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hope someone can help me ASAP. i was under the impression that my SD card would allow me to run CM7, but it wont. and i don't really want to go and buy another one.
so i have a few questions.
first, can i restore the nook color completely to stock to the point where if i had to return it for warranty reasons it would be good.
secondly, does CM7 from the internal memory run good/just as well/better than the SD card.
third, how large is the /data partition for apps if you install to the internal memory.
hope someone can respond asap. thanks in advance.
1. yes
2. better
3. it's your choice, by default B&N NC v1.2 comes with 5GB /data while the previous version of NC comes with 1GB /data. You can choose to have 1GB, 2GB or 5GB
votinh said:
1. yes
2. better
3. it's your choice, by default B&N NC v1.2 comes with 5GB /data while the previous version of NC comes with 1GB /data. You can choose to have 1GB, 2GB or 5GB
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thanks, and for 3, if i install CM7, how do i get the 5GB /data? because that would be best, i don't want to run out of space like on my nexus one.
3. CM7 has nothing to do with it. What you're looking for is the re-partition/re-format the system.
Note: 5GB /data is way way way more than enough for Android apps.
Note: /data is for the installed apps, it's not the storage that you can put your mp3, pictures, ...., just be clear.
votinh said:
3. CM7 has nothing to do with it. What you're looking for is the re-partition/re-format the system.
Note: 5GB /data is way way way more than enough for Android apps.
Note: /data is for the installed apps, it's not the storage that you can put your mp3, pictures, ...., just be clear.
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little confused then, only devices i've ever messed with are phones, so this is new to me. is there anything i have to do to make sure i get the 5gb data, or do i just get that when installing CM7.
And i've been around for a while so i know that 5GB is an insane amount and more than enough, but it's always good to have more than enough.
Do you know yet how your NC is currently partitioned? Most recent Nooks have the 5GB /data, indicated by a blue sticker on the box. To confirm, go to Settings>About NookColor (that may not be exact--haven't had stock in a while). If it indicates less than 1GB storage, you have 5GB /data.
neok44 said:
little confused then, only devices i've ever messed with are phones, so this is new to me. is there anything i have to do to make sure i get the 5gb data, or do i just get that when installing CM7.
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As I mentioned in previous post, if your NC is prior to v1.2.0, then you should "automatically" has 1GB /data. If your NC is v1.2, then you would have 5GB /data, meaning, it's default shipped products from B&N.
If you want to have 5GB /data
a. if your NC is v1.2 then you don't have to do anything.
b. if your NC is an earlier version, then you can re-partition to have 5GB /data
looks like i have the 1.2, i see a blue circle sticker on the back and in the unit i have 1.2 software and 1GB of available storage.
thanks for everything guys now to get CM7 on it.
Hi all!
i'm not very experienced at this so if i say something stupid please correct me.
i tried setting up PACMAN rom on my S4 yesterday, and i noticed while in TWRP it showed that the S4 still has 9GB free, even after wiping and formatting the internal SD.
I did not install the ROM yet.
I take it the missing GB's are used in a system partion? which is only available when installing ROMs? Does PACMAN take up that much space or is there now space on the system partition that's not being used?
again, if this is not how it works, let me know.
sunkillmoon said:
Hi all!
i'm not very experienced at this so if i say something stupid please correct me.
i tried setting up PACMAN rom on my S4 yesterday, and i noticed while in TWRP it showed that the S4 still has 9GB free, even after wiping and formatting the internal SD.
I did not install the ROM yet.
I take it the missing GB's are used in a system partion? which is only available when installing ROMs? Does PACMAN take up that much space or is there now space on the system partition that's not being used?
again, if this is not how it works, let me know.
