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.
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Hi, why i have on my I9500, not more than 3 -4 gb on the intern sdcard free? i dont now who the space is gone?
e30power said:
Hi, why i have on my I9500, not more than 3 -4 gb on the intern sdcard free? i dont now who the space is gone?
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did you install any apps to SD ? of had photos and music ?
use a cleaning application and see how much space it finds....
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did you install any apps to SD ? of had photos and music ?
use a cleaning application and see how much space it finds....
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No I had nothing install that need so much memory, when i copy all of my harddisk and lock how much memory it takes, it shows 1,4 gb, also it must have 6 gb free on phone, but there is not enough space,
I had formated wiht the phone it the same problem, i had formated at recovery it the same problem, why is it
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e30power said:
No I had nothing install that need so much memory, when i copy all of my harddisk and lock how much memory it takes, it shows 1,4 gb, also it must have 6 gb free on phone, but there is not enough space,
I had formated wiht the phone it the same problem, i had formated at recovery it the same problem, why is it
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goto Settings - Storage (take a snapshot)
something isn't right, and another thing is your phone branded ?
like your carrier installed too many thing on the phone too apart from samsung software ?
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:
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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.
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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.
Now im using gt-i9082 with 4gb rom storage did any thing problem with my device or its just 4gb model because i see many people have 8gb rom storage
Can I fix this issue with flash 4.2.2 with pit file or what i can do
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Now im using gt-i9082 with 4gb rom storage did any thing problem with my device or its just 4gb model because i see many people have 8gb rom storage
Can I fix this issue with flash 4.2.2 with pit file or what i can do
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I think 4 gb is system reserved.Its required for rom to work
Ur phone is having 8gb Internal memory, but only 4 gb available for Apps & Data. Remaining 4gb is reserved by system.
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Trilochanaaya said:
Ur phone is having 8gb Internal memory, but only 4 gb available for Apps & Data. Remaining 4gb is reserved by system.
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Please can you explain why There must be an extra 4 Gigs on a phone for the the system to work? Is this extra 4Gig occupied at every time or anytime?
newtonovic said:
Please can you explain why There must be an extra 4 Gigs on a phone for the the system to work? Is this extra 4Gig occupied at every time or anytime?
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See relating our Grand It has 8GB storage out of which 4Gb is system reserved and 4Gb is User Accessible. the 4Gb System memory will be hidden and will be used only for system purpose and it will occupied everytime that is 4Gb is alloted only to System u cant do anything to it. It has ROM , Recovery and other partitions which are vital to your phone. This can be seen when you Root your mobile. but don't touch that unless ur familiar what your doing or can create havok particularly efs.img were IMEI is stored. So don't access or modify it without knowledge of what you are doing...
CM11 based on 4.4.4 is great...but I dont think that the 4GB of missing memory is actually used by the system. I googled about it and many people have been complaining about missing internal memory on CM11 so I guess its a CMish problem..
If you can refer these discussions
http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-...nmod-11-memory-problem-samsung-galaxy-s3.html
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/48277/where-has-all-my-storage-space-gone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2605525
http://androidforums.com/sprint-cri.../768896-missing-storage-issue-4-3-solved.html
and many more links ...
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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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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..
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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..
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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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why does my tablet only display or use a small portion of my total storage space?
I have reformatted again and now I'm down to 1.8 GB of total hard drive capacity. I've tried clearing cash and I have literally no apps on it.
twrp-advanced wipe-data-repair or change file system-resize file system
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twrp-advanced wipe-data-repair or change file system-resize file system
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How do you change the file system?
not change file system
the butten name is "repair or change file system"
Oh ok gotcha... I still need to figure out how to get TWRP onto my tablet and I will report back right away
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twrp-advanced wipe-data-repair or change file system-resize file system
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Thank you very much It worked... Well sort of... It is back to 32 GB but for some unknown reason I have 11 GB used coming off of a complete reformat I have nothing in any of the folders and I've deleted as much of the bloatware that I can get my fingers on... There might be a little something else on here but certainly not 11 GB
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Thank you very much It worked... Well sort of... It is back to 32 GB but for some unknown reason I have 11 GB used coming off of a complete reformat I have nothing in any of the folders and I've deleted as much of the bloatware that I can get my fingers on... There might be a little something else on here but certainly not 11 GB
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I do a lot of installs on a Tab A. After installing a new ROM - fresh install - you will have a little over 21GB free. This is normal.