total memory 5.7 gb ?
why?
boramat said:
total memory 5.7 gb ?
why?
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What total memory? is it rooted? on a custom rom? have you installed any apps? more info would be nice
Rayx Revive said:
What total memory? is it rooted? on a custom rom? have you installed any apps? more info would be nice
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total internal sd card memory
rooted
custom rom
i installed apps but all memory so free and used memory total 5.7 gb
then system or rom using abut 9 gb???
boramat said:
total internal sd card memory
rooted
custom rom
i installed apps but all memory so free and used memory total 5.7 gb
then system or rom using abut 9 gb???
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The first thing u need to know is that if you are using a Rom based on the samsungs rom, then it takes around 4-5gb (i.e they say 16gig, but dont mention 6gb rom)
If you shift to a CM based rom you'll have 12-13 gb free.
But, if you want to clear memory, you can use folder mount to shift the data of bigger games to to your external sd card
boramat said:
total memory 5.7 gb ?
why?
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Because you screwed it up. Total memory should be around 10 GB. You probably repartitioned it for whatever reason. Before you do anything else to it, figure out what you did and how you can restore it back to the normal partition structure.
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Because you screwed it up. Total memory should be around 10 GB. You probably repartitioned it for whatever reason. Before you do anything else to it, figure out what you did and how you can restore it back to the normal partition structure.
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i bought 3 days ago
i just rooted and installed custom rom
boramat said:
i bought 3 days ago
i just rooted and installed custom rom
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None of that changes what I wrote. But I do find it funny how you refuse to take responsibility.
To recap, you bought a tablet that has around 10 GB of total memory available at time of purchase, you then completely modified the system to something other than what it shipped with, and now you are wondering why you have roughly half of the available memory. You screwed it up somewhere between 3 days ago and today.
Your question should not be "why I only have 5.7 GB of memory" but rather "how do I revert the tablet completely back to stock and restore the partition table." Unfortunately I can't help you here, but there are plenty people here who can. But the simple answer to your original question is that you did something that caused half of your memory to be unavailable. I would be lying if I told you that I've never had this happen to other Android devices that I've owned, but the reason for it was always of my own doing.
Start a new thread along the lines of "I messed up flashing ROMs and now only have 5.7 GB free," and ask for advice on how to restore the tablet back to stock. You will probably need a pit file and use ODIN. Make sure you specify the exact model number of your device, exactly what and how you flashed, and only flash ROMs that are specifically made for your device. Or even better, just keep it stock rooted.
And for future reference, it would behoove you to give as much information as you possibly can, when you come here with a problem. When it started, what you did, how you did it, how you tried to fix it, etc. Unfortunately, if all you tell me is "I have only 5.7 GB free, why?" all I can tell you is that you messed it up. Most of us don't like to fish for necessary information, which is probably why you didn't get too many responses.
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None of that changes what I wrote. But I do find it funny how you refuse to take responsibility.
To recap, you bought a tablet that has around 10 GB of total memory available at time of purchase, you then completely modified the system to something other than what it shipped with, and now you are wondering why you have roughly half of the available memory. You screwed it up somewhere between 3 days ago and today.
Your question should not be "why I only have 5.7 GB of memory" but rather "how do I revert the tablet completely back to stock and restore the partition table." Unfortunately I can't help you here, but there are plenty people here who can. But the simple answer to your original question is that you did something that caused half of your memory to be unavailable. I would be lying if I told you that I've never had this happen to other Android devices that I've owned, but the reason for it was always of my own doing.
Start a new thread along the lines of "I messed up flashing ROMs and now only have 5.7 GB free," and ask for advice on how to restore the tablet back to stock. You will probably need a pit file and use ODIN. Make sure you specify the exact model number of your device, exactly what and how you flashed, and only flash ROMs that are specifically made for your device. Or even better, just keep it stock rooted.
And for future reference, it would behoove you to give as much information as you possibly can, when you come here with a problem. When it started, what you did, how you did it, how you tried to fix it, etc. Unfortunately, if all you tell me is "I have only 5.7 GB free, why?" all I can tell you is that you messed it up. Most of us don't like to fish for necessary information, which is probably why you didn't get too many responses.
