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I bought my Wildfire S in Singapore. It's S-On so I can't do anything about internal memory issues yet. The phone only ever had about 30MB free at the most after me installing some very basic apps, and it constantly prevented new apps from being installed with that "Not enough memory" error. Then something began chewing up memory no matter what I did - and I tried everything mentioned on these and other forums. I've become a minor expert at messing with the SDK as a result. Eventually basic functions stopped working, and the phone started rebooting randomly because it was down to a few hundred kilobytes of free RAM. I almost - almost - threw the thing against a wall and went out and got another phone.
However, I have solved the problem to a point. I did a simple factory reset, and now with everything installed including Google+ and Facebook (which are memory hogs), and everything I can moved to the SD card, I'm sitting at around 75MB free constantly i.e. half the memory. The phone now runs as fast as it can (which is sluggish because it's the Wildfire S, but much better than it was), and I have no memory issues. It's not a Nokia N9 or an iPhone 4Gs, but it's not a bad little unit now.
TL;DR no matter where you bought your phone, do a factory reset. You'll be glad you did.
get cyanogen mod7 for ur phone a safe build and extract it with 7zip the use fastboot
fastboot flash boot boot.img
it contains recovery already now copy the zip downloaded to a root of sd card
sdcard/update/....zip
now boot into recovery factory data reset then wipe dalvik data and install zip from sd
here u go
free memory+
app2sd
I'm not sure what you mean (and haven't tried all that), but I'm fairly certain you can't over-write/boot any other system files on an S-On phone. It just won't work. Unless you S-Off the phone manually, or HTC release an unlocked bootloader, there's nothing you can do except what I've offered.
The temporary rooting via the SDK and Zerg file doesn't allow overwriting of the system files either. S-On is a *****.
Have you tried removing the security?
A factory reset did my WildfireS a great deal good. I'm wary of installing Facebook and merging contacts because I think that's what ate all the memory and made Contact Storage take so much space.
Now I have all the same apps installed from before (except Facebook) and I have 92mb free.
Where did you get your phone from t0lkien1?
Mine is a T-Mobile UK handset, and they put all their own extra rubbish on the phone, eating into they little 128mb that there is internatly. I think there as about 20mb free when I got it. Was running version 1.34
Even with my phone as S-ON i've managed to get the stock European rom 1.30 and it is close to 60mb free. Plus no more T-Mobile splash screens and apps. Such a difference.
This has been a problem with my device since the very begining, and I would like to know if it's a general problem with Android, if it's a specific problem with the Wildfire S, or if it's just that god hates me and he gives me the devices with all the horrible bugs (see this thread for my other inexplicable bug that no one else seems to have).
Sometimes, when I go into the market and try and download app updates, the update goes through it's process of installation, the progress bar fills up and everything... then right as it's about to finish I get an error. "Update failed, please try again." It's very inconsistent too, sometimes I'll try and download an update a few times, and on the third attempt it gets it. Other times the app won't be able to update for months at a time. My mobile has been trying to get an update for "Cut the Rope" for over 3 weeks now. It gets so annoying I turn the WiFi off because he keeps throwing "Updates Available!" notifications at me that are completely useless to me.
Anyone else have this? Or is my WF-S just cursed?
Philippe Lemay said:
This has been a problem with my device since the very begining, and I would like to know if it's a general problem with Android, if it's a specific problem with the Wildfire S, or if it's just that god hates me and he gives me the devices with all the horrible bugs (see this thread for my other inexplicable bug that no one else seems to have).
Sometimes, when I go into the market and try and download app updates, the update goes through it's process of installation, the progress bar fills up and everything... then right as it's about to finish I get an error. "Update failed, please try again." It's very inconsistent too, sometimes I'll try and download an update a few times, and on the third attempt it gets it. Other times the app won't be able to update for months at a time. My mobile has been trying to get an update for "Cut the Rope" for over 3 weeks now. It gets so annoying I turn the WiFi off because he keeps throwing "Updates Available!" notifications at me that are completely useless to me.
Anyone else have this? Or is my WF-S just cursed?
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Try clearing your cache. How much room have you got on your cache partition and in your data paritions?
It has to download a 15 meg or whatever installer for Cut the rope, then unpacking it then install it then delete the original installer. That takes more than 15 megs.
How do I clear the cache?
Also, can't it use my microSD? I have a 32GB card in there.
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How do I clear the cache?
Also, can't it use my microSD? I have a 32GB card in there.
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Use it for what? Can you give me some details? Is your phone S-OFF, rooted, etc?. How much internal memory do you have right now, etc.
d33ps1x said:
Use it for what? Can you give me some details? Is your phone S-OFF, rooted, etc?. How much internal memory do you have right now, etc.
