Does anyone know the size of the system partition for both 16G and 32G Moto X? My current phone has 1 GB for the system partition, which gives me very limited space for app installation.
frog3000 said:
Does anyone know the size of the system partition for both 16G and 32G Moto X? My current phone has 1 GB for the system partition, which gives me very limited space for app installation.
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App installation doesn't take the system partition memory
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App installation doesn't take the system partition memory
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You're right. App isn't installed to /system and it goes to /data. I don't have a good word to call it. Maybe "internal storage", which is kind of confuse too, since Moto X does not have any external storage.
Do you guys notice any space issue for installing new apps? My current phone only have 1 GB for "internal storage" even it has 16GB in total for storage space. 1GB sounds a lot but I only can have 80+ apps. Some app is very large, for example, Chrome is 65MB.
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Any one know how to increase internal storage? As iwanted to keep all the apps in internal storage instead of sdcard .
Advise against it. Set by default for system apps. Unless you flash custom rom. Best solution transfer apps to ext sd card
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jim2sad said:
Any one know how to increase internal storage? As iwanted to keep all the apps in internal storage instead of sdcard .
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I don't think messing around with the partition is a good idea. But if you are a pro, that's what Android is for.
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Well, yes and no. You have x GB of internal storage. That will never change. The deal is that you can only use a set amount of that x GB for apps and data. Without going into that much detail, though, a majority of that x GB is partitioned like this:
/system – x GB
/data – x GB
/cache – x MB/GB
/data is the only partition you can actually use for apps and data. So, to answer your question, you can make that /data partition larger. This requires root, though, as you suspected.
Resizing the partitions is much more advanced, though, and is not as simple as just installing an app. Whether you have a custom or stock ROM, make sure you leave yourself enough space where it needs to be.
So can I custom partitions my phone u may ask. At the moment it does not seem to be any tools or mod for doing this on N7000. But u can google "custom mtd partitions android" (or galaxy note).
But its not something I recommend but if u feel comfortable for doing this (if u find any ways to custom partitions) despite all the warnings that may appear on the guide, you can just go ahead and custom partition
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Ok I just flashed the synergy rom on my bionic and I am a complete newb to this stuff. I was reinstalling my apps which I had on my phone previously and now it says there is insufficient storage space. Why dont I have the space? When I installed the rom I remember clicking something with 1gb but I could have chose 2gb or 3gb. What was that?
FlipFlop425 said:
Ok I just flashed the synergy rom on my bionic and I am a complete newb to this stuff. I was reinstalling my apps which I had on my phone previously and now it says there is insufficient storage space. Why dont I have the space? When I installed the rom I remember clicking something with 1gb but I could have chose 2gb or 3gb. What was that?
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Safe strap allows you to choose the partition size 1,2 or 3 gb. When you chose a 1gb partition that was the amount of space you gave the rom to store apps. You need to reflash with a 2gb or 3gb partition so you have the space you need or you can get rid of that app you haven't used in 6 months
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Despite all the posts and solutions on this subject I must admit a level of frustration at my continuing low internal memory on my HD2, I am running Pacman/ xylograph jb which has plenty of ROM space (most other ROMS take much bigger partitions), Link2SD, Apps2ROM and Clean Master. Link2SD tells me I have no apps on internal, Apps2Rom also confirms all apps either on ROM or SD.
When I look at the storage values I get:
Internal: 146MB used 106 free 40.1
SD card 10.98GB Used 3.91 Free 7.08
SD 2nd partition 3.81GB Used 30.3MB Free 3.77GB
System 260MB Used 177 Free 83.5
Cache 146MB Used 106 Free 40.1
Why is it that despite linking all apps to 2nd partition and having spare space on ROM my internal space is so low, cache is cleaned out every day.
What is using 106MB of internal space?
Any useful thoughts would be appreciated.
hardav said:
Despite all the posts and solutions on this subject I must admit a level of frustration at my continuing low internal memory on my HD2, I am running Pacman/ xylograph jb which has plenty of ROM space (most other ROMS take much bigger partitions), Link2SD, Apps2ROM and Clean Master. Link2SD tells me I have no apps on internal, Apps2Rom also confirms all apps either on ROM or SD.
When I look at the storage values I get:
Internal: 146MB used 106 free 40.1
SD card 10.98GB Used 3.91 Free 7.08
SD 2nd partition 3.81GB Used 30.3MB Free 3.77GB
System 260MB Used 177 Free 83.5
Cache 146MB Used 106 Free 40.1
Why is it that despite linking all apps to 2nd partition and having spare space on ROM my internal space is so low, cache is cleaned out every day.
What is using 106MB of internal space?
Any useful thoughts would be appreciated.
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Your system partition is way too big, 260mb with 83.5mb free.
You don't need that, 185 mb should be fine for system partition.
Check out the rom thread for recommended partition size.
You can also run roms with DataOnExt. You won't ever run out of memory then. Format an ext4 partition of 1 to 2 GB on your SD card and you have plenty memory.
Or do you have a specific reason to run on Nand?
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jvzijp said:
You can also run roms with DataOnExt. You won't ever run out of memory then. Format an ext4 partition of 1 to 2 GB on your SD card and you have plenty memory.
Or do you have a specific reason to run on Nand?
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I agree with this.
DataOnEXT is definitely the best solution for problems regarding running out of memory quickly.
I am missing roughly 3 to 4GB of space on my internal storage. Long story short -- flashed cm11.0_golden.nova.20141127.ODIN_TWRP the first couple of tries it failed mainly due to me not knowing how to enter into recovery mode. After about 4 or 5 tries I figured it out and all was well. Then I notice a large chunk of my internal storage is missing. I enter recovery mode and format all internal storage. I gain a few hundred MB. I cannot see those missing GB of space at all. My best guess is that those first few unsuccessful attempts at flashing the rom are still there in the internal storage taking the space I am missing. Is there any way to repartition the internal storage? I have used all of the methods available to me with TWRP and have had no success in gaining that storage back. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
davesunday said:
I am missing roughly 3 to 4GB of space on my internal storage. Long story short -- flashed cm11.0_golden.nova.20141127.ODIN_TWRP the first couple of tries it failed mainly due to me not knowing how to enter into recovery mode. After about 4 or 5 tries I figured it out and all was well. Then I notice a large chunk of my internal storage is missing. I enter recovery mode and format all internal storage. I gain a few hundred MB. I cannot see those missing GB of space at all. My best guess is that those first few unsuccessful attempts at flashing the rom are still there in the internal storage taking the space I am missing. Is there any way to repartition the internal storage? I have used all of the methods available to me with TWRP and have had no success in gaining that storage back. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Guessing you have S3 mini soo i have same "issue" it's actually the phone itself takes around 3-4 GB i have usable 4.64 gb and i have 8GB model.
So is this just the normal amount of space taken up by the system? And yes mine is an 8GB model also.
Yes guys it's normal if you have 4GB.
4GB for system and 4GB for user
When i look at how much storage total it lists 4.72GB. For available space it shows 4.27GB. Will the 4GB taken up by the system not be shown? I just figured that it would list close to 8GB total with X amount taken by system. Im pretty sure this is how it was before I flashed the phone.
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When i look at how much storage total it lists 4.72GB. For available space it shows 4.27GB. Will the 4GB taken up by the system not be shown? I just figured that it would list close to 8GB total with X amount taken by system. Im pretty sure this is how it was before I flashed the phone.
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Could it be the missing 4GB is the partition of the system? I am using stock ROM also can only access about 4GB for saving files and apps. Maybe the CM11 itself using 4GB for OS process and pre-installed/bloatware apps? Just my guest.
You can try to reach the missing space using 3rd party apps such as XDA File Manager. BUT, I wont dare to do anything to the 'hidden files', as I know it could damage your system. That's why they made it invisible to normal/average user (like me). Unless you know what and which files to be played with.
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Naimlaaa said:
Could it be the missing 4GB is the partition of the system? I am using stock ROM also can only access about 4GB for saving files and apps. Maybe the CM11 itself using 4GB for OS process and pre-installed/bloatware apps? Just my guest.
You can try to reach the missing space using 3rd party apps such as XDA File Manager. BUT, I wont dare to do anything to the 'hidden files', as I know it could damage your system. That's why they made it invisible to normal/average user (like me). Unless you know what and which files to be played with.
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But, what's the actual space occupied by the system files? We could try to resize "system partition" to gain some gb on "data partition"?
fabiocaruso said:
But, what's the actual space occupied by the system files? We could try to resize "system partition" to gain some gb on "data partition"?
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I'm also interested in repartitioning it, I successfully made it for a Galaxy S2 and my Note N7000... I used a specific pit file flashed with Odin... is there any pit file for GT-I8190 8 Gb? Thanks in advance!
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But, what's the actual space occupied by the system files? We could try to resize "system partition" to gain some gb on "data partition"?
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Im not sure about CM11, but with Slimrom is about 1.23GB. You can see this using Titanium Backup in the overview.
gt-i8190n using SlimKat(Android-Andi) marinated F_Kernel(Fred8861)
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tomnic said:
I'm also interested in repartitioning it, I successfully made it for a Galaxy S2 and my Note N7000... I used a specific pit file flashed with Odin... is there any pit file for GT-I8190 8 Gb? Thanks in advance!
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Hi there. Can you tell me more about partition setting/tweaking. I think i've screwed some of it while playing with terminal command.
gt-i8190n using SlimKat(Android-Andi) marinated F_Kernel(Fred8861)
I can't live with 4GB, is there anyway to free up more space?
I even tried using the App2SD app, but those require me to reboot the phone to mount the SD card after rebooting, apps don't update properly as well, etc.... and it's just so much hassle.
There's so much crapware that HTC puts in too. Is there any solution or ROM out there that remove all the crapware AND "recovers" the space and make it available to the user? Right now, on a fresh hard reset I have about 1 GB free, which is really not enough since installing apps takes up almost all of that space.
AndroAsc said:
I can't live with 4GB, is there anyway to free up more space?
I even tried using the App2SD app, but those require me to reboot the phone to mount the SD card after rebooting, apps don't update properly as well, etc.... and it's just so much hassle.
There's so much crapware that HTC puts in too. Is there any solution or ROM out there that remove all the crapware AND "recovers" the space and make it available to the user? Right now, on a fresh hard reset I have about 1 GB free, which is really not enough since installing apps takes up almost all of that space.
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Could I maybe get some more info please? Rom? Kernel/Boot? 32 bit or 64 bit? Carrier?
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Could I maybe get some more info please? Rom? Kernel/Boot? 32 bit or 64 bit? Carrier?
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32-bit, Sprint. RaptorRom v2. Not sure which kernel.
AndroAsc said:
32-bit, Sprint. RaptorRom v2. Not sure which kernel.
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You should have an option within the "settings ~ storage" somewhere to select that the phone should use the sd card as space, at least the stock rom does.. And we're never getting the space back and I have no idea what made HTC do what they did on all the partitions because that's why we have no space.. For instance the Radio.img firmware is on it's own partition mmcblk0p20 it's only using a total of 43.4MB and then it has 156MB free space just sitting there with nothing to use it and they have partitions for everything not just the radio and most of the partitions are a total of 199MB and at the least there's 150MB free on every single partition but like I've told others we are never going to get that space freed up and I have no idea what made HTC do something that stupid!!
AndroAsc,
I have the same device and the same ROM. (3.4.43 pattyboi kernel, I assume you are the same)
I use the free version of Link2SD with a ext4 partition of 4GB. I achieved the partition using the Aparted app because it's convenient and the card can stay in the device during format. Once Link2SD is installed, choose the format of your second partition (ext4) and reboot. Now go to Link2SD settings, check the box "autolink", and in autolink settings check all the boxes except "Link internal data." DO NOTHING ELSE! Do not "move apps to SD" or "Link internal data" because this will effect updates, cause disappearing apps, etc. However, if you set it up like this it will work.
I have a ton of apps and games on my device and have never had a low space warning. My storage space hovers around the 275-350MB free mark at all times.
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AndroAsc,
I have the same device and the same ROM. (3.4.43 pattyboi kernel, I assume you are the same)
I use the free version of Link2SD with a ext4 partition of 4GB. I achieved the partition using the Aparted app because it's convenient and the card can stay in the device during format. Once Link2SD is installed, choose the format of your second partition (ext4) and reboot. Now go to Link2SD settings, check the box "autolink", and in autolink settings check all the boxes except "Link internal data." DO NOTHING ELSE! Do not "move apps to SD" or "Link internal data" because this will effect updates, cause disappearing apps, etc. However, if you set it up like this it will work.
I have a ton of apps and games on my device and have never had a low space warning. My storage space hovers around the 275-350MB free mark at all times.
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I don't use the HTC Desire 510 or any HTC as a daily driver I only do dev work theming and other things! My daily driver is the new Motorola Moto X Style!
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I don't use the HTC Desire 510 or any HTC as a daily driver I only do dev work theming and other things! My daily driver is the new Motorola Moto X Style!
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MrMike.. I have seen you around the forums. I've been reading and learning from xda for a long time, (Since the HTC Thunderbolt days) but never signed up until now. Thanks for your contributions.
daryl405 said:
MrMike.. I have seen you around the forums. I've been reading and learning from xda for a long time, (Since the HTC Thunderbolt days) but never signed up until now. Thanks for your contributions.
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Thanks!
Every time I try to uninstall the programs listed under the Link2SD column, my phone restarts by itself and upon opening L2SD again, everything I removed is back in place.
What's going on here?
I know this was while ago now, but did you have trouble with Link2SD mounting at startup? I formatted as ext4, but regardless of which mount option I pick when the app loads, it says it can't mount at startup. I can't seem to get away from that message.
-jason
daryl405 said:
AndroAsc,
I have the same device and the same ROM. (3.4.43 pattyboi kernel, I assume you are the same)
I use the free version of Link2SD with a ext4 partition of 4GB. I achieved the partition using the Aparted app because it's convenient and the card can stay in the device during format. Once Link2SD is installed, choose the format of your second partition (ext4) and reboot. Now go to Link2SD settings, check the box "autolink", and in autolink settings check all the boxes except "Link internal data." DO NOTHING ELSE! Do not "move apps to SD" or "Link internal data" because this will effect updates, cause disappearing apps, etc. However, if you set it up like this it will work.
I have a ton of apps and games on my device and have never had a low space warning. My storage space hovers around the 275-350MB free mark at all times.
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