Hi,
My 8GB S3 Mini reports a total of 4.65GB storage. Does anyone know why this is? Have I been shortchanged or does it keep some (a lot) of storage reserved for the OS that it doesn't report?
I think that we are getting scammed.4.5 GB isn't even near 8 GB
lkdasa said:
Hi,
My 8GB S3 Mini reports a total of 4.65GB storage. Does anyone know why this is? Have I been shortchanged or does it keep some (a lot) of storage reserved for the OS that it doesn't report?
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The 8GB internal memory is split up for "system", "data", "boot", "cache", "recovery" partitions and "sdcard". System and data is eating about 2GB and the rest about 120MB, so you are fine with your 4,65GB "internal sdcard" left.
Swift2603 said:
The 8GB internal memory is split up for "system", "data", "boot", "cache", "recovery" partitions and "sdcard". System and data is eating about 2GB and the rest about 120MB, so you are fine with your 4,65GB "internal sdcard" left.
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Thanks for that, I was thinking it was something along those lines but wanted to be sure.
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Hi there.
Is there any way to use all of the internal 8GB as a single partition, so it will be all recognized as "internal memory", and then mount my 32GB microSDHC card as /sdcard?
Right now i have:
External microSDHC Card mounted as /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
"USB Storage", which is a 6GB partition of the internal 8GB, mounted as /sdcard
"Device memory", which is a 2GB partition of the internal 8GB
What i want is:
"Device memory", with the whole internal 8GB
External microSDHC Card mounted as /mnt/sdcard
Is this possible?
I've been searching for this the whole week and couldn't find anything about it, only got some tips that Cyanogen Mod can partition the internal storage or something.
I'm currently using the stock 2.3.3 ROM and Semaphore Kernel.
Thanks in advance.
Nobody knows how can i do it?
(aka bump)
Nobody knows how can i do it?
(aka bump)
Anyone knows at least if it is possible to do with Cyanogen? Or any other custom rom?
Thanks.
I am indeed a noob that's learning.
So with studying, I see a lot of "External SD Storage" and "Internal Storage".
With the captivate, there's three places of storage. I understand that Ext. SD is my SD card, and Internal SD is the phone's memory... but what is Internal Phone Storage used for?
Also, any tips on manipulating it?
Thanks in advance
-Zane
The 2gb internal storage is for user apps.
zane203 said:
and Internal SD is the phone's memory...
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memory is NOT storage space. Memory is ram.
I thought internal SD was for user apps, since that's where all my apps are downloaded to.
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No...internal sd is around 13gb and is where your main storage is. (what gets mounted to your PC for file transfer and stuff)
apps are installed in /data/app which is in that 2gb partition.
A way that helps me to understand it is to think that you have a 16 gb drive in your phone. There are two partitions on it - a 3 gb partition that houses all the system stuff (including "internal storage"), and a 13 gb "internal sd" that's yours to do with as you please.
Ok that makes so much more sense. I shouldn't have thought about apps and their data being in an entire package.
so when I'm given the option to move an app from phone to SD, is it referring to the Phone's internal SD?
Nope, move to sd is to your external sdcard.
A bit weird to me, nevertheless I have my answers ^_^
Thank you all for the speedy replies and information (and putting up with my noobness).
Hi i wanna now how can i fusion the "sdcard" with "sd-ext" in JB.. I've saw a lot of phones that the intrenal memory is the ROM memory for us and the microSD card is the sdcard partition .. so my finnaly question is how can we do that or make the ROM mem to be 8Gb and the sd card part to be up to 32Gb
i've been back with some explications of what i wanna do with munt points so let's start...
Firs of all i wanna make one partition of system storge and usb storage to one system storage (a normal partition for android phones) equivalent of 1.97+3.92=5.89Gb as internal mem. See partitions in the print screen
Then i wanna make the "SD card", actualy mounted as "extsdcard", the USB storgage in my case
For explaining you i have here a photo from a Vodafone Smart II (Alcatel v860) that has the partition management that i want
Brocky2011 said:
i've been back with some explications of what i wanna do with munt points so let's start...
Firs of all i wanna make one partition of system storge and usb storage to one system storage (a normal partition for android phones) equivalent of 1.97+3.92=5.89Gb as internal mem. See partitions in the print screen
Then i wanna make the "SD card", actualy mounted as "extsdcard", the USB storgage in my case
For explaining you i have here a photo from a Vodafone Smart II (Alcatel v860) that has the partition management that i want
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As far I know you can only swap places of external and internal memory. You cannot fuse it.
Look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36613948
And on that image I do not see any fusion of internal and external memory. It just shows capacity of it. And it is swaped too, internal become external and external become internal.
yes because in that image the internal mem (in our case 8G = 6gb + 2GbROM) it's a single partition and ours is splitted in two the internal and usb storage and in the 2nd picture the sdcard from image is a 2Gb microSD card
Now you understand me
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yes because in that image the internal mem (in our case 8G = 6gb + 2GbROM) it's a single partition and ours is splitted in two the internal and usb storage and in the 2nd picture the sdcard from image is a 2Gb microSD card
Now you understand me
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No, you got it wrong. In second image there is 2GB internal memory that is transformed to be external. And extrenal with 32GB is set to be internal. And that is exacly what is done in this link I give to you.
