S5830i running out of free space for no reason - Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey all,
My friend just got his Galaxy Ace S5830i couple of weeks a go, and he isn't a phone\computer expert, i helped him install several apps on it (waze\whatsapp\tunein\ Facebook and.. that's it)
and the phone reports that he is running out of space, it says he have 20mb left out of 200mb, but he have 2gb sd card with 1.8gb free on it, it doesn't seam like there is any app that he can move to the sd, I attempted to use the app called "apps 2 SD", i got him rooted for this app to work and it says that there are no apps that could be moved to the SD card.
what gives? how can this be solved? how can i force move apps to the sd card or remove locked system apps that he doesn't use (like voice search, Google navigator\street view, alarm clock, memos etc, Samsung account related apps)?

Root the phone and use some a2sd script!
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shaaan said:
Root the phone and use some a2sd script!
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I did, in the format of a program (app) that requires root permission, i therefore rooted the phone beforehand, and I did move 2mb worth of apps.
any other idea? perhaps the script you refer to can do something the app cant?

also try cleaning all the Dalvik cache it, I hope I have helped.

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EsromG5 said:
also try cleaning all the Dalvik cache it, I hope I have helped.
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Did it just now, no effect what so ever, 167mb available, 23mb free, phone screams for space to be free, any nonlocked app is on the sd, most of the others removed, why did Samsung make a phone with total of 300ish mb storage is beyond me, the much older galaxy s 1 had 8gb in the cheap module, i mean .. come on didn't they think that a simple user might ran out of space by simply using 5 utility apps??
very very sad for my friend, which in turn is mad at Samsung, also shop dont accept return for any reason after 14days (which is inline with the laws here) so he cant do jack, i suggested selling it as "as new" condition with bonus of free screen protector, case, and the original box for say 70% of the new price.. not sure if he will even manage to move it that way :-\

samXLR said:
Did it just now, no effect what so ever, 167mb available, 23mb free, phone screams for space to be free, any nonlocked app is on the sd, most of the others removed, why did Samsung make a phone with total of 300ish mb storage is beyond me, the much older galaxy s 1 had 8gb in the cheap module, i mean .. come on didn't they think that a simple user might ran out of space by simply using 5 utility apps??
very very sad for my friend, which in turn is mad at Samsung, also shop dont accept return for any reason after 14days (which is inline with the laws here) so he cant do jack, i suggested selling it as "as new" condition with bonus of free screen protector, case, and the original box for say 70% of the new price.. not sure if he will even manage to move it that way :-\
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You only tried one app. It may be buggy.
I'd suggest trying the Link 2 SD app. Just long click on any (user) app in the list then try to move it.

Look into partitioning sd card and linking apps to the partition using link2sd. This is by far the method that frees more memory in stock rooted devices.
To remove system apps you don't want:
Link2sd and/or titanium backup can be used to uninstall system locked apps.
Manually you can remove system apps by going into system/app with a root explorer (es file explorer is a free app for this) then delete the .apk and matching .odex files of the apps you don't want.

Method 1:
Use a App Cache Cleaner
Move applications with Link2SD
Link apps using SD partition and Link2SD
Use A2SD
Method 2:
Amarullz Script:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591079
Read it carefully!

