I currently have a Nook Color. It's an older one, had it for like a year and a half. It has 1g of internal memory(as far as I am able to tell from within settings). When I read about the newer Nooks they all say they have 8gb of internal storage and 16 million colors. Mine I do not think has that many colors because any colorful pictures look horrible. Do the newer Nooks have more on board storage for apps and better screens? Because if they do I may well buy one and give my mom my old Nook. Are they still easy to convert to CM7/9? I have googled this in every way I can think of and cannot find an answer! Please help
The new ones are called the nook tablet. There's a section on xda devoted to them. They are harder to root.
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Mine originally had firmware version 1.0.0 It doesn't get much older than that. A NC has 512M of RAM memory, the workpad, and 8G of flash memory, the harddrive. Of that 8G, 2 is reserved and we can't touch it. In your case, you have 1G available to install programs, (like Word or Quicken only for Android), to. The remaining 5G is where you store things like movies, music and ebooks.
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Hi Landara, all Nook Colors have 8GB of internal memory. However, not all of that is available to you. As MISRy mentioned 2GB is used by the OS, 1GB is used by the system for apps and the remaining 5GB is available for whatever you want to put on there giving you the total of 8GB. You also have the option of adding more memory by using a micro SD card which come in many sizes from 1GB to 32GB.
It is strange that you have horrible pictures. The Nook Color has a beautiful screen and it is one of the best on all tablets. You should have sharp, clear, detailed pictures with nice colors. Might need to get a little more info there to see what your issue might be.
As far as loading CM7/CM9 the Nook Color is extremely easy to convert. Not only can you replace the stock OS on the internal memory with CM7/CM9 if you want you can leave the internal memory completely stock and run CM7/CM9 from a bootable micro SD card. Boot up without the card and you will have the stock Nook Color. Boot up with the card inserted and you will have a CM7 or CM9 tablet.
The Nook Color is one of the most flexible and easiest tablets to work with.
The "new" version of the Nook Color is called the Nook Tablet. It comes in either 8GB or 16GB internal memory sizes and with a dual core processor. The 16GB model also comes with 1GB of RAM where the 8GB and Nook Color both have 512MB of RAM.
The Nook Tablet is slightly more complicated to modify but not much. Though the risk is a little higher so is the performance. The screen is the same on both the Nook Color and the Nook Tablet.
I hope this helps and strongly suggest you go for CM7 or CM9 on your Nook Color to see what it can really do
JP
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Hi Landara, all Nook Colors have 8GB of internal memory. However, not all of that is available to you. As MISRy mentioned 2GB is used by the OS, 1GB is used by the system for apps and the remaining 5GB is available for whatever you want to put on there giving you the total of 8GB. You also have the option of adding more memory by using a micro SD card which come in many sizes from 1GB to 32GB.
It is strange that you have horrible pictures. The Nook Color has a beautiful screen and it is one of the best on all tablets. You should have sharp, clear, detailed pictures with nice colors. Might need to get a little more info there to see what your issue might be.
As far as loading CM7/CM9 the Nook Color is extremely easy to convert. Not only can you replace the stock OS on the internal memory with CM7/CM9 if you want you can leave the internal memory completely stock and run CM7/CM9 from a bootable micro SD card. Boot up without the card and you will have the stock Nook Color. Boot up with the card inserted and you will have a CM7 or CM9 tablet.
The Nook Color is one of the most flexible and easiest tablets to work with.
The "new" version of the Nook Color is called the Nook Tablet. It comes in either 8GB or 16GB internal memory sizes and with a dual core processor. The 16GB model also comes with 1GB of RAM where the 8GB and Nook Color both have 512MB of RAM.
The Nook Tablet is slightly more complicated to modify but not much. Though the risk is a little higher so is the performance. The screen is the same on both the Nook Color and the Nook Tablet.
I hope this helps and strongly suggest you go for CM7 or CM9 on your Nook Color to see what it can really do
JP
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Thanks, I have always used CM7 on my Nook, it's great. The colors are just poor though. It looks exactly like if you have 256 colors turned on in windows and tried to view a more colorful image(though of course not nearly as bad just the same type of distortion). I am not sure why.