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at the beginning my device had just 5.7-6 gb storage total
but about 3 gb samsung films and musics , my deviced display product but anyone dont touch before, it is new
i erased samsung films and music
rooted and installed stock rooted rom
but i have 5.7 gb still
im loking by advanced partition data, 15 gb total storage but mmcblk10 has 2800 mb and mmcblk1 has 1910 mb storage and they are hidden
i m not seing
boramat said:
at the beginning my device had just 5.7-6 gb storage total
but about 3 gb samsung films and musics , my deviced display product but anyone dont touch before, it is new
i erased samsung films and music
rooted and installed stock rooted rom
but i have 5.7 gb still
im loking by advanced partition data, 15 gb total storage but mmcblk10 has 2800 mb and mmcblk1 has 1910 mb storage and they are hidden
i m not seing
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Ok, this is what I mean by telling you to provide as much info as you can at the start. All of this would be great (absolutely necessary) to know at the very beginning. You installed stock rooted rom, did you use ODIN (a lot of things can go wrong if used incorrectly)? I'm guessing that you did, but did you accidentally repartition? Is the ROM specific for your device and region? And you are saying that the brand new device had only 5.7 GB available storage or total storage. Either way, I still maintain that there is something wrong with your partition table.
My partition table is as follows:
mmcblk0: 15028.0
mmcblk0p9: /system 2519.8
mmcblk0p12: /data 10110.5
mmcblk1: seems to refer to my SD card, 30436.5
Those are the main relevant ones. There are other small portions. I used the app called partition table to pull this info. My device is wifi-only 16 GB.
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...and by safe I really mean a logical, usable size for caches etc. In example, a size which wouldn't give me problems when, I'm browsing in "heavy" websites, downloading through marketplace, or receiving messages and emails.
Since I got my desire and flashed the latest LeeDroid ROM, I've started installing apps like there's no tomorrow. Naturally, most of them I just try and discard, but a lot of them I just keep on my phone even if I use them once a week, or even once a month. With A2SD enabled, I currently have a whopping 188 apps installed. I think they will soon classify a psychiatric condition named after me. That leaves me with around 25mb left in Internal storage, and around 20mb remaining in A2SD.
On my Touch Pro, again, with a [censored]load of apps installed, I usually left around 30mb of free memory, just for various caches. Would it be wise to do the same for android, or should I just wait for the "low space" notification to start clearing things out?.
So I'm wondering. How much free storage you guys have on your desire? And how much would you consider it would be wise to leave free. Would a full-featured site use more than, say 10mb of cache? Would we ever need more than 10mb of cache for mail or messages? Any other serious disadvantages of having an -almost full- internal storage space?
(I already got brut mod for google maps, so maps cache ain't a problem)
Sorry for the long post and possibly needless question... insomnia at it's best
akpidis said:
... How much free storage you guys have on your desire?
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Hit the wall today...
became unstable ..
trouble getting data connections (good reception area)
Camera app not connecting to camera
slow
Down to 8MB internal free !! (cachemate only freed additional 2MB)
214 apps ;-)
A2SD(+) 1.24 GB free / 1.92GB total
Time to delete apps now
Need a better a2sd(+) or bigger phone !
Yes I think that until the memory leak in the contacts storage is fixed, we Desire users are going to have to get used to doing a hard reset every month or so. Currently have 85mb of phone storage left after a hard reset last week. Before that I was down to 12Mb.
130MB using SuperVillain. I only have around 25 apps though.
Leave 10% or more free. Less than 10% will cause things to start breaking.
memory
hi guys iv got about 110 apps or so and still got 305mb mem on my desire and thats internal memory buy using data2sd very good the only problems i got is my phone crashes and freezes now and again thing its my sd card so is going to try another
I'm using LeeDroid's ROM and am left with about 22MB - how are you lot doing an app count? I know I've got quite few apps installed. It's a shame we have to worry about this. I thought I had saw the end of it when I moved from WM6.X devices!
Apps2ext/data2sd (or variants) seems to be the way forward, but as said, there seem to be stability issues at the moment.
The new Nexus S comes with 16GB nand memory - this is what all android phones should have had from the beginning - bigger internal memory.
WARNING, dont get it wrong.
The new Nexus S indeed has 16GB memory ...
But only 1GB for internal memory where you can use to install app.
It has 13 GB as "emulated SD card".
Read this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868772
sh500 said:
I'm using LeeDroid's ROM and am left with about 22MB - how are you lot doing an app count? I know I've got quite few apps installed. It's a shame we have to worry about this. I thought I had saw the end of it when I moved from WM6.X devices!
