I know I've seen a thread about this, but not in the last 50 posts or so.
Question: does anyone foresee ever being able to expand our storage? Even with a border line dirty hardware hack?
I had built in storage on my nexus s 4G, and it was a pain *sometimes*
But, I've had my One S for about 2 weeks, and already have to delete stuff on a regular basis.
This is mostly because I'm a flash whore, and sense nandroids are usually over 1GB. I'm running MIUI right now, but will probably switch back, as I really miss the cool camera features.
But basically, with a few nandroids, some pictures, and some podcasts, my card will be full.
Anyone have any non-obvious ideas? (If that's a real word).
Obvious ideas would be, delete stuff, use SDMaid to clear out unneeded crap, don't take pictures, etc.
Someone please give me hope
Nothing you can do about it except the just the usual stuff
1) Sync all your photos and backups with dropbox. Can be scheduled automatically.
2) Sync your whole music library with google play.
You can just delete all your music, photos and backup yet still have access to them anytime you want. I am not sure about nandroid. Do you really need more than one?
I was just about to make this thread lol. Surely there must be a way to adjust the partitioning somehow. Like I've got 1.7 GB free on /data which I don't really plan on using much of, so I could move 1.5 GB from there onto the /sdcard partition. Similarly can also move a chunk of the /system partition since that has 1.35 GB free...could probably move a gig from there too and that's an instant 2.5 GB extra space!
I know people have succeeded in repartitioning on certain other phones, so there must be a way on here too. I hope someone can figure it out. F**k cloud storage.
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wilcoholic said:
Nothing you can do about it except the just the usual stuff
1) Sync all your photos and backups with dropbox. Can be scheduled automatically.
2) Sync your whole music library with google play.
You can just delete all your music, photos and backup yet still have access to them anytime you want. I am not sure about nandroid. Do you really need more than one?
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Not everyone has unlimited data plans, cloud syncing will destroy data allowances and eat the battery. And I like my music library on my device, what happens if I want to listen to music while on a train and have no signal? etc etc... an extra few gigs would be a lot more helpful than moving everything to space.
Then hook up your device via usb when you are home or sync with wifi instead..
I have all my nandroids and titanium backups on dropbox to save space on my phone.
I am on a data cap too. But theres nothing I can do about it. I just don't have space on my phone. This way its at least always with me wherever I go. And I just add/delete the recent stuff to my phone manually. Thats often not more than 500mb of songs.
The rest I just sync at home when I am on wifi. I don't need backups or photos on my phone at all. So if I need space I can delete them without worries. Its safely stored with dropbox.
Titanium and Nandroid backups aren't an issue. I haven't got any of those and when I do I can easily move those off. But what I want with me locally is my music and picture library. No way am I putting that on the cloud. I've just come from a 32 gig SD card with about 6000 songs, and I had about 16 gb free space still left lol. I had to convert all songs from 64kbit ogg to 40kbit HE-AACv2 just to get it to fit. And now with less than 300 mb free space I am deleting some songs.
But my point is, there are several gigs just wasted in the other partitions. It would be nice to make those user accessible.
So I hope someone can make a ROM/mod that readjusts the partition sizes when flashing.
True, but that's the sacrifice you make when buying a phone with a fixed storage of just 16 gb. But other then moving stuff to dropbox and removing them from your phone I don't think there are many options.. At least not until usb-host comes to our phones You could also buy an mp3 player for music (and a camera for pictures and a handheld console for gaming xD )
soulcrusher said:
True, but that's the sacrifice you make when buying a phone with a fixed storage of just 16 gb. But other then moving stuff to dropbox and removing them from your phone I don't think there are many options.. At least not until usb-host comes to our phones You could also buy an mp3 player for music (and a camera for pictures and a handheld console for gaming xD )
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Lol then I might as well go back to my Nokia 3210 for a phone
I have no doubts that we will be able to repartition the storage in the near future.
But to be honest, even if we do we would only get like maybe 4GB more. Does this really make that much of a difference to you?
I mean compared to a 32GB microSD card this is pretty much no difference.
So far, I still have about 7GB free, so I am pretty fine how it is righ now.
Someone09 said:
I have no doubts that we will be able to repartition the storage in the near future.
But to be honest, even if we do we would only get like maybe 4GB more. Does this really make that much of a difference to you?
I mean compared to a 32GB microSD card this is pretty much no difference.
So far, I still have about 7GB free, so I am pretty fine how it is righ now.
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Well, after compressing my music (the bulk of my SD card) to 32kbit, 4GB can fit another ~3500 songs. So it's a huge difference! With the 32 GB card I had plenty of empty space to dump movies, but every MB helps
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Well, after compressing my music (the bulk of my SD card) to 32kbit, 4GB can fit another ~3500 songs. So it's a huge difference! With the 32 GB card I had plenty of empty space to dump movies, but every MB helps
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Wow doesn't that music sound like garbage at such a low bit rate ? The only music I keep on my phone is .FLACs @ 980-1200kbs, or .mp3s @320kbs.
USB HOST
soulcrusher said:
True, but that's the sacrifice you make when buying a phone with a fixed storage of just 16 gb. But other then moving stuff to dropbox and removing them from your phone I don't think there are many options.. At least not until usb-host comes to our phones You could also buy an mp3 player for music (and a camera for pictures and a handheld console for gaming xD )
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What about that?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1629134
Anyone with a rooted phone already tried it?
DNW666 said:
What about that?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1629134
Anyone with a rooted phone already tried it?
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Well... the obvious problem is that the One S does not supply power through the micro USB port so anything you plug in will have to get power from somewhere else. Hence, regardless whether it works or not it would not be particularly useful as you need an additional power source for the USB device, like a car charger or a wall charger, which basically throws mobility out the window. Chances are that if you're near an additional power source, i.e. a wall charger, you're also near a computer so there's no point to use a USB memory stick when you have a few hundred gigs available on the HDD of your computer...
On a similar theme I've installed Sygic navigation software. Once you install the app you then download a country map (UK in my case). Map is about 350mb and also installs approx another 400mb which I think is a one off and will be part of the program. This is all installed to sdcard partition and no choice is given (that I noticed). As I've plenty of room on data partition I wondered if there is a way to move/force sygic folder there? I'm guessing as a minimum root would be required. I'm not pushed for space on sdcard but every mb counts on the One S
As I wrote in another thread, I think the best (but costly and slightly cumbersome) way for us to live with only 9.xxGB without using GBs of data per months will be to rely on portable wifi storage. Lookup for Kingston Wi-Drive and Seagate Satellite Wireless drives.
I've had to make hard choices about what I'm keeping on my phone. I also had a 32GB microSD with tons of music, movies, videos, pics, apps, backups, CoPilot Live maps...
No way it's fitting now. I've had to decide what really *needs* to be on my phone and ax the rest. Would love to see a hardware mod for replacing the stock memory flash with a 32GB microSD... just sayin.
I am still extremely new to rooting and I have not yet even installed a Rom. However, my SGN10.1 wifi is now rooted. I installed Titanium Backup Pro and I saw that there was an option to backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. I figured that if I wasn't using one of these cloud services for my PC related activities, that I might as well make use of it for my Android related needs.
I further assumed that I might as well make use of the cloud, rather than first taking up storage space on my SD card. So a simple question: Is this a good approach for backing up or is there a good reason why I should also be using the available space on the external SD card?
Placing them on external SD would be better (along with a cloud backup if you prefer.)
I always do it on SD card itself as it is easy and I don't have to download / upload hundreds of mbs of data to cloud. If you have a good wifi connection and a reliable server, then do it on the cloud itself.
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I am still extremely new to rooting and I have not yet even installed a Rom. However, my SGN10.1 wifi is now rooted. I installed Titanium Backup Pro and I saw that there was an option to backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. I figured that if I wasn't using one of these cloud services for my PC related activities, that I might as well make use of it for my Android related needs.
I further assumed that I might as well make use of the cloud, rather than first taking up storage space on my SD card. So a simple question: Is this a good approach for backing up or is there a good reason why I should also be using the available space on the external SD card?
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the Mega storage seems to work good. I had trouble on the other ones figuring out how to upload a folder. Not the case with Mega EAZY PEAZY
zmanfarlee said:
the Mega storage seems to work good. I had trouble on the other ones figuring out how to upload a folder. Not the case with Mega EAZY PEAZY
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Since originally posting my question, I have installed different roms onto my Razr Maxx, as well as my Note 10.1. I have used the ext SD card for nano backup, however with Titanium, the cloud backup isn't so bad. The only other cloud settings that I see are for Dropbox and Google Drive, so I do not see how Mega can be used.
I am not familiar with Mega, but I just did some research about it and based upon what I read, I wouldn't be in a great hurry to use it. I do have plenty of storage with Dropbox (over 50 gb), as well as the availability of other cloud storage services. Then there is always the trusty USB cable to the PC.
I suppose that as long as we can keep our external backups organized, then nowadays it probably doesn't make that much of a difference where things are just as long as they are secure, safe, and reliable. Redundancy is also a great idea. I learned that years ago working for a large banking institution. The internal audit staff walked in unannounced one day and advised me that my department was under an unannounced systems audit and that I had to immediately put my backup systems into operation, which meant retrieving offsite rotating stored disk packs and driving 50 miles to the back up site. Fortunately everything worked! So it's not enough to just backup, you have to test it every so often too.
It only seems to backup some apps if that even. Do I need to do some other settings? Happens on all 3 cloud services.
Just letting my fellow Android owners know about a new cloud storage option, most similar to Dropbox but not unlike Box (minus the upload limit), Google Drive, SugarSync, etc.
As a limited time launch bonus, they're offering a 5GB bonus storage to who use a referral link.
It's as simple as click the link, sign up, confirm your email address, install the app to your phone or desktop and you're done.
Enjoy your 10GB FREE cloud storage.
Edit: Copy have responded to Google increasing users' storage across Google+, Google Drive etc and have decided to increase Copy users' storage to 15GB too. So forget 10GB, enjoy your 20GB
Storage does not expire!
Heres my link in case anyone wants to use it to sign up
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Heres my link in case anyone wants to use it to sign up
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I signed up using yours. However, there are so many "Dropbox alternatives" these days. I have 50GB on Box, 50GB on Dropbox, 20GB on Copy. It gets to the point where extra storage is useless.
Thanks, but I am from India and most cities still have bad Internet connectivity, or costly, seems providers here are still in stone age
you get crap speeds on expensive monthly cost, or the good ones are not in your town or to slap you more, not covering your place
so even If I have 50GB or 1TB of cloud space, I would get bankrupt to upload that much on costly Bandwidth.
However I would pass this to my peers if they are interested
Thanks flame for your link
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There's a thread in Off-topic for posting such referrals - please post thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840940
Hi everyone,
i recently bought a used Google Pixel for the unlimited photo storage. All my photos are usually saved on a FreeNAS network share using Samba / SMB. For now i am using Syncthing but that copies everything to the phone until it's full and has to pause but i'm a little concerned that filling and deleting the storage many times over will cause damage over time - and i would like to keep the pixel alive for as long as possible - decades at best.
So is there any way to mount an SMB share as internal storage within say the Downloads folder so that the Google Photos app can see that and upload directly?
I would really appreciate any help with this if anyone has any idea.
Best regards!
EDIT: I am currently on stock ROM Android 10 - not rooted. If root is required and Google Photos then still benefits from unlimited uploads, i would do that as well.