What's up with that ...I just went to a tmobile store to check the phone out...really sweet device...but what's going on with the internal storage of the phone?? Why only 1GB ??? On spec it says 4 GB but where is that?? Is that the same problem that the G2 was having with the internal storage????
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What's up with that ...I just went to a tmobile store to check the phone out...really sweet device...but what's going on with the internal storage of the phone?? Why only 1GB ??? On spec it says 4 GB but where is that?? Is that the same problem that the G2 was having with the internal storage????
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When it's rooted it would probably be fixed by who ever the devs are. That space is probably not even accessible currently, a OTA can remedy the issue.
Wow I just noticed that and I thought it was 4GB. System error? If so what an error. So in the future the developers should get us the full 4? Nice!
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why my phone show total space 9.93gb
isnt suppossed to be 16 gb
i just bough this phone please some one help me on this is this normal ????
I was disappointed as well. On my Nexus Prime I got 14 GB of storage and on the one S I don't even get 10GB
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yes, Its a bummer !!
technically there is 16gb storage, however almost 6gb is for the ROM, Apps, system !!! I think thats way too much, Custom ROMs are about 3-500mb and who honestly uses 2.5gb worth of apps ??
Hopefully when we can get S-OFF, some clever **** can modify the partitions and hopefully give us an extra gb or 2 for the user..
How does flashing ROMs work? Is some of this space recovered upon flashing the new ROM?
nope not yet anyway.
If we have 1GB for ROM and custom ROM is only 300mb, The remaining 700mb is wasted..
If we had S-OFF that 700mb could (*in theory*) be moved over to the user's space, for media and such.
thanks to all of u for answering me
well i hope when s-off comes we can get more gbs
Hello techies.... i have a serious problem with internal memory in tab 2 p3100. From the available internal memory of 11.77 gb i am hardly using 5 gb memory. But the device is showing 10.44 gb used. I have really no idea where the rest of the memory gone. I analyzied with ES file explorer, but not able to find wer the rest of the memory is used. Apps,music and other files are using only 40% of the memory out of 10.44 gb, rest 60% no idea wer gone..plz help me...i dnt want to reset my device...and i am not sure resetting ll solve the issue or not...thanks..manash..
P.S. its runs on Jelly Bean
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Hello techies.... i have a serious problem with internal memory in tab 2 p3100. From the available internal memory of 11.77 gb i am hardly using 5 gb memory. But the device is showing 10.44 gb used. I have really no idea where the rest of the memory gone. I analyzied with ES file explorer, but not able to find wer the rest of the memory is used. Apps,music and other files are using only 40% of the memory out of 10.44 gb, rest 60% no idea wer gone..plz help me...i dnt want to reset my device...and i am not sure resetting ll solve the issue or not...thanks..manash..
P.S. its runs on Jelly Bean
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What does it show when you do settings/storage ? That one is accurate for me.
internal memory issue with my tab 2 p3100
DigitalMD said:
What does it show when you do settings/storage ? That one is accurate for me.
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Here are the complete details which shows about the memory :
In Task Manager it is showing : System Storage -> 10.24GB/11.87GB
From Settings > Storage :
Total Space : 11.77GB
Apps : 1.39GB
Pictures, videos : 213MB
Audio : 0.91 GB
Downloads : 20.01MB
Miss : 1.52 GB
Available : 1.52 GB
From settings > Application Manager :
Device memory : 10GB Used
1.7GB free
cache...
Not sure if you have already tried this... Use a good cache cleaner and check if something is taking up space in cache
Also are you using link2SD ? If yes let us know..
Connect the Tab to computer and check how much free space it shows in explorer...if it too shows 10GB used then definitely somewhere a big file is taking up space...
Last thing that comes to my mind is , install " SD Maid " and there is a option to list Top 50 Biggest size file...please check if that helps
any workaround?
manash_cmrit said:
Hello techies.... i have a serious problem with internal memory in tab 2 p3100. From the available internal memory of 11.77 gb i am hardly using 5 gb memory. But the device is showing 10.44 gb used. I have really no idea where the rest of the memory gone. I analyzied with ES file explorer, but not able to find wer the rest of the memory is used. Apps,music and other files are using only 40% of the memory out of 10.44 gb, rest 60% no idea wer gone..plz help me...i dnt want to reset my device...and i am not sure resetting ll solve the issue or not...thanks..manash..
P.S. its runs on Jelly Bean
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Hi Dude,
I am also facing the same problem.
Could you get the solution to this issue?
Would be great if you can share it.
thanks.
Abhishek.
