Hello to everyone!
Like many other Moto G users (especially those that have 2013 8GB model), I'm in trouble with the low space issue: I have stored like 1,5GB of photos/video and I have installed at the moment 63 apps, between default ones and someone downloaded by me, which in total they occupy about 2,8GB . As you may know, since the capacity of internal storage is approximately 5GB I'd like to gain more free space without deleting photos, video or any other personal data, so I was wondering if it's possible to install apps on USB OTG devices, or at least find a way to let the apps recognize as OBB data path the external usb storage. I've read on the Nexus' section of xda-forum (this link) that it's possible under specific circumstances... Can it be the same for Moto G? I still haven't tried it because I'm willing to buy a pendrive, with dual connection USB/microUSB, as soon as possible.
Otherwise, can anyone suggest me a better memory management system? At the moment I have the original ROM (EU 4.4.4) not rooted waiting for the Lollipop OTA update
Thanks in advance to everyone who reads this,
have a nice day!
I was also wondering the same.
Unfortunately found nothing.
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I purchased a sprout cubby for my 3year old for Christmas im having an issue with the sd card... it seems the onboard drive was partitioned making the the second partition an internal sdcard my issue is this that partition is only 6gb of space and after only installing a handful of apps there is no space left for anything else.. id like to be able to move to apps to my 16gb external sdcard is there a way to do this eith by possibly dismounting the second partition or so other way I would prefer not to have to root the device at all as it will only be my 3 year olds tablet... this is the perfect device for her but I hate the lake of space...
please help!!!
Hi,
Unfortunately some of these tablets are a bit deceiving. They are advertised to have a specific amount of memory. However that does not take into account the amount of memory allocated towards system. But to only have 6 g off the bat seems a bit odd. There should be at least 10.
Now I also was unable to find anything relevant to your question for that device. It's not a common tablet for people who tinker. You can post your question here if you wish. However I truly do not think there is or will be a confirmed rooting method for this device.
Good luck!
markbencze said:
Hi,
Unfortunately some of these tablets are a bit deceiving. They are advertised to have a specific amount of memory. However that does not take into account the amount of memory allocated towards system. But to only have 6 g off the bat seems a bit odd. There should be at least 10.
Now I also was unable to find anything relevant to your question for that device. It's not a common tablet for people who tinker. You can post your question here if you wish. However I truly do not think there is or will be a confirmed rooting method for this device.
Good luck!
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There is about 40 some episodes and music videos pre installed that eats up most of the storage... I attempted to move these files to the external sdcard but after trying 17 some file manager apps non could move Any files to the external drive.. not sure what I'm doing wrong
todivine said:
There is about 40 some episodes and music videos pre installed that eats up most of the storage... I attempted to move these files to the external sdcard but after trying 17 some file manager apps non could move Any files to the external drive.. not sure what I'm doing wrong
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Unfortunately that's part of a security feature in Kitkat. However this thread may be of assistance to you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2724430
Hello, this is my first post on this device's forum, I've had my first gen Moto G for like a month now, great phone, the only problem it has is it's lack of external sd storage, but I knew that when I got it, the problem is, and I think is an Android problem more than the device's fault, when there's around 500Mb storage left in the phone, it won't let me install any apps, nor with the store or manually, so my question is: Is there any way to lower the limit before the not enough storage message appear? The only method I knew of was using Link2SD, but since there's no external sd on Moto G, I wonder if there's another way to increase the amount of apps I can install on my phone, which by the way, I haven't unlocked or rooted yet, because I wanna do it after the Lollipop upgrade comes out, thank you for reading and helping me .
If you have a lot of media on the phone, you might free enough space temporarily by clearing the gallery thumbnails. Delete all files in /DCIM/thumbnails. They will get rebuilt over time or at the next reboot.
Hello,
I own device JIAYU G5S+ the other name of it is probably Elephone p6i.
I am not using any external SD card. The storage of this device should be 16GB of memory. When the amount of application reaching approximetly 1.4 GB of space I got several errors also I am unable to capture any photos neither videos which is annoying.
I've tried factory reset, deleting catche and it had no effect. Deleting photos is useless too. Also I can't install more applications. I have no clue whats going on with.
Thanks for your advices.
Adding some screenshots.
PLEASE HELP!:crying:
no ideas? noone?
If you really read about the fake JIAYu G5S+ so if you knew that the data on the mobile are fake. Does the rom 16 gb,but only 4 .And therefore, you after crossing the free space it reports an yourself.The operating system of the a lot of takes itself + something on the run and on the phone memory remains 1 gb.Buy some external memory.
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If you really read about the fake JIAYu G5S+ so if you knew that the data on the mobile are fake. Does the rom 16 gb,but only 4 .And therefore, you after crossing the free space it reports an yourself.The operating system of the a lot of takes itself + something on the run and on the phone memory remains 1 gb.Buy some external memory.
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Is there another ROM which shows the real memory and so?
Hello, Z3 users! I am willing to buy one of the Z3 variants but I can't find one information which is really important for me. On my Xperia T, I have only a 2GB partition for apps (apk and data) and on Lollipop it is really hard to have just a few apps installed and not to have a low memory notification even if most of the apps are moved to external SD card. Both phones have 16GB of internal memory but I can't find ANY information about a partition specifically for user apps on any Z3 variant. I had Z3D in my hands with 4.4.4 installed but when I tried to check how much space is for "Downloaded" apps, it showed ~900MB used and ~11GB free... On my Xperia T, on CM11 but also on 4.3 it was showing ~2GB of total space for downloaded apps... So it seems I can even have 7GB of apps installed on Z3 and it won't show "Memory low"? That'd be great, I won't be waiting for Z4... I am confused...
So is the user apps space and internal memory literally joint together or what?
Thanks in advance!
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Total you have about 11GB available, warning comes when 75% are full. On Lollipop you can move apps to SD natively so storage should not be really a problem.
True, but what also is true is that after every reboot the moved apps are not totally functional for at least ten seconds.
Thanks, so it's totally different than on my device. Thank you!
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Hey guys,
I would like to buy 16GB version, but it's on long delay on Moto site and I need to ship this phone to my nieces in Ukraine by the end of August. So I bought 8GB version from Amazon to play with it and see how it works and really love the phone. The storage is the only sour point. 8 GB just does not cut it and Moto does not allow to use SD card storage for app installation. Moving apps to SD card works only for some apps and even then most of the storage being used is Internal, so 3-4 large games and this phone would be out of storage.
Is there is a way to force apps to install fully to SD card? Root + App2SD maybe? I do not have much experience with rooting and would like to avoid it, if possible due to desire to stay on OTA updates schedule.
Any advise?
To be honest rooting is your best bet for an optimal experience. I'm using CM and this phone can move more apps of you install the smaller version of google apps if it is really a big problem your only bet is to order the 16 and wait.
Transfer app to SD Card to free up space
Currently, there seems no tool can help you to move apps to SD card to free up space, but there indeed tools can be used to transfer photos, pictures, music,videos, contacts etc. to the SD card. If you are interest in it, you can read some tutorial for help
Transferring music and photos works wonderfully. And Google Play Music as well as Google Photos supports saving files on SD Card as default which makes it even easier to manage your storage. The apps though is a huge issue. I installed yesterday Walking Dead and it ate more then 1GB of storage of the puny 3GB available out of the box. Add here the app cache as well as storage required to do OTA updates and you really will struggle to install any large apps on the phone without running in 'out of memory' error messages.
The phone is wonderful otherwise - light, bright screen with excellent auto-dimming, good speaker and even better camera, responsive, waterproof (yes, I tested ), pure Lollipop Android experience , etc. etc.