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I have E4GT with Caulkins 2.9.1.
I have the following storage available on my device:
SD Card 24.25GB
USB Storage 3.25 GB
Device Memory 1.23 GB
I get the following error when trying to update apps, or install new apps:
"There is insufficient space on this device"
I have gone into settings>apps>google play> clear cache. -> no change
I have downloaded App Cache Cleaner app and cleared all cached files. -> no change
The error message is a lie written by a lazy programmer. What's actually happening is that the installation is trying to copy or move a file and can't. To circumvent this problem I have to enter root explorer and look for files related to the program I'm trying to upgrade and delete them. Sometimes I just find dangling files which aren't really needed; other times I have to delete the whole shebang and reinstall the program from scratch. One process that I've noticed can sometimes cause this problem is the auto-Odex routine that is available in the Development folder.
Bottom line though is that this problem has NOTHING to do with your available memory space.
Henri Blanche said:
The error message is a lie written by a lazy programmer. What's actually happening is that the installation is trying to copy or move a file and can't. To circumvent this problem I have to enter root explorer and look for files related to the program I'm trying to upgrade and delete them. Sometimes I just find dangling files which aren't really needed; other times I have to delete the whole shebang and reinstall the program from scratch. One process that I've noticed can sometimes cause this problem is the auto-Odex routine that is available in the Development folder.
Bottom line though is that this problem has NOTHING to do with your available memory space.
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How do I find dangling files in explorer. Is there a was for me to determine which ones are wasted files?
before i read your reply i went into recovery and wiped cached and dalvik cache, thought it worked, because i was finally able to install or update about 3 apps, but then got the same error on the 4th app.
so those steps that have been suggested by others on different devices but with similar errors, did not resolve this issue on E4GT.
thanks for any additional help.
This may help http://bit.ly/GNQOZh take a read. I fought this a while ago and went nuts till I did what I describe.
It's usually, but not always, as simple as looking for files with the name of the program imbedded. The most recent program for me was AudioGalaxy.... so I just searched for and deleted any reference to the program that didn't look essential.
If you're REALLY stumped, then download a program from the Market like Log Viewer, which shows you the real-time system log of your Android operating system. That's how I discovered that a failed file copy was being misinterpreted as a full disc in the first place. It also will show you the name of the file being copied or moved and into which directory. Helpful hint: cut and paste the log into something like Notepad for easier reading.
By all means empty out your caches... but only to remove a potential file that's causing you a problem. Like I said, you haven't run out of free space.
Good luck!
A common source for this error is also that there are partitions on your phone that are not visible in the system settings, but which can fill up too.
If you open a console on your device, i.e. with terminal emulator, and type "df" you should see every partition and how much space is free on it.
leaderbuilder said:
This may help take a read. I fought this a while ago and went nuts till I did what I describe.
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I did this earlier, and then downloaded App Cache Cleaner app and cleared all cached files which did not result in a solution...
im working on other suggestions from this thread
CandyIsYum said:
I did this earlier, and then downloaded App Cache Cleaner app and cleared all cached files which did not result in a solution...
im working on other suggestions from this thread
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App Cache Cleaner isn't really that thorough.
Try SD Maid.
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I did this earlier, and then downloaded App Cache Cleaner app and cleared all cached files which did not result in a solution...
im working on other suggestions from this thread
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You 'cleared data' on the media and still had this issue? http://mikemartinezonline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/03.png I've had this issue a few times with a few people- again it just happed to me yesterday! Seems that the media storage, media hub, oovoodo, and some others were taking up huge amounst of space. In fact my media storage was at 800MB until I cleared it. Especially noticed this for me after adding and removing media and swapping different sd cards.
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You 'cleared data' on the media and still had this issue? ] I've had this issue a few times with a few people- again it just happed to me yesterday! Seems that the media storage, media hub, oovoodo, and some others were taking up huge amounst of space. In fact my media storage was at 800MB until I cleared it. Especially noticed this for me after adding and removing media and swapping different sd cards.
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I cleared the app cache there, and still had the issue. I also went into recovery and cleared cache, dalvik cache.
I didn't try the SDMaid method, so if someone else has this same problem, that may be a place to try.
I ended up starting with scratch with my device, and just upgraded to calkulin 2.9.2.
now my device is functioning as expected, and i can finally install angry birds space...
Well same problem shows up again.
updated to Calkulin 3.0, in hopes to resolve the problem, but still no go.
insufficient space when trying to install or update app from google play.
SD Card: 3.25GB Free / 29.7 GB
USB Storage: 7.29 Free / 11.50 GB
Device: 1.29 GB Free.
It's kind of annoying, is this something that would be resolved by going back to stock. This is getting a bit annoying.
thanks again.
Which app?
Edit: Have you tried clearing data for google play in settings/applications/all yet?
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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.
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
Please help me. I have many songs, movies and many imp files and documents in the internal storage and suddenly all is gone. Though it shows that it takes the space. Last night I connected my phone to the pc to copy a kernel modules into my phone. I copied and flash and the phone went into bootloop. Then I flashed the previous kernel I was using-ncx and it booted normally. Then I realized many files are missing but the phone is using the space for those. Then o rebooted and flashed the kernle again thinking that it was a kernel issue. After o rebooted I got everything. Then the whole night everything was normal. When I woke up I saw that the same thing happened aagin after a reboot. I rebooted because sound was my playing. It said unable to play media. It rebooted and sound played but the same files where again missing. The I flashed stock kernel. Still the same. Then downloaded viper Rom 3.3.6 and flashed it with and without full wipe and still the same. Please help anyone. I don't have a backup of these missing files and its very urgent.
