When I boot up my phone, the first thing it says that there's not enough space to complete some kind of action(see attached picture below). I have more than 2GB free space on sdcard and almost 6GB free space on external sd, even in file system root I have 1gb/2gb space.
I have cm10.
what does it mean? what does it want? and why does it says that? and what "action" does it talk about??
I wouldnt care if it will be just this message,but since it started this, the phone seems to be more unstable(sometimes it loses wifi/cell signal,have to press lock button 3 times to wake up,and stuff..), so I decided to make a clean reinstall anyway, but it would be great if some of u had any ideas what causes this
I've experienced something similar. I use to mount the storage on my win7 laptop and use to copy/delete files from them. Suddenly it was not letting me copy anymore telling me that the storage is out of space and when i saw it it showed free space which got me confused.
So i went ahead and set windows to show all hidden files and OS files. On the storage there was a "recycle bin" having 1.6 gb of data . I deleted the folder and all was fine.
Maybe your's is a completely different issu,e but you can check for the above.
ninthsense said:
I've experienced something similar. I use to mount the storage on my win7 laptop and use to copy/delete files from them. Suddenly it was not letting me copy anymore telling me that the storage is out of space and when i saw it it showed free space which got me confused.
So i went ahead and set windows to show all hidden files and OS files. On the storage there was a "recycle bin" having 1.6 gb of data . I deleted the folder and all was fine.
Maybe your's is a completely different issu,e but you can check for the above.
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hm, I set it to show all hidden and "protected os files" (I have windows 8 on my netbook), but no "recycle bin" can be seen.. :S maybe I'm missing some more options to show that, or looking in the wrong place
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Ok so this sounds strange but I was recently very close to tapped out of space on my 8gig shipped micro sd card.. I recently deleted a movie that I encoded to .mp4 on it.. I used Astro to delete the file which was over 1gigabyte in size.. here is the problem.. file looks like it's gone yet the space was never re allocated to "free space" Any ideas?? Maybe it was flaged hidden? Can someone please help?
Have you tried hooking it up to yuor PC and seeing if the file shows up (you can set to view hidden though i dont think you can hide in astro) this should help you see if the file is acctually gone.
Something else i always forget to do is clear out some old nands as they take up 200ish+ mb each i flasha lot and always forget till i see i am low on space to clean up the folder and get rid of a few old ones.
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Have you tried hooking it up to yuor PC and seeing if the file shows up (you can set to view hidden though i dont think you can hide in astro) this should help you see if the file is acctually gone.
Something else i always forget to do is clear out some old nands as they take up 200ish+ mb each i flasha lot and always forget till i see i am low on space to clean up the folder and get rid of a few old ones.
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Yes that's exactly what I tried. I also searched for it. Does Android possibly auto move it to Rom if your copy to SD doesn't have capacity? This is really strange..
Hi everyone,
In panic mode right now...
I downloaded an app that helps you find all your apps that can be moved to the sd card. So it found 150 or so. After an hour of manually moving each one, I had over 400mb of free internal space and only like 40 apps left on the main phone storage. Awesome... but then this morning I noticed that things were running real slow... so I rebooted my phone. When it came back up I noticed some of my home screen shortcuts had become generic android icons. I went to my launcher & lots of apps were missing. I have a LOT of apps so I can't quite confirm yet whether its all the apps I moved to sd but it seems that way.
When I go to the market I see apps that I had yesterday as not installed. I have astro but I'm not quite sure what folder to look in to see if the apps are all still there, just not being seen by the android system maybe?
I've been driving all morning so I haven't gotten to research this much yet. Just rebooted a couple times hoping to fix it but no luck yet.
Any help is majorly appreciated. As soon as I'm at a computer ill be working on this all day. Freakin disaster!
Dave
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App
update to my question
so now that i'm in to work i can mess with this... quick update...
when i go to manage applications and go to "on SD card" i get a big list of apps that have the names like "cn.miren.browser" instead of Miren Browser and "com.alphonso.pulse" instead of Pulse which is kinda normal except usually they then refresh with the regular name and the size listed underneath. well it's been sitting here for 5 minutes now and hasn't change and it still says "Computing..." under each one and instead of the normal icons, its sort of a grayed out generic Android icon with an SD in the bottom right corner of the icon.
so clearly it still knows that these apps are there. it just maybe can't access them? i dont know. could it be the sd card? this is the original 8gb sd card that came with the g2...
any thoughts?
