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internal storage
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I think one of the only few ways to address the storage issue outside of JVenes fix, is to start from scratch with a ROM, OS or Update. The problem lies in the operating system and code. Creating a sub directory Stor0 on the internal is just the system doing what it was coded to do by the operating system.
If LG was to rework a few things in the "upcoming" 4.4 Kit Kat update, they could fix this issue for us, and when the update flashes it instruct it to create the directory on our SD Card and use it and not the internal. It is not a hardware issue that's causing the problem, merely software and coding. Anyone that would be up for the job in doing a custom ROM could fix this too merely by restructuring the system to use the external card and not internal. Also the Stor0 directory Is just a mirror of another directory in the system.
If you read around and find the thread about the discovery of bluffing a LG Optimus F6 into thinking it is a Nexus 5 and it "unlocking" a higher 8MP mode on the F6. Now how funny the Google Nexus 5 has 16gbs internal storage however does not support External SD Card storage. The operating system devloped to be used on the N5 was written and coded to read from, write to and base it self off an internal storage device only.
Perhaps the F6 is using a direvitive of that structure, in a watered down 4.1 form of the OS. However with a code bug that left the F6 dependent on itself for storage. The Camera, the web browser and a lot of other stuff on the phone give you the option for internal or external. However the installing of and reading of apps or android/data and adroid/obb files doesn't come with this option. Why? Maybe something was left out, who knows... Only LG Does... So I ask, has anyone contacted LG in regards to this phone and this issue, or asked them what's up?
As I see it as well the T-Mobile version of this phone suffers the same issue. I had a lengthy convo earlier this week with a guy at T-Mobile and got to use both the T-Mobile and Metro versions of the F6 side by side. He was asking me a lot of these same questions I am asking about the phone.
I have never owned, used or tweaked a phone for myself or anyone else that has had this type of internal storage issue, hell not Huawei, Coolpad, Alcatel, not any of em. This is the first of its kind in my eyes, that uses this "Hybrid" sort of storage system. Not even the ill fated Coolpad Quattro suffered this, and this I'd expect from a company like Coolpad not LG.
I was using Link2SD the other day and just happened to click on one of the Move to SD options, it came up and said "Working" then "Error, your phone does not support native APP2SD capabilities."
Even when using the Move to SD Card option in the default App List/Settings/Apps/ it doesn't truly use the External SD Card, I've checked man i'll tell ya, no files. It uses some generic "USB Storage App location" almost as if it's using its own self as a mounted usb storage drive and not the External SD. One of the Apps I did the Move to SD Method with when it went to the USB Storage went from:
Storage:
Total:57.00MB
APP:49.00MB
USB Storage App:0.00B
Data:7.72MB
SD Card:0.00B
Move to SD --- Clear Data
Storage:
Total:67.00MBS
APP:29.00MBS
USB Storage App:30MB
Data:7.72MB
SD Card:0.00B
Move to Phone --- Clear Data
Weird.... File Sizes increased, not decreased.. and definitely didn't go to my External SD.
In no way does the F6 recognize or treat our external card as a mountable -rw system directory, merely only as our own "personal" cloud. Media uploaded via PC, or pictures taken and downloaded content from the web on the phone.
One looming question that dawns in the back of mind when I talk about this particular phone is as it should be for anyone that owns it.... Why specifically this phone and this storage issue?
I bought the phone on the guise like when I did with the Coolpad.. Eh 1.2Gb user storage, not great but manageable, with root and a few tweaks I could have it hooked up. Unpacked it, got it setup and went to go to town and got stopped dead in my tracks asking myself... "ok man, seriously.... wtf... is... this..?"
If LG was to rework a few things in the "upcoming" 4.4 Kit Kat update, they could fix this issue for us, and when the update flashes it instruct it to create the directory on our SD Card and use it and not the internal. It is not a hardware issue that's causing the problem, merely software and coding. Anyone that would be up for the job in doing a custom ROM could fix this too merely by restructuring the system to use the external card and not internal. Also the Stor0 directory Is just a mirror of another directory in the system.
If you read around and find the thread about the discovery of bluffing a LG Optimus F6 into thinking it is a Nexus 5 and it "unlocking" a higher 8MP mode on the F6. Now how funny the Google Nexus 5 has 16gbs internal storage however does not support External SD Card storage. The operating system devloped to be used on the N5 was written and coded to read from, write to and base it self off an internal storage device only.
Perhaps the F6 is using a direvitive of that structure, in a watered down 4.1 form of the OS. However with a code bug that left the F6 dependent on itself for storage. The Camera, the web browser and a lot of other stuff on the phone give you the option for internal or external. However the installing of and reading of apps or android/data and adroid/obb files doesn't come with this option. Why? Maybe something was left out, who knows... Only LG Does... So I ask, has anyone contacted LG in regards to this phone and this issue, or asked them what's up?
As I see it as well the T-Mobile version of this phone suffers the same issue. I had a lengthy convo earlier this week with a guy at T-Mobile and got to use both the T-Mobile and Metro versions of the F6 side by side. He was asking me a lot of these same questions I am asking about the phone.
I have never owned, used or tweaked a phone for myself or anyone else that has had this type of internal storage issue, hell not Huawei, Coolpad, Alcatel, not any of em. This is the first of its kind in my eyes, that uses this "Hybrid" sort of storage system. Not even the ill fated Coolpad Quattro suffered this, and this I'd expect from a company like Coolpad not LG.
I was using Link2SD the other day and just happened to click on one of the Move to SD options, it came up and said "Working" then "Error, your phone does not support native APP2SD capabilities."
Even when using the Move to SD Card option in the default App List/Settings/Apps/ it doesn't truly use the External SD Card, I've checked man i'll tell ya, no files. It uses some generic "USB Storage App location" almost as if it's using its own self as a mounted usb storage drive and not the External SD. One of the Apps I did the Move to SD Method with when it went to the USB Storage went from:
Storage:
Total:57.00MB
APP:49.00MB
USB Storage App:0.00B
Data:7.72MB
SD Card:0.00B
Move to SD --- Clear Data
Storage:
Total:67.00MBS
APP:29.00MBS
USB Storage App:30MB
Data:7.72MB
SD Card:0.00B
Move to Phone --- Clear Data
Weird.... File Sizes increased, not decreased.. and definitely didn't go to my External SD.
In no way does the F6 recognize or treat our external card as a mountable -rw system directory, merely only as our own "personal" cloud. Media uploaded via PC, or pictures taken and downloaded content from the web on the phone.
One looming question that dawns in the back of mind when I talk about this particular phone is as it should be for anyone that owns it.... Why specifically this phone and this storage issue?
I bought the phone on the guise like when I did with the Coolpad.. Eh 1.2Gb user storage, not great but manageable, with root and a few tweaks I could have it hooked up. Unpacked it, got it setup and went to go to town and got stopped dead in my tracks asking myself... "ok man, seriously.... wtf... is... this..?"