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Thanks, I have always used CM7 on my Nook, it's great. The colors are just poor though. It looks exactly like if you have 256 colors turned on in windows and tried to view a more colorful image(though of course not nearly as bad just the same type of distortion). I am not sure why.
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What version of CM7 are you using? That is definitely not right. You should get images like this.
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7.1. Been using it a while. But I have had this issue with any OS I Have tried.
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7.1. Been using it a while. But I have had this issue with any OS I Have tried.
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I'm wondering if you have a bad screen.
http://db.tt/KTlQQUt3
This is what I mean.
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What version of CM7 are you using? That is definitely not right. You should get images like this.
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Sorry to hijack this thread, but what theme is that for CM?
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Is it 8GB for os + apps and 8GB for media? Or maybe a new file system with Gingerbread that does not allow USB mass storage but all 16GB for os + apps + media?
It's most likely 1-2gb for apps and the rest for /sdcard/ this is how the Vibrant is.
You'll never fill up 2gb worth of apps...
So we are probably looking at roughly 14gb of available data stock? That's not that bad after all, most people are dealing with a 16gb microSD anyways. At least this will be faster... they should have made it 32gb or at least have the option... my heart is broken to have no removable storage (almost a deal-breaker)
It's not too terrible honestly. It's fully accessible when plugged into a PC. It's simply an internal SD card... Just copy the files off if you want them moved. No huge deal imho. Not that I wouldn't have preferred it to be external (bought a new 16GB class 4 for nothing)
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It's most likely 1-2gb for apps and the rest for /sdcard/ this is how the Vibrant is.
You'll never fill up 2gb worth of apps...
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Developers cite the lack of app memory as a reason why they don't port games to Android. I'm disappointed Google hasn't addressed this issue yet beyond Apps2SD, which only moves part of programs.
As a comparison, on my late iPhone 3G, I filled up 2GB in apps in a couple hours. Myst alone was around 700-800MB.
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Developers cite the lack of app memory as a reason why they don't port games to Android. I'm disappointed Google hasn't addressed this issue yet beyond Apps2SD, which only moves part of programs.
As a comparison, on my late iPhone 3G, I filled up 2GB in apps in a couple hours. Myst alone was around 700-800MB.
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Err what? That's the point of the SD Cards. It is very easy for an game to download it's resources onto the SD Card... I own an iPad. Android and iPad do things differently. Both approaches work.
The Nexus S actually has two flash parts -- 512MB of onenand and 16GB emmc. The onenand hosts the bootloader, kernel/ramdisk, radio firmware, and the cache partition (yaffs2). The emmc part hosts /system (ext4), /data (ext4), and /sdcard (vfat).
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I believe the /data partition which holds the apps(AFAIK) is about 1 GB from the screenshots.
very disappointing that over a year after the moto droid launches, we have moved to internal storage (which should give more room for more memory) and we are still stuck at 16gb
The galaxy S line works like this:
2GB /Data partition for apps
13GB /sdcard partition that acts exactly like an SD card.
The extra missing 1GB is most likely the system storage.
The storage for app is about 1GB. See screenshot from Engadget :
http://www.engadget.com/photos/google-nexus-s-hands-on/#3644046
See screenshot no. 45.
There you go, happy?
I think I am fine with it. Right now I am using HTC Desire with its pathetic 40MB storage for app. So, 1GB is a huge upgrade for me
Check Engadget, they explain that apps can be placed in the internal extra space to substitute for the lack of SD card, still not great but at least you know Google knew this would be an issue, and fixed it. Honestly, the market is full of great 3d games, if I were to download all of the great 3d games in the market, I would still have enough space on the device for my 5 gigs of music, they don't take that much space.
Well not only you lose external SD you also lose 1GB of internal application storage
GalaxyS has 2GB free of application storage
Nexus S only has 1GB
Seriously dont get all these cut backs
BTW the 13GB is same on both phones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IegTiCa6RTQ
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Honestly, I would like it customizable. Like in a OS on a PC you can resize partitions with relative freedom. I would like to delegate what I want to app storage and general storage.
