Hi Friends,
I brought HTC ONE M8 from singapore...I can see the internal storage as 2GB and rest all around 11GB is disabled as MOUNT USB storage(Internal USB storage for mounting).please find the attached screenshot.please help me out
thanks in advance
huh? What exactly do you want to know?
As far as I view that screenshot it shows that the device has 16GB internal storage, 11GB available for usage(Meaning 5GB used for rest of System). The "Mount USB storage" is greyed out because you do not have an external USB device(OTG) connected to the device therefor it can't mount the external storage.
I don't see where you get 2GB from when you say "I can see the internal Storage as 2GB" nor can I see where you get the idea that 11GB is disabled as mount storage? Wtf???
and for future references its recommended to use well know and dedicated Q&A section for questions to keep them out of the general section where you are now....fairly easy
Please check the screenshot
BerndM14 said:
huh? What exactly do you want to know?
As far as I view that screenshot it shows that the device has 16GB internal storage, 11GB available for usage(Meaning 5GB used for rest of System). The "Mount USB storage" is greyed out because you do not have an external USB device(OTG) connected to the device therefor it can't mount the external storage.
I don't see where you get 2GB from when you say "I can see the internal Storage as 2GB" nor can I see where you get the idea that 11GB is disabled as mount storage? Wtf???
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Please check the screenshot
are you even sure its a genuine HTC one M8
start with giving some real info about the phone. software number, bootloader version and a picture of the bootloader. the outcome of "fastboot getvar all" .... give us something to work with. this is going to be endless by only looking at the storage numbers.
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I read a GN review on cnet that said ICS supported usb mass storage but GN did not. Is that so? Also does GN have a micro SDHC card? Thinking about upgrading to GN but much to consider.
Custom ROM's support mass storage I believe. GN does NOT have a SDHC card slot, 16GB internal memory (on GSM) and 32GB memory (on LTE).
Thanx for the ninja reply. Much appreciated.
Actually, the GN doesn't support Mass Storage because of its unified partition which means that the whole drive is just one partition (think drive C: on Windows) and that is it. For UMS to be supported, the drive has to be unmounted which will cause a system crash and thus is not preferred. Google the reddit thread by one of the Google Android Developers on UMS and MTP. It should prove quite informative
Hope I have been helpful and don't forget to punch that thanks button!!
EDIT: Forgot to mention (no disrespect to Herman76) but I don't think there is any Custom ROM that supports UMS. As I mentioned, unified partition means that they system drive (where your personal data is also stored) cannot be unmounted lest you want the phone to crash on itself. Unless there is a ROM that repartitions the whole drive which will make a mess of your phone anyway so I suggest not EVEN going that route
StickMount, it's a root app.
Kinda misread, thought he meant the other way around he wanted (plugging usb stick to the nexus).
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Hey guys for some reason there is close to 8gb lost on my phones internal memory. I looked on the DiskUsage app and there is close to 8gb that is just taken up by "System Data". Is that normal? I have 32 Gigs total. 26 Available to user. 10 gigs of music. Apps and stuff are on the "Internal Storage" which is 2.11 gigs. Where is the rest? It says the "System Data" alone is worth 8 gigs. Im just confused.
Any Advice or help would be nice. Thank you!
There's a massive thread on it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25568370
Basically you need to copy everything onto your computer, format the card then copy everything back onto it.
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hopscotchjunkie said:
There's a massive thread on it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25568370
Basically you need to copy everything onto your computer, format the card then copy everything back onto it.
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Hey bro thank you for reply and help! Just a quick question. Doing that, will that affect my ability to use my current rom which is CyanogenMod 9. In other words will formatting the internal storage mean that I will have to reflash the ROM onto my phone?
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Hey bro thank you for reply and help! Just a quick question. Doing that, will that affect my ability to use my current rom which is CyanogenMod 9. In other words will formatting the internal storage mean that I will have to reflash the ROM onto my phone?
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No. ROMs are stored in your internal storage, not the user-accessed storage that the phone sets as SD card storage.
ISSUE!
OMG PLS HELP! The USB wont mount after format and says "Damaged SD Card" and "SD Car Error" :/ idk what to do ... I formatted the Storage to regain lost space upon the recommendation of another peson on the forum ... But I formatted on my Mac and it did it as Ex-Fat :/.
PLEASE! any help would be appreciated! Really worried :/
Can you still mount it on your Mac? Try reformatting again - it needs to be fat32 (preferably with 16kb block size).
