I have a VZW G4 with a 128G external card. When I look at the storage calculation, it seems like the data stored by apps on the external card is included in the internal storage calculation. So the internal storage usage reporting seems incorrect.
It looks like it might be related to apps that are configured (in app) to use the external card. They might be throwing off the overall storage calculation. Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior?
I've confirmed that the apps in question are correctly reporting the amount of storage used, but it seems like android is rolling that number up into the internal storage number. The data however is correctly being stored on the external card. I'm wondering if this eventually might impact the ability to install apps, etc.
Thanks,
Mike
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Since getting my incredible I've struggled with how to best use the 8 gigs of internal storage on the phone... especially since many apps still don't recognize/use it.
Currently I only use the internal storage for pictures taken by the phone and manually copied videos (I found mVideoPlayer can be setup to index files within /emmc).
My question is really one of personal preference... how do you use those 8 gigs? What apps have you found that make use of that storage? Have you found any work arounds to trick a program that doesn't support the internal storage to store files there anyhow?
I don't use it for a thing. Lol, I have a 16GB SD card. and three 2GB SD cards haha.
just put some music on it today, mostly that and pictures
5GB of Music/pictures. SDCard is mostly for nandroid backups
I only put custom ringtones and apps on Internal.. Everything else i.e. movies, mp3's, etc go on the 16 Gb SD Card.
For those of you that put music on the internal storage do you use an app to sync the music? Manually copy the music?
I currently use TuneSync because I love the wireless sync, but it only syncs to the sdcard.
How safe is it to use the internal memory for pics? (I know this area is untouched if I wipe and flash a new ROM). But should I be worried about losing my pics?
I don't use my internal storage just so I can see my incredible complain that there is no space left...
Issemann said:
How safe is it to use the internal memory for pics? (I know this area is untouched if I wipe and flash a new ROM). But should I be worried about losing my pics?
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I wouldn't be I use my internal storage for videos and my camera pics and have had no problems
I just turned on the phone and it says it's low on space. There is 13GB avaliable of the 14GB memory card. Is the actual phone memory being used up and how do I clear this?
You clear it by uninstalling apps
Best way to avoid this is by using partitioning your sd card and using link2sd- GOOGLE IT and you'll see what it is
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Your internal memory is getting filled up. Shift majority of your apps to the SD card. Better yet, if you have root, I suggest Link2SD. Xperia Blog wrote up a nice tutorial a while back. (I now have virtually unlimited space XD )
In order to clear which memory is low, check following address:
Settings --> Applications --> Manage applications
the first tab (downloaded), Internal storage is shown. see if there is enough free space on below tab.
on the third tab (On SD card), SD card storage is presented and you can see if it has empty space.
I am having problems with my internal memory dropping below 50MB remaining internal memory and even though I uninstalled several apps (or moved them to my SD card) my internal memory remains nearly the same.
I am wondering if there is some sort of "back-up" folder on my internal phone storage that is taking up a lot of unneeded storage space.
I am running SleeperROM 3.0.0 and have seen some "back-up" folders on the SD card, but don't know where to look on my internal phone storage. I did not have these memory problems when I was running SleeperROM 2.1.0 (or whatever the last version was) even though I had the same number of apps on the phone.
Does anyone know where files cached from internet, e-mail, back-ups are located?
A few apps that updated recently are larger. All apps are stored in data partition on the phone not the Sd card.
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A few apps that updated recently are larger. All apps are stored in data partition on the phone not the Sd card.
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I see that even though I move apps to the SD card, there is still some remnance on the phone. But is there any folder(s) out there that may be storing documents or data from e-mail, web, etc...?
So I'm using converted to GPE 16GB HCT One.
I have 32GB SD card and where possible apps load data to the SD (Google Music, Voice recorder etc.)
If you look at the picture I have 8GB available of internal storage but the graph shows less than 40% free (this does not add up)
Also why apps take internal storage if everything is cached to SD
Last time I had to factory reset because I have run out of storage for some reason and despite removing 3GB i was still low on storage.
