Hello,
I have looked in all the help forums for patitioning a sd card but still no answer.
Does anyone know how to partition a sd card on VISTA?
Thanks for the info in advance.
ArmandHammer said:
Hello,
I have looked in all the help forums for patitioning a sd card but still no answer.
Does anyone know how to partition a sd card on VISTA?
Thanks for the info in advance.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=500387
this has been talked about over and over and over .. this is probably your best bet
LucidREM said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=500387
this has been talked about over and over and over .. this is probably your best bet
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Yeesh, not exactly the easiest answer but hey, what can you do? Windows seems to hate ext2 with a passion. Maybe I'll try to contact MartinFick and ask if I can include his script in my app so it can auto-partition the sd card for you.... Can't make any promises though, that's already sounding pretty daunting.
That would be awesome Marcus. I just called customer service for sandisk and he said you cant partition a micro sd card??? weird considering there are a lot of people who have already done this.
If you can get it into your program that would be awesome but i still cnt download anything on 5.0.1g
ArmandHammer said:
That would be awesome Marcus. I just called customer service for sandisk and he said you cant partition a micro sd card??? weird considering there are a lot of people who have already done this.
If you can get it into your program that would be awesome but i still cnt download anything on 5.0.1g
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Umm sandisk representative totally lied... They probably just didn't want you to do that so they won't have to deal with it if your card gets messed up.
On the app front, looks like it's not going to be incorporated for a while, I talked to the dev who wrote the sdsplit script and it apparently has trouble with micro-sd cards over 2GB, and isn't in a final enough state that I'd be comfortable putting it in(I'm trying to avoid bricking people's phones as much as possible).
Oh and Haykuro put up an update called 5.0.1gr2 that is a temp fix for the market issue.
This is weird. Everytime I post from my phone it says I have to wait 30 seconds to post then Iit posts it twice.
Ahh that makes sense. I was wondering what the 5.0.1gr2 version was. I am still on 5.0g because I never had problems with mms.
Marcus how or what program did you use to get the apps to sd?
Also what does your program actually do that is on the market?
Hey Marcus,
Yeah I was the one who discovered the issue with memory cards of over 2GB. Below 2GB it really does work like a charm. You should be able to just put a quick if/then statement that checks the size of the sdcard, and only runs the SD Card formatting for smaller cards.
ArmandHammer said:
I just called customer service
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There's your problem. When it comes to technology, 95% of the time the guy (or gal) on the other side of the line is reading from a script and doesn't know a partition from a file allocation table. Customer service exists for the most part to act as a crude filter for repairs and exchanges.
If your first instinct was to call customer service for the memory card manufacturer, maybe you should steer clear of apps-on-sd
paragon partition magic 9 did the trick. just did my 8gig last night on the demo version.
If your first instinct was to call customer service for the memory card manufacturer, maybe you should steer clear of apps-on-sd
- I have searched google and all around this site but i havent found a definint answer to doing the partition on vista.
It was defintly a last resort effort.
13bjunkie said:
paragon partition magic 9 did the trick. just did my 8gig last night on the demo version.
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Ill try that tonight. What was the site you downloaded that from??
I just partitioned my card, and did apps to sd, but when I installed wallpaper set and save, it failed, then I found it on my applications in setting tried to uninstall there but that failed how would I remove it with terminal.
if all else failed you can(as superuser) do "cd /system/sd/app" and then find the name of the apk for the app you're trying to uninstall and do "rm (name of the file)"
[email protected] said:
if all else failed you can(as superuser) do "cd /system/sd/app" and then find the name of the apk for the app you're trying to uninstall and do "rm (name of the file)"
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is said it cant cause its a stale nfs file handle
lol, crap that again? hmm I don't know what to do about it then...
[email protected] said:
lol, crap that again? hmm I don't know what to do about it then...
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Lol, well do you know another way of setting 320x480 wallpapers on the g1.
ICBM said:
Yeah I was the one who discovered the issue with memory cards of over 2GB. Below 2GB it really does work like a charm. You should be able to just put a quick if/then statement that checks the size of the sdcard, and only runs the SD Card formatting for smaller cards.
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If we really believe that is the only issue (size greater than 2GB), I might consider putting a check into sdsplit. Not sure how to reliably check that in the first place though?
New idea?
