I have a Samsung Galaxy S II plus running 4.2.2. Most of my apps are installed into my internal memory which shows up as my emulated sd card even though I have a 16gb class 10 sd card. I understand this is a Samsung design feature. I have two questions.
1) Can I install apps and save or download directly into my sd card without rooting my phone?
2) If I root my phone nd don't change the OS, would I still be able to update my phone according to Samsung OS updates?
Any help is appreciated. I'm having a tough time updating my apps as it says that I dont have enough memory. I am a noob. HELP PLEASE!!
For any big games. Use foldermount. Search on Google play
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isn't root necessary?
Isn't a rooted phone the prerequisite to install folder mount? Google play listing says it needs root.
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For any big games. Use foldermount. Search on Google play
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dilan.ts said:
Isn't a rooted phone the prerequisite to install folder mount? Google play listing says it needs root.
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Yes, it does need root.
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So, if I root my phone, wud I still be able to get OS updates from Samsung if they release it?
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Yes, it does need root.
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So, if I root my phone, wud I still be able to get OS updates from Samsung if they release it?
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no.. but you can manually update it
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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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.
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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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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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I have a p925, and I bought need for speed most wanted a while ago and after i downloaded the game, and i try to install the game data through the app, it says i need 2055 mb more memory, even though i have 14gb free on my sd. Anyone know what to do? Please!!! i want to play this game so much!
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I have a p925, and I bought need for speed most wanted a while ago and after i downloaded the game, and i try to install the game data through the app, it says i need 2055 mb more memory, even though i have 14gb free on my sd. Anyone know what to do? Please!!! i want to play this game so much!
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Please check if the game needs to be installed in the internal memory. Most of the games need to be installed on internal memory.
Is ur phone rooted? if it is rooted, then you can download apps from playstore that can change the game locations from internal storage (after installation) to external SD card (like gl to sd)
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schubeir
my phone isn't rooted, and its completely stock. i have 2.3gb of free memory internally. it still says i have 0mb available. should i do a factory reset on my thrill?
Same as me
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Same as me
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Do you know if the game is compatible with the thrill/ o3d?
I saw a thread saying it works fine somewhere.
Try to factory reset. It will work for sure
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LyghtSpeed said:
Do you know if the game is compatible with the thrill/ o3d?
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Yes, it's compatible. Bought it when it was on a discount. Works great on O3D.
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Try to factory reset. It will work for sure
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Corvus Corax said:
Yes, it's compatible. Bought it when it was on a discount. Works great on O3D.
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I'll definitely try doing a factory reset, thanks!
Hi! I installed google edition 4.3 v2.1 rom on my i9505 and I see that there is no option to move the apps to the sd card. Is there any way to do this at this moment?
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scutariusilviu said:
Hi! I installed google edition 4.3 v2.1 rom on my i9505 and I see that there is no option to move the apps to the sd card. Is there any way to do this at this moment?
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In short, no. Google seems to be moving away from supporting external SD cards. The option to move apps to an external SD card is gone with Android 4.2. There might be some custom ROMs or mods that do this though.
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Hi! I installed google edition 4.3 v2.1 rom on my i9505 and I see that there is no option to move the apps to the sd card. Is there any way to do this at this moment?
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In short, no. Google seems to be moving away from supporting external SD cards. The option to move apps to an external SD card is gone with Android 4.2. There might be some custom ROMs or mods that do this though.
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For rooted phone, I think you can try Link2SD first. But yeah, Custom ROM is a nice thing to play with.
Nope, link2sd says that my phone is not alowed or something like this. So, i think i will stick with 8 gb internal storage and move only media to sd. Thanks anyway!
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And yes. It's rooted.
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scutariusilviu said:
Nope, link2sd says that my phone is not alowed or something like this. So, i think i will stick with 8 gb internal storage and move only media to sd. Thanks anyway!
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About Link2SD, you have to partitioning your SDcard first. I am sorry I can't post link about tutorial to partition SDcard. Just search it on Google. Good luck..
Did you try gemini app manager
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Did you gemini app manager
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No positive result with gemini. I will search in the morning and maybe partition it.
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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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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?
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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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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
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I want to root my samsung galaxy victory with one click root. If it doesnt work, will there be any chance of my phone bricking? My phone is on Freedompop gusing sprints service) and has Android 4.1.2
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gezafisch said:
Hi
I want to root my samsung galaxy victory with one click root. If it doesnt work, will there be any chance of my phone bricking? My phone is on Freedompop gusing sprints service) and has Android 4.1.2
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There should be a very small chance of brick, if any. But don't forget that if you make a backup, even if you brick your device, it will be no problem!
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There should be a very small chance of brick, if any. But don't forget that if you make a backup, even if you brick your device, it will be no problem!
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How do I make a backup? Dont I need to have CWM or something like that? And dont I have to be rooted to get that?
Thanks Geza
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gezafisch said:
How do I make a backup? Dont I need to have CWM or something like that? And dont I have to be rooted to get that?
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Yes, you'll need CWM, which stands for ClockworkMod. And no, you don't necessarily need root to get it, as it's really just a replacement for your current recovery mode, except it has more options.
Run a Google search with the terms "sph-l300 cwm". :good:
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Yes, you'll need CWM, which stands for ClockworkMod. And no, you don't necessarily need root to get it, as it's really just a replacement for your current recovery mode, except it has more options.
Run a Google search with the terms "sph-l300 cwm". :good:
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Cant find one that doesn't require root access.
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@gezafisch, oops, you're right; nevermind CWM, for now. Instead, use this.
ИΘΘK¡€ said:
@gezafisch, oops, you're right; nevermind CWM, for now. Instead, use this.
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I followed that tutorial but when I test the adb, it says that the command is not recognized.
Usb debugging is on.
Thanks Geza
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