I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace, and a week or so ago I was trying to free up internal memory. I often have a low memory warning, due to the phone only something like 180mb internal memory. While looking to see what I could delete or move tto fix this, 30mb was suddenly freed without me doing anything.
I know it wasn't just the reading updating, as I was on low memory for weeks on end. Since, I have re-flashed a ROM (carbon Sunday by jusada if it helps) and I'm back on low memory.
I was wondering whether anyone knows why this would happen, and how I can get it to do it again.
All help appreciated
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charlie284 said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace, and a week or so ago I was trying to free up internal memory. I often have a low memory warning, due to the phone only something like 180mb internal memory. While looking to see what I could delete or move tto fix this, 30mb was suddenly freed without me doing anything.
I know it wasn't just the reading updating, as I was on low memory for weeks on end. Since, I have re-flashed a ROM (carbon Sunday by jusada if it helps) and I'm back on low memory.
I was wondering whether anyone knows why this would happen, and how I can get it to do it again.
All help appreciated
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Maybe u cleared the cache?!
Anyway off topic, read about sd-ext partitions for more internal space
I think this will help you. if it does please THANK me.
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Can't answer your question, but a little tip for people suffering for low user space; download Link2Sd from Market. Google for tutorials.
I'm rooted so I can move apps to the sd, its just some (widgets) dont work on the sd, Ill have a look at partitioning thanks, I dont think it was the cache, thanks anyway though
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charlie284 said:
I'm rooted so I can move apps to the sd, its just some (widgets) dont work on the sd, Ill have a look at partitioning thanks, I dont think it was the cache, thanks anyway though
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Easier to touch the THANKS button
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charlie284 said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace, and a week or so ago I was trying to free up internal memory. I often have a low memory warning, due to the phone only something like 180mb internal memory. While looking to see what I could delete or move tto fix this, 30mb was suddenly freed without me doing anything.
I know it wasn't just the reading updating, as I was on low memory for weeks on end. Since, I have re-flashed a ROM (carbon Sunday by jusada if it helps) and I'm back on low memory.
I was wondering whether anyone knows why this would happen, and how I can get it to do it again.
All help appreciated
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Surely Off Topic
But just for info,Have You Tried the Draktremor Script of Apps2Sd??
ArmorD said:
Can't answer your question, but a little tip for people suffering for low user space; download Link2Sd from Market. Google for tutorials.
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apps2sd ? right ?!
..mmmh..probably wrong to say here, but..the apps moved to the external sd card are expecting to be slower then before, when were on the internal one?
app2sd or use sd-ext partitions is your way to fix lower internal memory problem
Isn't app2sd built into GB? Am I missing something? Im using CyanogenMod 7
charlie284 said:
Isn't app2sd built into GB? Am I missing something? Im using CyanogenMod 7
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Apps2sd is the process of moving app files and not data to SD card after boot. This still keeps around 1-5 MB on the phone memory and can be done without root on 2.2+
A2SD involves partitioning ur memory card and using it as phone memory. This is mounted before boot so it's faster. Even the dalvik cache can be moved here
I have a 160 MB phone memory and after partitioning and installing 230 apps, I still have 120 MB free
THANK me if this was helpful
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I have the same problem with Desire. Even with root and installed SuperNova Rom i have only 35MB internal free memory
MilosPrehnil said:
I have the same problem with Desire. Even with root and installed SuperNova Rom i have only 35MB internal free memory
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Read my previous post!!!
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MilosPrehnil said:
I have the same problem with Desire. Even with root and installed SuperNova Rom i have only 35MB internal free memory
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You Can Surely Have the Maximum Internal Space by Installing Darktremore App2sd script and moving Dalvic Cache to sd-ext using Apps2sdGui.
Although your internal Memory will still be used but very little bit, and only for house keeping as Some Apps Require Some of Their Files to be copied on Internal Phone Memory.
ArmorD said:
Can't answer your question, but a little tip for people suffering for low user space; download Link2Sd from Market. Google for tutorials.
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I took this advice from ArmorD and have more memory available now. Would apps2sd give me more free space than link2sd?
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charlie284 said:
I took this advice from ArmorD and have more memory available now. Would apps2sd give me more free space than link2sd?
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Use s2e and check all four boxes, then reboot
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Hello everyone... i sold my vibrant nd got this fone and i wanted to copy some music from my memory card to the internal memory and i tryed going to the fones internal memory AND IT DOESNT HAVE ANY AT ALL not even a 0... like i have no internal memory at all... i rooted this fone a while ago... is the fone like that?? With no memory at all or somethin went wrong while rooting it??? Please i need to know... thanxs...
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Hi
This phone has 1GB of internal memory from which about 330MB is traceable, but it's used for the operating system applications, settings, drivers and core.
