Hi xda! i have a question for the devs,
The samsung galaxy note 2 has 16gb internal storage but only 10gb is available
so i discoved that partitions such as cache have 1gb allocated but is 99% empty so is there a way to repartition and claim back some space?
Because aosp installed on a 16gb system should leave 13.3gb space free for user data i understand that touchwiz is Bloated but still why is there too much space allocated to the system partitions
Aosp rom need not to think for OTA.
Samsung have to keep provision for it, we xdaian are just less than 10 % who customizing rom with Odin. 90% are still depends on official update. In case there is major release like 4.3 or klp release for note2 then it may need huge space.
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Dont know but there could be some form of swap/pagefiling to improve the ram of the phone.
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But the question is is it possible to reclaim this allocated space without any issues for those who don't rely on OTA updates. I plan to stick with aosp roms.
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Well why reclaim it back if it could be turned into swap or what ever android systems use to increase ram.
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Hi,
My New N7100 shows the Total Space as 10.36GB and Available space is 9.92GB !! From what i've read before I should have around 10.36GB as available space, is my phone normal???
Go to storage and see what is using space.
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I guess you didn't get my question correctly....I did that already...i'm talking about the actual phone space out of the box
Im having 10.36 as Total and 10.36 as available.
That should be the correct specs on your phone.
Look again if there are some folders or stuff eating up the ~1 gb. Dropbox or something.
zeeshanonlyme said:
Im having 10.36 as Total and 10.36 as available.
That should be the correct specs on your phone.
Look again if there are some folders or stuff eating up the ~1 gb. Dropbox or something.
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Hmmmm.....i'll do that and report back, thanks.
Did you login with your Google play/Gmail account during the initial startup wizard? If you had previously installed apps from Google store it might automatically start installing them and that could be the reason you didn't get the total storage.
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I have less then7 gb available space! No photos, no musics files stored
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Go to storage in settings and take a screen shot of what is using how much space.
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Go to storage in settings and take a screen shot of what is using how much space.
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Here it is..
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Miscellaneous files...
Probably a nandroid backup...
I don't know but maybe N7105T has a bit less space. It's a 200 mb difference.
Imao not a very major issue.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Miscellaneous files...
Probably a nandroid backup...
I don't know but maybe N7105T has a bit less space. It's a 200 mb difference.
Imao not a very major issue.
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Or games data. My Note II came with some demo games. You can click on the miscaleanous line and see wich thing consume the space.
Demos would be marked as apps...
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yes just tap the misc files line to see the files. my note 2 had 9.92 as the out of box storage. there will be little variance in the storage depending on the region it has been released in.
Here it is guys..
This is stock vodafone Australia rom. 7105 lte model without lte option, (voda aus:thumbdown: ) I haven't rooted yet. Thinking to flash new one.
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Like a lot of people, trying to decide between the Note2 and the LGOG.
What is the actual usable storage on the device? Obviously the drive is less than 32gigs, and android OS also takes up space as well. How much data can I actually store on the device?
Usable storage is 25.08 gb
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If you root and rom your phone will it get rid of the 9gig of bloat? Like if the rom takes up 3 gigs will it free up 6 gigs that Samsung stock takes up or just add to it and make it 12 gigs used?
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phantasybm said:
If you root and rom your phone will it get rid of the 9gig of bloat? Like if the rom takes up 3 gigs will it free up 6 gigs that Samsung stock takes up or just add to it and make it 12 gigs used?
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Rooting has nothing to do with bloatware or bloat, before and after rooting the free space will basically remain the same.
Rooting never affected the free or used space of any android phones.
With the stock or rooted stock rom the free space will not change.
Also your math about free and used space just don't seem to compute.
But in any case I wish you the best of luck.
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Thanks. I wasn't using exact math just random numbers to get a point across. I just know our phone comes with 8gigs of free space and the other 8 gigs are being used by Samsung. My question was if we rooted are we able to take back some of that space Samsung uses or does the rom just take away from the space allocated to use by Samsung
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After you root use a program called titanium backup to freeze or uninstall bloat.
Or once rooted flash a bloat free Rom.
Yes, you get the space back
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Thanks. I wasn't using exact math just random numbers to get a point across. I just know our phone comes with 8gigs of free space and the other 8 gigs are being used by Samsung. My question was if we rooted are we able to take back some of that space Samsung uses or does the rom just take away from the space allocated to use by Samsung
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That's where you are wrong, our phones come with 16gb and the free space is almost 10GB before you add any apps or anything else in it.