Move Apps from phone to SDcard Using Link2SD
that worked for me

A phone...with 300 mb...i know roms worth a gb. I dont own a ace myself but i can tell you that if an app cant be moved to sd card via settings>applications>manage apps>[app name]>move to sd card then it wint move. Because some apps are made so that the files it accesses can only be in one big file. Some however (like some games) have 2 folders that it can access seperatly. Like save data and the game itself. One the save data is accessed it dosnt need to load any more information from the sd card. It will only re write the data. But with things like facebook it cant keep going between login details and app. Once logged in it keeps that information until you log out. If it part of it were in the sd card then it would keep telling you to re-log because it looses your data once it switches back to phone memory. Because of this most apps that require something that must be read all at once with app and login at the same time. Also the ace is low on ram. If you moved apps like that onto the sd card it would slow down as well. Apps like app2sd are kinda useless as it does the same as the manage apps part of settings. Even if you did move an something to sd card you would still have the app and needed data in phone memory so not alot of memory would be moved unless its something like a game as i said. The phone storage keeps the levels all in one. But the game data will unlock those meaning more game data space than app space. Or maybe you could try delete system apps with that there rooted device. Should improve memory quite a bit. Right now i dont even know how i wrote all this...but still. I say samsung mucked up if the ace has 300mb. My phone is only a wee bit better (0.1 inches...yes...you heard) and even my phone is alot better then this and the best part is...its a samsung! Anyway. I hope i helped you.
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Thank you all for the replays !
I have downloaded titanium backup and with it I am backing up bloatware and then uninstalling it (and then moving the backup out of the phone and to my friend's computer.. just in case)
next up I plan to follow the wiki in regards to SD card partitioning:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/SD_card_partitioning
in order to format the sd card to two partitions, data partition (fat) and ex2 (if i understand correctly) so that I could link apps to that parttion (the ex2 one)
and then I plan to use link2sd to link app's data to said partition
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD
then I plan to uninstall link2sd as its not neccery for day to day operation.
and then I am going to check that app moving script here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591079
to see if i can get something out of it
just as an FYI, the phone got 384mb (according to the wiki) out of witch only 220 is visible, and stock status (first boot up) + whatsapp\waze\tunein\facebook\shazam .. the phone sits on 196mb used and 24mb free, at which point it screams for space, that is the source of all the problems of this device.
not to mention the low ram quantetiy, which in theory shouldn't even be a problem as long as you use one app at a time (no tunein radio while facebooking, for example) which is acceptable.
again, many many thanks for all the helpful replays ! !
I am going to post an update once I am finished with titanium backup root (free).
* in regards to formatting\reparttioning the sd card, did i get my idea right? its part FAT (for pictures and mp3 files) and part Ex2 for apps, so from a 2gb memory card I could in theory get away with 1500mb FAT partition and 500mb EX2, assuming I plan to not install any additional apps and just need some breathing space (23mb is clastor****bik to say the least)

I even went as far as to find the startup\shutdown sound files and replace them with one byte (1/1000 of a KB) size silent file to save additional ~150kb.
I removed oh so many system apps and Samsung bloat ware nonsense, googled some safe-list apps posts made on xda and used them to guide me as for whats safe to be removed, live wallpaper, Samsung accounts, all share, duel clock and many others are now gone.
and I am now on whooping 25MB free with 165MB used, nothing else to do, used all apps and scripts I simply cant free more space.
the free space error msg is gone now, the phone can receive SMS messages once more, but few Waze updates and some more sms and I am not sure how well will it be :-\
my friend is so furies at Samsung, as am I :\

Use the following command in Terminal emulator :
pm setInstallLocation 2
After this all apps will be installed to sd card by default!
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Use the following command in Terminal emulator :
pm setInstallLocation 2
After this all apps will be installed to sd card by default!
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Thanks, done that now, but that is not the problem, the problem is only having 25mb free as is, even with new pictures saved to the sd card and new softwares install to the sd card, some stuff simply stay on the internal memory and the only thing left for me to remove is the internal screws of the actual phone.. thats how far i went with this :-\
My guess right now is that Samsung had chips of 384 (or maybe 256+128) left over after a production of some phone got stopped so they figured it would fit perfectly into entery level phone .. cant say that i am happy with there result.

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Memory full - Help!

