Just a quick one
I'm looking at getting the Sensation but as it only has 1gb are you able to install apps to the mem card instead?
Thanks guys
You can move apps to SD that allow it, using Google's official Apps2SD. For example, the Engadget app can not be moved to SD (well, technically it can, but if you do, the widget stops working).
yes you can.. im not a big widget user, so im fine..
Seriously, 1gb is more than enough. Including the factory installed apps, I have 103 apps installed in the app drawer - every app I consider worth having. I have many games including angry birds series. Available internal memory is still 681mb and none of my apps have been moved to sd!
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'ello, gents. I just got my first Android phone and I seem to not be able to access 4GB of the internal memory. Under application storage, it has my available space as 4GB+, but won't let me install applications to it. I downloaded the disk usage app and it shows only 561MB total instead of approx 4561MB that should be there. I now have 62MB of internal space left and as I was typing this I got yet another warning that I am out of space. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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I think when I turned on my phone i had roughly 4.5 GB available for usage. I so far have only used up aroun 500 mb. Everything else goes on my 16gb SD card. What all do you have installed on your internal to eat that much space up?
You could always try to wipe the device clean and start brand new.
Well, I have a few apps installed, but my point is that the space isn't being used--it won't let me use it. The phone thinks that there is only 550MB total internal space, and, for some reason, ignores the other 4GB (see the screenshot I posted). I have been throwing everything on the sd card and even ordered a big sd card for this purpose, but I still want to fix this issue. When I try to click on application space under application storage to get some options our something, nothing happens. It looks like I might need to just reinstall from scratch to see if that fixes it. I mostly wanted to see if others were having this issue our if it was a known bug. Thanks again for any insights.
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thelegume said:
'ello, gents. I just got my first Android phone and I seem to not be able to access 4GB of the internal memory. Under application storage, it has my available space as 4GB+, but won't let me install applications to it. I downloaded the disk usage app and it shows only 561MB total instead of approx 4561MB that should be there. I now have 62MB of internal space left and as I was typing this I got yet another warning that I am out of space. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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That 4gb of space is specifically for your apps, if ur phone isnt recognizing or accessing it then u need to return it cause its faulty.
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same issue here... 500MB out of 4GB used internal. All the rest of my apps are going on the SD card.
I'm going to see if I can make it over to the at&t store and see what they have to say about it, but if anyone figures out what's going on, let me know. I plan on flashing MIUI as soon as its out, so I don't know if that will resolve the issue, but its probably better to not wait and see.
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I appologize in advance if this is a bit rambling.
I spent some time troubleshooting the issue and it does seem like the Atrix 2 has some difficulty using internal app storage.
Using the default App storage viewer (settings > Applications > storage use) it shows the correct size of 4gig, but using DiskUsage I was only seeing a size of 561MB.
I started to test this by installing apps till i hit the 561MB limit and sure enough at ~560 it started complaining that there was no more room available for some apps and for others it started to install them on the SD card.
So i decided to try and force an app to internal storage. DiskUsage showed 9MB free and I had a 25MB app installed on the SD card. Using the default app manager I moved the app back to the phone and it installed, thus taking up all the free space shown by DiskUsage, but at the same time increasing the size of the disk to accomidate for the overage. All subsequent app installs have gone to the internal storage, increasing the disk size in DiskUsage.
More to come..
How did u move or force install on internal storage?
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I'm going to see if I can make it over to the at&t store and see what they have to say about it, but if anyone figures out what's going on, let me know. I plan on flashing MIUI as soon as its out, so I don't know if that will resolve the issue, but its probably better to not wait and see.
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the legume - did you make it to AT&T and did they have anything to say?
I haven't yet, but using azangerle's idea, I seem to have resolved the issue. It looks like you need to force the phone past the approx 500MB barrier by moving an app to the sd card, filing up the 500MB internal storage and then once the phone says that its out of internal storage, move the app from the sd card back into internal. It will allow it to be copied, and you should be able to use the rest of the 4GB of storage afterwards (I'm almost to 2GB used with apps and haven't had any problems).