For storage proper you use SD card.up to 32GB.
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Depending on which ROM you have installed, it takes up around half of the 1G internal storage. Then there are other partitions on the internal storage (OneNAND-Flex nand flash) that also take up space, like kernels and bootloaders.
I use app2sd and have a 16G sdcard. No problems here.
Hope that helps.
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Depending on which ROM you have installed, it takes up around half of the 1G internal storage. Then there are other partitions on the internal storage (OneNAND-Flex nand flash) that also take up space, like kernels and bootloaders.
I use app2sd and have a 16G sdcard. No problems here.
Hope that helps.
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What do you use for you app2sd? Is there a script that can just move everything to my ext4 partitioned sdcard? Btw I'm used to HTC phones, so far they have been the easiest at rooting, n such.
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ptaylor09 said:
What do you use for you app2sd? Is there a script that can just move everything to my ext4 partitioned sdcard? Btw I'm used to HTC phones, so far they have been the easiest at rooting, n such.
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd
Hi everyone! My SGS 4G doesn't see his internal memory, like it is not there. This issue happened after flashing the device. The Baseband version was KG4 now I downgraded to KC1 trying to fix the problem. Any ideas why the phone can't recoghise his internal memory?
OK I was flashing the paranoid android ROM a few months back on my galaxy tab 2 7.0 3113 and I lost half of my compacity I am the type of person who downloads watches lots of movies and listen to alot music I would really like to have it back. any suggestions on how to fix it please hey buddy help anyone okay
Have you been making nandroid back ups ? How much is under "Misc" ? Looks around 700mb ? ( but the yellow maker is covering it up ):laugh:
Looks to me you need to do some house keeping to tidy up the storage space, easy enough to do.
What recovery are you using on the device ?
you've got OVER 2 gigs of app data folders on the internal there, open your file browser and look for folders of apps you've deleted and delete them, also remember YOU HAVE A MICROSD SLOT, you can add more storage for music and movies.
do any of your streaming apps keep a large "buffer", could try clearing app data.
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Have you been making nandroid back ups ? How much is under "Misc" ? Looks around 700mb ? ( but the yellow maker is covering it up ):laugh:
Looks to me you need to do some house keeping to tidy up the storage space, easy enough to do.
What recovery are you using on the device ?
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im using cwm and that would explain why i lost half of my storage space
im thinking there is a partition im missing that i cant find
i know its been a while but ive wiped the completly clean to the point the only thing that was on it was the rom
put still just the 4gbs
daniel644 said:
you've got OVER 2 gigs of app data folders on the internal there, open your file browser and look for folders of apps you've deleted and delete them, also remember YOU HAVE A MICROSD SLOT, you can add more storage for music and movies.
do any of your streaming apps keep a large "buffer", could try clearing app data.
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that doesnt explain why my 8gig tab 2 only has 4gigs usable
Its the system partition that eats up the rest, as far as I know. That is why only just under
5 gigs is available. The settings menu doesn't count the system partition as usable space.
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saintextreme97 said:
that doesnt explain why my 8gig tab 2 only has 4gigs usable
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That's just the way it is. Kind of like when you insert a 32gb micro sd card you automatically lose nearly 4gb down to 29.7gb.
If you've been making backups chances are the cwm folder has a nice size file well over 1gb
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bluecarbon said:
Its the system partition that eats up the rest, as far as I know. That is why only just under
5 gigs is available. The settings menu doesn't count the system partition as usable space.
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ShapesBlue said:
That's just the way it is. Kind of like when you insert a 32gb micro sd card you automatically lose nearly 4gb down to 29.7gb.
If you've been making backups chances are the cwm folder has a nice size file well over 1gb
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I don't think trays how it works when I frost got it I believe the system file was around .5 to 1 gig maybe
So I doubt I would lose 4 almost 5 gigs from it
And I have and 8 gig microSD card now but I would love that 4 gigs back thats 3 movies...
Also I deleted a bunch a system files that no one ever needs so I have more free space
but damn I need it all back
saintextreme97 said:
Also I deleted a bunch a system files that no one ever needs so I have more free space
but damn I need it all back
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Get a bigger external sd card. Mine was down to 4gb from 8gb from the start even before I rooted
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ShapesBlue said:
Get a bigger external sd card. Mine was down to 4gb from 8gb from the start even before I rooted
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It has nothing to do with the external sd card my problem is I lost half of my damn internal memory doesn't anyone here realize that
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It has nothing to do with the external sd card my problem is I lost half of my damn internal memory doesn't anyone here realize that
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We've all lost half our internal memory. I could show you a screenshot of mine when I'm not on my phone
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ShapesBlue said:
We've all lost half our internal memory. I could show you a screenshot of mine when I'm not on my phone
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well then should i unroot and ask samsung whats up
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well then should i unroot and ask samsung whats up
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Rooting has basically nothing whatsoever to do with the problem. Why does everyone think that just cause u rooted ur phone/ tablet now becomes mentally retarded?
