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Hi all,
Before i start, lotss of respect and millions of thanks for all the developers for their beautiful ROMs and everyone who are providing with brilliant solutions for almost every problem.
I'm totally new and this is the first time i am typing over here. Please forgive any noob mistakes that i might be doing and i'll make sure the same doesn't happen twice.
Since last couple of weeks i have started exploring my mini and i found the following issue.
At first, i used link2sd on ext2 partitioned sd card (as suggested by a link2sd tutorial) while using stock gingerbread(2.3.6) rom and was successful in installing over 90+ apps with still about 112 mb free in the internal memory.
Everything was smooth and was working fine.
Later, i flashed this Rom "cm-10.1-20130310-NIGHTLY-tass" onto my device and used ext4 partitioned sd card.
I opened link2sd and after specifying the external partition as ext4 and after rebooting the device, i got a warning message telling that link2sd failed to mount the ext4 disk. It instructed that i must reboot and try again.
After the reboot, link2sd detected ext4 partition.
But soon after filling the device with about 78 apps, the internal memory reduced to 60 mb. Also, in between while rebooting, in order to link all the files successfully onto sd ext, few apps would disappear.
Every time at boot the system mentions low internal memory and that some apps would not be working.
Boot takes a lot of time too (about 3-4 minutes).
I am linking dalvik-cache file, application file and the library file
Is there anything that i must and must not do?
Can ext4 partition be used on the mentioned ROM?
Is there any compatibility issue with link2sd on this ROM?
Kindly provide me with any feedback/suggestions.
I would be extremely grateful..
BTW.. amazing ROM.. super smooth and great performance
My first custom ROM and i love almost every bit of it
Aaaah.. now my internal memory has gone to few kb :crying:
is there any other way i can freshly install all my apps without encountering this issue? Now i'm desperate for some help
vipinbp said:
Aaaah.. now my internal memory has gone to few kb :crying:
is there any other way i can freshly install all my apps without encountering this issue? Now i'm desperate for some help
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The only soln to this is flash the rom again and any scirpts like crossbreeder and then flash Int2extn4+
this script moves all your app data to extn. il have installed 20 apps and my internal memory is 1GB
give a try, search in themes and app section(thread by Ashu.bigsmoke) :good:
why d you install so many apps, install apps that are important.
i use lastest antibillos' rom, no partition sdcard, i just move my apps to sdcard using link2sd. i still got almost 30mb on internal memory. i actually can increase the empty space on it, due to some apps which are not recommended to be moved to sdcard, so i didnt move it. by 30mb on my internal, my phone is smooth, this rom is really suit my phone.
well, backinup your apps and restore em whenever you need, uninstall when it is rarely used, is another choice.
*sorry for messy english.
Thanks guys
Will definitely try as per your suggestions and will report my observation..
I was observing that the /data/app folder consisted of actual application files even though i had linked them.
I deleted all the files from that particular folder and linked the applications again. Now i can see about 80mb free.. However, during boot i still get low memory alarm and the internal memory will be almost nil for few minutes. I guess the ext4 partition is not read during boot.
Why's that happening?
I presumed that ext4 partition would be read during boot.
Rohit02 said:
The only soln to this is flash the rom again and any scirpts like crossbreeder and then flash Int2extn4+
this script moves all your app data to extn. il have installed 20 apps and my internal memory is 1GB
give a try, search in themes and app section(thread by Ashu.bigsmoke) :good:
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I read about int2ext4+ and i got to know that we need to have 100mb free internal memory for 500mb of ext4 space!!
I currently use about 1.4gb for ext4, this technique makes it impossible for me to use even 500mb of ext4 partitioned space!!
What's the need for 100 mb free space for every 500 mb external space? I didn't quite get that..
i installed this ROM a couple of weeks ago,
Yesterday i got an alert to say Storage Space running out so i went to have a look.
I havd a look in Settings, Storage and it says i have 1.97GB in total, with 19.9 MB Available , 648MB used for apps and 2.29MB used for Cached Data
I installed the DiskUsage app and that shows for App Storage, Data at 2015MB split into Applications 650MB and System data 1345MB
Does this mean that cyanogenmod software takes up 1345MB of my 2GB App Storage?
650MB for apps is pretty small.
Are there any hacks to get more than 650MB for app storage , I guess i can try "Move to SD" to free up some space
You're a member since 2004 and you post this in the Android Development forum?
XxPixX said:
You're a member since 2004 and you post this in the Android Development forum?
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sorry!
About your problem, find out where the space has gone using disk usage. You can also use SD maid to clear out unneeded files.
Use root Explorer and navigate to /data partition and look for lost+found folder and delete it. Also check the log folder.
I installed Android 6 using Andrei Măceș' cm_ovation zip file, and it worked fine. However, I made a custom zip on OpenGapps.org and was told I didn't have enough memory on /system to install it to the Nook HD+-- even though I had a 2 GB microSD card?
I then did the same on a 64 GB mSD card and got the same message. So it's not the card size that's the problem. I was able to install Google Play by making a 'pico' sized zip on OpenGApps, but would anyone know why the nano or larger versions wouldn't work? I created my partition on the microSD card using win32 disk imager and wasn't prompted for partition sizes that I could tell.
I believe it's to do with Marshmallow being so large- it's nothing to do with your SD, it's all to do with the internal storage that has been partitioned before hand and allocated for the OS. The play suite has to be accommodated in this storage partition to work and there isn't enough room.
I'll try to find you the link I aw but it wasn't something I fancied myself so I settled with Pico.
You can increase the system partition to 1G and shrink the cache partition. I use the REPIT script as well as a workaround due to the partition not being umounted properly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69780688&postcount=8
Hope that helps.
I installed twrp and did a dirty CM13 installation over CM11. Everything was fine.
However, when I tried to install GAPPS I got an error that system partition is too small.
I noticed in the error description that for pico version of GAPPS only few MB are missing. So, I opened this partition in file explorer with root permissions and deleted obsolete fonts, TTS files and utilities. It gave me additional memory and GAPPS installation ran flawlessly.
Hope it will help.
Which ROM would you recommend for Honor 4X - Che2-L11 ( cherryplus, Kirin 620)? I need to fix my girlfriend's phone
She needs stable ROM with working radio (so Nougat from here won't work), headphones, good battery life and enough internal storage (or possibility to move apps to SD or use adoptable storage with microSD) for apps.
Android 4.4.2 was relatively fine, but it is old. Then we upgraded to stock 6.0 (B570), however she had problems with lack of internal storage - it was not possible to move apps to SD card (4.4.2 was better in that) and adoptable storage didn't work properly (apps are crashing, reporting not enough space, new apps can't be installed etc). Then we tried RROS on Nougat from ksrt12, where adoptable storage seems to work fine, but radio and headphones don't work and there is quite high battery drain (15% per night with data disabled).
Which ROM would you recommend?
lapist said:
Which ROM would you recommend?
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If you are OK with Android 6, you can try Modaco. This was the rom I used before I switched to RROS recently.
You should get a Class 10 SD card (32 Gb if possible). Install Apps2SD from play store and partition the card. First partition FAT32, second partition Ext4, then you move apps to SD card's second partition. (If you wish, you can create three partitions, and use one of them as 'adoptable storage'. I did that.) Modaco rom has a lot of free space on the system partition, so you can move many apps there, which also saves space. But apps that have been moved to system partition will be moved back to internal storage when they are updated.
I had so much free space that I never came close to filling up the storage. But I think regular XDA users would get kinda bored using this rom, as it is basically EMUI with a little bit stock feel.
The only things not working were the default clock and the compass. Clock you can just install another clock app from play store. Compass. .. I never found how to fix. Detecting headphones works and all the other hardware things, as this is basically a modified EMUI 4. I should also add that I don't know if you can flash this from RROS, as that would be "downgrading" from Android 7 to Android 6.
Bob1900 said:
If you are OK with Android 6, you can try Modaco. This was the rom I used before I switched to RROS recently.
You should get a Class 10 SD card (32 Gb if possible). Install Apps2SD from play store and partition the card. First partition FAT32, second partition Ext4, then you move apps to SD card's second partition. (If you wish, you can create three partitions, and use one of them as 'adoptable storage'. I did that.) Modaco rom has a lot of free space on the system partition, so you can move many apps there, which also saves space. But apps that have been moved to system partition will be moved back to internal storage when they are updated.
I had so much free space that I never came close to filling up the storage. But I think regular XDA users would get kinda bored using this rom, as it is basically EMUI with a little bit stock feel.
The only things not working were the default clock and the compass. Clock you can just install another clock app from play store. Compass. .. I never found how to fix. Detecting headphones works and all the other hardware things, as this is basically a modified EMUI 4. I should also add that I don't know if you can flash this from RROS, as that would be "downgrading" from Android 7 to Android 6.
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Thank you for the advice. I see Modaco has 2 ROMs - EMUI style and Stock style beta. Which one did you use?
With use of Apps2SD, does it move all apps to Ext4 partition on the card, or just selected ones? Or is it basically just remapping internal storage to Ext4 partition on the card?
If I have just 16 GB card for this phone, how do you suggest to repartition it?
If there is so much free space on the system partition, isn't it possible to decrease size of system partition somehow and enlarge internal storage instead?
lapist said:
Thank you for the advice. I see Modaco has 2 ROMs - EMUI style and Stock style beta. Which one did you use?
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It must have been the Stock style beta. I didn't know there was another version.
lapist said:
With use of Apps2SD, does it move all apps to Ext4 partition on the card, or just selected ones? Or is it basically just remapping internal storage to Ext4 partition on the card?
If there is so much free space on the system partition, isn't it possible to decrease size of system partition somehow and enlarge internal storage instead?
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Apps2SD moves the files of apps to the SD card and creates symbolic links, so the system "thinks" the apps are still on the internal storage. In Apps2SD this process is called to link apps. Just so you know the terminology. It is very configurable, so you can choose which apps to move/link to the SD card.
What you describe, to repartition /system, sounds like a good idea, but I don't know enough about Android to say if it is possible. You would probably need some recovery program that can repartition the internal storage. Can TWRP do that? I don't know. This is above my league, sorry.
UPDATE: I found this guide for how to repartition the internal storage. But I haven't tried it.
I installed that MoDaCo EMUI style ROM, partitioned my SD card and made Apps2SD working. So far it looks fine.
However, does it still make sense to use MoDaCo EMUI ROM, which is based on B506 firmware, when there is B580 stock available? Yes MoDaCo has more internal memory free (3.28 GB vs 2.50 GB), but it has security patches only from March 2016, while B580 has July 2017 and who knows how good tweaks Huawei added since B506...
lapist said:
who knows how good tweaks Huawei added since B506...
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I have two Che2-L11 phones, and one of them was running B580 until a few weeks ago. The few small improvements Huawei added are not even worth the upgrade. However, if security concerns you, I would give RROS another try. About your headphones problem, I don't see why it should not work. It works on my phone. (Note three-conductor is detected and switched on, but not four-conductor.)
Bob1900 said:
I have two Che2-L11 phones, and one of them was running B580 until a few weeks ago. The few small improvements Huawei added are not even worth the upgrade. However, if security concerns you, I would give RROS another try. About your headphones problem, I don't see why it should not work. It works on my phone. (Note three-conductor is detected and switched on, but not four-conductor.)
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I also don't know why headphones without microphone didn't work with RROS for us, but it can be also related to parts of firmware that are not flashed together with RROS and they remain from previous full firmware (like modem firmware, hifi.img, dsp.img etc). Also before we flashed RROS, we had Marshmallow B570 showing Balong firmware (in the past, we upgraded from 4.4.2 to B570, but it seems she had Malaysian region set in the phone for some reason - I fixed it now) in the phone.
Unfortunatelly my girlfriend (she has this phone) wants to have headphones and radio fully working (RROS doesn't have radio as far as I know), so it seems as no go for RROS...
Can you help me to find a valid link to download modoco r7 EMUI style plz.
Taito2020 said:
Can you help me to find a valid link to download modoco r7 EMUI style plz.
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Did you try this download link? (Please read the instructions carefully. )
Yes , but unfortunately I got connection refused ... did you try to open the link cause I got error "connection refused" ? just to check the link.
I have stock EVA-L09C432B391 build number
On my clean device I have only 21.2 GB out of 32 GB free space
According to Settings -> Memory and Storage, firmware takes 6.92 GB, Apps take 796 MB, Cached Data takes 25.31 MB, and Other take 51.52 MB, so the sum gives about 7.8 GB, so I should have about 24.2 GB free space left, but I have only 21.2 GB
SO where did the remaining 3 GB go?
I heard that the clean P9 should have about 25 GB space left for the user
I was recently doing a lot of updates using Firmware Finder, so I'm guessing that maybe there are some leftover update packages somewhere?
I tried wiping partition cache but it didn't help
mugsy1 said:
I have stock EVA-L09C432B391 build number
On my clean device I have only 21.2 GB out of 32 GB free space
According to Settings -> Memory and Storage, firmware takes 6.92 GB, Apps take 796 MB, Cached Data takes 25.31 MB, and Other take 51.52 MB, so the sum gives about 7.8 GB, so I should have about 24.2 GB free space left, but I have only 21.2 GB
SO where did the remaining 3 GB go?
I heard that the clean P9 should have about 25 GB space left for the user
I was recently doing a lot of updates using Firmware Finder, so I'm guessing that maybe there are some leftover update packages somewhere?
I tried wiping partition cache but it didn't help
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Try using the cleanup function of the phone manager, or use, after you did the clean up, the storage manager option, there you can delete big files and hopefully your left over roms
_Frostplexx_ said:
Try using the cleanup function of the phone manager, or use, after you did the clean up, the storage manager option, there you can delete big files and hopefully your left over roms
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I did this and still no success
I also tried uninstalling the Firmware Finder and no success either
I tried various methods, but no app can find these 3 GB files
mugsy1 said:
I did this and still no success
I also tried uninstalling the Firmware Finder and no success either
I tried various methods, but no app can find these 3 GB files
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Ok. so i calculated my storage to and it was also 3 GB off! I'm guessing that these are some files hidden from the user and not showing, but still a part of the operating system (for example it could be an other partition).
mugsy1 said:
I did this and still no success
I also tried uninstalling the Firmware Finder and no success either
I tried various methods, but no app can find these 3 GB files
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32 GB Internal Memory includes also invisible system partitions you could see only on the rooted phone or from TWRP (if you flash it)