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Low Space warning on ICS

I am currently running the leaked ICS build 0.12. I keep getting a warning that my tablet storage space is getting low. But I don't understand how that's possible. Because on my storage in settings, it says I have total space 5.36GB. Here is a picture
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By jakob9595 at 2012-04-14
If you add all that together I should have plenty of space not 168MB free.

Have you rebooted? Do you have any "corpses" (left over game data, etc) in your internal storage? Try running this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1013063 to see if helps remove anything which is taking up space (and doesn't show up in the storage menu) which you don't know about.

Can't even download it says my tablet doesn't have sufficient space to download it from the play store.

jakob95 said:
Can't even download it says my tablet doesn't have sufficient space to download it from the play store.
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You could move something(s) to your external sd card (temporarily), download and install the app, then move it/them back.

Theonew said:
You could move something(s) to your external sd card (temporarily), download and install the app, then move it/them back.
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How do I do that? No option for that on this tablet.

jakob95 said:
How do I do that? No option for that on this tablet.
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Use root explorer (or some file manager which allows moving - almost all should).

Theonew said:
Use root explorer (or some file manager which allows moving - almost all should).
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In which folder are your apps located in? I want to move Shadowgun./

jakob95 said:
In which folder are your apps located in? I want to move Shadowgun./
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Shadowgun's data is located in Android/data/. Apps on the other hand are located in /data/app/ and /system/app/ (leave those where they are). Judging by the free space on your external sd card, Shadowgun's data will not fit. You'll probably have to move some things to your pc (or use a different sd card).

Okay I moved everything I needed and installed the SD Maid. Now what should I do?

jakob95 said:
Okay I moved everything I needed and installed the SD Maid. Now what should I do?
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Run it. Clean apps, corpses, system, and you can also check for duplicates.

Theonew said:
Run it. Clean apps, corpses, system, and you can also check for duplicates.
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This won't delete any of my apps or data right? To do all of that I have to buy the Pro version.

jakob95 said:
This won't delete any of my apps or data right?
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No. You can check if you want though.

Theonew said:
No. You can check if you want though.
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This scans all my biggest files and here are the results.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
No way can I fill up my storage with that. That's barely anything.

jakob95 said:
This scans all my biggest files and here are the results.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
No way can I fill up my storage with that. That's barely anything.
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Did any of the other option help (corpses, etc.)?

Yeah I did all the sections, and I cleared up about 15MB lmao.

jakob95 said:
Yeah I did all the sections, and I cleared up about 15MB lmao.
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It seems like you're going to have to do a factory reset. I would also recommend flashing this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1589034 since it will give you a bit more internal storage.

Hmm I think I will just wait until the official ICS update, and flash that. Maybe that will fix my problem. Anyways thanks for the help.

I just reset the tablet, and it fixed my problem. Restored everything with Titanium Backup and everything is working well.

/data/gps
Had the same problem, also waited for an update to solve it, but nothing changed. I checked the system directories, which are on the same partition but you have no right to look into them without root (pretty dumb if you ask me). I found a dir /data/gps filled with some useless txt files. Then after deleting them with Ghost Commander nearly 2 GB of free space reappeared.
Sorry it took me so long, not checking xda regularly lately.

Albion von Darx said:
Had the same problem, also waited for an update to solve it, but nothing changed. I checked the system directories, which are on the same partition but you have no right to look into them without root (pretty dumb if you ask me). I found a dir /data/gps filled with some useless txt files. Then after deleting them with Ghost Commander nearly 2 GB of free space reappeared.
Sorry it took me so long, not checking xda regularly lately.
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Oh My God, I had over 10GB of files in this folder. Went from a little over 100MB free to 10.63GB. I assume this is GPS cache, but it really needs to be capped so that the older stuff gets deleted.

[Q] Internal memory question

So I have flashed a couple of different ROMs some debloated TW some full featured TW and some without TW and the internal memory always stays at 9.72 available even without all the bloat. My question is is there a way to change that can I format or re partition the internal storage without screwing everything up royally???