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Honestly, I would like it customizable. Like in a OS on a PC you can resize partitions with relative freedom. I would like to delegate what I want to app storage and general storage.
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You use to be able to do that on windows mobile back in the day
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You use to be able to do that on windows mobile back in the day
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You can on the hero CDMA with firerat's mod
demo23019 said:
Well not only you lose external SD you also lose 1GB of internal application storage
GalaxyS has 2GB free of application storage
Nexus S only has 1GB
Seriously dont get all these cut backs
BTW the 13GB is same on both phones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IegTiCa6RTQ
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would of rather the 2GB to be on the safe side, but 5 times the space of the nexus one sounds pretty damn good to me.
just formatted it with EASYUS to FAT32 and it works. Copied my 32gb content over and did not even have to redo my home screens. I also partitioned it to use with link2sd but have not yet tried out linking any apps.
Sweet dude where did you find one of them? I've been looking but no go so far
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well done...
any screenshot, to confirm...
i'm going to buy it, if it really works....
thanks...
I bought from play.com directly and it works. I saw them on amazon.co.uk cheaper but the one from amazon says 2-4 weeks delivery and the one from their market place third party i did not want to take the risk with. I can do the screenshot later but I promise you it works. I made it into two partitions now one FAT32 and another ext2 for link2sd and started moving some apps incl data and library files to get more internal space. so far a did only a couple of apps and after reboot it shows more free internal memory but I want to do more to see proper effect. will report on that later.
SDHC or SDXC?
Ok, we'll wait for it, can you show us also the storage info screenshot of your link2sd, I just wanna see how you did that 2 partition, mine has ext2 only..
Link2sd screen
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And settings storage one
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SDHC or SDXC?
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Sdxc but adapter says sdhc. By SanDisk. Hope it helps.
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Wow, I had a 64gb card laying around somewere, will try it later.
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And settings storage one
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hwowowo ,i can't really imaging . . . .the Xperia Play can use 64Gb micro SD ,really impressive . . .maybe in early time i must by 64 GB for my PLAY ,good thank for you
Forgive me for not really understanding this thread, but a few questions:
Why is it so amazing that a 64gb SD card works? Why wouldn't a 64gb SD card work? Is this likely to only work with certain brands or certain phones? If I get a sandisk 64gb SD card should I expect any problems?
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Forgive me for not really understanding this thread, but a few questions:
Why is it so amazing that a 64gb SD card works? Why wouldn't a 64gb SD card work? Is this likely to only work with certain brands or certain phones? If I get a sandisk 64gb SD card should I expect any problems?
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The Xperia Play is listed as only having an SDHC MicroSD port. SDHC officially, only supports up to 32GB per the specifications. The newer SDXC specification supports capacities up to 2TB.
That said, I think the OP poster should use one of the the free testing apps in the market like SD Card Tester, etc. to try filling up the card with real data. I've often seen cases of cards reporting more capacity than they can actually hold/access and errors may not occur until you try to actually fill up the space with real data despite the reported capacity from the OS appearing ok. This is especially common with Chinese e-bay sellers, etc. selling mislabeled memory cards that start giving errors when you start filling them up.
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That said, I think the OP poster should use one of the the free testing apps in the market like SD Card Tester, etc. to try filling up the card with real data. I've often seen cases of cards reporting more capacity than they can actually hold/access and errors may not occur until you try to actually fill up the space with real data despite the reported capacity from the OS appearing ok. This is especially common with Chinese e-bay sellers, etc. selling mislabeled memory cards that start giving errors when you start filling them up.
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I know what you mean that's way did not even wont to buy from marketplace amazon sellers just in case they had fakes for some reason. I have filled it with the content of almost full 32GB card and did not have any problems yet - most fake cards are much smaller capacity than 32gb so I don't think I will have a problem.
tmovids said:
Forgive me for not really understanding this thread, but a few questions:
Why is it so amazing that a 64gb SD card works? Why wouldn't a 64gb SD card work? Is this likely to only work with certain brands or certain phones? If I get a sandisk 64gb SD card should I expect any problems?