Hey guys, you made me think of a new suggestion on a way for users to create large FAT partitions on their phones, but it will require help, so I wrote it up here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505422
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To all dev is it possibile to integrate in your roms the possibility to abandon the use of FAT32 in sdcard data partition and use a more secure and stable (no data loss!!!) ext file system?
Cause i think so much people are complaining about too much data corruption over the ooold FAT.
Thanks all!
yokonunz said:
To all dev is it possibile to integrate in your roms the possibility to abandon the use of FAT32 in sdcard data partition and use a more secure and stable (no data loss!!!) ext file system?
Cause i think so much people are complaining about too much data corruption over the ooold FAT.
Thanks all!
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I have more data loss on the ext file system!
Besides fat32 will stay for the simple fact what you suggest will eliminate 85% of pc users (windows) being able to transfer files from pc to sdcard.
How about actually thinking before posting?
^^^^ well said ^^^^
i was thinking about you can choose if use FAT or ext, i tried to format the fat32 as ext but it was not mounted by android. Was it my fault?
http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html
Works fine for ext3 too.
shadowch31 said:
Besides fat32 will stay for the simple fact what you suggest will eliminate 85% of pc users (windows) being able to transfer files from pc to sdcard.
How about actually thinking before posting?
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Just use adb to transfer things to your sd card. This is easy and fast, and it works no matter what filesystem you use on your data partition.
Did you do a surface check of your sd card after your data loss on the ext3 partition?
Archont said:
Just use adb to transfer things to your sd card. This is easy and fast, and it works no matter what filesystem you use on your data partition.
Did you do a surface check of your sd card after your data loss on the ext3 partition?
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Oh dear, now ask yourself what are the majority of computer users using as there file system? How do you propose those that do not have rooted phones go about file transfer?
Seriously think about it....
shadowch31 said:
I have more data loss on the ext file system!
Besides fat32 will stay for the simple fact what you suggest will eliminate 85% of pc users (windows) being able to transfer files from pc to sdcard.
How about actually thinking before posting?
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Whats the problem of supporting both fs?
I wouldn't care If my phone didnt support fat32 and it's possible to add ext support for windows
I thought about it for a short moment. If you don't want something else than fat on your device why don't you just read other threads?
Leaving fat behind for a filesystem that was develloped after the 1980s is a good idea, and as far as my knowledge about android goes it is only possible on rooted phones. So this only applies to 10% of the users I guess.
And if you are satisfied the way it is just stay with what you have?
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I thought about it for a short moment. If you don't
Leaving fat behind for a filesystem that was develloped after the 1980s is a good idea, and as far as my knowledge about android goes it is only possible on rooted phones. So this only applies to 10% of the users I guess.
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That's the fact, customs rom users are rooted i was asking if there could be problems (android side) when using ext, cause my last attempt failed
This would work, if we would just change the mount options from vfat to ext2. Should be easy to do. But I don't see a reason for that, as FAT works flawlessly.
So.. Its a trusted file systems fault rather then the user and/or sd card?? This is like blaming a dvd for breaking your VCR because it was "made wrong" lol
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Dude, do u think everybody is wrong couz they dont share ur view.....if somebody wants to use ext or fat thats a personal choice...........nobody is saying "let F** the fat32...i think he was looking for an alternative method for him...not for the 95% Fat32 users
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shadowch31
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Dude, do u think everybody is wrong couz they dont share ur view.....if somebody wants to use ext or fat thats a personal choice...........nobody is saying "let F** the fat32...i think he was looking for an alternative method for him...not for the 95% Fat32 users
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Yeah, i'm just speaking about the possibility of choice , maybe from a menu to activate the fat or ext mount of the /sdcard
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Dude, do u think everybody is wrong couz they dont share ur view.....if somebody wants to use ext or fat thats a personal choice...........nobody is saying "let F** the fat32...i think he was looking for an alternative method for him...not for the 95% Fat32 users
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Read point one then three. I thank you
lmfao is this the most ridiculous post i have ever seen?
redmdc said:
lmfao is this the most ridiculous post i have ever seen?
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Sadly no
i say if it aint broke dont fix it...just like go...some people think the dev are GOD...dont think they have that kind of power
shadowch31
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For the sake of argument could we at least look at this on the whole rather than argue it. At least one of our great developers has chimed in to say that it is possible and not only that but a simple fix withing the OS structure. With that in mind, aside from the incompatibility with the windows/dos computers, it seems very possible and for that reason should not be overlooked. Practically speaking it would not be very useful to most of us, but is would be useful to the creator of this thread and therefor may be useful to the rest of us if we would take the time to understand what all this would mean.