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PAC rom takes up very little space only. Tried it ytd. However, the missing spaces that is used for system purpose, cannot be used for apps or storage. (Not that I know of)
lzk123 said:
PAC rom takes up very little space only. Tried it ytd. However, the missing spaces that is used for system purpose, cannot be used for apps or storage. (Not that I know of)
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thank you for you answer. I won't repartition then.
disclaimer: not responsible for any data loss or whatever issues you might do to yourself and no, this will not increase the total size of your sdcard space (which on the 32gb model LG G2 is 25gb)
I've just had an issue where my storage space just wouldnt add up and it bothered me
situation:
"SD card" size: 25GB
actual data on sdcard "16GB" (check with x-plore or any prefered file manager
free space: in my example it was just 2.8Gb
i checked my /data size and it was about 3gb.
so i was missing about 3-4GB of space.
solution for my situation:
check /data/media/obb
here i had large files from 1 current game and games i've allready uninstalled.
these files were obsolete in my case. I dont know how this happens, maybe it happens when switching roms. but if you feel you got some space missing its definetly worth a check.
On my nexus7 the /data/media/obb and /sdcard/Android/obb are linked and show the same content.. dont know why it is not so on the g2.
note: this files presist also when doing full wipes (if you dont wipe internal storage) because recoveries like TWRP skip /data/media folder because it has references to the sdcard.
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disclaimer: not responsible for any data loss or whatever issues you might do to yourself
I've just had an issue where my storage space just wouldnt add up and it bothered me
situation:
"SD card" size: 25GB
actual data on sdcard "16GB" (check with x-plore or any prefered file manager
free space: in my example it was just 2.8Gb
i checked my /data size and it was about 3gb.
so i was missing about 3-4GB of space.
solution for my situation:
check /data/media/obb
here i had large files from 1 current game and games i've allready uninstalled.
these files are obsolete.
note: this files presist also when doing full wipes (if you dont wipe internal storage) because recoveries like TWRP skip /data/media folder because it has references to the sdcard.
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So how are you suggesting to deal with this?
I just explained. Check if you have stuff in /data/media/obb. If you have, you probably shouldnt have. Try and delete and check if that app still works.
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I just explained. Check if you have stuff in /data/media/obb. If you have, you probably shouldnt have. Try and delete and check if that app still works.
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OK so I'll just have to go through with a fine comb and match files and delete ones that shouldn't be there basically right... My question is the g2 comes with 32gb storage. I am using cm11 and I deleted the stock backup.. Where is all that extra space lol..
joewaz said:
OK so I'll just have to go through with a fine comb and match files and delete ones that shouldn't be there basically right... My question is the g2 comes with 32gb storage. I am using cm11 and I deleted the stock backup.. Where is all that extra space lol..
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no you wont get any more than 25gb, because the rest is mounted on /system which doesnt change size when you install diferent rom.
in my example i had 1.5Gb file from fifa14 in /data/media/obb and also in /sdcard/android/obb i deleted the one in /data/media/obb and fifa still runs fine. the other files 2GB in size, were from games i've uninstalled or didnt install on the new rom. maybe its left overs from swiitching roms... anyway.. i got my space back.
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no you wont get any more than 25gb, because the rest is mounted on /system which doesnt change size when you install diferent rom.
in my example i had 1.5Gb file from fifa14 in /data/media/obb and also in /sdcard/android/obb i deleted the one in /data/media/obb and fifa still runs fine. the other files 2GB in size, were from games i've uninstalled or didnt install on the new rom. maybe its left overs from swiitching roms... anyway.. i got my space back.
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I understand what you're saying and I am glad that you got your space back but what I am saying is I am running cyanogen mod and it is about 400 megabytes total.. I deleted the 3gb of stock ROM... Where is my extra space.. See what I mean lol.. Its because of the partition..I just need to figure out how to re divide up that space
joewaz said:
I understand what you're saying and I am glad that you got your space back but what I am saying is I am running cyanogen mod and it is about 400 megabytes total.. I deleted the 3gb of stock ROM... Where is my extra space.. See what I mean lol.. Its because of the partition..I just need to figure out how to re divide up that space
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I dont think you can. Especially not with a locked bootloader. I know it was possbile to do this on my old HTC, but right now on the LG G2 is not.
you have your extra space on /system .... if its any use of you
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I dont think you can. Especially not with a locked bootloader. I know it was possbile to do this on my old HTC, but right now on the LG G2 is not.
you have your extra space on /system .... if its any use of you
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Where the hell is Morpheus and neo and the team.. They need to plug into the matrix and unlock our damn bootloader lol
joewaz said:
Where the hell is Morpheus and neo and the team.. They need to plug into the matrix and unlock our damn bootloader lol
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It's been bugging me for a while that the system partition sizes are so huge, and I only get a little over 9GB for actual storage. Specifially the cache, of which I'm only using 104/2037MB, and the system, of which I'm only using 485/2717MB.
