Difference between Phone storage and internal storage? - HTC One X

What's the diff because some of my apps are installed on phone and some internal.
Internal is 2gb and phone is 25gb
What should I put it on?
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Internal storage is the reserved space that your phone will install apps be default into. Phone storage is the 25-27GB of space that you can see when connected to the PC.
Some apps support having their data on the Phone storage, and some apps don't. Performance difference having them on one or the other is 0, unlike other phones where the phone storage is actually an external SD-Card, which the HOX does not have~

Check storage in your settings menu periodically and move eligible items to phone storage. Supposedly it helps performance. I do it routinely - clear out data caches and also uninstall apps I'm no longer using but had forgotten about.
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Would like some more info about this please
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If I do a factory reset, will both storages be formatted/restored to new state?
how can I access internal storage from pc? And from phone?!
Using htc 1 x
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Microzift said:
If I do a factory reset, will both storages be formatted/restored to new state?
how can I access internal storage from pc? And from phone?!
Using htc 1 x
Thanks
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No when you format/factory reset your device, only your internal storage will be deleted. There are file explorer apps which you can get in to the internal storage, but if you are a noob then i recommend not going in there. It is just the system files needed to run Android.
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SD2 storage
It there a way to move apps to the SD2 card? From the above I understand that there is, Intenal storage, Phone storage and SD storage. I see the options to install on either Internal or Phone storage or to move to either, but what about the SD card which in my case is practically empty and which I could exchange for a larger card?
Thank you.

How to increase internal storage from phone storage..?
Hey guys please help me out for this issue.. If i want increase my internal storage to increase more ammount of apps..? I m using lava iris x1 with 16GB phone storage in which internal storage for apps is only 852MB. How i can increase this internal storage..?? Reply and help me out..:angel:

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[Q] Increase storage after removing apps via root

Hi Everyone,
I just rooted my device and deleted some unwanted branded apps from my device use adb rm command, however my internal storage has not increase?
All the apps are gone and do not show up in in any file manager but my storage space is still low? Can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks in advance
neuromacer said:
Hi Everyone,
I just rooted my device and deleted some unwanted branded apps from my device use adb rm command, however my internal storage has not increase?
All the apps are gone and do not show up in in any file manager but my storage space is still low? Can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks in advance
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yes the apps that come with the device are stored on the system partition, as an out of the box desire dosent have r/w access to /system/, this portion is not a useable memory, only apps stored on the data partition with affect your device space, you can also see how much space has been free'd in \system\ by using quick system info from the market
So what would be the best Method to increase storage for apps? i keep getting low storage warnings!
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neuromacer said:
So what would be the best Method to increase storage for apps? i keep getting low storage warnings!
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You can try to use A2SD or any other app to transfer the instaled apps to the SD or another partition.
Use ROM Manager from app store to partition ur SD card. I was running out of internal storage, after doing this I have over 100mb internal space free...
Don't forget to backup ur SD card first!
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[Q] Internal storage