I have a p3100 8gb but I can only use 4 so I checked and asked about it and I saw that there is 4gb for system but I am not sure at or condition
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You know guys, I already found the answer to this and posted it for all to find. I cannot take credit for this, another fellow got irritated that his kid could not install games anymore, so he figured it out. The answer is not all that bad and is easy, and quick.
Use ClockworkMod ROM Manager to boot into recovery. Use the menu to format your internal SDCard. Reboot. You will loose all of your apps and have to start over, but your Google account will recover and put back everything in fairly short order. Mine completely restored itself in about ½ an hour. Sweet!
Losing all storage on the internal card is a very, very frustrating thing and it drove me nuts for longer than it should have. My girl was SO upset that I would lose all of her game progress that I could not update for a while until I used Titanium Backup to backup all the stuff on the tablet. Titanium Backup restored all of her game data so that she would not have to play Jewels Star from the beginning again, she already cleared all 3 major hard board and gained a bonus board of 100 more levels. Lose that and man I would be dead meat. Titanium put it all back, thank God. Another bad thing is the apps would not even update anymore, no room. Oh, baby is here now, time for bed.
Please, click the Thanks button if this post helps you! Night night everyone.
One question - is formatting internal SD safe? Won't it delete system or something? I don't need to flash rom or anything else after that?
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One question - is formatting internal SD safe? Won't it delete system or something? I don't need to flash rom or anything else after that?
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'Internal SD' is a separate partition of the internal memory away from 'system' partition. So no worries that you will screw anything up by formatting internal SD.
I just got this phone today. I rooted with OneSuperclick without any issues; however, I am running into storage problems right now. I don't have a microsd card on hand to store kernel and custom rom. Currently, I cannot save any files to my "SD Card" (internal memory). How can I go about flashing it now? I have 384MB left.
I've never had these issues before rooting other phones.
you need an sd card to put the rom you want to flash on. you can't even flash from internal memory because it needs to be mounted and unmounted for the flashing, I think anyways.
Spend $5 and buy a 2 or 4 gig one, they're cheap now.
I was just confused cause I had no issues before with rooting and flashing a Samsung Captivate and Galaxy SII without a SD Card, so I was wondering what the issue was.
Thanks!
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I was just confused cause I had no issues before with rooting and flashing a Samsung Captivate and Galaxy SII without a SD Card, so I was wondering what the issue was.
Thanks!
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Both of those have separate internal storage space that the sgs4g doesnt
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I was trying to put the mod of swap sd card in my GT P-3100 and i almost bricked my phone, went into a shop, paid 200 bucks
Now my phone is working fine but my internal memory reduced from 11 gb to 4.59 gb
Can ne1 plz guide me the steps how do i recover my internal storage again ?
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Now my phone is working fine but my internal memory reduced from 11 gb to 4.59 gb
Can ne1 plz guide me the steps how do i recover my internal storage again ?
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As far as I know, user-accessible internal memory has always been 4.5GB (roughly, don't know the exact number) out of a total of 8GB. The rest of the memory is used by the system. The same thing is true for other devices, too -- I have 11.5GB out of 16GB available on my SGS2. That's normal. If you are saying you had an access to the entire 8GB storage before the repair, I am pretty positive you are mistaken...
wow 200 bucks thats like the price of a new tab
No guys i had 16 gb memory and i could use around 11 gb of the memory. But now i can see only 4.59 gb
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No guys i had 16 gb memory and i could use around 11 gb of the memory. But now i can see only 4.59 gb
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Ah! I am sorry, my bad -- I thought you had 8GB... If I am to make a wild guess, could it be that your mainboard got replaced in the service centre with the one having 8GB of memory? Intentionally or not, that's another question, but it's a possibility...
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Ah! I am sorry, my bad -- I thought you had 8GB... If I am to make a wild guess, could it be that your mainboard got replaced in the service centre with the one having 8GB of memory? Intentionally or not, that's another question, but it's a possibility...
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This is most likely the case. The technition replaced your board with an 8gb board.. If you are sure that it is a 16gb board that is replaced then I would think the only way to fix that is that the tab would have to be repartitioned back to a stock 16gb firmware. You would have to get the stock firmware (for your exact model) and use Odin to flash it back to stock. The stock firmware has the correct perameters to tell Odin how it should be partitioned.. To make sure of all this, you would first have to find out the exact serial # of the new board in your device and contact Samsung to confirm. I would emplor that you make sure before trying anything blindly.. I'm curious to know what you find. Please post back your findings? I would be glad to help further if I can.