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You said that when an app is downloaded it needs to first download a 15 MB "cache partition", I was wondering why it can't use some of the space on the microSD. As for rooting, I have a GSM Wildfire S, from what I understand those are difficult to Root... so no, I've never rooted it, and I don't think it's S-Off (I'm not sure how to check that...)
I think I have 31 MB of free internal memory capacity...
pm setInstallLocation 2 and Apps2SD with Tutorial
Forget all you heard from me before as it seems to have served to confuse you which is fine. No worries.
Read this thread
Where it says to type "adb shell pm setInstallLocation" instead to be safe type:
"adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2" which tells the phone to try to install an app to your sd card by default. 0 is auto and 1 is internal.
Keep in mind that it doesn't move 100% of the app to the phone. App libraries, Dalvik cache data and application cache data will stay on the internal memory but it will buy you some space.
That's it.
PS:
Go somewhere and get your phone XTC-Clipped. You will have a lot more options to create space such as Link2SD which moves the apps, app libraries and dalvik cache files to a second external partition you create.
The nice thing about it is DOES allow you to move widget apps and they work.
Another nice thing about it is when you put your phone into usb mass storage mode, even though the primary partition on it with all your own data, pics etc, gets unmounted in the phone and unusable, the second partition doesn't unmount and you can still run all your apps that are linked to it.
Get clipped! If you have enough for a 32 GB card you have enough to spend $20 to get your phone clipped.
Now
When you are done this REBOOT your phone.
Go to this Android Marketplace link and download apps2sd
WATCH the video tutorial and then start moving apps off your internal memory to your SD card.
Beware not to move things that have widgets you want to use like say Doubletwist music player or Battery Monitor. The widgets will no longer function.
Somewhere in that program is a clear application cache choice as well. Clean up your cache for more room.
30 megs is not enough to download AND install Cut The Rope to your internal memory plus your auto sync will stop working when you drop below 18 megs or so of internal space.
Buy yourself some S-ON room with that setup.
If you want to move individual programs to or from the SD card to the phone and back, etc, you can go to /Settings/Applications/Manage/ scroll to and click on the application in question and choose the option to "Move to Phone" or "Move to SD Card".
Cheers.
I see... and this is all low risk right? I mean, getting updates to Cut the Rope would be nice, but it's not the biggest priority in the world, lol.
Also... I'm working on getting that Clip, if I have to I might just buy one... 67$ would still be cheaper than going out to buy a Nexus (from what I hear those are the easiest to Root). This clip would work with a GSM device right? That's how it does it's thing, by plugging into the SIM slot?
In my another post I reported the SD card space will lost by unknown reason, some of guy in this forum has confirmed it.
And now some users have found one reason that may cause it.
You can do test yourselves to see is it happen to you.
1. Make sure your oneX SD free space is more than 5G, otherwise after test you may have problem.
2. Check your sd card free space and write it down.
3. Connect one X to your pc by usb disk mode. copy one file (any size of file) from pc to X. no need copy big file.
4. disconnect one x from pc. And check on phone to see current SD free space.
If you are lucky, the free space is go down just the same size of the file you copied to it.
If you are not you will see additional 1G space disappeared. Yes if it has problem you will looe 1G, it always 1G not other number.
Try yourself and give the feedback. It maybe just one reason cause space lost, but it is east to find now.
Sent from my HTC One X
I lost 4gb in "bad sectors", you can check it with windows chkdsk.
Formatting the sd card is the only way to get the bad sectors back. It's been described in other threads.
chkdsk /f /r to recover bad sectors wont work.
yes I have format SD yesterday and get all space back. But not sure will it happen again or not.
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For me there are 2GB missing.
Trying to format
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If you are lucky, the free space is go down just the same size of the file you copied to it.
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Interesting choice of words. I move a lot of music, pics, and docs between my PC and my phone and never noticed what you described. To test it, I just moved a PDF file from my PC to the phone via USB and storage decremented by the size of the file.
It's to the point now that everyone's loaded up their phones with a ton of different apps. I have 82 downloaded apps installed. As with every other Android phone, a specific app or combination of apps can cause strange behavior. So "luck" may not have anything to do with your storage issue. Your phone could have a defect in its NAND memory, but it could also be an app or utility you're using; especially if it's not optimized for ICS or the way HTC's segmented memory.
This is from Paul at MoDaCo...
"One of the downsides of Ice Cream Sandwich is that, with its one contiguous on-board memory, there is no option to connect this to your computer as good old ‘mass storage’. The One X gets around this by partition it’s memory in two blocks - the old style ‘/data’ partition which comes in at 2.11GB (where your apps and data go if you don’t ‘move to SD’) and the virtual / sdcard partition totaling 25.24GB, which can be accessed via mass storage! Personally, I can’t decide whether it’s better to have that one big space and be limited to MTP or to have this solution... but for people wanting to easily drop content on their device, mass storage is definitely a big plus."
Does it happen if you completely restore your device and try it without adding your own apps? If it doesn't, it's something you've done to the phone not vice versa.
Hm that's strange...
I have 3,14 GB in bad sectors. Is it not due to detaching the device before it's unmounted (ejected)?
No such problem.
Tried 2 times. Once with a 280k file and another time with 6M+ file.
Did you change the connection back to charge only before you pulled the USB cable?
Actually I have been moving files in and out of my HOX (with PC) all the time. My total still shows 25.24G for the phone storage.
In fact I did the other test you mentioned in another thread. Property showed a number that was larger that all the files selected (ctrl-A). That was contrary to what you found out.
pehkblui said:
No such problem.
Tried 2 times. Once with a 280k file and another time with 6M+ file.
Did you change the connection back to charge only before you pulled the USB cable?
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Have you copied a file to your phone before? What does checkdisk say when you attach your device?
It is indeed necessary to unmount the device before unplugging it from USB. Because if there's any writing to the device, it could result in data corruption.
I just pull out the phone from usb cable. How can I change to charging then pull out?
The issue I described not happen to me after I format the SD. It happen to other users I know.
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Although I'm in a similar situation to others in this thread I'm not sure it's caused in the same way, so a bit of clarification would be great.
First of all, my situation is as follows.
My mass storage currently has a hidden directory called 'System data' which is taking up a whopping 15gb of space, leaving me with very little space to use. You can see what is taking up the space on your phone with DiskUsage (sorry can't post links yet).
After doing a bit of searching around the issue there doesn't seem to be a specific cause but perhaps uploading files from your PC could have been the reason it happened to me, I probably uploaded about 6 or 7gb worth of videos and albums since I got my phone.
I found a few threads around this issue, I can't post links but if you search for 'system data size android' you should find some similar topics.
The two solutions which seem to be viable are to either factory reset your phone or to root your phone then grant an explorer application superuser rights to delete the 'System data'.
However I'm not sure these solutions will actually fix the original issue as oppose to just stopping it from happening for the time being.
Can someone else check DiskUsage and see if they have an overly large 'Systems data' folder then report back please.
mmx6688 said:
I just pull out the phone from usb cable. How can I change to charging then pull out?
The issue I described not happen to me after I format the SD. It happen to other users I know.
Sent from my HTC One X
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You shouldn't just pull out the phone from USB cable, because there is a chance data is being written to the device (umount in linux, eject mass storage device in windows), as is the case with flash memory. You also shouldn't change to charging, because that can also corrupt the data, as it is the same thing as pulling the USB cable out.
Nevertheless, this probably doesn't explain the bad blocks problem. I don't remember pulling out my phone before ejecting it, but still I have 3GB of bad blocks...
Can anyone else run the checkdisk program and check the amount of bad blocks? Just connect the phone as USB storage device; start -> cmd and type 'chkdsk X:' (where X is the drive letter where the phone is mounted to)
seedoubleu said:
Can someone else check DiskUsage and see if they have an overly large 'Systems data' folder then report back please.
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Mine's a little less than a GB. I've used 11.62GB of storage and have 14.23GB free. The question is what app or process is writing files to your Systems data folder?
Birdskenburg said:
You also shouldn't change to charging, because that can also corrupt the data, as it is the same thing as pulling the USB cable out.
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This I am not too sure. The phone should be smart enough to know it can't just change to charge only if there is data transfer.
In fact, when you change to charge only you will see a message on the phone screen saying preparing phone storage.
I used chkdsk, there is 1G (1048576) in bad sector. I have since tried copying files into the phone a few times, and the bad sector number never changes (after I have disconnected and reconnected the usb).
Here we go,
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume HTC STORAGE created 01/01/2011 21:00
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
26,470,048 KB total disk space.
288 KB in 8 hidden files.
28,064 KB in 867 folders.
11,210,816 KB in 6,979 files.
14,680,064 KB in bad sectors.
550,784 KB are available.
32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
827,189 total allocation units on disk.
17,212 allocation units available on disk.
So this could be due to disconnecting without doing it safely as I charge my phone via my PC at work each day...
I don't really feel comfortable rooting my phone now due to that customer service chat thread about warranties so I guess a factory reset and then making sure I safely remove the phone each time from the PC is my only option.