P.S. And our phone is 8GB=4GB storage + 2GB app partition + 2GB for other system needs (ROM, RAM etc...).
P.P.S. Tell me again, what do you want to do? To make internal memory bigger?
i wanna intall a lot of games and apps that has the data folder in internal mem and the data is big like RF2013 or NFSMW or Asphalt 7 and more games and if i have 16 gb microsd card i wanna use it for this, music and movies
so tell me if its a way to reassamble that two partitions or combine the last two
P.S. I said 6Gb because in the earlier post you can see i calculate the sum of that first 2 partitions firs about 2 Bg like you say and econg about 4 Gb again like you said
Brocky2011 said:
i wanna intall a lot of games and apps that has the data folder in internal mem and the data is big like RF2013 or NFSMW or Asphalt 7 and more games and if i have 16 gb microsd card i wanna use it for this, music and movies
so tell me if its a way to reassamble that two partitions or combine the last two
P.S. I said 6Gb because in the earlier post you can see i calculate the sum of that first 2 partitions firs about 2 Bg like you say and econg about 4 Gb again like you said
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Short, and clear - use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36613948&postcount=1017
"changed memory" It will make your external SD to act like internal. And all data for stuff you install will go there.
To make plain what I mean:
The 16GB Galaxy Note N7000 comes with 2GB of "Internal Phone Storage" and around 11GB of "Internal SD Card". I would like to move the boundary between "Phone Storage" and "SD Card", so that I end up with, say, 4GB of "Internal Phone Storage" and only 9GB of "Internal SD Card".
There are fixes like this for some Rockchip-based Android phones, and of course some devices such as Google's Nexus do not make this distinction at all.
Just wondering whether one can modify the Note to have more "Phone Storage", or even one flat memory pool.
You don't read a lot... Do you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2642299
nokiamodeln91 said:
You don't read a lot... Do you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2642299
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Actually I do, but I was looking for "phone storage" as keyword, not "data partition" ... Thanks! :good:
Phone storage is a partition itself
wnpaul said:
Actually I do, but I was looking for "phone storage" as keyword, not "data partition" ... Thanks! :good:
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Read again that thread, because that is what you need: modify data partition in order to get more phone storage.
Did someone try this method on Lenovo a7000 with 8GB space?
This method supports MT6752 devices. The one Lenovo a7000 has.
Original Thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/general/rooting-roms/guide-how-to-resize-data-internal-t3180978
It says there is a Zip file with AROMA installer to flash with TWRP
It will ask for a partition size, you choose anyone from there
It will reduce the "Data" partition (5GB) and increase the "System" partition (2GB), I think swap their sizes.
Then user must need an External SD card to store the pictures and downloaded files etc, but more apps
could be installed in the bigger "System" partition. There will be no "Space running out. . ." messages.
Make no mistake about one thing!
The Marshmallow's option "Use SD card as Internal Storage" doesn't work at all as what it says.
I used an app "DiskInfo" and saw the "System" partition size, when the 2GB space was occupied completely
the message started to show again "Space running out. . ."
Although I had a 32GB SD card used as Internal Storage.
Its all about resize the "System" partition more than 2GB.
I hope that method will work on our phone.
NimaXDA said:
Did someone try this method on Lenovo a7000 with 8GB space?
This method supports MT6752 devices. The one Lenovo a7000 has.
Original Thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/general/rooting-roms/guide-how-to-resize-data-internal-t3180978
It says there is a Zip file with AROMA installer to flash with TWRP
It will ask for a partition size, you choose anyone from there
It will reduce the "Data" partition (5GB) and increase the "System" partition (2GB), I think swap their sizes.
Then user must need an External SD card to store the pictures and downloaded files etc, but more apps
could be installed in the bigger "System" partition. There will be no "Space running out. . ." messages.
Make no mistake about one thing!
The Marshmallow's option "Use SD card as Internal Storage" doesn't work at all as what it says.
I used an app "DiskInfo" and saw the "System" partition size, when the 2GB space was occupied completely
the message started to show again "Space running out. . ."
Although I had a 32GB SD card used as Internal Storage.
Its all about resize the "System" partition more than 2GB.
I hope that method will work on our phone.
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But why do you want more system partition size?
System partition only contains the ROM and the system apps.
All user apps go to the /data partition. And MM (and onward) internal SD card feature works exactly as it claims.
You need to move already installed apps to SD card first to free up storage on internal storage to install more apps.
And the xda thread you linked, it is for data partition resizing. Resizing only means to shrink the size and not to increase it beyond its physical memory limit.