Now that we have S-OFF, how hard/risky would it be to re-partition the internal storage of the One X? I know there are lots of partitions, some more mysterious than others, so would it be possible?
As for my practical applicaiton of this,
For example, I hardly have more than 500 MB of apps on my phone, so I don't need 1.5/2 (whatever it is) GB of storage space for apps, so that space could go to my internal SD Card partition.
You spend a lot compare to me, im using like 200mb xD sucks to have al that extra space wasted :/
What about reclaiming the space wasted by HTC?
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What about reclaiming the space wasted by HTC?
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It is possible, but to do it safely would take someone who knows what they are doing. There are plans to untilize the remaining space left over by HTC as well as the SD card. This is the only detail I will give out because it's something big being worked on.
Awesome! Takes me back to Alpharev imgs for desirae (desire)
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I was wondering about the internal storage space. The specs have showed that it contained 4GB of storage space for the rom, I wonder how much did it took up and how much remained in the settings when first booted up. Also does this phone also include App2Sd? Like other 2.2 Froyo operating systems?
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I was wondering about the internal storage space. The specs have showed that it contained 4GB of storage space for the rom, I wonder how much did it took up and how much remained in the settings when first booted up. Also does this phone also include App2Sd? Like other 2.2 Froyo operating systems?
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i had 1.02gb before installing any apps. with all my apps i think i got 940mb left but u can do apps2sd if the app supports it lol some wont let me put it on my sd card but some will.
.93gb from the first time I got it..
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i thought there would be more internal memory but i guess not, but still 940mb left is still more the enough for me. plus some big apps can be moved to the sd card.
Ohh okay thank you guys, then thats way better than than the slide, I only get 135mb when I first got it can barely fit all the apps I wanted lol this phone is sure to be mine soon
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I went through all my apps installed and preloaded. Went under the application section and selected every app that was moveable. Went from under 1GB to about 1.2GB. Give or take a bit. Either way still a lot and will be TONS more once we figure out how to remove the bloatware crap. (amazon, twitter, demo video, games, yahoo, you get the point)
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i had 1.02gb before installing any apps. with all my apps i think i got 940mb left but u can do apps2sd if the app supports it lol some wont let me put it on my sd card but some will.
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This is about what anyone should expect available from the factory. It is supposed to have 4GB of internal memory, but it appears that the MT4G has the same hidden NAND partition as the G1.
Fortunately enough, it does come with a class 4 8Gig card though
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I was wondering about the internal storage space. The specs have showed that it contained 4GB of storage space for the rom, I wonder how much did it took up and how much remained in the settings when first booted up. Also does this phone also include App2Sd? Like other 2.2 Froyo operating systems?
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It's the same as the G2. Their story is they reserve space for Gingerbread, which is horse**** - no Android update is 2gb.
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This is about what anyone should expect available from the factory. It is supposed to have 4GB of internal memory, but it appears that the MT4G has the same hidden NAND partition as the G1.
Fortunately enough, it does come with a class 4 8Gig card though
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hey that is weird i got a class 2 8Gig sd card with my white mytouch 4g. i heard some people saying some got a class 2 and others got a class 4 memory card, that is soo weird
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It's the same as the G2. Their story is they reserve space for Gingerbread, which is horse**** - no Android update is 2gb.
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hey where did u hear they reserved the space for gingerbread? i cant wait for that update though. i cant find any info, on when its gonna come out
I was just wondering why my internal memory shows a total of only 2.58gb with 2.24 available when it is supposed to have a total of 8gb. Also does anyone know if the ability to access emmc is available or is it being worked on? Also a big thanks to all the developers that work on all these devices and share their hard work. Thanks guys
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I was just wondering why my internal memory shows a total of only 2.58gb with 2.24 available when it is supposed to have a total of 8gb. Also does anyone know if the ability to access emmc is available or is it being worked on? Also a big thanks to all the developers that work on all these devices and share their hard work. Thanks guys
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I second this question it's something I have wondered myself.
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I second this question it's something I have wondered myself.
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It was like that even before I rooted. I noticed it but it didnt really phase me until recently. All my music/pics are on my card. I had to jump on HTCs site just to confirm that I was supposed to have 8gb and wasnt remembering it wrong..lol. But any insite to this would be helpful. Again thanks in advance for any help
I do believe it has 8gb but 3.2 gb of it is partitioned...
