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[Q] Apps to EMMC?

So searching thru the threads here it seems that the only way to utilize the EMMC memory on the Nook Color is to repartition the NC so that it all looks like internal phone memory? Is this correct or has there been a way found to utilize both the EMMC memory area AND the SD card?

Not sure what you are asking specifically but you do not have to repartition the Nook to look like internal phone memory to use the internal memory.
1. You can use the internal memory stock or rooted and you can repartition the internal memory so that the system and data allocations are to your preference. Typical partitioning is 1GB system and 5GB data. Plus whatever size SD card you insert.
2. You can install a custom ROM and the use of internal memory is the same as above with the standard being 1/5GB. Plus whatever size SD card you insert.
3. You can run a ROM on a bootable SD card where the ROM sees 1GB of the card as "internal memory" (also some space is used for the system and ROM) and the rest of the space on the card is seen as "SD card external memory." You can also mount the data partition of the Nook's internal memory so that the bootable ROM on the SD card also sees another data partition of 5GB. This is handy for items you want to appear to both the Nook's internal ROM and the ROM on the bootable SD card.
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I'm not clear what you are asking either. Before I repartitioned I had 1/5 and ran apps that I worried about load times on from eMMC. Stuff like flashlight or aldiko that I don't sweat that much I loaded from the SD card. Because I felt the 5 was going to waste I flipped it to 5/1. Now I ignore the loss of the 1, load everything I run to the 5 and have 32 to store books, movies, music or whatever on. (Technically I could make use of the 1 if I wanted to but it's not worth it to me.)
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I have 5 gig sitting there doing nothing in EMMC partition. I would like to be able to access this memory as well as the external 8 gig card i have in it. Right now the space on the EMMC partition never gets touched.
So will the nook start to auto install to the EMMC partition if I fill up the one gig partition? or is it just going to sit there unused.

shadoes said:
I have 5 gig sitting there doing nothing in EMMC partition. I would like to be able to access this memory as well as the external 8 gig card i have in it. Right now the space on the EMMC partition never gets touched.
So will the nook start to auto install to the EMMC partition if I fill up the one gig partition? or is it just going to sit there unused.
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Except if you changed something in settings, the original installation place is the EMMC.
In case you fill all this space there, then you will have to start installing apps to SD.
For me there is no reason to install directly to EMMC, except if some app only runs from there and therefore should be installed only there (like widgets).

after the install of CM 7.2 the auto setting places apps in the 1 gig partition and apps2sd moves them to the 8 gig external card. the 5 gig EMMC partition is completely untouched.
If I fill up the 1 gig partition will they move to the EMMC? if not it appears this space will be completely wasted. I would prefer to use it as that frees up space to put music/media files on the SDcard for road trips.
I only leave apps on the internal memory I want to run faster. I noticed with my phone that once that spot start to fill up the phone runs noticeably slower.

shadoes said:
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So will the nook start to auto install to the EMMC partition if I fill up the one gig partition? or is it just going to sit there unused.
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No and Yes. Unless you go to Settings>Cyanogemod settings>Application> check Use internal storage
Then you will lose the SD card and gain the 5G. You can easily go back by unchecking it again whenever you want to. (That's why I did what I did with the partition swappy stuff.)

shadoes said:
I have 5 gig sitting there doing nothing in EMMC partition. I would like to be able to access this memory as well as the external 8 gig card i have in it. Right now the space on the EMMC partition never gets touched.
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It's there, you can put anything you want in it, the question is whether the apps you use can find the files you've stashed there. Some apps can, some can't.
BeyondPod (RSS feeds) lets you put its storage anywhere you want, so I moved that and my music into /emmc, and Music found the mp3s without me having to tell it anything. I don't buy many mp3s from Amazon, so I don't know how that interacts.
Also, I swap to /emmc, which is still an experiment in progress.
So will the nook start to auto install to the EMMC partition if I fill up the one gig partition? or is it just going to sit there unused.
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No, it won't do it automatically unless you always use it, like another poster suggested.

To further clarify, once the system partition is full that's it, the only thing else it does is tell you it's full. No rolling over, no starting to install elsewhere.
All Settings>Cyanogemod settings>Application> check Use internal storage does is trick the NC into thinking the internal memory is an SD card. When you have that checked and are loading all your apps to the External memory by choosing Settings>Cyanogemod settings>Application>Install location>External you are loading them to the 5G.
The bad part about it is that you can only use one or the other, if you load a bunch of stuff to the 5G and then switch to the SD card, (uncheck the Use internal storage box), you won't be able to count on the stuff on the 5G to load properly. Same with if you load a bunch of stuff on the SD and change to the 5G.
*I've* chosen to repartition the system partition to 5G and the eMMC to 1G. 5G is so much more that I should ever need for apps it's ridiculous and because I have a 32G SD card I can just forget about the 1G.

