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Is it possible to store photos and videos on internal memory? If so how would o go about doing that?
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orcsbane13 said:
Is it possible to store photos and videos on internal memory? If so how would o go about doing that?
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I'm not sure i heard it was just for apps however you us connect using PC mode it opens a drive to that 8 gb internal memory. It has some drivers and PC applications that you can install from it. I didn't try writing anything to it at the time and I'm not sure you can. Give it a try and let me know.

piiman said:
I'm not sure i heard it was just for apps however you us connect using PC mode it opens a drive to that 8 gb internal memory. It has some drivers and PC applications that you can install from it. I didn't try writing anything to it at the time and I'm not sure you can. Give it a try and let me know.
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Cool, hadn't tried that yet. Got mine before work but i will deffinately try tonight.
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why do u want to do this? you have 16gb sd card for that.

moosc said:
why do u want to do this? you have 16gb sd card for that.
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Why WOULDN'T you want it is the question...

I like the idea all app data in one place and my data in another. Especially since the card can't pop out by accident. Why fill internal mem with media and then complain about no room for apps, imo of course.
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Tips on creating more space without rooting

Im getting constant messages now saying I dont have enough space. I've moved everything I can to sd and cleared the cache. Programs like groupon are big but wont let me though, grrr.
Noticed email takes up a lot too, anyway of limiting what is stored?

Deinstall some apps...

Thats not a tip its common sense... What if u didn't want to get rid of the apps... *rolls eyes
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Then root. It's not like you need a Computing PhD for that.

Sorry chris,
The only way to make apps that don't want to be on the SD play nice, is root. And, the only way to remove apps you don't use that are sitting in /system...is root.
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Well actually no root required using adb you can set install location from 0 which is system auto to 2 which allows all downloaded apps to be moved to sd card
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iceman99393 said:
Well actually no root required using adb you can set install location from 0 which is system auto to 2 which allows all downloaded apps to be moved to sd card
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That's good for apps installed after that command. System apps and previously installed apps are untouched, and they're the largest issue.

Can u not save all emails to sd or limit how much is stored
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Just root your phone. Whatever reason you have for not doing so yet is based on misinformation. Download superoneclick and go to it.
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How much internal storage do you have left.
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you can use box.com

Cant install apps, insufficent room.

When I try to install an game, it says im out of room.. but I still have 800mb of space left.

How big is the game? I've seen a couple that were around a gig.
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estallings15 said:
How big is the game? I've seen a couple that were around a gig.
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im not sure... Its Chrono Trigger .. I installed it before but it said something about not authenticating.. I uninstalled it and then then it said that after i tried to reinstall it

Have you tried pushing some of your existing apps to your SD card to free up the internal memory?

Bass_Man25 said:
Have you tried pushing some of your existing apps to your SD card to free up the internal memory?
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Yeah, this. You can go to "applications" in your settings and get it to sort them by size, then selectively push big ones to your SD card. Much better than randomly choosing which ones to move over.

[Q] out of space?

My wife just got an M as a replacement for her old Rezound. She has had it for about three weeks and the phone is already telling her she is out of internal storage. However, when I look at her storage it appears that only her "Backup ASSISTANCE Plus" is full. It's unfortunately causing her phone to be worthless. Does anyone know how to fix this? Her phone is completely stock. Thanks in advance.
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txkorm said:
My wife just got an M as a replacement for her old Rezound. She has had it for about three weeks and the phone is already telling her she is out of internal storage. However, when I look at her storage it appears that only her "Backup ASSISTANCE Plus" is full. It's unfortunately causing her phone to be worthless. Does anyone know how to fix this? Her phone is completely stock. Thanks in advance.
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couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)

jco23 said:
couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
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Might also want to disable Backup Assistant in the Application Settings.
Also, clear the cache and make sure that no leftover OTA updates are stored.
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jco23 said:
couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
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Thanks for the feedback. I tried to disable it but it wouldn't let me. I'll take another look tonight. I don't want to do a hard reset unless I have to but if I can't disable it, I'll have no other choice.
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Conclusion. This phone sucks if you can't put apps on the SD. 8gb internal hard drive is really only 4 gigs.
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txkorm said:
Conclusion. This phone sucks if you can't put apps on the SD. 8gb internal hard drive is really only 4 gigs.
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If you root, you can easily store apps on external. Also, internal is partitioned into 4gb halves. One for the the ROM and the other for media/etc. Personally, I don't understand how people fill that up so quickly. I use very few apps and all my media gets stored to my external SD. I'm still sitting at about 3.5GB available on my storage side.

