S4 I9500 Expand your internal storage from 8GB to 11GB

[kanniappan]

Hi there, we all know that our i9500 comes with a  16GB flash chip. However since samsung squeezed in too much bloatware we  have only 8.9GB available.
Now we have an official method by Samsung to expand it to be 11.8GB available to the user.

Before proceeding please know that this will erase all your data including your internal storage, so please make a backup first.
And this method works for me as well as many of my friends, however I do  not guarantee success and I do not hold any responsibility if your  phone bricks,or your dog doesn't like it or whatever problem you may  encounter.

We do this by flashing via Odin a Chinese base firmware kit including  kernel, radio, rom ,csc, pit and etc. The "pit" file is a partition  table file which contains partition information, so the flash chip will  be re-partitioned and thus gives us more user space.

The change starts from Chinese ME5 firmware but I would not recommend  ME5 version since the bootloader is locked in some sense and will cause  some random problems.
I don't recommend MG9 either since the modem gives problem.

So MG1 is our choice.
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You can download it from here:
Let me know if you suffer from slow connection, I can try to make a mirror.
http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shar...&uk=2250796553

Now unzip the file and you get these:



These files are to be flashed into your I9500 via  Odin in Download mode. The adonis_C.pit file is the partition  information file that does the magic. However please don't flash it  alone. Repartitioning will erase everything including data, system ,  internal storage and etc, so if you flash pit alone, your phone won't  boot because there is nothing to boot.

So I assume you know how to use Odin, so please enter download mode on  your I9500, connect it to Odin, and select in Odin the files according  to this picture and then press start.



Wait for a few minutes and you're good  to go! Check if the phone boots and if you get larger storage. If  everything is good, you can then flash a custom recovery via Odin, and  then flash whatever custom ROM you want.

I believe this will not cause compatibility problems with international  ROM since I have flashed WanamLite, Crash, Arrow Rom and got no problems  at all. But anyway keep in mind I do not hold any responsibility if  your phone bricks,or your dog doesn't like it or whatever problem you  may encounter.