Apps2ext/data2sd (or variants) seems to be the way forward, but as said, there seem to be stability issues at the moment.
The new Nexus S comes with 16GB nand memory - this is what all android phones should have had from the beginning - bigger internal memory.
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That's still a lot of apps to be stored in 1GB! If that guy up there fit 200ish apps in around our 140MB of space with A2SD+, then theoretically you could put like nearly 1000 apps on the nexus S!
Ah I see...I take that back then!
How comes Apple can do it with their phones but none that are running Android can?? Is it simply a cost thing?
It's obviously apparent that many Android users are installing apps/games mounting way over 500MB.
Got data2ext and have 1.7GB free. I left some directories on the internal storage and created some links. I have to say it working pretty well. Almost no performance lost. Only noticed performance issue while playing asphalt hd.
But the internal storage of nexus s is a step forward. But still more improvement needed. Once they fix those storage issues we will get greater and bigger apps.
R
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214 apps ;-)
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down to only 172 apps (29 MB internal free)...
I Figure I could get another 100MB internal free by repackaging
a ROM by removing 99% of the install packages
and installing manually from copies from the FAT32 Sdcard after first boot.
This fresh install would push most of the installed files to the A2SD+ ext3 part of the sdcard.
Seems a waste of space having over 100MB flashed on r/o ROM storage,
taking away from internal:
/data/app/*.apk [9 MB]
/system/app/*.apk [98 MB] {HTC* 30MB }
/system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip [2 MB]
Anyone tried this approach?
I suspect knowing what to leave to have a minimal system is the trick?
Can I boot with 0 system apps installed ?
I'm thinking "why not" , I can use the command line adb , so I don't think
I even need a gui or fileexplorer app at all ?
Will think about it when the latest LeeDroid has stablised... TBA
65 apps installed, for 55 MB total, and I've got 16MB of free internal storage...
Seriously, I'm reading a lot of thread on this matter and I can't figure out: what's wrong with this phone internal memory?
HTC States 512MB Rom and 576MB RAM (can't put the link here 'cause I'm noob but you can google it), if I'm not wrong the Rom is the apps storage, right?
With DiskUsage I see 147MB of total internal storage memory (a recurrent number, but on the threads I read no one seems to care about the 365MB vanished like fog in the mouring), occupied for a good 90% by apps, cache and data.
I've the official last Froyo Update (I only rooted it with unrevoked and substituted the recovery but the ROM is the official one), and I've set on SD card all the apps that permit it.
Yes I know that I must install app2sd and I'm shure I will do it soon, but that is not the point.
The point is: please, someone can explain to me where I'm wrong in my calculations, or what bug or know issue I'm missing?
spile wrote: "Yes I think that until the memory leak in the contacts storage is fixed..." but again: even this search lead me to an endless list of topics in wich someone say: "Hey my contacts storage on HTC Desire is 40MB, how's that? " and someone other: "Use apps2sd 'cause HTC is bad".
Worst: that's not my case, my contacts storage state 3MB.
Again I know that in a way or another I'm ending this with apps2sd, but again I say it's not my point: my point is I want to undestand where is the problem and, most of all, if complaining directly to HTC is a waste o time that put me as the last one in a row of people condemned to ***** about HTC Desire's memory for the rest of their's life
Sorry for the long rant but I've done my search (at least I've tried, maybe I missed that one topic of revelations) and I want to put all the informations on the table so to not waste more time of yours ^^;;;
Thanks anyway
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HTC Desire, software version: 2.29.405.2, rooted with unrevoked 3.
paulgun said:
I Figure I could get another 100MB internal free by repackaging
a ROM by removing 99% of the install packages
and installing manually from copies from the FAT32 Sdcard after first boot.
This fresh install would push most of the installed files to the A2SD+ ext3 part of the sdcard.
Seems a waste of space having over 100MB flashed on r/o ROM storage,
taking away from internal:
/data/app/*.apk [9 MB]
/system/app/*.apk [98 MB] {HTC* 30MB }
/system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip [2 MB]
Anyone tried this approach?
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On second thoughts, it appears freeing space in /system,
won't really help /data much, so this would not help:
androidforums.com/desire-all-things-root/220627-faq-apps2sd-2.html#post1952939
sh500 said:
Apps2ext/data2sd (or variants) seems to be the way forward, but as said, there seem to be stability issues at the moment.
