Hey, as of now I got 1,15GB of available internal storage, no external SDCard or anything.
But hte problem is, I only got 1.15gb left of my internal storage, I barely have anything on my phone! No huge ROMS, or any other big files.
I've heard that formatting the SDCard would work, deletes pretty much every file on my phone.
Will I still have root/CWM doing this? And how do you format your SD card?
Thanks!
download solid explorer, you can grab the properties of your internal storage and it'll give you a breakdown of what's using up all the space.
And should you need to wipe your internal storage you can use Megawipe a utility developed by one of the guys here on xda. It will clean Everything pretty much a windows disk format use with caution and have a flashable rom to flash via odin or on an external card to flas via cwm recovery and of course back up your data first! Google it to find it if thats what youbare looking for.
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This whole internal storage thing is confusing me a bit. Coming from the Galaxy S, all I had was my SD card. I felt safe being able to copy it and make backups.
I also like to have all my application specific data on the card incase I need to use it in another device.
Is there a way to make the Note default to using external SD? Pro's Cons?
Thanks for any help sorting this out.
I too am wondering this. Looks like it specifies the internal storage as USB storage vs SD card but some apps don't see it that way.
The internal memmory has two partitions, the system one(internal memmory 2gb) and the storage one(usb storage about 11gb) the apps install only system data on the system partition and all the user data is saved in the usb storage
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akenis said:
This whole internal storage thing is confusing me a bit. Coming from the Galaxy S, all I had was my SD card. I felt safe being able to copy it and make backups.
I also like to have all my application specific data on the card incase I need to use it in another device.
Is there a way to make the Note default to using external SD? Pro's Cons?
Thanks for any help sorting this out.
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You need a rooted SGN then follow the instruction in the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1454753
tknguyencsu said:
You need a rooted SGN then follow the instruction in the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1454753
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THANKS...sounds interesting... a little too much wine now.
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Hi, friends. I flashed a few custom roms and kernels, also quite a few applications. Now I want to start fresh with a new custom rom and installing afresh applications. I do not know what kind of folders and files are in Internal SD card (accumulated over a peroid of time). Can I format the internal SD card, just before flashing a new rom. if so how? thanks.
dsmas said:
Hi, friends. I flashed a few custom roms and kernels, also quite a few applications. Now I want to start fresh with a new custom rom and installing afresh applications. I do not know what kind of folders and files are in Internal SD card (accumulated over a peroid of time). Can I format the internal SD card, just before flashing a new rom. if so how? thanks.
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If you are on safe kernel then yes you can format your internal sd card. Just go to SETTINGS>STORAGE>FORMAT SDCARD(INTERNAL STORAGE)
dsmas said:
Hi, friends. I flashed a few custom roms and kernels, also quite a few applications. Now I want to start fresh with a new custom rom and installing afresh applications. I do not know what kind of folders and files are in Internal SD card (accumulated over a peroid of time). Can I format the internal SD card, just before flashing a new rom. if so how? thanks.
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Yes you can format as above said by sahil, but make sure to copy DCIM folder, if your camera having default setting and your snaps are there. Same way copy any other folder, which you have manually create/edited like music/videos. Rest of folder will recreate as system need.
Another alternative is to mount in windows and format there, as Dr k said keep the dcim folder.
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note that on some kernels, the emmc and sdcard are swapped, so format sdcard can sometimes wipe external.
Happened to me unfortunately a couple if times so take caution and remove external and format both to be sure
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dr.ketan said:
Yes you can format as above said by sahil, but make sure to copy DCIM folder, if your camera having default setting and your snaps are there. Same way copy any other folder, which you have manually create/edited like music/videos. Rest of folder will recreate as system need.
