Okay so i just restored my phone. Im trying to install titanium back up but its saying i have no space to install it. so im wondering why dont i have space on my phone lol. is it because i have ROMs backed up ready to restore if i need too? or what can i do to make space?
If you're actually that full, hook up to pc in disk drive and drag some files onto the pc for safe keeping to free up the card. If you have a lot of nand backups they add up in a hurry. I store all but a couple on my pc, leaving a select few known configs for those oh shiz moments.
No space to install would be the Phone Memory not the sdcard. It is a good idea to back your nandroids up on a computer to clear space though. I've had that issue myself quite a few times. Usually for me it has been certain roms causing me the issue, is it just titanium that won't install or are you unable to install anything from the market?
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I've got an issue i'm hoping you guys can help me with.
I've got a stock froyo 2.2 rooted device.
just recently i've been having issues with my apps.
I back up my SD often so i formatted it and reloaded the data.
This helped until the first reboot then i started having issues again.
The device would show internal apps only, sometimes taking up to ten minutes to load the storage apps.
In the market i cannot download/install apps, even the ones on internal
(sometimes taking several minutes to install)
I've attempted to unmount the SD card but it hangs.
t it hangs when i try to use apps2sd, using my phone as a disk drive, checking disk usuage on both internal and storage, etc.
But i have full access when i use file managers and also when i take the card out of my phone and plug it into my computer. I see everything and everything works.
i have also noticed that it reports the internal memory wrong, sometimes it'll be 50mb's sometimes 130 mb's. All within hours of not doing anything.
i made a nand backup so i'm doing that now, maybe i forgot to clear cache or something last time?
any ideas would surely help, in all honesty it sounds like my internal drive is failing and i hope thats not the case.
thank you
Do any of y'all do anything to keep your internal and external storage nice and tidy?
I go in there thru my PC and delete folders and files I don't use. Sometimes they are loaded down with cache files and whatnot, and it can be thousands of them! I have found that it takes a while to process (delete) those thousands of files through my PC, so who knows what they can do to the little Snapdragon.
I have also used CCleaner to wipe the free space on both the internal and SD storage as well. I thought maybe I felt a difference, but who knows if it was placebo or what. I figured they would benefit from a nice clean slate as far as blank space goes, as well as help the nandroid backup process.
Anyone else do anything or have advice on maintaining our storage so that it is responsive and reliable?
DustinBooyah said:
Do any of y'all do anything to keep your internal and external storage nice and tidy?
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I have used the market app "SD Maid" before. It might be something to look into.
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I figured they would benefit from a nice clean slate as far as blank space goes, as well as help the nandroid backup process
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I doubt this helps the nandroid process at all. I don't think SD or EMMC contents get backed up by a nandroid (I could be wrong though)
I clear usless stuff off of my storage on a regular basis, just for my own sanity and ease of finding stuff. The emmc is not to bad at gathering garbage but the sd is full of it every time i look. There is always burstlyimagecache folders and folders left behind by apps i have uninstalled. I usually just copy the stuff i want / need to my pc and then format it fat32, and then copy the good files back. Sometimes im lazy though and i will just use the multiselect option in root explorer, and go on a deleting spree. I use sdmaid although im not sure why they named it that, as it hardly touches the sdcard at all. It mostly clears app caches which some are on the sd but most are on the /data partirion. Cleaning up the storage wont affect nandroids as they are not backed up. However having a cleaner sd with more space can make I/O times faster therfore very slightly speeding up the nandroid writing to the sd.
I Odined back to bone stock non rooted. I go to marketplace and download a few apps I need to get back up and running. One is Navigon, which I made a copy of all its downloaded maps and transferred them to my sdcard earlier. Also another app is My Backup Pro, same thing, backed everything up on to my sdcard. Now before I tried to move the maps and backups to the sdcard through the apps themselves, but they wouldnt ever find the sdcard. Now I was going to copy everything back to the internal memory, but the apps find the back ups on their own! I dont need to transfer anything over, its like the apps all of a sudden can use the external card.
Why now? What happened?