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After trying a dozen other things, I'd have to agree...
forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1598676#r2
Hit another wall today...
215+apps ;-)
A small number of apps won't install, even though >1GB internal free
using data2sd method.
talking-santa-free
raging-thunder-2-lite
The logs show it failed due to internal space
Perhaps /cache is too small now ?
im using my own cooked rom, and have atleast 300 apps installed, and i have 58mb free internal storage with 22mb cache partition, 190mb system partition and 222mb data partition
100mb free after 144 apps installed. Have N1table for data partition of 200mb. And app2sd helps a bit. No need for data2ext
Teleported from my brain cells
I've installed about 20mb of apps (fb @ 4.8mb, music app 5mb, rest = 10x<1mb apps w/ no cache usage) yet still only have about 14mb. Somehow I'm missing 100mb ish on a RUU'd Desire. Annoying.
Cirunz said:
65 apps installed, for 55 MB total, and I've got 16MB of free internal storage...
Seriously, I'm reading a lot of thread on this matter and I can't figure out: what's wrong with this phone internal memory?
HTC States 512MB Rom and 576MB RAM (can't put the link here 'cause I'm noob but you can google it), if I'm not wrong the Rom is the apps storage, right?
With DiskUsage I see 147MB of total internal storage memory (a recurrent number, but on the threads I read no one seems to care about the 365MB vanished like fog in the mouring), occupied for a good 90% by apps, cache and data.
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It did not vanish, the 365 mb is used by android system files and other stuff HTC throws into the phone. In theory, we only have 140+ mb to install apps.
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Hey,
So over last weekend I installed the RCMixS rom, and it works good, for the most part.
I experience the following bugs first of all:
-Random restarts
-Randomly deletes alarms
-Lockscreen screws up sometimes (GO SMS Pro icon doesnt show sometimes)
-HTC Flipclock does always shows old time for a split second after bypassing lock screen
Also, I have barely installed any apps, and I have only 16MB left... I was able to install more apps using the stock software with the desire :s
Finally, I only have about ~100MB free of memory, no matter what. On the only stock software, I had close to ~250MB free usually.
Anyways, im new to roms and rooting. Is this normal? I was under the impression after I root I would get rid of all the HTC crapware and have more free space... but apparently not? Is there a better rom with HTC sense 2.1/3.0 mix out there?
Thanks!
Hmmm? Anyone?
Wow, ok. Thought this would of been replied to by now since I read it last night (sorry).
Anyway, bugs. There will always be bugs in software, especially software that is ported and is a hybrid rom, being Sense 2.1/3.0.
As for storage. The internal storage is ****. By the time you install the rom and nothing else you will have about ~130MB of internal memory available. That's where A2SD comes in. By default, when you flashed the rom it would of installed an A2SD script so no matter what apps you install, you have enough memory for it. You can't see how much space is available by going into your settings, you'll need a file explorer or an app that can read the ext partition.
Meaple said:
Wow, ok. Thought this would of been replied to by now since I read it last night (sorry).
Anyway, bugs. There will always be bugs in software, especially software that is ported and is a hybrid rom, being Sense 2.1/3.0.
As for storage. The internal storage is ****. By the time you install the rom and nothing else you will have about ~130MB of internal memory available. That's where A2SD comes in. By default, when you flashed the rom it would of installed an A2SD script so no matter what apps you install, you have enough memory for it. You can't see how much space is available by going into your settings, you'll need a file explorer or an app that can read the ext partition.
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Oh okay, but I keep getting the low-space message, anyway to fix that?
Yeh. Use a2sd. Did you create an ext partition when you flashed the rom? Like I said by default it installs one. The rom shouldn't even boot without it.
Swyped...
Meaple said:
Yeh. Use a2sd. Did you create an ext partition when you flashed the rom? Like I said by default it installs one. The rom shouldn't even boot without it.
Swyped...
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Yup, I created a 1GB ext3 partition.
is a2sd an app from the market?
nah!! its not an app..its a feature..a2sd stands for applications to sd card..most of the apps that you install can be moved to fat32 partition of your sd card..you vil find a .android.secure.blah blah name folder on fat 32 partition..But if you use custom roms which have a2sd+ feature then the apps will be stored in sd-ext partition of your card...