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Dr. Ketan,
i've formated my internal SD with panasonic sd formater there after it's not reading the internal SD. when i went to CWM recovery and wipe factory and now it's stuck in boot screen.
is there any kernel which can fix my internal sd?
i was on JB 4.1.2
thanks awaiting ans
philz kernel myabe? its fine for me
U might have formatted ur sd card with different file system. So format it with exfat or ntfs
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Hi All,
I have done repartitioning to my N7000 (using 16GB internal + 16GB ext card) with Odin with PIT file & the required *.md5 and used the 10gb Data partition PIT file.
But after reboot the application partition completed, but the rest partition not showing and giving error of "Blank USB storage"
I have tried to connect with PC to format it, but also there the partition is not able to format.
Kindly help if anybody have faced the same issue and done some solution to restore this internal memory.
@vikashrastogi PIT file is usually flashed aside and together with an entire stock firmware.
I have no clue how could your phone survive such attempt
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
I have been experiencing a weird issue. For some reason, when I save something to what I want to be the sd card, my phone is mistaking my internal storage for an sd card. I first noticed that with titanium backup. I backed up everything in preparation to flash my first rom. But when I looked for the backup file on my sd card it was not there. When I went to flash similar problem. I noticed while in safestrap (ver 3.05) there was a folder "sdcard" but my rom was nowhere to be found. It was in "sdcard-ext". This seems to be persistent, because i had wiped cache and delvik, then factory reset, things still aren't saving to the sd, but to the internal storage.
Anyone experience something like this? I'm on .906 running minimoto if it helps.
My only thought is this is my second sd card, i used to have a 1gb my roommate found, but obviously that doesnt cut it, so i bought and now use a 32gb.
Thanks in advance for the help!
Uronlyfriend said:
I have been experiencing a weird issue. For some reason, when I save something to what I want to be the sd card, my phone is mistaking my internal storage for an sd card. I first noticed that with titanium backup. I backed up everything in preparation to flash my first rom. But when I looked for the backup file on my sd card it was not there. When I went to flash similar problem. I noticed while in safestrap (ver 3.05) there was a folder "sdcard" but my rom was nowhere to be found. It was in "sdcard-ext". This seems to be persistent, because i had wiped cache and delvik, then factory reset, things still aren't saving to the sd, but to the internal storage.
Anyone experience something like this? I'm on .906 running minimoto if it helps.
My only thought is this is my second sd card, i used to have a 1gb my roommate found, but obviously that doesnt cut it, so i bought and now use a 32gb.
Thanks in advance for the help!
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Sdcard-ext it your micro sdcard
SDCard is the internal memory
That's how it's supposed to be
Your data(internal memory) is in a separate partition at /data
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Endoroid said:
Sdcard-ext it your micro sdcard
SDCard is the internal memory
That's how it's supposed to be
Your data(internal memory) is in a separate partition at /data
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Oh okayy. I had thought so, but when my friend who has been rooted and more knowledgeable about all this was confounded, wanted to ask. Thanks!
Uronlyfriend said:
Oh okayy. I had thought so, but when my friend who has been rooted and more knowledgeable about all this was confounded, wanted to ask. Thanks!
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It's not the same ics and newer. The internal SD and /data are the same partition
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Anyone used the V to backup and restore using CWM 6.0.1.2.
When doing mine, it reduced my internal memory to 3.7 GB rather than keeping it at 8GB.
Any ideas how ti get it back to the correct size?
Regards
Does anyone know how to completely delete partitions on the internal SD using adb or something?
I just want the full amount of memory to be visible again
Cheers
My internal storage got corrupted some time ago, wiping internal sdcard in recovery did solve my problem..
Why would you like to do it in adb?
I used CWM to create a backup, when it was 'freeing up space' it resized my internal SD card to 3.71 GB (used to be 8GB).
Ive tried a format in recovery already, but the size does not change, i want to know if there is a way to look at / manage the internal SD card partitions to see what CWM has done, and then format or restore it from there.
Cheers
.. Ok so u can't fill up your internal sdcard above 3.7gb right?
idk much about partitions..
But what if u mount the internal storage as MSC mode (instead of MTP?)