This morning i got a notification that my phone storage space is getting low. I have 12.8 MB free according to the system stats. It seems, though, that my phone thinks I have 0 MB free, as I tried to download something and it said I had no room (the file was a few dozen KB).
I then received a notice that a text had been rejected because my text message memory was full. I went in and did some house cleaning: deleted about 15 threads, some with 150-200 msgs in it. I then tried sending myself a test text, and it still said that my text message memory was full.
Anyone have any idea what's going on, and how to fix it? I'm having terrible flashbacks to my BB Curve when it didn't have a SD card in it.
xSiraris said:
This morning i got a notification that my phone storage space is getting low. I have 12.8 MB free according to the system stats. It seems, though, that my phone thinks I have 0 MB free, as I tried to download something and it said I had no room (the file was a few dozen KB).
I then received a notice that a text had been rejected because my text message memory was full. I went in and did some house cleaning: deleted about 15 threads, some with 150-200 msgs in it. I then tried sending myself a test text, and it still said that my text message memory was full.
Anyone have any idea what's going on, and how to fix it? I'm having terrible flashbacks to my BB Curve when it didn't have a SD card in it.
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This is Android's "dirty little secret". All of your apps are stored on your phone's internal storage. If you're on a N1 then you're running 2.2, right?
Go to settings>applications>manage applications> all, click on each app and see if you can move to SD. While you're in there, clear the less important app's cache. Google Earth is a HOG.
You can also root and flash CyanogenMod. Then You'll be able to put all apps on your SD.
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This is Android's "dirty little secret". All of your apps are stored on your phone's internal storage. If you're on a N1 then you're running 2.2, right?
Go to settings>applications>manage applications> all, click on each app and see if you can move to SD. While you're in there, clear the less important app's cache. Google Earth is a HOG.
You can also root and flash CyanogenMod. Then You'll be able to put all apps on your SD.
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I am on 2.2, but most of the apps I have can't be moved to SD because the developer hasn't enabled it.
How much internal storage does the N1 have? I don't have that many large apps on here. Maybe I should uninstall Google Earth, which is a huge hog, you're right.
Empty your browser cache; this is usually enough.
If you're willing to root, there are a few ways to fix this using your SD card.
If it's affecting SMS as well your cache is full.
Not ideal for this to full up before /data - you may need an app like CacheMate to manage it for you.
I had this happen once and it was my SD card that was actually full, not anything on the phone.
i once tried putting apps on sd, their widgets became useless for some reason
sheek360 said:
i once tried putting apps on sd, their widgets became useless for some reason
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Don't put widgets on sd then. That is what Google specifically says not to do. Simple enough. Don't put anything on sd that has to continuously run, services, live wallpapers, widgets.
having the same problem, all my caches are empty though. it said it had to reject a text due to lack of memory. now that i have freed up some (at 32mb free atm) it still doesn't receive the text.
this is a major downside on android's part.
glwinkler said:
This is Android's "dirty little secret". All of your apps are stored on your phone's internal storage. If you're on a N1 then you're running 2.2, right?
Go to settings>applications>manage applications> all, click on each app and see if you can move to SD. While you're in there, clear the less important app's cache. Google Earth is a HOG.
You can also root and flash CyanogenMod. Then You'll be able to put all apps on your SD.
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I have all my apps on sd card that can be loaded there. I am having the same problem with low memory and messages not allowed. I had to uninstall a couple of apps that load only on internal memory and I hate that. Is there any way to check internal memory and clear that up? I have cleared as much cache as possible through manage applications in settings. Is there any other way to free up internal memory? Using CM6.0.3 rooted
umplarry said:
I have all my apps on sd card that can be loaded there. I am having the same problem with low memory and messages not allowed. I had to uninstall a couple of apps that load only on internal memory and I hate that. Is there any way to check internal memory and clear that up? I have cleared as much cache as possible through manage applications in settings. Is there any other way to free up internal memory? Using CM6.0.3 rooted
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I have something over 100 apps on my phone, not Gapps, just downloaded stuff. If I'm reading it right titanium backup backs up over 200. I have a 16 GB sd card and I'm using CM6 which allows me to put whatever apps on my SD I want. Other ROMs let you do this as well, or you can root and move all your apps to SD. I just personally like CM6. Be careful though, I've noticed that some apps that get moved don't work or strangely disappear. especially if they have a widget. There is a link to the one click app in my signature below. It's called universal androot.
Good luck.
I am rooted as well and using CM6, most of my apps are loaded on my16 gig card, however some of them won't let me load to my card (slingbox, etc). I was just wondering if there is a way to access my internal memory to see if there were some things I could delete that I didn't need anymore. Any help would be appreciated
