How to increse internal memory of Micromax Boltst your android device has to be rooted, if you have the Tecno P3 or N3 look here how to root them easily.
There is absolutely no way you can increase the size of your phone’s internal storage but you can allocate some part of your memory card for your phone to install applications to.
What you will need
Your android phone (must be rooted):cyclops:
Memory card (2Gb and above only)
A memory card reader (dont use a phone!)
A computer
Download and instal MiniTool from here to your computer
Link2SD application (should be downloaded on Google play store
Backup your memory card (copy all the data on it to a folder on your computer)
Steps to increasing your android internal memory
Step 1: Backing up your memory card:
before attempting this, make sure you have backed up all the files and folders on your memory card to your computer by easily coping the whole memory card and pasting into a folder on your computer.
Step 2: Partitioning your memory card:
connect your memory card to your computer using a memory card reader (dont use a phone and USB cable) and take note of the letter assigned to it by your computer on my computer page example (F, (D etc .
Open the installed MiniTool on your computer.
Right click on your memory card letter (example D:, F and click delete.
Now you will see the memory card showing unallocated space, right click on it again and select create as.
Select primary
If your memory card size is less than 2GB, select file system FAT. If it’s more than 2GB, select FAT32.
Now go down and reduce the size of your memory card on partition size so that there will be space on unallocated space (that will be your added memory, so you can choose any size you want)
Now, choose the unallocated space again and select Create as -> Primary
Now, choose EXT2 file system. You can let the whole space take over in this step.
Now click ok and click apply on the top menu.
Wait for it to finish and you have successfully partitioned your memory card.
copy your data backed up on your computer back to the memory card and insert it into your phone and boot it
Step 3: Configuring Link2SD:
Now open Link2SD which you have downloaded from Google play store on your phone
Link2SD will ask you to select the file system of your second permission, choose ext2.
Now click okay, the phone will ask to get restarted, click oka so it will restart itself.
A dialogue box will come up after the restart click okay
Now their is a funnel-like icon on the top part click it you will see different options choose on internal (see picture below)
Link2SD
Now tap the option key below, and select multi-select, then press the select all button. All of these apps will be selected.
Now still on the option key choose action then click create link
Select the three options (link application file, link dalvic-cache file,link library files) then click ok
Link2SD will then move all those apps and games then create a link with them from the second partition of your SD card. Touch OK when done
Now you are done but to make sure this happens every single time you install an app you should goto settings from the menu and click on auto link and then select the three options again and ok….thats done
You have now free of the low memory issue with your phone.
Related
I know I posted earlier, but I am unable to delete my previous post! I have another query:
Hi
I have tried installing a programme to my memory card as per the directions on this page:
http://pocketpccentral.net/help/stinstallsdcf_wm5.htm
Unfortunately, some of the programme is determined to install itself on my full pocket PC meaning that I cannot run the programme. I do not get the option on my pocket PC to install to the memory card. When I do select this option on my main PC, it says that the space on my memory card is "unavailable". Do I need to format a new memory card before I use it perhaps.
Any help would be appreciated. I have bought a memory card for the purpose of adding more software and now it seems I cannot do so.
Thank you.
if you put in the sd card you can see it in the pda
and if you can copy files to it you dont need to format it first
I have tried that with no problem but I am having difficulty in installing programs to the memory card. Part of the programs appear on the XDA itself and part on the memory card. Also, when I select to install to the memory card, I do not get a memory allocation - instead I get UNAVAILABLE".
Should the whole program be on the memory card when installed?
As you may or may not know A2SD+ requires an ext partition on the SD card, this is a linux file partition and cannot be seen by a windows computer. If you insert a SD card into the phone without this partition the phone will cycle in a bootloop.
You will need ROM manager and Titanium Backup for this process.
1. If you do not have access to a linux computer, download a live CD. I used ubuntu 10.10.
2. Run the live CD and insert your sd card. Open the disk utility, unmount all partitions and then format the disk using to the master boot (whatever it's called). This first formation option is at the top of the disk utility page.
3. now click on the "bar" of memory shown (picture of the unallocated space). Now below this you will see "create partition". Click this and change the entire disk to FAT.
4. exit out of the live cd and restart in windows.
5. now on your phone (still with old SD card in it) make a Titanium Backup of all your apps and data. I didn't need to use mine but it's just incase something goes wrong.
6. now open ROM manager and make a Nandroid backup. This is like an image of your phone as it currently stands.
7. in windows, copy the contents of your SD card to a folder on your PC.
