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Help Memory Swap + Link2SD, where is my memory?

dishe

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I'm using Links2SD to move my apps over to a 3GB partition of my 16GB SD card, and the remainig 13GB as been swapped with the internal storage using the script. It seems to have worked, but I'm finding that my internal memory (now listed as external SD card in storage) is still showing less and less free memory the more things I install.

I know the swap and Links2SD are working, because I purposely tried installing more apps than would fit in the 1GB availble, but I'm wondering if I'm doing it right- shouldn't the 700MB or so that I had free on my phone's internal storage not go down anymore once L2SD and swap are performed? I made sure the camera and other apps are saving to the correct locations as well, but its already gone down to 500MB!

When Links2SD says x amount of MB are linked to external, but another y amount of data is stored internally, is the app aware of the data swap? Like, is my "internal" there actually the SD storage that the phone THINKS is internal, or are applications still storing some of their data on my limited internal space? Trying to make sense of all this, please help!
 
I'm using Links2SD to move my apps over to a 3GB partition of my 16GB SD card, and the remainig 13GB as been swapped with the internal storage using the script. It seems to have worked, but I'm finding that my internal memory (now listed as external SD card in storage) is still showing less and less free memory the more things I install.

I know the swap and Links2SD are working, because I purposely tried installing more apps than would fit in the 1GB availble, but I'm wondering if I'm doing it right- shouldn't the 700MB or so that I had free on my phone's internal storage not go down anymore once L2SD and swap are performed? I made sure the camera and other apps are saving to the correct locations as well, but its already gone down to 500MB!

When Links2SD says x amount of MB are linked to external, but another y amount of data is stored internally, is the app aware of the data swap? Like, is my "internal" there actually the SD storage that the phone THINKS is internal, or are applications still storing some of their data on my limited internal space? Trying to make sense of all this, please help!
 
I'm having the same sort of issue. I installed Link2SD months ago and it initially allowed me to install more apps than I otherwise could have due to the meager space on the F3 internal card. But I'm no longer able to install apps and even when I go to update apps I get an "insufficient space" warning.

My system settings say that my internal storage total space is 1.24 GB, yet it also says that Apps are taking up 1.27 GB of space, which doesn't make any sense. It says my SD card total space is 22.44 GB and that all 22.44 GB are available - this after Link2SD has supposedly linked most of my apps to the SD card.

What am I missing here?
 
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