As soon as you root the phone and flash a good custom rom the free space will go up at least 500MB
because when the devs create these custom roms they usually remove a lot of bloatware.
A good custom rom after being debloated and deoxedized and whatever else the devs do to it takes up approx 1.2GB or less, usually less.
Thats what i wanted to know thank you.
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I'm new to S4, came from Hercules. Running darthststalker, love the rom. I'm running low on storage space. No music or pics right now. Have about 900 mb left. Any ideas?
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Do you have any nandroid backup? Those take up a good chunk of spaces. Thread title say system space our did you mean internal sd space?
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I'm new to S4, came from Hercules. Running darthststalker, love the rom. I'm running low on storage space. No music or pics right now. Have about 900 mb left. Any ideas?
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The total available user memory of all variants of the Galaxy S4 is 9GB .
The rest of the 16GB's are used by the phone's firmware/rom.
And NO the number or size of nandroid backups will not give
you more or less TOTAL available/usable memory.
The more of that 9GB of memory you use up with nandroid
backups or anything else the less you will have leftover.
It makes NO difference how big or many megabytes your rom is.
The additional 6GB's are pre-allocated for the phone to be used
by the firmware/rom and cannot be changed or altered.
Check it out, here are the full specs:
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Samsung-Galaxy-S4_id7597
scroll down until you see "memory"and read the specs. carefully.
Good luck!
Thank you. That makes sense. Gonna have to get a big sd card then!
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I am entering a training program and want to have a heartrate monitor pair with my note II for tracking workouts. But most monitors need at least 4.3, the reason I am upgrading. Usually I just find a rom I like and use it for a long time because it takes so many hours to get everything working just the right way.
I was wondering though since I am on Sprint if anything would change if I upgrade? Right now I can tether and use my laptop with 4g and even play games and get a decent ping. I don't want that to be jeopardized, so what are potential complications.
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I am entering a training program and want to have a heartrate monitor pair with my note II for tracking workouts. But most monitors need at least 4.3, the reason I am upgrading. Usually I just find a rom I like and use it for a long time because it takes so many hours to get everything working just the right way.
I was wondering though since I am on Sprint if anything would change if I upgrade? Right now I can tether and use my laptop with 4g and even play games and get a decent ping. I don't want that to be jeopardized, so what are potential complications.
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Don't actually update but flash one of the custom roms. 4.4.2 is the best choice. 4.3 is buggy and slow. Make sure you read the whole OP of the rom your going to use. There are some things that you must do to get full functionality. Now for tethering you either need to use a mod or 3rd party app.
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You mean tethering is different in 4.4.2? The rom I will be flashing to has tethering listed as a feature so I assume that it is okay.
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You mean tethering is different in 4.4.2? The rom I will be flashing to has tethering listed as a feature so I assume that it is okay.
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Guess it is aosp rom? I was stuck in thought and refering to touchwiz since you said 4.1.2 to 4.4.2. You should have no tethering issues with aosp. No matter aosp or touchwiz the performance and battery life will improve.
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Are all custom roms at this point capable of reading exfat? I know it was a problem in the past... I am looking at dirty unicorn and liquid smooth roms but I can't see anything in the description that tells me...
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All touchwiz roms do. Not all aosp do. I dont uses exfat so I don't pay attention to which roms have it. Converting over to fat is not hard then you never have to worry either.
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But then I am stuck using a 64 GB card at half capacity and with file size limitations
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But then I am stuck using a 64 GB card at half capacity and with file size limitations
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Maybe some else will chime in but I am pretty sure all 64 gigs work as fat/fat32.
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Somebody please chime in here? I want to be able to store files greater than 4gb and use ALL of my 64 GB sdcard
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I know that can format it work as fat32 or exfat.
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I know that can format it work as fat32 or exfat.
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+1 I have a 64gb card formatted as fat32 and I've ran all types of roms.
It's been my understanding that the FAT32 file system limits a single file's size to 4GB (see here). Normally, a FAT32 partition can be no larger than 32GB, but I remember using a utility on a Windows machine years ago that somehow broke that rule.
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It's been my understanding that the FAT32 file system limits a single file's size to 4GB (see here). Normally, a FAT32 partition can be no larger than 32GB, but I remember using a utility on a Windows machine years ago that somehow broke that rule.
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If you use a format utility and increase the cluster size (4k is default with max file of 4 gig) it allows for larger file use.
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