on the SD card, this supposedly increases performance too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866849
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1Gb ext3 should be enough for moving apps too, since alot of apps won't even move, you'd have to install hundreds on the SD card to even get near filling it up.
You could always use Blayo's B.02 rom and use the data2ext to have ALL your /data on the SD card, this supposedly increases performance too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866849
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I think you need a pretty fast SD card if your using data2ext as well for it to increase speed. Want to try, but I'm using the 2 Gb card that came with the phone
MaBlo said:
I think you need a pretty fast SD card if your using data2ext as well for it to increase speed. Want to try, but I'm using the 2 Gb card that came with the phone
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happy 2011!!
I have an 8 gb class 6. I think it is fast enougth
as I said I just put CyanogenMod rom and ams so newer in this world.
so have many "rubish" now i my legend so, need to prepare the sd.
as yo say need to made a 1gb partition but.. how i should do that, need to erease every thing and format it againt?
I didn't found any specific thead how to prepare the teminal for run apks on sd instead on it!
thanks!
MontseCat said:
happy 2011!!
I have an 8 gb class 6. I think it is fast enougth
as I said I just put CyanogenMod rom and ams so newer in this world.
so have many "rubish" now i my legend so, need to prepare the sd.
as yo say need to made a 1gb partition but.. how i should do that, need to erease every thing and format it againt?
I didn't found any specific thead how to prepare the teminal for run apks on sd instead on it!
thanks!
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you can shrink the fat partition and add an ext2 in front using a partition manager.
I have a 500 Mb partition on a 4 Gb card and have about 300 apps installed.
with still a lot of space free.
k.mooijman said:
you can shrink the fat partition and add an ext2 in front using a partition manager.
I have a 500 Mb partition on a 4 Gb card and have about 300 apps installed.
with still a lot of space free.
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that's fine, could you tell me how to do it?
thnaks!
MontseCat said:
that's fine, could you tell me how to do it?
thnaks!
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The link to Darktremor A2sd is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=719164
There is also a installation guide there. You can partition your sd card through recovery or Rom Manager.
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The link to Darktremor A2sd is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=719164
There is also a installation guide there. You can partition your sd card through recovery or Rom Manager.
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Thanks a lot!!
I have some work for a while:..
MaBlo said:
The link to Darktremor A2sd is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=719164
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This is better for CM
MaBlo said:
There is also a installation guide there. You can partition your sd card through recovery or Rom Manager.
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They're the same, ROM manager simply initiates fakeflash (recovery)
MontseCat said:
Thanks a lot!!
I have some work for a while:..
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Have fun
TheGrammarFreak said:
They're the same, ROM manager simply initiates fakeflash (recovery)
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Yes I know(you told me) What I meant was that there is a shortcut in Rom Manager to partition SD card. Don't know if that's the best procedure, but it worked for me.
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Yes I know(you told me) What I meant was that there is a shortcut in Rom Manager to partition SD card. Don't know if that's the best procedure, but it worked for me.
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Well, I've told you again . And it's a fine way to partition the SD card, it's how I did it too
TheGrammarFreak said:
Well, I've told you again . And it's a fine way to partition the SD card, it's how I did it too
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Glad I was right about something, I'm new to this stuff. Learning every day
OK, I am going to ask a very noob question here. How much memory should be shown in the the "about tablet" section? I used the dual boot setup for a while and then removed it. I recently installed the 1.2 upgrade after factory reset but it still shows only 5GB memory total. Shouldn't it be closer to 8GB?
I don't mind wiping everything again and running additional flashes to get all memory back if anything is missing.
Thanks!
In my rom I see 5.00gb also.
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In my rom I see 5.00gb also.
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Do you think 3GB are for the recovery partition?
2Gb for recovery and 1Gb as internal app install location i think.
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2Gb for recovery and 1Gb as internal app install location i think.
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So it appears that I have all the memory that I should have? Thanks everyone!
Hello
I've recently flashed [Rom]Google Edition galaxy S4 rom for i9505 [27 June] [Pure Nexus Experience] onto my S4. After following all the instructions it's working fine. Except the internal storage size is still 9.25GB with 8.18GB allocated. I would have thought that removing the stock ROM would have freed the internal storage space?
Cheers.
re: allocated space
UrbanNZ said:
Hello
I've recently flashed [Rom]Google Edition galaxy S4 rom for i9505 [27 June] [Pure Nexus Experience] onto my S4. After following all the instructions it's working fine. Except the internal storage size is still 9.25GB with 8.18GB allocated. I would have thought that removing the stock ROM would have freed the internal storage space?
Cheers.
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I think you answered your own question, "allocated" means "reserved" so in other words even if you
did not have any rom flashed/installed at all the phone would still allocate/reserve the 8.18GB space
which cannot be used for normal storage.
Good luck!
