Is this normal?
No, it's not. X720 from chinese seller?
Presterin said:
No, it's not. X720 from chinese seller?
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Yes, It's a LEX720 from chinese seller. It says 64Gb in storage, but there are only 9.9Gb usable internal storage. I've tried to restore factory setting, but it doesn't help...
If it has a shop ROM installed, they may have f'd something up. I still have over 17 gigs free on my 32 gig phone. Maybe install stock rom, or Grossoshop rom which works really well.
mine x270 64g phone still have 22G free storage left after I coped about 29G photo and videos to the phone's storage. so if you just received the phone, it should have around 59G free storage.
please check your TWRP backup on sd card. in my twrp folder there are 2 backup folder has total 18gb data. i copied two of them to pc(for later use) and deleted from phone.
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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?
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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.
UrbanNZ said:
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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Shawn7656 said:
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.
About to start flashing a custom rom (Aryamod) after more than a year on rooted,xposed Stock 4.3 on my N9005. As you can imagine I filled my 32 GB model to the brim and now I don't know how to back-up all my data on my phone straight to my PC. Something like a recovery image of my entire phone to my PC if ever I screw up flashing. Titanium might be an option but I only have the free version and again I don't have enough space on my phone to back up all my data. Any suggestions?
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About to start flashing a custom rom (Aryamod) after more than a year on rooted,xposed Stock 4.3 on my N9005. As you can imagine I filled my 32 GB model to the brim and now I don't know how to back-up all my data on my phone straight to my PC. Something like a recovery image of my entire phone to my PC if ever I screw up flashing. Titanium might be an option but I only have the free version and again I don't have enough space on my phone to back up all my data. Any suggestions?
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1- make sure your ? is on.
2- connect your ?to ? with cable.
3- copy & past / drag & move.
Will that back up my app data settings and game progress as well as my passwords and accounts?
mathmango said:
About to start flashing a custom rom (Aryamod) after more than a year on rooted,xposed Stock 4.3 on my N9005. As you can imagine I filled my 32 GB model to the brim and now I don't know how to back-up all my data on my phone straight to my PC. Something like a recovery image of my entire phone to my PC if ever I screw up flashing. Titanium might be an option but I only have the free version and again I don't have enough space on my phone to back up all my data. Any suggestions?
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When you say you have 'filled' the phone, are you talking Internal or do you mean you filled a 32GB external SD Card?
With TWRP you can easily set your backup (nandoid - i.e. everything) to an extSDCard and then simply copy that zip file to your PC. Later you can Restore only the Data if you want.
Titanium also lets you set your backups to the extSDCard.
If you mean you filled your extSDCard you have multiple options - take out the card and put it in a caddy and then a card reader and simply copy everything to PC. Buy a new and larger card. 64GB hi-speed ones work very well and even 128GB ones are down in price.
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When you say you have 'filled' the phone, are you talking Internal or do you mean you filled a 32GB external SD Card?
With TWRP you can easily set your backup (nandoid - i.e. everything) to an extSDCard and then simply copy that zip file to your PC. Later you can Restore only the Data if you want.
Titanium also lets you set your backups to the extSDCard.
If you mean you filled your extSDCard you have multiple options - take out the card and put it in a caddy and then a card reader and simply copy everything to PC. Buy a new and larger card. 64GB hi-speed ones work very well and even 128GB ones are down in price.
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I meant I filled my 32 (well, 26 GB) internal and only have a 16 gb external.
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Total used is around 2.5GB, but my phone says 5.5 GB is used. (See the screenshot above)
My media and everything else is migrated to my SD card formatted to internal mode.
I had this problem of missing storage space even before I formatted my external SD as internal.
I am running fully stock Android 6.0.
Please help.
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Total used is around 2.5GB, but my phone says 2.5 GB is used. (See the screenshot above)
My media and everything else is migrated to my SD card formatted to internal mode.
I had this problem of missing storage space even before I formatted my external SD as internal.
I am running fully stock Android 6.0.
Please help.
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from your post, it seems your phone is correct if you have 2.5 used and it says the same...:silly:
but, to help, do you have an old backup (TWRP) laying around on your phone? How about Titanium BU's? That might be the cuplrit.
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from your post, it seems your phone is correct if you have 2.5 used and it says the same...:silly:
but, to help, do you have an old backup (TWRP) laying around on your phone? How about Titanium BU's? That might be the cuplrit.
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I'm sorry, I meant 5.5.
And no, I don't have any twrp backups.
I haven't messed around with a custom recovery/root at all.
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.
Hi All,
I purchased the Axon 7 (A2017, Chinese Model, 4GB RAM, 128GB Storage) more than a year ago, with the intention of using it for Google Daydream. As most of you are aware, the Chinese model no longer supports Daydream, which got me researching on how to enable Daydream (seeing how I purchased the headset without doing my research). One option I found is to flash the European / US firmware onto the Chinese phone.
Yesterday, I bit the bullet and flashed it. I took the Chinese modem file and replaced that in the European Firmware before flashing, and everything works fine - all functions are ok, including that of Daydream and connectivity. However, when I checked my storage, it showed that I only have 64GB maximum. When I checked Storage, it showed 61GB unaccounted for under "Others". Please see the screenshot attached.
Is there any way to amend the stock firmware for the memory to be properly accounted for?
Thank you all in advance.
Regards,
M
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Hi All,
I purchased the Axon 7 (A2017, Chinese Model, 4GB RAM, 128GB Storage) more than a year ago, with the intention of using it for Google Daydream. As most of you are aware, the Chinese model no longer supports Daydream, which got me researching on how to enable Daydream (seeing how I purchased the headset without doing my research). One option I found is to flash the European / US firmware onto the Chinese phone.
Yesterday, I bit the bullet and flashed it. I took the Chinese modem file and replaced that in the European Firmware before flashing, and everything works fine - all functions are ok, including that of Daydream and connectivity. However, when I checked my storage, it showed that I only have 64GB maximum. When I checked Storage, it showed 61GB unaccounted for under "Others". Please see the screenshot attached.
Is there any way to amend the stock firmware for the memory to be properly accounted for?
Thank you all in advance.
Regards,
M
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I think that's only the indicator, shouldn't be a big deal. Try to download DiskInfo from the Play store and check your data partition
Thank you for your reply.
I downloaded Diskinfo, and this is the screenshot.
The user storage space is definitely off, as I definitely did not use that much - I have only just flashed the ROM. Is there any way I can repartition it?
Thanks!
limenweim said:
Thank you for your reply.
I downloaded Diskinfo, and this is the screenshot.
The user storage space is definitely off, as I definitely did not use that much - I have only just flashed the ROM. Is there any way I can repartition it?
Thanks!
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I guess you can try to format from TWRP - try Wipe - Format data (Maybe it's under Advanced wipe, i can't remember). Otherwise you could try to use Advanced Wipe - Change filesystem, and format data/internal to ext4 from there