Short answer: No. Too risky.
A little more information, mostly speculation. Repartitioning your device's internal memory could very easily leave you with a brick. While it may be possible, the risks are greater than any benefit.
This may be totally off-base, but I'd guess that you'd probably need a custom bootloader redesigned with the proper starting and ending addresses for the new partitions, especially if you wanted to resize any partitions that affect the way the phone starts up (boot and system, I'd imagine).
edit: Does anyone think it may be possible to repurpose some of the unused space on the system partition of some ROMs as extended media storage through the use of symlinks? Not sure I'm saying exactly what I mean, and I might be completely misunderstanding how symlinks work, but here's my thought:
e.g. Create a folder in /system/extended_media_storage. Create a symlink on data/media/ pointing to /system/extended_media_storage.

crawler9 said:
Short answer: No. Too risky.
A little more information, mostly speculation. Repartitioning your device's internal memory could very easily leave you with a brick. While it may be possible, the risks are greater than any benefit.
This may be totally off-base, but I'd guess that you'd probably need a custom bootloader redesigned with the proper starting and ending addresses for the new partitions, especially if you wanted to resize any partitions that affect the way the phone starts up (boot and system, I'd imagine).
edit: Does anyone think it may be possible to repurpose some of the unused space on the system partition of some ROMs as extended media storage through the use of symlinks? Not sure I'm saying exactly what I mean, and I might be completely misunderstanding how symlinks work, but here's my thought:
e.g. Create a folder in /system/extended_media_storage. Create a symlink on data/media/ pointing to /system/extended_media_storage.
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I figured that would be the case, ill just stick to using folder mount to use up my SD card when needed.
Thanks

crawler9 said:
edit: Does anyone think it may be possible to repurpose some of the unused space on the system partition of some ROMs as extended media storage through the use of symlinks? Not sure I'm saying exactly what I mean, and I might be completely misunderstanding how symlinks work, but here's my thought:
e.g. Create a folder in /system/extended_media_storage. Create a symlink on data/media/ pointing to /system/extended_media_storage.
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An interesting idea, but a quick attempt didn't work. Easier to just get a big MicroSD and symlink your media folders to that.
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An interesting idea, but a quick attempt didn't work. Easier to just get a big MicroSD and symlink your media folders to that.
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Thanks for trying it out and letting me know. I doubted it would actually work, but figured I might throw the idea out there just in case.
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linux experience
my experience with Linux suggests that a simple repartition resize would suffice, if possible.
In Linux there are nice programs like GParted that can change, create, modify partitions Live, It is risky but I've never lost data.
Those were windows machines running Linux distros though. Android is a form of Linux but I'm not sure what you can do partition wise.
Not quite that far in my quest of knowledge and understanding.
The thing is, your partitions are set and don't change, even when you flash, so basically that space is pre-allocated by the factory.
even when you flash, you aren't flashing the partition structure, just the data inside it (those memory addresses), IF after you flashed with the No Bloatware Flash theoretically you should be able to resize that particular partition and also resize the device storage partition in sequence to a bigger size. All that should be possible without affecting the important system partitions etc. Even if you did **** it up, the system and recovery partitions are hidden and you should be able to do a full rewrite recovery with some software and a usb cord, theoretically. You would need to be accurate, not just precise when you resize the partitions. As a matter of fact if you did do it, you should resize according to actual drive blocks and not bytes.
Just my 2 cents, Ayyyyy

