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Missing Space?? (partly link2sd related)

I don't understand this.
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(IMG tag doesn't seem to work so see this link instead) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...9bQ3HKvY/s800/possible%20Android%20bug-01.png
If you look at the image above, my sgy-data (fat32) partition totals 843.8MB but the system reports 928.4MB used. Where did the 84.6MB go? Now that's ignorable…
But for my sgy-ext (ext3) partition that is linkd with link2sd, the total size of all the files is 246.7MB but the system reports 686.6MB used. A total of 439.9MB is missing! And that is not ignorable anymore.
In fact, if you look at the second image, according to link2sd, my sgy-ext partition is using up 601MB (as compared to 686.6MB reported by Linux, a difference of 85.6MB still in the range of 'ignorable' missing space).
(IMG tag doesn't seem to work so see this link instead) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...Kh4pphYo/s800/possible%20Android%20bug-02.png
My questions are:
1) What's happening? and Why?
2) What's with Android OS as compared to Linux? Or putting it another way, why can't Linux see what Android 'supposedly' sees? Assuming that Android is seeing something that Linux can't, which could explain the missing MBs.
3) If it isn't normal at all, what is the best way to reclaim those missing MBs without resetting and starting from scratch? This is like the last resort if all else fails (although I don't mind since for some weird reason, everytime I plug-in my SGY to Linux, it reboots automatically).
Other info:
1) Using stock ROM
2) Using LA1
3) Samsung Galaxy Y
4) Rooted
5) I use Link2SD
6) regular SD card partition is FAT32
7) SD card partition for Link2SD is ext3
8) and a little bit of story, see next:
I rebooted after installing an app yesterday, and for some weird reason all of the installed apps that exists in Link2SD partition disappeared even though the said partition was mounted properly. I checked Link2SD and yes, it was mounted at boot, Link2SD can read the said partition. However, this is where it starts to get weird - Link2SD can not see any of the apps.
When I check the storage via Link2SD's, it reports that I have "used" space in the partition. True enough, the apps were not deleted, it was just that, Link2SD or maybe the phone itself failed to read those apps. Could this be a Link2SD bug and not Android related?
I tried rebooting, remounting, soft restart, all to no avail. I ended up reinstalling everything. Then trying the relink lib and relink cache. Some successfully relinked, the rest did not.
Then rebooted to see if anything changed. Works fine. However nothing changed. Finally I cleared the "trash", those files that lost its connection to its respective apps (via Link2SD's options). Nope nothing, because as Link2SD reported, these trash files have a total of 0kB! All empty files.
I rebooted once more. And then the problem repeated again. Then I rebooted again, and the problem stopped… finally.
However, the missing space are still there.
As you can see in my screenshots above, I have "all hidden files shown" enabled. The total size of all files is too low compared to the "used" size, which I can not reconcile anyway I looked at it.
And that's where I need help or an explanation… Android, Link2SD, possible bug?
Or is this another case of base-10 and base-2 space naming? My Linux OS uses base-10, is Android and Link2SD using base-2? (ie MB vs. MiB)
Thank you very much.

Same Problem have you found a solution?
I am having this same problem now... except I'm missing 1.90GB after a botched install and i know it's there on the sd cause link2sd is showing that it's being used even though I haven't linked anything to it yet after a fresh install of everything even wiping my sd and recreating the fat32 and the ext2 the missing GB are still gone.
Has anyone figured out what is happening or how we can get it back?

[Q] Data.img bigger than 1 GB

I recently installed 4.3 MoKee ROM on my At&t's Atrix 2, System 3. Everything works flawlessly.
I'm a bit concerned about size of data.img partition, It's only 1 GB and BMM didn't allow me a greater size.
Is there any way to resize Data.img partition, to make it capable for more apps to be installed? 1 GB sooner or later will be an insufficient space.
Tnx in advance!

I have the same problem, but with PA. I'd love to see a solution.
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iNitrox said:
I recently installed 4.3 MoKee ROM on my At&t's Atrix 2, System 3. Everything works flawlessly.
I'm a bit concerned about size of data.img partition, It's only 1 GB and BMM didn't allow me a greater size.
Is there any way to resize Data.img partition, to make it capable for more apps to be installed? 1 GB sooner or later will be an insufficient space.
Tnx in advance!
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There is a 2000 mb option when u enter BMM click on it make sure u don't have too many systems coz there won't be enough space in the ROM...
Here is a screen shot .......
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Doesn't seem to be a problem for me ................
Just see if ur BMM recovery version is the same as mine 0.3.4..........

darth_nihar said:
There is a 2000 mb option when u enter BMM click on it make sure u don't have too many systems coz there won't be enough space in the ROM...
Here is a screen shot .......
Doesn't seem to be a problem for me ................
Just see if ur BMM recovery version is the same as mine 0.3.4..........
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Thanks darth_nihar!, in my case, when i try to create the 2000 mb partition for data.img, this is shown:
This will take some time
(fat32 don't support sparse file)
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Allocating disk space to image file..
Then, nothing more happens
I'm using System 3, all system/cache/data partitions are destroyed in System 4, 5, and 6.
System 2 is already 'activated'. BMM is v0.3.4
What I am doing wrong? Please help me!

