I have LEO T8585, and when i flash Android 4.0.3. NAND (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1354267) i have only 100MB for apps. I tried this HD2 Android NAND toolkit to make partition bigger but no luck.
No matter what size i choose i'll get same size for downloaded apps - 100MB.
Im not total noob flashing NAND ROM-s , but do i miss something?
Or is it possible to make this partition bigger?
Thanks
First, the space shown as available doesn't include the system, boot or cache partition size, only the data partition size, and since during flashing, the data partition size is set to be whatever is left over after the rom is flashed, the only way to increase data size is by reducing the system partition size, , but then of course the rom wouldn't fit (because you flash the system partition to be only fractionally larger than the size of the system folder contents, if you flashed a larger system partition, the extra space would be wasted, unused by anything, example put a rom requiring 150mg onto a 250 Meg layout and you lose 100mb)
Secondly, if you set up an ext partition on the SD card, the rom will consider that internal memory BUT (on most roms) wont show it on the available internal storage calculation, but it WILL use it as internal.
third, the 4.x roms are still beta, and vary as to sizes required, whether they have ap2sd+ built in or whether you need to manually install and configure it. If you are looking for a rom you can keep as a daily for a while, wait until 4.x is a few more betas along.
Thanks!
Thats what i thougt. I made minimal part. 190MB and got 100 extra. My ext. on SD is 1024. For now its ok. And this 4.0 beta 10 it is very nice ROM, looks stable and smooth on HD2.
There is a huge thread on how to move data from the System partition to the SD, but I think it is still not very clear (at least to me) why the system partition gets so full when installing new modern ROMs on the HD2. Every installation guide starts with partitioning in clk or magldr. For instance, the HexusHD2 ICS ROM has to have at least 170mb system partition. I made it 300 just to be sure and android says I have a total of 105mb internal storage. (I barely have place to install new apps, since android takes around 75mb of those 105mb)
My question is what is what is the relation between the system partitioning in clk and the size I get after the ROM is flashed. Will i have more storage if I partition clk to a greater figure- 450mb? ...or will it be vice versa?
thanks
archibrid said:
There is a huge thread on how to move data from the System partition to the SD, but I think it is still not very clear (at least to me) why the system partition gets so full when installing new modern ROMs on the HD2. Every installation guide starts with partitioning in clk or magldr. For instance, the HexusHD2 ICS ROM has to have at least 170mb system partition. I made it 300 just to be sure and android says I have a total of 105mb internal storage. (I barely have place to install new apps, since android takes around 75mb of those 105mb)
My question is what is what is the relation between the system partitioning in clk and the size I get after the ROM is flashed. Will i have more storage if I partition clk to a greater figure- 450mb? ...or will it be vice versa?
thanks
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You've got it completely the wrong way around, the /system partition is where the actual OS is installed, so the smaller the /system partition, the greater the internal storage which remains, which is thus usable for apps.
Smaller partition = more storage.
I recently had my 1 tb hdd on my sony laptop replaced with a 180 gig ssd. I let best buy do the switch because it was free and I figured why not. When I got it back with a clean install on the ssd there is only 95 gigs free. The c drive says 95 free out of 129 total. I knew I wouldn't get the whole 180 but why only 129? Just wondered if this is normal or not as this is my first ssd.
It's a matter of multiplication. 2 to the 10th power is 1024, so numerically you get a so-called 180 (or what not) but since the OS reads storage in terms of powers of 2, you get a different number.
Now, on the other hand, 130 seems way too low. I would say to go to disc management and see if there's another partition. Since this is a laptop, it likely has a recovery partition (unless you know your old drive didn't have one).
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Recovery partition is indeed the most likely reason. Disk Management will show you what the full size of the storage device (SSD in your case) is, as well as what volumes ("drives") it contains, and whether there's any unpartitioned space. It will also let you delete and resize partitions.
The easiest way to launch it on Win8 is to right-click the Start button (or hit [Win]+x) and select Disk Management from the menu, although you can also type "disk" into Start search and go to Settings, or type "diskmgmt.msc" and hit [Enter] immediately.
Thanks for the replies. I will check into the disc management.
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Thanks guys I found the disc management and I see that there are 4 other partitions besides my c drive. Would anyone know what ones are safe to delete if any?
OEM : 260 mb
Recovery: 1.44 GB
EFI System: 260 mb
Recovery: 36 GB
Im assuming I should probably keep the OEM and EFI partitions but what about the two recoveries. I have a recovery flash drive which is how the os got flashed to this ssd in the first place.