I suppose I should repartition but I don't want to have to wipe and reinstall everything.

shadoes said:
I suppose I should repartition but I don't want to have to wipe and reinstall everything.
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I waited till I had a genuine Sandisk class 4 16G SD. I know you shouldn't have to worry if you aren't booting from it but what the heck.
Oh and Titanium Backup is your friend. It'll even get your wallpaper back. The only thing I had to manually reload was the custom boot animation.

i tried titanium with my phone and it failed horribly haha. but I will try it again. i would like to have access to that space. also need to try loading my mp3s to it via the PC. that may work as well.

shadoes said:
i tried titanium with my phone and it failed horribly haha. but I will try it again. i would like to have access to that space. also need to try loading my mp3s to it via the PC. that may work as well.
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Download the latest Titanium and backup. If possible save the *.apk file to your SD Card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371 Choose the "c" repartition option. After completing the repartition and format you will have a virgin install of whatever ROM you are running. Either install Titanium from the apk or download it again and do a restore, (note the amount of memory you have at the bottom). If I remember right you have to click install and done for every third party app you have but what the heck, it's better than setting there watching pixels burn. Once the restore is done look at the memory stats in Titanium again and note what memory got used. Reboot one last time and you are done.
As for the mp3's, I do all that kind of stuff through Samba. The only time I plug a wire into the NC is to charge it. I guess you could take the SD card out to do that but I've been given to understand we want to avoid taking that in and out where ever possible as well.

Another alternative to above Titanium BU tip is to sync your BU to Dropbox, zip it and after reinstall of ROM upload your zipped BU file into the SD folder Titanium makes when first installed, unzip, overwrite, and everything's there. I've never had trouble with this method. And it's fast...

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Can't see SD card

having a strange issue. Installed latest LP Purity ROM and latest tk gapps, and once booted, the phone can't access the SD card folders. Storage shows that data is on the SD card, but I can't see it on the phone or when plugged in. I can only see the data when in recovery. Tried reflashing but no good. Would changing the recovery from twrp to cwm help?
Can't download anything to the phone because of this...

Nexus 4 doesn't have sd card. You mean internal storage?
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Nexus 4 doesn't have sd card. You mean internal storage?
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Yes internal storage. The emulated / SDcard0 is not visible upon boot, but the data is accounted for when I check storage. Also, the data is visible within TWRP.

Where you able to see the data when connected to computer. Yes means take a backup of all your data and then try deleting data partition using recovery and try factory data reset. I am not sure whether it will work 100. Its just a thought.
If you are not worried about your data then try installing stock rom from Google. Then try factory data reset. It will work.
Custom recovery doesn't erase entire internal storage but stock recovery will erase entire internal storage. So you can get back full storage.
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Well, i solved the problem.
Since the phone wasn't able to download anything due to lack of visibility of emulated storage, nor was I able to see storage while connected to the computer when the phone was booted, I was having problems trying to even change my ROM or Gapps as I couldn't place them or anything anywhere on the phone. I know, I know, I should of had a backup, but this was my wifes phone and her storage was so full that there wasn't quite enough space to backup
But, while I was in recovery, the computer was able to recognize the storage so I added a different ROM. Long story short, changing to CM restored the phones connection to storage.

S4 running low on space

I have an S4 with OmegaRom v42 5.0.1 and as you can see below it is showing as internal memory almost full but I cannot find out where the space is.
when I updated from 4.3.1 to 5.0.1 I could still al ot of the old system files so I am guessing they are still around.
ES Explorer is not able to tell me where this wasted space is.
Is there anything I can do from recovery to clear some room?
Or another app which can tell me what exactly is taking up all this space?
Oh I also have FolderMount installed and I have some games which are stored on the SD card, that might be the reason for the erroneous size.

What recovery are you using?

I had a similar problem when going from GPE to CM roms and vice versa. Game data in the android/obb folder would disappear, but still use space. And I couldn't find it using a file explorer. Returning back to the previous rom (on which the game was downloaded) made the data reappear.
I also got the "system is running out of space" message from flashing a kernel (which was in beta).

TWRP

Pull all the data you can off internal storage and format the internal storage using TWRP's wipe option. Afterward, put all the items back on the internal storage.

Will I copy all internal data from within TWRP to memory card, wipe it, then copy back to internal also from within TWRP?

It's probably best to do it from within TWRP and its mount menu as that way none of your apps are running.
Post No. 3000. Yay me! LOL.

Invalid partition selection for Internal Storage.

I am new to the world of tech and have a (what I believe anyway) is a massive issue with my S7 Edge. I successfully rooted the phone and then for some unknown reason I used TWRP to change the file system on Internal Storage to Fat32 or Fat. Cannot say for sure. Apologies. Now, I have a phone which suggests that I am using 31GB of the 32GB on the phone yet I know that when I use TWRP to look at the size DATA only has 4GB of which there is 141MB free? The other 28GB is there but is inaccessible. I had all my photos and videos on there and they have all disappeared. One thing to note is that when I changed the file system of Internal Storage it factory reset the phone but did show me that it was 25GB space wise so I lost everything but it was trying to restore from a backup which just failed as there was not enough space I think although I did not get an error. I am unable to (proper) factory reset the phone due to multiple mount issues and also because I think it has something to do with not being able to write to the correct partitions. I am using TWRP 3.0.0-0. I go to Wipe/Advanced Wipe/ select Internal Storage, then Repair or Change File System and get the Invalid Partition Selection in red. The same happens when I select Dalvik / ART Cache. I have the latest version of ODIN. I literally have ran out of ideas and have invested in a 128GB SD Card which I will use for mass storage by using adb shell. I am hopeful there is an answer.

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I am new to the world of tech and have a (what I believe anyway) is a massive issue with my S7 Edge. I successfully rooted the phone and then for some unknown reason I used TWRP to change the file system on Internal Storage to Fat32 or Fat. Cannot say for sure. Apologies. Now, I have a phone which suggests that I am using 31GB of the 32GB on the phone yet I know that when I use TWRP to look at the size DATA only has 4GB of which there is 141MB free? The other 28GB is there but is inaccessible. I had all my photos and videos on there and they have all disappeared. One thing to note is that when I changed the file system of Internal Storage it factory reset the phone but did show me that it was 25GB space wise so I lost everything but it was trying to restore from a backup which just failed as there was not enough space I think although I did not get an error. I am unable to (proper) factory reset the phone due to multiple mount issues and also because I think it has something to do with not being able to write to the correct partitions. I am using TWRP 3.0.0-0. I go to Wipe/Advanced Wipe/ select Internal Storage, then Repair or Change File System and get the Invalid Partition Selection in red. The same happens when I select Dalvik / ART Cache. I have the latest version of ODIN. I literally have ran out of ideas and have invested in a 128GB SD Card which I will use for mass storage by using adb shell. I am hopeful there is an answer.
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Was this issue ever solved?

6.0.1 Storage Calculator Error?

Hey all, I have a strange issue, tried all the obvious solutions, cleared caches, data, haven't wiped dalvik yet but eh. Got a storage space almost full error the other day so I linked some unlinked apps to the SD card, cleared cached data, moved images and downloads to folders in SD card and deleted what I didn't need and voila, problem solved, I cleared like 3 GB. I even tapped "Other", clicked "Explore", sorted that by size and delete files from the biggest folder (RAR files in downloads).
Idk if the image uploaded but here's a breakdown of my internal storage as it is right now:
-5.83 GB Used of 9.47 GB
-Apps 5.79 GB
-Images 30.71 MB
-Videos 20.00 KB
-Audio 224 KB
-Other 548 MB
-Cached Data 68.16 MB
NOW if you add all that up you get roughly 6.45 GB, which leaves like 616 MB just floating around. When i went into other and saw those RAR files, they totaled up to like 500-something MB and when I deleted it I noticed it fell off of the "Total Used" counter, but remained in "Other" counter.
Is there a way to reset the "Other" counter? The space is there I THINK, just seeing it there is kinda annoying. Wat Do?

By formatting the internal storage maybe.
You won't lose apps, as those are kept on a different partition.
The only things you will lose are the files on the internal storage and maybe some app settings (for apps that store data there).
TWRP also stores its settings there, so next time it boots it will be like you just flashed the recovery.

GDReaper said:
By formatting the internal storage maybe.
You won't lose apps, as those are kept on a different partition.
The only things you will lose are the files on the internal storage and maybe some app settings (for apps that store data there).
TWRP also stores its settings there, so next time it boots it will be like you just flashed the recovery.
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will try that now, will I have issues with link2sd or have to reflash xposed, gapps or cm?

noozman7190 said:
will try that now, will I have issues with link2sd or have to reflash xposed, gapps or cm?
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nevermind, stupid question I'm tired, seems like a lot of trouble for something that is so strange and isn't really doing anything bad

noozman7190 said:
nevermind, stupid question I'm tired, seems like a lot of trouble for something that is so strange and isn't really doing anything bad
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I've never used link2sd.
But for the rest it's a big fat no.
Formatting the internal storage is exactly the same as formatting the microSD card.
I do recommend formatting it once in a while.
I usually do it at every ROM update.

GDReaper said:
I've never used link2sd.
But for the rest it's a big fat no.
Formatting the internal storage is exactly the same as formatting the microSD card.
I do recommend formatting it once in a while.
I usually do it at every ROM update.
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I'll do it tonight at work, I just cleared data from the unrar app I used for the rar files I had and that freed up about 100mb from the "Other" counter, didn't do anything for the total storage though

@GDReaper Wiping internal storage worked for me, even freed up more space than just the "Other". gr8 m8, I r8 8/8 Thank you!!!