xSiraris said:
This morning i got a notification that my phone storage space is getting low. I have 12.8 MB free according to the system stats. It seems, though, that my phone thinks I have 0 MB free, as I tried to download something and it said I had no room (the file was a few dozen KB).
I then received a notice that a text had been rejected because my text message memory was full. I went in and did some house cleaning: deleted about 15 threads, some with 150-200 msgs in it. I then tried sending myself a test text, and it still said that my text message memory was full.
Anyone have any idea what's going on, and how to fix it? I'm having terrible flashbacks to my BB Curve when it didn't have a SD card in it.
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My advise: Just root using Androidroot (1click-root) and after that search in Xda for setinstalllocation, download and install it and move all your apps to the sd-card (don't move widgets, autostart apps, root apps? or services). Did that last week and get back almost 40 mb in internal storage.
While you are doing it suggest you install from the market cachmate for root - it will be your day-a-day friend.
Best of all if i'm correct, you will Keep your warranty ok since you don't unlock your bootloader
SOUSAFRUI @ NEXUS ONE
sousafrui said:
My advise: Just root using Androidroot (1click-root) and after that search in Xda for setinstalllocation, download and install it and move all your apps to the sd-card (don't move widgets, autostart apps, root apps? or services). Did that last week and get back almost 40 mb in internal storage.
While you are doing it suggest you install from the market cachmate for root - it will be your day-a-day friend.
Best of all if i'm correct, you will Keep your warranty ok since you don't unlock your bootloader
SOUSAFRUI @ NEXUS ONE
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Co-sign...this is exactly what I have done. ~90+ apps on my N1 with no slowdown or memory msgs
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gibosn6594 said:
If you're willing to root, there are a few ways to fix this using your SD card.
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How? I have been searching for solution after installing cutom Rom and now I have 3.6mb memory on my sensation after clearing all cache, data in apps. Please helpif you can as I cannot find specific answer and I cannot post to development pages I got the Rom.
Noob here. Noob on XDA anyway. I've owned by Nexus One for over two years now and I've been pretty happy with it. However, I am finally running out of internal memory, even after moving all the apps I could to flash.
Actually, it's mostly TMobile's crappy voicemail app's fault that I am here. If there is less than 10% of space on the device, it flips out and won't download voicemails any longer, which is horrible.
So, here I am today, I just rooted my phone and using posts like this one, I am figuring out how I can force some of those greedy apps onto my sdcard to free up some space. I will probably go with a custom rom here too soon, since there will no longer be updates for the Nexus One.
I know there are much much better phones out now, but this thing works and has been very good.
ycayir said:
How? I have been searching for solution after installing cutom Rom and now I have 3.6mb memory on my sensation after clearing all cache, data in apps. Please helpif you can as I cannot find specific answer and I cannot post to development pages I got the Rom.
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I'm not sure how this works on the sensation, but try this.
Since you already have a custom ROM, I'm assuming your phone has been rooted. In that case, install darktremor's a2sd script. You'll have to create and ext3 or ext4 partition on your sd card, and then the script will automatically move some apps to the ext partition freeing up space on your phones data partition.
jmomo said:
Noob here. Noob on XDA anyway. I've owned by Nexus One for over two years now and I've been pretty happy with it. However, I am finally running out of internal memory, even after moving all the apps I could to flash.
Actually, it's mostly TMobile's crappy voicemail app's fault that I am here. If there is less than 10% of space on the device, it flips out and won't download voicemails any longer, which is horrible.
So, here I am today, I just rooted my phone and using posts like this one, I am figuring out how I can force some of those greedy apps onto my sdcard to free up some space. I will probably go with a custom rom here too soon, since there will no longer be updates for the Nexus One.
I know there are much much better phones out now, but this thing works and has been very good.
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The same goes for you.
I can't post the link for the script, but just search the forums or google for dta2sd and you'll find it.
To create an ext partition, I would recommend using 4ext recovery.
Hope this helps.
clear the applications data
xSiraris said:
This morning i got a notification that my phone storage space is getting low. I have 12.8 MB free according to the system stats. It seems, though, that my phone thinks I have 0 MB free, as I tried to download something and it said I had no room (the file was a few dozen KB).
I then received a notice that a text had been rejected because my text message memory was full. I went in and did some house cleaning: deleted about 15 threads, some with 150-200 msgs in it. I then tried sending myself a test text, and it still said that my text message memory was full.
Anyone have any idea what's going on, and how to fix it? I'm having terrible flashbacks to my BB Curve when it didn't have a SD card in it.
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1st ... what rom are you using ?
2nd ... try this flash as zip in recovery http://www.2shared.com/file/OFasim5b/ad2sdx-10-RC01.html ......

