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USING STORAGE CARD AS MEMORY

Hey. I'm really new to this forum.. and please excuse me if i'm being ignorant at any time. Just bought a new XDAii Mini and realised that the memory is very less which makes the phone work very slow at time specially if multiple programs are running. So since the memory is only around 60mb or so... can't we utilize the space from our storage memory to work as memory ... basically.. can't the phone use storage memory to work faster... pls advice.
tried searching this forum for answers.. but i gave up.. any help would be appriciated. thanks.

if you've already installed programs i advise a soft reset.
-optionally install the big rom hack to get an extra 20mb of "storage" memory.
-then find a program called cabinstl to re-install all your programs to storage card.
-optionally use a program called memmaid to relocate various large dlls (support files) to storage or storage card.
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After vijay advise, read this thread and I gurantee U could get at least 35mb free memory space on startup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=16785

using MM to move the dll files to storage card, how much memory will that get you and also if hard reset, the dll will be back to main memory, correct?. Thanks :lol:
vijay555 said:
if you've already installed programs i advise a soft reset.
-optionally install the big rom hack to get an extra 20mb of "storage" memory.
-then find a program called cabinstl to re-install all your programs to storage card.
-optionally use a program called memmaid to relocate various large dlls (support files) to storage or storage card.
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Low Memory

Just wondering if some one can help,
I upgraded to WM5 from win 2003, then started load my progs back on, and got a message pop up saying low memory, when i had a look the storage memory was 0
Storage memory was 15mb all used up program memory 88mb 64mb free
and ramdisk is 32mb free is there any way to take some memory from the progs and add it to the storage memory, surley when i was adding my progs back on they should be loading to the progs memory

flash with Tofclock's 2.03 ROM 64/64 version - it gives you 64 MB for running programs and 64MB as Ramdisc. Join storage with Doc tool to gain 30MB of storage, but don't install anything in storage - it's slow. Install everything on Ramdisc. And remember - backup Ramdisk often to SD card.

where can i get Tofclock's 2.03 ROM 64/64 version

on buzddev.net in Himalaya WM5 section

[Q] htc hd2 low ram problem

hello guys. i dont know if this is a very noob topic but i couldnt find anything about it.
i have an htc hd2, i installed the rom at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1934000
the problem is, after i installed about 20 apps (all moved to sdcard) i had only 80 mb of free space (350 mb used). and it makes my device slower. if i open 2-3 apps it becomes only 15 mb and things go worse. how can i fix this? i saw noone else got this problem - everyone is happy with their devices.
i wonder if i had a mistake when flashing it or my partition sizes are wrong. i flashed it via nativeSD and on the sd card, selected the option of "odex..". the other options were "rmmtp.." and "low voltage..". and although i installed it on the sd card, while booting it says "booting android from nand" and i think there is something going wrong about it.
i dont know any of these are related to this problem but i just wanted to inform those who tries to help.
thanks.

After you install a rom on nativesd.you have to select the nativesd directory and then choose to boot android from sd not nand
And are u talking about low internal memory or low ram?
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Anurag pandey said:
After you install a rom on nativesd.you have to select the nativesd directory and then choose to boot android from sd not nand
And are u talking about low internal memory or low ram?
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i mean low ram. i dont know how to change the directory, can you help?

Go to magldr option 10 services>boot settings>ad sd directory>scroll down and select nativesd and then choose to boot ad sd
As far as ram is concerned the 420mb available ram is sufficient but if u multitask a lot then stick to gb or ics
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[Q] more internal memory?

how to increase the p500's internal memory?
I am facing a problem with an app, that it refuses to download the data package, saying that there isn't enough internal memory(it says it need around 270mb)(it's a game ), so I am wondering how to increase the internal memory. I know there are apps like link2sd, but I think that don't suit me because the app would just still detect "insufficient" internal memory.
how to increase the internal memory and also let apps detects enough memory?(I guess I need to mount the whole data partition from the ext-sd? just a guess, I don't know...)