I would look around in the system files. I had the same problem, there was this file idk how the hell got there and was like 4 gigs. Just try to locate the file and delete it.
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Rooting has basically nothing whatsoever to do with the problem. Why does everyone think that just cause u rooted ur phone/ tablet now becomes mentally retarded?
I would look around in the system files. I had the same problem, there was this file idk how the hell got there and was like 4 gigs. Just try to locate the file and delete it.
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I'd love to find that file myself. It would free up a ton of space and yea rooting has nothing to do with it at all
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ShapesBlue said:
I'd love to find that file myself. It would free up a ton of space and yea rooting has nothing to do with it at all
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Pretty sure you can go to a folder browser then couldn't u sort all them by size by bigger sizes descending. So what i mean is the biggest files would show up on top. Then you could look around and see if one of the bigger files is not needed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1970961 here is another thread talking about pretty much the same thing. I agree with one of the posters, about just swapping the storage with the external sd card. I haven't personally had great luck with android 4.2.x, but there is a great script for p311x on xda that swaps them on ics and jb 4.1.x just fine. Its what I use, and also why im not running anything past 4.1.2.
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You could delete all the files you want from the system partition and it still wouldn't become usable.
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so basically this is a **** up on Samsungs end
noahthedominator said:
Pretty sure you can go to a folder browser then couldn't u sort all them by size by bigger sizes descending. So what i mean is the biggest files would show up on top. Then you could look around and see if one of the bigger files is not needed.
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I use a program which sorts files by size. It didn't find it so it must be hidden or similar
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ShapesBlue said:
I use a program which sorts files by size. It didn't find it so it must be hidden or similar
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So once again back to what I said before I'm going to un root flash stock firmware and reset download count and get a new tab from Samsung and see if I can't prevent it from happening again
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Anyone have any idea why my ram shows that I only have 1.5g of ram instead of the 2I should have? I am running synergy r481 just thought I would ask quick since I am unable to figure it out on my own my twrp is unable to do backups, and whatnot, I am afraid to do anything flashwise without backing up first... thanks yall.
-colo
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Colomonster said:
Anyone have any idea why my ram shows that I only have 1.5g of ram instead of the 2I should have? I am running synergy r481 just thought I would ask quick since I am unable to figure it out on my own my twrp is unable to do backups, and whatnot, I am afraid to do anything flashwise without backing up first... thanks yall.
-colo
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Simple the phone needs 500MB to run the OS. The other 1.5GB is for all of your apps.
jmxc23 said:
Simple the phone needs 500MB to run the OS. The other 1.5GB is for all of your apps.
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It is still stupid they did not pool all 2gig together so the system could go over.
What jmxc said... Or.... You got a cheap Chinese knockoff S3.. Lol. /end troll
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So it is normal for an S3 to report 1580mb of RAM on 4.4.2? Even electricsheeps Android System Info says there is 1580mb of RAM. Also only shows 12.9gb of storage.
drdeathly said:
So it is normal for an S3 to report 1580mb of RAM on 4.4.2? Even electricsheeps Android System Info says there is 1580mb of RAM. Also only shows 12.9gb of storage.
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yes, it's been like that (for ram and internal storage) since ICS.
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I own a Lenovo S920. It has 4 GB of total internal memory. 2 GB as phone memory and 2 GB as the built in memory. But for some reason the internal phone memory is more occupied than it should be. I have attached the picture. What happened to the marked space?
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Rini94 said:
I own a Lenovo S920. It has 4 GB of total internal memory. 2 GB as phone memory and 2 GB as the built in memory. But for some reason the internal phone memory is more occupied than it should be. I have attached the picture. What happened to the marked space?
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so your saying that it used to have 4gigs of internal memory? or it says that it has 4 gigs of internal memory? my bad if im not asking the right question.
I was victim of same problem but not now here I how you what to do
First root your device then download titanium backup. Launch it and select app you use most and swipe to special features and select on convert to system app now your apps will be stored in system rom
Do It with multiple apps
And at last click on thanks of it helped
Pm me if you want to know in detail
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so your saying that it used to have 4gigs of internal memory? or it says that it has 4 gigs of internal memory? my bad if im not asking the right question.
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It's just that I don't know what's occupying most of the 2 GB memory. It's definitely not the apps.
