I have a live demo unit of note 2. Unfurtunately i can't delete anything from the internal storage, because it says taht the storage is protected when trying to delete them from the PC, and simply can't delete file when trying from the phone itself.
Solid explorer shows that i have both write and read permissions, so other then that, where else i should look into?
I can write new files to the storage just can't delete the ones that were there by default.
You should try doing a factory reset. I don't have the note II but its still an android phone. If that doesn't work, check in the security settings
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i've done that, doesn't help.
Don't see anything in security that might help either.
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Galaxy Device Encryption application.
I downloaded yesterday and encryted the galaxy s2. I really admired the encryption process.
The problem is that, when I decrypted it, the phone rebooted and all my applications are gone. It was as if the phone has been hard reset. I still see that my system storage still has the applications as the size has not changed. However I cannot install any new application and I really need your help. I have done all that I know as a computer engineer.
I need your help and I know you can help me. Thank you for your antiscipated favour.
Personally don't know. Have you checked with the application developer?
Should done a full backup before such a risky maneuver.
This is a problem with most of the new ICS roms out now
Both my AT&T S2 and my Kindle Fire are both hanging on the encryption provision (needed for Outlook). We think it may be due to all the apps being downloaded first before we config the phone/tablet. In some cases, there isn't much room left. So I am trying that now..
Any help here would be great.. I get just the Droid, no output of progress.
fromnana said:
Galaxy Device Encryption application.
I downloaded yesterday and encryted the galaxy s2. I really admired the encryption process.
The problem is that, when I decrypted it, the phone rebooted and all my applications are gone. It was as if the phone has been hard reset. I still see that my system storage still has the applications as the size has not changed. However I cannot install any new application and I really need your help. I have done all that I know as a computer engineer.
I need your help and I know you can help me. Thank you for your antiscipated favour.
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There are two things that you can try, if not tried yet...
I'm not sure this would work or not but it's worth a shot.
one is that you can use a root file browser ( like Root Explorer or anything ), browse the data partition and if you find applications in the app directory copy it (if not all then at least data/app and data/data directories) to some external card then do a data wipe and copy these back...
another way could be that you try out the Titanium backup app and see if it is able to list out your apps...if it does then back them up and do a data wipe and restore that backup.
And you might also consider using some third party launcher......it might also list out all your apps and if it does .....then just clear the data/cache for TWlauncher and then you might see your apps again...
So I've noticed my storage is full of "other" - as per in the attached screenshot.
How do I find what that is, and do you reckon I can delete it?
It can't be cache stuff, can it?
I reckon it might be a Titanium Back up or a nandroid, but would like to know where to look. I'm back on stock and unrooted, and if this is something I can take off the phone and put on a spare hard drive, that would be great.
Thanks for your help...!
Looks like several people are having this problem?
treb1971 said:
So I've noticed my storage is full of "other" - as per in the attached screenshot.
How do I find what that is, and do you reckon I can delete it?
It can't be cache stuff, can it?
I reckon it might be a Titanium Back up or a nandroid, but would like to know where to look. I'm back on stock and unrooted, and if this is something I can take off the phone and put on a spare hard drive, that would be great.
Thanks for your help...!
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It could be the pre-installed apps.
When you first bought your HOX, you check your settings and storage, only 2.11GB available on internal storage (apps memory), and more than 25GB available on virtual SD card or phone memory.
Some of the custom roms on rooted HOX has this functionality that we can be able to view the full details of what is consuming our memory.
i use ES file explorer for this it can run an analysis of the sd card and tell what the folders are that take up the most space
u can also analyze a folder instead of sd card to see what map or file takes the most space
u will see if its junk or maybe some old games you dont have installed anymore
and can simply delete them after
Its everything you downloaded, music , folders , pictures etc
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XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
Its everything you downloaded, music , folders , pictures etc
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No it's not music, folders, pictures. I have same problem and ask HTC for help.
Man you should try to factory reset and clear storage, if that doesnt work and your phone come with used 4gb (like mine), you should send it to service. Already not found any better way to fix it. Sorry if i'm wrong.
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No it's not music, folders, pictures. I have same problem and ask HTC for help.
