So probably a stupid question and I'm guessing I already have the answer. When roms come out and we want to flash them, does that mean every single time any pictures, screenshots, downloads, etc I have on my phone I have to backup every single time? I'm guessing the answer is yes but I haven't had a phone without an external SD card slot. I also haven't had a new phone in a long time.
The answer is no. Just don't wipe internal storage. Factory reset also does not wipe internal
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You don't have to as the internal storage does not get wiped. It is advisable however to back up every time that you fiddle with your system. Most of the times you won't need it...but there will be that one time that you will...
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You don't have to as the internal storage does not get wiped. It is advisable however to back up every time that you fiddle with your system. Most of the times you won't need it...but there will be that one time that you will...
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The answer is no. Just don't wipe internal storage. Factory reset also does not wipe internal
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Hey thanks guys. It's been awhile since I had a good phone that I could flash and do stuff on. Appreciate the answers.
also get used to using adb to flash the roms in twrp. makes it a bit easier than having to move the rom over and then flash.
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also get used to using adb to flash the roms in twrp. makes it a bit easier than having to move the rom over and then flash.
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Been getting pretty acquainted with ADB these last couple days. I'll be sure to keep that in mind. Thanks for the tip.
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Been getting pretty acquainted with ADB these last couple days. I'll be sure to keep that in mind. Thanks for the tip.
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this should be helpful https://twrp.me/faq/ADBSideload.html
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The answer is no. Just don't wipe internal storage. Factory reset also does not wipe internal
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"Factory reset also does not wipe internal"
What? You mean factory reset from custom roms? Because factory reset from stock roms wipe everything
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"Factory reset also does not wipe internal"
What? You mean factory reset from custom roms? Because factory reset from stock roms wipe everything
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From twrp custom recovery. Which is what he was asking about. Please, don't be difficult.
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this should be helpful https://twrp.me/faq/ADBSideload.html
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Thank you. That seems to be similar to the regular side load but with TWRP it looks like. I was messing around with the regular side load the last couple days with Android Q. By the time roms come out, I'll be nice and ready with all the tips and messing around with it myself.
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Thank you. That seems to be similar to the regular side load but with TWRP it looks like. I was messing around with the regular side load the last couple days with Android Q. By the time roms come out, I'll be nice and ready with all the tips and messing around with it myself.
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I hope so. The pixel 2xl was notoriously difficult and finicky. What worked with my device may not work with the next. Hope that we don't have that kinda experience with the 3a
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Battery cases abound. I'd kill for a micro-SD case for the pixel phones. Throw a card in, put the case on, boom: internal storage. Wouldn't have to be too thick of a case, righter - they could probably make a decently thin case if all they are adding is the microSD slot and power/data passthru for the USB-C...
...or even a tiny flash-drive with US-C/Data passthru that I could just leave connected to the device.
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I hope so. The pixel 2xl was notoriously difficult and finicky. What worked with my device may not work with the next. Hope that we don't have that kinda experience with the 3a
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Hopefully. I haven't had a good phone to flash roms in awhile. Really hoping we get some good ones on this. And it would be nice if it wasn't difficult like the 2xl problems you're talking about.
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Battery cases abound. I'd kill for a micro-SD case for the pixel phones. Throw a card in, put the case on, boom: internal storage. Wouldn't have to be too thick of a case, righter - they could probably make a decently thin case if all they are adding is the microSD slot and power/data passthru for the USB-C...
...or even a tiny flash-drive with US-C/Data passthru that I could just leave connected to the device.
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Man, that would be amazing. I'm still wondering if I'm gonna get a case. I'm usually really good with my phones.
oh another thing that comes in real handy when you dont have an sd card is a smb share or network drive/nas. i will move stuff to mine from my pc and then just move it to my phone using solid explorer(lots of other file managers support this too). works really fast, especially if you have a router that supports ac wireless
Just a question... I obviously don't have my 3a yet. Need to wait until next month, but isn't the 3a full VNDK treble? If so wouldn't flashing a GSI work just fine? I.E.: "fastboot flash system GSI.img"?
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I received my Transformer about 3 1/2 hours ago. So far I think it is just great!! I do have a question I bought a 16 gb micro sd card and there are no instructions I can find in manual and I have been unable to install the card. I push it in and it just pops right back out. Any and all info on this or tips in general about the device are greatly and warmly appreciated
You just keep pushing until it locks in unless your device is defective. I had to use my thumbnail to push it in. It's pretty standard.
Just push it all the way in. It should click into place and should be flush with the casing
Also. Make sure the "words-letters" on the micro SD card are facing the screen. Use your nail or maybe to push it in
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Just push it all the way in. It should click into place and should be flush with the casing
Also. Make sure the "words-letters" on the micro SD card are facing the screen. Use your nail or maybe to push it in
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Finally got it in. never have had to push that hard with sd cards in the past. So far I really really like this device. I have tried the Xoom and the Acer Iconia and they do not compare at all to what I have experienced so far with the TRansformer. Thought about rooting it but right after turning it on I got notification of an update so I let it do its thing ad it turned out it was for 3.01 not 3.1 I guess the 3.1 update is to be pushed out tomorrow, so I believe I will wait. Any one way easier than another as far as rooting and applying cwm recovery? I notice there are a couple posted in dev section. Thanks for all of the help.
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Finally got it in. never have had to push that hard with sd cards in the past. So far I really really like this device. I have tried the Xoom and the Acer Iconia and they do not compare at all to what I have experienced so far with the TRansformer. Thought about rooting it but right after turning it on I got notification of an update so I let it do its thing ad it turned out it was for 3.01 not 3.1 I guess the 3.1 update is to be pushed out tomorrow, so I believe I will wait. Any one way easier than another as far as rooting and applying cwm recovery? I notice there are a couple posted in dev section. Thanks for all of the help.
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Easiest way is downgrade to .9 and use BLOB_V5 following this guide http://androidroot.mobi/asus-eee-pad-transformer-tf101-root-cwm-recovery/
I suggest flashing 3.1 primeordial after rooting.
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Easiest way is downgrade to .9 and use BLOB_V5 following this guide http://androidroot.mobi/asus-eee-pad-transformer-tf101-root-cwm-recovery/
I suggest flashing 3.1 primeordial after rooting.
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ok thanks!! I am not sure what I will do yet. Going to wait a day or two to see if I will be keeping it. Can we not send text messages with this device? I thought with wifi it would be possible. Anyone know???
tenbeau said:
ok thanks!! I am not sure what I will do yet. Going to wait a day or two to see if I will be keeping it. Can we not send text messages with this device? I thought with wifi it would be possible. Anyone know???
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Sync SMS works in conjunction with dropbox.
market.android.com/details?id=com.d0lph1nk1ng.syncsms&feature=search_result
not sure if there are any free alternatives.
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Sync SMS works in conjunction with dropbox.
market.android.com/details?id=com.d0lph1nk1ng.syncsms&feature=search_result
not sure if there are any free alternatives.
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Thanks i will be getting that app and adding dropbox.
not to piggy back on this topic but....Does Google voice work with honeycomb?
david279 said:
not to piggy back on this topic but....Does Google voice work with honeycomb?
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i miss this the most.
google voice has telephony dependencies which means in it's current state it will not work on a tablet without voice functions.... but the google team says they're working on it.
hmmm, i did some more looking and found a modded apk that might work. forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=537977&d=1299700727
edit 2: newer version: forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13545805&postcount=172
edit 3: i installed it and it works fine.
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I suggest flashing 3.1 primeordial after rooting.
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What makes this ROM any better than the stock?
Digiguest said:
What makes this ROM any better than the stock?
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Optimized SD card speed, BusyBox, CIFS, Tun (OpenVPN) preloaded and root access. You can use SetCPU to downclock when you have your screen off, saves more battery. Titanium Backup is also a good one that lets you backup just about anything and disable any preloaded software.
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Optimized SD card speed, BusyBox, CIFS, Tun (OpenVPN) preloaded and root access. You can use SetCPU to downclock when you have your screen off, saves more battery. Titanium Backup is also a good one that lets you backup just about anything and disable any preloaded software.
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To be honest, on phones I don't mind rooting / ROM'ing (if that's a term), but with my TF I'm way too protective. I'm beginning to realize that when you root / tinker things can definitely start to go wrong and often times bugs are introduced / performance can actually degrade over time at least. Then again, I don't have issues with battery life/speed at all or need any of the extra features provided by new kernels / ROMs. The only thing I do really miss is removing the bloat, but personally I'd rather know that the OS is coming directly from ASUS/Google and hasn't been toyed with at all
I know most people, especially on these forums will disagree though
Why do people always say to wipe the cache 2 to 3 times when flashing a fresh ROM?