Low Internal Memory - SMS Warning too

I was surprised to see my wife's N1 only had 20 MB of internal memory. She is running Enomther's Rom, which runs great.. I don't think the issue is tied to that.
She has hardly any apps on her phone, and rarely does anything other than work emails (Touchdown) and Facebook/Twitter.
Considering how little she has on the phone, and how little she does with it I, was just really shocked that she would have so little internal memory. She called me just now and stated she has a notification that she missed a text message because she did not have enough memory.
What the heck could be taking up so much memory?
What's the fix? There isn't really anything to delete (that I'm aware of)....
Search seemed helpess with "internal" and "memory" there were WAY too many posts. Please help if you can!
Browser cache might be huge, if she has many sites opened in many browser windows.
Her "not many" apps might be "many" enough for a phone with limited internal memory like Nexus - having ~200MB for apps, data and cache together.
There are exactly 3 solutions:
1) Keep browser in check. It's always a good practice.
2) Use native Froyo method and move apps to SD.
3) Use Apps2EXT method and move apps to SD. You can also move Dalvik-cache to /cache.
Hmm, she has MAYBE 10 apps?
I downloaded a cache cleaner and ran that, it removed maybe 8 MBs? That was this past weekend, and she got that message about low memory today. I doubt she has even opened the browser since then to be honest. Very light user.
I sent enomther a tweet, his reply was:
RT @enomther @CallipH need to implement either dalvik-cache-2-/cache or apps2ext in SpareParts (DataStorage options) ... sysdc-2-/cache is default on cm6
okay, so option 1 is to move dalvik cache to sd, which I think you do in Advanced > Amon's recovery, right? Any ill effects from doing this if I switch roms?..
Option 2, apps2ext... she does not have an ext partition and frankly surprised this is needed... is the nexus that low on memory? My Vibrant has 1.6 GBs. same question, any ill effects if moving to another rom with the apps on the ext? I did that a lot back in the day with the G1. I remember having some issues and having to do fix permissions a lot.
Thanks for all the help man.
Check, what's using the memory. Just go over the apps.
You can't do Dalvik-to-SD, because it requires EXT partition, which you don't have. You can do Dalvik-to-Cache.
There is no hassle in having apps on EXT whatsoever. The only hassle is getting them there.
ROM has nothing to do with application data usage either.
Have you tried wiping the Dalvik cache? Worth ago in case there's some built up crap I spose.
^^ thanks.
^ I did before flashing the rom. Will do it again.
I know it's relative, but how much internal memory would you expect someone to have when they just have about 10 apps?
Depends on the apps. I can count 2 - Google Earth and Motonav, for example - that take together 50MB of space without even counting the cache part. Another 4 apps like that, and you're out of memory (if you don't move them to SD using Froyo's method or old Apps2SD-EXT method).
There's also numerous games that are > 10MB, can easily add up.
I'm curious if Touchdown (Exchzange work email) is doing something funky... I know the apps on her phone and they are all very small. Thank you guys all for the posts.
I think I may format her card and partition it and move the cache to the ext partition and see what her memory looks like after that.
Any issues you guys can think of with that, or other ideas?
Download DiskUsage, and it will give you a good idea of what the problem is...
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[Q] uninstalling App does not free space

Hi there!
I use a G1 with Super E mod.
apps2ext with a 512 mb ext partion for that.
I have about 60 apps installed, all working well.
now i installed the new opera mini and the message "few storage" poped up..
I uninstalled it, but the message didn't disappear.
Then I look it up: only 5 mb left
I removed some other apps, but as suggested, this didn't free up much space (~,5 mb), because of apps2ext..
I cleared my cache using nandroid, but still the same..
What is using all my phone space?
can I clean that up somehow?
Thanks!
Cholera
As you wrote, you have apps to sd, so most likely the app are not stored on /data, but on /sd-ext/...
Cleaning /cache will not help you, because it's almost unused. The problem you might have is, that internal space on /data is filled up, so try to clear all the application caches, especially browser, market, ....
This should free up some amount of memory and you should be able to install Opera Mini.
i ran into this same problem a couple of days ago. it was a difference of method to get this error however. my phone crashed after trying to open an app and then corrupted alot of my apps so i had to uninstall and re-install. i then found it was telling me i had low space. i cleared all my caches and checked which apps were installed on my phone and which on SD. however the only comonality is the Opera Mobile app. i too installed it when i got this error too. can this be a coincidence or not?
market cache: 450kb
browser cache: 200kb
opera mini cahce: 0kb
gmail storage : 800 kb
news and weather: 28kb
downlolad manager: 250kb
deleted these, but still have 7,8 mb free space..
had a look at /data:
du ./data -h : 47mb used
I had a closer look at the stuff and found:
13.1M ./com.opera.browser/lib
even if i dont have opera mobile installed, i also found
925.5K ./com.opera.mini.android
which i currently use...
removed the com.opera.browser .. 20mb free...
additional apps that use much space here:
# du ./ -h |grep M
1.5M ./com.facebook.katana
1.7M ./com.rovio.angrybirds
1.0M ./com.android.providers.contacts/databases
3.0M ./com.adobe.reader
17.5M ./com.navigon.navigator
these are large, but ok..
and this one:
899.5K ./com.android.packageinstaller/files -> i delete the tmpCopy.apk
now i have a bit of a breath.. lets see what we can delete from the system
i created an sd-ext and lost about 250 mb of internal memory. what gives? also, i see no extra partitions anywhere and i dont know where my apps to sd are
v941726 said:
i created an sd-ext and lost about 250 mb of internal memory. what gives? also, i see no extra partitions anywhere and i dont know where my apps to sd are
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im not sure about the loss of space, however you will not see an ext partition using windows as it does not recognise it. with some file explorers you can pick it up if im right. otherwise you have to use linux on the sd card to see the partition. it cannot be done via the usb mount
I thought it might be something like that. i'm a windows guy. mcse. but i know zip about unix/linux. lol. it doesn't make sense though to presumably make a partition on the card and then it takes from your internal space. so I don't see the point of partitioning your card. hence, app2sd seems useless. I cannot find an explanation anywhere of how it works. also, I have an incredible, what the hell is that 8gb of memory for. no explanation anywhere. it just sits there free. what is it for if it can't be utilized?
v941726 said:
I thought it might be something like that. i'm a windows guy. mcse. but i know zip about unix/linux. lol. it doesn't make sense though to presumably make a partition on the card and then it takes from your internal space. so I don't see the point of partitioning your card. hence, app2sd seems useless. I cannot find an explanation anywhere of how it works. also, I have an incredible, what the hell is that 8gb of memory for. no explanation anywhere. it just sits there free. what is it for if it can't be utilized?
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I cant understand why its taken up space on your phone tfor a2sd apart from when it adds the data files for the apps. the a2sd partition stores the apps on the sd card in a partition that it cons the phone into thinking is an internal section.
Where is the 8gb you are referring to? is it on the phone or the card?
traumatism said:
I cant understand why its taken up space on your phone tfor a2sd apart from when it adds the data files for the apps. the a2sd partition stores the apps on the sd card in a partition that it cons the phone into thinking is an internal section.
Where is the 8gb you are referring to? is it on the phone or the card?
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exactly! there is 8gb free. well, 7+, but I don't know linux. so it's just a waste. i ended up reformatting my card and got the space back on my internal memory. can anyone explain that? I gave it a shot cuz I know computers and it worked. i back up everything, but it's a 2 hour downtime. I would just like to know what the heck is the point? anyone know what that 8gb is wasted for on the Incredible?
what rom were you using or trying to use? all the info helps solve the issue
traumatism said:
what rom were you using or trying to use? all the info helps solve the issue
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using ultimate droid now. no themes. pretty simple. have used several rom's. no one can explain what the 8gb is for. not even verizon. or HTC.
the incredible has 750mb of internal storage. I can see that's for apps and OS. but there are 8gb of other internal memory that is free. wtf? I've been kind of ignoring it thinking it might be for future use or something, til I partitioned my sd card and realized it took from that 750mb space.
as far as i know it shouldnt have taken anything from that space at all. it should have done what every computer does and only create a partition on the card. thats odd. do you get any names for the areas that are free? like you would with a folder name.
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as far as i know it shouldnt have taken anything from that space at all. it should have done what every computer does and only create a partition on the card. thats odd. do you get any names for the areas that are free? like you would with a folder name.
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thats what i thought. like i said, i know windows through and through. there was no indication of a partition anywhere. kind of bugs me. always heard linux was easy. still would like to know about that 8gb too. don't get me wrong, i love the droid, but the way memory and or storage works makes no sense at all
there is an app called root explorer on the market. its a paid app but it lets you explorer all the folders and from what i can see the ext partition is known as sd-ext. sdcard is the obv one. system is the rom or os as it were and if installed correctly (only know this from the G1(Dream)) the data folder is where it stores all the information and settings for the apps and system settings
have you checked your text messages? because those also takes up space too, even tho text messages are really small in size, but if you have a LOT of them without deleting them, over time they usually build up

