I have had the dual boot Teclast x98 Air II for 2 weeks and could not be any more happier. The hardware is great and the tablet is as responsive as my Asus Google Nexus 7 (2013). I rooted the tablet and removed the chinese system apps. On Windows 8.1 Bing, I simply removed the chinese language pack and have had no issues. I have a 64GB sd card formatted to Fat32 to store books and music. The sd card is read by both androind and windows and so no need to store duplicate files.
My question is about how much space on the 32GB hard drive is assigned to android and windows and is it possible to change the partition sizes ? If yes, what is the optimal partition size for both ?
Thanks for your help
PeeAm
peeam said:
My question is about how much space on the 32GB hard drive is assigned to android and windows and is it possible to change the partition sizes ? If yes, what is the optimal partition size for both ?
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I am trying to reduce the Android size and increase the Windows size.
What I have found so far, you can delete whole Android system or delete whole Windows system.
It looks like quite hard(or impossible) to reduce the Android size because Android uses 7+ partition.
So it should better to install one by one--Windows 8.1 and then Android. Or vice versa. During installation, I think it can allocate partition size based on your needs--I haven't found out yet so it was just my guessing.
I bought secondhand x98 air ii 64gb so I'm not sure about whether it is factory setup or not.
But mine was 39gb(include 6+gb for windows recovery) for Windows and other remains--22gb(it seems) for Android.
You can find those size storage menu in settings, in Android. And Windows explorer in Windows.
I think there hasn't any optimal partition size because it's all depend on usage.
I don't like installing so many apps on Android and Windows. So in my case, 8gb is surely enough for my Android--I have 16gb android tablet and half was empty so I can manage with that size. And I can put data(video, music, etc) on microsd memory.
I don't need big memory on Windows but sometimes, some software need big size--of course, mostly game, so I'd like to have more space on Windows.
I'm thinking about upgrade to Android 5.0 from 4.4.4. So during that process, I hope to reduce the partition size.
Thank you.
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I'm not sure if there is another post out there for this, searched the forums but didn't see one... I could have missed it but anyway.
iSilo is out for the G1. Though it's not on the market as of yet, it's packaged Quote from the site:
System requirements
The basic requirements specify the absolute minimum configuration needed to install and use the software. Additional functionality may demand further requirements as indicated.
basic requirements
T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream) device running Android™ 1.1 or later.
800K of internal device storage space for application
120K storage memory on memory card for supporting documents
512K free program memory (1MB recommended)
Memory card in device for storing documents and settings.
additional functionality specific requirements
Additional space on memory card required for document storage.
iSiloX required for creating documents utilizing maximum document presentation capabilities.
download and installation
Please note that this beta version ceases to function on May 15, 2009. The download link to use depends on your installation method:
Install OTA using Browser
http://www.isilo.com/info/beta/iSiloAnd.htm#installViaOTA
Install via memory card
http://www.isilo.com/info/beta/iSiloAnd.htm#installViaMemoryCard
I've been trying to install it but am having some serious difficulty and APKINSTALLER wouldn't load it for anything...
Anyone installed and used it yet?
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I've been trying to install it but am having some serious difficulty and APKINSTALLER wouldn't load it for anything...
Anyone installed and used it yet?
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yep, i just seen ur post, and went to it on my phone and followed the instructions, after the dl was finished the phone showed the dl was done, i clicked on it and it installed no problem. have u tried installing using linda maybe? or astro..
What exactly is the purpose of this app?
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What exactly is the purpose of this app?
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From the website:
iSilo™ is a highly versatile document reader available for iPhone/iPod touch, Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphone, BlackBerry®, Symbian UIQ 3, Symbian UIQ, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, Symbian Series 60, Symbian Series 80, and Windows® CE Handheld PC handhelds, as well as for Windows® computers. You can find thousands of ready-made documents downloadable immediately for reading with iSilo™ or you can create your own documents from HTML content using iSiloX. Some of the major features that will win you over to iSilo™ include:
High text compression in iSilo™ format documents result in a 50% to 60% decrease in size, which is about 20% better than the Palm Doc format, allowing you to store more and larger documents on your handheld.
Hyperlinks make it much easier to navigate through a document.
Images add visual richness to documents, especially photo-quality color pictures.
Tables allow the display of tabular data.
Formatted text gives style to text for controlled emphasis.
Got it installed... I had to disable/re-enable third party application installs.
