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JonathanWhitey

JonathanWhitey

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If I remember correctly, I remember it being advertised as 4gb internal memory but I only get 1.73. Am I right, or am I just not remembering right?
 
That 4GB includes, unfortunately, all of Samsung's system partitions, including /system, giving only 1.73GB of usable space
 
same case with me...
I have a huawei ascend y300 and it says 4 gb internal memory but i just got around 2 gb. 1 gb for apps and 1 gb for other stuff
 
A custom rom might open more space up, but I don't believe there are any stable roms for the Victory right now. The only thing I could think of is to root and remove the Samsung bloatware.
 
amaranthine said:
A custom rom might open more space up, but I don't believe there are any stable roms for the Victory right now. The only thing I could think of is to root and remove the Samsung bloatware.
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Maybe true, hard to say on the "open more space up". On the latter, not quite. This only frees up space to integrate app updates to the ROM (if they're for System Apps) which DOES free up App Space, but only some. Or integrating apps to the ROM entirely. Again, frees up some but not much space.
 
I was wondering this myself.

Link2SD works great though so I'm not worried about running out of space, but I was curious.

Would love a phone with multiple SD card slots.
 
Obviously deleting bloatware would free up internal space, unfortunately that's in the write protected system partition, most add on apps get written to the user partition. Without additional tools you won't gain much storage by removing bloat, however it might speed up your device if there are apps running in the background. :D
OB
 
OverByter said:
Obviously deleting bloatware would free up internal space, unfortunately that's in the write protected system partition, most add on apps get written to the user partition. Without additional tools you won't gain much storage by removing bloat, however it might speed up your device if there are apps running in the background. :D
OB
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On my stock phone, I cut the background process limit from standard down to one.
 
ericcc65 said:
Not sure what magic you worked but I just rooted my phone and installed Link2SD and it said it wouldn't work to move my apps.
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When using link2sd you also have to partition your sd card, the apps are stored on the extended partition.
OB
 
Ginxeng said:
How do you do that please?
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Between link2sd and external 2 internal you can have basically unlimited space on this phone. I have 10gb of games on my SD card and in my storage settings it actually shows up as 26gb of internal memory ..and the 1.73gb of real internal memory shows as external SD card.
 
TriumphLance said:
Between link2sd and external 2 internal you can have basically unlimited space on this phone. I have 10gb of games on my SD card and in my storage settings it actually shows up as 26gb of internal memory ..and the 1.73gb of real internal memory shows as external SD card.
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Can you use Link2SD and external 2 internal together?

For example, I want to store some app just on the internal storage, so I can use widgets with no issues. I could install the app to my Victory like usual. I have a second app (like a medium sized game) I use Link 2 SD in order to store part of it on internal storage and part of it on SD. Finally I want to install Real Racing 3, which is a big game and can't install into internal storage at all. So then I would use external 2 internal to install Real Racing 3 to my SD card directly.

Could I then revert back to using my SD card as an SD card, and then run Real Racing 3? I'd rather use my internal as internal storage, but I would love the option to use the SD card as internal only to install large games.
 
I'm using them together but so far I can't get games to run when I switch my actual internal back to virtual internal because it still looks at the internal memory for the data files and an error says its not enough storage. I'm thinking about trying another app called directory bind to accomplish this because I would rather have the internal used as it's supposed to be. Also I've noticed it messes up my camera apps ability to save photos.. still figuring everything out.
 
TriumphLance said:
Also I've noticed it messes up my camera apps ability to save photos.. still figuring everything out.
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The default when an sdcard is detected is to save to that sdcard, but if the internal and external are switched, it is still physically writing to the internal memory when set to sdcard, so in the camera app, set it to store to phone, and it will use your physical sdcard.

If it is hard to follow what I'm saying, it is because it is so hard to distinguish between the two when they are being flopped around so much :P
 
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