*** The Official Samsung Galaxy S4 Thread ***

fornowagain said:
The 'total' is with no downloaded apps (along with their own cache and data), available is what you have left. The rest of it is taken by a whole bunch of sized partitions all filled (or not) with system, logs, data, imei..... different system apps and files that you can't see without going deep into the root. Now if you had the Google Edition i9505G you'd have 13GB total, same device just less bloat and partitioned differently.
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So should i be using/or setting my phone up differently with a memory card installed?

I still dont understand it fully but thanks for explaining it:)

Much better help on here than XDA:D cheers all S4 ocukers. They want you to read like 100 pages and if you ask something thats been answered wo betide you!
 
Yep my storage space is still 9.25GB even though I'm using a tiny ~300MB AOSP ROM compared to a 2GB TW ROM.

You have to manually change the partition if you want the extra space.
 
guys can someone give me an honest opinion, if you were to run an S4 with the brightness set to max and automatic brightness turned off would you get a full days use out of the battery or would it nail it??
 
nosluom said:
guys can someone give me an honest opinion, if you were to run an S4 with the brightness set to max and automatic brightness turned off would you get a full days use out of the battery or would it nail it??
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Depending on what you're doing on your phone you'd get 2-3hrs screen on time I think. Compared to the usual 4-5hrs. If you were on a white screen too it would murder it.
 
nosluom said:
guys can someone give me an honest opinion, if you were to run an S4 with the brightness set to max and automatic brightness turned off would you get a full days use out of the battery or would it nail it??
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I use mine (google edition rom) with the brightness pretty much all the way up without auto brightness which I hate, normally easily get a day which is generally a couple of hours of calls, push email all day and maybe 30 to 45 minutes of gaming depending on the day.

BT, wifi and GPS on always too. It's really quite impressive. I do sometimes need to give it a quick top up towards the end of the day and sometimes plug in at 11ish with less than 10% but it'll certainly do it.
 
Gavin said:
So should i be using/or setting my phone up differently with a memory card installed?

I still dont understand it fully but thanks for explaining it:)
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No there's nothing you can do about it. There's wasted space, temp area for Kies firmwares downloads that kind of thing. You'd need a pit file will all the partition mountings changed to get it back and some way of transferring all the phones ident files. I wound't be the first to volunteer.


Here's a list of the partitions.
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Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name      Flags
 1      4194kB  17.3MB  13.1MB               apnhlos
 2      17.3MB  71.3MB  54.0MB               mdm
 3      71.3MB  71.4MB  131kB                sbl1
 4      71.4MB  71.7MB  262kB                sbl2
 5      71.7MB  72.2MB  524kB                sbl3
 6      72.2MB  74.3MB  2097kB               aboot
 7      74.3MB  74.8MB  524kB                rpm
 8      74.8MB  75.4MB  524kB                tz
 9      75.4MB  92.7MB  17.3MB               pad
10      92.7MB  107MB   14.3MB  ext4         efs
11      107MB   110MB   3146kB               modemst1
12      110MB   113MB   3146kB               modemst2
13      113MB   114MB   799kB                m9kefs1
14      114MB   115MB   799kB                m9kefs2
15      115MB   116MB   799kB                m9kefs3
16      116MB   3010MB  2894MB  ext4         system
17      3010MB  3018MB  8389kB               persist
18      3018MB  5189MB  2171MB  ext4         cache
19      5189MB  5195MB  6291kB               param
20      5195MB  5205MB  10.5MB               boot
21      5205MB  5216MB  10.5MB               recovery
22      5216MB  5226MB  10.5MB               fota
23      5226MB  5233MB  6291kB               backup
24      5233MB  5236MB  3146kB               fsg
25      5236MB  5236MB  8192B                ssd
26      5236MB  5245MB  9437kB  ext4         persdata
27      5245MB  5770MB  524MB   ext4         hidden
28      5770MB  5791MB  21.0MB               carrier
29      5791MB  15.8GB  9961MB  ext4         userdata
 
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So I thought I'd ordered the pink S4 for the GF, but they've sent the purple one. Rang up to be told they never had the pink one and instead have been sending out the purple one. They now want me to fund for it to be sent back within 3 days with no refund of postage because I'm the one requesting a cancellation. Refused to take any money off or to pick it up, refused to let me speak to a manager so asked for their complaints procedure which is an email so have fired one of. Idiots.
 
Read their T&Cs and see if it mentions if buyer has to pay return postage under the DSR, if it doesn't then they have to refund you the full cost of the item + original delivery + return delivery.
 
Don't think their going to get back to me. Person on the phone was extremely rude saying its me who's requesting a cancellation etc despite them sending the wrong item. Just going to send it back with RMSD, hope it gets back to them fine and they cancel everything ok including the contract.
 
Don't count on it based on the customer service you've had so far! I'd call the network and just double check that they get notified that you returned it.
 
I've rang my bank to make sure the direct debit won't be taken out. Good idea on ringing the network, I'll make sure they know too. Bloody girlfriend always wanting everything in pink!
 
I've just had a notification to accept the terms of 'Samsung Denial Log Reporting Service'

The hell is that?!
 
Argh, more problems on MH8 I'm getting spammed with "Prevention Information" errors. Seems to be some Samsung Service is claiming WhatsApp is trying to access a system file it isn't authorised to do?

Anyone seen this?
 
MH8 is one to avoid. I've "heard" a lot of issue's including the one above. How to fix/sort couldn't say as I only flash roms several weeks after release in order to avoid hideous outcomes
 
wellibob said:
MH8 is one to avoid. I've "heard" a lot of issue's including the one above. How to fix/sort couldn't say as I only flash roms several weeks after release in order to avoid hideous outcomes
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You can stop the pop ups, you have to root it and mess with the Knox files. But then your binary counter will indicate custom blah blah and you can't reset it yet as triangle away isn't working on MH8 yet.
 
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