RikRong said:
If you root, you can easily store apps on external. Also, internal is partitioned into 4gb halves. One for the the ROM and the other for media/etc. Personally, I don't understand how people fill that up so quickly. I use very few apps and all my media gets stored to my external SD. I'm still sitting at about 3.5GB available on my storage side.
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I understand it's portioned but I've never seen a phone require half of its internal storage. As for media, it's all going to her card. I guess if you use few apps your ok, but that's not the case with a 5 year. You shouldn't have to root for a phone to be functional with a relatively low amount of apps in use.
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Her phone....
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txkorm said:
Her phone....
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I've got just over 100 apps. Also, a little more than 1 gig of my internal space is dedicated to music.
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jco23 said:
I've got just over 100 apps. Also, a little more than 1 gig of my internal space is dedicated to music.
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How are you not having the same issue? Very interesting.
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Do you know if the phone was previously rooted? I know that nandroid backups get saved to internal storage if you don't specify and they will eat up the storage space quickly.

calbrs said:
Do you know if the phone was previously rooted? I know that nandroid backups get saved to internal storage if you don't specify and they will eat up the storage space quickly.
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It came straight from Verizon as a replacement phone so all I know is that it's a refurbished phone. I cleaned up the backup assistance so hopefully that will help. I have a theory that triggered the warning and loss of functionality. We'll see. If it pops back up, it's going back to Verizon.
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txkorm said:
How are you not having the same issue? Very interesting.
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gaining root access allowed me to clear out all of the Verizon bloatware.

jco23 said:
gaining root access allowed me to clear out all of the Verizon bloatware.
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Makes sense since this phone is loaded with it. This is our first Motorola smartphone. Is that a Motorola issue with excess bloat? I know all phones have it but this seems like a lot considering the limited amount of internal memory.
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txkorm said:
Makes sense since this phone is loaded with it. This is our first Motorola smartphone. Is that a Motorola issue with excess bloat? I know all phones have it but this seems like a lot considering the limited amount of internal memory.
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bloat is an issue with all Verizon android phones (the bloat helps bring down the costs on the device).
one of the drawbacks to this device is the lack of internal memory. however, the bigger drawback is in the OS that prevents folks from moving apps to their SD Card.
but once I rooted, and installed a "clean ROM", I got a lot more space.
with your wife's phone, I suspect she has the latest OTA baseband (check the phone settings, if the baseband is prior to May 2013, then you are in luck - DO NOT ACCEPT the UPDATE). if the baseband reads May 2013, then your only option is to gain root access and freeze/delete the bloatware.
if space is an issue, I highly recommend to go this route. otherwise, start trimming some of the apps she never uses.

Issue with Storage Space

Hi, I own an i9500 rooted, stock ROM. I seem to have an odd issue where I can't find what's taking up so much space in my device, the Storage info shows up like this:
Device memory
Total space
8.82GB
Applications
2.23GB
Pictures, videos
72.25MB
Audio
429MB
Downloads
4.74MB
Miscellaneous files
1.61GB
Available
672MB​
SD card
Total space
29.71GB
Available
5.47GB​
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As you can see there is only 672MB left for the device memory but counting: [8.82GB - (2.23GB + 72.25MB + 429MB + 4.74MB + 1.61MB)] this equals up to 4.4GB, does anyone know why this seem to happen?

maybe it's log files.
try pressing *#9900# in the dialer (from left to right) and then press on delete dumpstate/logcat

nechmadi said:
maybe it's log files.
try pressing *#9900# in the dialer (from left to right) and then press on delete dumpstate/logcat
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I've done that just now and it's still the same.

Bump!

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There might be something in root directory of your mobile.
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maxsam4 said:
There might be something in root directory of your mobile.
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Any idea/suggestion what it would be? I've checked some folders and they don't take up too much space.

Sylite said:
Any idea/suggestion what it would be? I've checked some folders and they don't take up too much space.
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Download sdmaid from play store, it has an option to search for largest directories.
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maxsam4 said:
Download sdmaid from play store, it has an option to search for largest directories.
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I cleared the .thumbnails folder, other than that there's nothing taking up a large amount of space: http://i.imgur.com/OMmJvIJ.png

Sylite said:
I cleared the .thumbnails folder, other than that there's nothing taking up a large amount of space: http://i.imgur.com/OMmJvIJ.png
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I would suggest you to backup all your data and completely wipe your phone and flash a new ROM. There is something eating your space which can not to easily pin pointed. You either search deeply or just do a complete reset.
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