Hello,
I am from India and I just happened to read this thread. I have a few questions and I appreciate If you could answer them.
I purchased a new nexus 5 32 GB. Now, I am afraid to do rooting as it could void my warranty.
I would like to know how to install apps to the external storage. Since Nexus 5 comes without an sd card(sealed sd card). How do I access this sd card, becuase If I install any app. It just installs(currently, it tells 350mb and 26 GB free). Now, is this telling me that 350 MB is being used on sd card.
Secondly, where can I check the amount of RAM being used ?
Regards,
Avi
If you don't want to root, don't. As for your other question, I don't understand... There is no external storage. Unless you get an otg like meneevo but you can't install apps to that. Everything runs off the internal. 32 GB should be more than enough unless you install like 1000 apps...
sent from my hammerhead
Avin_in said:
Hello, I am from India and I just happened to read this thread. I have a few questions and I appreciate If you could answer them. I purchased a new nexus 5 32 GB. Now, I am afraid to do rooting as it could void my warranty. I would like to know how to install apps to the external storage. Since Nexus 5 comes without an sd card(sealed sd card). How do I access this sd card, becuase If I install any app. It just installs(currently, it tells 350mb and 26 GB free). Now, is this telling me that 350 MB is being used on sd card. Secondly, where can I check the amount of RAM being used ? Regards, Avi
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Here's an excellent thread about the N5's storage.
Some more info please
Hello,
Thanks for the reply. But I still have some doubts.
If I install any app from play store, By default, where it will install, in the internal 32 GB Memory or on the 2GB RAM ?
Because, my intention is that whatever apps I install, It should by default install in the 32GB internal storage and not on the 2GB RAM. How to do this ? If any screenshot helps, please let me know.
Regards,
Avi
they are installed in 32 gb not ram lololololo.....
Avin_in said:
Hello,
Thanks for the reply. But I still have some doubts.
If I install any app from play store, By default, where it will install, in the internal 32 GB Memory or on the 2GB RAM ?
Because, my intention is that whatever apps I install, It should by default install in the 32GB internal storage and not on the 2GB RAM. How to do this ? If any screenshot helps, please let me know.
Regards,
Avi
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Apps will only install on the phones memory and never the RAM. RAM means how many apps you can have open on the phone at one time (multitask). For example you can have Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Browser, etc all open at one time without the phone crashing or running sluggish. RAM is basically the towing capacity of a pick up truck.
The phone memory is basically a car trunk filled with groceries (data, pictures, videos, apps, etc). The larger the car trunk, the more groceries you can put in it before you run out of storage and have to put it in the back seat/front seat (external SD or OTG).
In short, you have 32gb and all your apps will be downloaded ONLY to the 32gb.
sent from my neXus 5
unlock and root
Hello,
If it is that all the apps will be downloaded to 32 GB internal memory, then why would anybody use link2sd apps, because the main intention is that nothing goes to phone memory(2 GB) and all of them goes to 32gb internal memory. I believe that link2sd apps is probably not for nexus 5 phone at all and only for other smart phones.
One thing, I would like to tell is that I downloaded the link2sd app(hoping that this could increase the phone performance). Here, when I launch the app, for few apps, it tells that the app can be moved and tells that symbolic link is not found ? Does this make all sense what I am saying ?
What is your take on this ?
Regards,
Avinash
Avin_in said:
Hello,
If it is that all the apps will be downloaded to 32 GB internal memory, then why would anybody use link2sd apps, because the main intention is that nothing goes to phone memory(2 GB) and all of them goes to 32gb internal memory. I believe that link2sd apps is probably not for nexus 5 phone at all and only for other smart phones.
One thing, I would like to tell is that I downloaded the link2sd app(hoping that this could increase the phone performance). Here, when I launch the app, for few apps, it tells that the app can be moved and tells that symbolic link is not found ? Does this make all sense what I am saying ?
What is your take on this ?
Regards,
Avinash
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Link2sd is not for our phone. Its for phones that support external SD. We have internal SD and no external SD (micro SD slot)! Delete Link2sd and enjoy your phone. Don't worry about storage space. You should have more than enough storage space unless you download a lot of songs, movies etc. I have over 200 songs on my phone and I have a lot of storage left! I have the 32gb model also.
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Unlocking and Rooting
Hello,
Thanks for all the reply. All my answers are answered pretty well.
What I understand is unlocking and rooting is required only when custom roms and link2sd need to be installed, As far as Nexus 5 is concerned, would unlocking and rooting help as already I am running kitkat 4.4 latest build.
Also, I have some queries related to apps, would you mind If I post it here or I should create a different post.
Regards,
Avi
You cannot use link2sd as there's no sd slot so no, root will not help.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
Avin_in said:
Hello,
Thanks for all the reply. All my answers are answered pretty well.
What I understand is unlocking and rooting is required only when custom roms and link2sd need to be installed, As far as Nexus 5 is concerned, would unlocking and rooting help as already I am running kitkat 4.4 latest build.
Also, I have some queries related to apps, would you mind If I post it here or I should create a different post.
Regards,
Avi
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There is much more than link2sd which requires root, link2sd is used on phones with almost very less internal memory so no use on nexus 5..….if u are newbie just keep ur phone stock and read and carefully understand about rooting and unlocking from xda and later you can try them
Hi Devs
I'm using D838 model, and see only 9.8GB of 16GB available to user
I dont want to root the phone as it voids warranty, i've few question
1. is there a way to increase user available memory without rooting?