Hi all,
My previous phone was a HTC Buzz (Wildfire). It doesn't have any internal storage, just a pre-installed sd-card.
I got my One V now for 4 weeks, and I just found out it does have internal storage beside the sd-card slot. But what exactly is it?
In Settings --> Storage space it says it got 1 GB of internal storage, of which is 555 MB used by apps. What partition is it they are talking about? In ES File Explorer, I see /mnt/emmc. It is completely empty. Or are they referring to the /data partition (which I, as user, can't really use directly)?
If I want to transfer my own files (music and so on) to the internal storage, in what folder do I need to place it?
Currently a lot of apps are using my sd-card as storage for their settings and caches. Will they use the internal storage for that if I take out my sd-card?
Thank you in advance
Your wildfire could install what....20-40 apps before getting a low storage warning?
Install an SD card, all your apps go to internal, (except app data...ie games) and your SD card is your "user storage".
Unless you install over 200 apps, most of them large, you will never get a low storage warning on the One V and that is a good thing.
When you want to upgrade to a new SD card, just copy the contents over to your new one, install and go........that simple.
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Thank you for answering anyway, but my question was about the internal user storage
Compizfox said:
Hi all,
My previous phone was a HTC Buzz (Wildfire). It doesn't have any internal storage, just a pre-installed sd-card.
I got my One V now for 4 weeks, and I just found out it does have internal storage beside the sd-card slot. But what exactly is it?
In Settings --> Storage space it says it got 1 GB of internal storage, of which is 555 MB used by apps. What partition is it they are talking about? In ES File Explorer, I see /mnt/emmc. It is completely empty. Or are they referring to the /data partition (which I, as user, can't really use directly)?
If I want to transfer my own files (music and so on) to the internal storage, in what folder do I need to place it?
Currently a lot of apps are using my sd-card as storage for their settings and caches. Will they use the internal storage for that if I take out my sd-card?
Thank you in advance
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Please free ur internal memory as free as possible....only keep frequently used apps in it, we have 4GB internal memory of which 1GB is available to us...in es file explorer click on favorites and there will be a phone icon.if u want to paste something not ur internal storage as writable through settings
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Compizfox said:
Thank you for answering anyway, but my question was about the internal user storage
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Ahhh, you mean that 95 or so mb of user storage?
1. No, you cannot move apps there
2. Really, not alot of place for music, some photos sure, just select internal storage in the camera app.
The 95 mb or so HTC left us is basically a joke, if youx have a suitable sd card (16gb ones are twenty bucks or less) I really sugest using that and consider that small space as a buffer if your card is removed and you want to suddenly snap a photo......or whatever.
In the future, when we have s-off and can repartion the nand that tiny space will be irrelevant.
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I don't know how much it is. I think it's the /mnt/emmc partition. I thought it was 1 GB.
Compizfox said:
I don't know how much it is. I think it's the /mnt/emmc partition. I thought it was 1 GB.
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No problems man, I'll start at the beginning.
Go to settings > storage, you will see:
Internal storage, total space 0.94GB...........it will report apps, and available. The two together should add up.
This is where your apps go
Phone storage, total space 95.23MB.........then available (mine is 95.21MB!!!!)
Storage Card, same total space / available.....this depends on what card you have
This is where app data goes, "user storage" ie. photos, videos, music, email attachments, downloads, etc. It will default to using your SD card if installed. If there is no SD card, or you temporally remove it, it will save stuff to your phone storage.
What partition is it they are talking about? In ES File Explorer, I see /mnt/emmc. It is completely empty. Or are they referring to the /data partition (which I, as user, can't really use directly)?
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The "partions" are as listed above. There are some directories that you may not be able to view because you may not have "root access". If you root your phone, you will now have access to view and edit the entire file system (kinda like being an admin on a windows machine). Unless you are an advanced user, this is not really required. Some system files are hidden by default for good reason, change them or move them (or delete them like my Dad on his home computer**#@!) and you can really mess things up in a way you do not realize until later.
If I want to transfer my own files (music and so on) to the internal storage, in what folder do I need to place it?
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Like I said before, the "internal storage" is for apps only, your "user storage" on your phone is only 95.23MB. Not enough for music really, maybe some photos (In the camera app itself under camera setting > storage > you can select storage card or phone storage) but....you are limited to the 95.23MB of space.
Currently a lot of apps are using my sd-card as storage for their settings and caches. Will they use the internal storage for that if I take out my sd-card?
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Yes, but they obviously will not be able to access any data on the card that is no longer in your phone!!!
It is easy to upgrade your SD card from the one that came with the phone. hook a USB cable to your phone, select "disk drive" from the drop down menu, copy the contents all at once onto the new SD card (if hooked upto your computer as well), power down the phone, swap cards and reboot......boom....more storage!!!
I hope that answered your questions, if not we'll have to talk S-off, hboots, nand partioning etc!!!!
Regards.
Thank you for the clear explanation!
I'm running Lloir's CM10 build now. So I have root
If I understand correctly, the 1 GB internal storage is the /data/ partition? And /mnt/emmc is just 95 MB of useless storage? Weird that CWM has got an option to make a Nandroid backup to the internal storage then. Won't fit
I've got a 4 GB SD-card btw
Compizfox said:
Thank you for the clear explanation!
I'm running Lloir's CM10 build now. So I have root
If I understand correctly, the 1 GB internal storage is the /data/ partition? And /mnt/emmc is just 95 MB of useless storage? Weird that CWM has got an option to make a Nandroid backup to the internal storage then. Won't fit
I've got a 4 GB SD-card btw
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Yup, you've got it right.
The CWM probably has that option for other devices. The HTC desire, by default (similiar to the wildfire), 512MB nand, approx 105MB for the user (apps, user data, everything!). With s-off, we had scripts in which the ext3 partion of the sd card would be read as part of the "internal" storage, so not all was lost.
But, back on topic, yes just nandroid to your sd card.
Cheers man, glad to hear your enjoying your phone.
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it's because i put the option in..
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it's because i put the option in..
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Cool, what partion does this option use?
Edit: disregard the question dude, read the dev thread and got ky answer. Good work.
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Moving data partition to SD card?