A2sd+ is useful because even if you connect your phone to pc via disk storage mode,you can access all the apps whereas the opposite happens when you use only a2sd...ie you cant access apps when connected in disk storage mode!!
Hmm, so apps are automatically moved? But i keep getting the low storage warning on the desire
blackdragon12 said:
Hmm, so apps are automatically moved? But i keep getting the low storage warning on the desire
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well!! not all data can be moved!!even I get that stupid warning..
lordvoldemort said:
well!! not all data can be moved!!even I get that stupid warning..
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EDIT: Okay, i tried downloading some apps, and I got the message saying "Error not enough space to download app"...
blackdragon12 said:
EDIT: Okay, i tried downloading some apps, and I got the message saying "Error not enough space to download app"...
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donno wat went wrong but I was also gettin same error wen using RCmix rom..so switched to reflexS..its workin fine
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/22945-i-cant-download-anything-bigger-than-5m-from-the-markets/
Right,
First things first, where are you?
Secondly, when did you get the phone?
If you're in the UK and you got the phone in June/July/August/September 2010 then the chances are your phone is faulty and that is the cause of the reboots. I had this happen to me so I'm going by experience here. I got a new phone and the problems completely disappeared.
Secondly, if you're running out of room:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110921
http://uploadingit.com/file/t7etuhfk1zj4hwog/RCMixS_v2.0_D2EXT_Wmjan.part1.rar
http://uploadingit.com/file/i2wdwu9xmuledzer/RCMixS_v2.0_D2EXT_Wmjan.part2.rar
Download those modified versions of this ROM and use that as it gives Data2EXT instead of A2SD+. So instead of giving the ROM 1GB of the SD card and still running out of space, you give it 1GB of SD and don't run out of space.
Kryten2k35 said:
Right,
First things first, where are you?
Secondly, when did you get the phone?
If you're in the UK and you got the phone in June/July/August/September 2010 then the chances are your phone is faulty and that is the cause of the reboots. I had this happen to me so I'm going by experience here. I got a new phone and the problems completely disappeared.
Secondly, if you're running out of room:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110921
http://uploadingit.com/file/t7etuhfk1zj4hwog/RCMixS_v2.0_D2EXT_Wmjan.part1.rar
http://uploadingit.com/file/i2wdwu9xmuledzer/RCMixS_v2.0_D2EXT_Wmjan.part2.rar
Download those modified versions of this ROM and use that as it gives Data2EXT instead of A2SD+. So instead of giving the ROM 1GB of the SD card and still running out of space, you give it 1GB of SD and don't run out of space.
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I live in Canada, and I bought the phone August 2010 from TELUS.
So basically, its the ROM thats glitching? I just need to use a different ROM? Does that mean I have to reinstall a new ROM and re-download my apps and settings?
Thanks!
Hello everyone,
I know I'm pretty new here but I have been digging these forums for a few days right now.
I recently bought a faster 16 GB SD Card and rooted my phone to install bigger and other ROM.
But I found verry little info (maybe I didn't looked has much or at the right place) about the swap space you can create in your sd card.
What I read was that it was usefull for the system but when I look at the differents ROM thread they never or very rarely talk about a needed swap place in the sd card partitioning.
Right now I created an ext4 partition with a little bit more than 1gb and a swap with +- 400 mb.
So my question is, is it really usefull or no?
ps: sorry for my english
Gil- said:
Hello everyone,
I know I'm pretty new here but I have been digging these forums for a few days right now.
I recently bought a faster 16 GB SD Card and rooted my phone to install bigger and other ROM.
But I found verry little info (maybe I didn't looked has much or at the right place) about the swap space you can create in your sd card.
What I read was that it was usefull for the system but when I look at the differents ROM thread they never or very rarely talk about a needed swap place in the sd card partitioning.
Right now I created an ext4 partition with a little bit more than 1gb and a swap with +- 400 mb.
So my question is, is it really usefull or no?
ps: sorry for my english
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As far as I know, there are vrey few ROMs that require swap partition. It is usually requested in the first post of the ROM's thread.
Ciobby said:
As far as I know, there are vrey few ROMs that require swap partition. It is usually requested in the first post of the ROM's thread.
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Ok, thanks !
I will re create my sd card then
Well after a few rom tested I'm not so sure about this...
Ok they never talk about swap space. But the general problem I have when I install a big rom with Android 4.x is that the memory is always full.