Is there any way to resize these partitions to give me more room for storage? I'm looking into making a new partition on my sd card, but that still doesn't solve the stupidly huge cache/system partitions.
There is also the issue of the missing space. As far as I can tell, my phone only has 14892MB in total, not the advertised 16GB. I understand that usable space is frequently lower than advertised on storage devices, but this is a little bit too much.
I've researched this but couldn't find anything useful. Maybe my google-fu is low haha.
Thanks in advance.
Bump.
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I've been looking for a way to do this as well. I feel like I'm wasting at least a good 3gb that could be used for installing some larger games or something. As far as I can tell, there is a way to do it on another variant of the S4, involving using odin to flash a Chinese version of the stock rom(specifically the PIT file) which repartitions the storage. But it only works on that variant, and won't work for us. No way to do it on the sph-l720, at least none that I can find.
I was thinking I could reclaim some of the system partition by taking any apps that are essential to me, and converting them to system apps. But since the system partition gets wiped every time I update the rom, which is very frequently, that would be a disaster.
Hi all, just seeing if anyone can tell me why the storage screen says I only have 1.5gb of free memory when DiskUsage says I should have a lot more?
I have rooted my phone and using Xpower rom.
Pics attached. Thanks everyone.
Curiously, I ran into the same problem yesterday after a session of flashing new firmware and restoring backup of my phone. It had never occurred before.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/z5-compact/help/z5c-reporting-incorrect-storage-size-t3564059
Someone in this thread said the problem went away after a few reboots. I've rebooted about 3 times now, still shows 16GB available instead of 32GB.
I'll probably do some more flashing/restoring later on to see if that fixes anything.
You're showing pictures of different mounting points.
/internal shown in second picture is it's own virtual partition
/system shown in last picture is also it's own partition and has its own free space
The free space shown in android storage will only display the free space on the virtual data/internal storage so it looks perfectly fine to me.
Also external sdcard won't add to virtual internal data storage.
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You're showing pictures of different mounting points.
/internal shown in second picture is it's own virtual partition
/system shown in last picture is also it's own partition and has its own free space
The free space shown in android storage will only display the free space on the virtual data/internal storage so it looks perfectly fine to me.
Also external sdcard won't add to virtual internal data storage.
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Oh ok. Thanks for the reply. My total internal storage is meant to be 16gb. This is why I thought the two screenshots formed (most of) this 16gb.
So based on your information, where has the rest of my internal memory gone? The first DiskUsage screenshot says I have 8.24gb in total storage. Is the rest not usable because it's a private system partition?
Also I've attached another screenshot. Is it normal for the internal system to use up 7.76gb?
About 8GB for a Sony Android system ROM sounds about right, lots of bloatware and included apps. On a 16GB Sony phone, half is available for photos, music and apps/apps data.
That's why you should never buy a phone with only 16GB in 2016/2017. My Oneplus 3t with 128GB is a hair saver. ?
pitrus- said:
You're showing pictures of different mounting points.
/internal shown in second picture is it's own virtual partition
/system shown in last picture is also it's own partition and has its own free space
The free space shown in android storage will only display the free space on the virtual data/internal storage so it looks perfectly fine to me.
Also external sdcard won't add to virtual internal data storage.
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pitrus- said:
About 8GB for a Sony Android system ROM sounds about right, lots of bloatware and included apps. On a 16GB Sony phone, half is available for photos, music and apps/apps data.
That's why you should never buy a phone with only 16GB in 2016/2017. My Oneplus 3t with 128GB is a hair saver.
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Ack. Ok, I'll try remove bloatware then (although I thought Xpower did already).