App2SD and Nexus 7

Hi guys,
You may know App2SD that is used for moving apps from phone memory to the SD card, in order to free up space on the phone. My question is, do we get any benefit from this app? Because the Nexus 7 has only internal memory.
Thanks,
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Hi guys,
You may know App2SD that is used for moving apps from phone memory to the SD card, in order to free up space on the phone. My question is, do we get any benefit from this app? Because the Nexus 7 has only internal memory.
Thanks,
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You basically answered your own question, Nexus 7 only has internal memory. That app is useless for Nexus 7, because it doesn't have an sd card
Sometimes apps get installed to a different bit of the internal memory, as if it's installing to a virtual sd card partition, but it's really just another section of your internal memory (/data) partition.
In short, you can shuffle the apps around all you like, but they'll still be on /data.
To actually free up some space on /data, you could move some apps to the /system partition, or move some updated system apps back to the system partition with an app like 'System Cleanup'
Sure, thank you mate.
Could you guide me in details how to "move some updated system apps back to the system partition with an app like 'System Cleanup' " as you said above?
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Sure, thank you mate.
Could you guide me in details how to "move some updated system apps back to the system partition with an app like 'System Cleanup' " as you said above?
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(Assume you're rooted)
- Install and open SystemCleanup
- By default, you should see updated system apps at the top of the list, should have some red text
- Click on each icon on the left hand side until it has a tick
- Long press (Update system apps)
- Press back, will ask you to reboot...then reboot
This moves the app from /data/app to and overwrites the old redundant copy on /system/app
You can also try to select some apps on /data and do the same thing as above, long press and select 'Move app to /system/app', reboot. This may not work for all apps though. For instance, I install a 3rd party launcher and move it to /system/app, and delete the stock launcher using 'SystemCleanup' as well.
Can save a little space this way, make sure you have enough space on /system in the first place, will say how much free space at the top.
very good guide. Thank you so much.
Cheers
Hi @eddiehk6
I have another question. Does it matter if I move apps to /system partition and this partition becomes almost full? Does it affect to overall perfomance?
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Hi @eddiehk6
I have another question. Does it matter if I move apps to /system partition and this partition becomes almost full? Does it affect to overall perfomance?
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Don't know to be honest. Depends what you fill the space with. System apps are given higher memory priority I believe, not absolutely certain but you'd have to read
I don't think SystemCleanup will allow you to fill it up the /system partition to the maximum as it were, so there's no danger of it not booting. I just use it to optimise space a little. It's much more useful on my Desire with very limited space compared to the Nexus 7
vndnguyen said:
Hi guys,
You may know App2SD that is used for moving apps from phone memory to the SD card, in order to free up space on the phone. My question is, do we get any benefit from this app? Because the Nexus 7 has only internal memory.
Thanks,
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The N7 is very effective at managing it's internal memory, if anything using apps that supposedly optimize or move data around are detrimental to the overall lifespan of your N7's internal memory.
If the wear leveling mechanic of the N7's memory controller is doing it's job properly all the controller really is doing is lying to the app that wants to move crap around willy nilly and just keeping it in the same place anyway.
Aside from deleting crap you dont need there is zero benefit and most likely nothing but bad results if you think you can do a better job managing the memory better than a memory controller and android OS that can run through millions+ of calculations in the time it takes you to blink.
It's fine where it is.

