Figured I'd share this...
Considering the Nexus comes with a lame @$$ 16GB of storage for us GSM users, storage will run out quick. Today I was looking to free up some space and noticed the Amazon AppStore logged +880Mb of USB Storage Data so I decided to look into it.
Under /sdcard/Android/data/com.amazon.venezia, any apps downloaded from their stupid appstore will remain there even after you install it, thus taking up unnecessary space in your precious storage. -__-
Feel free to delete them if you're running low on space. The apps are already installed on the device and won't be affected in any way if the cached .apk files are deleted.
Edit: Just deleted the entire 880mb cache folder. All Amazon Appstore-downloaded apps are working 100%.
Thanks. I'll check this out.
I can't imagine why Amazon would think this was a good idea. It doesn't exactly help the AppStore's image.
Thank you very much for this. Having < 16GB of storage, space is at a premium. I cleared out about 300mb.
This is a really good find! thanks.
Dmw017 said:
Figured I'd share this...
Considering the Nexus comes with a lame @$$ 16GB of storage for us GSM users, storage will run out quick. Today I was looking to free up some space and noticed the Amazon AppStore logged +880Mb of USB Storage Data so I decided to look into it.
Under /sdcard/Android/data/com.amazon.venezia, any apps downloaded from their stupid appstore will remain there even after you install it, thus taking up unnecessary space in your precious storage. -__-
Feel free to delete them if you're running low on space. The apps are already installed on the device and won't be affected in any way if the cached .apk files are deleted.
Edit: Just deleted the entire 880mb cache folder. All Amazon Appstore-downloaded apps are working 100%.
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Thanks. That's weird. I had 805mb in there
Seems like Amazon is either really bad at housekeeping (not deleting the cached .apk after installing), or its doing it for ease of use so that users can easily re-install apps rather than re-downloading?
Whoa, I had 900mb in there. Great find!!!
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only 150Mb for me, but thank you so much for noticing this. i was wondering why amazon was so damn big.
I think amazon did this because it normally would not be that big of an issue. apps can be installed again instantly, and they'd go on the SD card.
but on a phone with limited storage, especailly with you guys going up to almost 1GB. thats way to much and it needs to be erased.
800mbs in there. Thanks!
I would like to see how they are handling this with Kindle Fire with only 8 GB
Easiest way is go to settings/apps and in app clear data
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Easiest way is go to settings/apps and in app clear data
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Tried that; didn't work. That's why I had to hunt down the source.
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Easiest way is go to settings/apps and in app clear data
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That would just delete your login info from the app. Even if you uninstall it, that folder and all the contents remain.
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I did the clear data just to make sure, and sure enough, the usb storage data remained. Only thing that was cleared was my account off of the app.
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I would like to see how they are handling this with Kindle Fire with only 8 GB
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We root and get rid of Amazon Store completely
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I did the clear data just to make sure, and sure enough, the usb storage data remained. Only thing that was cleared was my account off of the app.
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Yep, that's what I said above. I noticed this on all my SD cards... not that they mean much to this phone.
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We root and get rid of Amazon Store completely
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lol id do the same but once in a while the appstore has some good free apps.. like today.. that remote desktop thing.
Looks like it comes down to two things - either reinstall the AppStore every single time a good free app comes in, or clear out the Amazon cache folder on a daily/weekly basis >.> bleh
Thanks a lot, i had 1.1 gigs of apps stored there
Thanks to this thread I just got back a little over 2GB of space. Sheesh.
Do apps have access to a list of other installed apps?
Maybe amazon doesn't have access, so it doesn't know what apps are installed unless they leave it there?
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Any help here would be appreciated. This happened twice with google maps and once with facebook. Instead of integrating, apps are being removed from phone.
I am on stangs rom the latest official deodexed gingerbread rom...never had this problem before.
Are you restoring data+apps? And if so what Rom did u back them up with?
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Nah. When I install a new rom (like this one for instance) I only restore user apps and data. I leave all the internal apps alone.
Soo after getting updates for internal apps (like Gmail/Maps/Facebook) I use the intergrate button and then **poof** the apps are removed. Icon still shows up under system/apps in Root Explorer but the app and icon don't show up anymore on phone.
