Nexus One, Rooted, Cyanogenmod7, 4GB Sd card, Rom Manager, Titanium Backup Pro. S2E (simple2ext)
Awhile back I was out of internal memory for apps. I used Rom Manager to partition my SD card to add a 256mb ext3 partition, then used S2E to trick the os into thinking this partition is internal memory. It worked.
Soon enough, the 4GB card still wasn't big enough. Using Clonezilla, I cloned the 4gb card to image, then wrote the image to an 8gb card. I then used Gparted to expand the ext3 partition to just under 2 gb and expanded the fat32 partition to use the available space. This worked. This was an experiment as I have a 16 GB card I ultimately want to use.
While still on the 8gb card, I moved a couple of apps from SD back to internal. In S2E I checked the box regarding ext4 partition - I believe it changes the ext3 to ext4. Everything continued to work properly.
A few days later, I made the move to the 16gb card as follows:
I used Clonezilla to write the original 4gb image to the 16gb card and used Gparted to enlarge the partitions.
I put the card in the Nexus One and turned it on. It started up, but instead of LauncherPro (which I had set up before) ADB launcher started. Certain apps are missing such as Rom Manager (the Rom Manager Key is in the app drawer, but not Rom Manager. LauncherPro is missing. Google Play is missing. S2E is missing. Titanium Backup is there, but says it can't acquire root privileges.
Any advice on how to get this working again?
Thanks!
I think I may have figured it out. I went back to the 8gb card, started the phone, opened S2E and changed the settings back to the way I remembered them - unchecked the ext4 box and (and this may have been the culprit) unchecked the "Move application data". I had checked this while the 8gb card was in the phone. When I went back to the 4gb image that info was lost (because it had been moved to the 8gb sd card).
I also uninstalled a couple of apps I had installed on the 8gb card. I basically tried to return it to the way it was just after putting the original image on it.
I have a rooted unlocked galaxy s3 Verizon edition. My internal memory says it is full but when I look up under phone storage usage it says I only have 2 gigs of installed apps and various other things such as android os. But says I only have 500 megabytes remaining. Any ideas
Use a root explorer and check and internal sd card, most chances you just have a bunch of zips in the root for folder of your internal card
OR
You have made multiple backups to internal storage, if thats the case, just clean them up.
Madcat81 said:
Use a root explorer and check and internal sd card, most chances you just have a bunch of zips in the root for folder of your internal card
OR
You have made multiple backups to internal storage, if thats the case, just clean them up.
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Did that help you at all? I have the same problem. How do I know what should be in the root and what shouldn't be?
HELP! Internal Storage Full
Today I got an error that my internal Storage was full. SO I decided to go into recovery, wipe factory/reset. wipe cache and wipe dalvik. Then I installed the ROM again fresh and clean. Well after I get in there the damn thing only has 1 GB of space left. I am thinking that I didn't completely format the internal. Can anyone help me with this?
Much Thanks!
Shane
hi, im Geoff.
recently after flashing the stock 4.0.3 ICS firmware, flashing a old bootloader and using my own USB Jig and resetting
the flash counter for kernels, i finally flashed JellyBean 4.1.2 Original Firmware from Samsung. my mobile is Galaxy S2 i9100.
my problem is i recently bought a 16GB micro sd card and inserted it into my phone before i could install any app onto my phone.
then i installed few apps and games from the Google Play Store. then i noticed the external sd card have about 120 mb of used
memory. but i only had about 20 mb of data that i copied onto it that were certain zip files and nothing else. i noticed that when i install
any app, then go to applications and move to SD Card option [which previously copied apps to the internal SD Card/USB storage],
is now actually moving the apps to the External SD Card. So if I unmount the external SD Card or remove it, none of my installed apps appear.
My external SD Card is meant for songs and movies. I want my internal SD Card to store all my apps so that i can remove my External
SD Card when ever i want to and swap it or not use it at all.
I also removed the external SD Card and then installed a new app, then use the move app to SD Card option. I got a error message,
saying something like insufficient memory/space.
my doubt is, apps are trying to be moved to the internal sd card but because they cannot be moved, they are being copied to the
external sd card.
any help is appretiated. btw i have rooted my phone by doing the temporary update of CWM from the stock recovery using the update from
external card method. then i also installed SuperSU. so its rooted and i didn't have to flash a kernel to root.
[update] im gonna provide some new info here:
I have a Android folder in my Internal SD Card [sdcard0]
and ".android_secure" in my External SD Card [extSdCard]
/mnt contains
asec [software files stored on the internal memory/ not internal SD Card or sdcard0]
obb [empty]
secure/asec [software moved using move to sdcard option. these files get copied to the extSdCard and not the sdcard0]
.lfs
and the sdcard and extSdCard links.
If I remove my External SD Card and try to move apps to the Internal SD Card using the move to sdcard button in application settings,
I get the insufficient memory error.
Also when I use the move to SD Card button in Application Settings, it shows the file being moved to the USB Storage [which is supposed to be
the internal sd card or sdcard0], yet it actually is being copied into my external SD Card or extSdCard.
What apps/games?
A lot of app data is stored on SD card, whether the core files and executable are on the internal or not, so that may just be cache stuff etc... One way to check is to remove the SD card then try to run whichever apps, I am willing to bet they still run.
orangekid said:
What apps/games?
A lot of app data is stored on SD card, whether the core files and executable are on the internal or not, so that may just be cache stuff etc... One way to check is to remove the SD card then try to run whichever apps, I am willing to bet they still run.
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i use the move to sd card for most apps/games. apart from 1-2 apps that dont have that option, about 10 apps+games have the option to be moved to the SD Card. And i used that option. But I am positive they got copied to the External SD Card because after I remove the
External SD Card, all the apps disappear.
Also when i then try installing new apps to the phone and then try to move them again [without the external sd card in its slot],
i get the error message of insufficient space/memory.[i have 8GB+ empty space in the internal SD Card]
its really annoying me
TitanHack said:
i use the move to sd card for most apps/games. apart from 1-2 apps that dont have that option, about 10 apps+games have the option to be moved to the SD Card. And i used that option. But I am positive they got copied to the External SD Card because after I remove the
External SD Card, all the apps disappear.
Also when i then try installing new apps to the phone and then try to move them again [without the external sd card in its slot],
i get the error message of insufficient space/memory.[i have 8GB+ empty space in the internal SD Card]
its really annoying me
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Sounds like you have an option enabled in app settings to install all to SD, check your app settings in system settings.
orangekid said:
Sounds like you have an option enabled in app settings to install all to SD, check your app settings in system settings.
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I have gone through everything in settings. I cant find any option where I can actually select weather to install all to SD.
I appretiate you trying to help me out. I hope i find a solution to this problem.
Initailly I felt that it cound be some code causing the apps to move to the external sd card instead of the internal one. But after I got
the error message that I have insufficient space [with the external sd card removed ], even tho I have plenty of space, about 8GB+,
on the internal sd card...so I dont think this is due to any code somewhere pointing to install into the external SD card.
I read somewhere that when the internal sd card is full and no more apps can be installed, the new apps go to the external sd card by default.
Something like that is happening to me, except my internal sd card is fine.
I updated my first post with more info to help diagnose and solve the problem. ty to all trying to help me.
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I would back up the stuff you want from SD and from your ROM (to your computer), then go to recovery, full wipe + cache + dalvik, then format external SD, then reboot into system, then restore what you want.
orangekid said:
I would back up the stuff you want from SD and from your ROM (to your computer), then go to recovery, full wipe + cache + dalvik, then format external SD, then reboot into system, then restore what you want.
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hey man ty for not giving up on me ive not been well and then got so busy recently....
i did what you asked. i even accidently wiped the system folder from cwm recovery. it went into a boot loop or whatever it is called.
i re-flashed the official samsung jellybean firmware 4.1.2 on my i9100. then again cleant delvic + cache +used data. yet the problem
persists.
i noticed that the android folder is being created in the internal sd card. but that android folder has very small amount of the app
files stored on it. the major chunk is in android_secure which is only being stord on the external sdcard.
when i go to mnt folder in root i see two folders named asec and secure.
1."asec" contains apps stored on internal memory [not internal sd card]
and 2. "secure" contains a "asec" folder which stores app stored on the external sdcard.
i believe somewhere the code which should point the android_secure folder to the internal sdcard is pointing to store apps on the
external sd card. perhaps you guys can show me how i can change the folder path of android secure. then it will behave like
default, the way is was meant to behave.
You might need to repartition your system.
I'll see else we can come up with later today, in the mean time, try to maybe use TWRP instead and a different ROM
little more info
orangekid said:
You might need to repartition your system.
I'll see else we can come up with later today, in the mean time, try to maybe use TWRP instead and a different ROM
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when i click move to sdcard in the application settings/menu, it shows USB data filling up.
that USB data is supposed to be my USB drive or my Internal SD Card. And the external sdcard shows up
as 0 KB of data. But actually the files are being copied to the external sdcard and not internal.
now if we think the android system cannot access the internal sdcard, then thats not the matter because
it creates a folder named Android in the internal sdcard and stores the app cache there.
So to me it seems that the android system is confused and actually thinks that the android_secure folder is
mounted on the internal sdcard while it actually is mounted on the external sdcard.
perhaps anyone can link me a guide to move my android_secure folder...
TitanHack said:
perhaps anyone can link me a guide to move my android_secure folder...
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Facing this problem now.
TitanHack, did you found an answer?
I have flash a Custom ROM into my Cloudfone 430x and I notice that my Storage was not reading properly after, so I format my internal storage but the internal storage down from 1.9g to 98mb I check my files using the cwm and I still see the files on my internal storage I think the internal storage swap into something how can I fix this issue?
Hi guys. I just need a quick help. I flashed lineage os 14.1 on my xperia L. Everything is fine but storage. So xperia L has 8 GB internal storage. But after i flashed there is only 3.27 gb internal storage. And there is a portable storage name sdcard0 but it is not an sd card. It is like internal storage is devided. 3.27 gb is usable as internal storage, 4gb "sdcard0" cannot be used for installing apps, also apps like instagram load cache to sdcard0 and i can't wipe it. So help me merge those together and be able to use my 8gb internal storage please!
(Other SD CARD is an actual sd cart
ShouLie said:
Hi guys. I just need a quick help. I flashed lineage os 14.1 on my xperia L. Everything is fine but storage. So xperia L has 8 GB internal storage. But after i flashed there is only 3.27 gb internal storage. And there is a portable storage name sdcard0 but it is not an sd card. It is like internal storage is devided. 3.27 gb is usable as internal storage, 4gb "sdcard0" cannot be used for installing apps, also apps like instagram load cache to sdcard0 and i can't wipe it. So help me merge those together and be able to use my 8gb internal storage please!
(Other SD CARD is an actual sd cart
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first note that Xperia L has just 4GB of internal storage + 1.3GB system + 1.6GB data partition + 500MB cache +etc ( = 8GB in total).
then try clean installing the latest nightly version again to check if gets fixed. if it doesn't help, backup all of your files in internal sdcard and format it in recovery to check if that extra partition gets disappeared.
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Kungfu73 said:
first note that Xperia L has just 4GB of internal storage + 1.3GB system + 1.6GB data partition + 500MB cache +etc ( = 8GB in total).
then try clean installing the latest nightly version again to check if gets fixed. if it doesn't help, backup all of your files in internal sdcard and format it in recovery to check if that extra partition gets disappeared.
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Actually flashing stock os didn't fixed either. Sony is DUMB. 4gb internal storage can be used for apps but other 4gb can only be used for data (.obb files, media files,everything but not app). It is like phone has an extra internal sd card in it. When i install large games like 1.5 gb, 30-40 mb gets located in first 4gb part, and the rest is stored in other internal but external-ish sd card. Simply, phuck sony.