Thanks for your reply. It's a bit of a bummer though, is there no way to release the total storage size of the phones internal memory for user allocation ? Would it be something the developers could work on. But then I guess it comes back to the old saying, just get an SD Card.
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Thanks for your reply. It's a bit of a bummer though, is there no way to release the total storage size of the phones internal memory for user allocation ? Would it be something the developers could work on. But then I guess it comes back to the old saying, just get an SD Card.
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I doubt that any of the devs could increase the user usable space on the internal sdcard.
But even if they increased it by 1GB or 2GB no one including you would be satisfied with
that for more than a few minutes anyway.
The external sdcards are really not that expensive and spending $20-30 bucks on
32GB sdcard for a device which cost over $650 is not that big of a deal.
I would think the actual GS4GE has a different pit file.
actually i thought it would free up internal storage after flashing cm10.1...
I already flashed and indeed its still the same space as TW.. puzzling..
mgear356 said:
actually i thought it would free up internal storage after flashing cm10.1...
I already flashed and indeed its still the same space as TW.. puzzling..
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People have answered this many times. The size of storage you get will not increase unless Samsung changes the partition size.
repartition
isn't possible to re-partition. I am sure samsung had a good reason to book 6 GB for OS. but stock edition will not need all this space! i would say maybe not more than 3.
so cant we repartition the reserved to achieve usuable of 13GB?
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isn't possible to re-partition. I am sure samsung had a good reason to book 6 GB for OS. but stock edition will not need all this space! i would say maybe not more than 3.
so cant we repartition the reserved to achieve usuable of 13GB?
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Yes you can but its very risky. See below
Skipjacks said:
In order to partition that internal memory you have to wipe it. And that means everything. System, recovery, download mode, boot loader, everything.
The connection with Odin or adb at this point would be totally housed in RAM. It would need to maintain that connection in order to complete the task of adding the new partition, adding the download mode back, adding recovery, and finally the ROM itself.
If the phone lost its connection during that process or lost power or the update process got pushed out of ram for any reason the phone would be hard bricked as there would be no way to reestablish communication with it to restart the process. You couldn't power it on or boot it to anything. It would be a $600 paper weight.
Meanwhile the alternative option is to just go buy an $8 external 16gb SD card or a $20 external 32gb SD card. That carries no risk whatsoever and expands your phone's storage well beyond the original 9gb of usable space you started with.
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Yes you can but its very risky. See below
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thanks for the info. but i dont see why i would lost power during the process or anything like that. is it the same risk as flashing a rom via odin?
Is this why I am only able to use about three gigs of my internal storage space? I see 3 or so are partitioned off for the ROM (See second attachment from within TiB), then I have 10 gigs, but 7 are full of something I can't locate - either from within my phone or through my computer (See first attachment from within ES File Explorer).
I've got to assume this is just something going on with my phone. I think everyone would be pretty upset if their 16 gig phone only gave them 3 gigs...
I wish we had something like DTa2SD for the S4! That would be great...
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thanks for the info. but i dont see why i would lost power during the process or anything like that. is it the same risk as flashing a rom via odin?
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When everything goes well you are right, you will probably reflash the partition 1000 times without having any issues... the problem is if you were to be unlucky
No the risk is not the same as flashing a rom. If the process of flashing a rom is interrupted you just wouldn't be able to reboot your phone normally but you could always reboot in recovery or download mode to retry flashing the rom.
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Is this why I am only able to use about three gigs of my internal storage space? I see 3 or so are partitioned off for the ROM (See second attachment from within TiB), then I have 10 gigs, but 7 are full of something I can't locate - either from within my phone or through my computer (See first attachment from within ES File Explorer).
I've got to assume this is just something going on with my phone. I think everyone would be pretty upset if their 16 gig phone only gave them 3 gigs...
I wish we had something like DTa2SD for the S4! That would be great...
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No you should have 8/9 Gb free on your Internal SD. The space you lose are the 2.19Gb in the system partition, but you have definitely something that is occupying your Internal SD.
Well crap. Any idea how to get rid of whatever it is? I can't get my phone to go into mass transfer mode at all (even with the SG USB Mass Transfer app) so the only thing I can do is browse on my phone through file explorers and nothing can see it.
On my redmy 4 prime on settings>storage I see only 24 GB tots instead of 32. I've even tried to wipe all stuffs from twrp but nothing changes. How can I fix it? I'm on LOS13
The remaining 8GB is used for system/os data. A phone with 32GB/64GB/128GB or any size of ROM storage doesn't mean that you can access all of its storage size for your own data without any deducted space for system. Same goes for PC as well.
Yes, I already know that, but 8GB even if the rom I downloaded is only 450MB? And system applications use up the 24GB
Oh silly boy.
Yes. That's TOTALLY NORMAL. Enjoy your phone.
OK :/ thank you
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OK :/ thank you
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An Android ROM is 450/500 MB right, but a Custom ROM haven't all files Inside, some files are only on your smartphone.