I found this file:
http://dinc.does-it.net/EXT4_Mods/Mount_Cache_And_Data_To_Sd_Partitions.zip
It seems like maybe it will move my data to the SD card to free up some space on internal storage. Anyone know if I'm correct about this?
What's low on space? /data/data or /emmc? In either case it won't do what you're hoping. Its only purpose is to allow you to boot a ROM when mmc storage gets corrupted. It doesn't free space anywhere. Also, I think this is a cmlusco mod.
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tiny4579 said:
What's low on space? /data/data or /emmc? In either case it won't do what you're hoping. Its only purpose is to allow you to boot a ROM when mmc storage gets corrupted. It doesn't free space anywhere. Also, I think this is a cmlusco mod.
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Fair enough.
I'm actually not low on space really but I've got all my apps installed to the emmc, which I have mounted as the SD card and I think a lot of the data for the apps may still be in the internal storage. I was hoping to swap it so the apps are installed on internal storage, like they usually are, but they read their data from emmc.
I'm not sure if that's possible but I figured I'd ask. Hopefully I was correct in my terminology; I don't really know a whole lot about android's file system.

[Q] swapping external to internal sdcard

As the title says i am looking for a solution to swap and mount the external sdcard as the internal storage so that the phone is spoofed to treat the external storage as internal there by effectively making use of the huge amount of space as per whatever sdcard you have ( i have a 64 gb card)
Whatever search i have done only addressed pre kit kat versions.
Apparently with kitkat the way storage is treated and the information in regards to the storage is not so clear.
Any experts here to shed some light on this.
bump
I was looking for this as had it on my note 3... Ended up just using foldermount for my OneM8... Still does the job, just manually add folders...
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Regarding Internal Storage issue - Please help

hi guys,
please help me out.. i have no games installed on my device. only required few apps out of which most of them are moved to sd card. all my music/photos is on sd card. yet the internal storage space fills up very quicly and even i cant update my existing apps. an error crops up - not sufficient storage left.
I have to reformat my phone again and again to get storage space reclaimed.
I've been using Clean Master to free up space whenever I update anything.
Side note: looks like Titanium Backup can remove system apps now. Failed in the past, but I just uninstalled Bubbles.
Now if only I knew what was safe to remove and what wasn't.
If an app can be disabled normally, can one assume it's safe to uninstall?
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Integrating system app updates doesn't work. Tried to integrate YouTube, and now it's completely gone. Crap
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bluevolt said:
hi guys,
please help me out.. i have no games installed on my device. only required few apps out of which most of them are moved to sd card. all my music/photos is on sd card. yet the internal storage space fills up very quicly and even i cant update my existing apps. an error crops up - not sufficient storage left.
I have to reformat my phone again and again to get storage space reclaimed.
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Root the device and uninstall all bloatware from system. also, with some effort, you can install Link2SD and move most apps and data to SD-card after Root.

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