One interesting thing about the chkdsk is that it says:
Volume HTC STORAGE created 16/11/2061 6.05 PM
I have a sdcard prepared some 50 years in the future.
seedoubleu said:
Although I'm in a similar situation to others in this thread I'm not sure it's caused in the same way, so a bit of clarification would be great.
First of all, my situation is as follows.
My mass storage currently has a hidden directory called 'System data' which is taking up a whopping 15gb of space, leaving me with very little space to use. You can see what is taking up the space on your phone with DiskUsage (sorry can't post links yet).
After doing a bit of searching around the issue there doesn't seem to be a specific cause but perhaps uploading files from your PC could have been the reason it happened to me, I probably uploaded about 6 or 7gb worth of videos and albums since I got my phone.
I found a few threads around this issue, I can't post links but if you search for 'system data size android' you should find some similar topics.
The two solutions which seem to be viable are to either factory reset your phone or to root your phone then grant an explorer application superuser rights to delete the 'System data'.
However I'm not sure these solutions will actually fix the original issue as oppose to just stopping it from happening for the time being.
Can someone else check DiskUsage and see if they have an overly large 'Systems data' folder then report back please.
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Wait.. did you find the files called "system data"?
I ahve this issue too. around 12GB
Birdskenburg said:
I have 3GB of bad blocks...
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I have 3,145,728KB being reported as bad sectors. I'm guessing since your results are so similar to mine they aren't really bad sectors. More than likely they're either protected files, protected disk space, or something in HTC's unique configuration of storage (see above) that's not being read correctly by CHKDSK. If we all get the same result it's probably not an issue with the device itself.
P.S. - If someone does a hard reset (w/o loading any apps) and CHKDSK still reports 3ishGB in bad sectors that would confirm it's an issue with CHKDSK reading the phone's storage.
seedoubleu said:
Here we go,
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume HTC STORAGE created 01/01/2011 21:00
Volume Serial Number is 7CE0-1CDB
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
26,470,048 KB total disk space.
288 KB in 8 hidden files.
28,064 KB in 867 folders.
11,210,816 KB in 6,979 files.
14,680,064 KB in bad sectors.
550,784 KB are available.
32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
827,189 total allocation units on disk.
17,212 allocation units available on disk.
So this could be due to disconnecting without doing it safely as I charge my phone via my PC at work each day...
I don't really feel comfortable rooting my phone now due to that customer service chat thread about warranties so I guess a factory reset and then making sure I safely remove the phone each time from the PC is my only option.
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That's a lot!
Well, I don't think this problem has anything to do with unsafely disconnecting the device, this shouldn't give bad blocks; at the utmost corrupt files.
Then again, I don't know that much about the subject. I believe the memory controller keeps track of bad sectors on a lower level, and bad sectors are mostly caused by damage/faulty hardware. If we'd really have bad sectors, a high level format wouldn't solve the problem (which it did, appearantly). So I think this problem is software related, or related to the memory controller. But again, I know very little about this.
Birdskenburg said:
That's a lot!
Well, I don't think this problem has anything to do with unsafely disconnecting the device, this shouldn't give bad blocks; at the utmost corrupt files.
Then again, I don't know that much about the subject. I believe the memory controller keeps track of bad sectors on a lower level, and bad sectors are mostly caused by damage/faulty hardware. If we'd really have bad sectors, a high level format wouldn't solve the problem (which it did, appearantly). So I think this problem is software related, or related to the memory controller. But again, I know very little about this.
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I'm not really very clued up either, just learning as I'm going along.
It seems like too much of a coincidence that the size of the system data file on the storage card is pretty much exactly the same size as the amount of bad sectors shown from the chkdsk.
It seems there's a more overarching issue at hand here which is slowly affecting more of us.
BarryH_GEG - I think that's what we need to find out, what files are actually in that System data directory, if anyone has root access they may be able to dig deeper with an explorer app.
Supaiku - Yup, System data is directly below Storage Card but doesn't show up on any explorer apps, only when using DiskUsage.
BarryH_GEG said:
I have 3,145,728KB being reported as bad sectors. I'm guessing since your results are so similar to mine they aren't really bad sectors. More than likely they're either protected files, protected disk space, or something in HTC's unique configuration of storage (see above) that's not being read correctly by CHKDSK. If we all get the same result it's probably not an issue with the device itself.
P.S. - If someone does a hard reset (w/o loading any apps) and CHKDSK still reports 3ishGB in bad sectors that would confirm it's an issue with CHKDSK reading the phone's storage.
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Yeah I think you're right. Still, it's strange that seedoubleu is reporting to have more than 14GB of 'bad sectors', what would be hidden there?