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The reason I was so amazed is that I asked people on the forum here and was told it would not work above 32GB but it does. Someone on the tablet did the same thing with 128GB SD card but not micro form factor. So now we know and I hope it helps someone who like me before was not sure if it would work.
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I know what you mean that's way did not even wont to buy from marketplace amazon sellers just in case they had fakes for some reason. I have filled it with the content of almost full 32GB card and did not have any problems yet - most fake cards are much smaller capacity than 32gb so I don't think I will have a problem.
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Try going over 32gb with data and see what happens when trying to read it back. The free SD card tester in the market can make it very easy..slide the slider to the right and see how it does.
https://market.android.com/details?id=air.com.anotherflexdev.sdcardtester.SDCardTester
thanks for the screenshot you provided...
again question...
any lag with HD games?
I find it faster but it could be because I also started using app2sd and now have more internal memory. I used to get force close/wait messages before even in settings and play launcher menus and my low on space message would be triggered frequently - now it is no problem
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Try going over 32gb with data and see what happens when trying to read it back. The free SD card tester in the market can make it very easy..slide the slider to the right and see how it does.
https://market.android.com/details?id=air.com.anotherflexdev.sdcardtester.SDCardTester
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I agree....until over 32GB of the card is full there's really no way of confirming this 100% works
Very close to filling it over 32gb. When final dexter is aired i will fill it over 32gb and test.
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Try going over 32gb with data and see what happens when trying to read it back. The free SD card tester in the market can make it very easy..slide the slider to the right and see how it does.
https://market.android.com/details?id=air.com.anotherflexdev.sdcardtester.SDCardTester
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Hi, I just bought a Sandisk 64GB card for my Xperia Play and I can confirm it's working fine. I used the above app to verify my card that already had about 14GB of data on it, which can also be seen in the screenshot below (the max amount of data i could test was ~46GB, which is about right... 60-14 = 46).
I set it to write another 25GB for a total of ~39GB and it had to problems.
This took about three hours to test, and if i shut off the screen it stopped testing... as you can see my battery almost died. I'm glad I didn't try filling it up fully
Anyway, I hope this helps someone.
I am Confused and hesitant which color to purchase, I saw the white version in shops here cause it's only the color available till now, but don't like it's interfere with silver bezel, deep grey in youtube looking gorgeous but not see it in my hand and want to take one online, for those who has available in there country, is grey looking better ?
lol where's the option of 32 gb wifi only white in the poll?
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lol where's the option of 32 gb wifi only white in the poll?
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Samsung Announced that there are only Deep Grey Version for 32 GB Storage device:laugh:
Check the beginning of this video
http://support-us.samsung.com/spsn/detail.jsp?ctg_id=1280&sub_ctg_id=&live_id=&video_id=1785174479001
White will make ur device looks 'big'.
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Samsung Announced that there are only Deep Grey Version for 32 GB Storage device:laugh:
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Therefore, Deep Grey is the best.
And, for those of us with Unlimited Data on our rooted phones, WiFi only is best.
I like the white 16gb. Just pop in a 64/32GB memory card and your good to go
A grey, 32gig with a 64gig card in it (like mine, for example ) is even gooder to go. And, really, compared to other tablets, an extra 16gig internal for $50 is a bargain.
Plus, don't forget that without rooting, you can only install apps to the internal memory, so 16gig could become a problem.
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A grey, 32gig with a 64gig card in it (like mine, for example ) is even gooder to go. And, really, compared to other tablets, an extra 16gig internal for $50 is a bargain.
Plus, don't forget that without rooting, you can only install apps to the internal memory, so 16gig could become a problem.
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I love the white color to it though. If white had came in a 32gb I would have been all over it. i Guess the limited storage space is a sacrifice I'll have to make. If I find it becomes a problem I might consider exchanging for a grey 32g
Newegg is selling all these awsome decal skins.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA15R0E02748
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With these doesn't matter what color you get. There are many designs available.
