Is it possible to separate my internal storage to be internal storage and another partition to be external storage.
Uses:
• Keep TWRP backups on device but still be able to wipe it off completely.
• Keep my "Music" files on device and still be able to wipe device without losing them.
• Offload my Primary ROM into "external Storage" while I experiment new version of android or custom ROM in internal storage.( I haven't checked if multitom is supported for this device yet tho so maybe that's not yet viable)
Those are the main uses I'm thinking of. I have a 128 GB device. If I can partition it, it might eliminate my needs for using a OTG cable and USB again
Any help would be highly appreciated, thank you very much
-Farhan Pasha
As far as I know, there isn't any way to partition most android devices with the stock ROM. You may be able to achieve this with a custom ROM, but I've never heard of one that has separated partitions. I had a ROM on a phone I had few years back that used 8 of the 16 GB available but I didn't have access to the other 8 GB of storage (it was a sketchy ROM). It was just unallocated and inaccessible by the device, so even in that case, it wasn't useful. I would just stick to the OTG.
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i was wondering, when we can get ASOP/AKOP or CM9/10 we can re-partition the glide to have only system partition and the extranal sd card can act as the internal one. we all know that the 8GB is not enough, especially with 2gb system and 6gb sd card - i have 2gb in system and 4gb in sd card - but if we can combine it to full partition then it will be more then enough as a basic install space - cos allot of apps can be moved to sd card and leave little room on the system partition.
It's already possible to change the mount points so that your physical sd card is mounted as /sdcard, and the internal storage takes its place at /sdcard/external_sd. It's a quick vold.fstab edit. You can see my post about it here, with a pre-modified file and a backup of the original.
You'll need root and busybox (or some form of file explorer with root permissions) to copy the file over, but it's pretty straightforward. As for repartitioning the internal storage to be used for /data, I've got no clue how to do that, but this is a reasonable enough workaround.
i know about that workaround but still there some side effects to it, like the usb mounting in the PC.
still i think its doable if creating aosp from source with cross with our ics source from samsung..
maybe a more knowledgeable dev can shed some light on the subject.
Changing the actual partitioning isn't something that's commonly done, as it can wreck compatibility with roms (including official updates) that expect things a certain way. The only issue in ICS with the vold.fstab edit is the internal memory isn't mounted on the phone at boot, you have to manually mount it any time you reboot. MTP file transfers work just fine (with your physical sdcard being labeled Phone and the internal labeled Card) as does the legacy USB Mass Storage mode.
If you really want to mess with it, look into partition editing using parted. This can go very very wrong, and may not work at all, so proceed with caution.
i see thanks for the info
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;)
Hi all,
I have a question regarding a phone i own. I flashed cm13 on it and i see it shows only 11.xx GB. Is this normal ? The phone is 16gb
Thanks
I own a 32 gb model and storage wise i think i only have 24 available so much is reserved for system partition plus other partitions efs aboot ect so id about say its normal
I know but on my wifes Galaxy s5 it shows her internal space is 16gb and if i remember correctly my phone showed that as well on the stock lg firmware. See video what i mean. CM13 shows something else (picture first post)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=_VzCganiKo8
Mine does that after a while what I usually to do is if there is nothing you need on internal storage is to boot into twrp wipe internal storage ,making sure you have your rom on ext card (don't want to wipe that do we) then flash my rom.
This leaves me from a clean install with about 8 or 9 gb left to use on internal storage.I think what happens over time is a lot of useless files tend to build up on internal card and this is the reason you don't have much space left and also the operating system takes up quite a bit as well.
just buy a 64gb micro sdcard... or even a 32gb if you don't need much more, they are really cheap.
part of the missing space is the partition information space and the space used by the system/recovery/cache etc. on android 6.0 you can format it as internal.
How can i format that space ? I am running CM13 that uses Android 6.0.1
Here another screenshot from the recovery, why does the recovery not say i have 16GB ???? i don't really understand why it's not listed.
Because it shows available storage not total
Oke thanks for the answer.
I looked everywhere before I tried this today and found very little info so I thought I'd post my successful dirty flash of LineageOS.
I've been using Unofficial LineageOS on my Note 10.1 (2014) LTE (SM-P605) for a little while now and it has rejuvenated my tablet. Recently I integrated the SD Card (64GB) to internal storage (16GB) and now storage is listed as 73.15GB. However updating LineageOS became a problem in TWRP 3.0 as TWRP doesn't see the 'downloads' folder etc... because the SD Card is no longer external storage and TWRP can't read it, doesn't see it as storage at all actually.