I am referencing this post to try and get more info from a broader audience if possible
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2544702
heres the issue:
I wiped fully my p3113 several times correctly... (data / system / cache / dalvik / etc etc)
installed latest cm10 nightly
i get only 4.59gb onboard ram (see the screenshot in the above link)
apparently the cat who wrote the threat above was able to rebuild the partition to solve this problem... my question is, how does one rebuild the partitions??? which ones need to be rebuilt? can i do it within cwm or do I have to do it within odin?
thanks!!!!!!!!!
First off, don't mix up RAM and internal storage, these are different things! What you are talking about is not RAM. Second, 4.5GB of user-accessible storage is all you get on this tab - it's normal, there is nothing wrong with that! The other thread you are linking to is about a different problem - if you read carefully, you'll see that the OP was only having 500MB available out of 4.5GB. That was the problem he fixed. You have nothing to fix, don't mess with your device.
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First off, don't mix up RAM and internal storage, these are different things! What you are talking about is not RAM. Second, 4.5GB of user-accessible storage is all you get on this tab - it's normal, there is nothing wrong with that! The other thread you are linking to is about a different problem - if you read carefully, you'll see that the OP was only having 500MB available out of 4.5GB. That was the problem he fixed. You have nothing to fix, don't mess with your device.
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thank you brother.... my question then is why when I have the stock rom installed does the memory show up as being 8gb internal and only 4.59 with cm10?
is cm10 actually taking up over 3gb of space? and if this is the case what is the best way to use the ext card as the memory to which I install my apps? there is nothing that I have seen that works with cm10 in the memory swap area.
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thank you brother.... my question then is why when I have the stock rom installed does the memory show up as being 8gb internal and only 4.59 with cm10?
is cm10 actually taking up over 3gb of space? and if this is the case what is the best way to use the ext card as the memory to which I install my apps? there is nothing that I have seen that works with cm10 in the memory swap area.
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I don't know much about CM, but on every version and flavour of stock ROMs that I tried on my tab (and I tried quite a few), I always got around 4.5GB of storage available. Also, this is what I recall reading from the specs somewhere. Frankly, I can't understand just how you would get 8GB reported by the system to be accessible, whether on stock, or any other ROM... On all devices, accessible internal storage is always significantly less than the total - for example, on my phone the accessible storage is only 25GB out of a total of a 32GB.
A couple of screenshots to illustrate my point (stock-based 4.1.2).
BTW, I'd like to ask anyone to provide a screenshot from any ROM on this tablet, showing a larger amount of available storage. Really, I would very much like to see that.
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I don't know much about CM, but on every version and flavour of stock ROMs that I tried on my tab (and I tried quite a few), I always got around 4.5GB of storage available. Also, this is what I recall reading from the specs somewhere. Frankly, I can't understand just how you would get 8GB reported by the system to be accessible, whether on stock, or any other ROM... On all devices, accessible internal storage is always significantly less than the total - for example, on my phone the accessible storage is only 25GB out of a total of a 32GB.
A couple of screenshots to illustrate my point (stock-based 4.1.2).
BTW, I'd like to ask anyone to provide a screenshot from any ROM on this tablet, showing a larger amount of available storage. Really, I would very much like to see that.
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thank you so much for the feedback. what rom are you using and how do you not run out of space for apps? are you not using an apps to sd script or app then?
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thank you so much for the feedback. what rom are you using and how do you not run out of space for apps? are you not using an apps to sd script or app then?
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No problem. The link to the ROM I am currently using is in my signature. How I don't run out of space -- I dunno... I just don't. I am not an app junkie, and I don't install or use any games, so everything works fine for me so far. I am also not using any scripts or apps to swap int/ext SD, or to install apps on ext SD card. The biggest space hogs for me are offline maps (I use Maps With Me and Nav Free) and multimedia (photos, music, videos), and I keep those on my ext SD card.
do you have the 8gb variant or 16gb? also when your running stock rom are you using 4.2.2 jb? if so then thats why it shows up as 8gb. with previous version of the stock firmware it used to show up as split partition 4gb for system and 4gb for internal until samsung offically released 4.2.2 for the GT-p3113
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do you have the 8gb variant or 16gb? also when your running stock rom are you using 4.2.2 jb? if so then thats why it shows up as 8gb. with previous version of the stock firmware it used to show up as split partition 4gb for system and 4gb for internal until samsung offically released 4.2.2 for the GT-p3113
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Damn Samsung bastads. This was driving me insane as I just flashed mine last night and thought at first I F'ed it up, then I was going to blame the OS CM-11 for not reporting the full space. sigh this one little sentence puts me at ease. For that, I thank you :good: :highfive: