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SD card space

When I went to copy a rom to my sdcard, it said my card was full. I figured it was because of old nandroid backups, so I deleted them, but the sd card space has actually gone down instead of freeing up space.
???
I'm baffled. Anyone know how to fix this?

What size sd card and where did you get it?

It is the one that came with my Incredible.
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Is it possible to delete everything from my SD card and start new? It's saying there is 1.8gb total, but only 28mb available.
Or can I flash roms using my phone storage?
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You can just format it (FAT32). Backup what you need. And maybe store stuff on the internal storage. You have to use the SD card for ROM's etc.
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Internal memory

Does rooting add any memory to the internal phone storage because before I was rooted I had 6.60 gb of memory and after a few custom roms I'm back to stock and still rooted but have 5.90 gb left of memory and ideas and how could I clear internal phone storage ? Thanks in advance
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Format /system.

Reformatting SD card, need some help.

Hey guys, I'm looking to clean out my SD card, I know to format it with FAT32 and 64k but I've been seeing a lot about partitioning it properly, I'm using 4EXT recovery. (FYI - I do have a PC to transfer music, pictures etc)
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Also looking for the best way to partition my internal storage
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Triscuit said:
Hey guys, I'm looking to clean out my SD card, I know to format it with FAT32 and 64k but I've been seeing a lot about partitioning it properly, I'm using 4EXT recovery. (FYI - I do have a PC to transfer music, pictures etc)
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Add sdext partitions, make them both 512mb, that will give you a gig of space to have system files in to free up internal storage
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jeremytn86 said:
Add sdext partitions, make them both 512mb, that will give you a gig of space to have system files in to free up internal storage
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what about swap partition is it necessary?

Is there a safe way to Formatting internal memory.

I plugged in my phone today to transfer a rom over to my sd card and my internal memory was in red status. 732mb avail out of 11gb. I want to clear alot of it out. Is there a safe way to format all of internal memory?
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yaniel06 said:
I plugged in my phone today to transfer a rom over to my sd card and my internal memory was in red status. 732mb avail out of 11gb. I want to clear alot of it out. Is there a safe way to format all of internal memory?
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I've always had luck going into settings/ storage format usb storage Erases all data on usb storage. Be sure to back up anything you may want to keep. Pictures music, contacts

External vs Internal sdcard

I've read in a couple places people talking about putting your ROM image onto external or internal sdcard. What is the internal sdcard? Is this just the phone's standard internal file system or is it something separate? Where is it if I look in a file manager?
Related question: if I use internal storage to upload a ROM image I want to flash, where's the best place to put it? Right in / (root)? Or somewhere better?

Basically it's your internal storage:
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j111 said:
I've read in a couple places people talking about putting your ROM image onto external or internal sdcard. What is the internal sdcard? Is this just the phone's standard internal file system or is it something separate? Where is it if I look in a file manager?
Related question: if I use internal storage to upload a ROM image I want to flash, where's the best place to put it? Right in / (root)? Or somewhere better?
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Internal storage is a 9GB partition on your phone's 16GB internal memory. It acts as if it was any other SD card.
It works fine in conjunction with an external SD card. You will see SD0 and SD1 in any file explorer app. SD0 is the internal. SD1 is the external.
It doesn't matter if you put the ROM you want to flash on the internal or external. Recovery can see it in either place. And the directly doesn't matter. Jus tput it in a directyory you can remember when you're looking for it in recovery. I think most peopl ejus tuse the defaul DOWNLOADS directory.

I usually put the ROMs I'm going to flash in internal storage, but I erase them a lot.
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Yes, in root.
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Thanks for the replies!
When using the different wipe options in recovery, does the 9GB internal partition (sd0) get wiped by any of the typical wipe choices?

Wiping data does.
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