Thanks again if anyone has time to help me out.
ROORnNUGZ said:
Thanks guys I found the disc management and I see that there are 4 other partitions besides my c drive. Would anyone know what ones are safe to delete if any?
OEM : 260 mb
Recovery: 1.44 GB
EFI System: 260 mb
Recovery: 36 GB
Im assuming I should probably keep the OEM and EFI partitions but what about the two recoveries. I have a recovery flash drive which is how the os got flashed to this ssd in the first place.
Thanks again if anyone has time to help me out.
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Both of the recoveries should be safe to delete, yea, though you'll have to resize the main partition (not hard, but not really for novices either) to get it back on there.
ROORnNUGZ said:
Thanks guys I found the disc management and I see that there are 4 other partitions besides my c drive. Would anyone know what ones are safe to delete if any?
OEM : 260 mb
Recovery: 1.44 GB
EFI System: 260 mb
Recovery: 36 GB
Im assuming I should probably keep the OEM and EFI partitions but what about the two recoveries. I have a recovery flash drive which is how the os got flashed to this ssd in the first place.
Thanks again if anyone has time to help me out.
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For the amount you gain I would suggest only deleting the 36 Mb partition. Do you really need the extra space?
One expands a partition by deleting the partitions that are not desired and then increasing the size of the active partition. It is not hard to do from the control panel. The only consideration is that to expand a partition, I believe the space has to be adjacent to the existing partition. This means that you may be limited as to which partitions can be retained and still provide a single space for your active partition.
Ok cool I think I will be safe to delete the 36 gig recovery since I have a recovery flash drive. I will look up some more info on deleting and expanding partitions. I'm no expert but I can handle following instructions so I should be able to figure it out. Thanks again.
Expanding a partition is trivial, although (as @stevedebi said) it has to be adjacent (specifically, it must be located directly before) a block of free space. Deleting a partition that is right after your C drive will easily let you expand the C drive. Just right-click the drive (in Disk Management) and select Extend (might be Expand, something like that; it'll be obvious). It will default to using the maximum available size; confirm that dialog and a few seconds late you will have a newly enlarged drive.
The recovery was located right after the c drive so I was able to expand the c drive but first I had to delete the recovery through the command line. I found some you tube instructions and it was easy.
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This is win8 right? Deleting the recovery partition means you can't boot into the recovery environment. Though I was under the impression the recovery partition needed to be only a GB at most, since the actual recovery tools are stored on the main partition.
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This is win8 right? Deleting the recovery partition means you can't boot into the recovery environment. Though I was under the impression the recovery partition needed to be only a GB at most, since the actual recovery tools are stored on the main partition.
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Not sure about other systems, but my Toshiba has the option to make recovery media.
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I had already made a recovery flash drive using the sony software. This is what was used to install windows 8 on the ssd when it was put in. So I assumed that is as good as a recovery partition. Hopefully that is correct. I probably just can't use the refresh pc options anymore and would have to do a clean install with the flash drive. There is also still a 1.44 gig recovery partition that I left. So maybe that smaller one is made by windows and the larger one I deleted was from sony.
I have a small affair since CM resized the partitions, and some questions haunt me.
The system partition of my phone is in the initial format 600MB and 1.3 GB for data. As everyone will know CM changed partitions to 400MB and 1.5GB of data.
Approach: I would like to have a ROM of Ginger for sporadic use of the camera and any other issues with Nandroid saved. I understand that this requires the old system partitions that i have, and kk for regular use with current system partition, copied also with Nandroid.
The issue is if when move from one to another from the corresponding copies saved from the recovery also restores the size of the partitions or not.
If not, is it absolutely necessary to have the partitions on the current format of CM for KK?, What problems can be if left to the native format 600MB, 1.3GB?
Regards
Note: Edited to better understanding, sorry for my poor english.
I know that this questions has been asked before, but in those the systems use SD cards, so it isn't exactly the same question...
I don't know how partitions work in Nexus 10, but, as it doesn't use external cards, I suppose it just uses a single memory of 16gb.
So, as far as I know, it has 3 partitions: /data, /system and /cache.
The system partition (644mb) is almost full (10 mb left) and I haven't installed anything at all. The problem is that I have some drivers that MUST be installed in that partition, so I was just wondering if there's a way of resizing the partition, for it's impossible to simply freeing space (I require more than 300 additional megabytes).
Thanks in advance.