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Internal phone memory slow?

The internal memory on my t989 is incredibly sluggish, there isn't a whole lot of storage being used. Only a few gigs. Tried to transfer a 200mb file onto the internal memory and it took 10 some odd minutes. :/
Could anyone provide me with some insight on speeding it up or should I just try and RMA the phone? Would I benefit from completely reformatting my t989?

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EpicPie said:
The internal memory on my t989 is incredibly sluggish, there isn't a whole lot of storage being used. Only a few gigs. Tried to transfer a 200mb file onto the internal memory and it took 10 some odd minutes. :/
Could anyone provide me with some insight on speeding it up or should I just try and RMA the phone? Would I benefit from completely reformatting my t989?
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What ROM are you on?? Sounds like your read cache is set to 128kb.
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internal memory is Class 10
it's pretty fast IMO
you just need to clean up some junks and not keep installing as much Apps/Games to the SD card
the more Apps you have, the slower it takes

AllGamer said:
internal memory is Class 10
it's pretty fast IMO
you just need to clean up some junks and not keep installing as much Apps/Games to the SD card
the more Apps you have, the slower it takes
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Pm sent sir
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RushAOZ said:
What ROM are you on?? Sounds like your read cache is set to 128kb.
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CM9 nightly. The latest one.

SD card

I am not able to move any of my apps over to my sd card? Is there something I should do so I can do this? Thanks
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We don't have an apps2sd. I can't remember if that's just the way ics is set up or if its cause the phone is set up that way. But there is a mod in the dev section that lets you swap internal for external
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Thanks I will search for it.
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why do you need to? you have 16gb on internal storage... then an extra sd card for media etc...

Not sure why he needs it, but I would like it as I have two Gameloft apps installed. They're huge and take up gigs of space. Would be nice to move them easily to my 64 gig SD.

c_86 said:
why do you need to? you have 16gb on internal storage... then an extra sd card for media etc...
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Because I could save space on my phone. I have just always moved apps to my sd card
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[Q] internel sd memory

Hey guys just a question I have just connected to my pc and ive just noticed after all tis time of having it lol that the internel sd memory is at 10.36gb is this right as I thought with and internel sd of 16gb we would have pritty much most of it
Thanks

brockyneo said:
Hey guys just a question I have just connected to my pc and ive just noticed after all tis time of having it lol that the internel sd memory is at 10.36gb is this right as I thought with and internel sd of 16gb we would have pritty much most of it
Thanks
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Yes this is normal.

retrorom said:
Yes this is normal, 2GB are for RAM, some for the OS etc. and the rest is free memory.
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Wth does ram have to do with nand memory?
To OP. That is correct amount but not cause of RAM. The 16gb memory is partitioned for system, cache data etc.
And the one left is your sdcard.
You can always an external sdcard for music, photos and movies.
But game data and some other data like from gps apps must install in internal.
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mariosraptor said:
Wth does ram have to do with nand memory?
To OP. That is correct amount but not cause of RAM. The 16gb memory is partitioned for system, cache data etc.
And the one left is your sdcard.
You can always an external sdcard for music, photos and movies.
But game data and some other data like from gps apps must install in internal.
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I just read something about nand memory being used as ram extension. I have no idea if that is the case here or not. http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/The_adoption_of_NAND_Flash_as_a_Seamless_Extension_of_RAM_Memory
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If I understand that correctly it means that after ram is filled it will use nand space as virtual ram. I think that would decrease read speeds as nand is significantly slower than ram.
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mariosraptor said:
If I understand that correctly it means that after ram is filled it will use nand space as virtual ram. I think that would decrease read speeds as nand is significantly slower than ram.
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Yes that is what I understood from the article too, so we have dedicated 2gb of ram that has nothing to do with the 16 gb of storage, right? I wasnt entirely sure
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retrorom said:
Yes that is what I understood from the article too, so we have dedicated 2gb of ram that has nothing to do with the 16 gb of storage, right? I wasnt entirely sure
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Yes. Ram is autonomous memory. Nothing to do with the internal 16gb nand flash memory.
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Thanks for your answers and great news thought I had screwed up some of my gb somehow lol
Thabks again for the help

How do I use Sd card

I cant seem to figure out how to get apps that ive downloaded on my external sd card I only have a class 4 16gb sd but everything goes to device instead of card
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This is a major flaw with the note. You can put data on the card, but you cant put apps or cache movies from google play, etc...
It is a limitation with jelly bean, but samsung has not provided a work around. I will research this more before buying my next phone.
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One potential solution is to get a bigger sd card and swap the internal and external storage. For example I have a 64 gig sd card that my note 2 now sees as internal storage. With your current 16 gig card it makes no sense to do this, but if you NEED more storage for apps this may be the only way. As far as I know there is no way to transfer app data to the external sd, but if this is incorrect someone feel free to correct me. If you are interested in swapping the sd card to internal storage this was the thread I followed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036796
EDIT: I've heard that some people are having success with an app called "link2sd" from the play store, but it wouldn't work consistently for me. Maybe worth a try though...

Thank you very much for the great info ..I will give that a shot ....xda community Rocks !!!!
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What's the size of the system partition

I am a bit confused it say on the main page 4GB ROM what is that...?
I wish it did..

spannernick said:
I am a bit confused it say on the main page 4GB ROM what is that...?
I wish it did..
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That is the total storage our phone has. Roughly 1GB for apps, 0.7GB for system and around 1.7 GB internal SD card if my memory is serving me right.
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