Cant Mount
no cant mount it. doesnt show up :/
Packer2058 said:
no cant mount it. doesnt show up :/
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I don't know anything about tools available on OSX, so I'm not sure I'm going to be much help for that side of things. If you've got a windows machine sitting around I'd plug it into that; it should recognise that it's not formatted correctly and offer to format it to fat32 straight away. Otherwise maybe something like whatever the OSX equivalent of a partition manager like gParted is would work to write a new filesystem without mounting the drive, but I can't advise you there.
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I am so curious about my phone ROM size. I'm not sure if I was cheated. My phone specs say that Internal Memory(ROM) is 4G but when I check it with Antutu, it show only 222MB. Was I cheated? Please check the link and attachment for screenshot.
http://www.handsetdetection.com/properties/vendormodel/Singtech/SGT-X40
Are you asking about your phones ROM, RAM or internal storage? The only number give in the Specifications is 4GB of internal memory... which means internal storage for apps and such.
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Are you asking about your phones ROM, RAM or internal storage? The only number give in the Specifications is 4GB of internal memory... which means internal storage for apps and such.
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It should be 4GB but Antutu show only 222MB. That's why I'm curious. Did you check attachment for my screenshot?
No the attachment was unable to open for me... But to answer your question I have seen some factory installed ROM's as large as 6gb so im not suprised that most of your space has already been taken. Just add an Micro SD card. Another way to check is to hook it up to your PC and see how much space windows says it should have. You can also find the largest files and see if its bloatware or something else.
steelred said:
No the attachment was unable to open for me... But to answer your question I have seen some factory installed ROM's as large as 6gb so im not suprised that most of your space has already been taken. Just add an Micro SD card. Another way to check is to hook it up to your PC and see how much space windows says it should have. You can also find the largest files and see if its bloatware or something else.
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OK, I attached JPG. Why 4GB turn to 222MB? It is not even close.
First of all you are not in the right forum, this is the i747(m) forum. Secondly the information you are looking at is the physical memory (RAM), and the size of the rom that is installed (ROM, go figure). This simply means that the partition size to install an OS on your device is 222 MB large, which is stored on the internal storage (sdcard). The specs for the device list 4GB total internal storage, after subtracting system reserved space (ROM, Recovery, Bootloader, etc.) you are probably left with a little over 3 GB of actual accessible storage space. The screen shot you have provided does not include the internal storage capacity.
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First of all you are not in the right forum, this is the i747(m) forum. Secondly the information you are looking at is the physical memory (RAM), and the size of the rom that is installed (ROM, go figure). This simply means that the partition size to install an OS on your device is 222 MB large, which is stored on the internal storage (sdcard). The specs for the device list 4GB total internal storage, after subtracting system reserved space (ROM, Recovery, Bootloader, etc.) you are probably left with a little over 3 GB of actual accessible storage space. The screen shot you have provided does not include the internal storage capacity.
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That Internal Storage is ROM, isn't it? Why did you say it doesn't include Internal Storage Capacity? I attached another half of Device Information. Please check.
Rexkh said:
That Internal Storage is ROM, isn't it? Why did you say it doesn't include Internal Storage Capacity? I attached another half of Device Information. Please check.
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No, as i stated in the instance of this screen shot the ROM label is signifying the size of the partition you have available to install an OS, i say it doesn't include internal storage because it doesn't mention internage storage (or sdcard) anywhere in the pictures. I have never used Antutu so i downloaded to see what it looked like on mine and it is much more detailed. I attached a screenshot, and i also attached a screenshot of the storage menu from the settings menu, which is all you need to look at to find out how much internal storage you have. As you can see my device has 1700 MB of RAM (physical memory) and although their label of 'memory' under storage is incorrect and misleading you can see it matches exactly and is in fact the internal storage size...the information you are seeking. You can see the same information on internal storage with the built in storage menu. You will also notice that i only have a useable 12GB, when my phone actually has 16GB internally....this is because of system reserved space. Im not really sure how much more specific i can get about the difference between RAM, ROM, and storage....i hope this helps.
On a commentary note, seriously dude if your device only had 222 MB of internal storage after the intial install size of your ROM you are left with 46 MB, you would be hardly able to install a couple apps and cache a few websites before you phone decided life isn't worth it and jumped out the window.