Yeah I broke my beloved z1c camera and thought z5c would be a nice replacement... Really wanted a small phone.
kickling said:
Ack. Ok, I'll try remove bloatware then (although I thought Xpower did already).
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Uninstalling uninstallable bloatware will reclaim a few MB of space, but removing preloaded system bloatware won't help much in freeing up usable space. The system partition is a fixed size, generally inaccessible, and any unused space in there isn't counted towards total available free space.
BTW, I thought you were asking about the 16GB total space in the first snapshot in your original post. The Z5C has 32GB internal storage space, not 16GB. Just thought you should know.
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Uninstalling uninstallable bloatware will reclaim a few MB of space, but removing preloaded system bloatware won't help much in freeing up usable space. The system partition is a fixed size, generally inaccessible, and any unused space in there isn't counted towards total available free space.
BTW, I thought you were asking about the 16GB total space in the first snapshot in your original post. The Z5C has 32GB internal storage space, not 16GB. Just thought you should know.
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.... Say what?! I'm supposed to have 32gb? Why does my storage screen say I've only got 16gb? 16gb hidden system?
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.... Say what?! I'm supposed to have 32gb? Why does my storage screen say I've only got 16gb? 16gb hidden system?
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Well, that's what I was trying to say in my original reply up there. I assumed you were confused about the anomaly in total internal storage, something that I recently experienced and was also reported by some other folks.
I've found a supposed solution after a bit of Googling, but I'm not sure if it's the right answer. I plan to test it out later on.
But yes, you're supposed to have 32GB total internal storage, inclusive of all partitions hidden or otherwise. After deducting the OS and stuff, there should be 21~22GB of usable free space left.
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Well, that's what I was trying to say in my original reply up there. I assumed you were confused about the anomaly in total internal storage, something that I recently experienced and was also reported by some other folks.
I've found a supposed solution after a bit of Googling, but I'm not sure if it's the right answer. I plan to test it out later on.
But yes, you're supposed to have 32GB total internal storage, inclusive of all partitions hidden or otherwise. After deducting the OS and stuff, there should be 21~22GB of usable free space left.
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Well then. I feel dumb!
Coming from the z1c I guess I've gotten used to having 16gb internal memory.
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Well, that's what I was trying to say in my original reply up there. I assumed you were confused about the anomaly in total internal storage, something that I recently experienced and was also reported by some other folks.
I've found a supposed solution after a bit of Googling, but I'm not sure if it's the right answer. I plan to test it out later on.
But yes, you're supposed to have 32GB total internal storage, inclusive of all partitions hidden or otherwise. After deducting the OS and stuff, there should be 21~22GB of usable free space left.
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..... I'm reading that you either need to reflash firmware, or if you're lucky repair the system partition in Twrp.
TBA...
kickling said:
..... I'm reading that you either need to reflash firmware, or if you're lucky repair the system partition in Twrp.
TBA...
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Yes, I can confirm a complete fresh flash of stock firmware restores the total space to 32GB. I didn't touch the system partition, so I'm not sure whether a repair of system in TWRP would do anything, and there's no means for me to test it now.
Hopefully, a restore of my nandroid backup will preserve the correct total storage space.
EDIT: Yup, restore successful and total space is 32GB. FWIW, the "solution" I mentioned earlier was a discussion for a Nexus device, and it said it's necessary to restore stock recovery first. Not sure the exact cause of problem or actual solution to fiz the problem, but anyway reflash worked for me.
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Yes, I can confirm a complete fresh flash of stock firmware restores the total space to 32GB. I didn't touch the system partition, so I'm not sure whether a repair of system in TWRP would do anything, and there's no means for me to test it now.
Hopefully, a restore of my nandroid backup will preserve the correct total storage space.
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Twrp system repair did not fix it.
Time to flash....
If you have twrp in boot, this problem happens.
The device ends up making the system read only, and then gives you the left over /data
Then when a function calls ro.hardware, its inaccessible.
You won't be able to fix it if you don't have TWRP in the recovery partition. When you do a restore, you'll get put in to a boot loop, if anything other than the data partition is selected
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3564059