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I like the white 16gb. Just pop in a 64/32GB memory card and your good to go
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You do know that the external memory card is good only for storing pics,videos,datas,doc etc. but most apps if not all specially games which eats a lot of space can only be installed on your pecious internal storage so having at least 32gb. Internal is a plus.
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You do know that the external memory card is good only for storing pics,videos,datas,doc etc. but most apps if not all specially games which eats a lot of space can only be installed on your pecious internal storage so having at least 32gb. Internal is a plus.
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oh yes, i did some research before buying. I remember switching back and forth between the 32 grey and 16 white on amazon.com for nearly 2 hours until i made up my mind haha, but what helped me choose was this thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1857391 this script swaps your internal and memory card space for app data storage. I haven't tested this yet though, but i hope it works.
lm that guy said:
oh yes, i did some research before buying. I remember switching back and forth between the 32 grey and 16 white on amazon.com for nearly 2 hours until i made up my mind haha, but what helped me choose was this thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=185739. this script swaps your internal and memory card space for app data storage. I haven't tested this yet though, but i hope it works.
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Link does not work.........
who needs more than 16 gigs of app only storage? i have quite a few apps, as many as i need and that is a lot, and i only use 4.1 gb of storage. i cant imagine that someone would need a little under 4 times the amount of apps i have. pop in a 16 or 32 gb sd card to store pics, music, movies and other data on and you will be fine
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Sorry link works now
whoa... results not what I expected.
To be honest, white looks cleaner and better on video and in pictures; however, when I went to the stores to check it out, deep gray also looked okay (I think I just prefer gunmetal gray over .. the blueish gray that it is) and kind of pretty as well.
wmka2000 said:
Samsung Announced that there are only Deep Grey Version for 32 GB Storage device:laugh:
Check the beginning of this video
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Funny, I had the option of a grey or white 32gb 3g note 10.1.... That was here in Australia...
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who needs more than 16 gigs of app only storage? i have quite a few apps, as many as i need and that is a lot, and i only use 4.1 gb of storage. i cant imagine that someone would need a little under 4 times the amount of apps i have. pop in a 16 or 32 gb sd card to store pics, music, movies and other data on and you will be fine
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I have the 32gb tab with a 64gb sd card... I have less than 5gb remaining on both internal and external storage... Trust me, if you have it, you'll use it...
I think he meant that there is no white wi-fi 32gb version.
You'll most likely put it in a case anyway so who cares?
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The OS itself might be using a portion of it that's not visible, however, I always have around 600MB+ in-use, even with bare Stock and AOSP... so I doubt this.
It probably is the OS and kernel using up a chunk. Android 4.2 is pretty heavy.
Android also caches stuff in RAM that isnt even open, even right at boot. This is to help open those apps faster, but if something else needs that cached memory space then Android automatically drops the app in cache and uses it for whatever is needed.
Remember, unused RAM is wasted RAM. Looks to me like you have 600MB of waste
Part of the 2GB DRAM is probably also shared with video memory and since the resolution is so high it's a big chunk.
same problem but not with nexus 4
Hi guys,
I have the same problem with my nexus 10, about 500-600 MB RAM lost..
The strange thing is that in my nexus 4 it recognize alla 2 GB RAM.
In my nexus 10 I have 2 users, do you think that can ne the cause?
Thanks
faithjano said:
Hi guys,
I have the same problem with my nexus 10, about 500-600 MB RAM lost..
The strange thing is that in my nexus 4 it recognize alla 2 GB RAM.
In my nexus 10 I have 2 users, do you think that can ne the cause?
Thanks
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Multiuser doesn't have any effect; I've had about 1.6GB memory available on all custom ROM's and Kernels I've tried. The fact that the Nexus 4 displays all 2GB usable though does still raise the question as to why about 400MB is missing on the Nexus 10.
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Part of the 2GB DRAM is probably also shared with video memory and since the resolution is so high it's a big chunk.
