Hello xda community, i was wondering if is possible to change the size of the system partition on s8+ exynos version.
EDIT: I don't need to change sysytem partition size anymore, topic can be closed, thanks.
dan.97 said:
Hello xda community, i was wondering if is possible to change the size of the system partition on s8+ exynos version.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't believe it is.
But if If your anything like me it's all the free space available after a debloat.
So the trick there is move some user apps to system. Ones you use. Say like I got su.
My clock widgets file explorers. All my nessicary app bassicly. Some time they don't always work swapped over. But most do
Instead of resizing the partition I have bassicly utilized most of the free space thus gaining that space back in user data partition
Excellent? By the way
TheMadScientist said:
I don't believe it is.
But if If your anything like me it's all the free space available after a debloat.
So the trick there is move some user apps to system. Ones you use. Say like I got su.
My clock widgets file explorers. All my nessicary app bassicly. Some time they don't always work swapped over. But most do
Instead of resizing the partition I have bassicly utilized most of the free space thus gaining that space back in user data partition
Excellent? By the way
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The point is that i need more space for system stuffs...
Related
I want to free up a bit more space on my 16gb nexus 4. Right now the system portion is taking about 3.5 GBs. I was wondering if custom ROMs use a smaller system area. Looking at unexpanded install files for different ROMs and comparing them to the stock install tar file, it does look like the stock is a bit bigger than custom ROMs (cyanogenmod's install tar was about 107mb while stock was about 330mb). Its hard to tell though since those install packages/files are compressed tar. Could some of you with custom ROMs post your system area size?
not really. maybe a rom like slim bean might be a little bit smaller but not that big of size difference. and btw the stock rom is an image (.img) and cyanogenmod is most likely a zip (.zip), which is more compressed, so zips are usually smaller files than images
lazer155 said:
I want to free up a bit more space on my 16gb nexus 4. Right now the system portion is taking about 3.5 GBs. I was wondering if custom ROMs use a smaller system area. Looking at unexpanded install files for different ROMs and comparing them to the stock install tar file, it does look like the stock is a bit bigger than custom ROMs (cyanogenmod's install tar was about 107mb while stock was about 330mb). Its hard to tell though since those install packages/files are compressed tar. Could some of you with custom ROMs post your system area size?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Welling looking at Titanium Backup it says CM10.1 Jellybo is taking up 867mb with basic Gapps. It says i have 440mb free. So to me by going off that info the system part is only about 1.4gb. Most of my gapps like gmail, maps that kind of stuff is on the data part.
No matter what ROM you flash the space you have available to you is the same.
Smaller ROM just will give you more free space in the /system partition. Which you can't access without root anyways.
albundy2010 said:
No matter what ROM you flash the space you have available to you is the same.
Smaller ROM just will give you more free space in the /system partition. Which you can't access without root anyways.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah space is already reserved for the system so it doesn't matter. Just flash whatever ROM you feel most suites your needs.
zephiK said:
Yeah space is already reserved for the system so it doesn't matter. Just flash whatever ROM you feel most suites your needs.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
From my understanding what the OP is asking is if other roms will have more free space on the system part most likely because he wants to install more apps on the system part to free up space on the data part. Titanium Backup allows you to do this. I do it on my wife's Gravity Smart to free up space on the data. Not really sure what all you are going to move since there is so little space there.
Prod1702 said:
From my understanding what the OP is asking is if other roms will have more free space on the system part most likely because he wants to install more apps on the system part to free up space on the data part. Titanium Backup allows you to do this. I do it on my wife's Gravity Smart to free up space on the data. Not really sure what all you are going to move since there is so little space there.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
First off, why would you want to install apps into the /system/app/ folder? It makes no sense, it's not going to free up significant space that every body has to use. This phone isn't the G1 where we had limited storage and people had to install apps to the sdcard (apps2sd). It logically makes no sense.
Restoring system apps via Titanium Backup is also not a good idea and tends to leads you to trouble upon flashing ROMs and restoring system apps. Then people wonder why their phone is having force closures or acting funky. This is the Nexus 4, a highend phone not a Gravity Smart, a phone I never even heard of. No offense.
zephiK said:
First off, why would you want to install apps into the /system/app/ folder? It makes no sense, it's not going to free up significant space that every body has to use. This phone isn't the G1 where we had limited storage and people had to install apps to the sdcard (apps2sd). It logically makes no sense.
Restoring system apps via Titanium Backup is also not a good idea and tends to leads you to trouble upon flashing ROMs and restoring system apps. Then people wonder why their phone is having force closures or acting funky. This is the Nexus 4, a highend phone not a Gravity Smart, a phone I never even heard of. No offense.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You bring up bad memories. It was so complicated just to have all your apps, you would need to jump thru all the loops. At least now storage is easy to come by.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
A little OT, but are there any custom MTD partitions mods for the N4, so that unused /system space could be made available for /data
Root - put stuff wherever you want.
Posted in wrong sub forum earlier,
Does anybody know what will be the available space in Note 3, unrooted ATT version. Also, what after rooting and removing some ATT/Sammy bloatwares..
Thanks
ananta said:
Posted in wrong sub forum earlier,
Does anybody know what will be the available space in Note 3, unrooted ATT version. Also, what after rooting and removing some ATT/Sammy bloatwares..
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've seen screenshots of around 25GB available on the internal sdcard on stock ROM. Rooting and removing bloatware doesn't open a single byte of space for the user to use as they see fit. Bloat is stored in system partition and all user information is in the data partition. You can remove every single app that Samsung and your carrier puts on the phone and you won't free up any space at all. The sdcard has to be partitioned so that just enough space for the ROM is in system and the rest gets allocated for data. Most developers do not want to touch partitioning (one false move and phone is hard bricked), so the space goes wasted.