Is there a bug in the wipe code that leave little bits left behind?
If there's no bug, then doing it ONCE is plenty. Anything else seems like ignorance and ghetto science.
It was common practice back when we were sharing a recovery not specific to our device. We now have the correct recoveries and this is no longer needed.
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Maybe it is needed process since some noobs been known to ignore the processes or simply forget and results in bad flash. I sometimes I even forget to do a nandroid backup as well and go through that annoying process of setting up everything again.
I had been flash wiping once and no problem what so ever with sk8's.
Nothing is never truely fully gone with only one delete
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I have been using this practice since SKYJB. It may not be necessary but for the time it takes it really does not hurt either. As a result when installing various ROMS I do not have issues that some have.
So can only be a good practice to take...aside from the couple of extra minutes.
StolenVW said:
Nothing is never truely fully gone with only one delete
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So, the software is buggy? Is there someplace to report the bug?
A wipe should do just that and not leave anything behind.
Once is all that's required, unless you're OCD in which case you can never do it too many times.
Seriously, the benefits of multiple wipes or formats are a baseless myth.
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Once is all that's required, unless you're OCD in which case you can never do it too many times.
Seriously, the benefits of multiple wipes or formats are a baseless myth.
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Yep. I've never wiped more than once and have never had any issues. Plus the way I look at it is storage has a usable life span. By doing all those extra wipes you're wasting that life span. Just the way I look at it.
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Once is all that's required, unless you're OCD in which case you can never do it too many times.
Seriously, the benefits of multiple wipes or formats are a baseless myth.
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I'm equal parts OCD and paranoid. One of my first flashes on my Captivate almost went horribly wrong (brick-level wrong) because CWM failed to wipe a couple pieces of system data while switching from stock to an AOSP ROM. FC's all over the place, unusable phone, and on the third try after fixing permissions, it refused to boot to the system. Ever since then, wipe x3 for everything.
That said, it's really unnecessary with sk8's CWM and TWRP, and my doing so is merely further proof of my insanity.
Lol tj
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If Vincom says wipe x2 or x3 I do as he says.
Thank you Vincom.
watamat said:
If Vincom says wipe x2 or x3 I do as he says.
Thank you Vincom.
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Who left and made vincom king? Ohh right, seanz. Is SuperFetus out yet?
I still will never understand why threads continue to go on after the correct answer was given in the first reply. Again by crazy.
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Who left and made vincom king? Ohh right, seanz. Is SuperFetus out yet?
I still will never understand why threads continue to go on after the correct answer was given in the first reply. Again by crazy.
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Because they refuse to believe xcrazy is correct lol.
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i usually now recommend 2x, why..... old habits, ive seen stuff stick after only 1 wipe(rare), i'm paranoid and i forget if i wiped a certain partition or not, if wiping does bork the phones memory because of overwiping then mine, devs and flashaholics phones should of been dead along time ago.
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if wiping does bork the phones memory because of overwiping then mine, devs and flashaholics phones should of been dead along time ago.
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How many flash drives go bad? Not a large percentage but the ones that do do so because of being corrupted. I'd rather do as little as possible to achieve the same result.
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Nothing is never truely fully gone with only one delete
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Yeah, in terms of memory forensics. With one wipe its easy to deduce your last rom of choice memory. BUT one correct wipe will clear your rom for a fresh install.
Do you think Google will add SD Slot on the new nexus line or will they keep it without it so people can use more "cloud" ????
Trying to think if I should wait or not to buy a new phone
BruKnowsBest said:
Do you think Google will add SD Slot on the new nexus line or will they keep it without it so people can use more "cloud" ????
Trying to think if I should wait or not to buy a new phone
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Not adding a SD card slot is part of Google's policy for many years.
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Do you think Google will add SD Slot on the new nexus line or will they keep it without it so people can use more "cloud" ????
Trying to think if I should wait or not to buy a new phone
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SD card or not? I don't think is a problem, with a 32GB phone you have plenty of space. Now, if you like having a lot of music, photos, videos and movies it might not be enough. The SD card option is always welcome, after reading all of google reasons not to include a SD card on the nexus line up, I still don't get it. Is always nice to have some extra space.
