Hi all. First post on the One forum. Great phone so far, but only had it a day. Can anyone tell me what the hell is taking up nearly 8gb or my 32gb storage. This is obviously all the storage we have and if it's the system that is taking it up...well...I'll not be happy!
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VaderXI said:
Hi all. First post on the One forum. Great phone so far, but only had it a day. Can anyone tell me what the hell is taking up nearly 8gb or my 32gb storage. This is obviously all the storage we have and if it's the system that is taking it up...well...I'll not be happy!
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Yes, that is the system files. I think on my US TMO one it used up about 5 or 6. I remember having 27 Gb, but I had installed a couple of apps by the time I thought to look.
EDIT: You can look for a custom ROM that has less bloat, or you can root and uninstall files from the storage.
You can use 28GB for your app/music/photo etc.
5 GB are for system...
Guich said:
You can use 28GB for your app/music/photo etc.
5 GB are for system...
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That is about right for my US system as well, but evidently the OP had 8 Gb used up on his phone.
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Just grabbed one of these for my wife for christmas. She was wanting an eReader figured I could put cm7 on it and then she could have a choice of reader apps and have some tablet functionality as well.
Digging through stuff it seems alot of information is old so I don't really know where to begin. Do I need an sd card? Does it matter which size? Would greatly appreciate if someone could direct me in the right direction.
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Cor-master said:
Just grabbed one of these for my wife for christmas. She was wanting an eReader figured I could put cm7 on it and then she could have a choice of reader apps and have some tablet functionality as well.
Digging through stuff it seems alot of information is old so I don't really know where to begin. Do I need an sd card? Does it matter which size? Would greatly appreciate if someone could direct me in the right direction.
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If you are wanting CM7, just follow eyeballer's guide, here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12797652
It is still applicable. And get CM7.2 stable from the Cyanogenmod site. And yes, you generally need an SD. A lot of apps expect one. Size just depends on how much stuff you want to store on it. Generally 4GB or larger is enough. With the price of SD's nowadays, I recommend getting as large as you can afford. You can never have too much SD space. And if you have any thoughts of maybe putting a ROM on it in the future, it needs to be a SanDisk Class 4.
Let me know how you like it with CM on it, Cor-master. I've been thinking about getting one for my parents and rooting it since they're so cheap now and I get 20% off with my employee discount.
Yeah the nook color is what got me interested in tablets in the first place. I thought the ipad was a dumb idea when it came out, then my friend showed off his rooted cm7 powered nook to me and I was in love lol
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So I'm assuming the sd card takes over and the internal storage is ignored?
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So I'm assuming the sd card takes over and the internal storage is ignored?
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Only if you choose too. If you install it to internal memory the SD is only used for media storage. If you choose to install the ROM to SD, then the internal ROM is not touched and is ignored on boot.
Those instructions I posted earlier is for installing to internal memory, overwriting the stock ROM.
Cool that sounds good to me. I'm no noob to this stuff, my Nexus 7 is my 4th android device and I never leave them stock, but you know how it is, different on every single device.
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Alright one more question, I got it running cm10, if I want it to run cm7 instead how do I do that? Do I just use recovery, factory reset, flash cm7,and gapps? Or is their more to it?
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Alright one more question, I got it running cm10, if I want it to run cm7 instead how do I do that? Do I just use recovery, factory reset, flash cm7,and gapps? Or is their more to it?
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You've got it right.
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Thanks just wanted to be sure. Some devices are picky about bootloaders and android versions, ie my flyer wouldn't run a honeycomb rom on the gingerbread bootloader and vice versa
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can someone tell me how much RAM is used when the first time HTC ONE turned on without many application running. My HTC ONE X+ only have around 250 MB left of RAM when the first time the phone is turned on.
Please correct me if I wrong, but I think, this is due to HTC sense stuff that takes lots of memory to run. It makes me thinking twice before installing application especially the one that running on background due the the memory space is very little.
I don't own the One yet and cannot comment on exactly how much ram sense 5 uses, but One has 2gb ram so it means if sense 5 uses the same amount of ram as sense 4, it will leave you 1.25gb which is enough and good amount for app running and switching.
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On my friends HTC One there is 1.5gb of free ram or so.
Just done a full reboot and mine is showing 1.1gb free memory.
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I don't own the One yet and cannot comment on exactly how much ram sense 5 uses, but One has 2gb ram so it means if sense 5 uses the same amount of ram as sense 4, it will leave you 1.25gb which is enough and good amount for app running and switching.
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On my friends HTC One there is 1.5gb of free ram or so.
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dr9722 said:
Just done a full reboot and mine is showing 1.1gb free memory.
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ok. so most likely the phone still need a lots of memory to run. thanks to the memory upgrade 2 GB :angel:
How do I see the free ram ?
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How do I see the free ram ?
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From memory, go into settings then apps/applications and you should be able to swipe right which will then show you free ram I think.
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From memory, go into settings then apps/applications and you should be able to swipe right which will then show you free ram I think.
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ah got it thanks :laugh:
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How do I see the free ram ?
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hi, mind to tell us the free ram that you got ?
I have 1.5gb
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how do i access this i only have access to 26gb out of my 32gb
in storage settings it says there is 7gb in other but i cant access this??
That 7gb you're missing is the stock Rom and pre-installed apps I believe.
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Can't wait for s-off
If like mine, you will have a pre installed film in there too, I got Thor that took up over a Gb. This is easily deleted by clicking 'free up space' or whatever it's called in settings
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If like mine, you will have a pre installed film in there too, I got Thor that took up over a Gb. This is easily deleted by clicking 'free up space' or whatever it's called in settings
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Could you give us a screenshot? So do you mean the 6gb is not really the system partition but a chunk of data?
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Could you give us a screenshot? So do you mean the 6gb is not really the system partition but a chunk of data?
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No, I'm saying that some of the used space will be stuff you can remove, like 1.27 Gb of film I don't want to watch. There is a huge chunk that is the system partition don't get me wrong!
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There is a huge chunk that is the system partition
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A HUGE chunk. Can't see the reason for it being so large.
im not sure what the other storage is its about 7gb
Yes out of the box only 25gb left. This space matters since the phone doesn't have memory expansion.
HTC shouldn't advertise it's 32gb. It's 25gb
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isn't it possible to delete those bloatware-apps now, as we have the system-partition made r/w?
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isn't it possible to delete those bloatware-apps now, as we have the system-partition made r/w?
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Only if you root but I'm rooted i got about half a gig of bloat wear of the phone if you go to settings then storage then apps there are some you can get off the phone
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Yes out of the box only 25gb left. This space matters since the phone doesn't have memory expansion.
HTC shouldn't advertise it's 32gb. It's 25gb
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All companies do this and HTC isn't the only one.
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All companies do this and HTC isn't the only one.
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Exactly.. Even when you're buyin a flash drive, you never really gets the "advertising" capacity
When I had my GNex I could always look at what was taking up space from storage in settings. Now that I have my One I cannot do this. I've got 2gigs available overall and "other" is using 10gigs. But I don't know how I can see what is taking up so much space. I am rooted, btw. Any suggestions? I've got 18gigs of music so far and I'm not done so I'd really like to free up this storage.
Im a huge fan of Grid Size File Manager. It gives you a visual representation of whats eating your storage. Most likely downloaded roms or videos.
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Thank you, its a great app. Its all twrp. My backups are taking up the space but I never had this problem with my GNex and I had several backups.
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If GNex = Galaxy Nexus, then your backups may have been on an SD card?
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If GNex = Galaxy Nexus, then your backups may have been on an SD card?
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GNex didn't have a physical SD card slot. I've moved my backups to my pc and now I've got an extra 4gb but there's still 6gb being used and I haven't a clue as to what's using it. I even deleted all of my music to make sure there weren't any misplaced files in my music folder. This is driving me crazy.
A ton of space is used by the system.
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A ton of space is used by the system.
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I really didn't want to come to that conclusion but I probably should have just stopped there from the beginning. Of course they're system files, duh. *slaps forehead*
Yup. Out of the 32gb when i took this baby out of the box I had just under 27. Still not bad, as I rely on the cloud for everything but roms, booby pics, and the like
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How much usable space in the Phone memory portion of this Sony xpeira Z1S 32GB model.
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How much usable space in the Phone memory portion of this Sony xpeira Z1S 32GB model.
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Noone knows the answer?
24-25gb is usable, still plenty since there is still an external SD card to store pictures movies music etc
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24-25gb is usable, still plenty since there is still an external SD card to store pictures movies music etc
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thanks for reply.
Actually , i meant the portion that can install APP, not the totaly space left. I have other sony 16GB model, i always run out of space to install app, since they are all 16GB only. So try to find out how many this 32GB model has for APP only.
Or actually can I have the whole 32GB for app ?
On this phone the space can be used for whatever,, so you can use it for all apps if you want.
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Kanes_Inferno said:
On this phone the space can be used for whatever,, so you can use it for all apps if you want.
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Good to know, other sony xperia has 2 partitions, one for app which used quickly, the rest like 20 plus GB are used for anything else.
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Good to know, other sony xperia has 2 partitions, one for app which used quickly, the rest like 20 plus GB are used for anything else.
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Yeah, my old HTC EVO LTE was that way, so glad this phone isn't.
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