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[mepstein10]

So I am new here and just installed last nights build of Cyanogen 7 for the Thrill 4g. Everything works fine except an rather interesting problem. For some reason it says the internal memory is 0.98GB (it should have somewhere around 8GB) and any microsd card I put into (tried with 8GB and 16GB) it says the maximum memory is 5.57GB. I wanted to know if anyone else has run into this issue, or it is common and how to get everything working properly. I love Cyanogen, but I would like to have all my internal memory available.

Has no problems with the Ram which is nice. I'll try to answer any questions that are posed to me, but please be patient, I am completely new to android and hacking them, so when asking question, clarification would be appreciated.

Thank you very much.

[DJBhardwaj]

mepstein10, on 05 February 2012 - 05:33 AM, said:

So I am new here and just installed last nights build of Cyanogen 7 for the Thrill 4g. Everything works fine except an rather interesting problem. For some reason it says the internal memory is 0.98GB (it should have somewhere around 8GB) and any microsd card I put into (tried with 8GB and 16GB) it says the maximum memory is 5.57GB. I wanted to know if anyone else has run into this issue, or it is common and how to get everything working properly. I love Cyanogen, but I would like to have all my internal memory available.

Has no problems with the Ram which is nice. I'll try to answer any questions that are posed to me, but please be patient, I am completely new to android and hacking them, so when asking question, clarification would be appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Did you wipe everything like system, data, dalvik and cache before flashing?

Via LG Optimus-One reloaded with CM9 (ICS-4.0.3)

[mepstein10]

DJOptimus-One, on 05 February 2012 - 06:08 AM, said:

Did you wipe everything like system, data, dalvik and cache before flashing?

Via LG Optimus-One reloaded with CM9 (ICS-4.0.3)

Yes, everything was wiped before flashing.

So I got the SD card to show up as 14gb, but after I formatted it into fat32.

However, after I mounted the card,

it shows the following on the storage page:

SD CARD  
   Total Space
14.82GB
Available Space
13.72 GB

UNMOUNT SD CARD
ERASE SD CARD

Internal Storage
Total Space
0.98GB
Available Space
765 MB

Additional Storage:/mnt/emmc
Total Space:
5.57 GB
Available Space
5.57 GB

Unmount SD Card
Erase SD Card


Is the additional Storage, the rest of the internal memory? And if so, how do I access it?

I would have provided a screenshot if I could, but I am unable to, I am sorry.

Edited by mepstein10, 05 February 2012 - 07:43 AM.

[DJBhardwaj]

Completely format it using "SD Formater"
Then partition it again. FAT32 partitions are least supported by roms

[mepstein10]

I never partitioned it to begin
with. I wonder what the additional storage is and if it's usable or accessable.

[mepstein10]

DJOptimus-One, on 05 February 2012 - 12:52 PM, said:

Completely format it using "SD Formater"
Then partition it again. FAT32 partitions are least supported by roms

What is the SD formater? Is that the internal formating utility under settings? (erase sd card command, or is it located somewhere else.)

Also any idea why the internal memory is split into two segments, even though it was not partitioned? It thinks the internal memory is 0.98GB and the rest of the internal memory (5.57GB) it thinks is an SD card. So when I have an SD card connected in the phone it thinks that it has two sd cards. It's rather odd.

And I am also concerned for when I want to install something to the actual SD card, it would not know where to send the data, because it does not allow you to choose where to save the data, additional storage or internal or SD when you save it or install it. There is the option in but it only says auto, internal or external so I am unsure where it will be putting the data.

Wonder why two partitions were created by the mod in the first place.

Edited by mepstein10, 05 February 2012 - 09:51 PM.

[mepstein10]

And can't figure out how to access or do anything with the 5.57gb. Anyway to merge it with internal storage so that internal would be the full amount?

I never partitioned it do I am wondering how it got divided in the first place.

[DJBhardwaj]

If any partition is created in your sd-card, the application "SD Formater" will clear that partition.
Now if you want to mount ext partition in CM9, it should be FAT32/16.
To attain this, partition your SD card via recovery. select 0 swap and next select the the amount of space you want.
When the partition is created via recovery, connect your sd to pc (linux pc) and format it. This will convert your existing partition to FAT.

Thats it now it will mount sd-ext as FAT32/16 as supported by CM9.

[mepstein10]

I see but it is not the SD card that is the problem, it is the internal memory. I can access about 1gb of storage. It the rest I can't figure out what to do with or how to access. Thrill 4g should have 8gb of internal memory, but on this rom it is setup as 1gb and the rest is set as additional storage:/mnt/emmc

I can't figure out what I need to do to access it or move applications there.

Edit: I was able to access it by going into Cyanogenmod settings/application - use internal storage.

Now the problem with that is that it would consider that additional storage as an SD card and then the SD card would not be accessible. And changing use of that storage requires a reboot.

Unless I am missing something that is. I am not entirely certain what the purpose of designing the system this way would be....

Edited by mepstein10, 06 February 2012 - 11:38 PM.

[DJBhardwaj]

mepstein10, on 06 February 2012 - 05:52 PM, said:

I see but it is not the SD card that is the problem, it is the internal memory. I can access about 1gb of storage. It the rest I can't figure out what to do with or how to access. Thrill 4g should have 8gb of internal memory, but on this rom it is setup as 1gb and the rest is set as additional storage:/mnt/emmc

I can't figure out what I need to do to access it or move applications there.

Edit: I was able to access it by going into Cyanogenmod settings/application - use internal storage.

Now the problem with that is that it would consider that additional storage as an SD card and then the SD card would not be accessible. And changing use of that storage requires a reboot.

Unless I am missing something that is. I am not entirely certain what the purpose of designing the system this way would be....

okay i get it. You are using CM9.
God, it consumes so much of internal memory. I agree ( depends on your phonr rom size)
Thats a bit of a problem with every CM9 port
Its not just with you. Try deleting useless videos and audios using root explorer.
Now my case of internal memory in CM9

CM7 196MB / 200MB Available
CM9 102MB / 200MB Available

These are on first boot. You can see the 100MB difference when i have 200MB of internal storage.

[mepstein10]

DJOptimus-One, on 07 February 2012 - 06:03 AM, said:

okay i get it. You are using CM9.
God, it consumes so much of internal memory. I agree ( depends on your phonr rom size)
Thats a bit of a problem with every CM9 port
Its not just with you. Try deleting useless videos and audios using root explorer.
Now my case of internal memory in CM9

CM7 196MB / 200MB Available
CM9 102MB / 200MB Available

These are on first boot. You can see the 100MB difference when i have 200MB of internal storage.

Nope. Bootup screen says cm7. Also cm9 is ics, I am using gingerbread. It just doesn't allocate internal storage to one spot is all.

I have on the storage page

SD card
internal storage (root or home directory)
Additional storage. (Mnt/emmc)

The additional storage is the rest of the internal memory that I can't access easily. Wish there was a sceptre that would merge internal storage and additional storage.

[DJBhardwaj]

Is that the problem with every CM7 Thrill user ?

[mepstein10]

DJOptimus-One, on 07 February 2012 - 09:03 AM, said:

Is that the problem with every CM7 Thrill user ?

Although I can't say for sure I'd imagine so. I did several different cm7 build installs on two different thrills, with the exact same results. I guess either there are not many thrill users or they are not active on the forums.

[DJBhardwaj]

Try asking on XDA : http://forum.xda-dev...play.php?f=1265
Less people are active here, in our Optimus-One section only 1 more member apart from me is regularly active.