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anyone have any ideas i need help fast i also have s-off with permanent recovery
You might not have enough space on your SD card to do a full back-up OR your sd card might not be of a high enough speed class. Hopefully it's just lacking space, clear up old back-ups or roms you don't need anymore. Hope it helps!
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Am I supposed to go back and erase all of my apps from internal storage after they are moved to the SD card? If so, how?
I just don't understand why I only have 200MB out of 1GB available. All of my apps are on the SD card now.
What do I need to delete out of the internal memory?
Any help is MUCHO appreciated.
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You don't actually have 1GB of usable storage space by default. It's split into partitions, and the user storage is only ~512MB or less (I can't remember how I saw what the internal storage was split up as...)
"ONLY 200MB"
How much do you need?
I get your point. You get the point of my questions though, right?
If you have a fast SD card, you can move the dalvik cache to the SD card and free up another 60 megs or so.
You'll never see most of that gigabyte on your phone. Ever. I think the maximum you're allowed for apps on the internal flash storage is 350 megabytes. Even with Apps2SD, I think the dalvik cache for all of your apps is still stored on the internal memory, which would occupy some space.
I don't know what the heck I'm doing is the problem. Once I figure it out, I'll post some stats for new guys like me.
I've formatted my card correctly. Now I'm just trying to figure out if I'm supposed to wipe my system and reinstall in order for the apps to get "moved over" or not. I'm curious as to whether My Backup Pro or Titanium will "restore" the apps to the SD card now that I'm formatted correctly.
I believe the "moving" is not really moving it happens on install. So yes starting fresh is probably the best way to go.
There is only like 350mb or so of user installable space. Depending on rom it could go up a little but its close.
Also remember, not every single portion of the app gets installed on the SD. Some files still need to be stored on nand, just less. Much less depending on the app.
Just make sure you have a decently fast sd card if you want to move dalvik there. class 6 or better imo. It will work with a slower card but it could slow things down.
Froyo requires ext4 partition btw. Not sure what rom your using.
^^ Thanks for the info. I'm using Fresh 1.0.1, which is good because I don't even know how to make Ext4. I'm using Amon RA to partition and the only upgrade option was from 2 to 3. I didn't see anything about 4.
I'll wipe clean and see what happens.
Oh, one more thing that your post made me think of. The whole reason that I'm doing this is so that I don't have to re-install apps every time I wipe and install a new ROM. I figured that the new ROMs would just find my apps on my SD card.
If this isn't the case then it is not worth it to me. Meaning, if I still have to re-install all apps each time I wipe the device there is no benefit to me.
So: is that the case? Do new ROMs just "find" the apps on the SD card?
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I believe the "moving" is not really moving it happens on install. So yes starting fresh is probably the best way to go.
There is only like 350mb or so of user installable space. Depending on rom it could go up a little but its close.
Also remember, not every single portion of the app gets installed on the SD. Some files still need to be stored on nand, just less. Much less depending on the app.
Just make sure you have a decently fast sd card if you want to move dalvik there. class 6 or better imo. It will work with a slower card but it could slow things down.
Froyo requires ext4 partition btw. Not sure what rom your using.
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hi to everyone.
plz plz if any body can help me m going to become mad installing and uninstalling apps on htc desire due to low memory msg.
what i have done yet.
1.i while putin rooted official htc rom with busybox, did partition of the sd card and updated the partition to ext 2then to ext3 during the process(dont exactly remember the process name) .
2.then had app 2 sd application from market, i moved applications to sdcard but the phone memory still went down.
3.then i changed the setinstalllocation on phone through adb shell to sdcard for full apps installation to sdcard but still the phone memory goes down.
4. i also used the default apps tranfer to sdcard in froyo 2.2 but no change of low memory msg
i have literally uninstalled every new app, one or two has remained and to avoid low phone memory msg i have just kept at 15mb free.
what i do???? i am becoming mad plz help me anyone.
millions of thanks for anyhelp.
should i use rom manager for partitioning the memory card again or gparted live cd.
I don't know if someone bothered to tell you but the apps don't move completely on the sdcard. For example I use the froyo apps2sd because my card went dead 10+ times when partitioned. The google earth app is 22MB and when I "move" it to sdcard it gets to the astonishing 16MB on the main memory.
If you wish, partition the card with rom manager, do a full wipe, then try to insall the apps again and see how it goes. I hope you will be lucky
thanks for the reply freakzone,
actually whatever way i have used, the application does show that the file has moved to sdcard, the app memory itself also changes but overall the phone memory is the same with no change.and low memory msg on top.
you mean partitioning sdcard is risky should i give it a try???
It might work for you, try it, but make sure you make a backup, mine died many times
thanks alot dear, will do it when the emergency in ward gets over..
I rooted my EVO running Froyo last night using unrEVOked 3.2. Everything went fine, installed titanium backup and backed everything up.
This morning I tried to do a nandroid, and it kept hanging at various points and never completed. I would wait a good 5-10 minutes (with nothing happening), then do a battery pull. Tried this six or seven times, each time hanging at diffent points on different files.
I have s-off, and succusfully installed titanium backup and wireless tether.
I checked the sd card, there is no recovery folder after trying the nandroid. I can mount the sd card to my Win7 pc and navigate through all folders without a problem. The sd card is a class 10, 16 gb kingston card. Have had the card running just fine for two weeks prior to root.
Don't want to do anything else until I get this resolved.
Any and all suggestions appreciated.
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It was the sd card. I formatted a spare 8 gig card, and AMON_RA created a nandroid without a hitch.
I then ran error checking on the 16 gid sd card whick fixed a number of errors; but no dice on the nandroid. I formatted the 16 gig card and everything worked fine. Great way to test TitaniumBackup (which worked as advertised).
...hmmmm guess I'm the only one with this problem.
Using ROM Manager I flashed Amon_RA and did make a backup. Since that one succussfull backup I have the same problem. Amon will image boot and wimax, then hang on system.
anyone??
Greetings steve053,
If I were to venture a guess, I'd say your sdcard was corrupt. Maybe not completely, but corrupt is corrupt, no matter how small.
I'd advise "wiping" the card, and starting anew. Bad news, I'm sure, but if it is corrupt, and you wipe, and start anew. You'll have spent less time, and effort, that you would trying to force the issue, trying to load corrupt ROMs/backups onto your phone.
HTH
--Chris
Did you make sure that your memory card wasn't almost full? I have had my Nandroid backup stop like that......but then I realized that I didn't have enough free space on my card.
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Did you make sure that your memory card wasn't almost full? I have had my Nandroid backup stop like that......but then I realized that I didn't have enough free space on my card.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm using a new 16gb class 10 kingston card with 11gb free. Will definitely keep the free space issue in mind going forward.
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Greetings steve053,
If I were to venture a guess, I'd say your sdcard was corrupt. Maybe not completely, but corrupt is corrupt, no matter how small.
I'd advise "wiping" the card, and starting anew. Bad news, I'm sure, but if it is corrupt, and you wipe, and start anew. You'll have spent less time, and effort, that you would trying to force the issue, trying to load corrupt ROMs/backups onto your phone.
HTH
--Chris
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Thanks Chris,
You may be onto something. My titanium backups have been hanging too, so there could be something preventing writes to the card. It's strange that Amon_RA does write the wimax and boot images; and my one succussful backup indicates that the system image is the next one backed up.
I have a spare 8 gb card that I will format and test with.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Steve
Ok. So here is the situation. I am currently on CM7 Nightly builds. Everything works fine for me including saving every and any app to the SD card (which is pretty important to me.) However, for experimentation sake I wanted to try out Myn's Synergy + Godmode (since it was getting so much hype.) To be honest I wasn't so impressed with it, which is besides the point. One issue I noticed when I tried out different ROMS (Synergy, Kinged Kingdom & even Decks) all of them had problems saving apps to the SD card. I would keep getting the message "NO STORAGE SPACE AVAILABLE" Needless to say, this was enough to turn me off to these roms and go back to CM7 (where my app2SD is working perfectly)
After doing some research it seems that the only way to get app2SD to work properly on other ROMS was to partition my SD card through Amon-Ra recovery. This is where my actual question comes into play:
If I partition my card (I already backed it up to my PC) and then restore the files after partitioning through RA Recovery do you think my CM7 apps saved to SD card will work properly? If I decide to try another ROM again some time down the road will this partitioning of the SD card in RA RECOVERY enable me to save my apps to the SD card?
Another question in regards to the actual partitioning through RA RECOVERY:
I noticed there is an option to set SWAP SIZE. I have no idea what that is about and what size I should set it to. I have a 32GB card and am planning on saving the majority of my apps to the SD card.
I know this is a lot of crap to read through but if someone has some sound advice I would be indebted to you!
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I saw a reply and got all excited.
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Not sure about the apps saved to clockwork recovery still working after you flash Amon-Ra but the swap size can be left a 32 or put down to zero. Ive tried it on both settings and it works. Here's a link that should help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1121538
Hi all. Im writing here to help others who might be having the same issue I was having with full internal storage. I had plently of storage then I rooted and ran a few roms and suddenly I had no internal storage left. I searched and searched and finally figured out the problem. Im no stranger to rooting and running roms and custom recovery. But I am new at using cl ockwork mod recovery. All my old recoveries that ive used when making a nandroid backup they store the backup to sd card by default. Well as I found out not clockwork mod.it must be specified with cwm. Otherwise it goes to the internal memory of your device by default. As I soon found out. My four backups filled my internal storage full. Which once I realized what happened I deleted my backups and my internal storage came back. from now on I must specifically direct the backup to the sd card. Im writing this to possibly help someone else who might be in the same situation as I was. Hope this helps someone. I was used to my backups automatically going to my sd card so I assumed that cwm also directly sent them to sd. I was wrong. So if your suddenly faced with a internal storage issue you didn't have before and your using cwm, its likely your backups are being sent to internal storage unless otherwise specified. Just thought this could possibly help someone else out in the future. I should have paid closer attention to exactly where my backups were being stored but its never been an issue with my other recoveries so I didn't even think it would be sent to internal storage. I really hope this thread helps someone else out. Thanks for reading.
I saw the title and was going to suggest moving the Backups folder to extSdCard card in TiBu, in addition to flashing Nandroids to extSdCard card.
Then I read your post
Good suggestion.
Will definitely help many :good:
When I used to use TWRP, I always back'd up to extSdCard, especially with some of these back ups being around 2.5GB.
I miss the 32GB of internal my S3 had, but my 64GB card picks up the slack.
I actually have about 8GB left on my Internal. I was having to wipe internal often due to previous freezing issues, which have since been resolved, so I kept everything on extSdCard. I gotta get back in the habit of utilizing device storage again.
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I saw the title and was going to suggest moving the Backups folder to extSdCard card in TiBu, in addition to flashing Nandroids to extSdCard card.
Then I read your post
Good suggestion.
Will definitely help many :good:
When I used to use TWRP, I always back'd up to extSdCard, especially with some of these back ups being around 2.5GB.
I miss the 32GB of internal my S3 had, but my 64GB card picks up the slack.
I actually have about 8GB left on my Internal. I was having to wipe internal often due to previous freezing issues, which have since been resolved, so I kept everything on extSdCard. I gotta get back in the habit of utilizing device storage again.
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It took a bit for me to figure out what was actually going on. I had about 4 backups to internal storage. It was so full I was getting messages that my voicemail will no longer be saved. Glad I got it figured out. Now I have plenty of room avaiable. I do hope this post helps someone else.