SD Card Pointless

So, Samsung have boasted that they can have 128GB SD card support.... what is the point in that if you can't install apps to it... All the guides i've followed have not been clear enough in regards to using my 64GB SD as the "internal" I've tried numerous apps from Link2SD and Internal2ExternalSD none of which have worked
I've also tried to partition it in the hope it would work that way, but no... it just took off what I partitioned and the excess was still displayed as SD storage!!!
Does anyone have any ideas?? because I'm really tempting to take the phone back.. a waste of money in my eyes.... who the hell at Google thought 16GB would be enough to store games and apps on..... Please... Please someone help me here, has anyone managed to use their SD as internal??
PS I also know that KitKat took away move to sd support... so before anyone says that, I know =)
Google are the one's we should be venting our anger at. Samsung do make the devices with more storage so they've covered their backsides on that one, but it's Google that in my opinion have done this deliberately to force us all to use cloud storage. I do however believe that Samsung and other manufacturers should be going back to Google and applying pressure on them to rethink.
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I have many games installed on my memory card?
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have you ever even tried an S5 or you just making assumptions?
Because it has app moving built in and works just fine.
I have my S5 rooted, installed NextApp SDfix (from google play), FolderMount and everything's working perfect on SD.
All my apps are automatically installing to my memory card fine on my s5...all thats on internal mem is the sammy junk
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Anyway, so am i doing something wrong...because i play a lot of big games I.E. ones that take over 3GB, so when i "move" to sd... it transfers about 80MB out of 3GB... please explain what i've done wrong???? I've never used a Samsung before!
Seriously, it was a genuine question, I even went into the Samsung store today to enquire about it all...
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I have my S5 rooted, installed NextApp SDfix (from google play), FolderMount and everything's working perfect on SD.
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Can you just explain how you managed to get your games to install on the SD then? all i can put on there is music, photos and well..other media... installing games doesn't seem to work...
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Anyway, so am i doing something wrong...because i play a lot of big games I.E. ones that take over 3GB, so when i "move" to sd... it transfers about 80MB out of 3GB... please explain what i've done wrong???? I've never used a Samsung before!
Seriously, it was a genuine question, I even went into the Samsung store today to enquire about it all...
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What amount is transferable to the SD card is dependent on the game, not the phone or the SD card itself. large games rely on downloadable data which is not transferable, because they need to be located in a certain place in the phone in order for the game to run (usually android/obb or android/data).
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What amount is transferable to the SD card is dependent on the game, not the phone or the SD card itself. large games rely on downloadable data which is not transferable, because they need to be located in a certain place in the phone in order for the game to run (usually android/obb or android/data).
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Ok, I understand that...can i move the "Android" folder across to the SD via a file browser app... would that work? or will the S5 not read the files anymore... I've just tried that foldermount app... moved my spotify songs across, only to find Spotify losing all the music and then asking to redownload it.... is there a way to maybe mount the SD as a mirror... or at least as the internal card itself.. with other people saying that it "works" fine.. then maybe they arn't reading what I'm asking correctly..
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Now, I'll clean out the off-topic posts, and maybe even edit some comments. Anymore "mud-slinging" regardless of who throws it, and the thread will get closed.
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Folks, if you don't wish to help, then kindly move along to some other thread without posting silly comments.
Also, please be aware of how you post, and that it doesn't come across as whining or complaining. A well thought out precise question will usually result in a precise answer.
And if any member sees a violation of XDA rules, their "ONLY" course of action is to "Report Post". Not add further fuel to the fire, as then it turns into a mess and moderation must come and clean it up. Regardless of what some think, XDA is a development site, Not a social network. Please read the rules.
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CraigUK87 said:
Can you just explain how you managed to get your games to install on the SD then? all i can put on there is music, photos and well..other media... installing games doesn't seem to work...
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OK, follow those steps (or the missing ones...)
- root your phone
- install and run SD fix; as result, writing to external SD works like before 4.4
- use some application like FolderMount. You can choose different folders from internal memory and link them to another folder on external card. For example: after installing one game (normal, on internal memory), choose in Foldermount the obb folder (that is where almost every app put big amount of data) and link it to a folder on external SD (as result, foldermount will offer you to move existing data). Set Foldermount to automatically mount it on boot, and voila!
link: at operating system level, that directory seems as on internal memory structure, but in reality it resides on external card.
Thanks, to the guy above.. it's all sorted now!
As anyone can understand a bit of frustration was inevitable... considering how much this phone cost and SD.... but appreciate the help.
I'm on Omega Rom 2.0 (KitKat) and after I'm moving and mounting real racing 3 or dead trigger 2, when I try to play the game it downloads the data again from the Internet. I have 64 GB Samsung UHS -1 external Sd card. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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The point of it? Storing all your music, videos(series and films) and offline maps on it so you can keep your internal memory as free as possible for apps that haven't been updated to work with KitKat.
Apps can read from the SD without issues. You don't need to write to the SD to play media.
That said, it still installs all my apps onto my SDcard. (Which I don't want it to.)
It's ridiculous how apps utilize the SD cards on a stock S5.
Let's say you install an app that takes up 100mb, and decide to move it to SD with the device manager. It will maybe reduce the on-device size to 90mb and move 50mb to the SD, and suddenly the app takes up a total of 140mb. Just an example, but this seems to be the case for every app.
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It's ridiculous how apps utilize the SD cards on a stock S5.
Let's say you install an app that takes up 100mb, and decide to move it to SD with the device manager. It will maybe reduce the on-device size to 90mb and move 50mb to the SD, and suddenly the app takes up a total of 140mb. Just an example, but this seems to be the case for every app.
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Fantastic!! (irony)! That's Samsung allright!
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ShadowLea said:
The point of it? Storing all your music, videos(series and films) and offline maps on it so you can keep your internal memory as free as possible for apps that haven't been updated to work with KitKat.
Apps can read from the SD without issues. You don't need to write to the SD to play media.
That said, it still installs all my apps onto my SDcard. (Which I don't want it to.)
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But alot of people, me included, uses files in a much more interactive way than just "reading" from them. I need apps to be able to modify document, movies, music files etcetera! And for that the apps need WRITE permissions, which now is no longer possible.
This new KK sdcard rules really messes this up.
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I like to keep my media collection stored locally since I don't have a large data plan. Expandable storage on devices will NEVER be pointless.
Please give up and stop buy 16g phone, so 32g phone will come for every brand . I insist buy s.version to have 32g. I just cannot accept android phone treat customers as a fool.
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This new KK sdcard rules really messes this up.
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App developers just need to update to support /mnt/extSdCard for writeable storage, is that really too much to ask?
This is really akin to the old days when apps on Windows assumed they could write to "C:\Program Files" or "C:\Windows" ... that's just a bad idea, and lazy (the wrong kind of lazy).

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