Therefore the phone becomes extremly slow when I launch a few applications.
The only solution I found is to install an app to manage the RAM and free some space. But even with this, I need more ram as it's almost alway full.
I will try with a swap of 512 Mo but I have no idea how other people can manage this.
If anyone have a tip about this, it would be great .
Gil- said:
Well after a few rom tested I'm not so sure about this...
Ok they never talk about swap space. But the general problem I have when I install a big rom with Android 4.x is that the memory is always full.
Therefore the phone becomes extremly slow when I launch a few applications.
The only solution I found is to install an app to manage the RAM and free some space. But even with this, I need more ram as it's almost alway full.
I will try with a swap of 512 Mo but I have no idea how other people can manage this.
If anyone have a tip about this, it would be great .
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If you use the native a2sd scripts that come with 4.x ROMs, then that's your problem. Those scripts only move data/app to sd-ext, leaving the rest on internal. Most of the memory is occupied by dalvik cache.
This script should also move dalvik to ext. Try it.
http://db.tt/m4sQLDOI
Don't forget to backup first.
I never used a swap partition. I think there's no need for it.
abaaaabbbb63 said:
If you use the native a2sd scripts that come with 4.x ROMs, then that's your problem. Those scripts only move data/app to sd-ext, leaving the rest on internal. Most of the memory is occupied by dalvik cache.
This script should also move dalvik to ext. Try it.
http://db.tt/m4sQLDOI
Don't forget to backup first.
I never used a swap partition. I think there's no need for it.
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Thanks for your anwser but right now I'm using this rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2213033
And I already moved dalvik and data to sd in the installation. I tried every option there, only data, only dalvik and both. Only both is working.
But this doesn't change the RAM used (or maybe it's not so important that the RAM becomes full?)
I also tried other 4.x rom and moved everything but at some point I think there is too many info in the ram and the Desire becomes really laggy.
Gil- said:
Thanks for your anwser but right now I'm using this rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2213033
And I already moved dalvik and data to sd in the installation. I tried every option there, only data, only dalvik and both. Only both is working.
But this doesn't change the RAM used (or maybe it's not so important that the RAM becomes full?)
I also tried other 4.x rom and moved everything but at some point I think there is too many info in the ram and the Desire becomes really laggy.
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creating a 512MB swap partition is pretty much useless as most ROMs don't implement it. It's a redundant partition which could either be used as extra sd-ext for apps or FAT32 space for music etc. It can cause problems as well depending on the order of partitions.
Even if somehow it could be used, it won't suddenly turn the desire into a phone with 1GB RAM...that's not the way it works. In cases where it is used, only a small swap partition ~25-32MB to occasionally swap a few things in and out of memory. Even then whether it actually makes a difference is dubious imo.
I would recommend repartitioning from scratch again, remove the swap partition. You don't need it, and the ROM you're running won't recognise it's even there.
It's laggy not only because of RAM, and can't be solved by magically adding more of it . Android memory works differently as well, so free RAM is wasted RAM, you shouldn't have to monitor how much is free at any given time. A big part of the lag is simply because it's a JB ROM which is simply very resource heavy on the desire relative to GB ones.
eddiehk6 said:
creating a 512MB swap partition is pretty much useless as most ROMs don't implement it. It's a redundant partition which could either be used as extra sd-ext for apps or FAT32 space for music etc. It can cause problems as well depending on the order of partitions.
Even if somehow it could be used, it won't suddenly turn the desire into a phone with 1GB RAM...that's not the way it works. In cases where it is used, only a small swap partition ~25-32MB to occasionally swap a few things in and out of memory. Even then whether it actually makes a difference is dubious imo.
I would recommend repartitioning from scratch again, remove the swap partition. You don't need it, and the ROM you're running won't recognise it's even there.
It's laggy not only because of RAM, and can't be solved by magically adding more of it . Android memory works differently as well, so free RAM is wasted RAM, you shouldn't have to monitor how much is free at any given time. A big part of the lag is simply because it's a JB ROM which is simply very resource heavy on the desire relative to GB ones.
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Thanks for the informations.
Right now I only have an Ext4 of 1 Gb + 15 gb in Fat32. I didn't had the time to recreate the partitions again. So won't do it.
Well I thought it was a RAM issue because without the ram manager app some functions becomes hard to load like.