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I believe HTC partitioned it in a way that only 4GB of the 8GB eMMC is usable (the other 4GB is out of reach, it seems), and within that 4GB, you only get about 2.5GB or so user space, with the others reserved for the system.
And since it's one time only, we cannot reverse the effects of that partition.
Ya it is pretty ubsurd that you lose about 70% of your internal memory.
I do think it was smart to partition space for the system in excess of what is required, just to keep it stable.
Also, I imagine HTC had to put aside a hefty chunk of memory for HTC SENCE.
However, that seemed like way too much when I first encountered the problem myself.
So I e-mailed HTC who told me that the thunderbolt only has a 4GB eMMC under it's hood. That would make the numbers make sense because then the formatted space would be about 3.8 Gbs and that would mean only 1 gb was taken for the system.
why doesn't HTC or Verizon address the misprint claiming it has 8GB eMMC ?
that is a quesiton I can't answer.
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Ya it is pretty ubsurd that you lose about 70% of your internal memory.
I do think it was smart to partition space for the system in excess of what is required, just to keep it stable.
Also, I imagine HTC had to put aside a hefty chunk of memory for HTC SENCE.
However, that seemed like way too much when I first encountered the problem myself.
So I e-mailed HTC who told me that the thunderbolt only has a 4GB eMMC under it's hood. That would make the numbers make sense because then the formatted space would be about 3.8 Gbs and that would mean only 1 gb was taken for the system.
why doesn't HTC or Verizon address the misprint claiming it has 8GB eMMC ?
that is a quesiton I can't answer.
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When I asked HTC about it, they said it has an 8GB eMMC formatted to make only about 4GB usable
I guess they lied to me. What's new.
Other people have been told that too.
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Thanks for the insight guys.
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This same question came up when the G2 came out and everyone was rasing holy hell about it.
Physically there is 8gb in the phone. However, if I remember correctly (you may need to Google it), the explaination was that because of the way Android uses memory, it is unable to use the extra memory properly. The only analogy that makes sense to me was like how in Windows, unless you set up your hard drive as NTFS, instead of FAT, you were unable to format a partition over 10mb.
Samsung got around it by showing the "extra" memory as another "partition" of sorts so the memory shows available.
So to make a long story short, the memory is there, but system limitations, along with some of the memory being used as backup cause you to only see the 4gbs.
At least that is the way I understand it. Maybe someone else may know more about it and can explain it better.
It has an 8G flash:
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# fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0
fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0
Warning: deleting partitions after 60
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 4487 MB, 4487905280 bytes
There's over 4G available as a flash device to the OS. I suspect the rest is where the radio code is stored, and is not visible to the Linux side.
I understand this device has a rather limited amount of available space. I was wondering if anyone could give me an estimate to how much data is available after factory startup. Thank you!
Also, is all memory included as part of this '16gigs', such as sd card stuff, apps, and the ROM? Thanks again! Just want to find out what EXACT space I am working with here when I get this device
4 gb reserved for system, 2 gb for apps. Available storage = 10 gb. Yeah its that bad.
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Damn that is bad! Really making me reconsider but I would rather have this than GSiii. Thanks, from a fellow Chicagoan
I have no use for MORE than 10 gigs in a phone. Quite frankly, I utilize some minor space on Dropbox as well.
If I need more space than 10gigs, I have a couple hard drives for that.
I'm sure we'll have easy access to USB host at some point, which will work for me. I mainly want the extra space for nandroids, app backups and pictures without using Dropbox for everything. I don't use my phone for movies (all on my tablet) and no storage needed for Google Music, but still worried that I'll fill up the 10gigs. Had 16 gb card in my HD2 and that was pretty much always full.
I'm using a DroidX. What is the suggested ratio for free space to used storage? Should more free space be available on the phone's memory?
Should all apps be moved to card?
Thanks for your time.
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I always like to keep some space free on the SD card for making backups and stuff, but that's partly because I switch ROM's quite a bit, so I need to make backups rather a lot.
The Droid X has a decent amount of internal storage, more than the Desire S, anyway. You'd probably be OK keeping the apps on the phone's internal storage, but if you have a good sized SD card (16gb +, I'd say), I'd probably move all the apps to the SD card.
I always try to keep at least 10% storage free, so if I'm away anywhere and want to take a bunch of pictures or HD videos, I'll know I have enough space.
I hope I've helped!
its better to move all your Apps If you have class 4/6/10 sd card then there will no performance issues and your internal memory will use less memory. try have atleast 50-200mb free of your internal memory for good performance..
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