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so i found out that the sd card had some errors in the file system. so i let windows fix the errors. no help (although my phone boots WAAAAAYYYYYY faster now).
so then i found that i have an extra 8gb microsd laying around (which also happened to be a better, class 6 one too). so i cleared it off and copied over alllll the files to it. booted up. STILL NO GO.
anyone have any ideas here? i'm really running out of ideas here.
when i boot, everything runs great, but all my apps that are installed to sd are gone. also it never says "preparing sd card" in the status bar when booting. then if i go to manage applications it never finishes "computing" the size of apps. if i go to "on sd" it shows all my apps, but says computing, and i can't access them, uninstall them, move them, etc. i'm totally out of ideas here and i really don't want to have to do a system restore.
anyone?
think im having the same problem . has ur market gone too?
fix?
ok so i ended up getting mine fixed using these steps that someone from a company that makes an apps2sd app sent me... the only difference i had to do was since my phone also wouldn't recognize my pc, i had to pop the sd card into my pc directly to delete the .android_secure folder... i don't want to mess up your phone or anything so make sure to read around a bit more before trying this, but this is what worked for me. after i started adding all my apps back one by one i've been fine ever since.:
"I guess the problem is ".android_secure" is not recognized by Android.
Would you try the following steps (I am not sure if it works)?
1. mount phone with PC
2. backup all files under .android_secure
3. delete .android_secure directory
4. unmount
5. try to move an app (any app) to SD card (it forces Android to
create .android_secure on SD)
6. mount phone with PC
7. restore all backuped .android_secure/* files to .android_secure
8. unmount => check if it recognized the apps that you moved to the SD card"
Hi, Guy
I just found that my SD internal storage get very small every day, I did not install lots of thing, but now it is only 1.5G.
So you need to check yours as well on your computer to see is it happen to you. It is very serious problem which will cause SD care data lost in the end.
This is how you can check.
1 Connect your One X USB to PC. Use USB storage mode.
2 In file manager click on your X'sd card name and mouse right click choose properties, it show how much data used and how much left. Write done the number.
3 Click you SD card icon and pop up another screen show all folders and data in SD card, use Ctrl+A to select them all, then mouse right click and choose properties to show the calculation for how much all those files storage.
The used space for step 2 and step 3 shall be almost same if it is correct. But on my One x it has 13G difference. Which means the 13G storage is nowhere on the SD card but system think they are. So you will loose those space.
Do your check and see how many of you has this problem.
I must admit I felt that my storeage was showing a considerable amount less than what I was expecting the other day...
I'll have to plug in my phone to cross reference the figures there agains't what the handset is saying...
Then again I did pump my HOX full of Vids, Movies and .CBZ files.
I had the same problem with the One X ported rom on Sensation, I kept loosing GB of memory for no reasons...till I found the bug: gallery cache!
There is a folder for the Gallery app that keep adding cache and eat huge amount of memory, just delete this folder and disable caching in gallery
vegetaleb said:
I had the same problem with the One X ported rom on Sensation, I kept loosing GB of memory for no reasons...till I found the bug: gallery cache!
There is a folder for the Gallery app that keep adding cache and eat huge amount of memory, just delete this folder and disable caching in gallery
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could you let us know what is the name of it? I checked SD card there is no folder called Gallery.
vegetaleb said:
I had the same problem with the One X ported rom on Sensation, I kept loosing GB of memory for no reasons...till I found the bug: gallery cache!
There is a folder for the Gallery app that keep adding cache and eat huge amount of memory, just delete this folder and disable caching in gallery
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how did u disable cache?
I'd also like a bit more info about the gallery cache folder please.
My phone memory is definitely lower than it should be. I was going to format it, but if this folder is causing the problem... maybe i won't need to.
It's in the camera folder aka DCIM
The cache folder must be there if I remember well.
Guys.....
Just delete the LOST.DIR.
There are thousands of threads about this.
xmoo said:
Guys.....
Just delete the LOST.DIR.
There are thousands of threads about this.
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Thanks. I found the LOST.DIR in SD but it is empty. I delete it and do reboot. Nothing changed. Any other hint？
vegetaleb said:
It's in the camera folder aka DCIM
The cache folder must be there if I remember well.
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sorry no folder of such. And it is not folder issue I guess. This issue is now reported world wide in other place as well. It just break out. And it is not 1.29 issue I'm still on 1.28 rom. it is related to USB connection and also install program in SD card. I hope XDA dev can look into it seriously!
Zipperface said:
I'd also like a bit more info about the gallery cache folder please.
My phone memory is definitely lower than it should be. I was going to format it, but if this folder is causing the problem... maybe i won't need to.
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Foramtting will not helpful. I know some guys format several times and it still eat your SD card. It is the phone problem with ROM. HTC need fix it.
As I said it was an early port of the One X port, did you try the thumbnail folder in DCIM?
mmx6688 said:
Thanks. I found the LOST.DIR in SD but it is empty. I delete it and do reboot. Nothing changed. Any other hint？
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The directory is always empty. I deleted it and just won 2GB extra space.
vegetaleb said:
As I said it was an early port of the One X port, did you try the thumbnail folder in DCIM?
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I delete all files in thumbnail folder, nothing improved.
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The directory is always empty. I deleted it and just won 2GB extra space.
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Thanks to let me know. So if you use PC USB connection to check as I posted for step 2, 3, how much difference of those figures?
Deleted LOST.DIR and gained 0!
Adding all stuff up on the sd card i have about 15-16 gig. I have just over 5 gig left!
Yesterday i deleted Dungeon Defenders (800ish meg) I had nearly 6 gig... where did the other 1gig go overnight?!
You will have to ''seek and destroy'' the bad folder.
I hope you don't have many folders in your main SD directory,select 2-3 folders and right click to see if you get huge amount of memory used,then narrow the search till eliminating the bad boys
mmx6688 said:
Hi, Guy
I just found that my SD internal storage get very small every day, I did not install lots of thing, but now it is only 1.5G.
So you need to check yours as well on your computer to see is it happen to you. It is very serious problem which will cause SD care data lost in the end.
This is how you can check.
1 Connect your One X USB to PC. Use USB storage mode.
2 In file manager click on your X'sd card name and mouse right click choose properties, it show how much data used and how much left. Write done the number.
3 Click you SD card icon and pop up another screen show all folders and data in SD card, use Ctrl+A to select them all, then mouse right click and choose properties to show the calculation for how much all those files storage.
The used space for step 2 and step 3 shall be almost same if it is correct. But on my One x it has 13G difference. Which means the 13G storage is nowhere on the SD card but system think they are. So you will loose those space.
Do your check and see how many of you has this problem.
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solution:
just make a back up of your phone storage. simply to open phone storage in your pc, select and copy you all folders of phone storage and paste in any folder of pc, then do quick fomat your phone storage called (htc storage), then take back all your folders to htc storage by paste command.
ramis7 said:
solution:
just make a back up of your phone storage. simply to open phone storage in your pc, select and copy you all folders of phone storage and paste in any folder of pc, then do quick fomat your phone storage called (htc storage), then take back all your folders to htc storage by paste command.
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This isnt a solution. It works initially but the storage space starts to vanish again after a few days. Ive doe this twice now. It must be a bug that needs sorting out asap. This is my only issue on my phone though. No screen flickering problems fortunately
Sent from my HTC Legend using XDA
ramis7 said:
solution:
just make a back up of your phone storage. simply to open phone storage in your pc, select and copy you all folders of phone storage and paste in any folder of pc, then do quick fomat your phone storage called (htc storage), then take back all your folders to htc storage by paste command.
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Thanks, I know this solution that is to get back the lost space. And I just did it since I have only 1G left so can not take the risk for any more lost space. Now I get 15G free.
But it is just temporary solution, after few days it probably loose more space again but now I will keep monitor of it.
HTC need to fix this problem.
Two problems with my device
Hi,
I having two problem with my device which after two days, I'm not manage to solve.
First of all in my storage, I got 25.3GB (!) of used space under "Other" section, I don't have any idea what takes all that space.
Second when I try to get to the device files from the computer, I can see only 7 folders, which most of them empty and none of them can't explain the 24GB of space that are used in my internal storage
where's all my files and why I cant get them from the computer??
Any help?? Thanks!
Avishay28 said:
Hi,
I having two problem with my device which after two days, I'm not manage to solve.
First of all in my storage, I got 25.3GB (!) of used space under "Other" section, I don't have any idea what takes all that space.
Second when I try to get to the device files from the computer, I can see only 7 folders, which most of them empty and none of them can't explain the 24GB of space that are used in my internal storage
where's all my files and why I cant get them from the computer??
Any help?? Thanks!
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Reset it
kartik.kayz said:
Reset it
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Factory reset?
I did it, but everytime I got the same phone after it automatically install all the apps and data that was before.
If you have any guide of how to completely reset the phone with TWRP (like delete everything expect of the OS) it will be great.
Avishay28 said:
when I try to get to the device files from the computer, I can see only 7 folders, which most of them empty and none of them can't explain the 24GB of space that are used in my internal storage
where's all my files and why I cant get them from the computer??
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Connecting the phone to your computer just enables you to read the "internal storage" (data/media) partition, and does not let you see the rest of the user data (including app data, which is likely what is filling up your storage).
To see what is taking up all your storage, install the app "Disk Usage" from the Play Store. Great app that lets you see though an intuitive and visual interface, what is filling up your storage. Then use a good file manager like ES File Manager to browse and delete the unwanted files.
Of course, know what you are deleting; and don't delete any system data unless you really know what you are doing.
Avishay28 said:
Factory reset?
I did it, but everytime I got the same phone after it automatically install all the apps and data that was before.
If you have any guide of how to completely reset the phone with TWRP (like delete everything expect of the OS) it will be great.
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In TWRP select Wipe then Format data - type yes then reboot.
You'll have to setup your system again and you will gain all your lost data space.
Ok guys thank you
I reset my phone and start it from 0
Hello,
I have an "lg g3 beat".
after a few months of regular use i got the "insufficient storage available" message.
I tried deleting all my watsapp data all the cache with ccleaner, deleting all apps i can, moving everything i can to the sd card, but still i am only left with 300+ mb of free space. :crying:
I noticed the "misc" is taking 6 gb of the 8 gb i have in the phone. so looking at that i got to the "storage\emulated\0\.temp_tmp" folder on the phone it takes 2.5+ gb of space.
is it safe to delete?
on my galaxy i could go to the secret menu (*#990#) and clear dumpstate, this dosent work here, is there an alternative?
please help me! i am desperate! :crying::crying::crying:
thanks in advance.
no one?
Are u rooted
not rooted, stocked
Of coarse if u root u can. Use a root file explorer to delete it i dont know ure root method i have a reg g3 but shouldnt be hard to find
I am pretty sure i can delete it, since i can access it trough windows explorer.
My question is: what is this folder for, is it something important or is it safe to delete?
thanks for the replay,
If im not mistaken most of its like old log data stuff like thT if ure not rooted u shouldnt be able to delete any thing that would harm the device
move them and see how your phone reacts. if something major happens then move them back.
Im currently having the same issue with storage space yet no one is coming forward with a solution. mine is also stock.
You say these temp files are the cause of the large misc storage problem then Ill do the same and look to delete them.
In my phone they take almost 3 GB of space (from a 8 GB phone) that's a lot!
ill try it in the evening and report back,
thank you
Took me a while to gather up my courage, but finally did it!
No side effects, just free 3 GB of space.
i recommend doing too
jojo8036 said:
Took me a while to gather up my courage, but finally did it!
No side effects, just free 3 GB of space.
i recommend doing too
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Now where and how did u delete them
i connected the device to my PC as a storage device.
And "cut" the files to my PC as backup in case it brakes anything.
jojo8036 said:
i connected the device to my PC as a storage device.
And "cut" the files to my PC as backup in case it brakes anything.
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They apparantly put them somwhere else on the g3 d850 i only see it in storrage from my phone under settings but dont show up no where on pc or root explorer
is "show hidden files" on in you windows explorer? (i pretty sure the folder is hidden)
Yea still not seein It
weird.
mmmmm... ,did you tried searching ".temp_tmp" in the windows explorer search?