I've been trying to keep some space in /data by using A2SD and by symlinking some of the larger entries in /data/data to somewhere in the ext4 partition.
But do I need to keep a fair bit of space, or can I run it fairly close to the wire? Will it only cause problems if I actually run out?
James
As far as I know it won't cause any troubles. However, whenever I ran out of space on a stock rom, I noticed I couldn't sign in with google talk. When I deleted an app to free up some space, I could login again. That's the only thing I noticed that happened whenever your /data gets full.
There isn't really a big issue if you are worrying about it breaking your phone. I guess the worst thing would be a bootloop or constant app FC's (just my assumption). Expect apps not to work properly if the data partition is full.
Also that disk full icon can be annoying to see so you'll probably do something about the low space before it can cause you some problems.
No problem withthat
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Guys, this has never been a problem before because i use to turn my phone off at night, but lately I have left it on
I remember at the start I had about 80mb of phone memory left, i have installed no apps or anything and this morning i got a memory low notification stating i only have 12mb of memory.
I turned the phone off and on again and i'm back to 80mb.
Is this a hardware or software issue? can it be fixed?
Try installing autokiller. Its the featured app on the xda homepage atm
but im not talking about ram, im talking about physical phone memory
Oh you mean Rom?
Have you installed A2SD?
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Oh you mean Rom?
Have you installed A2SD?
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no i havent but youre missing the point
the memory goes down rapidly even if youre doing nothing if you dont turn the phone off
That could be a software bug. maybe someone else could help
Not sure but this could be down to the cache and similar stuff. Remember that the system manages automatically space and uses it for the cache when there is enough. When the free space goes under some limit the system starts clearing cache and the same happens when you reboot the phone.
I guess this could be similar to swap files on windows where the system stores recently 'used' stuff to the hard disk in order to recall them in a faster way than reloading from scratch.
If you have some problems you can always use quick cache cleaner or similar stuff, but I've never experienced problems: as soon as the system needed space it cleared the internet cache and other caches as well.
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Not sure but this could be down to the cache and similar stuff. Remember that the system manages automatically space and uses it for the cache when there is enough. When the free space goes under some limit the system starts clearing cache and the same happens when you reboot the phone.
I guess this could be similar to swap files on windows where the system stores recently 'used' stuff to the hard disk in order to recall them in a faster way than reloading from scratch.
If you have some problems you can always use quick cache cleaner or similar stuff, but I've never experienced problems: as soon as the system needed space it cleared the internet cache and other caches as well.
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i know what you mean and i agree about the cache
i just find it ridiculous that after 3 days the system creates 70mb of cache on the phone memory? that's ridiculous
although powering off the phone did take longer than usual so something was being cleared..
i think its the backup function which do that.... in settings confidentiality i think
(im french not sure of the settings terms)
Hi
Has anyone tried conncecting their phone to their PC and doing a disk defrag on the phone's memory?
Would you recommend it?
Cheers
No, it's NAND/Flash.
Moving things around wears the memory.
You're probably better off by copying it to your PC, formatting the drive, and copying it back.
I haven't done that, I don't think it's needed.
There still plenty of free space to keep it from becoming framented anyway.
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Has anyone tried conncecting their phone to their PC and doing a disk defrag on the phone's memory?
Would you recommend it?
Cheers
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With the phone having flash memory it shouldn't be possible to defrag the drive. Rather than having to wait for a platter to rotate like a conventional hard drive it can access bits of data as and when it needs
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Thanks for your replies. It was very helpful.
The only reason why I would want to do that is because I've been issues with the icons on my homescreens.
Whenever I restart or shutdown the phone the icons on the homescreens do not display properly. They either show the actual icon but without the name underneath it or the green android icon is displayed in its place. They display fine in the apps section. I noticed that this mainly occurs with apps that have been transferred to the phone's storage memory partition. The apps stored on the internal memory are unaffected. I've tried factory resets 3x now (including wiping the phone's "external" memory, but it seems to be progressively worse. More icons seem to be affected. Hence, I was wondering if it had someone to do with the way the phone is accessing the "external" memory that is causing this problem.
Any thoughts?
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Thanks for your replies. It was very helpful.
The only reason why I would want to do that is because I've been issues with the icons on my homescreens.
Whenever I restart or shutdown the phone the icons on the homescreens do not display properly. They either show the actual icon but without the name underneath it or the green android icon is displayed in its place. They display fine in the apps section. I noticed that this mainly occurs with apps that have been transferred to the phone's storage memory partition. The apps stored on the internal memory are unaffected. I've tried factory resets 3x now (including wiping the phone's "external" memory, but it seems to be progressively worse. More icons seem to be affected. Hence, I was wondering if it had someone to do with the way the phone is accessing the "external" memory that is causing this problem.
Any thoughts?
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When an application is stored on the storage card or part of it is stored on the storage card it is inaccessible while the storage card is mounted as a disk drive on your pc. It is also seen in some other cases such as when you turn the phone on, it has to mount the storage card and basically check the apps are there before it displays the icons. I think this is what you are experiencing
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Yes, I understand that it takes a while to mount the external memory to the phone after restarts or even discounting the phone from the computer but it the apps still do not display properly, even after leaving on for ages. There is a problem with my phone accessing my memory. Plus, the phone's memory is not a SD card, it is internal and an image drive so in theory it should load quicker.
Hi everyone. I have a pretty serious issue with my device. Whenever I am using it it becomes exceptionally slow and laggy. I was previously on Charmander Rom (which is when it began playing up). The phone took 5 seconds to turn on from pressing the power button. I didn't even have to compare to my dad's One X to realise something was up. Loading apps, menus and animations were extremely laggy. That day I went to sleep with my phone at 100%, when I woke up later it was at 58% and slightly hot. I've flashed a new boot image onto my device, and also a new Rom (Android Revolution 6.0.0) the strange behaviour has not gone away, it is extremely slow and laggy. I also used Super wipe and cleared the cache to no avail. If anyone could help me out here I would be eternally grateful to you. Thank you
Elemental_Fire
(p.S) I used Franco kernel with Charmander if that helps
Exact same issues as you, all started after unlock/flash custom ROM. Nothing worked to fix not repeated full wipes or formats or even RUU.
I relocked, RUUed and returned my unit.
My second HTC has remained locked and has not experienced any such issues.
There is a known filesystem bug (disappearing SD space) that affects anything previous to 1.29.xxx.11, I suspect filesystem corruption happens to some of us whilst flashing / CWM is doing file operations.
Did you guys format the internal storage?
yep in windoze and from device. Improved it but still noticeably laggy. The smoking gun was Antutu IO score went down to 50 (way worse than even my old N1). Hence I'm certain it was something to do with filesystem access
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yep in windoze and from device. Improved it but still noticeably laggy. The smoking gun was Antutu IO score went down to 50 (way worse than even my old N1). Hence I'm certain it was something to do with filesystem access
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No what i meant was if u formatted the storage before having the lag issues...
That's the only time i had extreme lag myself. After formatting storage for the first time.
But the device came back to normal after a few hours
Hmm, so you think it may be something corrupted? This I can't fix myself. And someone suggested I format the internal storage? Or must I return it?
On further testing, it seems your hypothesis about data reading and storage is right. I've taken a quadrant test, the rest of the results are on average/slightly below, but the one that has been impacted the most is IO, which has dropped from ~5000 to 893. It's even lower than any other phone on the list. Here it is, attached...is there anything that can be done?
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On further testing, it seems your hypothesis about data reading and storage is right. I've taken a quadrant test, the rest of the results are on average/slightly below, but the one that has been impacted the most is IO, which has dropped from ~5000 to 893. It's even lower than any other phone on the list. Here it is, attached...is there anything that can be done?
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No do NOT format the storage!
Did u format it just BEFORE the lag problems happened?
That's what i'm asking
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On further testing, it seems your hypothesis about data reading and storage is right. I've taken a quadrant test, the rest of the results are on average/slightly below, but the one that has been impacted the most is IO, which has dropped from ~5000 to 893. It's even lower than any other phone on the list. Here it is, attached...is there anything that can be done?
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I couldn't find a way and I've been flashing roms since nexus one, across Moto, Sammy, HTC and sony handsets/tablets. So I returned it before my early life failure no questions asked returns period expired. Convinced its filesystem drivers and some kind of irrecoverable corruption on internal SD, or at least not repair-able with a format. Perhaps there is a way of manually doing all the partitions or something but I think without SOFF we can't.
I would try a RUU as a last resort if you haven't already. But FWIW I formatted data, system and storage partitions, then RUUed, still didn't fix.
Hello, My brother recently got the Xperia Play, he has had a little problem with it, it has the latest stock Rom on it, nothing changed (yet) but when loading certain apps (Bruce Lee game is the worst, it has never worked) it crashes, saying the phone has crashed and has a loading bar which takes a while to load and reboot, anyone know the cause of this? thanks in advance.
That post is just vague enough that.... I got nothing.
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That post is just vague enough that.... I got nothing.
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well there isn't much else I can say, it crashes on certain apps, Not like a typical android crash were the phone resets, but it instead has a purple loading bar and purple flashing notification l.e.d and says not to turn the phone off while it saves.
Normally it just says phone has crashed, but this time said about needing 200mb free on SDCARD, but there is over 1gb spare on the SDcard
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Freaky. Never come across anything like that, myself. I hope you get it figured out
Looks like an in-game error rather than a system one. While you may have enough space on the sd card, maybe some of the sectors are corrupted? if you have a spare sd card, try that and then you can at least determine if its the sd card. If it isn't then you know its either the game, system or device.
BACKGROUND:
I have a 32GB Nexus 7 which has been plagued with a variety of issues ever since updating to lollipop at the beginning of this year. Previously it worked really well and ran like glass, no hiccups. When I say lollipop brought the plague, I mean bubonic levels of lag and bugs - 15 seconds to return to home screen, constant crashes, less than 5-7fps on transitions and scrolling, and so on. It runs so slow that sometimes it's impossible to type text. Typing in a web-field can lag up to 15-20 seconds, no joke. It hangs, randomly restarts and takes an outrageously painful 5-10 minutes to boot. Apps randomly shut down causing push notifications to stop working. Using it went from a pleasant and snappy experience, to feeling like being pimp slapped by Google every time I try getting something done. Imagine trying to check into a hotel with an online reservation, when your device randomly shuts down and takes 10 minutes to boot up again. This is only one example of the lollipop curse I've endured this past year.
Basically, it has become near useless on every level and so undependable that it can't even be trusted as an alarm clock. For a dose of perspective, my nook simple touch e-ink tablet feels faster. I've booted into recovery mode, cleared the system cache, disabled all but a couple apps from starting on boot, and other fixes, nothing has helped in the slightest. One theory I have is that I had xposed installed prior to lollipop, and I forgot about it (as I haven't really used it except to test out a multitasking module which I uninstalled). After updating xposed refuses to update or uninstall. As far as the eMMC being full as a cause for the issues, all I can say is I had about 5GB of space left when I updated 10 or so months ago.
Anyway, now to the hopeful solution:
I need to completely wipe everything and go back to 4.4.4. However, I have about 400 apps and 100mb free space on a 32gb nexus. How can I be sure to back up all my directory data and app data? The space is split between app data, random documents and other small media. I don't have any large files on the device (99% under 5mb each).
I have titanium backup, which I was able to successfully run a backup on all the apps and app data (hopefully) using a 16gb thumb drive. However, this seems useless for backing up all the data/downloads/media/etc. in directories. Ideally I'd like to take something like a macrium reflect image of everything before I wipe everything. Any ideas?
Also, I had tried to set up avast anti-theft, but the setup never worked and I couldn't register on avast.com. When I tried uninstalling the avast rootkit thing I got an error, and then I just uninstalled avast completely. Not sure if that makes a difference or if Avast still has some kind of low level bug on the system that is causing problems.