[Q] Onboard 4 gigs sufficient for apps?? - HTC Inspire 4G

I'm in the process of deciding whether I get the Inspire or wait for the Infuse. I'm new to smart phones, but been reading a ton.
My question; is the 4 GB on the Inspire sufficient for the numerous apps I am likely to put on it? I think I've read about apps that let you place apps on the mSD. Is this even a concern I need to worry about?
Thanks for the help. Searched the forum and didn't see this addressed. Probably means it's a dumb question. I'm trying to get smart

Unless your going to have a couple hundred apps you shouldnt really worry to much.
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I've downloaded plenty of apps and never even gotten close to using up the internal memory. I move what I can to the SD card, usually (it's not hard to do, and it's a feature built into the phone now).

Ditto, you'd have to work pretty hard to fill up that space, most programs are pretty small. But remember that many applications now support the A2SD function, so in the unlikely event that you start running out of room, moving them to your SD card is an option. I notice very little performance difference between apps on the card and apps run internally.

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[Q] appreciate some info

s 3G/4G signal and ram
1. *#*#3282#*#* enter msl to change port #'s to 0 and 0.0.0.0 so 3G is faster. Are there different instructions for ns4g. Port #'s under multimedia and says they are not set. So I'm asking if the hack for getting better 3G works on this phone ?
2. Since storage is built in, can it be allocated as virtual ram. I have seen this question before, but it always refers to a removable storage card. Don't really want to free up ram, just have more for usage.
I have searched, but maybe the question isn'tbeing asked correctly. If there is a point I'm missing, i would appreciate any info.
Was told first question doesn't work cause we don't use proxy port for 3G/4G on ns4g, would like to know what is uses and if there's a hack to get better signal
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This belongs in q and a or general. You can't write to sd for memory.
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Paleryder said:
This belongs in q and a or general. You can't write to sd for memory.
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Can you elaborate on why you can't use storage memory and allocate as virtual ram. Just like on a PC, i would think because its apart of the phone and not removable.
Because ram in a PC is volatile, meaning its meant to be written to and rewritten to continousoy as long as there is volatage applied. The cathc is when that voltage goes away so does the information.
With SD storage like we are often dealing with on our phones it is nonvolatile memory meaning it can keep its data after the voltage is removed. The downside to this is that it is designed to be written to and stored as opposed to constantly being written to like RAM is. As a result, this type of memory only has a certain number of writes that it can have performned on a certain area before it goes bad and cannot be written to anymore. In essence it "goes bad".
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Because ram in a PC is volatile, meaning its meant to be written to and rewritten to continousoy as long as there is volatage applied. The cathc is when that voltage goes away so does the information.
With SD storage like we are often dealing with on our phones it is nonvolatile memory meaning it can keep its data after the voltage is removed. The downside to this is that it is designed to be written to and stored as opposed to constantly being written to like RAM is. As a result, this type of memory only has a certain number of writes that it can have performned on a certain area before it goes bad and cannot be written to anymore. In essence it "goes bad".
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Thanks for the info
So i take it that when a PC uses the hardrive as virtual ram for a bigger cache, then its essentially doing the same. Explains alot more than what Eastwood was sayin.
Heard about removable SD cards going bad from wear, was hoping because this was permanent storage almost like a hardrive that it could simulate the the same way. Prolly means my harddrive is gonna go pretty soon on my PC then.
Was also asking because most of research i read was related to removable SD storage, and since my storage is built in and not removable through a slot like most phones, i was curious if the method would be the same. Guess not
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Because ram in a PC is volatile, meaning its meant to be written to and rewritten to continousoy as long as there is volatage applied. The cathc is when that voltage goes away so does the information.
With SD storage like we are often dealing with on our phones it is nonvolatile memory meaning it can keep its data after the voltage is removed. The downside to this is that it is designed to be written to and stored as opposed to constantly being written to like RAM is. As a result, this type of memory only has a certain number of writes that it can have performned on a certain area before it goes bad and cannot be written to anymore. In essence it "goes bad".
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So the prl hack only works for some people, witch is not me. And trying to allocate memory as virtual ram for a larger cache is not going anywhere. From what i have read this is theoretically possible, but has only been done on removable SD cards. Witch wears the card down and is too slow for usability. This phone is way better than my old Evo 4G, but didn't have battery issues or signal issues on Evo 4G. Guess its back to Sprint, cause I'm still within my 30 days. Somebody stop me and tell me not too, that this is the better phone .
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[Q] How to use APP2SD in asus

