OK, I got my Sprint TP2 yesterday and was playing around with it. I installed my SD card that had some files on it and when I tapped on one document file by mistake it "unzipped" it to the internal storage completely filling it.
I've looked all over but cannot seem to locate the internal storage memeory on the phone.
HELP!
Thanks in Advance.
OK, never mind. But.....
OK, after I opened it back up today I started looking at it like my old PDA and found the file and deleted it.
But..
I'd like to free up more internal memory as it shows I only have 158MB free. And only 59MB free for program memory. I'll be getting a 16GB card soon to replace my 2GB I have but I'd like to have more internal memory.
What programs/files can I delete safely from my Sprint TP2 to free up more space?
JohnMcD348 said:
I'd like to free up more internal memory as it shows I only have 158MB free. And only 59MB free for program memory. I'll be getting a 16GB card soon to replace my 2GB I have but I'd like to have more internal memory.
What programs/files can I delete safely from my Sprint TP2 to free up more space?
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158MB of "Storage" memory is actually quite a bit -- it's 60% open/empty. Considering that a lot of applications are less than a 1 MB, and a huge one is 5MB -- you still have room to install dozens directly to the device. To minimize use of Storage, install as many apps as possible to your card. And, wherever possible, configure settings on apps to store their data to the card...and set the camera to save to the card, etc. Even a 2GB card is a lot of space -- unless you're carrying full-length, high-quality movies.
Program memory gets filled up by stuff that's currently running, so deleting installed programs won't free up more of that -- unless these programs run automatically/all-the-time.
MCbrian said:
158MB of "Storage" memory is actually quite a bit -- it's 60% open/empty. Considering that a lot of applications are less than a 1 MB, and a huge one is 5MB -- you still have room to install dozens directly to the device. To minimize use of Storage, install as many apps as possible to your card. And, wherever possible, configure settings on apps to store their data to the card...and set the camera to save to the card, etc. Even a 2GB card is a lot of space -- unless you're carrying full-length, high-quality movies.
Program memory gets filled up by stuff that's currently running, so deleting installed programs won't free up more of that -- unless these programs run automatically/all-the-time.
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Yeah, if you have 158MB storage free on the phone right now, be sure to take a screenshot if it so you can look back later and remember "back when" you had still had that much free space
MCBrian is right, moving stuff to your memory card is the best way to free up space on the phone's memory and keep it from filling up unneccesarily. Like he said, first change the camera settings to always save to the card, otherwise that will always eat into your available on-board storage, and quickly. I would also suggest going into the current album of pics on the phone, deleting anything you don't want to save, and move whatever you do want to save into a "pics" folder on your card (HTC's photo album can include pics saved there as well). Same for music...store any and all of it on the card, not the phone's memory. The one caveat with that is that the HTC music player (the music tab in touchflo) doesn't always find music on the card, not for me anyway, but I never liked that player anyway.
Managing my memory that way has given me enough space that even with dozens of programs on the phone, all of them installed to the phone's memory, I still have 95MB free space for programs on there. In fact, I still have a fair amount of junk (stuff I tried but don't use, etc) in there that I need to go clear out. Installing some of your programs to the memory card can help too, but if you're careful you can keep enough storage memory on there available to be able to avoid ever needing to do that (and the hassle that comes with trying to figure out which programs are ok with being installed on the card, as well as managing/maintaining separate install locations).
If you're going to start using file explorer to dig around in your directories, I highly recommend you first install File Explorer Extension. It simply adds a lot of the stock destop file explorer functionality that's missing in the mobile version ("open with>" in the context menu, for example!)...makes a HUGE difference in ease of use when digging through your file structure. I attachted it below, "fexploreext v2.05.CAB"
For keeping your RAM ("running" memory) from growing too fast, I also suggest running the other 2 cabs I have attached below (SSK TP2 Dynamic Resource Proxy.cab and nopushinternet.cab), they make a big difference in the active memory management on the TP2, you'll probably see a noticable difference right after soft-reset.
Thanks for those CABs. I'm pretty good at managing the storage on things like this, I just couldn' find the files/folder on the newer phone using the options available in WinMo6+. I've been using an Axim for years runnign WinMo5 and earlier versions. Storage cards are pretty easy for me as I'm use to running stuff between the Main/CF/SD cards that I had on the Axim. I just have alot to learn about the newer 6.1 OS. Probably, by the time I get used to 6.1, Sprint will come out with 6.5(6,7,whatever) and I'll get to relearn everything all over again.