I was wondering how you could do this, I want to edit a few apps' pictures so i can change a the colours to what i would like them to be. (Trying to change BarTor from red/black to Blue/black). I tried editing the apk to my BarTor app but it wont install and the only changes i did was to replace the pictures.
That's a very good question. I managed to change the Browser icon from the default one to the Firefox logo and I have a partitioned SD card.
Bump. Anyone with knowledge on this matter?
Best way is to delete that virus, what did you call it? windows? and install any real operating system.
Of course, you could install an ext2 driver for that virus
http://www.fs-driver.org/
http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs
I absolutely do not recommend accessing it with that virus though, it can't even keep its own filesystems intact. Letting it access to ext2 is just asking for trouble.
Horrible virus I know, but when they start making games like Cod 4 and Counter-strike for linux. Then ill switch over. I have ubuntu and windows xp on this computer but no media card reader but my laptop has one but no linux =/
BUMP-TACULAR!
you can run ubuntu on your laptop without having to mess with partitions etc, i could sewar somewhere there is an lite app you can DL and run on a windows PC
Yup, been trying to do that with no success. My laptop is really small but it has no cd drive and i've been trying to boot countless ubuntu and linux os's on my usb and nothing. =/
Ext2IFS will let you access ext2 partitions in Windows
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Ext2IFS will let you access ext2 partitions in Windows
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Used it and it does not work =/
Code:
I have a device with a removable media, for example a USB memory stick, a Compact Flash Card, a magneto-optical drive etc., which has a partitioned format and has more than one partition. When I insert that media, a drive letter appears for the first partition, but not for all the remaining partitions of the media. When I open "IFS Drives" of the control panel, the considered device appears as a hard disk drive, but there is no partitioning scheme shown for it. How can I create drive letters for the remaining partitions of that removable media? (USB hard disk drives are not affected.)
There is an unsatisfactory answer only: it is not possible.
Windows creates (and deletes) all the drive letters for pure removable devices or removable medias itself. Because the Ext2 IFS software need not to create them, it intentionally does not show any partition scheme for that drive.
Windows creates a drive letter for the first partition of the considered media, but not for the remaining ones. (Windows NT4, 2000 and even XP behave the same way in that regard).
You will run into the same problem if you have a removable media partitioned with two partitions of the FAT type on a computer, which has not installed the Ext2 IFS software! So there is one straight advice only: do not use removable media with more than one partition with Windows.
Just install ubuntu with wubi (loopback mounted virtual drive as a file on your ntfs/fat32 filesystem). No repartitioning fuss. Uninstall ubuntu as easily as you'd uninstall a windows app when you get bored or don't need it anymore. (An insult to wubi actually, considering how messy/f-ed up most windows apps install themselves these days.)
You could also mess with virtual machines too (e.g. virtualbox, vmware appliance), but I think for the sake of sanity rebooting into a real runtime is easier.
Ya most of those I also installed and do not work
Is there a way to use the internal storage to increase the ram, like virtual ram? With this we could install more software without memory fail.
Thanks
pinttas said:
Is there a way to use the internal storage to increase the ram, like virtual ram? With this we could install more software without memory fail.
Thanks
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not sure about using the storage as a RAM drive, but if you want to install more software you should choose to install it to the storage card when you are given the choice at installation time
Yes, I know. But the memory usage increase.
Same problem, I have installed apps on my internal mem but it still used the system memory.
An electronics shop that can upgrade the memory would be sweet! I own both Touch Pro and Touch Diamond and I love the Diamond's size and weight, but the Touch Pro lets me install away.... The same amount of memory on a Touch Diamond and the SD card option is where HTC failed. Heck, even the regular Touch had SD!
check this out dude...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=551148
Just install a custom ROM and you'll get plenty of more RAM than on a stock ROM.
that is true to a certain extend but....
wouldn't it be sweet if you could upgrade the ram hardware. how hard can it be?
(probably impossible)
Add additional RAM
Hi,
I checked this thread which is 1 year an a half old. Is that still impossible to create a kind of partition in the internal storage that can be used as Additional RAM?
Isn't it what Android systems installed on HTC diamond already do?
Here is an explanation why pagefiles weren't implemented in WM5:
blogs @ msdn @ com/b/windowsmobile/archive/2006/03/31/566187 @ aspx
(change ' @ ' to dots - can't use links yet:])
Since for example Desire HD has 1.5gb of internal storage & 768 MB RAM, and (at least on PCs) it's common to set pagefile size to double the amount of RAM I think it won't be implemented in any version of windows mobile soon.