hi there...
i am newbie here i want to ask to you, i have an asus slider but i think it has same system with transformer, but it cannot use app2sd, when i click the on sd card tab, it says "The device does not have a real primary external storage, or the external storage is emulated. Moving app to SD function may not be supported by this device"
i don't know how to repair it... please tell me if you know how to make it normal
thanks
Honeycomb doesn't support moving apps to the external sd card. LINK2SD however does allow a symbolic link to apps on an external card, which does look like you moved the app to external. The issue is that if you partition your sd card, you will probably have to reboot to see the second partition. I'm not sure, but you might have yo be rooted to use LINK2SD.
You cold try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21142499
Why would you want to use app2sd?
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App2sd
Wouldn't you want to use app2sd because you are running out of space on your internal card and you want to install more apps?
With most of the 16/32 GB available for apps i don't see a need.
i have to highly disagree i outgrew the 32 gb the day i got it ( to the op search there are scripts and such to do what you want its not just install and go and you need to be rooted i believe to do it).
if i install all the apps and games i use on a daily basis i would need 2 tf101's 32gb and the other stuff i use occasionally still would need a external hard drive to store extra stuff on to install when i needed it. and its always made me laugh when this gets ansewered like "theres 16 or 32 gb on the tf101 you dont need apps2sd on a tablet with honeycomb" or anything to that effect. especially considering the games today steadily climbing in size i have seen em with well over a gb installed for one game, and im sorry i dnt digg having to uninstall and install something just to play a different game.
for alot of people it may be plenty but i think people might want to refrain from assuming everyones needs are similar to yours. i and many others do need apps2sd or something similar and i couldnt do without it.
^^^Yeah I see your point.
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i have to highly disagree i outgrew the 32 gb the day i got it ( to the op search there are scripts and such to do what you want its not just install and go and you need to be rooted i believe to do it).
if i install all the apps and games i use on a daily basis i would need 2 tf101's 32gb and the other stuff i use occasionally still would need a external hard drive to store extra stuff on to install when i needed it. and its always made me laugh when this gets ansewered like "theres 16 or 32 gb on the tf101 you dont need apps2sd on a tablet with honeycomb" or anything to that effect. especially considering the games today steadily climbing in size i have seen em with well over a gb installed for one game, and im sorry i dnt digg having to uninstall and install something just to play a different game.
for alot of people it may be plenty but i think people might want to refrain from assuming everyones needs are similar to yours. i and many others do need apps2sd or something similar and i couldnt do without it.
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neofreek01 said:
i have to highly disagree i outgrew the 32 gb the day i got it ( to the op search there are scripts and such to do what you want its not just install and go and you need to be rooted i believe to do it).
if i install all the apps and games i use on a daily basis i would need 2 tf101's 32gb and the other stuff i use occasionally still would need a external hard drive to store extra stuff on to install when i needed it. and its always made me laugh when this gets ansewered like "theres 16 or 32 gb on the tf101 you dont need apps2sd on a tablet with honeycomb" or anything to that effect. especially considering the games today steadily climbing in size i have seen em with well over a gb installed for one game, and im sorry i dnt digg having to uninstall and install something just to play a different game.
for alot of people it may be plenty but i think people might want to refrain from assuming everyones needs are similar to yours. i and many others do need apps2sd or something similar and i couldnt do without it.
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So, how many apps and games is that? Also...since you use them all on a daily basis...but need two 32GB devices, how do you do it?
SiNJiN76 said:
So, how many apps and games is that? Also...since you use them all on a daily basis...but need two 32GB devices, how do you do it?
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im not sure i understand your question. i dnt use 2 different 32gb devices,basically just an example of the space requirements i would need.
32gb just isnt enough, and yeah its a bunch of apps i have 200+ apps backed up on titaniumbackup. i use my tf101as a tool as well as a toy and i guess pullin double duty requires some storage space
Need moaaar space too. :/
It's actually not too hard to run out of space while a lot of games nowadays take up to 3GB... Take some Music and some Movies to that and tada...
Also I'm using a lot of emulators and the Roms take theire space too. TF101 + Ps3 Controller + HDMI = FUN everywhere!
(Please don't start to tell people what to put on theire tablet and what not now. You are welcome NOT to use your tablets full potential!)
Anyway... any solutions? Got TF101 4.0.3 Revolver. Android Assistant says: "There are no apps to move blabla". I'm kinda sure there was a time, when I was able to move them. If I remember right, there actually was a "move to SD" button in the native Apps-Menu of Android.
I'm pretty sure that the only solution is to use link2sd along with the DirectoryBind app. You move the apps with link2sd and those huge 3G data files with DirectoryBind.
I have a 64G microSD installed and with both of those apps in use quite a bit of free internal space now.
Warning: As of Android 4.2+ DirectoryBind no longer works because of the file system changes to support multiple users. Just in case you're running a custom ROM.
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Thanks for the info!

Phone finally fast

Hey Guys,
I finally got my phone to work at a decent speed. Here are the things I did:
1. Used Apps2SD to move the apps from internal storage to SD Card. Wondering why this helped? As far as I understand the apps are run in RAM and internal storage is used for storing data and apks etc. RAM is freed up by Android as and when needed but freeing up internal storage doesn't give android more RAM.
2. Use Autorun Manager to prevent some apps from starting up and remaining in memory. Now this I understand because this gives more RAM to android and avoids unnecessary swapping when applications are started up.
3. Used 'SD Booster' to increase sd cache size to 8192Kb. This gave some initial benefits but later on it became very slow as usual.
Bottom line is I am still puzzled by Android memory and SD card management. I am pretty sure though process swapping in and out of memory is what caused my phone to slow down. My Samsung Droid Charge is supposed to have 512MB of RAM but most memory managers show only 374MB and 2 GB of internal storage and most tools show only 1.2GB. Why would this be? Am I missing something or should I use a different tool to analyze my memory.
Not sure about RAM but usually when u buy a hard drive the bigger the hard drive the lower the actual number of gigs. Maybe it is actually 1.2GB
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1. This one must be a placebo effect because if anything moving apps to sd card will make the phone slower. Our internal memory has way higher i/o speeds (especially on ext4) than the measly class 2 sd.
2. This is usually not a good idea. The processes you "block" will actually still run but they will be insta-killed. They will keep trying to start up and will drain the battery.
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JihadSquad said:
1. This one must be a placebo effect because if anything moving apps to sd card will make the phone slower. Our internal memory has way higher i/o speeds (especially on ext4) than the measly class 2 sd.
2. This is usually not a good idea. The processes you "block" will actually still run but they will be insta-killed. They will keep trying to start up and will drain the battery.
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Thats what I thought. Im no guru, but out of all the reading Ive done, they have all said that moving apps from the sdcard to internal speeds up things.
Im looking at ways to speed up my wife's droid charge. Shes been complaining about it and finally gave me the go on rooting and maybee ROMing. I would like to stick to stock if possible so she wont run into any problems but if I have to I will install a custom rom. Any links?
Nope this is no placebo effect. The phone has become very fast. There are several posts that say that moving the apps to sd card speeds up the phone. In fact of all the things this is what sped up my phone the most. Why else would app2sd be so popular? Read #4 on http://www.talkandroid.com/guides/b...lean-up-and-speed-up-your-android-smartphone/ .
To further speed up my phone I am trying to overclock. My phone is stable at 1.2GHz but at 1.3 GHz it reboots after some time. To make it stable at 1.3GHz should I increase the voltage at that frequency?
salilsurendran said:
Nope this is no placebo effect. The phone has become very fast. There are several posts that say that moving the apps to sd card speeds up the phone. In fact of all the things this is what sped up my phone the most. Why else would app2sd be so popular? Read #4 on http://www.talkandroid.com/guides/b...lean-up-and-speed-up-your-android-smartphone/ .
To further speed up my phone I am trying to overclock. My phone is stable at 1.2GHz but at 1.3 GHz it reboots after some time. To make it stable at 1.3GHz should I increase the voltage at that frequency?
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Read it again. That's only about getting extra app space on smaller-storage devices. They actually recommend against moving things you use frequently in your linked article.
I'm with the others. Any gains you're seeing from this are placebo. There's nothing inherently faster about external storage.
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salilsurendran said:
Hey Guys,
My Samsung Droid Charge is supposed to have 512MB of RAM but most memory managers show only 374MB and 2 GB of internal storage and most tools show only 1.2GB. Why would this be? Am I missing something or should I use a different tool to analyze my memory.
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It has a total of 512MB RAM, and that is for everything, so the GPU and other such things have to take their share from the total pool. On the GB releases, that leaves us with 374MB. It's better than it used to be. On the Froyo releases, we only had 327MB to work with.
bubarub said:
Not sure about RAM but usually when u buy a hard drive the bigger the hard drive the lower the actual number of gigs. Maybe it is actually 1.2GB
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No, on a hard drive (or solid state drives or even SD/memory cards), what you buy is what you get. However, due to formatting, space reserved for backup/spare sectors, and what is considered a "gigabyte" to manufacturers vs consumers (1000 mb vs 1024 mb) you often end up with around 95% (probably off on that percentage) of the stated capacity. With RAM this is not the case, as that type of memory doesn't need formatting as its holding raw data with the computer making up its structure. And manufacturers of RAM are in agreement with consumers as to what a gig is.
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bubarub said:
Not sure about RAM but usually when u buy a hard drive the bigger the hard drive the lower the actual number of gigs. Maybe it is actually 1.2GB
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This is the difference between a gigabyte and a gibibyte. Hard drives are usually advertised in gigabytes (literally 1 billion bytes), while most OSes use gibibytes (2^30 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes), since they do everything in "base 2", or binary. So an advertised 10GB hard drive has 10 billion bytes. Once you format the drive, the OS reports size in gibibytes, so you end up with:
Code:
10,000,000,000 / 1,073,741,824 = ~9.31GiB
That's also why if you look on most hard drive packages, it says "formatted size may be different than advertised size" or something similar.
Just a random fact of the day. Feel free to ignore it.
On topic: I don't believe the giga/gibi (or in the case of phone RAM, mega/mebi) is the issue. 512MB converted to mebibytes is roughly 488MiB. I believe the Charge is a 512MB device with some of that memory reserved for OS/system-only purposes. I could be wrong on that, however, so if anyone could clarify that'd be great.
Edit: Could have sworn I read through all of the replies before replying myself. I guess I didn't because multiple people beat me on both points by a day. Sorry about that duplicate info.
Cilraaz, let's just say you compiled both answers into a single post...
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The number one lesson I learned from buying this phone
Check the amount of run time memory before you buy a phone, especially if you have two companies like Verizon and Samsung loading bloatware. You were forced to root the phone and rid yourself of the bloatware, or not buy apps. I totally agree with the OP. He is 100% correct about the run time memory.
So I restored back to factory to get ready for another root. After the required Verizon and Samsung updates, hitting the clear memory button, I'm using 268MB of 373MB. Now I know the OS can swap, (because we love paging), but it really is ridiculous. I can't wait until March. Good luck everyone.
dbaps said:
Check the amount of run time memory before you buy a phone, especially if you have two companies like Verizon and Samsung loading bloatware. You were forced to root the phone and rid yourself of the bloatware, or not buy apps. I totally agree with the OP. He is 100% correct about the run time memory.
So I restored back to factory to get ready for another root. After the required Verizon and Samsung updates, hitting the clear memory button, I'm using 268MB of 373MB. Now I know the OS can swap, (because we love paging), but it really is ridiculous. I can't wait until March. Good luck everyone.
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I couldn't understand what you are saying here. From what I understand you are saying that is that when you rooted your phone you had 512MB of memory but after you installed Verizon and Samsung updates it started saying you had 373MB. So is it that Samsung and Verizon updates are taking away about 147 MB of memory? What is going to happen in March?
salilsurendran said:
I couldn't understand what you are saying here. From what I understand you are saying that is that when you rooted your phone you had 512MB of memory but after you installed Verizon and Samsung updates it started saying you had 373MB. So is it that Samsung and Verizon updates are taking away about 147 MB of memory? What is going to happen in March?
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No. Hardware wise the Charge has a total of 512 mb of RAM. The GPU and other hardware have to take from that pool, and the end result is that the Android OS has 373 MB of RAM to use. Verizon and Samsung bloatware and updates have no control over the hardware aspect, but the bloatware DOES utilize some ram while the phone is running (but does not take from that pool). March is probably when his upgrade is.
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salilsurendran said:
Hey Guys,
I finally got my phone to work at a decent speed. Here are the things I did:
1. Used Apps2SD to move the apps from internal storage to SD Card. Wondering why this helped? As far as I understand the apps are run in RAM and internal storage is used for storing data and apks etc. RAM is freed up by Android as and when needed but freeing up internal storage doesn't give android more RAM.
2. Use Autorun Manager to prevent some apps from starting up and remaining in memory. Now this I understand because this gives more RAM to android and avoids unnecessary swapping when applications are started up.
3. Used 'SD Booster' to increase sd cache size to 8192Kb. This gave some initial benefits but later on it became very slow as usual.
Bottom line is I am still puzzled by Android memory and SD card management. I am pretty sure though process swapping in and out of memory is what caused my phone to slow down. My Samsung Droid Charge is supposed to have 512MB of RAM but most memory managers show only 374MB and 2 GB of internal storage and most tools show only 1.2GB. Why would this be? Am I missing something or should I use a different tool to analyze my memory.
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What rom are you using? My son went swimming with his fascinate and I'm in the process of reviving my dc. I have compiled a few odds and ends and am mostly concerned about speed as well.
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texbuck said:
What rom are you using? My son went swimming with his fascinate and I'm in the process of reviving my dc. I have compiled a few odds and ends and am mostly concerned about speed as well.
texbuck
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I am using Eclipse 1.4 with PBJ.
Ok so I can clearly see that my phone is becoming slow again. Not sure as to what it is related to. Though one thing that surprises me is that I overclocked the CPU to 1.2 GHz and set the governor as 'conservative' and sometimes even ' smartassv2' but it changes to 'ondemand' even though I never changed it to that value. Why is this happening?
salilsurendran said:
Ok so I can clearly see that my phone is becoming slow again. Not sure as to what it is related to. Though one thing that surprises me is that I overclocked the CPU to 1.2 GHz and set the governor as 'conservative' and sometimes even ' smartassv2' but it changes to 'ondemand' even though I never changed it to that value. Why is this happening?
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Kernel? OC app?
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salilsurendran said:
Ok so I can clearly see that my phone is becoming slow again. Not sure as to what it is related to. Though one thing that surprises me is that I overclocked the CPU to 1.2 GHz and set the governor as 'conservative' and sometimes even ' smartassv2' but it changes to 'ondemand' even though I never changed it to that value. Why is this happening?
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Plugging the phone into a pc does that for some reason.
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I have to agree that even though my phone was initially fast it slowed down considerably after some time. Frustrated I then backuped my phone using Titanium backup and installed Tweaked 2.2 Rom + PBJ. But this time I did the conversion to EXT4 and the phone has become super snappy and the fastest I have ever seen. However, I am not rejoicing right now because I have only installed some very necessary apps like navigation, yelp etc. Don't know if the phone will be come slow after I install more apps. On Seepu I can see for the first time my used memory is green and this probably is a major reason why the phone has speeded up. Another factor is the EXT4 conversion.
Infinity was known for slowing down over a short period of time. Tweaked 2.2 is quite a bit better. But running a Droid Charge for several days without rebooting it once in a while will cause it to slow down too. Just reboot when it starts slowing down. It should help.
Before I add any more apps I want to save this state of the phone so that I can go back to this if the performance degrades. What do I have to do for this? I used Titanium backup but I see that it saves app data and you have to install each individual app. What I want is to make one click and restore my phone back to the state it previously was. Should I do a nandroid backup

Anyone else running out of memory T-Mobile?

I'm running the stock OS on my sidekick and am running out of memory on the internal SD card. It can't run the updates. I have only a handful of apps downloaded. T-mobile won't let me delete a whole host of stupid apps I never use. I went through and moved everything to the external SD card that would move (very few apps are willing to move, grrrrr). I even deleted the updates to all the stupid apps that can't be moved on the assumption that they always get larger over time (is this a correct assumption?) and turned off the auto en masse updating.
Anyway, I'm out of ideas. I guess this is a rant because I don't have much hope. It annoys me no end that the idea of android and having control of the device gets destroyed by the carriers.
Still loving the keyboard. I'd marry it if it was legal to.
[I just want a phone that does a few things reliably and I don't want to spend the hours I did with my last android rooting and re-rooting it, I added it up and it was 16 hours, at least, at 125 an hour for my personal time it was the single most expensive thing I've ever owned.]
Rooting this phone will fix your problem and will take a novice 20min and a pro 3-5min, choice is yours though
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As demkantor said, rooting the SK4G is not very tough even for newcomers. Pretty straightforward and once you finish the process you can use those shiny new root permissions to delete things like the app-pack, qik-vidchat, and all that other bologna. Check the dev section and it's all there.
I agree, just root and install a lightweight ROM. It's not that difficult or time-consuming. Then you can tailor the phone to your liking. Or you can try Googling "android remove bloatware without root." Quite a few how-tos will come up, although I can't vouch for any of them.
Easy remove
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I'm running the stock OS on my sidekick and am running out of memory on the internal SD card. It can't run the updates. I have only a handful of apps downloaded. T-mobile won't let me delete a whole host of stupid apps I never use. I went through and moved everything to the external SD card that would move (very few apps are willing to move, grrrrr). I even deleted the updates to all the stupid apps that can't be moved on the assumption that they always get larger over time (is this a correct assumption?) and turned off the auto en masse updating.
Anyway, I'm out of ideas. I guess this is a rant because I don't have much hope. It annoys me no end that the idea of android and having control of the device gets destroyed by the carriers.
Still loving the keyboard. I'd marry it if it was legal to.
[I just want a phone that does a few things reliably and I don't want to spend the hours I did with my last android rooting and re-rooting it, I added it up and it was 16 hours, at least, at 125 an hour for my personal time it was the single most expensive thing I've ever owned.]
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For the easy then, SuperOneClick works for root. it's super and one click for the sk4g. "Titanium backup" can then delete everything that has a neon pink icon (TMO bundled crap, there is lots) Most of the "neon pink" is safe to remove, please someone correct me if something doesn't fit the large generalization.
Should be less than an hour.
For your problem root the phone then update superuser an download /system/app an you can delte the useless apps from tmobile or stuff you don't use
Or you can install a rom which would fix a lot of problems
P.s. also after root download clean master an run it every few days go through an delete the bs stuff you don't use folders that were not deleted
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can internal sd partitions be changed on One S?

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I've been pretty regular on the forums and searched a few times now and not found anything. When I had the HTC Desire which had limited internal memory, with S Off the partitions could be changed to suit what rom you were using, so space wasn't wasted which originally was used for the huge stock rom.
The main reason I sold my first htc one s almost a year ago was that I used up the 9gb of available space very fast. I've always had just a 16gb sd card in the rest of my phones and never ran out of space so far. I waited until the HTC One S got s off before I considered getting it again. Now I got a $100 used One S which I'm really happy with, rooted and S off and it's working great, but it looks like there is no possibility of ever getting that wasted space in the memory card so I can fit more music and pictures/videos on here.
Can someone confirm that there is no way, or chance at some time being a way to do this? I'm going to stick with the One S anyway because I love it otherwise, maybe I will have to get a usb otg cable and small flash drive and store extra music that way?
Thanks.
Theoretically, it can be done but it has not (yet) been done.
It is a dangerous thing to experiment with; you can realistically only play around with that if you have the means to revive a brick. Also, in case of the One-S it doesn't make as much sense as on the Desire. (I have a Bravo-PVT-1 as well.)
The Desire had waaay too little space for apps and app data. Moving relatively little space from system and cache to data made a lot of difference and was a huge benefit.
The One-S has enough space for apps and app data. The extra space we could theoretically move from system and data to sdcard would be well under 2G. Much less of a benefit.
9.6G is not much but neither is 11G, so not much of an incentive. But no, I can not confirm that there is no way never ever.
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That's too bad. For me personally there is way more space than I will ever need for apps. Not sure but I assume even the sense based Roms like the viper Rom I've got now use less space than stock.
I think this phone needs the repartitioning more than the desire did.
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Maybe you can try this.
It's not really partitioning, but can give you more space.

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