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SD card or not? I don't think is a problem, with a 32GB phone you have plenty of space. Now, if you like having a lot of music, photos, videos and movies it might not be enough. The SD card option is always welcome, after reading all of google reasons not to include a SD card on the nexus line up, I still don't get it. Is always nice to have some extra space.
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Primokorn said:
Not adding a SD card slot is part of Google's policy for many years.
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That sucks
A nexus device with a SD Slot would be perfect
BruKnowsBest said:
That sucks
A nexus device with a SD Slot would be perfect
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I had a Galaxy S II and a Note II and I'm now more than happy to not have sd card issues or difficulties to reverse internal/external memory and so on...
32GB is enough on my end even if we can expect a 64GB model.
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I had a Galaxy S II and a Note II and I'm now more than happy to not have sd card issues or difficulties to reverse internal/external memory and so on...
32GB is enough on my end even if we can expect a 64GB model.
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I had an S3. I didn't have too many issues with /extSdCard. It was nice having the extra memory but in this day and age, I no longer see the need for one as long as I have sufficient onboard space. That said, I bought the 16 GB N5 and it turned out it was not enough for me.
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I had an S3. I didn't have too many issues with /extSdCard. It was nice having the extra memory but in this day and age, I no longer see the need for one as long as I have sufficient onboard space. That said, I bought the 16 GB N5 and it turned out it was not enough for me.
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Actually I didn't have any issue with my Note II but I saw a LOT of users who were complaining about this or were wondering about how to apply such mod or how to return to a regular setup... It was a pain. We do not have this on the N5 and that's a good thing.
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Actually I didn't have any issue with my Note II but I saw a LOT of users who were complaining about this or were wondering about how to apply such mod or how to return to a regular setup... It was a pain. We do not have this on the N5 and that's a good thing.
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Yep I agree.
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Actually I didn't have any issue with my Note II but I saw a LOT of users who were complaining about this or were wondering about how to apply such mod or how to return to a regular setup... It was a pain. We do not have this on the N5 and that's a good thing.
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Yep I agree.
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I had an S4 and it was great having extra space and never had problems, the reason why I would like to have one is because last week I had a situation with my nexus 5, I tried to install the SNAPSHOT M10 (CM11) OTA and I had a Nightly version installed so it messed up my phone and I had to push another ROM thru ADB .... if I had the SD slot I could've just plugged in an SD card on the computer and copied to the card
yea, and I got the 16GB N5 too, doesn't seem to be enough
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I had an S4 and it was great having extra space and never had problems, the reason why I would like to have one is because last week I had a situation with my nexus 5, I tried to install the SNAPSHOT M10 (CM11) OTA and I had a Nightly version installed so it messed up my phone and I had to push another ROM thru ADB .... if I had the SD slot I could've just plugged in an SD card on the computer and copied to the card
yea, and I got the 16GB N5 too, doesn't seem to be enough
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You wouldn't have had to remove the sdcard. Just mount USB mass storage from recovery
adb push is only a minor inconvenience. You should be able to do it in your sleep.
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None of my phones have had one, so while I may not know what I'm missing it seems I'm fine without it. Last phone was 16GB and currently at 32GB. I only ever keep a few albums of music on at one time, and I delete most videos or games when I'm done with them.
If I did use one I would make sure to buy the fastest SD card avaiable that cost 3x as much, as I would not want it to become a bottleneck.
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You wouldn't have had to remove the sdcard. Just mount USB mass storage from recovery
adb push is only a minor inconvenience. You should be able to do it in your sleep.
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I just recently learned ADB and stuff ....I'm a noob when it comes to things like this, but that's why I love nexus devices so much, it's easier to learn, I almost bricked my Galaxy S4 trying to root it
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I just recently learned ADB and stuff ....I'm a noob when it comes to things like this, but that's why I love nexus devices so much, it's easier to learn, I almost bricked my Galaxy S4 trying to root it
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I'll never own a sammy again. Such a volatile device
Did you read my adb and fastboot thread?
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I'll never own a sammy again. Such a volatile device
Did you read my adb and fastboot thread?
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Você tem o link da thread?
Oh damn my bad I wrote that in portuguese...