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No, as i stated in the instance of this screen shot the ROM label is signifying the size of the partition you have available to install an OS, i say it doesn't include internal storage because it doesn't mention internage storage (or sdcard) anywhere in the pictures. I have never used Antutu so i downloaded to see what it looked like on mine and it is much more detailed. I attached a screenshot, and i also attached a screenshot of the storage menu from the settings menu, which is all you need to look at to find out how much internal storage you have. As you can see my device has 1700 MB of RAM (physical memory) and although their label of 'memory' under storage is incorrect and misleading you can see it matches exactly and is in fact the internal storage size...the information you are seeking. You can see the same information on internal storage with the built in storage menu. You will also notice that i only have a useable 12GB, when my phone actually has 16GB internally....this is because of system reserved space. Im not really sure how much more specific i can get about the difference between RAM, ROM, and storage....i hope this helps.
On a commentary note, seriously dude if your device only had 222 MB of internal storage after the intial install size of your ROM you are left with 46 MB, you would be hardly able to install a couple apps and cache a few websites before you phone decided life isn't worth it and jumped out the window.
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Do you think Android 2.3 OS take more than 3GB? It could be enough for OS for PC. I'm not sure if you say ROM and Internal Storage is different?
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I'm not sure if you say ROM and Internal Storage is different?
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That is precisely what i said, in great detail.
I don't get it well. If they are different, why both of them are not mentioned together in specs list. Basically, If Internal is mentioned, no ROM is mentioned. Look at this link for example. Spec show only ROM, no Internal Storage.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-THL-W10...1233484441?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item3cd2baa299
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I don't get it well. If they are different, why both of them are not mentioned together in specs list. Basically, If Internal is mentioned, no ROM is mentioned. Look at this link for example. Spec show only ROM, no Internal Storage.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-THL-W10...1233484441?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item3cd2baa299
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Their specification is labeled wrong. Like i said several posts ago, go into the settings menu on your phone, then storage. This will tell you how much internal storage you have available and a chart of what is using it.
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Their specification is labeled wrong. Like i said several posts ago, go into the settings menu on your phone, then storage. This will tell you how much internal storage you have available and a chart of what is using it.
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One reason I'm trying to figure out if manufacturer sold me what I've been told. The second reason, I want to buy a new phone which is not popular brand like Samsung. If I can't figure out what is the real Internal Storage, I might end up buying a phone with very small internal storage which I won't be able to install many apps. I mean 4GB is really enough for me if it is really 4GB, not 222MB or less.
I have a weird issue with the phone. When I am connected to my PC by wither USB cable or wifi I am seeing 1gb less space than there actually is on the internal memory. For example, when I look at the storage on my phone I have 4gb free, but when I see it on my PC it says 2.99GB. When the free space is less than 1gb on the phone, windows says there is no space at all and I cannot copy anything to the phone. I can copy stuff to the external card and then copy it over to the internal storage with a file explorer but it's a bit of a pain. Any idea what is going on?
This appears to be 1024MB of reserved space set aside for MTP mode on the internal storage. From the Android source:
Number of megabytes of space to leave unallocated by MTP.
MTP will subtract this value from the free space it reports back
to the host via GetStorageInfo, and will not allow new files to
be added via MTP if there is less than this amount left free in the storage.
If MTP has dedicated storage this value should be zero, but if MTP is
sharing storage with the rest of the system, set this to a positive value
to ensure that MTP activity does not result in the storage being
too close to full.
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This is why the SD card shows the full available amount instead, it seems.
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neonpsn said:
I have a weird issue with the phone. When I am connected to my PC by wither USB cable or wifi I am seeing 1gb less space than there actually is on the internal memory. For example, when I look at the storage on my phone I have 4gb free, but when I see it on my PC it says 2.99GB. When the free space is less than 1gb on the phone, windows says there is no space at all and I cannot copy anything to the phone. I can copy stuff to the external card and then copy it over to the internal storage with a file explorer but it's a bit of a pain. Any idea what is going on?
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little different about it is because of different algorithm to read storage. it means some files will be available for an OS.
But more than 1GB is not normal!
try restart phone. mount-unmount sd-card and ...
neonpsn said:
I have a weird issue with the phone. When I am connected to my PC by wither USB cable or wifi I am seeing 1gb less space than there actually is on the internal memory. For example, when I look at the storage on my phone I have 4gb free, but when I see it on my PC it says 2.99GB. When the free space is less than 1gb on the phone, windows says there is no space at all and I cannot copy anything to the phone. I can copy stuff to the external card and then copy it over to the internal storage with a file explorer but it's a bit of a pain. Any idea what is going on?
