Today I got an idea: move my pictures and videos to /tmp, so I can salvage a lot of free space
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. I only use about 1.x GB for apps
Is this a good idea, is it safe?
Will the system sometime clean up that dir?
PhoenixNghi said:
Today I got an idea: move my pictures and videos to /tmp, so I can salvage a lot of free space
. I only use about 1.x GB for apps
Is this a good idea, is it safe?
Will the system sometime clean up that dir?
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Bad idea!
/tmp is cleared on every reboot.
If you want to use the internal storage, then use root explorer or similar and create a dir in /data and call it pics or something then store them there. The issue will be though that most gallery apps do not work with internal storage, you will not be able to look at them on the phone.
I don't get why everyone really wants to use the internal apps storage for personal storage, the issue is that any internal storage gets wiped on either a reboot if it is /tmp or if it is /data then a factory reset will wipe it.
Just go get a class 4 32GB sdcard for pocket change now, and be done with it.
Just my two cents, pence, etc...
Yes, I agree. 32 gigs are very cheap these days. If you look for a deal, you could get one for as low as 10 bucks. I've got one and I'm not close to filling it up.
WORD JIM!!! I DONT KNOW WHAT ID DO WITHOUT MINE!!
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I'm gonna be hard headed and try this 64GB MicroSDXC out......
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Since I created the topic, my files in /tmp have not been deleted.
Not really about the sdcard, it's about doing some tricks against the system
Furthermore, QuickPic loads images and vids in internal mem faster than my sdcard.
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How much room is there to install applications on the nexus S?
1GB
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Anyone who is complaining about 1gig to store apps please go away
But really this isnt an iPhone apps are not 500 megs 1gig is plenty for the average person
ive never ran out or room on 512mb. plus you also have apps 2 sd storing 50% or more of the data on 14gb flash
on my i9000 i had 130 mb from 1,85 gb used. so i think the 1 gb would be enough space for me!
I also suppose it comes down to what type of user your are. If you are into games, I have read that there are some impressive looking games on the horizon. These games could end up eating up a lot of space. That being said I am sure there will be a workaround developed to the 1GB limit.
ALuton said:
I also suppose it comes down to what type of user your are. If you are into games, I have read that there are some impressive looking games on the horizon. These games could end up eating up a lot of space. That being said I am sure there will be a workaround developed to the 1GB limit.
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Well the maximum space allowed for any app is 50megs. Google recently raised it from 25megs.
It should be a market requirement that if your app is over 10MB that it must support apps2sd
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Well the maximum space allowed for any app is 50megs. Google recently raised it from 25megs.
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Didn't realize that, well than there should be plenty of space.
What games can do however, is have the basic install small, but when you launch it first time, it'll download whatever data it needs and save to SD.
That's what happens for Pocket Legends and Dungeon Hunters. The latter from Gameloft downloads around 250-270 MB to your sd card, which is required for the game to work.
I *think* I'm correct in, that if an app has a widget, to not move it to SD Card as when you reboot, it won't work right.
What other *rules* are there to follow.
as you might guess I have everything in internal memory atm and would like to move some things over.
yes if you have froyo you can see which apps are allowed to be moved to your sd card but i personally use titanium backup or link2sd to move my apps to sd card.Also yep if you move a widget or an app with widgets(like music players) they might not work
I use too Titanium
It's best to only move downloaded apps to sdcard with the exception of widgets and their related apps. Games are what people mainly move to sd since they can be big. Do not attempt to move any system apps.
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agree with the last two posts...
get titanium, as it's allowed me to move even apps that didn't seem to support it.
avoid moving system related apps...unless you're sure they're crapware...though then you're better removing...which titanium can also do...
one thing to keep in mind...not sure how difinitive this is, but have found and read that once you move an app, if it has a widget, the widget will no longer work once moved.
use apps2sd application from market
He doesnt want to know how to move apps to the sdcard he wants to know which ones are safe....
Dont move system apps
Dont move apps of which you use widgets
For the rest there is no sure way to know which ones can be moved, but there is no harm in just trying it.
Move it, if it acts up, move it back.
Just because you CAN move it, it does not mean it will work.
setting-application or download a move to sd App on market
I have a question for everyone.
Are you guys having problems with the internal sd card on your one s?
My sd card gets filled up really quick. I dont have alot on it. Only About 2.6gb of Music & 1gb of Videos
Thats all... The MAX I have is about 4GB with some roms and gapps etc.