Do you have the link to the thread?
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Você tem o link da thread?
Oh damn my bad I wrote that in portuguese...
Do you have the link to the thread?
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You can get it from my signature
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You can get it from my signature
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Cool, I'll check once I am back at the office, tapatalk doesn't show signatures
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Cool, I'll check once I am back at the office, tapatalk doesn't show signatures
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Nope it doesn't.
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SD card or not? I don't think is a problem, with a 32GB phone you have plenty of space. Now, if you like having a lot of music, photos, videos and movies it might not be enough. The SD card option is always welcome, after reading all of google reasons not to include a SD card on the nexus line up, I still don't get it. Is always nice to have some extra space.
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32gb is definitely not enough. I need that amount of space just for my apps, and AT LEAST another 32gb for my music. That's one of the main reasons why I always have an iPhone as well- more storage space. I had the 64gb iPhone 5s and it was maxed. My 32gb N5 is maxed, and I don't have a single song on it. I can't stand streaming music.
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32gb is definitely not enough. I need that amount of space just for my apps, and AT LEAST another 32gb for my music. That's one of the main reasons why I always have an iPhone as well- more storage space. I had the 64gb iPhone 5s and it was maxed. My 32gb N5 is maxed, and I don't have a single song on it. I can't stand streaming music.
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I hear you, but Google Play Music is not bad, the problem is that you need to have internet to listen to your songs... but i wanted more space for my music, I have over 80gb of music on my PC and I wanna be able to play them on my phone without having to stream it thru Play Music
I have an old iPod Video (1st gen) that I se for my music, it has 120GB and it's almost maxed with videos and music
For me, Play music just doesn't cut it. Every file I've ever listened to from Play has had horrible compression artifacts. Spotify extreme quality is passable in a pinch, but I like my lossless files. ALAC on iPod/iPhone, FLAC on everything else.
Apparently I'm using just 13gb. The total is 55gb and my available is 26.6gb.
55-13=26.6gb?
It works out that I've actually got nearer 40gb which is quite a bit below 55gb, let alone the 64gb stated (OK 9gb for OS etc, still 9gb is loads for just CM11 nightly IMO).
Normal.
Doesn't appear correct. Did you factory reset and wipe data before flash cm11? I don't own an Opo yet, but make sure you follow the instructions about how to change the rom.
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Doesn't appear correct. Did you factory reset and wipe data before flash cm11? I don't own an Opo yet, but make sure you follow the instructions about how to change the rom.
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It is correct. You don't have to own a OPO in order to know that this is normal. @Aridon is right but he didn't elaborate on it. Replying with a one word reply doesn't help anyone unless its a yes or no answer.
I don't feel like explaining on why its not 64GB and only 54GB. http://superuser.com/questions/504/why-are-hard-drives-never-as-large-as-advertised read that instead.
Hope it helps.
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It is correct. You don't have to own a OPO in order to know that this is normal. @Aridon is right but he didn't elaborate on it. Replying with a one word reply doesn't help anyone unless its a yes or no answer.
I don't feel like explaining on why its not 64GB and only 54GB. http://superuser.com/questions/504/why-are-hard-drives-never-as-large-as-advertised read that instead.
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I think you are wrong. Can you post a screenshot of your oneplus storage?
Sum all if his usage. It's about 14gb. The count doesn't match. 64gb (64.000.000.000.000) =~ 59.5gb
I know the full capacity is right, but the sum doesn't match.
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I think you are wrong. Can you post a screenshot of your oneplus storage?
Sum all if his usage. It's about 14gb. The count doesn't match. 64gb (64.000.000.000.000) =~ 59.5gb
I know the full capacity is right, but the sum doesn't match.
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I don't need to screenshot my oneplus storage. Its 54GB, every OnePlus One (64GB) is 54.87GB.
Whats advertised on the phone (64GB) is not what you actually get. This is applied on everything storage related, USB flash drives, iPods, other phones, SD card expansions, hard drives, SSDs, etc.
I'm a Computer Science major.
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I don't need to screenshot my oneplus storage. Its 54GB, every OnePlus One (64GB) is 54.87GB.
Whats advertised on the phone (64GB) is not what you actually get. This is applied on everything storage related, USB flash drives, iPods, other phones, SD card expansions, hard drives, SSDs, etc.
