Something seems to be wrong with the calculation of my internal storage. I feel like I should have more free space. Any ideas where this used space could be hiding? And how I'm using 523MB for pictures isn't possible, I have around 70 photos on this phone. They average 2MB each.
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Nandroids?
I only have one nandroid back up. The files in the backup folder aren't particularly large though.
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Shad0wguy said:
I only have one nandroid back up. The files in the backup folder aren't particularly large though.
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Download Es file explorer, once inside click menu "3 dots" click manager then click SD card analyst. It will show you what your apps are eating or various things being stored. Most likely my guess is a bunch if non sense thumbnails. Probably a bunch of small files.
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Will look something like this.
Yeah I know I'm low, I need to clean my directory lol
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Download Es file explorer, once inside click menu "3 dots" click manager then click SD card analyst. It will show you what your apps are eating or various things being stored. Most likely my guess is a bunch if non sense thumbnails. Probably a bunch of small files.
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Glad I found this. Was finally able to locate some old game files that were taking up 3 GB !!Thanks!
I have the exact same problem and this worked, but when I delete it it says the space is free, but j get out and go back and the files are all back again. Its been like this ever since I rooted and unlocked my phone.
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As the title mentiones, my device is out of memory. Like none. Even if I install a new rom the phone storage is still low cant even update all my apps because there's no space on my device. I tried apps to see whats taking up the huge space but there all worthless really cant delete from the app. Dont want to delete important files either so question is how can I get ride of all this crap the phone doesn't need?
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silly question, but once it was done calculating did you tap on one of the sections to see the individual files and there sizes? i was coming close to having this issue, until i went through each of those sections with a fine tooth comb. it was then i found piles of old downloaded files just stock piled....ended up clearing 3 gigs.
Let that screen sit for a minute to let the calculations finish. Then select a category (like miscellaneous). Then check which files you like to delete. The hidden thumbnail folder can get big, much like other app folders that cache info.
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Have you possibly flashed any aosp or cyanogen roms. Could possibly have files built up in an O folder on your internal sd card
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have any nandroids?
Yea. If you mean backups I have 1
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chuko303 said:
Yea. If you mean backups I have 1
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In my screenshot above, that 2+GB TWRP folder has only 1 backup of the data partition. Moving these backups to external SD can open a lot of internal storage space.
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I can't for the life of me find this directory. When I last installed a nandroid it showed /media but it's not there. I have looked in almost every folder. Before flashing to 4.3 my nandroid was in sdcard/twrp but not anymore.
Also is there a difference between sdcard0 and emulated?? I swear I should have a lot more space then I do. Was wondering with these two directories are the files doubled or are they in fact just mirrored.
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likwidkool said:
I can't for the life of me find this directory. When I last installed a nandroid it showed /media but it's not there. I have looked in almost every folder. Before flashing to 4.3 my nandroid was in sdcard/twrp but not anymore.
Also is there a difference between sdcard0 and emulated?? I swear I should have a lot more space then I do. Was wondering with these two directories are the files doubled or are they in fact just mirrored.
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The 0 folder gets created when any CM based Rom is installed. Just copy the contents of your SD to the 0 folder and keep both.
There is a logcat file that grows each time you install a CM ROM. It's in /root on stock, and in /mnt/shell/emulated in CM Rom's.
TWRP looks in the 0 folder or /data/media/0
Edit: Ooops forgot to say you can delete that logcat
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The 0 folder gets created when any CM based Rom is installed. Just copy the contents of your SD to the 0 folder and keep both.
There is a logcat file that grows each time you install a CM ROM. It's in /root on stock, and in /mnt/shell/emulated in CM Rom's.
TWRP looks in the 0 folder or /data/media/0
Edit: Ooops forgot to say you can delete that logcat
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Thanks for the quick reply! The log cat is only 10mb so no biggie. I still can't find my backups though looking where you said. I tried to delete my old nandroids with rom toolbox but they didn't delete.
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likwidkool said:
Thanks for the quick reply! The log cat is only 10mb so no biggie. I still can't find my backups though looking where you said. I tried to delete my old nandroids with rom toolbox but they didn't delete.
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You sure you didn't delete them too?
Try /mnt/sdcard, or /mnt/shell/emulated.
If you still can't find them, reboot to TWRP, see if they show, then boot up ROM
Use a rooted explorer on your phone to find them. Your computer my not show them yet....but eventually. Sometimes its a bugger to get the files to show up.
Wow. Finally found it. Swear I looked here a million times but it was in /data/media/twrp/backups
Root browser in rom toolbox wouldn't delete them but es file Explorer did. Got 1.7gb back. I only need one nandroid!
Still would love to know where the rest of my space is though. May have to do a full wipe at some point.
Thanks for the help engine!!
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likwidkool said:
Wow. Finally found it. Swear I looked here a million times but it was in /data/media/twrp/backups
Root browser in rom toolbox wouldn't delete them but es file Explorer did. Got 1.7gb back. I only need one nandroid!
Still would love to know where the rest of my space is though. May have to do a full wipe at some point.
Thanks for the help engine!!
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Lol I had the same problem. Ended up just backing up my efs backups to the computer then installing chameleon OS and wiped everything because it ended up mirroring everything 4 times and filled up my storage haha...
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AFschizoid said:
Lol I had the same problem. Ended up just backing up my efs backups to the computer then installing chameleon OS and wiped everything because it ended up mirroring everything 4 times and filled up my storage haha...
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Yeah i was wondering if all those mirrors are taking up extra space. I have the same folders in like 4 different places all with different dates on them. I have only 8gbs free. Pics are like 1.5gbs and music is 8gbs. My backups and old rom downloads are about 4gbs. No way my apps take up the rest of the space. I don't even have any games installed right now.
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Yeah i was wondering if all those mirrors are taking up extra space. I have the same folders in like 4 different places all with different dates on them. I have only 8gbs free. Pics are like 1.5gbs and music is 8gbs. My backups and old rom downloads are about 4gbs. No way my apps take up the rest of the space. I don't even have any games installed right now.
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Lol well I kept trying out stock and aosp and every time I did that it would add another 0 folder inside.
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Lol well I kept trying out stock and aosp and every time I did that it would add another 0 folder inside.
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I think that's what happened to me. I bounced between stock, nexogen, cm 10.1 and all the 4.3 roms.
Downloaded a disk usage app and honestly with their breakdown it actually adds up. I also didn't take into account system data. I takes up 2gbs on its own. I thought that would have been included in the 7gb unusable we have.
Plus i guess there are some residual cache issues. Those 0 folders have cache files from old programs. I found 500mb cache file from spotify and I haven't had that installed for a few weeks. Plus i found a 500mb logcat file.
I guess i'll do more digging and clean it up. I don't feel like wiping internal right now.
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likwidkool said:
I think that's what happened to me. I bounced between stock, nexogen, cm 10.1 and all the 4.3 roms.
Downloaded a disk usage app and honestly with their breakdown it actually adds up. I also didn't take into account system data. I takes up 2gbs on its own. I thought that would have been included in the 7gb unusable we have.
Plus i guess there are some residual cache issues. Those 0 folders have cache files from old programs. I found 500mb cache file from spotify and I haven't had that installed for a few weeks. Plus i found a 500mb logcat file.
I guess i'll do more digging and clean it up. I don't feel like wiping internal right now.
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Could just hook it up to a computer, open the storage then right click and arrange icons by size so you can see the big folders first. Faster than just going folder to folder
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Could just hook it up to a computer, open the storage then right click and arrange icons by size so you can see the big folders first. Faster than just going folder to folder
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Fair point! I have a mac so I rarely hook my phone up to it. Might have to do it though for.the interest of my sanity!
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SO I s-offed with Rumrunner today and did a TWRP backup. Now I didn't notice before, but now my storage is showing 17.96 GB Used. Apps are 1.15GB, Music 15mb, Photos 15mb, downloads 8.78mb, with Other being 16.77GB. My backup is only 2GB, is other the OS?? I am still stock rooted.
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SO I s-offed with Rumrunner today and did a TWRP backup. Now I didn't notice before, but now my storage is showing 17.96 GB Used. Apps are 1.15GB, Music 15mb, Photos 15mb, downloads 8.78mb, with Other being 16.77GB. My backup is only 2GB, is other the OS?? I am still stock rooted.
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Check your entire SD card with a file manager. You've got something big on there.
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Check your entire SD card with a file manager. You've got something big on there.
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I have Astro installed, would that do the trick? Or browse thru the PC connection?
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I have Astro installed, would that do the trick? Or browse thru the PC connection?
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Yea that would work. Either way you're more comfortable with. Check all the files. Sounds really off.
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Looks like the same thing for me. I'm on Bonestock.
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Looks like the same thing for me. I'm on Bonestock.
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Mine is way lower. Dont have much on here yet though I admit
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Mine is way lower. Dont have much on here yet though I admit
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What ROM are you running? It could be space used up by stock system stuff. OP is stock and I'm running Bonestock, which is essentially stock.
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What ROM are you running? It could be space used up by stock system stuff. OP is stock and I'm running Bonestock, which is essentially stock.
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Nos. I don't remember ever having that much though...
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I cant link my screen shot, but my TWRP is only 2.89GB, Still doesn't add up to the 10.53GB used...
I Think I see an issue. on my system folder I have two files in the storage folder named "Emulated" and "sdcard0" . They have the same thing in each one, about 3.40GB. Is this a normal file format for android?
From what I've gathered it's not actually there twice, it's just a reflection, so to speak, of your user data. It's a feature implemented for muti-user setups.
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I Think I see an issue. on my system folder I have two files in the storage folder named "Emulated" and "sdcard0" . They have the same thing in each one, about 3.40GB. Is this a normal file format for android?
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Yea that's normal. Its just a system link.
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Already posted a thread about this........
The HTC One is formatted different than a typical external sd card (FAT). Because it is formatted differently, USB mass storage does not show up on our computers. Use adb to push files. Check your storage space on the phone.
I have 10.08GB used in other with no backups. Just the way the phone came.
Thanks Guy's, just wanted to be sure it wasn't something I did while running Rumrunner or doing my first recovery.
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at one point my other storage was gigantic as well. It was at the point where I didn't have enough room to backup in recovery.
after I uninstalled play music and magazines my other storage dropped to below 10GB and gave me 17 GB free.
lol I can't believe I didn't realize this phone came with no microsd slot. Not being able to put all my media on one is bumming me out.
Its still a great phone but now I'm missing my thunderbolt a little bit.
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This is def a bug, and I might have a fix... Here's how I came to this...
On soff day one I soffed, immediately I installed cwm recovery, and first thing I did was do a backup... Restarted my phone, and immediately got the less than 10 GB left...right after that I wiped and i installed mokee, and still had storage issues... Then I deleted the factory backup and did a nother fresh backup from recovery... Poof all my space is back... Check the size of your factory backup, bet its huge... Take it off your phone and stash it on your PC if you wanna save it...
This is where backups are stored
[/mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/
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Im pure stock on verizon and my other memory is lower..
Hi everyone I need help figuring out why my phone says that I have used 88% of my memory even though I don't have music saved on my phone and only have only 5 gigs Max of large files?! :banghead:
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siouxhockey11 said:
Hi everyone I need help figuring out why my phone says that I have used 88% of my memory even though I don't have music saved on my phone and only have only 5 gigs Max of large files?! :banghead:
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Check out the Settings->Storage screen to see where all the storage is being used, maybe you have too many apps? If it is files, I would download ES File Explorer, it has some great utilities for finding and cleaning up your storage.
Use the app DiskUsage.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&hl=en
It will tell you exactly where all your big files are.
Or sdmaid
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.sdm
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Not sure how I have used 28 gigs
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Not sure how I have used 28 gigs
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with a root explorer see what is taking your memory in data/media, you may have nandroid backups for example.
siouxhockey11 said:
Not sure how I have used 28 gigs
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Download SD maid and go to the tab "biggest" to see whats eating tour space.
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I noticed it in my nexus 7. Opening it gives another folder, ".dmgames". There are three files with long random names in the folder. I'm not sure if its safe to delete?
Probably just some extra files for an app. If it doesn't take up much room, you can just leave it.
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I noticed it in my nexus 7. Opening it gives another folder, ".dmgames". There are three files with long random names in the folder. I'm not sure if its safe to delete?
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I believe this is DroidMart Games... Crap... Biff it.
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I deleted it and there's no ill effect on my device. All is good.