Hi Guys,
After using an Motorla Atrix 4G for some time I purchased a Note 2. Been using it for a few days now I have a question.
My Atrix had a 2gb partition for apps. The remaining space was mounted as sd-card and external cards as sdcard-ext.
Is it possible to create this for the Note 2 as well? Or are we stuck with the current layout (expect for the SD card mount change trick.)
Thx in advance
Morgenavond said:
Hi Guys,
After using an Motorla Atrix 4G for some time I purchased a Note 2. Been using it for a few days now I have a question.
My Atrix had a 2gb partition for apps. The remaining space was mounted as sd-card and external cards as sdcard-ext.
Is it possible to create this for the Note 2 as well? Or are we stuck with the current layout (expect for the SD card mount change trick.)
Thx in advance
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whats wrong with the current layout?
i find the current layout to be much better. on the 2gb partition layout on my atrix 4g and my note 1, i was constantly bombarded with out of space error messages. by unifying the partitions into one storage partition, we can now install 16gb worth of apps instead of 2gb worth of apps without having to mess with apps2sd, which means its a lot harder to hit the out of space error message.
Hi,
The thing is I have installed a few (large) games and some apps and allready I am almost out of diskspace. My thoughts would be to mount the internal memory indeed as one big partition but as an "apps" partition so the sdcard can be mounted as "sdcard" and store big files.
Just so that all the storage can work as intended.
Morgenavond said:
Hi,
The thing is I have installed a few (large) games and some apps and allready I am almost out of diskspace. My thoughts would be to mount the internal memory indeed as one big partition but as an "apps" partition so the sdcard can be mounted as "sdcard" and store big files.
Just so that all the storage can work as intended.
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if you look around on these forums (may not be note 2 specific, may also be in s3 forums), there are a few mods going around. One involves kinda linking your SD card as a folder in the internal memory, the other involves swapping your SD card and internal memory around (allowing up to 128gb as your main partition), i think the latter one might help you.
Hi thx for the reply but that not what I am after. When changing the mount from the external card to the internal memory path u do indeed get hoops of storage but u will sacrifice the internal memory.
The one-x for example also uses a 2gb data partition for app storage and the rest is data partition for (mounted as SDCARD) storing app and game data.
My idea is to change the internal memory of the Note2 to a data partition and the external memory (sdcard) to a proper sd-card mount.
Is this possible?
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I'm coming from a LG G2x and gonna be making the switch over to Sprint for this phone as i believe it is the best of the galaxy s2 variant. I'm guessing this won't be possible due to how these phones emmc nand are setup but gonna ask anyways...
Is there a way for users to re-partition the internal storage from 1.5gb to something bigger (like say 4-6gb) and leave the rest for internal emmmc storage, or even completely use the full 12gb available for app storage?
I already own a 16gb external sd card and gonna be upgrading to a class 6-10 32gb for this phone, so i wouldn't need any internal sdcard partitioned from what should be our user app storage. Especially with games coming out today that exceed 500+ mb of storage this would be extremely helpful.
NVM
I guess the only option i have is to be thankful of the 2gb internal storage it will come with and just use gparted to create an ext partition on external sdcard and then use link2sd.
In the Settings/SD & phone Storage, it shows
SD CARD
Total Space: 1.9GB
Available Space: 1.1GB
INTERNAL STORAGE
Total Space: 6.6GB
Available Space: 6.2GB
PHONE MEMORY
Total Space: 748MB
Available Space: 210MB
Is it possible to move my apps to INTERNAL STORAGE? I tried Link2SD and App 2 SD, but it doesn't allow me to move my apps to internal storage, only from phone to SD card. Thanks!
I don't think that it is possible to move apps to the internal storage. I'm not sure why there is such a huge space that is essentially useless on this phone. At any rate, the easiest way to fix any problem that you have been having is by buying a larger SD card. I know that it probably isn't what you wanted to hear but I think it is the easiest solution. I am not 100% sure but I think that the largest SD supported by the dinc is 8gb, I wouldn't mind being able to stick in a 16gb or 32gb and have all of my music readily available instead of using google play but GP is certainly a great alternative, especially with my grandfathered unlimited data I hope this helps!
I do believe CM7 has an option to switch what you use for internal storage.
If your getting the low space warning or just want to install more apps without getting it, then check out the ext4 mod. It moves your apps data from a tiny partition to a much larger partition giving you more room for apps. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488351
cmlusco said:
If your getting the low space warning or just want to install more apps without getting it, then check out the ext4 mod. It moves your apps data from a tiny partition to a much larger partition giving you more room for apps. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488351
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Don't a lot of the ROMs have that mod built in now?
nschiwy said:
Don't a lot of the ROMs have that mod built in now?