If I receive a call the phone rings but wait some time before loading the info to display about the call.
Or if I want to answer an sms the keyboard takes time to load.
Same thing with the apps.
With the ram manager it generally loads faster but some time it gets buggy because there is too much work to do to free space (I suppose).
Well that leave me not alot of options about the capacities of the phone .
Maybe just go back to 2.3.x
Flashed slimbean via freegee/cwm. All works fine however, the available memory shows ~20GB with a total of 23GB. The 23GB is the same as what was available with the stock firmware.
Should I have increased my memory due to slimbean being much smaller than the stock?
Or is this a case of the locked bootloader and the original rom still taking up its own space and I just boot into slimbean due to loki, thus I only have the 23GB to work with to put a ROM on and apps, etc.?
Thanks.
think I figured out the issue. . .
To answer my own question, possibly. I need to format system in cwm if I want the old ROM gone, but is that ok to do on the OGP?
formating system + works
after more reading, for anyone else who is curious, I found that formatting some of the partitions is required. If you are on stock and don't format anything and install a new rom, that rom will be put in a new folder which will take away ~3GB of space. After formatting a few of the partitions the new ROM installed properly and I have back the 23.3GB of space.
i wanna know, there is any way to completely format the HTC one M8? what are the risks? can i be able to push rom?
every time i flash new rom 6 gb stay ant i got only 10 gb free
husharon said:
i wanna know, there is any way to completely format the HTC one M8? what are the risks? can i be able to push rom?
every time i flash new rom 6 gb stay ant i got only 10 gb free
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Could you please elaborate further on what you mean by "6 gb stay ant i got only 10 gb free"?
Also if you are S-OFF/bootloader unlocked you can flash a custom recovery (in this case TWRP) and use the 'Format Data' option in Wipe. It will completely wipe your internal storage (pics music, etc all files not on sd card), and leave your /system in tact. If you want to remove everything including your ROM then you can do Format Data, then Advanced Wipe and tick /system, /data, /cache & Dalvik Cache and wipe them all.
husharon said:
i wanna know, there is any way to completely format the HTC one M8? what are the risks? can i be able to push rom?
every time i flash new rom 6 gb stay ant i got only 10 gb free
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Well that's only a problem if you have a 32GB phone. If you have a 16GB phone, how much free space did you expect to have if the OS takes up about 5-6GB? Another 64GB free?
Not, I mean when I wiped data I have only 10 gb free, where are another 6 gb?
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Not, I mean when I wiped data I have only 10 gb free, where are another 6 gb?
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The other 6GB are used for the system, like I said before.
They don't install the entire system on a single partition. The HTC One M8 has 47partitions on the device. How is going to clear the data inside the partitions going to resize the partitions as well? It'll be the same unless you specifically resize the partitions yourself.
If I have a disk of 100GB and I make 25 partitions using 3GB, I used up 75GB leaving me with 1 partition of 25GB to put on whatever. Now I fill up the 25 partitions(75GB) in total, does that mean that on my 25GB personal data partition I suddenly have -50GB available? If I clear out all the data on those 25 partitions, does that suddenly mean that I have 100GB free space on my data partition along with 75GB total over 25partitions? No...
It's the same concept here. HTC uses 47 partitions on the device, among those 47 partitions is a data partition(For example 10GB free? ). On the other 46partitions they flash things like Radio, recovery, boot, cache, the system(1GB+) etc etc. You don't generally use ANY of the space on those partitions for yourself, you only get 10GB from the data partition. So out of the 16GB internal storage they gave you 10GB for data(For example) and the rest they split up between the various different partitions. Those partition sizes already get deducted from the 16GB just like my example above. Even if you wipe them clean until the blue moon turns to Swiss cheese you still won't get back those 6GB, it's part of other partitions.
I hope I explained ok, anyone else that wants to jump in to add and/or correct feel free.
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Not, I mean when I wiped data I have only 10 gb free, where are another 6 gb?
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Already explained above, but the short answer:
16 GB is the total storage capacity of the embedded SD memory chip. It in no way means you will have all 16 GB available as user accessible storage. Its simply impossible. A chunk of the memory has to be used for the OS, as well as other purposes (the partitions mentioned in previous response). In particular, just the Sense OS takes up at almost 2 GB.
Around 10 GB user-accessible storage is normal. No amount of formatting is going to change that.