[GUIDE] How to set up LINK2SD for your Android

CREDIT: First of all this is not my tutorial and all credit goes to Adam Parnala for creating this easy tutorial. I decided to bring it to us off the web for easier access. Please remember to use caution while trying to modify anything on your phone. It is your responsibility to follow the instructions to the letter else you may cause some problems. I have used this particular guide several times on other phones and this one as well. Root is required.
Link2SD can move not only the application file, but also the dalvic-cache and library files of the application. This means that data will be the only one left to consume your internal memory thus installing applications and games would be easier because you can install anything you want without worrying about the famous low memory problem. Furthermore, Link2sd covers all files even moving widgets and the unmovable applications to the 2nd partition of your SD card. Please be advised that your version may not look the same and mine but the information should not have changed. I strongly suggest that you download and install busybox too.
This is a step by step guide on how you can run Link2SD on your device. This tutorial will work for both stock and custom ROMs. Follow all the instructions carefully to eliminate possible problems.
1. First you have to download Mini Tool Partition Wizard Manager. You can download it HERE.
2. Insert your SD card to a card reader and open it on your computer.
3. Back up all your files to the computer because partitioning will wipe your data.
4. Open Mini Tool in your computer. Locate your SD card (be careful in choosing and make sure not to choose the drive of your computer)
5. Right click and choose Delete.
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6. Right click on it again and choose Create New. Create “FAT32″ partition (This is where all your media files will go. Be sure to make it bigger than the 2nd part)
7. Select “Create as: PRIMARY”
8.Next, create an ext2/ext3/ext4 partition. This is where your apps will go so I suggest you allocate enough memory for your purposes.
9.Select “Create As: PRIMARY” (make sure that it is both set to primary because it will not work if it is not set to primary)
10. Click the “Apply” button on the top left corner and wait for it to finish the process. Done.
11.Put back your SD card to your phone and switch it on.
12. Download and install Link2sd from Google Play Store. .
13. Open Link2sd and you will be asked for root privileges so allow it. You will be prompted to choose between ext2, ext3, ext4 and FAT32. Select the one that you picked earlier.
14. It will say mount script created. Reboot your phone now.
15. Open link2sd and if the message doesn't show up, you succeeded
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16. Go to Link2sd>Settings>check the autolink (to automatically move apps upon installation)
17. If you already have some apps, select the app you wish to move then select “Create Link” (be sure to check the three files: app, dalvic-cache and library files)
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19. To check your memory, select “Storage Info”. This will show you the current state of your internal memory, FAT32, and ext* partition.
Now you’re done and ready to install vast amount of applications as you wish!

unable to use 2nd partition
After done everything I am only able to link the 1st partition.'fat32, . Nothing is going to 2nd partition I,e- sdexnt2.
In setting menu I add this also but nothing is moving to the second partition help

Sdext2 should not work because artas182x said that only sdext3 is the only partition that works with his cwm.
LG-P769v20h. 'this the season to give thanks so hit the button already!

Thank you!
Finally found a way to get Link2SD to work on my rooted Virgin Mobile Galaxy S3.

Good,, I'm glad it helped
LG-P769 rooted, debloated, over clocked, under volted, and linked. 'Tis the season to give thanks so hit the button already!

I don't have an SD card reader on my PC can I still proceed without doing a save to PC?

recovering deleted pictures from internal sdcard

hello , is there anyway to recover deleted pictures from internal sdcad after formating system ??? , i tried many apps through google but all failed ,
i desperately need these pictures cuz they contain credit card informations which i must have

You are going to have to put your SD card into the computer and use a recovery program. SD cards don't have a "trash" so you will need to find software to recover it. IMPORTANT!! DO IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! the more reads and writes to your card, the more likely that the files you are looking for will be purged off. The reason I know its possible is because I just had to do this about 6 months ago. Good luck
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Success100 said:
You are going to have to put your SD card into the computer and use a recovery program. SD cards don't have a "trash" so you will need to find software to recover it. IMPORTANT!! DO IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! the more reads and writes to your card, the more likely that the files you are looking for will be purged off. The reason I know its possible is because I just had to do this about 6 months ago. Good luck
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internal SD.....not external SD ! zo thats a nice idea but not going to work as its not removable.
as long as you can't mount the internal SD as an USB disk its a no go to run recovery software as 99% of those type of software needs a USB disk to run and NOT MTP type of storage.