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Yes there are many that do.
The dinc should support up to 32 Gb sdcards according to the specs. I'm using a 16Gb card with no problems.
Also, as has been said, on CM7 you can switch the mounting of the internal storage (emmc) and the sdcard, so the phone sees the emmc as the sdcard. This would allow you to put apps on the emmc.
I must say it seems a bit odd how HTC set up the partitions on the dinc. It is good for one thing though - if your'e a ROM flashing addict, Boot Manager can install ROMS to the emmc. The emmc is faster than your average sdcard, so it works great.
Thanks everyone for the replies. I'm not sure, but is this ROM EMMC supported to switch to internal storage?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267158
It says "EMMC PC mount works" but not sure if I could use this to store my apps in. If it is, do I just drag the apps folders into here?
Any replies would be greatly appreciated!
Guahan said:
Thanks everyone for the replies. I'm not sure, but is this ROM EMMC supported to switch to internal storage?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267158
It says "EMMC PC mount works" but not sure if I could use this to store my apps in. If it is, do I just drag the apps folders into here?
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Emc pc mount means when you plug the phone to the pc and select disk drive the sd and emmc mount to the pc. I assume at one point the rom had issues doing so.
Chek out an app called link2sd. It can move apps to both the sdcard an emmc.
cmlusco said:
Emc pc mount means when you plug the phone to the pc and select disk drive the sd and emmc mount to the pc. I assume at one point the rom had issues doing so.
Chek out an app called link2sd. It can move apps to both the sdcard an emmc.
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In Link2SD, it only shows MOVE TO SDCARD, not EMMC..
Guahan said:
In Link2SD, it only shows MOVE TO SDCARD, not EMMC..
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In the link2sd preferences there is an option to activate saving to emmc.
I see...
Native apps2SD settings > Install Location > Automatic, Internal, or External.
If I choose Internal, it will store the apps in the drive with the 6.6GB?
Update:
It's not saving the apps in the Internal Storage that has 6.6GB, it's either saving it on my phone or sdcard
Guahan said:
I see...
Native apps2SD settings > Install Location > Automatic, Internal, or External.
If I choose Internal, it will store the apps in the drive with the 6.6GB?
Update:
It's not saving the apps in the Internal Storage that has 6.6GB, it's either saving it on my phone or sdcard
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Hmm im not sure i havent used it since the ext4 mod came out.
What EXT4 mod? Does it do the same thing?
Is it this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488351
I'm not getting a low on space issue, just wanting to move apps to the 6.6 GB internal storage section.
Guahan said:
What EXT4 mod? Does it do the same thing?
Is it this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488351
I'm not getting a low on space issue, just wanting to move apps to the 6.6 GB internal storage section.
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The ext 4 mod moves the /data/data partition on to a folder on the l data partition giving you significantly more space to install apps. You.could mount the emmc as sd an vise versa then mobe apps to the sd card which is actually the emmc.
The link I put, is that it?
Guahan said:
The link I put, is that it?
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Yes it is.
Your 2GB is the MicroSD external card, mounted by CM7 as "SD Card", and is used by almost everything, including app storage.
Your 6.6GB is a partition of the eMMC internal card, advertised as an internal 8GB, mounted by CM7 as "/mnt/emmc", and used by almost nothing. Some people use it as a media drive and place their music, pictures, and videos here.
Your 748MB is a partition of the eMMC internal card, mounted by CM7 as "Internal Storage", and is used by the system and the apps. A 150MB partition within this partition called "/data/data" causes "low on space" problems, which can be fixed by uninstalling certain apps or using the Ext4 mod.
If you didn't upgrade your MicroSD card, and you don't use the eMMc for media, you could force CM7 to use the 6.6GB instead of the 2GB. CM7 usually has an option for this called "Use internal storage" but I can't find it on the CM7 builds for the Incredible. So I used the following procedure instead:
1. Copy all the files in your current SD card to the eMMc
2. Edit the vold.fstab file manually, or download it here: https://www.box.com/s/e66b71720ce28911167d
3. Copy the file over using adb or root explorer
adb
Code:
adb remount
adb push vold.fstab /system/etc/vold.fstab
root explorer
Code:
use PC to transfer vold.fstab to your SD card
open root explorer
copy the vold.fstab file
navigate to /system/
navigate to /etc/
mount as r/w
paste the file
4. reboot and enjoy
Hi
I am really tired by apps on SDCard is not working on Note 2 with Jeally Bean. If I install ICS or older version will that work?
