I recently flashed cm10.1 on my GS3 and now I've got all my internal storage stuck in the storage/emulated/0/android/obb or storage/emulated/legacy/android/obb locations. Under settings it shows total space 12.05gb, available is 668mb but less than 1/4 of the visual bar is full and accounted for. Sd maid is showing the obb folder is holding 11.39gb but no matter what explorers I use it always appears empty. Anyone know how to free up this spae? I can't find anything anywhere about this. Thank you ion advance.
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Restoring it doesn't free the space up at all. Even tried restoring my backups and the space remains full.
The obb folder is what holds all of your game data. If you have a lot of games installed, especially ones such as Need for speed, grand theft auto, etc. Go into it and clear out the data for all the games you don't play.
I have zero games installed at all. It shows absolutely no files in the folder both regular and hidden and I cannot do anything to the folder whatsoever. Even a clean wipe won't help
This is all in the CM10.1 thread. It's all user data for different profiles. Format your sd card if you dont like it. Just make sure it's empty.
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I have not seen it anywhere. This is all on the internal memory, not the sd card. Everything has stated it's empty but the system storage option in the settings . isn't there some way to force delete this folder?
Page three using the app. I meant internal sd. You can always format it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35056166
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That I have never heard of. I will look into it, thank you.
Tablet terminology, my bad. After switching from CM 10.1 to another ROM and copying its contents to the external sd, I formatted my internal sd in recovery.
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Wow it worked! Thank you so much for the help.
My pleasure.
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It holds all internal data not just games every app has its own folder.
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I recently flashed cm10.1 on my GS3 and now I've got all my internal storage stuck in the storage/emulated/0/android/obb or storage/emulated/legacy/android/obb locations. Under settings it shows total space 12.05gb, available is 668mb but less than 1/4 of the visual bar is full and accounted for. Sd maid is showing the obb folder is holding 11.39gb but no matter what explorers I use it always appears empty. Anyone know how to free up this spae? I can't find anything anywhere about this. Thank you ion advance.
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Restoring it doesn't free the space up at all. Even tried restoring my backups and the space remains full.
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there is an xposed module that can fix this problem ..found this in google news app on my tablet,very helpfull for gamers.its called OBB to SD...install xposed framework on device as long as you running dalvic on your phone and not ART,cause xposed is not compatiable with ART,my gues is your running dalvic ...google xposed and read ..i see you have allready solved the problem..just adding to the answer,this is if you wanted to keep the files,for games..it moves all the files to the external storage,just make sure you get a large sd card..i like games,so i really find this mod helpful,also store my games on my 64 gig external storage
workaround and I thought it would be a nice idea to write it here.
I came to the counclusion that if I did a fresh new reset factory and installing a large mount of files in the internal storage's obb folder it ended up being deleted after rebotting my tablet.
So I decided to do a few steps the next time I reseted my tablet. First, I copied my files using my pc into the SD Card. Then, I installed a random game from Google Play so the tablet could "adapt itself" and install its own obb folder. After that, I installed my apps but not all at once but one at the time and rebooting after every installation for making sure it was all ok.
It concluded not having the error again and after having deleted the random game from the begining my tablet had finally worked.
Hope this idea helps someone having the same problem as I did. Just don't copy all obb files at once, don't copying it directly from the computer but copying them from the SD Card and install some random game for making sure it can at least hold those obb files.
Good luck!
Try Root Explorer and Delete the File from Root Folder
Source: http://www.tricks7.in/2017/12/fix-for-obb-game-file-not-deleting.html
what the heck is taking up all my internal space ??? I look at every folder and it sums up to maybe 100MB but still shows using 12BG phone:SPH-L710
boconcepts said:
what the heck is taking up all my internal space ??? I look at every folder and it sums up to maybe 100MB but still shows using 12BG phone:SPH-L710
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How is anyone else supposed to know what's on your device? Use a root file explorer, not the garbage Samsung one.
Look in Android/data and check all app folders
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Hi all,
I am trying to get android to work on my old Tilt2 for my fiance so we can play games together. I've gone through all the steps by adding the correct files to the root of the storage card and running Haret. Every thing seems to work "fine" other than the fact that I can't see a storage card while in Android. I tried to partition my SD card to see if that would help but I am unable to determine the proper way to do that. Any help would be appreciated
Do you have some type of file manager installed on Android? I know that I could always see it, with the exception of the Android folder on my card.
Demonic240 said:
Hi all,
I am trying to get android to work on my old Tilt2 for my fiance so we can play games together. I've gone through all the steps by adding the correct files to the root of the storage card and running Haret. Every thing seems to work "fine" other than the fact that I can't see a storage card while in Android. I tried to partition my SD card to see if that would help but I am unable to determine the proper way to do that. Any help would be appreciated
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I've said this 100x, not sure why it never shows up on people's searches...
But backup all the data on the card. Format the card (full format, FAT32) using the HP Tool. Restore all the data on the card after the format, or start over fresh doesn't really matter. Apps should now be able to see the card, etc.
I'm not concerned about apps seeing the storage card. I don't have a "My Files" app that will let me navigate the card. Do I need to download a file manager in order for it to work?
I fixed it.. I had to download a file management app I feel dumb now.
Which App?
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Which App?
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Astro is pretty good, and is included in AndroidApps folder IIRC.
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Astro is pretty good, and is included in AndroidApps folder IIRC.
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Amusingly, I use multiple file storage apps. Super Manager for making system files r/w, and file expert for the look and feel. I have astro too, on my other phone, but only really use it for enabling all file type downloads from the web.
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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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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
Hi guys,
on my HTC One X I've got under App Storage 4.79 GB used on 6.76 GB total and under Phone Storage 1.40 GB used on 25.24 GB total.
This is the situation just after I installed a new custom rom on the phone, so without any application from the market or pictures, music and videos!
So why my phone has 4.72 GB of "other" in the App Storage? Is it a bug? Can I fix it?
Hope someone knows how to get all that GB back.
Thank You!
use astro file manager. you will see what file is inside that "other".
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Hi guys,
on my HTC One X I've got under App Storage 4.79 GB used on 6.76 GB total and under Phone Storage 1.40 GB used on 25.24 GB total.
This is the situation just after I installed a new custom rom on the phone, so without any application from the market or pictures, music and videos!
So why my phone has 4.72 GB of "other" in the App Storage? Is it a bug? Can I fix it?
Hope someone knows how to get all that GB back.
Thank You!
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I never really checked what those 4 plus GB are, maybe system files? but I'm pretty sure it's normal. I see some other guys asked this question, and also my phone has similar data usage.
Not sure if you've solved this yet, but if you grab SD Maid off of the play store you can use that to find out what's taking up all the space. It's also pretty useful in general for clearing out junk files etc.
I've downloaded SD Maid and I can see 328Mb in /data and 624Mb in /system. These together with the small folders are gonna make not more than 700Mb in total, so the 4Gb must be in the folder /sys that SD Maid doesn't even scan. I have also noticed some loops in the /sys folder, something like enter in a subfolder and find yourself in another directory always inside /sys but in a different location. What should this folder contain?
Someone else might have to correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the /sys directory just contains android system files, so I doubt your phone would be too happy if it had glitched out enough to start duplicating files in there.
Did you wipe external storage before installing the rom? Could be that it's just leftover files on the sd card from apps you had installed on the previous rom.
Might be a bit of an extreme solution, but you could backup all your apps, messages etc, migrate the backups across to your pc then wipe absolutely everything from recovery before doing a fresh install of the rom. I know twrp recovery lets you wipe the system partition and external storage as well as the regular stuff (cache, dalvik etc), so just blitz the phone and start fresh. Should be a pretty fail-safe fix, just make sure you transfer everything you want to keep onto the pc before wiping, ready to be transferred back afterwards.
When you press advanced view on SD Maids first page, it will show you all found partitions.
/sys is mostlikely not the issue here.
I'm not sure how the partitions are set up on your device, but usually installing a new ROM does not wipe the internal sdcard location.
Where are the 25GB "Phone storage" located ? on the internal sdcard?
I'm not an expert but I don't think that the folder /sys contains android system files, or better it probably does but not 4 GB otherwise all the HTC One X should have the App Storage full of 4 GB of system files, instead seems to be just a problem of few phones. When I installed the custom ROM I did wipe everything, format all the folders and try to make the phone as clean as possible but the GB are still there.
SD Maid doesn't show me the /sys folder, and if I put together all the others folders that it shows to me the total amount doesn't reach the 4 GB, more like 800 Mb.
The HTC One X has two storages, "App Storage" (6.76GB total) and "Phone Storage" (25.24GB total). App Storage is the one where the kernel and rom are installed and that most of the applications doesn't touch, while the Phone Storage is like a normal SD Card for the other phones that can be formatted etc.
Same here.. "It's not a bug, it's a feature"
Is there an application able to make a file log of what is inside a folder? I was thinking that maybe someone who doesn't have this problem, could make a file log with the list of folders and files of the directory /sys and so we can see what does mach and what does not...
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you thanked yourself???
You should be able to just extract the information from the ROM you have installed.
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you thanked yourself???
You should be able to just extract the information from the ROM you have installed.
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No it was not my intention to thank myself, it was just to push up the conversation
Do you know how to extract these informations? From the ROM or from an application? I'm on OrDroid 12.5.3 at the moment.
Thanks
Hi,
I reached to your post after many hours of googling. Did you ever get any solution of your problem. I'm asking because i have the exact same problem in app storage - other. Other got 4.90GB of my App storage.
Please let me know.
Thanks for your time.
--HTC one X
My storage windows looks just like yours too, dunno if its meant to be like that. Prob just the system files for the OS but we can see if as used space in the new rom where as we didn't before.
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Is there an application able to make a file log of what is inside a folder? I was thinking that maybe someone who doesn't have this problem, could make a file log with the list of folders and files of the directory /sys and so we can see what does mach and what does not...
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Hey everyone,
Would it be possible for someone to help me figure out where my storage space has gone? I seem to have only about 500MB left on my internal memory, but the things using space don't add up to that and neither does checking the folder sizes. I'll post the picture of my storage map. I've been trying to figure out what is going on, but I'm stumped. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
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Hey everyone,
Would it be possible for someone to help me figure out where my storage space has gone? I seem to have only about 500MB left on my internal memory, but the things using space don't add up to that and neither does checking the folder sizes. I'll post the picture of my storage map. I've been trying to figure out what is going on, but I'm stumped. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
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Find a better app that actually lists folders and file sizes, i uses 'Storage Analyser' from the play store. This should help you narrow down where the culprit is (or confirm androids report).
hungry4cheese said:
Hey everyone,
Would it be possible for someone to help me figure out where my storage space has gone? I seem to have only about 500MB left on my internal memory, but the things using space don't add up to that and neither does checking the folder sizes. I'll post the picture of my storage map. I've been trying to figure out what is going on, but I'm stumped. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
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ES File Explorer also has a tool to analyze the storage, Upper left globe>Tools>SD Card Analyst :good:
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ES File Explorer also has a tool to analyze the storage, Upper left globe>Tools>SD Card Analyst :good:
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my drives works perfectly, get it now on the Play Store
Thanks for all the replies! So went ahead and ran the SD tool in es and ran the storage analyzer tool as well. Very bizarre data: es reports free space of 1.36gb and I added up literally all the files listed and got about 5.8gb used on the storage card while es reports 10.68gb used. So I went ahead and ran storage analyzer which shows a whopping 7.27gb free. Taking the full size of the memory 12gb - 7.27gb actually gives the sizes of the files added up manually. System storage reports about the 1.36gb free. Any further ideas?
Edit - I forgot to mention I'm running paranoidandroid 3.99 rc2 on this s3.
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Thanks for all the replies! So went ahead and ran the SD tool in es and ran the storage analyzer tool as well. Very bizarre data: es reports free space of 1.36gb and I added up literally all the files listed and got about 5.8gb used on the storage card while es reports 10.68gb used. So I went ahead and ran storage analyzer which shows a whopping 7.27gb free. Taking the full size of the memory 12gb - 7.27gb actually gives the sizes of the files added up manually. System storage reports about the 1.36gb free. Any further ideas?
Edit - I forgot to mention I'm running paranoidandroid 3.99 rc2 on this s3.
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How many applications do you have installed? Also, how much data are they all taking up? The SIII is very strange as opposed to my previous device. As you know, we have 16GB devices. 4GB are unusable. Every application you installs to the internal SD card, as well. Meaning you have less space for more things. Very poorly managed, but what can you do? Unless partition sizes are updated and allocated in a better way, there is no way around this. So depending on how many applications you have installed and the data that they are taking up, that could give you the answer to your problem. Also, check the Download folder on the internal storage. Not sure how much you download, but I find a lot of stuff in there that takes up space. Especially ROMs, GAPPs packages, et cetera.
One more thing that you can do if all else fails is reinstall your ROM from a clean wipe. Not sure if you dirty flash or anything but if so, you are leaving files on your device that take up storage. So if the above does not help, try this and it should help you out. Wipe data, cache, dalvik cache, format data, system, and cache and then install everything.
Hope this helps you out and if not, let me know and I will see if I can come up with anything else. If I am a broken record and you know all of what I said, disregard and sorry for wasting your time. But again, hope I was able to help out.
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I've looked around the forums to see if this has happened to anyone else before, but I can't seem to find anything. I got a notification today that my internal storage is almost full and to delete stuff to get more room. But when I look at my storage folder in File Manager, my storage is only 5.37 GB. Weird.
So I opened the storage thing in settings to see why my storage is so full and what I see is that there is something in the "Other" category taking up 24GB of space! Everything else adds up to ~5.37 GB as expected. Now, I have NO Idea where this 24 GB of data is or where it came from. I can't find anything in my filesystem that looks like it has a large amount of data in it. I'm at a loss.
If it is relevent, I did just recently have an issue which I posted here. O resolved the issue by doing what someone suggested and I installed a recovery.zip with TWRP in RUU mode, and once I got into recovery I did a factory reset, and then reinstalled ViperOne (I tried installing the 2.10 stock RUU after the factory reset but for some reason it would't boot, but it did work when I installed ViperOne)
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
Is it your nandroid backups? That is what accounts for most of my other category.
I don't have any nandroid backups. Anyways, I checked my TWRP directory just in case I did backup but just don't remember... nothing there. I've checked just about every directory in my phone's filesystem and I absolutely can't find anything that accounts for 24 GB of used storage space.
Is it possible that my phone got partitioned somewhere down the line and there is an entire other partition hoarding all the storage space? If so, how would I check/fix that?
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I don't have any nandroid backups. Anyways, I checked my TWRP directory just in case I did backup but just don't remember... nothing there. I've checked just about every directory in my phone's filesystem and I absolutely can't find anything that accounts for 24 GB of used storage space.
Is it possible that my phone got partitioned somewhere down the line and there is an entire other partition hoarding all the storage space? If so, how would I check/fix that?
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Go under the Make More Space option, then Miscellaneous. It will give you a breakdown of where all the "Other" comes from.
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Go under the Make More Space option, then Miscellaneous. It will give you a breakdown of where all the "Other" comes from.
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That was the first thing I did, and what made me think something wierd is going on because according to the Make More Space option, I only have 1.05 GB in Apps, 239 MB in Browser, 1.07 GB in Gallery, 4.26 GB in Music, and 2.83 MB in Misc.
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That was the first thing I did, and what made me think something wierd is going on because according to the Make More Space option, I only have 1.05 GB in Apps, 239 MB in Browser, 1.07 GB in Gallery, 4.26 GB in Music, and 2.83 MB in Misc.
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And when you tap on Miscellaneous, what do you see? My top 3 offenders in there are TWRP, Titanium Backup, and a folder holding ROMs to flash between.
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And when you tap on Miscellaneous, what do you see? My top 3 offenders in there are TWRP, Titanium Backup, and a folder holding ROMs to flash between.
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It just shows a bunch of small files, no bigger than about 5 MB. TWRP is taking up 0 B in my storage since i never backed up.
I really didn't have anything of utmost importance on my phone since all my backups are on my computer/on google drive, so I went ahead and did a format data/factory reset and reinstalled a ROM. Now the "Other" takes up 7 GB of storage. Still shows no files larger than a few MB when I click on Miscellaneous. So I don't know for the life of me where this "Other" is coming from... but at least its not 24 GB that are being hoarded anymore.
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It just shows a bunch of small files, no bigger than about 5 MB. TWRP is taking up 0 B in my storage since i never backed up.
I really didn't have anything of utmost importance on my phone since all my backups are on my computer/on google drive, so I went ahead and did a format data/factory reset and reinstalled a ROM. Now the "Other" takes up 7 GB of storage. Still shows no files larger than a few MB when I click on Miscellaneous. So I don't know for the life of me where this "Other" is coming from... but at least its not 24 GB that are being hoarded anymore.
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I think I've heard of Google Play Music using a bunch of space by caching songs in storage so if you use any cloud music services perhaps try checking that out
Crawshayi said:
I think I've heard of Google Play Music using a bunch of space by caching songs in storage so if you use any cloud music services perhaps try checking that out
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yeah, I don't use Google Play Music or any cloud music services at that. I have my own library of songs on my computer that I manually transfer to my phone when I want to listen to them. You know how it is with verizon's data limits... gotta be careful with using my data.
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yeah, I don't use Google Play Music or any cloud music services at that. I have my own library of songs on my computer that I manually transfer to my phone when I want to listen to them. You know how it is with verizon's data limits... gotta be careful with using my data.
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Yeah I do the same thing. Maybe there's an app out there that will locate large files better than just poking around could do?
Just download file manager from the play store and then sort all your files by size
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I don't have any nandroid backups. Anyways, I checked my TWRP directory just in case I did backup but just don't remember... nothing there. I've checked just about every directory in my phone's filesystem and I absolutely can't find anything that accounts for 24 GB of used storage space.
Is it possible that my phone got partitioned somewhere down the line and there is an entire other partition hoarding all the storage space? If so, how would I check/fix that?
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Are you sure you don't have a couple backups hiding in /data/media/0/clockwork mod/backups ?
This is the typical cause for the Other being unaccounted for.
It's not on your sd card...
Just making sure you're not overlooking it.
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santod040 said:
Are you sure you don't have a couple backups hiding in /data/media/0/clockwork mod/backups ?
This is the typical cause for the Other being unaccounted for.
It's not on your sd card...
Just making sure you're not overlooking it.
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Yeah, well I'm not using clockwork mod... I'm using Twrp but either way my /data directory is empty. I've looked through my sd card and everywhere else. Still can't figure out where this storage space is being taken up.
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rtphysicist said:
Yeah, well I'm not using clockwork mod... I'm using Twrp but either way my /data directory is empty. I've looked through my sd card and everywhere else. Still can't figure out where this storage space is being taken up.
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It's not possible that /data is empty .
You need to use a root enabled file explorer, with root enabled, I use es file explorer.
I would enable root and also enable show hidden files and folders and look one more time to be sure.
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It's not possible that /data is empty .
You need to use a root enabled file explorer, with root enabled, I use es file explorer.
I would enable root and also enable show hidden files and folders and look one more time to be sure.
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Okay, I thought I already gave my file explorer root access... Oops. Anyways, now that I can see everything... My /data folder contains ~3 GB of data... Of which, ~2.5gb is already accounted for in my storage space from apps and pictures. I still can't find where the extra 7gb is from. The only thing with substantial amount of data on my filesystem is /proc....
Oh and now my "Other " storage usage has gone up from 7.0 GB up now to 7.6 GB in just the past couple hours. And I'll note I haven't done anything notable to my phone since then save for add like two apps. (In the process of writing this it went up from 7.6gb to 7.8gb)
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Are there any apps that could be causing this? Look at the space your apps are taking up and see if something looks like it could be using all that space
I would do a factory reset, and then an ruu. Do the setup to access the os, but dont sign in to google or other accounts or install any apps. If it still missing space, my guess is its a hardware issue.
I believe 7GB taken up in "other" is normal. I have a couple back ups and roms taking up some space. Get rid of those and I'm right around 7GB. There was a little discussion about this when the phone came out...I bet if you flashed an AOSP rom, you'd be showing less than 7GB in "other". Sense roms are big and I think we only have access to 25 of the 32GB on the phone.
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brholt6 said:
I believe 7GB taken up in "other" is normal. I have a couple back ups and roms taking up some space. Get rid of those and I'm right around 7GB. There was a little discussion about this when the phone came out...I bet if you flashed an AOSP rom, you'd be showing less than 7GB in "other". Sense roms are big and I think we only have access to 25 of the 32GB on the phone.
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That's what I thought to until my "Other" storage space kept going up.
Yesterday when I went to bed it was at about 7.8 GB, this morning when I woke up it was at 10 GB... Something Is slowly eating up all my storage space and I can't figure out what.
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cmlusco said:
I would do a factory reset, and then an ruu. Do the setup to access the os, but dont sign in to google or other accounts or install any apps. If it still missing space, my guess is its a hardware issue.
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I actually tried that. For some reason I still can't boot after flashing an ruu. It just hangs forever on the white htc splash screen.
I did, however, format my data, did a factory reset, and flashed a different Rom (UnsenseOne). The problem was seemingly fixed until my storage space slowly started getting eaten up by whatever it is that my phone is showing as "Other".
Last night when I went to bed it was at 7.8 GB being used up by "Other", this morning when I woke up is up to 10 gb being used up. So somewhere along the night while I was sleeping and not even touching my phone 3 GB of storage space was used up on my phone...
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