I currently have samsung vibrant ,its battery drains too fast ,might be some problem with it
I have the option of replacing it with another vibrant or samsung galaxy s 4g
which one is better ?
I have heard that samsung galaxy s 4g has only 512 MB internal while the vibrant has 16GB
is that too little to the way that makes it defective or to impede downloading apps on it (since most of the apps should be downloaded on the internal memory )?if so is there any solution for that other than rooting the device ?
I love the idea of having a front facing camera and a better battery life which feels like an upgrade
but im concerned about that memory issue .are you guys happy with this phone ?I need to decide today
Don't think I have ever heard of anybody really running out of app space. With the fota fix and links2sd app you should have zero issues with internal memory.
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Don't think I have ever heard of anybody really running out of app space. With the fota fix and links2sd app you should have zero issues with internal memory.
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what does the fota fix do ?
I tried the links2d ,it wont move all the applications ,there will be many applications which can't be moved like the yahoo mail.weather app,facebook,etc
Are you planning to root the phone? Fota fix is where you overwrite the firmware over the air (fota) files. These files eat up about 150 MB of internal storage. Links2sd should be able to move all non system apps to
The SD card as long as your phonevis set up right. All this depends on rooting though.
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Are you planning to root the phone? Fota fix is where you overwrite the firmware over the air (fota) files. These files eat up about 150 MB of internal storage. Links2sd should be able to move all non system apps to
The SD card as long as your phonevis set up right. All this depends on rooting though.
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I know less about rooting ,and dont know how to root
-but if i did,will I prevent my phone from receiving OTA update or to update the os to android gingerboard when it's available ?
-also will that void the warranty on the phone from tmobile ?
about 150 MB of internal storage. Links2sd should be able to move all non system apps to
The SD card as long as your phonevis set up right. All this depends on rooting though.
how to make phonevis set up right ?
and also how to gain a root access ?that what link2sd asked for to move apps
and also how to gain a root access ?that what link2sd asked for to move apps
Rooting voids warrenty. Rooting a stock phone is very simple. You can update to an officially released gingerbread by using kies. No need for ota updates. Even going pure stock I think I would go with the sgs4g. Using apps2sd will ease the burden of apps on the internal memory. Not all apps can be moved that way but you shouldn't need to move them all.
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I just moved my wife from her broken Vibrant to a GS4G too and it was fine. I didn't put any rom on it or even root it this time. She has a 16GB external SD card that I moved over but nothing else. She has loaded her apps back up and so far has not seen any problems with memory. She uses her phone pretty heavily and I think she would have seen problems by now. It is a snappy phone and seems to do a little better on battery for her too. If I wasn't thinking about getting the Galaxy Nexus next month I think my phone would have mysteriously become broken and needed to be replaced too!
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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.
i am thinking of switching from att to tmobile for the sensation 4g. i currently use a desire and the usable internal memory after fresh reset isn't a lot. i just wanted to know how much usable internal memory do you get when you get it out of the box. since some programs still use the internal memory and programs that are transferrable to the sd card will still use a portion of internal memoyr. i'm not planning to root the device either, even though it's impossible right now.
It's different for a lot of devices. I was only getting about 100-125 megs of free ram out of the box. After I installed Launcher pro plus,I know get 175-210 megs free. Sense hogs everything up. Try a different launcher,you should get better results & a smoother running phone.
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i am thinking of switching from att to tmobile for the sensation 4g. i currently use a desire and the usable internal memory after fresh reset isn't a lot. i just wanted to know how much usable internal memory do you get when you get it out of the box. since some programs still use the internal memory and programs that are transferrable to the sd card will still use a portion of internal memoyr. i'm not planning to root the device either, even though it's impossible right now.
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The task manager isnt working right on the sensation,, if you go to settings>applications>running services then it should tell you how many memory is being used, I get 300 up free on mine.
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Recently, my 16gb i727 memory space (for music and photos) was filled to the point I could not download stuff and my phone was laggy. I knew I had to get an sd card soon, but today I realized that somehow I had 360mb free. I do not know how this happened, since before I had about less than 30mb about. I am happy with this but I do not know how it happened and I am kind of wondering if somehow my phone deleted stuff for me or if my system storage (which has more than 1gb of memory that I could not use) gave memory. Does anyone know how or why this happened?
Did you trim backups recently?
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Nope. I never did anything at all really. Only used my phone as I normally would.
Hey this problem might have already been solved, but its driving me crazy. My internal memory says it is completely full yet my app storage doesn't equal the amount it is saying. My phones memory is saying I have less than one GB left. I just don't understand. It's been like this for a while. I'm running 4.2.2 dirty unicorn rom btw.
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Hey this problem might have already been solved, but its driving me crazy. My internal memory says it is completely full yet my app storage doesn't equal the amount it is saying. My phones memory is saying I have less than one GB left. I just don't understand. It's been like this for a while. I'm running 4.2.2 dirty unicorn rom btw.
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Mine is that way too.... Now I am trying to move stuff to the SD card and it's not letting me... I got all my music and a bunch of other stuff moved over to the SD card and now I have like 65% free space.... BUT there wasn't that much data moved so I don't understand, like you mine didn't equal what it was saying either.
I'm having a problem like this as well. Im guessing whenever I install a new ROM, for some reason it creates a directory on the root of the internal storage that looks like a backup of all my old files (I cant seem to find it now, of course). Regardless, I just got done freeing up around 600MB of data, but cannot for the life of me figure out where all the rest of this 11.4GB of data is being stored. All my music, apps, pictures, videos are all stored on my external SD.
I'm having this issue as well. I just flashed paranoid to my friends phone now internal storage is only using a few hundred meg yet there is only 7gb free. should be almost 12gb free. I will continue looking into this, hopefully someone figures this out if I cant
Hello people,
I got my Xperia L a couple of days ago and I have it running successfully with Vengeance + Clean n Tweaked after a loooot of tries.
This is my first Android phone after HTC Wildfire! Loving it so far [Was uber slow out-of-the-box though]
Anyway I want to know how beneficial it is to create a swap file on the External SD card and use it. Does it make a big difference in performance? If yes how do I achieve this?
Secondly I really want to be able to move user apps to External Storage. I tried moving them from within the Clean Master app and it did work BUT when I restart my phone the Xperia Home(launcher) app keeps crashing(until the SD card is initialized I guess). The easy fix is to open the notification bar or something for a minute before going back into to the Home Screen. So yes this kinda works. Just want to know if there's a better way.
One idea comes to mind is making a separate ext2/3/4 partition on the External SD Card and using that for user apps. Will the home launcher still crash? I really don't want to use a custom launcher. If this is possible how do I do it?
I read about the mod to make External memory as Internal. Does everything work correctly with that? However if partitioning is possible I would prefer that as opposed to using the whole External SD Card as internal memory.
Lastly, since I don't have 10 posts yet I can't post to DEV threads yet so I want to thank people from about 10 to 15 different threads which I referred to in the last 24 hours. lol!
p.s. I have a SanDisk 32GB Class 10 Micro SD Card
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I think what you searching for is Link2SD
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I think what you searching for is Link2SD
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Thanks for the reply. I read all about the app and I think It MIGHT cause trouble at some point so I'm gonna stay away from it for now. Maybe when I want to play a HUGE game I'll use it. Good to know how to!
Anyone wants to shed some light regarding the swap file question?
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