I'm a Computer Science major.
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I just want to make my point. Did you sum his space used with free space?
I think OP has hidden files from stock rom that weren't removed when he changed the rom.
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I just want to make my point. Did you sum his space used with free space?
I think OP has hidden files from stock rom that weren't removed when he changed the rom.
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When you wipe, everything from your prior rom installation is removed. If it was a bad wipe, then the ROM wouldn't have booted.
I don't even know why I need to prove this to you. I understand you're trying to help but I know this kind of stuff, heres your screenshot.
As I said again, its normal.
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When you wipe, everything from your prior rom installation is removed. If it was a bad wipe, then the ROM wouldn't have booted.
I don't even know why I need to prove this to you. I understand you're trying to help but I know this kind of stuff, heres your screenshot.
As I said again, its normal.
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Your screen is totally different from the OP. As I supposed, you didn't sum his storage sections.
So, as I said, it isn't normal. He has at least 14 gb of space lost.
Look at your available space and OP available space. Then look at both used space.
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Your screen is totally different from the OP. As I supposed, you didn't sum his storage sections.
So, as I said, it isn't normal. He has at least 14 gb of space lost.
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It is not totally different. My dpi is lower than the stock dpi. What do you want me to do now? Lower my dpi just to prove something to you?
You're the only one here saying it isn't when it is. The lost space is explained in http://superuser.com/questions/504/why-are-hard-drives-never-as-large-as-advertised as I've linked a long time ago.
It is normal and when you do get a OPO, you'll see that its on your phone too. Everybodies phone is like this.
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It is not totally different. My dpi is lower than the stock dpi. What do you want me to do now? Lower my dpi just to prove something to you?
You're the only one here saying it isn't when it is. The lost space is explained in http://superuser.com/questions/504/why-are-hard-drives-never-as-large-as-advertised as I've linked a long time ago.
It is normal and when you do get a OPO, you'll see that its on your phone too. Everybodies phone is like this.
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I'm not talking about screen design. Sum your available data, apps data, pictures data, audio data, misc data. Make the same with the OP screen.
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I don't need to screenshot my oneplus storage. Its 54GB, every OnePlus One (64GB) is 54.87GB.
Whats advertised on the phone (64GB) is not what you actually get. This is applied on everything storage related, USB flash drives, iPods, other phones, SD card expansions, hard drives, SSDs, etc.
I'm a Computer Science major.
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I can accept that only 54-55gb is the total available.
However using 14gb that should mean I have 40gb available, however it shows I have 26gb....
Ahm, you should know that the OS takes space on your phone too [emoji317]
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Ahm, you should know that the OS takes space on your phone too [emoji317]
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I thought that's why its 55 instead of 64.
But even if that's not true and the OS comes out of the 55, the OS accounts for 14-15gb to take me down to 40gb available? I didn't know the CM11 nightly was so heavy?
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I thought that's why its 55 instead of 64.
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It's 55 instead of 64 because of: http://superuser.com/questions/504/why-are-hard-drives-never-as-large-as-advertised
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Yeah, and that's why the usable space on the device is only 55gb, that isn't what he's talking about though if you read the thread properly.
shure2 said:
I thought that's why its 55 instead of 64.
But even if that's not true and the OS comes out of the 55, the OS accounts for 14-15gb to take me down to 40gb available? I didn't know the CM11 nightly was so heavy?
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The OS doesn't come out of the 55gb, it comes out of the 64gb, and that's why you're left with 55gb. As for why you seem to be missing an extra 15gb, I really don't know.
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I found on my old Nexus 4 that Nandroid backups were never shown in the Usage stats, but obviously took up space.
Could this be the case?
davehunt83 said:
I found on my old Nexus 4 that Nandroid backups were never shown in the Usage stats, but obviously took up space.
Could this be the case?
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It comes under 'misc' for me, under clockworkmod
OP, try running df on terminal emulator. Don't think it will show more than what you already have but maybe it'll.
Clarifying, 64gb is actually 64.000.000.000.000 bytes which is equal to 59.5gb. Opo system partitions (system + cache) might have around 5gb, as user storage availability is around 54gb
Definitely there are some files hidden on OP phone in a hidden partition. I think it's somehow related to userdata from a previous rom. I've see that in another device.
