[Q] Moving Apps to SD Card: Memory Usage - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I am currently on ICSSGS RC4.2. Recently i was trying out the app apps2SD. I dont have any external micro SD card. I somehow remember when I had tried to do this on GB, clicking on "Move to SD Card" button in "Manage Applications" used to give me an error, and i assumed it is obviously because i dont have an external SD Card.
Now on ICS, i tried "Move to SD Card" and it actually worked.
Now i had certain doubts regarding the attached screenshot. What all does each head under the STORAGE section mean?
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Total - Total memory used by the app
App - Memory used on the android system storage (My Guess)
USB Storage app - Memory used on the internal SD Card (My Guess)
Data - Additional memory used on the android system storage (My Guess)
SD Card - This should ideally be zero,coz any memory used on the internal USB storage should have been covered under the head "USB Storage app".
Can anyone clarify? Also, if I now insert an external SD card, will ICS ever move the app data to external SD? Coz currently the "SD Card" head above is already showing some memory used. Where would the external SD card figure, if at all.
Thanks.

Apps are moved from /datadata to /sdcard, not to the µSD .

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Third, turn the phone off, remove the card, reinsert it then turn the phone on again.
rschenck said:
First, which Nightly are you using and are you using a custom kernel?
Second, try rebooting.
Third, turn the phone off, remove the card, reinsert it then turn the phone on again.
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CyanogenMod-7-07082011-NIGHTLY-GalaxyS
Did it.
Did it.
Just to be sure:
1- Is the SDcard formated?
2- Have you tried it in another device?
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CyanogenMod-7-07082011-NIGHTLY-GalaxyS
Did it.
Did it.
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You are using an older Nightly from before GB bootloaders were supported. I think that is likely the trouble.
Flash the newest Nightly (0831).
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I have an Optimus 4X HD. My firmaware is brazilian 10C, without root. If i buy a micro SD Card, will i be able to save at least my pictures, musics and movies in that ?
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At first, thank you. I have this question cause i dont know WHAT i can put on the external SD.
What abouut the games and others apps... Can i too ?
AG22 said:
At first, thank you. I have this question cause i dont know WHAT i can put on the external SD.
What abouut the games and others apps... Can i too ?
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Games and apps would depend on them being supported by App2SD - which I have never used. With the size of internal storage we have on this phone I wouldn't play with that, but music, photos, books etc can go safely on your SD-Card.
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AG22 said:
What abouut the games and others apps... Can i too ?
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To add in with SimonTS;
App2SD will indeed give you the possibility to move apps from the internal '/mnt/sdcard' storage tot the external '/mnt/sdcard/external_sdcard' storage.
Disadvantage of this method is that Widgets for that app won't work (correct me if I'm wrong).
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Link2SD. Which also moves the data from the app to a second partition on the microSD card. This is called linking. Very useful for phones with like only 256MB storage. I got GB's of apps (offline GPS) on a Galaxy Mini with that method.
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Thank you, bro. It is enough... I will search about prices
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Hello, this is really bugging me, I was hoping to have 8GB memory for apps and 32GB on my SD for obb's and stuff like that but Android 4.4 has the useless virtual SD card feature so the internal storage quickly fills up.
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Here is a screen shot [Note: Apps are taking more space than internal space is available?]:
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I guess that this is what is causing the wrong "Not enough space" message. Clearing the cache from Google Services and Google Play Store sometimes helps if there is still more than 600 MB left, but now I'm completely stuck with 480MB and I cannot even update a 6MB app.
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"internal storage is 75% full"

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My phone gives me the "internal storage is 75% full" from time to time.
Recently, I recorded something on my phone, and the message popped up. So, I clicked it and selected to transfer all photos and videos (which were taking up most of the space apparently) to my micro SD card.
I have a 32 gig micro sd card for my Z1. At the time...there was less than 10 gigs used up. SO, PLENTY of extra space.
When I transferred the content to my SD card, suddenly, I couldn't find some precious pictures/videos in my GALLERY.
. I have used ROOT MANAGER (I have a rooted phone), to copy my DCIM folder from my phone internal storage, and copied EVERYTHING to my micro SD card (which means ALL photos/videos), and chosen to "skip" any duplicates. I did this in hopes the video file I am desperately looking for might have now found its way to my micro SD card.
. I have physically removed the micro SD card and placed it in an SD card reader/adapter, and put that in my computer to try and find the .MOV video file. But, that has also been unsuccessful.
. I tried using EASE USdata recovery wizard (computer program) in an attempt to find and recover the possibly lost video file, but it has proven unsuccessful.
Does anyone have any feedback on anything I may have missed? Is there a directory I'm missing as to where this video file may be?
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