I'm still going to ask at&t about it when I can make it over there, but its not as high a priority new that we've found a workaround.
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cloudedhopes said:
How did u move or force install on internal storage?
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If you go to applications > manage applications > and then select an application, you can choose to have the app moved to the sd card (or back to internal)
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Ah OK. Thnx. I see a few tabs there... downloaded, all, on SD card... what does the 'on SD card' mean? I definitely have not moved any to SD and if I go on an application I am still getting the option to move to SD :/
They are only on the SD card if they have the green checkmark, even if they are on the SD card tab. Its very confusing.
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They are only on the SD card if they have the green checkmark, even if they are on the SD card tab. Its very confusing.
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Thanks for clearing that up, I wondered about that cause I know I hadn't moved any apps to my sdcard yet it told me I have a few on there. Maybe because they were installed off of it???
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Thanks for clearing that up, I wondered about that cause I know I hadn't moved any apps to my sdcard yet it told me I have a few on there. Maybe because they were installed off of it???
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Nope I installed it from market. I think these are the ones that can be moved to SD?
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Nope I installed it from market. I think these are the ones that can be moved to SD?
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I was questioning why it showed like that on my phone. I have found some good info though
If you go into manage apps and click on the "on sdcard tab" unless there is a green checkmark next to the app it is not actually on your sdcard. Weird, but that's how it is.
I can live with that. Just wondering what on SD card means...
Has anyone known how to have access to internal storage?
I'd like to copy some movies to it but get "Access Denied"
Is internal storage available for an user???
djyuran said:
Has anyone known how to have access to internal storage?
I'd like to copy some movies to it but get "Access Denied"
Is internal storage available for an user???
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Nope, it is inaccessible, even after rooting.
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Nope, it is inaccessible, even after rooting.
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Thank you for information!
What's the purpose of internal storage?
Is it default place for installation of the new applications?
There is something on my phone that keeps deleting .avi video files from my SD card. I noticed when I could not find some videos I recorded that were very important so I recorded more videos just to see what would happen and sure enough at some point they disappeared and I know they were not moved or misplaced because they were too large to lose. I have also noticed most of my playlists are missing, although I may have deleted those, I just don't remember.
Is there a free app out there that can monitor my SD card for any changes and let me know which app is creating, changing or removing files? I have a lot of apps installed on my phone and don't want to remove them one at a time to see which app is misbehaving.
Have you searched your SDcard for *.avi files?
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Yes. I used Astro to search on my phone and when I did not find anything I put my SD card into my computer and searched with windows and found nothing.
Very strange indeed, but I have not encountered this.
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Well do you know of any app that may help me solve this problem?
I had the same problem. Turned out I had faulty sd card. Since I replaced the sd card I haven't had the problem since
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Just put CM10 on my HTC One S. Everything works great except:
Trying to install a game, it's claiming that my SD card is out of space to install a 1GB package, when really there is 8GB left (the Internal storage also has 1.75GB)
When I try to move apps to SD, I either get "cannot move app" or "not enough disk space". It seems that it's also not consistent which one it gives.
Is this the first time installing that game? If you have it installed before, there might be remaining game files that need to be deleted.
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in settings/storage it says my phone has app storage and phone storage. what is the difference between these two because my music is on both of them so it's taking up twice the space. Also can some one tell me how to access them?
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Your music should only be on phone storage, can you post a screenshot?
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App storage is for apps (somewhat obvious) and storage reserved for the OS. Phone storage is the user accessible portion of storage (music, photos, video, extra app data that would normally be installed on a removeable SD on some apps).
Agree with the above post, you should post a screen shot. I think you are mistaken, music should only show up on the phone storage. The OS takes a huge chunk of the app storage, particularly if you are on a Sense ROM (almost 4 GB on my phone) so you might be confusing this with your media files. I believe the OS portion of the storage shows up as "Other" on the app storage on Sense ROMs.
ohhh actually I was mistaking it lol thanks
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