If there are any other programs you'd recommend to help me out I'd greatly appreciate it.
JohnMcD348 said:
Thanks for those CABs. I'm pretty good at managing the storage on things like this, I just couldn' find the files/folder on the newer phone using the options available in WinMo6+. I've been using an Axim for years runnign WinMo5 and earlier versions. Storage cards are pretty easy for me as I'm use to running stuff between the Main/CF/SD cards that I had on the Axim. I just have alot to learn about the newer 6.1 OS. Probably, by the time I get used to 6.1, Sprint will come out with 6.5(6,7,whatever) and I'll get to relearn everything all over again.
If there are any other programs you'd recommend to help me out I'd greatly appreciate it.
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Well the file structure is obviously still pretty much the same windows-standard, just some locations moved around. The bad news is that none of the programs installed by default in the stock rom are removable through the normal remove programs dialog, or any 3rd-party app I've seen. However you can just go perform the same steps manually by deleting any folders matching the program/publisher's name in these locations:
<root>/program files
<root>/application data
<root>/windows/start menu
...and then searching in the registry to delete any keys in there for the program as well. You'll need a registry editor to do that, I've attached my favorite free one, PHM Regedit...just search your registry by the name of the program you're removing. If you're not familiar with messing around in the registry, there's guides available here, let me know if you need me to point you in that direction. And, as always, be SURE to make a backup copy of your registry (PHM can handle that for you) before making any changes.
Here's a couple of other utilites I've found useful:
Advanced_Configuration_Tool_v3.3.cab -Gives you acccess to all sorts of advanced UI and system configuration options, a favorite and often-referenced tool here at xda.
Extra Camera Modes.cab -unlocks some capture modes that the TP2 camera is capable of, but aren't enabled from the factory on US models. New modes include MMS video, Burst, Sport, and geotagged images
SDK certs.cab -windows authentification certifcates necessary for installing many hacks/apps/cabs/etc that are available here
DivXPlayer_PPC.cab -a lean, mean .avi player from the people who came up with DivX (the codec standard, not the movie rental crap lol). I rip my DVD's at home to ~700MB DivX files, save them on my memory card, and use this app to play them...it gives far better performance and quality than any of the other players I've tried.
Very Much appreciated.
Now, I seem to have another probelm and I don't know if it's my unfamiliarirty with the newer Sync Center or am I just doing something wrong, or if it's an issue with the programs I've got.
I'm new to both Win7 and WinMo6+(and touch flo, etc). Up to now I had XP(w/ ActiveSync) and my WinMo5 Axim.
I can't seem to get my programs installed onto my TP2. I use a prgram for work called Tarascon. It's a medical reference program. I tried to install it yesterday and I never got the repsonse on the TP2 to request permission to install it. Today, I tried to install SOTI's Pocket Controller and this time I did get the request and I installed it to the device but I can't find it anywhere on it. It didn't install an Icon on the device and I've looked through every place I could think and can't even find an installation file for it. I didn't get an install error or failure notice and my memory size dcreased 2MB so something happened.
Glad to help
Since I don't really know anything about the medical reference software you're using, my first suggestion would be to check with the publisher and make sure that the version you have is compatible with Win7 and WM6.x...often software that worked on WM5 won't work just right on 6.
As for SOTI Pocket Controller, the latest version available on the site should be compatible with your setup. When you install it, are you doing that by running a .exe file on your PC and then letting Mobile Device Center (the new generation of ActiveSync) handle the install from there? It might be advisable to just moving the .cab file for the program straight to your phone (device memory or storage card is fine), and run it from there to install...bypasses the MDC, and ends up doing the same thing in the long run. In fact, it might be worth trying the same thing (running the .cab straight from your phone) with the medial software you've got.
It might just be that I'm using Ver4 and it doesn't want to run right with the newer install setup(MDC).
It worked fine when I installed it on my Axim(WinMo5) and using WinXP(ActiveSync).
Another odd thing, every time I plug in my TP2 and MDC starts to Sync, I get the request from Win7 for the Tarascon program to initialize. So that tells me something, somewhere set a pointer to my TP2 to update the program. I think.
