I've tried to move most of my apps to the ROM (system/apps) partition so that I can have more room for the media on the storage partition but some apps like music and poweramp don't seem to work.
Are there any guidelines to know which apps would work in this way?
I used a file manager to do this. Ghost Commander using root mode.
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I cant answer your question but i dont think you get any benefit to moving the apps from one place to another....
From this link....
With the unified storage model we introduced in Honeycomb, we share your full 32GB (or 16GB or whatever) between app data and media data. That is, no more staring sadly at your 5GB free on Nexus S when your internal app data partition has filled up -- it's all one big happy volume.
Im using AOKP ROM but not sure that matters.
I gained free space on internal and lost space on system as reported by TiBu . The low storage warning went away also.
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Some apps work some dont. I'm just moving APKs. Anything else to help apps that aren't working on the ROM partition?
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I'm not really grasping the point here.. I mean, most apps are only ~3mb or so. Is moving a few of them over to the /system partition really going to solve your storage issues? That's like one song per app transferred.
To each his own, I suppose.
But the storage is effectively all one partition... and the apps are so small...
Some apps like games are 10mb and even larger.
Yes there is not a lot to gain but I want to use the ~500mb free space on the ROM partition.
Those on Verizon might not care but 16GB is not much for the GSM version.
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rye&ginger said:
Yes there is not a lot to gain but I want to use the ~500mb free space on the ROM partition.
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Very true, I think it is ridiculous to put a permanent warning out if you still got 500Mb of free space. My Nexus One don't even has that much storage combined and only starts bugging me when at 20MB and less. I could live with the warning sign, but stopping synchronization with my services is a huge fail by the OS.
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I really want to get the inc2. But with the internal space being only what 2gb. How many apps can u install before u run into problems. I know u can have a 16 gb card. But all apps u can't move to sd. Even if u do some portion is still left on the internal. Well any feedback will help me make the move thanks.
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I really want to get the inc2. But with the internal space being only what 2gb. How many apps can u install before u run into problems. I know u can have a 16 gb card. But all apps u can't move to sd. Even if u do some portion is still left on the internal. Well any feedback will help me make the move thanks.
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It's 1gb and I have tons of apps..and most apps over 5mb can be moved to sd card.
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Do u have over 50 apps on ur device. I'm just trying to get and idea.
I've had about 80 apps and i still had space left. Like knipp said, you can move most apps to SD nowadays.
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Good thanks for the input
Here you go. This should give you a pretty good idea of the storage capabilities, couple of screenshots from my phone. 103 user apps I didn't realize I had that many
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no need to worry about internal storage. I would be more considered about sd card. Most people put their music and videos on the sd-card anyways. Plus you can expand it to up to 32gb. There aren't many that allow that.
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I really want to get the inc2. But with the internal space being only what 2gb. How many apps can u install before u run into problems. I know u can have a 16 gb card. But all apps u can't move to sd. Even if u do some portion is still left on the internal. Well any feedback will help me make the move thanks.
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I have over 260 apps including system apps and am only using about half of my internal space.
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Is there anyone test the speed of internal memory? Or know any tool to check it?
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For what do you need to know that?
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I would like to see if it's worth to move some data to the sdcard (by a2sd).
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I would like to see if it's worth to move some data to the sdcard (by a2sd).
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It is because of the severely limited internal storage. Asking that question the other way around has more sense - is it worth to move some data back on internal? Yes if you have a <class6 sd card.
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Thanks, I know it's limited... so we have to use a2sd.. what if I don't have many app... will the speed affected when i move out my data ? it improves or get worst ?
I just want to be sure, because no one had reported the speed of internal memory. For some a2sd, they move everything to sdcard which I don't know the outcome without knowing the speed of both side. One can try it out.. but knowing before doing experiment is good as well.
Looking at your rom, why don't you try Mounts2sd update?
I don't think there is a benchmark for internal memory anywhere. But without doubt
internal memory is faster than SD Card. Nonetheless, Class 6/10 won't normally have an effect on the phone. Depending what your transfer rates(read speed/write speed), it will almost be comparable to the internal memory speed performance.
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Is there anyone test the speed of internal memory? Or know any tool to check it?
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A1 SD Bench can test internal memory speed, as you can see from the screenshots
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I've been using DT-A2SD (Dark Tremor) app 2 SD. I'm satisfied enough. But, since it's not developed anymore, I'm looking for another alternative.
How good are those app 2 SD scripts? In my HTC WFS:
- DT-A2SD eats internal memory 126MB for 369MB SD-EXT (Dalvik cache is on SD-EXT). This makes 1:3 ratio.