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I also have the same issue with my android.. It's xperia z ultra... Windows shows less internal storage available space, with exactly 1 gb different, just as OP's story... hope someone can clarify this and the MTP thing....
i was looking in web sides is anybody has this problem, i had to, now windows shows 0,5 gb less storage then is in phone under a MM roms
Good morning,
I have inadvertently found myself where my SGH-i747 running Cyanogenmod 4.4.2 nightly, presently 5/27/2014, shows storage as swapped. I.E. When I go to settings/storage I see 6GB external and 16 GB internal. This wouldn't be a problem except for the fact that I'm getting insufficient storage available even though over 10 GB are shown as available. When I go into a file Explorer there are multiple emulated paths with redundant files/folders.
I'm looking for a thread that will show me how to format both internal and external storage followed by a reinstall of the OS. I've looked for days and while I see plenty of instructions where the OS sees the storage properly, I'm not sure it will work in my environment.
Does the fact that my phone has the storage swapped make a difference when doing a full blown format and reinstall?
If I do need to follow a different set of steps because my storage is logically swapped, would you please point me in the right direction?
My end goal is to have the majority of my storage usable. I have very few apps installed, no pictures, etc... Yet I'm constantly getting out of storage errors. If there's a simpler way than to format the whole device, reinstall OS then restore apps and data, please point me to the right post.
Thank you in advance for your time and assistance.
Regards,
Frank
dionysius65 said:
Good morning,
I have inadvertently found myself where my SGH-i747 running Cyanogenmod 4.4.2 nightly, presently 5/27/2014, shows storage as swapped. I.E. When I go to settings/storage I see 6GB external and 16 GB internal. This wouldn't be a problem except for the fact that I'm getting insufficient storage available even though over 10 GB are shown as available. When I go into a file Explorer there are multiple emulated paths with redundant files/folders.
I'm looking for a thread that will show me how to format both internal and external storage followed by a reinstall of the OS. I've looked for days and while I see plenty of instructions where the OS sees the storage properly, I'm not sure it will work in my environment.
Does the fact that my phone has the storage swapped make a difference when doing a full blown format and reinstall?
If I do need to follow a different set of steps because my storage is logically swapped, would you please point me in the right direction?
My end goal is to have the majority of my storage usable. I have very few apps installed, no pictures, etc... Yet I'm constantly getting out of storage errors. If there's a simpler way than to format the whole device, reinstall OS then restore apps and data, please point me to the right post.
Thank you in advance for your time and assistance.
Regards,
Frank
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Do you see the same storage swap when you view your device on a computer rather than checking on the device itself? I would suggest you switch to a stable or (even if temporarily) stock ROM to see if there would be any changes. Once you've backed up your data, apps etc, a complete system restore would format your device whilst you can easily format the (external) SD card on your computer. Also check the SD card you are using to be sure it is legit and the listed storage capacity is indeed the actual storage. There have been quite a few complaints about SD cards purchased especially on places like eBay that are listed as one thing but are actually another.
Also idk if this helps but KitKat reads SD cards differently so you might be getting weird values
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dionysius65 said:
Good morning,
I have inadvertently found myself where my SGH-i747 running Cyanogenmod 4.4.2 nightly, presently 5/27/2014, shows storage as swapped. I.E. When I go to settings/storage I see 6GB external and 16 GB internal. This wouldn't be a problem except for the fact that I'm getting insufficient storage available even though over 10 GB are shown as available. When I go into a file Explorer there are multiple emulated paths with redundant files/folders.
I'm looking for a thread that will show me how to format both internal and external storage followed by a reinstall of the OS. I've looked for days and while I see plenty of instructions where the OS sees the storage properly, I'm not sure it will work in my environment.
Does the fact that my phone has the storage swapped make a difference when doing a full blown format and reinstall?
If I do need to follow a different set of steps because my storage is logically swapped, would you please point me in the right direction?
My end goal is to have the majority of my storage usable. I have very few apps installed, no pictures, etc... Yet I'm constantly getting out of storage errors. If there's a simpler way than to format the whole device, reinstall OS then restore apps and data, please point me to the right post.
Thank you in advance for your time and assistance.
Regards,
Frank
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try to install this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix;)