8. download a new ROM that doesn't use A2SD+.. (I downloaded the LeeDroid non A2SD+ version) and place it in the root directory of your SD card
9. Open up ROM manager, install rom from sd, clear data and wipe cache. Make some tea as this will take about 10-15 minutes usually. It will restart in your no non A2SD ROM.
10. Turn off your phone, insert the NEW SD.. power up and install ROM manager from the market.
11. Open ROM manager, and select the first option (flash clockworkmod recovery, or something similar. this will download the update.zip to your SD) Now select to partition the SD card the same way the old one was (512MB ext, 0MB swap usually). Leave the phone until it starts up again.
12. Now go to the folder on the PC where you backed up the old SD card, file the folder "clockworkmod" and copy it to the new SD.
13. Open up ROM manager and restore the backup you made at the start.
When your phone starts up, it will be as it was before, with a larger SD
When you accidentally destroy an SD card with incorrect partitioning or the SD card pops out of its slot during S-OFF attempts, you may be out of luck. Until now.
I have discovered a way to fix a dead SD card. You will need four things.
1. A dead SD card.
2. Linux Knowledge.
3. Patience (depending upon how big your SD card is).
4. Linux.
THIS WILL DELETE ALL OF YOUR DATA
Create a linux boot disk. I recommend Ubuntu since that's what I used. Stick it in your computer and boot from the drive. Skip this step if you already have a linux box.
Next, you need to install GParted and have admin access on the computer.
The most common cause of an SD card is unallocated space from something.
Start GParted.
In the upper right hand part of the window, select your drive. Once that happens, you need to allocate the space. Click on "Device" then "Create Partition Table". Select the options you want. It is recommended that you choose "msdos" encoding.
Once the partitions are created you need to format it. Now this will format it with the permissions from the device you are using, so don't put data on it until you can switch back to windows.
Find a Windows machine that has permissions to format memory devices.
Format the device as a standard user or Admin user.
Put your data back on the card.
Enjoy!
[NOTE]. I will not be responsible to anything that you will done to your Phone Or Your SD Card but if you encounter any problem I will be there
[What It is] This process will increase your Internal SD card according to the size of second partition you made in the CWM Recovery
For this you may need the following things:
i. CWM Recovery
ii. Root Access
iii. Link2SD ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD)
iv. An SD Card
v. Root-Access
That's all
First Make 2 Partition Of SD Card
Do the following steps:
i. Make backup of your SD Card since our process requires formatting it.
ii. Go to the Recovery Mode. It may vary according to your phone
iii. Go to the 'Advance' option of CWM Recovery
iv. Choose the 'Partition SD Card' option
v. Choose SD-EXT Size(it may vary according to your phone, give 512 for 2 GB SD)
vi. Select 0 swap
vii. Wait and after the process is completed reboot you phone
Increase Internal SD card size by LINK2SD
To do this follow the given steps
i. Download and Install LINK2SD
ii. You will be prompted to choose among different file systems. Choose ext4 since it is the file system your recovery have formatted the SD Card
iii. Then a notification will appear 'Mount Script Created'. Reboot the phone.
iv.In the setting option of LINK2SD, check Auto Link. If you've some apps selecte Create Link and Mark all Options
Now you have done enjoy lots of heavier apps.
I have been using a 4gb memory card out of which 3.6 was usable. One day, I connected it to my chromebook and transferred a few files and directly pulled the wire off forgetting about ejecting the device and turning the usb mass storage off. Then I opened the file manager it was showing total storage:447MB and availabel storage:447MB. pls help me with this problem.
Here you go
First point first - Backup your data
I assume that you have access to a Windows or a Linux desktop...
For Windows you will need Minitool Partition Wizard Free Version...
For Linux - GParted will do the job...
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For your specific problem, it appears to me that the primary partition of your SD card is accidentally shrunk...
So, Plug in your SD card
Open up Minitool Partition Wizard or GParted, find your SD card.....
... and if I am right, you can see 2 or more partition in your SD card
[Make sure you have backed up your data before proceeding]
1. Delete all of the partitions present in your SD card one by one (right click on the partition to find 'delete')
2. You will now end up with an unallocated space of size of your SD card.
3. Right click on that unallocated partition and Create
4. Make sure your new partition is Primary, NOT LOGICAL, and FileSystem = FAT32
5. Apply your changes, and your SD card will be showing it's full capacity.
Thank you I will try it out and let you know if it works
One reason may be that your sd card has some bad sectors due to which some part of the sd card may not be accessible or maybe there is some kind of virus in your sd card. Actually it happened with me also but in my case it was my pen drive and the reason was some of the sectors were not working properly and at last pen drive did'nt work at all....
If that is the reason wouldn't formatting the sd card work out.