Hello,
I have a question about HTC Inspire 4G. I accidently stripped the gold pins on the sdcard module, so when you insert an sdcard inside of the sdcard module (slot), and then activate the camera, the camera activates, and a popup message says "Please insert an sdcard". Well, obviously it will say that, because I messed up the pins inside the module. I can get a replacement for 10.00 usd on ebay for it. But, thats not my question, I would like to see if I can root the phone, and have the pictures be saved to the internal memory instead of the sdcard.. Does anyone think this will work? If I root the phone, will the camera give me an option to save a picture anywhere else other then that darn sdcard slot? I appreciate it who ever is willing to help
Regards, :laugh:
xxcorrosionxx
xxcorrosionxx said:
Hello,
I have a question about HTC Inspire 4G. I accidently stripped the gold pins on the sdcard module, so when you insert an sdcard inside of the sdcard module (slot), and then activate the camera, the camera activates, and a popup message says "Please insert an sdcard". Well, obviously it will say that, because I messed up the pins inside the module. I can get a replacement for 10.00 usd on ebay for it. But, thats not my question, I would like to see if I can root the phone, and have the pictures be saved to the internal memory instead of the sdcard.. Does anyone think this will work? If I root the phone, will the camera give me an option to save a picture anywhere else other then that darn sdcard slot? I appreciate it who ever is willing to help
Regards, :laugh:
xxcorrosionxx
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I can only speak for the ROM I'm currently using, codefireX. I just looked at Camera and Gallery settings, and I don't see an option to choose where to save pictures.
Well, before you root the phone you will need to repair the sd card module. Which will then have solved your issue regarding the cam.
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Please post all questions in the Q & A section. Thanks! Thread moved.
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Hey thanks for the feedback, and sorry I posted in the wrong section. So, it isn't possible to root it without a sdcard? Also, is their any rom I can use that will have a feature to save pictures/recorded videos to the internal memory? If not I might as well go spend a few bucks on ebay and use gentle hands to dissamble the htc xD
xxcorrosionxx said:
Hey thanks for the feedback, and sorry I posted in the wrong section. So, it isn't possible to root it without a sdcard? Also, is their any rom I can use that will have a feature to save pictures/recorded videos to the internal memory? If not I might as well go spend a few bucks on ebay and use gentle hands to dissamble the htc xD
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Nope, it's not possible to root without an sdcard. Teichopsia caught a really good point. And I don't think there is a ROM that saves to internal memory, or at least I don't know of one.
bananagranola said:
Nope, it's not possible to root without an sdcard. Teichopsia caught a really good point. And I don't think there is a ROM that saves to internal memory, or at least I don't know of one.
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Hey I found a great tutorial for exactly what I wanted. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1675864 Thanks mate
bananagranola said:
Nope, it's not possible to root without an sdcard. Teichopsia caught a really good point. And I don't think there is a ROM that saves to internal memory, or at least I don't know of one.
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I guess it could be theorerically possible by modyfing the script (heck if I know how to), but since the phone has limited memory I don't see much fotos being stored.
If it is possible then one could add a script for it to use 'x' amount of memory (to limit the amount used) and an option which asks where you want to save it. Which would get tedious after a while being asked constantly where to save the pic - or it could ask once per session. As well you could set it to default and somewhere in settings to change the default.
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Teichopsia said:
I guess it could be theorerically possible by modyfing the script (heck if I know how to), but since the phone has limited memory I don't see much fotos being stored.
If it is possible then one could add a script for it to use 'x' amount of memory (to limit the amount used) and an option which asks where you want to save it. Which would get tedious after a while being asked constantly where to save the pic - or it could ask once per session. As well you could set it to default and somewhere in settings to change the default.
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That actually sounds nice, it would be pretty damn cool if their was a ROM that could do that. I mean it would be a small new feature that would help alot to users that have my problem.
xxcorrosionxx said:
That actually sounds nice, it would be pretty damn cool if their was a ROM that could do that. I mean it would be a small new feature that would help alot to users that have my problem.
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You could be the first to do it.
All you need is free time and the willingness to learn.
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Teichopsia said:
You could be the first to do it.
All you need is free time and the willingness to learn.
Sent from a dream.