What about INT2EXT+? It says the ratio is 1:5 *)
*) According to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716124, 100mb internal is needed for every 500mb sd-ext (INT2EXT+/INT2EXT4+)
Has anybody proven it? If the ratio (1:5) is true, I would be glad to migrate to INT2EXT+
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I've been using DT-A2SD (Dark Tremor) app 2 SD. I'm satisfied enough. But, since it's not developed anymore, I'm looking for another alternative.
How good are those app 2 SD scripts? In my HTC WFS:
- DT-A2SD eats internal memory 126MB for 369MB SD-EXT (Dalvik cache is on SD-EXT). This makes 1:3 ratio.
What about INT2EXT+? It says the ratio is 1:5 *)
*) According to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716124, 100mb internal is needed for every 500mb sd-ext (INT2EXT+/INT2EXT4+)
Has anybody proven it? If the ratio (1:5) is true, I would be glad to migrate to INT2EXT+
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I was wondering the same thing. I was always use to dta2sd and I like that there is an app to control it from the phone(Apps2sdGUI) but I see that no one here uses it.
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I finally use INT2EXT+ and sadly it doesn't work as expected. My ROM is often crashed on around 342MB (see the attachment). It think it's not a stable App2SD solution. It doesn't tell you when the internal memory is full. Sometimes, it tells you when trying to install an app. But sometimes, it simply crashed to notify you that your internal ROM is full.
I think DT-A2SD is better and more stable.
This is taken when using INT2EXT+ in almost full memory. The number of apps is almost as much as of using DT-A2SD.
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Hi guys,
I face this strange situation.
On my Galaxy S4 Mini (GT-i9195 android 4.2 version), when I go to Settings->More tab ->Storage, I can see what I have attached in the first screenshot. My free space is reported as 489mb....It is true that if I add the totals of each category spacing it sums app to this ammount.
However if I tap on Applications category in storage it transfers me to Application Manager. There initially, as soon as it opens it reports around 500 mb device memory free, but after some "per-app-scanning" which show the exacts space each app occupies, after about 10 seconds it shows 1.2 gb free device memory...
What is the deal here? If I have to guess I would say that there is some false storage reporting from the apps section about how much space they occupy... As soon as you enter the apps manager it recalculates and displays the correct amount. However the total in settings isn't updated...
Has anyone else got this issue, and how can it be solved?
Thanks.
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That is weird. Take a look at mine. Both say 4.6GB free. What does the storage tab under touchwiz 'Task Manager' say?
It also says 7.51/8.00 usage so about 490 as in storage settings...
However it is really strange that in the app manager it starts at 490 and as counting the space of each app it finally reaches 1.2 gb of free space....
I don't want to miss my extra 800mb of space!!!! hahahaha
mitsos1os said:
It also says 7.51/8.00 usage so about 490 as in storage settings...
However it is really strange that in the app manager it starts at 490 and as counting the space of each app it finally reaches 1.2 gb of free space....
I don't want to miss my extra 800mb of space!!!! hahahaha
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In the 1st pic u posted it says miscellaneous files occupy 1.22GB which could be what app management section confuses with:silly:. I may be wrong with my reasoning but it is certainly a weird issue.
I even roughly added all the apps size from the application manager and they sum up to approximately 2.5gb.....
So there must me something wrong with app storage calculation in storage settings..
Anyone?
So I kept running out of room, and decided to install link2sd.
I'm on cloudyg3 rom, with a 32gb Samsung sd.
I partitioned a 2nd part of sd card to around 10gb and ext4 for apps.
I put most apps and internal data (from pro version) onto sd to save space.
However my phone is now often REALLY slow and laggy , crashes, and I have to wait 5 mins to do stuff now.
Any advice?
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Is your uSD class 10? If not, it's going to slow things down. If it's a slow card, link apk's and those of apps that don't normally run (in background either)
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Is your uSD class 10? If not, it's going to slow things down. If it's a slow card, link apk's and those of apps that don't normally run (in background either)
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It's a class 10 one so I don't get it.
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i thought a phone with a 32gb internal storage doesnt need link2sd lol.
people use link2sd are mainly if their internal storage are less than 2gb
If you have Xposed you could use 'obb to sd' module to move large obb files to sd without partition. This won't slow the device.
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i thought a phone with a 32gb internal storage doesnt need link2sd lol.
people use link2sd are mainly if their internal storage are less than 2gb
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I've got a 16gb (5gb which is system apparently) and my phone often runs out of room saying it cant install any new apps
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I recommend you do not put all your apps on your sd card. Just put your games and / or other apps really big. SD cards aren't fast as the device's internal memory, no metter the class.
Then, things can get worse when you run several apps at once
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I recommend you do not put all your apps on your sd card. Just put your games and / or other apps really big. SD cards aren't fast as the device's internal memory, no metter the class.
Then, things can get worse when you run several apps at once
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Thanks! I've been moving back all the apps that constantly run in the background such as snapchat, facebook, whatsapp etc