iNitrox said:
Thanks darth_nihar!, in my case, when i try to create the 2000 mb partition for data.img, this is shown:
This will take some time
(fat32 don't support sparse file)
-
Allocating disk space to image file..
Then, nothing more happens
I'm using System 3, all system/cache/data partitions are destroyed in System 4, 5, and 6.
System 2 is already 'activated'. BMM is v0.3.4
What I am doing wrong? Please help me!
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Same exact problem. Something I found at least helps conserve space is I moved all the apps that I could to my SD card. This saved me about 500 mb of space, so like half.
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CreativeSin said:
Same exact problem. Something I found at least helps conserve space is I moved all the apps that I could to my SD card. This saved me about 500 mb of space, so like half.
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I think that there must be a solution for our problem,
Maybe we need install an earlier version of BMM,
or install those Roms on System 1 (I tried this but didn't work)
I hope somebody may help us!

[Q] Why Just 1Gb Of Data Partition?

Hi Guys! I know this is a question that many of you wondered, if in specs sensation is mentioned with four Gigabytes why we just got one?
I used Z test and search for memory on it, and look a this
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I wanna anybody explain me this. Seriously. What are those 2.25 Gigabytes doing there? Nothing, are not sytstem storage, are not cache partition, then, what that? I'd appreciate know it and another question, is there any tool or method to get this space into data partition?
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migui0401 said:
Hi Guys! I know this is a question that many of you wondered, if in specs sensation is mentioned with four Gigabytes why we just got one?
I used Z test and search for memory on it, and look a this
I wanna anybody explain me this. Seriously. What are those 2.25 Gigabytes doing there? Nothing, are not sytstem storage, are not cache partition, then, what that? I'd appreciate know it and another question, is there any tool or method to get this space into data partition?
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2.25GB is devided by data,system,cache some other minor partitions..That app just sums them up in a stupid way.
Just forget about it, you got what you got and there is no way for you to change it!

ivicask said:
2.25GB is devided by data,system,cache some other minor partitions..That app just sums them up in a stupid way.
Just forget about it, you got what you got and there is no way for you to change it!
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Is not just this app, i've seen it by other ways and that is not just data, sytem and cache partition. There are some others partition that app doesnt show apart of those 128 and 256 megabytes, if that MBs where doing something i would care about but are lost doing nothing.

migui0401 said:
Is not just this app, i've seen it by other ways and that is not just data, sytem and cache partition. There are some others partition that app doesnt show apart of those 128 and 256 megabytes, if that MBs where doing something i would care about but are lost doing nothing.
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if i remember well there is a fastboot command which shows you all partitions and their sizes
some partitions are completely empty

rzr86 said:
if i remember well there is a fastboot command which shows you all partitions and their sizes
some partitions are completely empty
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Yes, there are some partition lost that would give us some excellent extra space in our phone, the command is df and used in terminal in my phone and this is the result
This a big space lost, accepted or not. There is a proof.

migui0401 said:
Yes, there are some partition lost that would give us some excellent extra space in our phone, the command is df and used in terminal in my phone and this is the result
This a big space lost, accepted or not. There is a proof.
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AFAIK we can't repartition emmc as we want
i think it is impossible

migui0401 said:
Yes, there are some partition lost that would give us some excellent extra space in our phone, the command is df and used in terminal in my phone and this is the result
This a big space lost, accepted or not. There is a proof.
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There is NO space lost, those are "fake" partitions, just kernel mount points, try running same command when phone is not booted from recovery and it will show you real stats, also regardless of all of this we CANT re-partition Sensations nand even if we wanted...So discussion is pointless.

ZTE V970 - disabling internal sdcard problem

Hello there in forum
I have problem with disabling internal memory sdcard in ZTE V970.
I tryed to make everything in tutorial on SP flash tool and it diding worked.
After flashing the phone I got message "PMT changed"
Tryed flash disable internal memory .zip with CWM before reinstalling the ROM, no effect.
using ROM: 1.3 MOD
help me please, I cannot install any game from google play store, because there is "no space in memory"
on the memory setting i got 3 partitions:
- Internal memory (2,46 GB)
- Phone storage (54,97 MB)
- my SD 16 GB
EDIT: I found a solution
You just need the lewa_os_make_sdcard_internal_memory.zip installed via CWM after installing ROM, and the stupid tiny phone storage gone and You can install apps from google play store

Hi!
How can I not create a new thread. I will explain my problem in this thread.
as my mobile phone had only 500 mb I used ''disable_internal_sdcard.zip'' on ''SP Flash Tool''
and I
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but now no longer recognizes memory cards, this would not be a problem if some applications did not need external storage
can anyone help me solve this problem?

solution
ubidragoon said:
Hello there in forum
I have problem with disabling internal memory sdcard in ZTE V970.
I tryed to make everything in tutorial on SP flash tool and it diding worked.
After flashing the phone I got message "PMT changed"
Tryed flash disable internal memory .zip with CWM before reinstalling the ROM, no effect.
using ROM: 1.3 MOD
help me please, I cannot install any game from google play store, because there is "no space in memory"
on the memory setting i got 3 partitions:
- Internal memory (2,46 GB)
- Phone storage (54,97 MB)
- my SD 16 GB
EDIT: I found a solution
You just need the lewa_os_make_sdcard_internal_memory.zip installed via CWM after installing ROM, and the stupid tiny phone storage gone and You can install apps from google play store
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great solution! thanks

How do I enable my 64GB SD card on my ZTE Tempo X N9137 GrayJoyLite?
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Wilyo WT829/ZonnYou 829/UNIWA L829/LTE829 4G 8" phablet 1Gb RAM, 16Gb ROM, MTK6735m

Wilyo WT829/ZonnYou 829/UNIWA L829/LTE829 4G 8" phablet 1Gb RAM, 16Gb ROM, MTK6735m
Wilyo WT829/ZonnYou 829/UNIWA L829/LTE829 4G 8" phablet 1Gb RAM, 16Gb ROM, MTK6735m
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Hello guys!
I bought it at Aliexpress with super fake specifications:
Tablet Data Capacity: 64GB
Network Communiction: Built-in 3G,Bluetooth,Wifi,4G LTE,External 3G
Screen Size: 8"
Extend Port: 3G External,DC Jack,OTG,TF card,USB
Package: Yes
Supporting Language: English,Russian,Spanish,Swedish,Portuguese,Turkish,Italian,German,Chinese,French,Japanese,Polish,Ukrainian,Greek,Hebrew
Feature: GPS,Multi Touch,G Sensor,Phone Call,FM,OTG,Ultra Slim,Dual Cameras
Memory Capacity: 4GB
Operating System: Android 5.1
Display resolution: 2560x1600
Cell Capacity: 5000mah
Processor Model: mtk6752
Camera: 5.0MP*13.0MP
size: 12.2*21.0*0.9 CM
Well, when I received it at frirst I scan its specifications by specdevice.apk... And what I checked? I checked that at order list all specifications were fake! At real specifications are: Display size: 1280x800, processor: mtk6735m, processor cores: 4, RAM: 1Gb, ROM: 16Gb
Nice? I think too...
Of course I like some programs at android those need "root". So, I find this post and these sentences:
Root access
Usually Mediatek devices come rooted out of the factory with a SuperUser toggle to enable in the security settings, this device does not but I found a way to flash SuperSU using the stock recovery.
This process has been tested but it might soft brick your phone and, as of today, there is no FlashTool flashable rom that will recover a device from such brick state.
Anyway, if you feel brave enough, download this zip (please don't re-host it or alter the link as I would like to track down the download statistics) and copy it to your MicroSD card.
Power off the device and turn it on keeping VOL+ and Power until you see some tiny text.
Select the first option (Recovery mode), use VOL+ to navigate and VOL- to confirm.
Once booted to stock recovery select "apply update from sdcard" using VOL+/- to navigate and POWER to confirm, and select the zip file you copied to the MicroSD.
After the flash has completed you will be back to recovery's main screen and just select "reboot system now".
PS: this zip file should work with any MT67** device running a stock Mediatek recovery
PPS: DO NOT apply any incremental ota update after flashing the root zip, flash ONLY flash tool roms when and if they will be available
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Ok, I thought that I found cool info!!! And of course I thought that without "root" I can't create backup... It was my big mistake
After "rooted" I turned on my device at normal mode and I had only logo 4G
Now I know that the rooted process killed my system area
You know that at zip file SuperSU_Y100_Pro.zip there is scatter file with bad adresses:
Code:
cache 0x6b000000
userdata 0x84000000
but my correct adresses are
Code:
cache 0x9e000000
userdata 0xb7000000
So, if you buy the same device please before making anything with your system, please, create ROM's of your areas
I made this photo when I read logs files at "recovery mode"... The fist column is a start adress of some area, the second column is its length. So, you can create ROM's of all area by SP Flash Toll
If you are reading this post and you have this device, please, will link me your ROM of system area. I need it to repair my device... Maybe you can upload your ROM's at needrom.com or anywhere, but please help me to repair my device.
Big thanks and regards, dfgigger
Sorry for my bad english...

Well guys, hello!
Of course some people help me and I have the working device.
So if you need the ROMs of the device you can download it here: yadi.sk/d/FUZbL2SIm8P4D
And of course if you need the root you can make it to translate this post of at111: 4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=686534&view=findpost&p=45257858
Thanks...