I still think this has something to do with the device's memory controller, because the 3+ GB really isn't accessible.
I have a real cry for help!
Somehow all my pictures disappeared from my Galaxy Nexus. My only possible explanation (since it could not have decided to delete them itself!) is that I must have been a complete idiot and last night when I thought I was deleting a video I had just taken I must deleted the camera directory itself. This is supported by the fact that there was no ‘camera’ directory when I looked this morning. I then took a new photo and the directory reappeared. I have plenty of experience with PC’s but I’m a newbie with smartphones. I figured if I don’t write any more files to the phone then most of the actual data should still be there so I hoped to do some kind of undelete.
I’ve done some research and it looks like the ‘feature’ of only connecting as an MTP device (rather than USB mass storage) is potentially a killer blow. Without an assigned drive letter it seems that none of the usual recovery programmes will recognise the phone.
In theory an alternative might be to take a complete image of the phone contents and somehow recover the data from here?
I am pretty desperate as I have five months of pictures/videos of my kids etc, and most of that data must still be on the phone – but how to get to it?
Finally – yes I am a complete plonker, I shouldn’t have made such a stupid mistake and I should have backed up the phone or the pictures. I have learned my lesson. But given that, is there anything I can do?
BTW - the phone came from 3 network (via a reseller) and I have not touched it with respect to unlocking/rooting etc. It is in the state I received it.
HELP please!
Thanks very much...........
I believe the MTP vs. USB Mass storage would be a driver thing. There are many different versions of drivers so its possible there are ones that will mount the phone with a drive letter. I can think of some other things to try (Boot into fastboot mode by turning phone off then powering on by holding power, volume up and volume down at the same time and holding till it vibrates). You could also try Disk Management under windows to see if you can assign a letter
In the future I highly recommend setting up a google account and using Google Photo/Instant Upload to keep a backup of your photos. You dont even have to sync anything else
Thanks for your suggestions, much appreciated.
I’ve now tried going into fastboot mode and connecting to PC but no joy – Windows recognises there is a device connected (usually ID’d as an OMAP4440) but can’t find a driver.
Disk Management also doesn’t show the Nexus as a drive and therefore won’t allow a Drive letter to be assigned.
Try these (obviously no guarantees and I havent used any personally)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.undelete
http://android-photo-recovery.com/tutorials/deleted-file-recovery-for-google-nexus-phones.html
EDIT: Found another:
http://www.wondershare.com/disk-utility/recover-deleted-photos-from-nexus-s-and-galaxy-nexus.html
Thanks again, I appreciate all suggestions. Yes I have come across these and unfortunately they don’t solve my issue. The last two are amongst those I’d seen reported as not working as they need a drive letter. I had installed both anyway but found that to be true (
The first requires root access which I don’t have. If I understand correctly, to root I’ll need to unlock the bootloader first, and unlocking will erase all the data anyway??
Unfortunately, you are out of luck. You cannot mount the storage on a GNex in USB Mass Storage mode, and I am pretty sure that none of the "undelete" programs that run in Android support ext4 (which is what our GNex internal storage is formatted).
If you are running 4.0.1 or 4.0.2, you can still get root access without losing your data (but not on 4.0.4), but I can't see how it will help you given what I mentioned above.
I am on 4.04 so sounds like I can't get root access without overwriting, can I roll back to 4.01/2 without overwriting the data? (sounds unlikely but I have to ask - I upgraded from 4.02 without losing data....).
If not, is there a way to get a data image without rooting? That way at least I have the data preserved if at some future point it becomes possible to do an undelete on Ext4 data??
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can I roll back to 4.02/3 without overwriting the data?
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Unfortunately no.
Gavdroid said:
If not, is there a way to get a data image without rooting? That way at least I have the data preserved if at some future point it becomes possible to do an undelete on Ext4 data??
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I believe there are utilities to "do an undelete" on ext4. The problem is how to get access to the data image. I don't really know of any way to pull off the data partition of a GNex to your computer, but it may be possible.
Have a look at this thread. I think shaaXo managed to find a way for your computer to see the memory on the GNex and likely dump it (although it is not very user-friendly).
That sucks. If it's deleted, it's gone for good. Sorry, buddy.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA
Thanks very much I will go through that post and see where I get to!
Edit! - uh-oh, taking a quick look it seems you need to use CWM, which I take to be ClockworkMod, which I thought required the phone to be rooted to install it? And if I understand correctly, rooting requires an unlocked bootloader, which wipes your data??
I will take a deeper look in case I've misunderstood (very likely), but am I thinking clearly here?
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
Sent from my Vivid 4G using Tapatalk 2
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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.
hightrancer said:
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