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Well here is a code I found for android programming that can save bitmap image to the internal memory. But, I am not a android developer, I have no knowledge of app programming and rom modding: stackoverflow.com/questions/7314125/saving-image-to-internal-memory-and-would-appear-in-the-gallery
xxcorrosionxx said:
Well here is a code I found for android programming that can save bitmap image to the internal memory. But, I am not a android developer, I have no knowledge of app programming and rom modding: stackoverflow.com/questions/7314125/saving-image-to-internal-memory-and-would-appear-in-the-gallery
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I read some where, where a developer said that some android apps come equiped with internal/sd card options to picture saving picture. One of the apps the developer said that would work is a free app called Camera ICS. Idk, I am in the process of downloading it. I shall let you all know if this could be an option.
Update: Did not work for the camera app
So todays deal of the day offered a bunch of Sandisk cards, I ordered the 64g sdxc class 10 card which is in exfat formatting. Now, I have been reading over and over the same things about the correct format for our device, but no clear definitions on what the real deal is, just if there was any problem the answer was "format to fat32". Now its clearly stated that exfat is supported by our device, but other variants have apparently dropped this support on recent updates. That info is useless to me because all I care about is our variant. So what is the deal, keep the exfat format or convert to fat32? Not being able to move over 4gb would kind of be a pain, but obviously do not want issues. Does keeping in exfat have security risks of losing your info or not? I could care less about nandroids going on the card, so lets eliminate that issue which apparently calls for fat32. There are too many conflicting threads about this issue, so searching this toppic is pretty useless as its a bunch of single issues with no true ties to the fundemental truth. I really want some reliable info here as I have about an hour to cancel this order!!!
annoyingduck said:
So todays deal of the day offered a bunch of Sandisk cards, I ordered the 64g sdxc class 10 card which is in exfat formatting. Now, I have been reading over and over the same things about the correct format for our device, but no clear definitions on what the real deal is, just if there was any problem the answer was "format to fat32". Now its clearly stated that exfat is supported by our device, but other variants have apparently dropped this support on recent updates. That info is useless to me because all I care about is our variant. So what is the deal, keep the exfat format or convert to fat32? Not being able to move over 4gb would kind of be a pain, but obviously do not want issues. Does keeping in exfat have security risks of losing your info or not? I could care less about nandroids going on the card, so lets eliminate that issue which apparently calls for fat32. There are too many conflicting threads about this issue, so searching this toppic is pretty useless as its a bunch of single issues with no true ties to the fundemental truth. I really want some reliable info here as I have about an hour to cancel this order!!!
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exFat has to be supported by the kernel, so it depends on the kernel you're running. If it's not supported you'll have to use FAT32. It's as simple as that. (blame Microsoft)
I formatted mine to FAT32 as a kernel I wanted to try didn't support exFat. Haven't looked back since... It's not that big of a deal to me as 99% of my files are under 4GB, and the ones that are that size have no business being on my phone.
Simple truth, I love it......
Thanks for a solid answer. You have a preferred method for formatting to fat32?
annoyingduck said:
Simple truth, I love it......
Thanks for a solid answer. You have a preferred method for formatting to fat32?
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I used some miscellaneous formatting program I had installed for some reason, but the included Windows format tool does just fine.
annoyingduck said:
Simple truth, I love it......
Thanks for a solid answer. You have a preferred method for formatting to fat32?
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Yea phone will support extFat but some roms/kernels don't. And no recovery does. If you have files such as movies over 4GB put them on internal or compress a little. I will PM you the format app.
annoyingduck said:
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Thanks for a solid answer. You have a preferred method for formatting to fat32?
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Most of them work, but from what I've read the stand is SDFormatter from SDCard.org. This is the worldwide SDCard Association for setting industry memory card standards.
prdog1 said:
Yea phone will support extFat but some roms/kernels don't. And no recovery does. If you have files such as movies over 4GB put them on internal or compress a little. I will PM you the format app.
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Nice, thanks pr. If the only issue is the 4gb transfer, that's practically not an issue at all for me, lol.
The card will still be stable after formatting? I keep all my ti backups, media, zips, etc on it, would rather not have to copy to my computer as well if not needed. I've not yet experienced a card "crashing", and don't want too either...
annoyingduck said:
Nice, thanks pr. If the only issue is the 4gb transfer, that's practically not an issue at all for me, lol.
The card will still be stable after formatting? I keep all my ti backups, media, zips, etc on it, would rather not have to copy to my computer as well if not needed. I've not yet experienced a card "crashing", and don't want too either...
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They had some bad ones in the beginning from the reports but I have had same card since phone pre-order release with no problems using TWRP.
thanksss
David_mclaren said:
thanksss
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Is it possible to partition a SD card for my phone so that I can enjoy both worlds on the same device?
use this program...
http://db.tt/s0jAvdQ7
Had a quick question about 64gb cards. I know a long time ago there was something the larger sd cards couldn't do because of the way they were formatted exfat not fat32. I can't remember or find what it was to save my life. Anyone know? I only ask because I bought one without thinking about this. Thanks
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Had a quick question about 64gb cards. I know a long time ago there was something the larger sd cards couldn't do because of the way they were formatted exfat not fat32. I can't remember or find what it was to save my life. Anyone know? I only ask because I bought one without thinking about this. Thanks
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fat32 has a single file size limit of 4gb.
exfat has some ridiculously high single file size.
So there are no restrictions at all with exfat on larger cards?
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So there are no restrictions at all with exfat on larger cards?
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compared to fat32 for the purposes of use in a phone none that i can think of....
I could have sworn there was something. I want to say something to do with flashing firmware or something recovery or bootloader related. Sorry to beat this to death but I just know I read something before. I feel like I'm being a pest
Evocm7 said:
I could have sworn there was something. I want to say something to do with flashing firmware or something recovery or bootloader related. Sorry to beat this to death but I just know I read something before. I feel like I'm being a pest
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I have that note in my op for ruu. Many have reported that exfat has worked since a couple updates ago and I just can't bring myself to remove that verbiage yet.
Yes ruu that was it. Glad to know it's probably no longer an issue. Thanks for your help and putting up with my persistence.
As you can see from the 2 pics, my phone shows 92Gb used in settings whereas multiple different file managers show my entire used Storage/ SD to be precisely 68.92Gb.
Where is this ghost data from and how can i find it?
PS this is not an error because the available space is indeed according to 92GB space filled. So only 23gb left.
Any advice is highly appreciated.
I have had very good success with the app SDmaid to clarify those occurences (aside from many other useful features of this app)
Have you tried to backup your important data then format down everything? I know this solution is not the best but perhaps can help you
use sd maid
Hitman478™ said:
Have you tried to backup your important data then format down everything? I know this solution is not the best but perhaps can help you
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I haven't yet but that Would be my last resort after Pie release, waiting for stable pie OOS before i format everything and make a fresh start.
Hopefully they will release it in a week or 2. *fingers crossed*
s3axel said:
I have had very good success with the app SDmaid to clarify those occurences (aside from many other useful features of this app)
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rajone9 said:
use sd maid
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Wow, guys, thank you SO MUCH!! :highfive:
This just saved me a tonn of anxiety and worry and time wasted finding the data! :victory:
Silly me mixed a few things and didn't realize file managers were not including app+data+obb
I can't believe i never saw this amazingg gem before! :laugh:
I just bought the pro version because its so freakin awesome!
i always use DiskUsage so that you can see which folders take up the space.
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i always use DiskUsage so that you can see which folders take up the space.
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Damn, what a fantastically simple app! Thanks man! Love how i find such hidden gems in this community :victory:
only thing i could tell was that it is showing my full storage to be 108gb which is probably incorrect. I think 128Gb model gets atleast 116GB storage fpr use.
Do u have 128gb storage model?
Lord. Tech said:
Damn, what a fantastically simple app! Thanks man! Love how i find such hidden gems in this community :victory:
only thing i could tell was that it is showing my full storage to be 108gb which is probably incorrect. I think 128Gb model gets atleast 116GB storage fpr use.
Do u have 128gb storage model?
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yea, i have the 128 model and when i first got the phone it said 116gb but i think not the OS takes up 20 GB so it leaves me with 106-108 and then i got like 12gb of data so i am already at 94gb, which is still enough but i really hate how big the android system takes up and guess it has to do with the A and B partition also.
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yea, i have the 128 model and when i first got the phone it said 116gb but i think not the OS takes up 20 GB so it leaves me with 106-108 and then i got like 12gb of data so i am already at 94gb, which is still enough but i really hate how big the android system takes up and guess it has to do with the A and B partition also.
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Oh wow, i didn't know that. I think ur right because i went to the root folder in diskusage and there was the entire system, away from the /SD 108gb, so this is separate data worth 20gb or so! Damn :/