I'm using Vanir ROM on my VZN SGS4 (BLAZING fast ROM, btw). Notice that nearly 2GB of free space is just sitting there waiting for more apps...
Thanks doc, I was not aware about system partition. anyway, 25 free on 32 is not bad. Asking to see if I want to buy external SD right away or wait till I get hand on.
Thanks
docnok63 said:
I've seen screenshots of around 25GB available on the internal sdcard on stock ROM. Rooting and removing bloatware doesn't open a single byte of space for the user to use as they see fit. Bloat is stored in system partition and all user information is in the data partition. You can remove every single app that Samsung and your carrier puts on the phone and you won't free up any space at all. The sdcard has to be partitioned so that just enough space for the ROM is in system and the rest gets allocated for data. Most developers do not want to touch partitioning (one false move and phone is hard bricked), so the space goes wasted.
I'm using Vanir ROM on my VZN SGS4 (BLAZING fast ROM, btw). Notice that nearly 2GB of free space is just sitting there waiting for more apps...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It's been bugging me for a while that the system partition sizes are so huge, and I only get a little over 9GB for actual storage. Specifially the cache, of which I'm only using 104/2037MB, and the system, of which I'm only using 485/2717MB.
Is there any way to resize these partitions to give me more room for storage? I'm looking into making a new partition on my sd card, but that still doesn't solve the stupidly huge cache/system partitions.
There is also the issue of the missing space. As far as I can tell, my phone only has 14892MB in total, not the advertised 16GB. I understand that usable space is frequently lower than advertised on storage devices, but this is a little bit too much.
I've researched this but couldn't find anything useful. Maybe my google-fu is low haha.
Thanks in advance.
Bump.
Masterjuggler said:
Bump.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've been looking for a way to do this as well. I feel like I'm wasting at least a good 3gb that could be used for installing some larger games or something. As far as I can tell, there is a way to do it on another variant of the S4, involving using odin to flash a Chinese version of the stock rom(specifically the PIT file) which repartitions the storage. But it only works on that variant, and won't work for us. No way to do it on the sph-l720, at least none that I can find.
I was thinking I could reclaim some of the system partition by taking any apps that are essential to me, and converting them to system apps. But since the system partition gets wiped every time I update the rom, which is very frequently, that would be a disaster.
Hello xda,
When you install a (lightweight) custom rom on a s4, you will easily have about 2gb of the /system partition unused (+plus a few gb more in some other partitions). It sums up to about 4.5gb (!) of unused space.
Changing the partition sizes using a modified pit file is impossible.
Converting user apps to system apps seems useless as updates are installed on the internal storage.
Can something be done using foldermount? (moving cache to one of those unused system partitions?)
What do you think is the best way to get use out of this wasted space?
Thank you in advance,
Pretty much the only thing you can do with that extra space is to flash another ROM on it and then you can dual boot any 2 ROMs.
You can have a TouchWiz ROM and a LineageOS ROM, or any other combination of 2 ROMs.
This is pretty much the only thing you can do. Even if you somehow move apps to /system, their data will still be written on the /data partition.
Also, /system is read-only by default.
nxss4 said:
What do you think is the best way to get use out of this wasted space?
Thank you in advance,
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Flash a bigger Gapps package. The Google apps will be installed on the system partition. Don't fill it completely, though.
Thank you for the replies guys! Dual booting is a good way to fill up space, indeed. But I'm really satisfied with RR 7.1.1. Maybe dualboating touchwiz for the camera is an idea, I will see!
Salut, thanks but I does it have any benefits? As updates will be installed on the internal storage anyway.
nxss4 said:
Salut, thanks but I does it have any benefits? As updates will be installed on the internal storage anyway.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There's no reason to fill your phone up with a bunch of useless apps. Install the package that fits your needs most.
As you can convert user apps to system apps you can integrate updates to system partition too.
tset351 said:
As you can convert user apps to system apps you can integrate updates to system partition too.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's interesting, is there an automated way to do that? I did some research before starting this thread but couldn't find anything?
I like my phone to 'just work' (not like iphones) when I am busy
nxss4 said:
That's interesting, is there an automated way to do that? I did some research before starting this thread but couldn't find anything?
I like my phone to 'just work' (not like iphones) when I am busy
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Automated? Well, it's not an iPhone
With link2sd you can migrate apps and updates into system partition.
Good luck
tset351 said:
Automated? Well, it's not an iPhone
With link2sd you can migrate apps and updates into system partition.
Good luck
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Oh well, I'm going to look into that, I use apps2sd atm for foldermount, they don't have this option. I'm gonna try out link to sd, thanks!
UPDATE: It works flawlessly, thanks !
Just no automatic applying updates to system apps, but i guess I can live with that
Has anyone been able to successfully resize the system partition? Running Lineage there's well over a free GB and would be cool to move it to the data partition if possible.
Joe333x said:
Has anyone been able to successfully resize the system partition? Running Lineage there's well over a free GB and would be cool to move it to the data partition if possible.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry There Is No Tool Available For Our Samsung Galaxy S5 (https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171531) Oh This Is The Only Tool I Found But Its Not For Our Samsung Galaxy S5, If You Are Brave Enough Then Use This One , I Don't Recommend You To Do That (At Your Own Risk)
Joe333x said:
Has anyone been able to successfully resize the system partition? Running Lineage there's well over a free GB and would be cool to move it to the data partition if possible.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So Its Might Be Possible Using The Tool I Gave You , But Don't Go Use It , We All Have A Free GB In The System Partition And We Want To Move It To Data Partition, So That Means Its Not Only You Who Want The Answer To Do That , So In My Opinion Its Impossible . Sorry:crying: