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Sprint Nexus S - All things Root!

Questions about my upcoming Nexus S!
1. Once rooted, will the ROMs in the dev section work on the cdma Sprint Nexus? I know the current ROMs are for the Tmobile device.
2. Is there a way to free up internal memory above the 16gb? I am coming from a HTC hero, and using Firerat's Custom MTD Partitions (resize Data,System and Cache) I was able to triple the amount of internal storage. Something similar for the Nexus?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754805
3. Pros/Cons of all the ROMs out there please. With the Hero, I am using CM7 and love it. But Nexus has sooo many to pick from. Need something stable that does not sacrifice speed!
4. Wifi tethering app - will it tether 4G from the Nexus?
5. MODs - any other Mods out there that are just killer?
6. Best way to move all my apps over from my existing hero to the Nexus?
THANK YOU!!!!

texas83 said:
Questions about my upcoming Nexus S!
1. Once rooted, will the ROMs in the dev section work on the cdma Sprint Nexus? I know the current ROMs are for the Tmobile device.
2. Is there a way to free up internal memory above the 16gb? I am coming from a HTC hero, and using Firerat's Custom MTD Partitions (resize Data,System and Cache) I was able to triple the amount of internal storage. Something similar for the Nexus?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754805
3. Pros/Cons of all the ROMs out there please. With the Hero, I am using CM7 and love it. But Nexus has sooo many to pick from. Need something stable that does not sacrifice speed!
4. Wifi tethering app - will it tether 4G from the Nexus?
5. MODs - any other Mods out there that are just killer?
6. Best way to move all my apps over from my existing hero to the Nexus?
THANK YOU!!!!
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re: number 2. I believe 16 GB is the total iNAND flash memory. 1 GB is partitioned for internal storage. Some is used for /system, /recovery, /cache, etc. The rest is available. Out of the box you will have over 14 GB available. But 16 GB is the physical size of the flash memory, there is no "hack" that will increase that.

Thanks. Anyone else on the other questions? I'm excited abt this phone coming out next weekend!

6.) You could use titanium backup to backup all the apps of your choice then slap the titanium folder onto a computer, then slap it onto your Nexus S when you get it and restore all those apps from the titanium backup app.
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matt2053 said:
re: number 2. I believe 16 GB is the total iNAND flash memory. 1 GB is partitioned for internal storage. Some is used for /system, /recovery, /cache, etc. The rest is available. Out of the box you will have over 14 GB available. But 16 GB is the physical size of the flash memory, there is no "hack" that will increase that.
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The way that the HTC Fireat mod is that it takes all the extra room partioned for extra storage that is unused and free it back up. So of the 16 on there, there's 14gb available. The Fireat method of modding it would try to release some more of that inaccessible 2gb. I'll keep reading up on it.

I think you can use wifi ap to tether and be able to use 4g but I don't think there's a rom that supports 4g yet incase you flash a rom. Meaning you're only gonna be stuck with 3g while tethering.
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markfavis said:
I think you can use wifi ap to tether and be able to use 4g but I don't think there's a rom that supports 4g yet incase you flash a rom. Meaning you're only gonna be stuck with 3g while tethering.
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Wait you lost me. None of the current ROMs support 4G? So if I flash CM7 I won't be able to use the 4G service? Or you're saying that I can you 4G to browse but only 3G to wifi/usb tether?

texas83 said:
Wait you lost me. None of the current ROMs support 4G? So if I flash CM7 I won't be able to use the 4G service? Or you're saying that I can you 4G to browse but only 3G to wifi/usb tether?
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Haha no none of the ROMs support 4g because the 4g Nexus isn't even out yet! Patience my friend.
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[App] SWAPit RAM EXPANDER - Increase Internal Memory

Hey Charge users!
I'm a first time poster long time lurker. I've had this Charge since June 2011 and have flashed many roms from Kejar31's Gummycharged thru Dwitherell's Tweaked (currently on 1.5) and I've always seemed to be limited by the 512MB internal ram which shows ~220/380MB taken after the rom boots depending on what rom you're using. As you add apps this memory gets eaten up and when you forget to push to sd, the phone starts lagging.
People run the script with SQlite 3, run V6 supercharger memory management, clear cache and dalvik cache, etc.
I've heard of a "swapper" before upon first learning android terms but have never seen it discussed thoroughly on the charge threads. I got a class 10 samsung sdhc card and replaced my stock class 4 card, and have allocated 1.5 GB for space on the sdhc card to act as extra RAM and really notice the difference in multitasking. Now my Boat Browser retains the web pages I was viewing in other tabs even after I've gone back to the home screen (doesn't have to reload).
Requirements: Rooted, have a sdhc card that will read faster than 6MB/s (according to the dev), and be running a compatible kernel (im using pbj 0130).
Things I've noticed in my 2 days of usage so far:
- phone faster, responsive
- can handle multitasking much better
- can handle heavy apps like vlingo
- negligible effect on battery life thus far, although if you leave too many things open I can imagine it killing battery life
- have not tried but dev says in description that you can allocate up to 2.5GB of extra ram
In Play Store search: "swapit ram expander"
Hope this helps others out! I know the app is expensive, and I'm in no way related to or even know the dev. Just thought this would ease a lot of frustration on the charge threads and keep ppl from jumping ship for a while! Please post back if you try this with a stock class 4 sdhc to give feedback for others.
Thanks for reading!
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PBJ has swap capability built in...you just have to enable it. However, performance is always going to suffer, whether you notice it or not. For me, the performance difference is negligible until I try to play music, then it's bad....skipping/stuttering and the like, and I don't care how fast you SD card is, its going to be hard to avoid that.
Our RAM is really only a limitation for very heavy multitasking, and I haven't run into a scenario where I actually thought I needed more.
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Would the constant writing have the potential to shorten your sd card life?

BleedsOrangeandBlue said:
Would the constant writing have the potential to shorten your sd card life?
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Are you going to keep this phone past 2020? Modern SD cards have the longevity to run through millions of full erase and writes.
By the way, is there any free equivalent to this?
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kvswim said:
Are you going to keep this phone past 2020? Modern SD cards have the longevity to run through millions of full erase and writes.
By the way, is there any free equivalent to this?
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In shirke above post he said pbj has it. You just have to enable it.
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jager420 said:
In shirke above post he said pbj has it. You just have to enable it.
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Any "easy" way to do it?
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kvswim said:
Any "easy" way to do it?
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An initd script should be able to right?
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kvswim said:
Are you going to keep this phone past 2020? Modern SD cards have the longevity to run through millions of full erase and writes.
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So it would exponentially shorten it, but even the exponentially shortened life is probably not going to matter because its such a long time period....got it.
Thanks

kvswim said:
Any "easy" way to do it?
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How is making the file /data/local/useswap hard?
Code:
adb shell touch /data/local/useswap
adb reboot

imnuts said:
How is making the file /data/local/useswap hard?
Code:
adb shell touch /data/local/useswap
adb reboot
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He didn't say it was hard... he just asked if there was an easy way because he didn't know what all the answer entailed.

imnuts said:
How is making the file /data/local/useswap hard?
Code:
adb shell touch /data/local/useswap
adb reboot
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Derp. I think I'll just leave it alone. I don't have many problems.
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how to use the app > ram-expander
helpppPPP-- please , in detail
galaxy note n7000 jb leak rooted , philz kernel<IS MY KERNEL SUPPORTED(IF Not any sugg.)>
32 gb class 10 sd card

Getting Problem
I m getting problem while creating swap file.I t just create it and then kill it by itself and then restart making swap file.

After boot doesnt work
I created 1 GB swap file in my sd card and it showed total ram 1.6 gb. I could see Swapit icon running in status bar but once i boot the phone it doesnt read swap file automatically spite being autorun is selected. Even swapit icon also doesnt appear in notification bar. I hace swap file intact in my sd card. Any solution for it?