Many times apps that need additional data don't really get rid of it from the internal storage even after uninstalling the app. I guess the data was retained in the internal storage through ur rom change and so the apps are just able to find it. But its really annoying that certain apps don't get rid of all associated data during uninstallation.
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I think what I'm trying to say in my ramblings is I thought Samsung took away the ability to read/write to the sd card for apps?
I think Samsung disabled many sdcard functions. See this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1807824
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I think what I'm trying to say in my ramblings is I thought Samsung took away the ability to read/write to the sd card for apps?
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Yea I have navigon and downloaded all the state maps. Then I copied them to the sd, then deleted maps on internal sd, navigon still has the maps. ??
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Yes! Exactly. So, I guess in a round about way we can move app data to the external card. At least for some apps.
Hi I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now and still haven't been able to find a fix (without rooting). After I updated JB from Kies when it came out my internal and memory card folders are completely different? Also it says I only have 11.95GB total in my internal memory. The internal memory folder says :sdcard0. And my memory card folder is: extSdCard? I'm not rooted. Does anyone know how to get the folders back to the regular names ext sd ect? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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Hi I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now and still haven't been able to find a fix (without rooting). After I updated JB from Kies when it came out my internal and memory card folders are completely different? Also it says I only have 11.95GB total in my internal memory. The internal memory folder says :sdcard0. And my memory card folder is: extSdCard? I'm not rooted. Does anyone know how to get the folders back to the regular names ext sd ect? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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That is how it they are formatted now. It's not a mistake or anything being messed up. I guess I'm just used the internal being sdcard0 and ex sd card being extsdcard. I don't use myfiles much. I use root explorer and it can displays it as storage and then inside that folder is extsdcard and sdcard. Or there is a fodler just called sdcard for the internal in the root of the file system.
What problem is it creating, other than just being different than you are used to ?
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That is how it they are formatted now. It's not a mistake or anything being messed up. I guess I'm just used the internal being sdcard0 and ex sd card being extsdcard. I don't use myfiles much. I use root explorer and it can displays it as storage and then inside that folder is extsdcard and sdcard. Or there is a fodler just called sdcard for the internal in the root of the file system.
What problem is it creating, other than just being different than you are used to ?
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Yhea, i'm having some trouble too. After the update my extCard is totally mess-up. The folders with the pictures and songs are not recognized, and the Gallery doesn't show hundreds of pictures, but i see if i use a file manager. I've synced all my songs so far, but with the pictures is a mess: seems also the format is not recognized anymore and with Kies i'm not seeing a way for put the pictures in the new folder named "Photo". It's really frustrating.
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That is how it they are formatted now. It's not a mistake or anything being messed up. I guess I'm just used the internal being sdcard0 and ex sd card being extsdcard. I don't use myfiles much. I use root explorer and it can displays it as storage and then inside that folder is extsdcard and sdcard. Or there is a fodler just called sdcard for the internal in the root of the file system.
What problem is it creating, other than just being different than you are used to ?
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I cannot use the Apps2sd app anymore. And basically I would just like to be like before the update.
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i'll try not to rant too hard but Kies and OTA firmware updates are a joke. you are essentially dirty flashing one rom over another with no real clearing of caches, no resetting, no way for all the programs to regroup, rebuild and run on the system hardware/software properly. the thing about dirty flashing is, it sticks well with some devices but generally not with many others. you'll see these types of issues many times among the avid flashers and those that must have the latest release of a developers rom.
i would recommend backing everything up, booting into stock recovery, wiping data/factory reset and wiping cache. if you decide to perform another update via kies in the future, i would do this procedure before AND after the update.
yes, you have to start over when you perform these sorts of actions but you have to ask yourself, are you happy with how your device is performing now (before the update)? is it worth starting over? (it might be if you're going to run on the updated OS for a year or so) and how well do you want it to perform after you install the update?
cheers
EDIT: i just assume everyone accesses recovery and download mode so i didnt post the button combo. recovery is: Volume Up + Home + Power. release just the power button when you get a vibrate.
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Also it says I only have 11.95GB total in my internal memory.