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This might be a possibility; but I think at this point the Kernel source might be a good place to start digging for proof of whether this is happening or not.
Some GPUs have dedicated memory and it does not share from the system RAM, our GPU shares and thus it takes a chunk of what we have available.
If it makes you feel any better on my GSIII with CM10 its a 2GB device says 1630MB is available. Sounds normal with the N10 mine is the same
The ram measurement on Android has never shown as 100% empty (I think my Nexus One had 276MB free). Same as a Desktop/Laptop, it would only be 100% unused if there were no Kernel or libraries loaded.
I'm by no means an expert on this, but I dug into android memory management quite a bit when trying to optimize Shadowgun Deadzone performance. I don't think any of the apps measure memory used by native code. There's an adb command that will show you native memory use for an app, but I never dug that far into it. Again, I'm not a developer, but I assume your missing memory is being used by used by the parts android running native code. What's not clear to me is how android handles how much native memory an app can use. I got over my gaming fixation, but I'm still curious about this. If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd love to hear it.
Mine says 1gb used and 613mb free
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I'm by no means an expert on this, but I dug into android memory management quite a bit when trying to optimize Shadowgun Deadzone performance. I don't think any of the apps measure memory used by native code. There's an adb command that will show you native memory use for an app, but I never dug that far into it. Again, I'm not a developer, but I assume your missing memory is being used by used by the parts android running native code. What's not clear to me is how android handles how much native memory an app can use. I got over my gaming fixation, but I'm still curious about this. If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd love to hear it.
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I've checked /proc/meminfo and it looks like even the kernel doesn't see the full 2GB (assuming it is really there). MemTotal is 1,686,380 kB. Even if they were using 2GB==2,000,000,000 B, it's still missing over 150MB. I'd really like to know what is going on, but even Google support is completely clueless.
I'll probably just return it for something that lets me use the amount of RAM advertised.
May be video ram is shared with main memory ?
About 160MB is taken by Android OS (kernel + necessary libraries). It's reserved only for the OS, so it's unavailable for the user. It's common for all Android devices I've had.
For example my i9001 (SGS+) has also missing ~160MB of RAM (should have 512MB, but has only ~350MB available for apps.
If the video memory is shared at the hardware level, the number would make sense. What irks me is that I don't see that mentioned anywhere even on 'techie' blogs/reviews and even Google support doesn't know this about their device.
From what I understand, unless the kernel was modified to report less memory than is really available, meminfo should report the full amount accurately.
I don't even get 1.6 GB of ram
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thats seems to be a normal thing for 4.2.2
As an owner of a previous tablet, my Acer Iconia a500 reported (in 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2) that it only had 725MB of RAM (it shipped with 1GB). My guess is that the missing chunk is graphics memory. I also show 1.6GB of RAM in my Nexus 10.
prior to 4.2.2, the GPU had 400-some MB reserved. At 4.2.2, there is almost an extra 400MB (386MB I think to be exact) reserved for the GPU, so 2GB - 800MB = 1.2GB
The extra GPU memory is to prevent userspace fragmentation if I read right.
Awesome. Thanks for the explanation. I just noticed that after the CyanogenMod 4.2.2 patch, mine dropped as well. Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich must've reserved around 256MB of memory.
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Odd, seeing as how the N7 has 975/1024 available
And my nexus 4 has 1.8 of the 2gb available.
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Hello guys,
As my sandisk 64 gig UHS1 microsd card became overcrowded, I would like to share with you my project of being able to fit a 128 gig SD card on my xperia play.
It's a Kingston Class 10 128 GB full size SD card (no 128 microsd on market yet. no money for an sandisk UHS1, as it is double the price -but the write speed is pretty much the same in my tests, so.... ).
This is not fake. The screens are from my own beloved xplay. I have the phone for everyday use (no hanging stuff from it).