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OP, try running df on terminal emulator. Don't think it will show more than what you already have but maybe it'll.
Clarifying, 64gb is actually 64.000.000.000.000 bytes which is equal to 59.5gb. Opo system partitions (system + cache) might have around 5gb, as user storage availability is around 54gb
Definitely there are some files hidden on OP phone in a hidden partition. I think it's somehow related to userdata from a previous rom. I've see that in another device.
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Thanks for your feedback. I'll search for that hidden partition. I've flashed a lot of ROMs so that may well be it
Looking at this Pixel 2 as my next phone and saw that Google Photos backs up to the cloud. Is that able to be turned off?
Would rather not have cloud storage. Also, coming from the HTC One M8 and its photo gallery. Is there not a gallery in this phone?
Thanks.
fjm568 said:
Looking at this Pixel 2 as my next phone and saw that Google Photos backs up to the cloud. Is that able to be turned off?
Would rather not have cloud storage. Also, coming from the HTC One M8 and its photo gallery. Is there not a gallery in this phone?
Thanks.
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You can turn off uploading but the photos is your gallery.
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There is an option to turn off backup & sync within the Photos app. Settings > Backup & Sync.
Photos is the only gallery app but you can always install another (though I haven't).
why would you turn it off? its exclusive to pixel 2 owners that you get until 2021 free original quality storage. you might regret if you dont do the automatic back up some point but then your choice is still your choice. got people complaining where are their photos coming from non nexus or pixel devices after factory data reset, then they blame google because google should give them what they need coz we are google. had hard times explaining.
reyscott said:
why would you turn it off? its exclusive to pixel 2 owners that you get until 2021 free original quality storage. you might regret if you dont do the automatic back up some point but then your choice is still your choice. got people complaining where are their photos coming from non nexus or pixel devices after factory data reset, then they blame google because google should give them what they need coz we are google. had hard times explaining.
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Some people don't want Google to have everything. It is the way it is. What if Google introduced a bug that made it use mobile data and viola high bill because some of these people are on a metered connection.
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Tidbits said:
Some people don't want Google to have everything. It is the way it is. What if Google introduced a bug that made it use mobile data and viola high bill because some of these people are on a metered connection.
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point well taken..
Tidbits said:
Some people don't want Google to have everything. It is the way it is. What if Google introduced a bug that made it use mobile data and viola high bill because some of these people are on a metered connection.
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Although I understand your point, in your specific example, if someone was that worried about metered data, then they would also likely have their phone monitor data usage and provide a warning once it exceeds a certain threshold. It's a basic feature built into android and wouldn't require disabling the key feature in what is probably the greatest FREE photo sync app in the world.
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Although I understand your point, in your specific example, if someone was that worried about metered data, then they would also likely have their phone monitor data usage and provide a warning once it exceeds a certain threshold. It's a basic feature built into android and wouldn't require disabling the key feature in what is probably the greatest FREE photo sync app in the world.
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One could also argue protection remember when iCloud got compromised? There's a lot of reasons why just what some people.
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One could also argue protection remember when iCloud got compromised? There's a lot of reasons why just what some people.
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Yeah, that's another valid point. But to clarify, the iCloud accounts that got hacked were celebrities. They are much more of a target than the rest of us.
Tidbits said:
Some people don't want Google to have everything. It is the way it is.
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^^This.
A little scepticism is healthy.
I would prefer to control my own data and storage. Too many stories of people either losing their data when the cloud services shut down or having to pay to get their data back. Or the photobucket fiasco.
On a side note, IMO, 2 things would make the Pixel 2 perfect, an sd card, and a removable battery. Hell, if my M8 had a removable battery, I wouldn't be thinking of getting a new phone.
Thanks for the replies. Will most likely be ordering the Pixel 2 soon.
PuffDaddy_d said:
Yeah, that's another valid point. But to clarify, the iCloud accounts that got hacked were celebrities. They are much more of a target than the rest of us.
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Could have been more than that but of course more fanfare for celebrities than the average Joe's.
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fjm568 said:
^^This.
A little scepticism is healthy.
I would prefer to control my own data and storage. Too many stories of people either losing their data when the cloud services shut down or having to pay to get their data back. Or the photobucket fiasco.
On a side note, IMO, 2 things would make the Pixel 2 perfect, an sd card, and a removable battery. Hell, if my M8 had a removable battery, I wouldn't be thinking of getting a new phone.