dicksonlok said:
how to increase the p500's internal memory?
I am facing a problem with an app, that it refuses to download the data package, saying that there isn't enough internal memory(it says it need around 270mb)(it's a game ), so I am wondering how to increase the internal memory. I know there are apps like link2sd, but I think that don't suit me because the app would just still detect "insufficient" internal memory.
how to increase the internal memory and also let apps detects enough memory?(I guess I need to mount the whole data partition from the ext-sd? just a guess, I don't know...)
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`are you sure you linked the sd-ext properly? cos once it is, it should act as the usable internal memory of the phone.
try increasing the sd-ext size, say 1 gb, that should leave enough space for the game n all the other apps you wanna install. also, some ROMs are not compatible with ext2 partitons. try repartitioning to ext3 or just convert ext2 into ext3 using recovery.
follow these links if you have any doubts.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2142844
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2143177

Storage isues

Hello,
I have a GoClever Aries 785 (M7841) Tab, and supposedly it is an 8 GB tab, since I can ot post any images because I am a new user this will be harder, I will try to transcript from the screenshots I have taken, here we go:
1. You see this when you press the "Storage" tab in settings:
Storage
Rom information
Internal Rom 8192 MB
System 7528 MB
User Available 664 MB
Okay so, What does all this mean? Am I missing something obvious here? Internal Rom as I understand is the total memory the device has? And System is how much is currently being used as a total? User available is self explanatory. I am not new to flashing Android Roms and such, but this is confusing me for some reason. Moving on to the next image and closer to the main question
2 In the same "Storage" tab I see a section called:
Flash storage
Total space: 5.06 GB
Available: 664 MB
(And on it goes with how much storage the apps, pics and so on occupy)
As I understand, this Flash Storage is an emulated internal SD card or something
3. Another section is:
Internal storage
Total space: 0.98GB
Available: 287MB
Apps (SYSTEM APPS IN FACT) and cached data takes about 500MB
So that adds up to what? 6 GBs? As I understand 3 GB is hidden and used by the Android system?
The point of all this is this leaves me with like a half a GB to download apps and install them because they all go to internal storage and not flash storage or SD card. WTF? I am constantly having issues of low storage and when I reach a certain limit Google Play does not even let download apps. I can have the Flash storage as empty as I want and an SD card as large as I want but because the internal storage has only 300 MB available I am not able to download apps. I can download apps if there is free internal storage and move them to flash storage from the app manager, but the system still leaves some data in the Internal storage and I do not think I can move them to an SD card, so since when I move an app to the Flash storage and it leaves some data in Internal, I come to a point when it is full again and there is nothing I can do about it. I cant select the default write disk to be Flash stage or SD, but I think it is only for the camera, voice recorder and etc. How do I work around this? Is there a way to reparation the storage so there would be more space of Internal storage? Or maybe some thing else I could do? I can not even have apps like Facebook or the Google Docs that I need, I have to constancy clean cache so I cant at least get like 20 MB more.
Device is rooted, I can access device internal storage with ES file explorer.
If you have gotten this far, I thank you for reading my novel, I have tried to explain everything as clear as I can and to include as much info as I can, some of it might have been useless. Sorry for a long post.

No one has the answer?

Hi !
If the device has been rooted then some improper storage readings may occur
Install DiskInfo from playstore for a better image of your storage
You can use but be careful with SdMaid from playstore as well
Basically , a 8GB Rom is the total storage your device has been built with which actually means 7629.39 mb in real
From this amount , 3 gb may be the system which you can`t fill it up with user`s apps or personal files , the rest of it is the user`s space storage from which 500 mb is the cache
In the end , without any personal files or user`s apps , the amount of available storage may be 4291.53 mb so , try to remove all the personal (media) files away (audio , video, downloads ...) and check how much free space you`ll get
Your system may be capable of moving user`s app to flash storage but this is limited to certain folders like data folder of the application , the obb won`t move out
A good application is Apps2Sd from playstore but again , be very careful and properly read the xda`s thread before doing anything
Good luck !