If you guys had this issue before how did you guys fix it?
I just barely re-formated my sd card to fat 32 on my mac.
Thanks in advanced
Spider_Pig27 said:
I have a question for everyone.
Are you guys having problems with the internal sd card on your one s?
My sd card gets filled up really quick. I dont have alot on it. Only About 2.6gb of Music & 1gb of Videos
Thats all... The MAX I have is about 4GB with some roms and gapps etc.
If you guys had this issue before how did you guys fix it?
I just barely re-formated my sd card to fat 32 on my mac.
Thanks in advanced
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I've been in the same spot. I didn't think I put much stuff on my phone and kept running out of space. Then I found an app from the playstore called "Disk Usage." It's a graphical representation of your phones storage so you can actually see what's taking up space. In my case it's almost always forgetting to delete old back ups. You should try it.
Check it out.
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I've been in the same spot. I didn't think I put much stuff on my phone and kept running out of space. Then I found an app from the playstore called "Disk Usage." It's a graphical representation of your phones storage so you can actually see what's taking up space. In my case it's almost always forgetting to delete old back ups. You should try it.
Check it out.
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Cool Thanks will do
Good day, fellow XDA citizens.
Here's my problem. My phone's external storage cannot be detected by apps when they are browsing as root. See screens:
This is what it looks like when the apps are browsing as root: (i.e. granted su permissions)
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This is what it looks like when the apps are not browsing as root: (and the way things are supposed to be)
Note that these issues are not limited only to this Script Manager app, but others as well, including Android Tuner, TiB, and the likes (most apps that access the external storage)
I've noticed that fuse in external storage becomes "RO rootfs" when browsing as root, and fuse remains intact for internal storage whether or not it was given su permissions.
I've tried googling around for answers, a few articles and discussions mention fuse but I can't make a certain sense out of them, most likely because I am a scrub on linux usage.
What things can I do to try fix this issue? Any help will be much appreciated.
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I have Samsung Wave2 GT-s8530. whenever I am installing badadroid on my set whatever the ROM is my external SD card was not detected. it showed 0 MB only. Details of my phone and installation as follows:
Installed at Downloader v5.67
Fat32 is the format of SD card.
Anyone please?
By the way, this phone is running 4.4.2 version of Android. This issue was not present in 4.2.2 before.
To anyone else having this issue,
It seems to be a well-known symptom of Kitkat for MT6582 devices. I'm not certain if this problem exists on any other chip.
While we wait for any official fix for SuperSU app regarding this issue (if any), the only fix I have ever known to have worked is by using KingRoot. I'm aware that many advanced android people always discourage users from installing chinese stuff but it addresses the issue at least. It's much much better than living through this inconvenience.
Regards
Hi
My phone keeps saying its full. Its not. Going through my installed apps it just doesn't amount to around 12GB.
Checking the properties of the Android folder including data and obb only amounts to 5GB.
It seems the phone thinks files in Pocket Casts on the SD and other SD based files like Here Maps data reside on the internal when they dont!
Anyone clarify this or figure out a fix?
Update: deleting app data of Pocket Casts and Here Maps didn't change anything..
There's still something not right as I went through and checked folder sizes of everything on internal and give or tale a MB here and there, there's nothing else other than the 5.1GB of data. Where is the other 5GB??
Do you happen to have Google Play Music downloaded locally and saved to SD?
Indeed I do...
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Clear that cache and stored music. Use Google MusicManager for PC to download your music, that way you will not reach your 2 download limit, as it does not count against that limit according to Google when using the manager.
That way you can copy that music to your SD card and it will be in MP3 format.
No, that's not the issue. It only had 40MB of data. I'm literally stumped as to where this hidden few gigs are!
Highlighting all files including hidden on Windows or with File Commander on the phone only shows 3.9GB, but the phone thinks 9GB is used!
One of my work mates had something similar, was told to factory reset and start again and it did actually fix the problem
Did you try the clear cache option in storage settings? It clears for all apps.
Yes. Cleared everything. No joy. Factory reset in the end and that sorted it as its now back as it was with 7GB free. Assume it may have been some oddity from flashing UK generic over O2 rom? Only thing I can think it was.
Ah I didn't see you replied to this. Anyway, I noticed that Google play music does a funny thing where if you have saved music (not cached music) stored on the external SD, the space counts against your internal SD as well. Again, this is not cached music, but music that you've indicated you want saved to device.