I recently came into a Samsung Galaxy Y Duos phone and the first thing that struck me was the paltry and miserly 160MB internal storage that was included in the phone.
Well, yes, granted, it is supposed to be a budget phone but 160MB on a smartphone in this day and age is simply outrageous?!
Its dual SIM feature, however, made it very difficult for me to pass it over.
Fresh from my exploit expanding the internal memory of my Toshiba Thrive Tablet, i knew there had to be a solution to this irritating development.
And guess what? I was right, damn right!
The Trick to Expand the Internal Memory
Though the procedure was tested on a Samsung Galaxy Y Duos GT-S6102, it should work on any Android mobile phone, especially the Galaxy Duos series.
Please proceed with caution.
Again, what we are setting out to do is to make the device recognize the external memory card as an internal memory.
You will need to root your phone first. The very simple procedure can be found here.
Search on google and Download the following file and store in your sdcard;
Skin of CWM Skin1980-GT-S5360+CWM.zip
- Install the app “Link2SD” from Google app market to your phone
- Switch off your phone and boot up into recovery mode by pressing the following keys at the same time; Volume up +Home button +lock button
- Release the buttons immediately the Samsung Galaxy Y Duos logo comes on
- On the screen labelled ” Android System Recovery”, use the volume key to select “apply update from sd card”, then select “skin1980-G1-S5360+CWN.z”
- On the screen “ClockworkMod Recovery v”, select “advanced”
- And on the screen “Advanced and Debugging”, select “Partition SD Card”
- On the screen “For Ext Size”, select the size you will want your new internal memory storage to be. A max size of 1024 MB (1GB) is advised because of stability issues.
- On the screen labelled “swap size”, select 0M
- Now you wait a few minutes for your SD card to be partitioned
- Afterwards, select “reboot recovery”, then select “reboot system now”. Your phone will reboot.
Select link2sd - Choose “recreate mount script”, then select “ext3?
- Reboot your phone
After your phone reboots, you may launch the link2sd app again and move installed software to the partition you created by “linking” them.
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Do note that you will not notice any increase in the size of your internal memory after this procedure when you check via your phone settings.
But what it does is that, subsequent installations are made directly on your SD card subject to the maximum size you have set in the partitioned part of the storage memory.
N/B this tips was sent to me by a friend some minutes ago and I just confirmed it works flawlessly. Share your concerns via the comments and remember to share this page with your friends and followers-alike.
Nice tips Dude, I really don’t know why Samsung should ever think of or make such mistake in this era. Thank goodness that there are tweaks to make this awesome phone enjoyable as hope was lost initially when the storage size was reviled though the company quickly own up and said that something urgent needs to be done.
Thanks for dropping by Onyekachi, your comments is very helpful, hopping to get more of your feedback