Was wondering if anyone knew why when I boot to recovery all my zips are on internal storage not flash zip from as.card like the vibrant was... Anyone know why cause i'm running out of memory really fast?
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i think you got them mixed up
by default on the T989 in CWR will list the contents of the External SD first
then the 2nd choice is for the Internal SD
so you can put all your ROMs and Backups on the External SD to save Internal SD space
and that aside, there's a 2 GB limitation for the Internal Apps partition which is also separate from the Internal SD partition
i posted a topic about this, some other guy was asking the same thing as you, don't remember the topic name though
... nvm found it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1349648&highlight=storage+space
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Hello All,
As we all know there a bit slight issue as far as the internal memory of Xperia Arc is concernend.. when I googled on how can we use our SD card to actually increase the internal memory so that we need not move the apps explicitly to the SD card, I came to knw that we need to create a partition on our SD card in ext4 format.. But I dint get the exact way of doing it... so can anybody tell me how we can do it? And does it need to have a custom ROM installed? Does it work on stock ROM also? Please help.. Thanks..
Try Link2SD or AD2SDX.
I tried Link2SD, but my problem was that after creating the new partition in FAT32, the phone won't mount the SD card, and keeps acting as if the SD card removed. When I deleted the second partition, everything went back to normal but without adding to the internal memory (which is the whole point)
I must have done something wrong but can't figure it out.
The second partition is the one that has to be in ext4 format and as logical so your phone will not try to mount it for storage purposes..
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I have a few general and a few specific questions regarding storage:
1. Why did Samsung create 2 directories for internal storage? It has regular internal storage and "SD" storage but both are really internal storage. Why not just make one big partition and SD storage is actually your removable SD card (this is how it was on the OG EV) Someone please explain this to me if you know the answer.
2. On CM9 rom how do you save apps and their data to a external SD card? I'm trying to install a Gameloft game but it's saying I don't have enough space available which I certainly do.
3. On TW based ICS roms how do you save apps w/ data on the actual external sd card? Possibly planning on trying out Rujelus' rom so I'd like to know before hand.
SantinoInc said:
I have a few general and a few specific questions regarding storage:
1. Why did Samsung create 2 directories for internal storage? It has regular internal storage and "SD" storage but both are really internal storage. Why not just make one big partition and SD storage is actually your removable SD card (this is how it was on the OG EV) Someone please explain this to me if you know the answer.
2. On CM9 rom how do you save apps and their data to a external SD card? I'm trying to install a Gameloft game but it's saying I don't have enough space available which I certainly do.
3. On TW based ICS roms how do you save apps w/ data on the actual external sd card? Possibly planning on trying out Rujelus' rom so I'd like to know before hand.
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The OG evo didnt have an emmc partition. It had internal storage dedicated to things like app storage, same as any other phone. You cant mount internal storage to your PC so combining these would be a waste of space.
You might be able to push game data from emmc to the sd card and they might still locate it but I have never tried as I never fill up my emmc, I just keep everything else on the sdcard. But worth a shot.
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barnacles10 said:
The OG evo didnt have an emmc partition. It had internal storage dedicated to things like app storage, same as any other phone. You cant mount internal storage to your PC so combining these would be a waste of space.
You might be able to push game data from emmc to the sd card and they might still locate it but I have never tried as I never fill up my emmc, I just keep everything else on the sdcard. But worth a shot.
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I don't quite get your reply but to make things easier for myself what is the best way to format the SDcard. I am talking about the internal SDcard not my actual removable micro SD card. I know there is an option in storage but I don't know what SD card its referring to.
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I don't quite get your reply but to make things easier for myself what is the best way to format the SDcard. I am talking about the internal SDcard not my actual removable micro SD card. I know there is an option in storage but I don't know what SD card its referring to.
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Just remove your external then hit the format option in storage. And if you move back to the fd16 kernel on cm9a3 you will be much happier with the way the storage is handled.
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Hey guys just got my Galaxy Nexus for Verizon. It obv does not come with an SD card, something I am not accustomed to.
I am wondering if there is some way to maybe partition the internal memory so when doing wipes and installing roms, that partition of memory is not affected.
Thanks for any help!
Doing wipes and rom installs doesn't affect the sdcard, only the internal memory that holds the os/apps gets wiped, so there's no need to partition anything. Its only when you format the sdcard is when you lose everything on it.
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Doing wipes and rom installs doesn't affect the sdcard, only the internal memory that holds the os/apps gets wiped, so there's no need to partition anything. Its only when you format the sdcard is when you lose everything on it.
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I think he's asking if there is a way to make the internal memory set up to have a portion of it look like an external ad card... ie splitting the partition one says internal memory the second would be fake sdcard memory
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fmartine said:
I think he's asking if there is a way to make the internal memory set up to have a portion of it look like an external ad card... ie splitting the partition one says internal memory the second would be fake sdcard memory
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If virtual sdcard had its own partition it would theoretically then be possible to treat it as a real usb mass storage device like a real sdcard.