Thanks for the replies. Will most likely be ordering the Pixel 2 soon.
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Not ideal, but on the subject of SD cards, I think I've read that you can use the adapter that came with the device to attach a flash drive for OTG. Not positive on that, just something I vaguely recall reading over the past week.
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Not ideal, but on the subject of SD cards, I think I've read that you can use the adapter that came with the device to attach a flash drive for OTG. Not positive on that, just something I vaguely recall reading over the past week.
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I figured OTG was possible. Have my M8 set up to save pics and TiBkp backups to my SD card. Have a few apps that I backup regularly. I just hate not having the SD card for the backups in case the phone crashes and I have to do a factory reset or worse, not being able to recover anything from phone. Had a few times with the M8 where battery got too low and phone lost settings and reset itself. Had to reflash OS and restore apps and data. PITA, to say the least.
I know what some of you guys are going to say, that that's why you back up to the cloud. How many times do you hear of people assuming their stuff is backed up to the cloud, when come to find out, it wasn't.
There are times where I have poor cell reception and I put the phone in airplane mode and no Wi-Fi access, then I don't have any cloud backup. It would be so much easier just to have an SD card.
fjm568 said:
I figured OTG was possible. Have my M8 set up to save pics and TiBkp backups to my SD card. Have a few apps that I backup regularly. I just hate not having the SD card for the backups in case the phone crashes and I have to do a factory reset or worse, not being able to recover anything from phone. Had a few times with the M8 where battery got too low and phone lost settings and reset itself. Had to reflash OS and restore apps and data. PITA, to say the least.
I know what some of you guys are going to say, that that's why you back up to the cloud. How many times do you hear of people assuming their stuff is backed up to the cloud, when come to find out, it wasn't.
There are times where I have poor cell reception and I put the phone in airplane mode and no Wi-Fi access, then I don't have any cloud backup. It would be so much easier just to have an SD card.
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I feel ya, I have my own concerns about big data and digitizing all of my own content, so you won't get that from me. Sadly just not going to be a mainstream opinion these days.
fjm568 said:
I figured OTG was possible. Have my M8 set up to save pics and TiBkp backups to my SD card. Have a few apps that I backup regularly. I just hate not having the SD card for the backups in case the phone crashes and I have to do a factory reset or worse, not being able to recover anything from phone. Had a few times with the M8 where battery got too low and phone lost settings and reset itself. Had to reflash OS and restore apps and data. PITA, to say the least.
I know what some of you guys are going to say, that that's why you back up to the cloud. How many times do you hear of people assuming their stuff is backed up to the cloud, when come to find out, it wasn't.
There are times where I have poor cell reception and I put the phone in airplane mode and no Wi-Fi access, then I don't have any cloud backup. It would be so much easier just to have an SD card.
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This is what I have used. Way cheaper now than when I bought mine.
SanDisk Ultra USB Type-C 128GB Flash Drive (SDCZ450-128G-G46) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BUSN0DO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_yJO8zbRAJ7YDM
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Just to clarify the data usage issue photos will only back up to the cloud on wifi but default. You have to tell it to use cell data.
DontPushButtons said:
Not ideal, but on the subject of SD cards, I think I've read that you can use the adapter that came with the device to attach a flash drive for OTG. Not positive on that, just something I vaguely recall reading over the past week.
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This is correct. I've just this day used the supplied OTG adapter to backup some photos from my Pixel 2 onto a USB drive.
reyscott said:
why would you turn it off? its exclusive to pixel 2 owners that you get until 2021 free original quality storage. you might regret if you dont do the automatic back up some point but then your choice is still your choice. got people complaining where are their photos coming from non nexus or pixel devices after factory data reset, then they blame google because google should give them what they need coz we are google. had hard times explaining.
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On this topic, What happens in 2021? Do those photos downgrade to a lower quality? Does that storage just stick? Anyone know?
marriedman624 said:
On this topic, What happens in 2021? Do those photos downgrade to a lower quality? Does that storage just stick? Anyone know?
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It stays as how you upload it. Anything after that date gets reduced.
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marriedman624 said:
On this topic, What happens in 2021? Do those photos downgrade to a lower quality? Does that storage just stick? Anyone know?
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will check it for you...