Android has modified version of standard linux kernel which has support for swap partition since almost always and that's why we can use it on Diamond.
And we use it because Diamond has less RAM than it's sufficient to smoothly run Android.
But I really don't think it is widely used in devices created to use Android as an OS.
Anyway, apps that use a lot of data(opera, google maps etc) use it's own cache file on disk, media players also reads data from files while playing so I really don't see necessity to have a swap file on WinMo unless you want to run like 15 apps at once.
And if you want your diamond to look like hd2, you have to live with the fact that it will work slower than the os and apps created for diamond.
Hope I answered your question
I've done a lot of searching and haven't been able to find a clear answer on this one.
Just so terminology is clear...a standard computer running an operating system stores applications on a hard drive. When a user runs a program, it is loaded into physical memory/RAM and executed. A multi-tasking OS running on a computer with a single-core CPU will hold more than one program in physical memory and switch between them such that, to the user, it seems that more than one program is being executed at the same time.
Now, on the G1, there is 192MB of SDRAM, of which about 71MB is available for storing user-installed applications. I'm assuming this is analogous to the hard drive on a standard computer--along with the 256MB of flashable ROM for the operating system, etc. So, when a user runs a program, where is it loaded? In other words, what is the analogy to the physical memory on a standard computer? Is it part of the 71MB of RAM used to store applications? If so, if I use the entire 71MB of RAM to store applications, will I have no physical memory left to run apps?
And, if I root my phone and move all my apps to the SD card, does having the entire 71MB of RAM free allow me to have more programs open and running, analogous to having more physical memory/RAM installed on a standard computer?
Thanks much for the info!
Let's clear up terminology some more.
The G1 has 256MB of ROM (Storage) with ~71MB left after install of the stock image. The remaining 60-80MB (depending on ROM) is what is used by default to install apps and for purposes of cache, acting in the equivalent purpose to a hard drive. If you use Apps2SD this is the storage you are extending.
The G1 has 192MB of RAM. This is used to run the programs and base OS. When RAM runs low the Android OS will close programs to free up enough memory to allow the foreground application the memory it needs. If you create a swap file or swap partition this is the memory you are extending.
I hope that clears it up.
Ah! So that's what I was missing. I didn't realize that the 256MB of ROM was the "hard drive" for the G1. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks much.
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Let's clear up terminology some more.
The G1 has 256MB of ROM (Storage) with ~71MB left after install of the stock image. The remaining 60-80MB (depending on ROM) is what is used by default to install apps and for purposes of cache, acting in the equivalent purpose to a hard drive. If you use Apps2SD this is the storage you are extending.
The G1 has 192MB of RAM. This is used to run the programs and base OS. When RAM runs low the Android OS will close programs to free up enough memory to allow the foreground application the memory it needs. If you create a swap file or swap partition this is the memory you are extending.
I hope that clears it up.
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Your answers is right and thanks for the useful information. I have one question though!! when I install any ROM and do a "free" command on terminal, it tells me total memory 97MB, free memory 3MB or 4MB etc.
I want to know that G1 has built in 192MB ram then why it shows 97MB only? where the rest goes?
ibraheeemz said:
Your answers is right and thanks for the useful information. I have one question though!! when I install any ROM and do a "free" command on terminal, it tells me total memory 97MB, free memory 3MB or 4MB etc.
I want to know that G1 has built in 192MB ram then why it shows 97MB only? where the rest goes?
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On the EBI0 HTC Dream there is to my knowledge the following:
8MB @0x00000000
32MB @0x02000000
110MB @0x10000000
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150MB accessible by linux
102MB (103MB with my recent patch) is general purpose (~5MB reserved by the kernel allowing you to see the 97/98)
48MB (or 47MB) are either in small holes or used for hardware communication or other special tasks (video ram, camera ram, memory log buffer ect)
42MB not listed is used by the radio firmware; that controls access to the entire device
hello
I have a problem with internal memory.
I am now 9GB free on the phone, but windows show 8GB
Why show me more memory occupied ? What can be the problem?
thanks
I'm no expert, but I know Windows often calculates file sizes differently when handling different file systems. (FAT32/NTFS/EXT4/...) The same might be true for partition sizes.
Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it. I'd trust my phone over Windows when it comes to its own internal memory