Help!
Right now m using siyah kernel on my s2 with android 4.4.2 kitkat! I just wanna know that the app states perfect kernel! What does that mean? Can you suggest which kernel is perfect? And secondly i also experienced boot loop problems? Can you tell how to fix it?
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lenith said:
I created 1 GB swap file in my sd card and it showed total ram 1.6 gb. I could see Swapit icon running in status bar but once i boot the phone it doesnt read swap file automatically spite being autorun is selected. Even swapit icon also doesnt appear in notification bar. I hace swap file intact in my sd card. Any solution for it?
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Can you state which device u r using and its android version and kernel name?

Mehul mehta said:
Right now m using siyah kernel on my s2 with android 4.4.2 kitkat! I just wanna know that the app states perfect kernel! What does that mean? Can you suggest which kernel is perfect? And secondly i also experienced boot loop problems? Can you tell how to fix it?
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Can you state which device u r using and its android version and kernel name?
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I'm using Canvas 2 with 4.2.2 ROM and BindassBoost 2.5 Kernel

razor1395 said:
how to use the app > ram-expander
helpppPPP-- please , in detail
galaxy note n7000 jb leak rooted , philz kernel<IS MY KERNEL SUPPORTED(IF Not any sugg.)>
32 gb class 10 sd card
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philz kernel doesnt support for RAM expander.
Recently i hv tried this on my hh (AryaMod V7 N7000)

What is the point of installing custom roms when safestrap limits the max memory I ca

I was extremely excited to try running a couple different roms to get my footing on one I prefer. However when I finally decided on a daily driver I quickly realized that there was no point to it as the 3 GB partition size quickly got filled up on apps alone. Am I missing something with this? What's the point of using safestrap to install new roms when my internal space is so limited? I'm back to stock right now and am much less adventurous with messing with my phones settings.
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Can u not make a ROM default and delete stock image? And I'm running a ROM on slot 1 storage shows I have 6gb left and I've installed about 20 apps already.

Safestrap size limits
Bump.
I'm running stock JB and researching whether I can return to ICS, obtain root, upgrade back to JB or a different ROM
Or if I can run SS as is to use other ROMs.
Thanks

How did you get 6+ gb on rom slot 1? I'm still using stock atm. And I might stick with it only because there are no other JB roms with working hotspot.
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bL33d said:
Can u not make a ROM default and delete stock image? And I'm running a ROM on slot 1 storage shows I have 6gb left and I've installed about 20 apps already.
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i'm in the same boat as the OP. i got a "storage space low" message this morning and noticed only had about 100MB left in a 2g partition. how do you have 6gb left? i might just return to the stock image as well.

From what ive read since my original post, this is a droid razr hd issue that doesnt allow apps and data to be saved externally. Which blows because all roms are essentially nerfed with this memory cap.
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No app to SD option since rooting

Just wanted to ask if any body knows what's happened to add to SD option. I recently rooted my tab2 and now running 4.3 with slim bean first thing I noticed I had to reformat my SD to fat32 as exfat is no longer recognized.. Then I noticed no app to SD.
This is not a major issue but I did find it handy and would really like to get this back if possible so any help or tips would be appreciated.
Oh andi have tried a few other ROMs as well. None have this option.
Apart from that the ROMs pretty dam good
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Same here
onexian said:
Just wanted to ask if any body knows what's happened to add to SD option. I recently rooted my tab2 and now running 4.3 with slim bean first thing I noticed I had to reformat my SD to fat32 as exfat is no longer recognized.. Then I noticed no app to SD.
This is not a major issue but I did find it handy and would really like to get this back if possible so any help or tips would be appreciated.
Oh andi have tried a few other ROMs as well. None have this option.
Apart from that the ROMs pretty dam good
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Hey bud I'm running into the same problem on my tablet I have the sph-p500 version from sprint I'm still running the stock rom cause I guess there's nothing out yet for this version but I've done all the formatting for the extend are and using link2sd not app2sd it still won't let you move apps to ext sd but you can link the folders to free up alittle space I'm new to android and to this site but it seems to me like people on here are alittle weary about talking to junior members it sucks because I could really use there advice in the most recent versions of android the primary sd card is emulated therefore will not alow ext to be primary due to security reasons

Hello mate sorry for the mega late reply I work offshore. I come to think now its just not possible to appto SD but hey never mind my pad has plenty storage its just a shame I cannot utilize the 64gb SD card I have lol never mind I will keep searching for a solve.
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Apps 2 sd is only possible if you're running stock firmware jb 4.2.2.
If you want to move apps, use link2sd but you need to make partition in your external sd.

Internal Memory Question

I own a Lenovo S920. It has 4 GB of total internal memory. 2 GB as phone memory and 2 GB as the built in memory. But for some reason the internal phone memory is more occupied than it should be. I have attached the picture. What happened to the marked space?
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Rini94 said:
I own a Lenovo S920. It has 4 GB of total internal memory. 2 GB as phone memory and 2 GB as the built in memory. But for some reason the internal phone memory is more occupied than it should be. I have attached the picture. What happened to the marked space?
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so your saying that it used to have 4gigs of internal memory? or it says that it has 4 gigs of internal memory? my bad if im not asking the right question.

I was victim of same problem but not now here I how you what to do
First root your device then download titanium backup. Launch it and select app you use most and swipe to special features and select on convert to system app now your apps will be stored in system rom
Do It with multiple apps
And at last click on thanks of it helped
Pm me if you want to know in detail
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Trozzul said:
so your saying that it used to have 4gigs of internal memory? or it says that it has 4 gigs of internal memory? my bad if im not asking the right question.
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It's just that I don't know what's occupying most of the 2 GB memory. It's definitely not the apps.
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prashantdrew said:
I was victim of same problem but not now here I how you what to do
First root your device then download titanium backup. Launch it and select app you use most and swipe to special features and select on convert to system app now your apps will be stored in system rom
Do It with multiple apps
And at last click on thanks of it helped
Pm me if you want to know in detail
Sent from my Andi 3.5KKe+
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But what is it that's actually occupying the space? Is there no way to do it without rooting? I had some problems with my last phone after rooting it. It was an HTC explorer.
And I used an app to view the actual internal memory. It says the total internal phone memory is 1008 mb. Where's the rest of the 1 GB??
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Rini94 said:
But what is it that's actually occupying the space? Is there no way to do it without rooting? I had some problems with my last phone after rooting it. It was an HTC explorer.
And I used an app to view the actual internal memory. It says the total internal phone memory is 1008 mb. Where's the rest of the 1 GB??
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i think this is the best way to answer your question, There has to be a place for the operating system to go, some phones have two internal storages which one is X amount of gigs to store the Operating system and System apps, while the other is free user space, so pretty much if yours comes with 4gigs of internal storage, its dummed down to around 3gb - 3.4gb and around 1-2gb of the operating system (this includes system apps and bloatware) thats what is taking up your space, thats why most people flash roms because you get tons more storage since nobody wants the bloatware.

Trozzul said:
i think this is the best way to answer your question, There has to be a place for the operating system to go, some phones have two internal storages which one is X amount of gigs to store the Operating system and System apps, while the other is free user space, so pretty much if yours comes with 4gigs of internal storage, its dummed down to around 3gb - 3.4gb and around 1-2gb of the operating system (this includes system apps and bloatware) thats what is taking up your space, thats why most people flash roms because you get tons more storage since nobody wants the bloatware.
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But isn't that a little too much space for operating system?
So what am I supposed to do now? Root it and remove bloatware? Don't want to install a new ROM. I like the stock ROM.
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Rini94 said:
But isn't that a little too much space for operating system?
So what am I supposed to do now? Root it and remove bloatware? Don't want to install a new ROM. I like the stock ROM.
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It'd just the way OEMs operating system is, removing the bloat might not give you much space but its worth a shot. Custom Roms should give you a little more space. They should take up around 500mb if I recall correctly. I could be wrong but they are ment to give you more space.

Trozzul said:
It'd just the way OEMs operating system is, removing the bloat might not give you much space but its worth a shot. Custom Roms should give you a little more space. They should take up around 500mb if I recall correctly. I could be wrong but they are ment to give you more space.
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Okay thanks! Looks like custom ROM is the way to go.
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