I think I saw a hack around XDA that allowed you to mount the memory, or extract the contents, to be able to recover (possibly) data. But it seemed like a lot of hoops to jump through. Plus, data recovery programs will often be only partially successful, under the best of circumstances.
Consider it a lesson learned, and backup your photos next time. With a variety of easy cloud options, there is really no reason not to.

pinkslips said:
hello , is there anyway to recover deleted pictures from internal sdcad after formating system ??? , i tried many apps through google but all failed ,
i desperately need these pictures cuz they contain credit card informations which i must have
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do you have a Nandroid ? why didn't you use the Google drive or Dropbox for backup ?
HTC gives every One owner a Google Drive just for this reason

pinkslips said:
hello , is there anyway to recover deleted pictures from internal sdcad after formating system ??? , i tried many apps through google but all failed ,
i desperately need these pictures cuz they contain credit card informations which i must have
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well you could try
reboot to TWRP recovery to avoid further damage to the partition, make sure /external_sd is mounted
Code:
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p47 of=/external_sd/mmcblk0p47_userdata.img
(that should be a raw ext4 partition)
once that's done, take out your external sdcard, and using a card reader, try mounting it in linux then use some recovery program,
you may possibly need to convert it the raw partition, but i'm not sure about all that, just trying to point you in the [possibly] right direction
but in all cases, very low chance of success probably
EDIT: for example, i was able to mount the partition (i made a backup when i first got the phone), just to test using DiskInternals Linux Reader:
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thanks all i managed to do it , i went for a guy and he recovered them for me using terminal emulator and some other program i can remember its name

pinkslips said:
thanks all i managed to do it , i went for a guy and he recovered them for me using terminal emulator and some other program i can remember its name
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Wow that's Great news... Please find out what he used to recover the files . I could really use it.

if you are rooted, there is an app available through the playstore called diskdigger that recovers deleted files from your internal storage

methslushee said:
if you are rooted, there is an app available through the playstore called diskdigger that recovers deleted files from your internal storage
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yes exactly diskdigger root paid one
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.defianttech.diskdiggerpro&hl=en
u can try the free version first if it didnt work for u go for pro , i dont know why int the reviews alot of people says it doesnt work but it worked like a charm , i even used it later afterwards to recover some music and some videos i shot with the camera ,

methslushee said:
if you are rooted, there is an app available through the playstore called diskdigger that recovers deleted files from your internal storage
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pinkslips said:
yes exactly diskdigger root paid one
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.defianttech.diskdiggerpro&hl=en
u can try the free version first if it didnt work for u go for pro , i dont know why int the reviews alot of people says it doesnt work but it worked like a charm , i even used it later afterwards to recover some music and some videos i shot with the camera ,
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Disk digger works very very well. I have used it a few times to help others out. It's success rate is pretty high.
Just ensure to recover to the external sd card.

I suggest that you try this htc data recovery solution.
Good luck.

peternik999 said:
I think not possible for internal storage.
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Phone based data recovery apps (such as from the Play store) are your best bet.
As you may be referring to (hard to tell with a one line, vague post) PC based programs have been (at least somewhat) successful recovering data from smartphones in the past. But since Android has moved to MTP protocol (versus USB mass storage), most of those programs won't work.
The phone apps will work to some degree, with internal storage. But data recovery is always an iffy proposition. Once the memory blocks get overwritten, the data is gone for good (at least by any reasonable, consumer level retrieval methods).

NTFS is now working on Windows 10 Mobile (Plus Tutorial on how to symbolic link)

Just ordered a brand new 32GB Sandisk Ultra SD Card for my Lumia 535 since my 2 year old Sandisk Ultra 16GB is already dead (you served me well...).
I already posted here almost like 4 months ago about a question on how can I enable NTFS support on Windows 10 Mobile, but since anyone doesn't even know the answer and yes the current build of 10 Mobile on that time I posted it doesn't even support external NTFS support just yet...
Okay back to the topic, now I got my new sdcard, I just wonder if the current build my Lumia is running (10586.11, yes I haven't upgraded to 10586.36 just yet, will do that later) supports external NTFS storage support (Continuum and OTG features on the Lumia 950/XL needs it). So I decided to format my sdcard to NTFS, plug it in to my Lumia 535 with my fingers crossed and HOLY CRAP IT WORKS !!! Read/Write works too on NTFS which is great!
NTFS features works too, like mklink (symbolic link for Windows), which can be quite useful once Project Astoria comes back to future builds of 10 Mobile or other hacks possible with symlinks...
Anyways, here's an example on how to mklink the documents folder on C:\ to your sdcard (D:\ )
On Your PC, create directories of C:\Data\Users\Public\Documents\TestFolder
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On your sdcard, create a documents folder there, but don't create a "TestFolder" folder
After that, run command prompt as administrator
Now type in "mklink /j D:\Documents\TestFolder C:\Data\Users\Public\Documents\TestFolder" without quotes (change D: with your sdcard's drive letter on your PC)
You should see a "TestFolder" shortcut on your sdcard, but it's not really a shortcut...
Plug your sdcard back to your Lumia
To test if Symbolic Link works, create a random file on \Documents\TestFolder folder on your phone's C:\ drive, then see if that file exists on your sdcard\Documents\TestFolder\ too... If it does exists even you didn't create that file on your sdcard, symlink works!
I haven't tried reversing the junction just yet thou (MTP doesn't allow it, maybe root access can... Darn we can do some awesome hacks with reversed junction XD )
And oh yeah, there's some sort of a weird bug with NTFS when installing apps to sdcard with NTFS... It just throws 0x80073cf6... Not sure if it's just me or what... Will do a hard reset on my Lumia after installing 10586.36 and gonna update this thread if I found anything interesting after the update... Stay tuned
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Nice research

Just a comment on terminology. mklink /j creates a directory junction, not a symbolic link, there are differences between these two. A directory junction is similar in behavior to a symbolic link of directory, however directory junction cannot point to network locations because of the way it is implemented (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365006).
Anyway, that's great that NTFS is supported, finally Windows 10 Mobile is becoming a grown OS

Junction doesn't help much but with symbolic links things get interesting.
I managed to write files in protected folders on my Lumia 950 which is impossible to gain full FS access to ATM.
I created on NTFS formatted SD card a symbolic link to C:\Data\USERS\DefApps\APPDATA\ROAMING\MICROSOFT\Network\Connections\Pbk, and with permissions editing of that link (disabling inherited permissions, setting explicit permissions for everyone and changing owner to everyone) I managed to achieve write access to that folder and write a rasphone.pbk configured for my VPN connection. Now I have working VPN on WP10 again
Deleting and overwriting files in that folder doesn't work unless I make symbolic links (with permissions edited the same as above) for each file I want to delete.
Other than this, NTFS is pretty useless on SD card at the moment. Apps can't be installed to it, and if pictures/video storage is set to SD, camera apps will not see the storage and will complain storage is full.

At least a NTFS card can be used to write acces phone system. . Someone can write a list of symbolic link to use on a ntfs formated card? Probably to get acces to windows/packages/oemsettings.reg, change him with a interopunlocked one and then hardreset phone to gain interopcapability?

DLS123 said:
Other than this, NTFS is pretty useless on SD card at the moment. Apps can't be installed to it, and if pictures/video storage is set to SD, camera apps will not see the storage and will complain storage is full.
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Did a factory reset after upgrading to 10586.36, still the same error code throws for installing and/or moving apps to SD with NTFS but camera works fine for me...
Anyways, have you tried symlinking any file to C:\Windows and see if read/write actually works?
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At least a NTFS card can be used to write acces phone system. . Someone can write a list of symbolic link to use on a ntfs formated card? Probably to get acces to windows/packages/oemsettings.reg, change him with a interopunlocked one and then hardreset phone to gain interopcapability?
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Hmmm... Might actually gonna do that soon, but for now I formatted my card back to FAT32 because of some storage problems lol!
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Anyways, have you tried symlinking any file to C:\Windows and see if read/write actually works?
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Not yet. My goal was just to have working VPN and I stopped there once I had it. But I will try it as soon as I find a spare SD card I can play with.

Great Job guys! Looks like I'll have something fun to play around with .

How did you edit the rasphone file?

Hulzer said:
How did you edit the rasphone file?
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With notepad on a PC. It's just a text file.

Yes, but I can't copy it from the phone or write it back. Any hint? Thanks

@DLS123 Could you please go in detail how you got read/write access? I can see the rasphone file but can't copy or write.

Got it!
I had to delete VPN connections on the phone before I could copy the modified file.
Thanks.