I will come back with some details of how I pulled this of, if anybody is interested and after I finish with my exams. :|
As checking the screens below, remember that I have partitioned the card in 3: one 108gig FAT32 partition for storage, one 7.88 gig ext4 partition for link2sd and one 768 meg partition for swap. and that I have many many tweaks and optimisation in order to keep it smooth with all that software on it
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Ouuu nice! Sadly the pics are all broken. Please keep us up to date on how this works out for you~!
sairaku said:
Ouuu nice! Sadly the pics are all broken. Please keep us up to date on how this works out for you~!
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I donno why they broke. I've also uploaded them now. I'm about a week now with this card and all seems fine.
Thats intense 128gb duuuuude that thing is a beaaaassst
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psxpetey said:
Thats intense 128gb duuuuude that thing is a beaaaassst
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Could I ask a question?
Would this not be achievable by partitioning your sdcard for example half of it as ext1-4 and attempt to use it as two separate cards?
Anyway very nice work.
sewer56lol said:
Could I ask a question?
Would this not be achievable by partitioning your sdcard for example half of it as ext1-4 and attempt to use it as two separate cards?
Anyway very nice work.
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I don't really understand your question but what I can tell you is that the "main" partition, the partition that will be your /sdcard, storage partition, should be FAT32. I didn't tried ext for /sdcard. I donno if it works.
If you like to use a card let's say as m stick and sdcard for your phone, yes you could make two partition. The first one will be mounted for your phone as /sdcard (mmcblk0p1) and the rest wont't be used (if you don't use link2sd or swap).
For those who don't know: The advantages of having a second ext partition for link2sd are:
- The software you have installed on /sdext do not stop when you unmount your sdcard in order to connect if to your PC
- The software installed on sdcard keeps dalvik cache on internal and you cannot link it individually if you, let's say, link the entire dalvik cache with link2sd (dalvik for the software on sdcard will be ommited and kept on internal). You can only link dalvik if the software is on internal or on sdext partition.
For the rest I meant to use as a separate card. Swap partitions.
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sewer56lol said:
Could I ask a question?
Would this not be achievable by partitioning your sdcard for example half of it as ext1-4 and attempt to use it as two separate cards?
Im not the creator of this mod I think you quoted the wrong guy but you should be able to do that. Let me know what happens
Anyway very nice work.
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Odp: 128 GB SD card on XPERIA PLAY
What's the app on the 5th picture? This one with circle graph.
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OMG wow, not my bushiness but isn't 64Gb even a bit overkill!? yet alone 128GB!?! i have a 16GB and i cant possiblely fill that! thats cool
xdarkmario said:
OMG wow, not my bushiness but isn't 64Gb even a bit overkill!? yet alone 128GB!?! i have a 16GB and i cant possiblely fill that! thats cool
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After movies music and games that space gets used in no time
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Am I the only one that picked up on the "full-size sdcard, as 128 GB micro-sd is not available yet" part? That would mean either (1) somehow mounting an external USB card reader, (2) somehow modifying your phone's sd slot... (I don't think so), or (3) this is some sort of early April Fool's joke, ie H-O-A-X!
Pictures of the hardware, please! It would be cool to be able to do this, if I decide to make my phone just a gamepad when I retire it.
Odp: 128 GB SD card on XPERIA PLAY
netizenmt said:
Am I the only one that picked up on the "full-size sdcard, as 128 GB micro-sd is not available yet" part? That would mean either (1) somehow mounting an external USB card reader, (2) somehow modifying your phone's sd slot... (I don't think so), or (3) this is some sort of early April Fool's joke, ie H-O-A-X!
Pictures of the hardware, please! It would be cool to be able to do this, if I decide to make my phone just a gamepad when I retire it.
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Nice spot! (is that the correct word?) I've actually belived that it's micro SD card and I'd also would like to know how the hell you were able to connect full size SD card (op)
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just fake, easy to fake that info in the app
Well he said hed show us and yet no pics or tut
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But I bet you could do this with a micro sd card adapter turned backwards lol I bet you any money lmao
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Flag!
Since there are no 128gig micro SD's on the market, and the OP has not updated to explain how this was achieved. Calling BS
Closing thread until OP can give a higher level of detail