What happends when you mount the sdcard as a mass storage device inside the recovery ? That way you go around the rom and see the space and hopefully the files directly ! Then at least we can say its a rom problem and not sdcard problem !
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What happends when you mount the sdcard as a mass storage device inside the recovery ? That way you go around the rom and see the space and hopefully the files directly ! Then at least we can say its a rom problem and not sdcard problem !
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I tried that but it shows the same files and folders that it shows inside the Rom.
When you have your phone mounted to your PC.
Control Panel -> Folder Options -> Select "Show hidden files/folders".
See what that does for you.
Did you try to flash a 4.2 rom? 4.2 rom's usually move your data from /sdcard/ to /sdcard/0/ or something, which might explain why you cant see the data when you flashed your previous rom.
When connected to pc and show hidden files. Nothing happens. I already had viper Rom since it released. After copying files from of pc it happened suddenly. I thought reflashing the Rom would solve but no. The titanium backup folder is also gone. The sd card does uses space so I think the files are recoverable. Please help me to recover them. Please.
I found something. The files are still there in the internal storage but not directly in the sd card. It automatically got moved in to a new folder>>> sdcard/0/
Everything is there. How to solve this issue? Make my phone recognize that folder as internal storage or just make it like before?
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I found something. The files are still there in the internal storage but not directly in the sd card. It automatically got moved in to a new folder>>> sdcard/0/
Everything is there. How to solve this issue? Make my phone recognize that folder as internal storage or just make it like before?
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Lol that happened to me when I flashed my kernel unrepacked. just move everything back to /sdcard
Sdcard/0 is a file structure that happen when you flash 4.2 roms because of the multi user feature. When you flash other roms make sure you copy all files from sdcard/0 to the root folder before flashing
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I"m not sure if my phone is messed up or not. It seems to be working right, but when I run Android Tuner and optimize the apps, they all force close and will not operate any longer. The same thing happened when I went into recovery to make a nandroid. After it was done, I wiped dalvik cache and when it rebooted many of my apps won't operate. Looking at them with ROM Toolboox I can see all the app icons diappeared and are left with just the technical name of the app ( Ex... com.liberty.toolbox-1.apk) instead of the market icon and the more common name used. Part of it is getting chopped off. This has never been a problem before this week. Does anyone have an idea of what is wrong with my phone? I'm a noob, but I've got the basics down. Help me if you read this... Please.
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I"m not sure if my phone is messed up or not. It seems to be working right, but when I run Android Tuner and optimize the apps, they all force close and will not operate any longer. The same thing happened when I went into recovery to make a nandroid. After it was done, I wiped dalvik cache and when it rebooted many of my apps won't operate. Looking at them with ROM Toolboox I can see all the app icons diappeared and are left with just the technical name of the app ( Ex... com.liberty.toolbox-1.apk) instead of the market icon and the more common name used. Part of it is getting chopped off. This has never been a problem before this week. Does anyone have an idea of what is wrong with my phone? I'm a noob, but I've got the basics down. Help me if you read this... Please.
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What ROM are you running? Are you running a2sd?
With certain ROMs, I had the same issue (though more often when running a class 10 sd card then a class 2 card).. Basically the "fix" was to reboot into recovery, wipe cache/dalvik again, and then reboot. Every time I rebooted the phone, I would have to reboot twice. What is happening is that the phone is missing the step where it has to mount /sd-ext so your apps are no longer there, but the data is. So you can see the names in things like ROM toolbox, because it sees them in /data, but the apps don't exist because /sd-ext isn't mounted.
I'm having some internal memory issues. I know my internal folders are jacked up. I'm not sure how the file system works. Is it basically a blank canvas that the recovery builds folder by folder, OR does the phone retain the file system and the recovery just fills in the empty folders? Can somebody tell me how this works please? If anyone knows a link to the Evo 4G file system, please post it. Every place I look, the file no longer existed, or has been removed.
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I'm having some internal memory issues. I know my internal folders are jacked up. I'm not sure how the file system works. Is it basically a blank canvas that the recovery builds folder by folder, OR does the phone retain the file system and the recovery just fills in the empty folders? Can somebody tell me how this works please? If anyone knows a link to the Evo 4G file system, please post it. Every place I look, the file no longer existed, or has been removed.
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How big is your sdcard? That is showing a 28 GB SD card with no ext partition. Did you ever partition it?
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How big is your sdcard? That is showing a 28 GB SD card with no ext partition. Did you ever partition it?
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Yeah, it was partitioned. I fixed it just a few minutes ago. Man...it was the vold.fstat files that were all jacked up. I fixed it by unrooting it and flashing a completely stock image. Now I'm about to unroot it again and I'll be good to go. Thanks for even taking the time to read my post. In a relative ghost town of Evo4Gville that means a lot to me. Thanks brother. If you were curious, I have another thread called Storage issue problems, or something like that. The last post there outlines my problems. Thanks again for your input.
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
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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
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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.
rtphysicist said:
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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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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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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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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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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