I have root it with Odin
Regards
RakeshRaja said:
Hi
I am really tired by apps on SDCard is not working on Note 2 with Jeally Bean. If I install ICS or older version will that work?
I have root it with Odin
Regards
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I think you really misunderstand what A2SD actually does.
If you consider a Note 1 running Gingerbread or ICS, it has 16GB of storage just like the Note 2, but was partitioned in such a way that the lions share of the additional space was on a partition that appeared to be an SD card to the OS and apps (the so called, internal SD card). When you used A2SD on the Note 1, it moved the bulk of the app from the smaller /data partition to the larger /sdcard partition, but it was still taking up space on your "internal" 16GB of storage, and not on the real "external" MicroSD card.
Fast forward to the Note II, the 16GB storage is not split in the same way, so essentially /data and /sdcard are on the same partition.
So, switching from JB to ICS won't mystically make A2SD available on your external MicroSD.
The best ways of achieving the effect you desire is either to "swap" the internal and external SD cards, or to use DirectoryBind in order to make specific directories on your external SD card appear as if they are on the internal storage.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
I think you really misunderstand what A2SD actually does.
If you consider a Note 1 running Gingerbread or ICS, it has 16GB of storage just like the Note 2, but was partitioned in such a way that the lions share of the additional space was on a partition that appeared to be an SD card to the OS and apps (the so called, internal SD card). When you used A2SD on the Note 1, it moved the bulk of the app from the smaller /data partition to the larger /sdcard partition, but it was still taking up space on your "internal" 16GB of storage, and not on the real "external" MicroSD card.
Fast forward to the Note II, the 16GB storage is not split in the same way, so essentially /data and /sdcard are on the same partition.
So, switching from JB to ICS won't mystically make A2SD available on your external MicroSD.
The best ways of achieving the effect you desire is either to "swap" the internal and external SD cards, or to use DirectoryBind in order to make specific directories on your external SD card appear as if they are on the internal storage.
Regards,
Dave
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How can I "Swap" internal SDCards?
DirectoryBind works partially now.. as it just support "sdcard" folder.. while actuall data is on /data/ folder which is not supported by DirectoryBind and DB is not supported by developer anymore
edit: Oh when I say SDCard I mean external SDCard not SDCard of phone.... [Sorry I am totally new to Android. Ex iPhone user.]
Rom toolbox also has the option of app2sd I dunno if you've tried that option or not.
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RakeshRaja said:
DirectoryBind works partially now.. as it just support "sdcard" folder.. while actuall data is on /data/ folder which is not supported by DirectoryBind and DB is not supported by developer anymore
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That's not true.
/sdcard can be changed to any prefix in the preferences.
- Frank
RakeshRaja said:
How can I "Swap" internal SDCards?
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http://leemn.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/galaxy-note-2-swapping-external-sd-card-as-internal-memory/
I'm sure there's an XDA link/tutorial for this, but I couldn't find something "local".
Regards,
Dave
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I would like to add a question to this thread
Is there a way to get ICS on Note 2 GT-7100 by any chance? I use Game-Cih3 speed hack for almost every game as well other apps at times and GAME-Cih doesn't work on Jelly bean. Works on ICS and Gingerbread. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Hi everyone, I'm new to these forums so please go easy. I'm not even sure if this is the right place to post about the n7102 because there's no section for this phone.
Basically, my problem is that I've recently run out of space on n7102. I cannot download more apps from the Google Play Store. I have tried using Lucky Patcher to remove bug fixes and also tried deleting dalvik-cache, but I think that fixes an entirely different problem.
My device has the following storage spaces:
Phone storage: 500mb
Internal storage: 2gb
External SD card: 16gb
For some reason, the phone writes to the external sd card where I store my media files. However, the internal storage is not even used at the moment. Right now, some apps are saved to the external sd card so my widgets take a while to load on startup. I think this might be because I wiped reformatted my internal memory card after i reformatted my external sd card through Settings > Apps.
I want to know if it is possible to:
1. repartition the phone storage (500mb) to include the unused 2 gb internal storage (total 2.5gb); or
2. swap these two partitions (phone storage 2 gb, internal storage 2.5gb)
I do not want to make a partition on my external sd card to extend my phone storage to use as data
I've looked on the web and this is what I have found:
- MT6577 2GB data repartition with int2ext: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1914184
- Swapping internal and external sd card: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716166
- Mounting /data partition onto the internal storage space: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1648411
I've looked at a lot more pages concerning issues similar to this, but a lot of the time they use phone storage/internal storage/external sd storage, etc., interchangably. It can get quite confusing. I understand that android sees its internal storage and external storage space the same.
I've also read about the file "Mt657xRepartition_EN.rar" and wonder if it can be used on the n7102 without any problems.