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This is normal for a 16GB SGS3. 16GB is advertised but actual formatted available space is less. 11.95GB is right on par. This is the case for just about all devices that have memory that is writable, including hard drives on a computer.
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I cannot use the Apps2sd app anymore. And basically I would just like to be like before the update.
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Any particular reason why you are using Apps2sd? $10 to $20 will land you an external memory card with huge amounts of space (32GB at least). This is plenty to store music, photos, and other misc. files. And even with a ton of apps installed to internal, you still should have ample space left over. There is just no good reason to use Apps2sd on this phone as it has so much internal memory. If this is just to keep you from losing data, then I would suggest rooting and using an app such as Titanium Backup as it makes it super easy to restore apps and the corresponding data after anything that requires a factory reset.
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Yhea, i'm having some trouble too. After the update my extCard is totally mess-up. The folders with the pictures and songs are not recognized, and the Gallery doesn't show hundreds of pictures, but i see if i use a file manager. I've synced all my songs so far, but with the pictures is a mess: seems also the format is not recognized anymore and with Kies i'm not seeing a way for put the pictures in the new folder named "Photo". It's really frustrating.
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As stated by xBeerDroidx, factory reset from stock recovery. You will have to re-setup your device but it will be a one time frustration for now until the next update.
As stated by xBeerDroidx, factory reset from stock recovery. You will have to re-setup your device but it will be a one time frustration for now until the next update.
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Actually i did.
After the update, without factory reset, everything was (almost) fine… except a strange malfunction of the Gps (lock signal lost after a while) and sporadic reboot without reason. For the Gps I’ve found here the solution (NV Rebuild), but for the reboot… I wasn’t sure about it. So I decided for a factory reset. After that my ext card, with the ICS paths, was not recognized. So bucked up everything, format the ext card and let Kies sync my files and create all the folders needed from JB: Camera Photo Video for pictures, and media for the music. Now I’m let’s say 90% ready to go… I’m curios to test especially the Gps.
Hi, I got a issue with my sdcard and had to reformat it, but I coulnd't make a backup of the content stored there. I tried to restore titanium backups and nandroid backups, but they require the android/data folder to still exist with the app content in order of games and apps to work. When I open a game restored with titanium, like MC4, it says I have to download extra 2,5 gb of data.
My problem is:
I tried several times to download MC4 and other games but the download process suddenly stops around 70% and when I finally manage to download 100%, I realize my sdcard has 10 gb less free space, and I think it's because of failed downloads that were not deleted when process ended.
So, is there any way to find and delete that useless files and recover those 10 gb back?
I checked android/data and /obb directories but that is not the location of those files, cause every game weights just the Mb amount it's meant to occupate in the sdcard.
This happened with both google play big games failed downloads and separated games that downloaded extra data from inside itself when restored.
Thanks in advance
95% sure google play doesn't download files to the SD Card as i have had the SD Card mounted on my pc and the downloads carry on, So it must be something else using storage space on your SD Card
UPDATE: seems im right, they are located at "/cache/download", "/data/cache"
They move to "/data/app" and "/mnt/asec" when finished
I know this is an old thread but I had to leave xda for some time because of college. I'm posting the cause of this issue just in case someone has the same situation.
I took my phone and sdcard to a friend who is a technician and he discovered @fma965 was right and the actual cause was a phisical damage of the sdcard, which prevented data from being erased correctly.
According to him, the damage was there before I formatted the SD and got worse after doing it. So it seems some sectors of the main data partition (fat32) which were recuperable got screwed after formatting, and all the data that I stored there after that, just got corrupted. So, those around 10 gb were some files that were no visible on any file explorer but actually used memory space.
In conclusion: if your sdcard sometime just starts to have a weird behaviour, don't immediately think formatting will be the solution, cause you could mess it up completely instead. If you have important data stored, try to use disk recovery tools to retrieve the most you can, and only after that, go for it and try to repair.
Just if you were wondering, the SD got damaged because it was bent very very slightly to the point you could not notice. It happened because it fell to the floor and my brother stepped over it while we were searching for it.... so, ALWAYS be careful with it
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