But I solved this by putting the OS and vendor images on a USB drive and used an OTG adapter which TWRP can use. ADB and Fastboot work fine, by the way, with the SD Card as internal storage. As I understand it the ROM, system, vendor, radio, bootloader partitions etc... are still on the 'real' internal storage so my updates have gone smoothly AND I save storage space by not putting the ROM's etc on my device. I run a rooted device so I can set the kernel to permissive and that way the SD Card is recognized on boot as shared storage. Sometimes on reboot it isn't recognized and I have to take the card out and reinsert it to get LineageOS to read it correctly. The only error if that happens seems to be dropbox and photos apps crash at first as they must check the missing area for files at boot. But they work correctly once the card is reinserted.
YMMV
Linuxmon
In my system settings 'storage' is listed now as:
Internal shared storage - 9.93GB used of 14.68GB,
Sandisk SD Card - 14.51GB used of 58.48GB.
For a total of 73.15GB
Running Lineage 14.1-20170422-Unofficial-lte03lte
with latest radio, vendor, bootloader and gapps (Bean, mini).
As a side note; back up your internal storage encryption key on another device so you can decrypt your SD Card later if needed. Just sayin'
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/145443/how-to-decrypt-adopted-storage
Linuxmon said:
I looked everywhere before I tried this today and found very little info so I thought I'd post my successful dirty flash of LineageOS.
I've been using Unofficial LineageOS on my Note 10.1 (2014) LTE (SM-P605) for a little while now and it has rejuvenated my tablet. Recently I integrated the SD Card (64GB) to internal storage (16GB) and now storage is listed as 73.15GB. However updating LineageOS became a problem in TWRP 3.0 as TWRP doesn't see the 'downloads' folder etc... because the SD Card is no longer external storage and TWRP can't read it, doesn't see it as storage at all actually.
But I solved this by putting the OS and vendor images on a USB drive and used an OTG adapter which TWRP can use. ADB and Fastboot work fine, by the way, with the SD Card as internal storage. As I understand it the ROM, system, vendor, radio, bootloader partitions etc... are still on the 'real' internal storage so my updates have gone smoothly AND I save storage space by not putting the ROM's etc on my device. I run a rooted device so I can set the kernel to permissive and that way the SD Card is recognized on boot as shared storage. Sometimes on reboot it isn't recognized and I have to take the card out and reinsert it to get LineageOS to read it correctly. The only error if that happens seems to be dropbox and photos apps crash at first as they must check the missing area for files at boot. But they work correctly once the card is reinserted.
YMMV
Linuxmon
In my system settings 'storage' is listed now as:
Internal shared storage - 9.93GB used of 14.68GB,
Sandisk SD Card - 14.51GB used of 58.48GB.
For a total of 73.15GB
Running Lineage 14.1-20170422-Unofficial-lte03lte
with latest radio, vendor, bootloader and gapps (Bean, mini).
As a side note; back up your internal storage encryption key on another device so you can decrypt your SD Card later if needed. Just sayin'
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/145443/how-to-decrypt-adopted-storage
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I just recently bought a demo mode 605 model and can't seem to get booted into twrp. It puts me at the yellow triangle. Do you have any tips, please.
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Hi all. Is it possible to wipe everything but the internal storage before flashing a different ROM? I have a load of stuff on my storage and don't want to have to copy it all off and then back on again afterwards when want to change to a different ROM. Used to do this all the time on my other phones
Thanks
I'm sorry to say that I don't think there is a way. It's been asked a few times before, but I haven't found any way to do that. That's one of my pet peeves for not having MicroSD card slots on the Pixels (and many devices these days).
If TWRP is ever updated for Android 12, plus made available for the Pixel 6/Pro, then we should be able to do that.
I routinely backup everything in internal storage to my PC for the express purpose of doing what you ask. I use wireless FTP but you can do it anyway you want. It is easily restored after wiping. As far as doing this with TWRP, I've all but given up hope for that to ever work again. It is effectively obsoleted I'm afraid.
I have my p6pro internal storage synced to OneDrive with the onesync ultimate app, except for /data , but Swift backup takes care of that.