I have question about accessing the "external" (which is now internal) memory of the Galaxy Nexus through the SDK. On the Galaxy Nexus there is no external storage available since it is now built-in (16/32GB). I was wondering how I (as a developer of Android applications) can access this new user-storage mechanism. Especially when the phone has both internal / external storage capability (if that is possible). I came up with two possibilities:
1) There can be only ONE storage mechanism in a device. Either the one that the Galaxy Nexus is using or the traditional SD-card based storage. If this is the case then both types of storage mechanisms can be accessed using android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() which is kinda strange since the method name is not really appropriate anymore and I would have guessed that Google would have introduces some unified method, something like "getUserStorageDirectory()" and made the old one deprecated. Anyways... this seems most likely to me.
2) There is some other way to access the "external" storage mechanism from the Galaxy Nexus. Of which I could not find any reference inside the SDK documentation.
The first possibility seems the best one since it is backwards compatible... but then my second question becomes... where is android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() pointing to? With an SD card this is (in most cases) /mnt/sdcard but what is the path with this built-in user storage from the Galaxy Nexus?
Can someone with a Galaxy Nexus give more information one this? I looked into the configuration of the emulator but there seems no way to simulate the built-in memory from the Galaxy Nexus (which again... points to possibility #1
Thanks!
It'll probably be the same as honeycomb and still pointing to /mnt/sdcard. There are too many apps out there that hardcoded the location..
I'd hoped they'd add an API to add multiple SD cards etc. but they didn't for HC and I can't see anything in the ICS API either.
Yep its definitely still /mnt/sdcard
PS: questions go under q/a or general if q/a doesn't exist
Edit: It works "like" the old apps2sd
G'Day, i have been trying too run Phone2sdcard with no success. I have been in touch with the developers abd this is there claim..
The device does not have a real primary external storage, or the primary external storage is emulated.
On Galaxy SIII, the SD card is configured as a secondary external storage.
This is configured by Samsung. Nothing developers can do about this.
Please contact Samsung for details
I did, this was there answer:
Thank you for contacting Samsung Customer Care.
It means that according to the makers of the application that because of the way the Samsung Galaxy S III is configured this application will not work with it. This configuration cannot be changed either so you will not be able to use that application.
I would suggest that you check the Google Play Store for an alternative application with a similar function and you may be able to find one that will meet your needs and can work with the Samsung Galaxy S III.
Does anyone know of an app that will do the job
Thanks
poor reply from samsung
this is what they reply to me too
Based on your issue, we regret to inform you that for S3 models, apps
> cannot be transfer to SD Card as this is the concept design.
>
> We apologise for any inconvenience cause.
Alternative
There is a alternative (Directory Bind) but you will require root, it also requires some work but once you get it setup it works pretty well, certain games will load slower when put on the external card as its not as fast as the internal card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
LawlietHD said:
There is a alternative (Directory Bind) but you will require root, it also requires some work but once you get it setup it works pretty well, certain games will load slower when put on the external card as its not as fast as the internal card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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i know there is a fix , glad i am on android , one thing which i dont understand is why samsung disable this when its already available last time , anyway i will be flooding samsung customer care to get my message across
Aimara said:
poor reply from samsung
this is what they reply to me too
Based on your issue, we regret to inform you that for S3 models, apps
> cannot be transfer to SD Card as this is the concept design.
>
> We apologise for any inconvenience cause.
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LawlietHD said:
There is a alternative (Directory Bind) but you will require root, it also requires some work but once you get it setup it works pretty well, certain games will load slower when put on the external card as its not as fast as the internal card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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Thanks mate, i don't want to root my sIII. Cheers
Hi, I have looked in the past for an answer but does our phone (att model) have the ability to use SD card as primary storage, especially for games? I hoping just overlooked something. Although some apps do merge internal & external for storage calculations, that's the best I get..
Seems pointless to even have a branch of this nice feature if I still have to uninstall stuff to make space..
Thanks in advance!
Hi, I'm thinking of buying a new phone and right now I'm looking at the Redmi Note 5 (global version = equivalent of Note 5 Pro). But in review on notebookcheck, I've noticed that this device doesn't allow SD card to be set as the internal storage, and thus the app data can only be stored in internal storage.
One of the main reasons why I buy a new phone is so I can download Kiwix wikipedia on it and have it available when I'm offline - so I'd like to ask, is there any issue getting the apps on the SD card? Or better yet, does anyone have the full kiwix wikipedia on their phone/can someone possibly test it for me? Thank you very much in advance.