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prashantdrew said:
I was victim of same problem but not now here I how you what to do
First root your device then download titanium backup. Launch it and select app you use most and swipe to special features and select on convert to system app now your apps will be stored in system rom
Do It with multiple apps
And at last click on thanks of it helped
Pm me if you want to know in detail
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But what is it that's actually occupying the space? Is there no way to do it without rooting? I had some problems with my last phone after rooting it. It was an HTC explorer.
And I used an app to view the actual internal memory. It says the total internal phone memory is 1008 mb. Where's the rest of the 1 GB??
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But what is it that's actually occupying the space? Is there no way to do it without rooting? I had some problems with my last phone after rooting it. It was an HTC explorer.
And I used an app to view the actual internal memory. It says the total internal phone memory is 1008 mb. Where's the rest of the 1 GB??
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i think this is the best way to answer your question, There has to be a place for the operating system to go, some phones have two internal storages which one is X amount of gigs to store the Operating system and System apps, while the other is free user space, so pretty much if yours comes with 4gigs of internal storage, its dummed down to around 3gb - 3.4gb and around 1-2gb of the operating system (this includes system apps and bloatware) thats what is taking up your space, thats why most people flash roms because you get tons more storage since nobody wants the bloatware.
Trozzul said:
i think this is the best way to answer your question, There has to be a place for the operating system to go, some phones have two internal storages which one is X amount of gigs to store the Operating system and System apps, while the other is free user space, so pretty much if yours comes with 4gigs of internal storage, its dummed down to around 3gb - 3.4gb and around 1-2gb of the operating system (this includes system apps and bloatware) thats what is taking up your space, thats why most people flash roms because you get tons more storage since nobody wants the bloatware.
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But isn't that a little too much space for operating system?
So what am I supposed to do now? Root it and remove bloatware? Don't want to install a new ROM. I like the stock ROM.
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Rini94 said:
But isn't that a little too much space for operating system?
So what am I supposed to do now? Root it and remove bloatware? Don't want to install a new ROM. I like the stock ROM.
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It'd just the way OEMs operating system is, removing the bloat might not give you much space but its worth a shot. Custom Roms should give you a little more space. They should take up around 500mb if I recall correctly. I could be wrong but they are ment to give you more space.
Trozzul said:
It'd just the way OEMs operating system is, removing the bloat might not give you much space but its worth a shot. Custom Roms should give you a little more space. They should take up around 500mb if I recall correctly. I could be wrong but they are ment to give you more space.
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Okay thanks! Looks like custom ROM is the way to go.
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Hi, I have not updated my phone in a while, I currently have cyanogenmod version (11-20140221-NIGHTLY-t769)(android version 4.4.2). I am planning on updating to newer versions of cm11 but I've had this one issue that has been bugging me for a while now. I think there is a problem with the storage on my phone. Whenever i try to download something it says "not enough space available". I am aware that some apps can not be moved to sd card but I am getting different reads when i check my phone storages. When i connect my phone to the computer it says (Internal storage 1.39 Gb totalsize, 920mb free) and (sdcard 7.38gb totalsize,2.78free) Is it normal to have 2 internal storages? I've been trying to resolve this issue for a while now but I do not know what the problem is. Below are some screenshots of what i am talking about:
http://imgur.com/a/rogD8
Also, is it okay to delete the files listen from /clockworkmod?
Thanks in advance!!!
If you look at storage in cm the first one listed is where apps download and install. Clear app cache to make room.
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tommyboy8125 said:
If you look at storage in cm the first one listed is where apps download and install. Clear app cache to make room.
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so is there no problem with the storage and no error regarding the phone reading storage space wrong?
Nope sounds right. As ****ty as it is.
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Nope sounds right. As ****ty as it is.
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alright cool thanks a lot man, ima go try to update my cm11 to a new stable or nightly but can i delete some of the files from /clockwordmod or will those mess with my cm11
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Nope sounds right. As ****ty as it is.
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hey, is there anyway for me to download apps straight to my sd card, i read about something regarding google android SDK. Does this work with my current build?
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Nope sounds right. As ****ty as it is.
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Is there anyway of making it so that it downloads to sd card rather than internal
and is there anyway to force move apps to sdcard? Ive been trying link2sd but i heard there were problems with it. is it safe?
AndyAZ1000 said:
alright cool thanks a lot man, ima go try to update my cm11 to a new stable or nightly but can i delete some of the files from /clockwordmod or will those mess with my cm11
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I think i really f**ked up. i downloaded Link2sd and moved one app. my phone experienced a lot of freezing so i uninstalled link2sd and downloaded app2sd. then i moved another app and now when i go into settings, the one app is on both my internal and sdcard???
For some reason it is reading my other internal storage as my sdcard meanwhile i have a sdcard with 7.38GB of free space. Please Help