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I have looked over and over. And I see articles mentioning how to backup your device before Flashing ROMs. They even show how to do it. One of the articles said it could be done and how to do it. I did it and just like the other ways I tried the backup is stored on the Internal Storage.
I have all this room on my SD card available. My internal storage is almost completely filled with me not being able to store games or any apps for that matter on my SD card. Right now I have about 4GB left for my Internal Storage. After the backup I had 1GB left (I deleted the backup on the Internal Storage).
Is everyone else just storing the backup(s) on your Internal Storage? Your computer? SD Card?
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AT&T GS3
I have looked over and over. And I see articles mentioning how to backup your device before Flashing ROMs. They even show how to do it. One of the articles said it could be done and how to do it. I did it and just like the other ways I tried the backup is stored on the Internal Storage.
I have all this room on my SD card available. My internal storage is almost completely filled with me not being able to store games or any apps for that matter on my SD card. Right now I have about 4GB left for my Internal Storage. After the backup I had 1GB left (I deleted the backup on the Internal Storage).
Is everyone else just storing the backup(s) on your Internal Storage? Your computer? SD Card?
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Well you can backup to the internal sd card a d once you made a nandroid you can move the folder "clockworkmod" to your external sd card. And once you need to backup just move it back like a storage kind of thing. Tbh I'm not sure if you can make a backup to your external but I would always save it on your computer if anything happened to your phone
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Thanks. I think I am going to go ahead and do it the way you said. Have a good one.
I do it this way but would prefer to backup directly to the sd card.
TWRP can do nandroids on the external sd.
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Thanks. I think I am going to go ahead and do it the way you said. Have a good one.
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Happy to help!
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TWRP can do nandroids on the external sd.
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I had to look up what TWRP was. LOL
Anyway, I looked it over, decided to try it and it worked! I now have my device backed up on the SD card instead of my internal memory.
I want to thank you and the other person for the helpful info. Each of you helped point me in the direction I wanted to go. Have a good one.
My cwm automatically backs up to external sd card. I'm pretty sure most versions do this now but can't verify. Also when I flash zips it will look in external unless I choose install zip from internal sd card
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Doesnt work with the newest version of cwm. It worked with the 5.5.0.4 one though.
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After updating to android 4.4, my Internal storage is reading as an SDcard. This is a problem because AirDroid doesnt read my actual external SDcard. Im thinking it could be a file system mismatch or something. Is there any way to fix this? Ive included a screenshot showing the problem, also its weird that it shows 12.22 gbs on "Internal" and 12.20 gbs on SDcard. BTW my actual SDcard is only an 8gb card.
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After updating to android 4.4, my Internal storage is reading as an SDcard. This is a problem because AirDroid doesnt read my actual external SDcard. Im thinking it could be a file system mismatch or something. Is there any way to fix this? Ive included a screenshot showing the problem, also its weird that it shows 12.22 gbs on "Internal" and 12.20 gbs on SDcard. BTW my actual SDcard is only an 8gb card.
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I guess its a problem for all kitkat users. ;
Source: http://www.androidcentral.com/kitkat-sdcard-changes
This sucks.
Might have found a fix gonna try this http://stackoverflow.com/a/16471373
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After updating to android 4.4, my Internal storage is reading as an SDcard. This is a problem because AirDroid doesnt read my actual external SDcard. Im thinking it could be a file system mismatch or something. Is there any way to fix this? Ive included a screenshot showing the problem, also its weird that it shows 12.22 gbs on "Internal" and 12.20 gbs on SDcard. BTW my actual SDcard is only an 8gb card.
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How big is your extSD?
I am copying and pasting something I wrote from another post on a similar topic.
Any extSD card 32GB and above that is formatted in exFAT cannot be read by Android ROMs built from source. exFAT formatting is exclusive to Microsoft. It just so happens that Samsung is granted access to use that file system on their devices. That's why Touchwiz ROMs can read cards in that format.
There are plenty of freeware programs that will format a storage device to FAT32; a file system readable to ROMs compiled from source. I reformatted my 64GB extSD card to FAT32 and now, have no issues on Paranoid Android.
I hope this helps.
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How big is your extSD?
I am copying and pasting something I wrote from another post on a similar topic.
Any extSD card 32GB and above that is formatted in exFAT cannot be read by Android ROMs built from source. exFAT formatting is exclusive to Microsoft. It just so happens that Samsung is granted access to use that file system on their devices. That's why Touchwiz ROMs can read cards in that format.
There are plenty of freeware programs that will format a storage device to FAT32; a file system readable to ROMs compiled from source. I reformatted my 64GB extSD card to FAT32 and now, have no issues on Paranoid Android.
I hope this helps.
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When I said "my actual SDcard is only an 8gb card" I ment my external SD card. My internal memory is 16gb.