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.
Sean_Seany said:
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
daniel644 said:
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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saintextreme97 said:
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
saintextreme97 said:
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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ShapesBlue said:
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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ShapesBlue said:
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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ShapesBlue said:
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 use the Complete Linux Installer app to install Ubuntu on Android 4.4 (Nexus 5). The problem is that I can barely do anything with Ubuntu since the file system is completely contained within the .img file and thus (per default) limited to 4 GB. According to Zachary Powell (developer of Complete Linux Installer), an option is to create an ext4 partition and install Ubuntu there. I found many instructions on how to do that on an *external* sd card. However, the Nexus 5 does not have an external sd card. I am thus wondering how one could create an ext4 partition? (The phone is rooted. Ideally, the procedure does not require to be an Android hacker for too long...)
There might be a way to do that.. Not sure. But I can tell you that's a very dangerous thing to do. That's how people end up with bricked phones. I guess ODIN used to repartition the phone but I'm not sure if it exists for the n5. I'd say beware and be careful....
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There might be a way to do that.. Not sure. But I can tell you that's a very dangerous thing to do. That's how people end up with bricked phones. I guess ODIN used to repartition the phone but I'm not sure if it exists for the n5. I'd say beware and be careful....
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odin is only for samsung devices. and i wouldnt partition the nand storage, or youll be trying to replace your phone.
What he said
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Okay, thanks, that's good to know. I was also wondering about how 'dangerous' this is and it seems like 'very dangerous', so that's not an option (at the moment). I hope at one point they realize what potential a smartphone could have if they'd make it more like a real computer... (with Ubuntu's 'convergence' concept, my hope was that this happens 'sooner' than 'later', but apparently it's not the right time yet, at least not for medium-skilled hackers).
Ok those with 32Gb version device! How much actual internal storage do you get? I am only having 26Gb :crying: and i heard most of the devices have 28Gb so where did my 2Gb go? Any idea? Is there any way to get it back or am i F****ed with a device with 2Gb less the all other 32Gb version phones?
Hi,
No issue with your phone, 26 Gb available, same thing for every 32 Gb version (as far as I know)...
Where did you see 28 Gb available for most???
And seriously use the search function...
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Hi,
No issue with your phone, 26 Gb available, same thing for every 32 Gb version...
Where did you see 28 Gb available???
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Donno forums stated that sometimes rooting and changing the device stock OS can get you more storage space.
But i feel skeptical. So 26Gb is good? No matter how you root or change your device ROM?(does any kernel support re-sized partitions-will resizing partitions gain extra space)
(will post the link of the fourm within a few mins)
Sorry this is probably a stupid question, but it's bugging me. I never really paid attention to it because I've always had an ext sd. I have an lg g2 with 32 gb of storage. I know the os takes up around 8 gb, but when I flash a new rom it still shows available storage as 24 gb. Can I ever get that 8 gb back, or is it forever locked up in the stock os?
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Sorry this is probably a stupid question, but it's bugging me. I never really paid attention to it because I've always had an ext sd. I have an lg g2 with 32 gb of storage. I know the os takes up around 8 gb, but when I flash a new rom it still shows available storage as 24 gb. Can I ever get that 8 gb back, or is it forever locked up in the stock os?
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The 8gb is reserved for system. No way to unlock it.
Smack that thanks button if I helped!
Note 2 LTE powered by Illusion ROM and Plasma Kernel.
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i thinks that space is already reserved for OS and cannot be used as user space
Hi, sorry about my confusion. I want to update my phone but cannot find the location of digpfferent build. Perhaps devs can clarify the differences here? I start here with the simplest: official cm 10.2 and 11 releases/nightlies can be found at
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=apexqtmo
Then at http://ls.infernix.net/jenkins/ we can find three unofficial releases:
apexq-nardholio 4 days 4 hr (#598) 4 days 11 hr (#597) 19 min
apexq-staging 1 mo 22 days (#367) N/A 26 sec
apexq-staging-4.4 4 days 23 hr (#169) N/A 15 min
However, not all of these links actually include builds to download afaik-i'm looking for the last unofficial 10.2 367 at
http://ls.infernix.net/jenkins/job/apexq-staging/
And i cannot find a file to download there.
Re 11: If we're willing to take some risks given the nice features of unofficial roms added by devs, would you recommend the nardholio or staging4.4? All devs do a great job, just asking as an end user!
Thanks
Anyone use the nardholio experimentals? Whats the difference between the staging 4.4?
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falle21 said:
Anyone use the nardholio experimentals? Whats the difference between the staging 4.4?
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Don't use those if you don't want bricks.