So what do you guys recommend? Should I just do this manually in Root Explorer? How can I integrate on my own to save some space?
Just wanted to bump. I know I can do this the reverse way while rooted. I guess by removing the app and reinstalling again but anyone else have any ideas?
Still getting this problem.
How much free space is is /system? TB may fail on moving if there is not enough space free.
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How much free space is is /system? TB may fail on moving if there is not enough space free.
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Hmmm I bet you are on to something. Only about 3-4 mb free. Even though I can free up about another 40 mb by deleting an app.disabled folder I created. Thanks man I bet this is why.
How to get rid of Low on space notification/restriction? I have 40MB left and that notification is simply annoying, to say the least...
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sunbriel said:
How to get rid of Low on space notification/restriction? I have 40MB left and that notification is simply annoying, to say the least...
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why don't you move some of the installed apps to SD card?!
um, I moved all the apps to SD card I could. Meaning the ones that support moving. I could force move to SD card for some apps, but don't want to screw with that.
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That message is there for a reason and if you know what your doing some times it just takes common sense you can move most of your apps to SD card even if the creator of the app doesn't allow it in the app setting 's
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That message is there for a reason and if you know what your doing some times it just takes common sense you can move most of your apps to SD card even if the creator of the app doesn't allow it in the app setting 's
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How come some phones are okay with less than 20MB free... anyway, arc's internal memory size is way too small... "common sense", huh? Well, I have my own reasons for not wanting to force the apps to SD...
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Links2SD works wonderfully for the Xperia 2011 phones.
I did the "move to SD" for every app possible, but still ran into issues downloading games from the Market due to only have 20-70 MB free on the internal phone storage.
But, using Links2SD, creating a 1 GB partition on the SDCard for apps, and moving/linking pretty much everything to that, I have over 150 MB free internal phone storage for app downloading.
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Links2SD works wonderfully for the Xperia 2011 phones.
I did the "move to SD" for every app possible, but still ran into issues downloading games from the Market due to only have 20-70 MB free on the internal phone storage.
But, using Links2SD, creating a 1 GB partition on the SDCard for apps, and moving/linking pretty much everything to that, I have over 150 MB free internal phone storage for app downloading.
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Are you using stock kernel?
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arc's internal memory size is way too small..
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It isn't big, but not too small.
Some of us, as I do, have more than 100 apps and ~100MB left.
Once I had 145 apps and 80MB were left, I just use the native App2SD. No Link2SD etc
Do you clear your cache regulary?
Gives me back ~10MB each day
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Flo95 said:
It isn't big, but not too small.
Some of us, as I do, have more than 100 apps and ~100MB left.
Once I had 145 apps and 80MB were left, I just use the native App2SD. No Link2SD etc
Do you clear your cache regulary?
Gives me back ~10MB each day
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Well, if you compare Arc's internal memory to some other devices' that have 16GB of it, it does seem tiny, doesn't it? I have more than 200 apps and I use Apps2SD, so I move apps to SD if they support it. I used TB to force some huge apks to SD, like Epic Blue and Green themes for CM7, but it's a bit of a pain if you're on one of those themes when you have to reboot, because you have to reapply the theme after the phone boots up. And yes, I wipe cache on daily basis. I'm getting myself 32GB memory card so I'll probably try Link2SD or something like that. I currently have 2 class 8GB card which I got with the phone. Lousy card, lol.
But anyway, I just wanted to know if it was possible to get rid of that Low on space message. Like, okay, I know I'm low on space, I'll see what I can do later, but get the fck away from my status bar now cos you annoy me...
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I think we should remove unuseful applications.
Does anyone know the way to backup applications, group them by folder and restore all without asking anything?
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Yeah. Stock firmware, 2.3.4, rooted, locked bootloader.
nmdang said:
I think we should remove unuseful applications.
Does anyone know the way to backup applications, group them by folder and restore all without asking anything?
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Titanium backup does most of that not sure about the folder part tho
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup
Pvy.
Hi. I've been getting the insufficient storage' crap when trying to backup updated apps and have tried dalvik wipe, un install and reinstall of both app and pro key ect but problem persists. If I try to view the wiki or change log page I get 'account suspended' message. Sucks in short.
Anyone else having or had this problem? Any solutions?
Thanks.
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Hi. I've been getting the insufficient storage' crap when trying to backup updated apps and have tried dalvik wipe, un install and reinstall of both app and pro key ect but problem persists. If I try to view the wiki or change log page I get 'account suspended' message. Sucks in short.
Anyone else having or had this problem? Any solutions?
Thanks.
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As far as the insufficient storage, that sounds like you have your phone's memory all but filled up. Check in settings. Doubt wiping dalvik will really clear up that much room. If it is space, delete some Movies, music, and or pictures.
Edit: I just checked before and after dalvik wipe and the free space on the phone is the same. Which makes sense, since the dalvik cache will rebuild upon first boot.
Still have 8.5gig space. Strange as was running 4.04 after flashing the zip over 4.02 n had no problem. Flashed factory image of 4.04 today n now its a problem? Either way the "account suspended" thing really doesn't make sense
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Delete your old nandroid and titanium backups or move them to your computer. Then curse whoever was in charge of how much storage space the GSM model received.
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Delete your old nandroid and titanium backups or move them to your computer. Then curse whoever was in charge of how much storage space the GSM model received.
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Lol. I still have over 8gig space though
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Lol. I still have over 8gig space though
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Whatever. Id still curse the whore that decided that the east only needed 16 o' storage space.
Seriously... nobody?
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Whatever. Id still curse the whore that decided that the east only needed 16 o' storage space.
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+10000000001
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With around 90 gig of music on Google music, instant upload and the last four or so years worth of pics on Google photo/picasa, a good quarter of my library on Google books and a film or two for "just in case" viewing on my phone memory along with 62 apps including games like gta3 and shadowgun I still have over 8gig free... yes more space is better than less but in this case it hardly matters anyway, its sorted now so thanks so much for all the constructive assistance, maybe I can repay the favor one day
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Why does my phone give me these weird "insufficient storage" pop ups when I have free memory. I barely have any apps on my phone and I just went to update tb and it said that I have no room. Also when I move apps to sd card most of them work but some of them give me this message as well even tho I know they're lying because I know I have free memory on both the phone and sd card but I get this message and they don't let me install or move apps. Anyone have this problem before? And I've seeen it on different roms so I don't think a reflash will fix it.
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lilajrestnom said:
Why does my phone give me these weird "insufficient storage" pop ups when I have free memory. I barely have any apps on my phone and I just went to update tb and it said that I have no room. Also when I move apps to sd card most of them work but some of them give me this message as well even tho I know they're lying because I know I have free memory on both the phone and sd card but I get this message and they don't let me install or move apps. Anyone have this problem before? And I've seeen it on different roms so I don't think a reflash will fix it.
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First, what program is giving the error, and what segment of the memory is it trying to write to. If you are trying to write to the SD card and there is no room there, then you might have a problem with that. On the other hand, it may be another section.
Additionally, you may have downloaded a program that wants to allocate a very large chunk of space for itself. More than you have. Some games download their data when you first load them. They often check for sufficient space first. They can use well over half a gigabyte, so if your SD Card doesn't have that space free, it will error out.
I know wht you're talking about but I don't recall titanium backup needing an extra couple hundred Mbs to work lol.
Its happening with every freaking app I'm trying to download off the market or install off my sd card. And even the apps I'm trying to simply update off the market.
And I have like 4gbs free on my sd card and 500 mb free on the phones storage.
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There's been several ways of going about remedying this, there's the odin to stock method, the factory reset, and the clear market data method. I've personally only tried the latter 2, and they work temporarily in my experience.
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This has happened quite a few times to me.
lilajrestnom said:
Why does my phone give me these weird "insufficient storage" pop ups when I have free memory. I barely have any apps on my phone and I just went to update tb and it said that I have no room. Also when I move apps to sd card most of them work but some of them give me this message as well even tho I know they're lying because I know I have free memory on both the phone and sd card but I get this message and they don't let me install or move apps. Anyone have this problem before? And I've seeen it on different roms so I don't think a reflash will fix it.
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DONT REFLASH... lol titanium backup odex file is corrupt, remove it from system/app and uninstall TB, then download again
What hsppens is there are fragments of the old programs still In data that screw up the reinstall. Search with root explorer and nuke those bits. For instance if youtube app fails, search for youtube and a list of all files with that in the name will pop up. Nuke those files (don't forget to make r/w). Other option is odin and clean imstall.
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yeah I got that error too
Is there a app that can automatically clean old left behind files like 1click cleanup.
Hi all, I too had that problem before when I was on stock EC05 BML and had little space on internal memory. I could not upgrade Titanuim so I got so mad that I started getting into custom roms with MTD to have more space. Also helps if you get a class 10 32gb card.
I saw that the July 15, Titanium try to download from market it failed because not enough space and I was tripping but I used the lucky and it cleaned the messed up left behind odex, then install was coolio.
I also get sometimes could not parse error on .apk and never could figure it out. I guess they are not compatible with my phone since they were not downloaded from market...
Lanboy =)
lanboy said:
Is there a app that can automatically clean old left behind files like 1click cleanup.
Hi all, I too had that problem before when I was on stock EC05 BML and had little space on internal memory. I could not upgrade Titanuim so I got so mad that I started getting into custom roms with MTD to have more space. Also helps if you get a class 10 32gb card.
I saw that the July 15, Titanium try to download from market it failed because not enough space and I was tripping but I used the lucky and it cleaned the messed up left behind odex, then install was coolio.
I also get sometimes could not parse error on .apk and never could figure it out. I guess they are not compatible with my phone since they were not downloaded from market...
Lanboy =)
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A app called SDmaid has helped me in the pass.
Thank you guys. I'm going to try now and see what happens.
Edit: okay so I searched "titanium backup" in root explorer and got nothing.
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Thank you guys. I'm going to try now and see what happens.
Edit: okay so I searched "titanium backup" in root explorer and got nothing.
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It isn't called "Titanium Backup". It is com.something.something in /data/app/
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
It isn't called "Titanium Backup". It is com.something.something in /data/app/
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its in data/app and its called com.kermidas.titaniumbackup-1.odex and .apk
If you delete something else you will not be able to run the program yyou delete...btw
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its in data/app and its called com.kermidas.titaniumbackup-1.odex and .apk
If you delete something else you will not be able to run the program yyou delete...btw
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I just missed the .odex file but I got it now. Thank you very very much its working now.
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lilajrestnom said:
I just missed the .odex file but I got it now. Thank you very very much its working now.
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No problem, just helping out. have fun
Titanium Backup is one of the most useful programs to come along for people who root and flash. It is well worht a few bucks ($6) to guarantee working updates, support the developer, freeze apps, batch work, and to save all your data. It pains me to see a program discussed here whose sole purpose is to cheat the developer out of a few bucks.
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Titanium Backup is one of the most useful programs to come along for people who root and flash. It is well worht a few bucks ($6) to guarantee working updates, support the developer, freeze apps, batch work, and to save all your data. It pains me to see a program discussed here whose sole purpose is to cheat the developer out of a few bucks.
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I just had to scroll back and re- read the whole thread. The second time around I saw the app you refered to by name. After Google searching it I realized what you are talking about. I agree with your statement and am a proud owner of Titanium Backup.
He says it will get rid of all 'corrupt data'?? I don't understand...?
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I think that this is sometimes caused by unnecessarily re-flashing the gapps when doing a dirty upgrade upgrade on cm or aokp. It also happened to me after advance-restoring data on aokp. Duplicity seems to be the main connection here. Clean installs are good for the epic's soul.
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I just went through and cleared a few gigs of crap and old backups off my internal storage, but when I check how much space is available, it doesn't reflect this. It says I only have 700mbs available still, but the bar and numbers clearly indicate I should have more than that. Here's a screen shot for a better idea of what's going on http://www.imgur.com/sIt8G.png
Has anyone else had this problem before or know how I can fix it?
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Bump.. I have booted inti recovery and cleared cache in hopes of it cleaning it up, but nothing. I also searched Play for a sd card clean up app, I found sd maid, but no success there either. I'm really trying to avoid backing up everything and wiping the card..
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I can't see your pic bc of my work's firewall, but you may want to take a look at this thread here from the ATT side. --->Missing storage space
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I can't see your pic bc of my work's firewall, but you may want to take a look at this thread here from the ATT side. --->Missing storage space
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Perfect. Thanks alot for that link, that thread linked to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33918194 and seems to answer my question.