Correct, the internal card is just not showing the right available space.
I have not found a way to mount the internal SD card as MSC yet, been looking, so i could possibly then use mini partition tool on it.
I remember Doomload had a way for the Xperia S, could check to see if it works for the V.
i´m not sure but i have read somewhere that only 3,7 Gb is user available
http://www.prisjakt.nu/produkt.php?e=1398673
that´s in swedish can be difficult to understand but there is stated about it, i dunno if it is correct
Hmmm, i actually never noticed that, could be right all along then.. thanks for that, ill have a scout round to confirm if thats the case. Seems strange, why would 4GB be required on an SD card. Either way, at least i know it's ok now, haha.
Regards
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Confirmed, 3.7 available
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_v-reviews-4958p2.php
http://www.xperiablog.net/2012/08/2...-display-msm8960-13mp-camera-water-resistant/
-SOLVED BY USING ODIN, AND FLASHING A STOCK ROM-
Samsung GT-S5830
So i installed some custom GB rom a long time ago on my friends phone.
Now he gave it back to me because nothing was working anymore.
The problem is when i try to open the file manager in the phone it says there is no internal sdcard, furthermore in the settings at partition settings it shows me:
/system 183mb/ 206mb
/data 65mb/178 mb
/cache 4mb/ 25mb
/sdcard (FAT) 0.00B / 0.00B
/ext-sdcard (EXT) unavailable (not 1 in the phone)
As you can see, the phone acts like it has no internal storage at all wich make it impossible to put anything on the phone.
I have tried using ODIN to flash a factory default rom, but my computer does not recoqnize the device when i put it in download mode. so that does not work.
I however installed the lastest TWRP, to try making my own partitions in there but that also did not work.
after that i downloaded cm11, put it on a external sd card and flashed the rom.
this all worked fine, but still NO INTERNAL SDCARD.
I am guessing that my friend has been screwing with some files or whatever.
Anyone got any tips?
shatred said:
Samsung GT-S5830
So i installed some custom GB rom a long time ago on my friends phone.
Now he gave it back to me because nothing was working anymore.
The problem is when i try to open the file manager in the phone it says there is no internal sdcard, furthermore in the settings at partition settings it shows me:
/system 183mb/ 206mb
/data 65mb/178 mb
/cache 4mb/ 25mb
/sdcard (FAT) 0.00B / 0.00B
/ext-sdcard (EXT) unavailable (not 1 in the phone)
As you can see, the phone acts like it has no internal storage at all wich make it impossible to put anything on the phone.
I have tried using ODIN to flash a factory default rom, but my computer does not recoqnize the device when i put it in download mode. so that does not work.
I however installed the lastest TWRP, to try making my own partitions in there but that also did not work.
after that i downloaded cm11, put it on a external sd card and flashed the rom.
this all worked fine, but still NO INTERNAL SDCARD.
I am guessing that my friend has been screwing with some files or whatever.
Anyone got any tips?
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Why your sdcard have FAT format instead of FAT32?
Try to backup it using a PC and then format it in FAT32, but forget ext partitions for the moment
Viper The Ripper said:
Why your sdcard have FAT format instead of FAT32?
Try to backup it using a PC and then format it in FAT32, but forget ext partitions for the moment
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Sir, it is impossible to format an INTERNAL sd card just simply by connecting it to a pc. You are talking about external sd cards here. (that's just part of the memory the phone internal has, there is no physical sd card here).
Anyway, i fixed the problem by flashing stock rom in odin wich has reformarted, and partitioned, it correctly.
shatred said:
Sir, it is impossible to format an INTERNAL sd card just simply by connecting it to a pc. You are talking about external sd cards here. (that's just part of the memory the phone internal has, there is no physical sd card here).
Anyway, i fixed the problem by flashing stock rom in odin wich has reformarted, and partitioned, it correctly.
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Mmm... ok, well I'm glad you've solved your problem