Anyhow, thanks for reading this. If you can help, please do. I appreciate it. I only recently got this phone and have been tinkering with it the past few days. Before, I had been using an Xperia U that had 2 GB of phone storage vs the n7102's 500mb of phone storage so I have not run into this problem before.
Cheers.
[UPDATE] I am not sure but the two internal storage spaces may not be merged. I might have to try to use link2sd between these two for apps and save the external sd card for personal storage use.
Hello,
Phone: Samsung galaxy grand i9080L.
Now the question:
Am i able to make a single partition of internal storage? Because the phone came with 8 gb but it have 2 partitions on the internal memory, "System" and "Internal SD" , I just wanna a single one to control better things and as if i move to "SD" Its going to the internal SD and the external (MicroSD) Is not on use -_-
GabrielCool1 said:
Hello,
Phone: Samsung galaxy grand i9080L.
Now the question:
Am i able to make a single partition of internal storage? Because the phone came with 8 gb but it have 2 partitions on the internal memory, "System" and "Internal SD" , I just wanna a single one to control better things and as if i move to "SD" Its going to the internal SD and the external (MicroSD) Is not on use -_-
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You cannot use the system partition as it's reserved for the OS.Don't mess up with it, doing so may/will brick your phone If you are on Stock or ANY ROM with App2SD support you can move apps to External SD Card. Check whether your ROM supports App2SD or not.
Trilochanaaya said:
You cannot use the system partition as it's reserved for the OS.Don't mess up with it, doing so may/will brick your phone If you are on Stock or ANY ROM with App2SD support you can move apps to External SD Card. Check whether your ROM supports App2SD or not.
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I can't, that's why, app2sd move em' to "sdcard0" which means (in my phone) emulated/0/ (Folder) and not to the external sd card. Already tryied many ways and still same, and well so.
What i wanted to do? as "system" is the internal storage i wanted to merge it with "emulated" which is the internal storage but in a partition to emulate a External SD Card so if its only 1 internal storage the microSD will work as it should work, because on my older phone(Ice mobile apollo touch) I was able to see apps, data, etc, on microsd as only had 1 internal storage.. Now as the sdcard is even in the internal , the external is empty. Its a problem too for cracked applications that need data/obb.
GabrielCool1 said:
I can't, that's why, app2sd move em' to "sdcard0" which means (in my phone) emulated/0/ (Folder) and not to the external sd card. Already tryied many ways and still same, and well so.
What i wanted to do? as "system" is the internal storage i wanted to merge it with "emulated" which is the internal storage but in a partition to emulate a External SD Card so if its only 1 internal storage the microSD will work as it should work, because on my older phone(Ice mobile apollo touch) I was able to see apps, data, etc, on microsd as only had 1 internal storage.. Now as the sdcard is even in the internal , the external is empty. Its a problem too for cracked applications that need data/obb.
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What ROM are u using?
Trilochanaaya said:
What ROM are u using?
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4.2.2 supossed to be stock, downloaded from sammobile to my operator/country as my ROM was literaly "f*ck*d" for a stupid thing i did so.
I just searched GT-i9080L and the latest android(4.2.2) was the one i downloaded, btw, the partition came with the phone, wasn't made by me or a rom and also, the phone didn't come new, i bought it from 2nd hand.
In Grand Internal memory will be shown as sdcard0 and External memory will be shown as sdcard1. Is external storage i.e. Sdcard1 mounting for you?
Trilochanaaya said:
In Grand Internal memory will be shown as sdcard0 and External memory will be shown as sdcard1. Is external storage i.e. Sdcard1 mounting for you?
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If i use a explorer i can only see 2. SDCard and internal memory, if i search through internal memory i'll find a folder called emulated, inside, another called 0, inside, all the things that should be on sdcard, which means that this "emulated" emulates a sdcard inside the phone. and yeah, external sd = sdcard1.
internal sd(emulated) = sdcard0
internal memory = internal memory o.o
External is actually /extSdcard on stock ROMs afaik.
akiratoriyama said:
External is actually /extSdcard on stock ROMs afaik.
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I know right, but it isn't used as Sdcard, the sdcard that it uses its a emulated sdcard INSIDE the internal memory.
GabrielCool1 said:
Hello,
Phone: Samsung galaxy grand i9080L.
Now the question:
Am i able to make a single partition of internal storage? Because the phone came with 8 gb but it have 2 partitions on the internal memory, "System" and "Internal SD" , I just wanna a single one to control better things and as if i move to "SD" Its going to the internal SD and the external (MicroSD) Is not on use -_-
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2869939
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will it work on s2 plus