Anyone can help?
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So I'm using converted to GPE 16GB HCT One.
I have 32GB SD card and where possible apps load data to the SD (Google Music, Voice recorder etc.)
If you look at the picture I have 8GB available of internal storage but the graph shows less than 40% free (this does not add up)
Also why apps take internal storage if everything is cached to SD
Last time I had to factory reset because I have run out of storage for some reason and despite removing 3GB i was still low on storage.
Anyone can help?
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look for an app called FolderMount in the play store
Thanks bit the app doesn't work for me. I don't have root
Moreover, I don't have any data stored from Google music or voice recorder on internal memory. It's all on the sd card and it still takes up the space of the internal storage.
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Thanks bit the app doesn't work for me. I don't have root
Moreover, I don't have any data stored from Google music or voice recorder on internal memory. It's all on the sd card and it still takes up the space of the internal storage.
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Try the DiskUsage app from the play store. It will tell you EXACTLY what is stored on your phone and where it is. I use it myself. It's a great app to have.
Here is a link to the app.
none of this works
Again:
1. music and voice recordings are stored on micro sd card (they do not show up on the internal storage)
2. Google music and voice recorder data reports taking internal storage (see first screenshot)
3. using DiskUsage app there is nothing on the internal storage yet the graph shows less than 40% of 12GB avail (that would be around 4-5GB) but I have actually over 60% free which isnt expressed on the graps
So, somehow android is incorrectly reporting available storage, but then even if I remove something the graph still stays at the same level.
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none of this works
Again:
1. music and voice recordings are stored on micro sd card (they do not show up on the internal storage)
2. Google music and voice recorder data reports taking internal storage (see first screenshot)
3. using DiskUsage app there is nothing on the internal storage yet the graph shows less than 40% of 12GB avail (that would be around 4-5GB) but I have actually over 60% free which isnt expressed on the graps
So, somehow android is incorrectly reporting available storage, but then even if I remove something the graph still stays at the same level.
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graps?
You do realize that the ROM is on internal storage as well, right? Sense based ROMs are around 1.5gb
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graps?
You do realize that the ROM is on internal storage as well, right? Sense based ROMs are around 1.5gb
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Did you look at the photos and what I have been saying?
I'm running GPE stock (full convert)
Yes I know that from 16GB storage you get around 12GB usable due to OS installation and formatting.
Look at the graph again. you have 8GB free of 12GB available. The graph shows that only around 40% is available (8/12 is not 40%!!!!). If I cache music onto my micro SD card, for some reason that data is counted towards internal storage.
I have a 64 GB card I swapped in to the G7 from an Optimus G Pro, and everything seemed good. Now, I'm finding that when looking in the camera roll I"m seeing a lot of black squares, where it seems that the images are lost. Going into Google Photos, they are missing from there as well. I'm seeing a lot of black squares with no photos. Sounds like the card is failing. I'll see about sending it back to Sandisk...
So, I ended up buying a Sandisk SDXC Ultra 128 GB card to replace the failing card. Do I just put it into the phone when it arrives, or do I need to format it in a PC first? Does it need to be formatted in the phone. Do I need to set cluster size, format it as Fat32 or NTFS, etc... I did notice that there were no formatting tools on the phone itself...the only switch I could find was to mount/unmount the card.
Also, is there some way to direct the phone to send all photos that I take to the card and not to internal memory? Same question with downloaded music. I think (but I'm not sure) that I want to keep the phone's internal memory mostly for apps.
Do I want or need multiple partitions or anything else???
Any suggestions?
Put the card in the phone, I'll do the rest. If not, go to storage in the phones menu and select to format the card. The camera should also ask if you want to save to the memory card.
You'll do the rest?
From doing some reading on the subject, I think I'm going to set it up as Portable Storage, and not Internal Storage. I'm hoping that 64 gigs of built in storage should be enough for apps and whatever resides in the phone and not on the external storage.