Man you should try to factory reset and clear storage, if that doesnt work and your phone come with used 4gb (like mine), you should send it to service. Already not found any better way to fix it. Sorry if i'm wrong.
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I got a reply from HTC this morning that this is what system takes which is a total BS as system is only 1.05 Gb in my case it is /sys folder which is showing to contain nearly a MILLION folders and 500000 (yes five hundred thousand) files.
They really dont know what they are telling.
Odp: [Q] Storage Full of "Other"
I'm now at hospital so cant send it to HTC. But i try send it next week. I tell you what's result. From HTC this is only way to fix it. I'm not expert just saying HTC's solution. Wait, may some one know other solution, i will tell you how it's going next week when get phone from service.
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I've got the same problem! Looking inside the phone with a root explorer the amount of all the folders is around 350 mb with a custom rom, all the folder except one ( /sys ). The folder /sys has something wrong cause the explorer just keep saying calculating...
Is there anything we can do to have back all these GB?? Thanks
Have anyone try to factory reset?
I have got this problem too.
I have tried "make more space" by delete apps.
But "Other" is nothing change.:silly:
If you have a backup or migration tool installed check if you have any backups stored and also check the temp files of that backup app.
The othet section is the pre installed apps and the system itself.
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I had 9.45GB of storage in "other"
I tried finding what it was taking that much space and discovered nothing in particular.
Some time before, I realized my HTC One Mini 2 was full. I was replacing data to my Ext. SD Card. Then I realized that, no matter what I replaced, the 9.45 GB remained the same/Increased.
I think there is some kind of TEMP file for stuff you deleted/replaced. So you could get it back if you deleted something by accident, because after restarting my phone, only 5.5GB of "other" storage was left.
However, this is still alot of storage, and I can't find what the 5.5GB contains in any file explorer. Does anyone have a clue about how big the OS and Sense layer are? Thanks in advance
I accidentally deleted some useful S Notes when playing with my phone.
I tried looking in the S Note folder, and there's nothing there...
Is there a way to recover these files at all?
I would be very dead if I couldn't recover them.
Beamed from Jupiter on my Galaxy Note II
Dead.
No no data recovery apps run since ics.
There was no app made to do it on phone. The desktop ones require the phone to mount usb rather than just exposing it to pc.
I hope you didn't loose wife's grocery list though.
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I dont think u can recover them....u can recover them only if u have taken backup with kies
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I read about there being a cache folder somewhere in the file dir, somehow I can't find it...
Amagad!
Beamed from Jupiter on my Galaxy Note II
Nuisance. There is no backup of s notes on phone. But some show up in root folder sometimes.
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Do you have any idea where this root folder is?
Beamed from Jupiter on my Galaxy Note II
You rooted brah ? If not then forget it.
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Yah rooted
Beamed from Jupiter on my Galaxy Note II
Then download es file explorer. Enable root explorer and allow up to root. Then tap back button. Scroll through the page. It would be in png format.
There is a very little chance because it only pops up sometimes.
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Damn, I had the same problem! I didn't delete them manually though, wiped data/factory reset deleted them, but I remember once after even wiping data/factory reset they came back! I wonder how! Maybe I had sync on before wiping data, whatever! Nowadays the first thing I do after taking a Note is to sync it with Google Doc.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Then download es file explorer. Enable root explorer and allow up to root. Then tap back button. Scroll through the page. It would be in png format.
There is a very little chance because it only pops up sometimes.
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This.
Help!! This just happened to me
I thought they were set to back up to goole. Please someone help me restore I am literally sick to my stomach till I get this fixed.
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Yah rooted
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AjunNg and LayChil,
If those notes are really important, then first of all:
1) STOP USING YOUR PHONE.
Turn off Wifi, turn off mobile data. The more Facebook/Whatsapp messages you receive, the more data gets written on your phone, which means the more likely your deleted notes will be overwritten forever!
2) Obtain a dump of the internal memory. I recommend dumping the entire contents of mmcblk0, as shown in this guide:
http://www.dflund.se/~jokke/androidfilerecovery/
NOTE: The guide says that you need BusyBox installed on your phone. However, I recommend that you IGNORE THIS REQUIREMENT and proceed with the rest of the guide anyway, because most likely it will still work, and installing BusyBox on your phone just increases your chance of overwriting your deleted notes. (Obviously if you already installed BusyBox before you lost your notes, then that's great, and obviously don't uninstall BusyBox in this case!)
Of course, I'm assuming that you saved the notes in the phone's internal memory. If you saved the notes in an external sdcard instead, then you want a memory dump of the external sdcard.
3) Run some recovery software (or undelete software) on your memory dump.
NOTE: Make sure that you make a copy of your memory dump before you run recovery/undelete software on it. Sometimes the recovery/undelete software is badly written and it will modify your memory dump! You don't want this to happen.
There is a chance that even after completing Step 3, you will not get your notes back. It depends on your luck. Good luck to both of you.
(Edit: I just realised that AjunNg last posted in 2013. Oops...)
LayChil, if your phone is not rooted, then you will have to root your phone before proceeding with Step 2 above. I recommend that you root using Framaroot, and pray that your deleted notes don't get overwritten during the rooting process. You can get Framaroot from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/framaroot/root-framaroot-one-click-apk-to-root-t2130276
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Newbie question, forgive me if it's dumb. I have a Galaxy Tab T310 that I just rooted because I wanted to be able to get around the SD card write issue. BUT, the real problem I have is that I want to simply copy movies from my desktop to the Tab via a USB cable but the Tab keeps erasing the files. It doesn't erase the directories I create on the SD, it just erases the files IN the directories and often the subdirectories. Sometimes it erases them as soon as I copy new files to the SD, sometimes when I reboot the phone. But it always erases them.
I'm assuming this is related to the Android security effort to "protect me," but I don't know how to keep it from happening. Will one of the root apps like SDFix keep this from happening? Again, I'm not talking about apps being able to write files to the SD, I'm just talking about me being able to write files to the SD using a cable and then KEEPING the files from being erased by the Tab. Thanks for the help!
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Can anyone point me toward another forum where I might find an answer to this question? I thought this would be the best place but apparently I am the only person who has ever seen this problem. This makes me wonder whether there is another problem with the tablet....
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Newbie question, forgive me if it's dumb. I have a Galaxy Tab T310 that I just rooted because I wanted to be able to get around the SD card write issue. BUT, the real problem I have is that I want to simply copy movies from my desktop to the Tab via a USB cable but the Tab keeps erasing the files. It doesn't erase the directories I create on the SD, it just erases the files IN the directories and often the subdirectories. Sometimes it erases them as soon as I copy new files to the SD, sometimes when I reboot the phone. But it always erases them.
I'm assuming this is related to the Android security effort to "protect me," but I don't know how to keep it from happening. Will one of the root apps like SDFix keep this from happening? Again, I'm not talking about apps being able to write files to the SD, I'm just talking about me being able to write files to the SD using a cable and then KEEPING the files from being erased by the Tab. Thanks for the help!
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k9bm said:
Can anyone point me toward another forum where I might find an answer to this question? I thought this would be the best place but apparently I am the only person who has ever seen this problem. This makes me wonder whether there is another problem with the tablet....
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You might try downloading an SD Card Fix app from the Play store. There are several of them. KK messed up the ability to copy to the Ext SD card.
If you're rooted, then download ES File explorer app. Run it and hit your menu button. Scroll down the menu and make sure Root Explorer is checked.
That's all I can think of that might help
Hello. I have a problem with M9 internal storage - something takes about 3.5 gigs, but this "something" is not visible. I did factory reset, formatted internal storage from TWRP - still the same. Another phone (M9 too) after reset has internal storage almost empty, as it should be. So, is there a way to full format and run file sysmem check for internal storage? Via ADB maybe?
Check the data folder. Thats where all the crap is held. You can explore the system with es file explorer. Check the sizes of folders. Check /data/data.
Beamed in by telepathy.
The es file explorer is bloated with ads and unnecessary (and in case of the cleaner function even harmful) extra tools. There are alternatives like solid explorer.
If the phone got set S-OFF recently then it's completely normal that it lacks those 3 GB. There's a tutorial here on xda that explains how you can recover that space. I'll add a link to this post as soon as I find the guide.
Edit: Link
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