2. can i format internal memory via desktop PC, will i loose OS?
3. what apps are not usefull, how to remove bloatware apps?
plz help me in this regard, thanks in advance
arunmohite said:
Hi Devs
I'm using D838 model, and see only 9.8GB of 16GB available to user
I dont want to root the phone as it voids warranty, i've few question
1. is there a way to increase user available memory without rooting?
2. can i format internal memory via desktop PC, will i loose OS?
3. what apps are not usefull, how to remove bloatware apps?
plz help me in this regard, thanks in advance
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You can't do that!
Just buy a SD card if you find that the internal storage is not enough, just likes everyone does!
On the hint side, you should have bought the 32GB version if it is available in your country.
Got this phone recently from tracfone. great phone for the price. Small internal storage, 8GB but after all the system stuff more like 3gb. So this leads me to my problem. I'm still an android noob didn't know how SD cards worked with
Internal storage thought apps would just install to it, but it seems I was wrong. So I did some researching it seems android 6.0 lets you use the sd card as internal storage. This phone came with 5.1. Then I started to look into rooting the phone and getting a rom of 6.0 put on it. I soon found out this phone is like the red headed step child of ZTE phones. No official support, the phone isn't even on the ZTE website. Cant find any custom roms for it. So im stuck I like the phone Its just hard to work with that limited of internal storage for apps. Any help would be appreciated.
XDA Visitor said:
Got this phone recently from tracfone. great phone for the price. Small internal storage, 8GB but after all the system stuff more like 3gb. So this leads me to my problem. I'm still an android noob didn't know how SD cards worked with
Internal storage thought apps would just install to it, but it seems I was wrong. So I did some researching it seems android 6.0 lets you use the sd card as internal storage. This phone came with 5.1. Then I started to look into rooting the phone and getting a rom of 6.0 put on it. I soon found out this phone is like the red headed step child of ZTE phones. No official support, the phone isn't even on the ZTE website. Cant find any custom roms for it. So im stuck I like the phone Its just hard to work with that limited of internal storage for apps. Any help would be appreciated.
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Greetings,
Thank you for using XDA Assist.
Please create an XDA account so you can post in other sections.
Then you can ask the experts here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help
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Hi there,
I'd like to ask for your kind help.
Info
Device: d402 (Navon Mizu D402)
OS: Android KitKat 4.4.2
Originally NOT rooted
Memory (device I internal) 1,27 GB
Rooted (soft break) by Kingo Root, SU by Kingo Root
SDHC Maxell 16GB class 10 (32GB can be extended).
Used apps: Force2SD
QUESTION: there is not an app that would show me apps are forced to SD.
Only music and audio files are shown.
It seems that although there are 450GB free memory is available in the device
it seems that phone counts SD used memory taken by apps as it was used by device in its own inner memory,
so device randomly reboots itself.
Is it possible to see apps on SD?
File Manager counts MBs are used by photo and audio files too only.
Although I rooted phone and able to move apps to SD device randomly restarts itself.
Thanks for your kind help in advance!
Hope to hearing from you soon!
Brgds,
Nika
XDA Visitor said:
Hi there,
I'd like to ask for your kind help.
Info
Device: d402 (Navon Mizu D402)
OS: Android KitKat 4.4.2
Originally NOT rooted
Memory (device I internal) 1,27 GB
Rooted (soft break) by Kingo Root, SU by Kingo Root
SDHC Maxell 16GB class 10 (32GB can be extended).
Used apps: Force2SD
QUESTION: there is not an app that would show me apps are forced to SD.
Only music and audio files are shown.
It seems that although there are 450GB free memory is available in the device
it seems that phone counts SD used memory taken by apps as it was used by device in its own inner memory,
so device randomly reboots itself.
Is it possible to see apps on SD?
File Manager counts MBs are used by photo and audio files too only.
Although I rooted phone and able to move apps to SD device randomly restarts itself.
Thanks for your kind help in advance!
Hope to hearing from you soon!
Brgds,
Nika
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Hi and welcome to XDA.
Try posting your query in:
> Android Development and Hacking > Android Q&A,Help and Troubleshooting.
You'll have to create an account to post in the main forums.
Good luck
HUAWEI GR3 2017 (PRA-LX2)
Android 7.0
EMUI 5.0
Internal Memory: 16GB
So at first I don't have any problem with my phone but as time goes by here comes its weakness, its internal memory running low. Every time I need an app to be downloaded I need to uninstall app/s in exchange of the new one. In my case I don't want that kind of process, in short I want many apps on my phone. So I bought an sd card (128GB CLASS 10) because I saw a solution here in XDA. A solution of partitioning the sd card using its half memory to be an internal of my phone to increase it to have more apps but unfortunately it didn't work I don't know why. I didn't want to root my phone because of some issues of bricking it. This partitioning don't required rooting. I gave up and tried to root my phone because I saw some video on youtube using apps like "App2SD". Again, rooting doesn't work on my phone so I can't use that app. One more thing in the settings of my phone, when I go to apps then storage, I can't find the option of moving the app/s on sd card. Sorry one more thing is my phone can't reformat the sd card as an internal memory. Please help me, give me all your knowledge about this. I hate running low on memory. Thanks in advance!
NOTE: I tried rooting using Kingroot and Kingoroot (Android not PC version) only. I haven't tried the PC versions.
xandrobalondo said:
HUAWEI GR3 2017 (PRA-LX2)...
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I don't have this device but, you may be able to obtain some member guidance within the following thread.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3433527
Good Luck!
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