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Internal storage reading incorrectly..?

I just went through and cleared a few gigs of crap and old backups off my internal storage, but when I check how much space is available, it doesn't reflect this. It says I only have 700mbs available still, but the bar and numbers clearly indicate I should have more than that. Here's a screen shot for a better idea of what's going on http://www.imgur.com/sIt8G.png
Has anyone else had this problem before or know how I can fix it?
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Bump.. I have booted inti recovery and cleared cache in hopes of it cleaning it up, but nothing. I also searched Play for a sd card clean up app, I found sd maid, but no success there either. I'm really trying to avoid backing up everything and wiping the card..
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I can't see your pic bc of my work's firewall, but you may want to take a look at this thread here from the ATT side. --->Missing storage space
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I can't see your pic bc of my work's firewall, but you may want to take a look at this thread here from the ATT side. --->Missing storage space
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Perfect. Thanks alot for that link, that thread linked to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33918194 and seems to answer my question.

Music to external sd

I Decided to move all my music to my ext. Sd card. I went into root explorer and just moved the whole folder over. I when I go to my storage now, it shows that the 1.24 gigs of music was sucxefully transfered to external but the 1.24 gigs still shows up as misc. On my internal sd. I went to the dcim folder and there are no remnants of any of it. I cleared my dalvik and even used sd maid pro, and still no luck. any ideas of why it's still showing up on my internal? Also my cover art doesn't show up on ayer pro anymore T. Y. I. A:beer:
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There is a post in either this section or the q&a that talks about getting more space on you sd card. I'm hedging a bet it would help you. Let me see if I can come up with the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33918194
That should be it. Hope it works for ya.
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ih8mydroid said:
There is a post in either this section or the q&a that talks about getting more space on you sd card. I'm hedging a bet it would help you. Let me see if I can come up with the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33918194
That should be it. Hope it works for ya.
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Yea i found this post before posting...... Tried it and it didn't help... Idk it sped my phone up but still have the 1.24 gigs of misc. Thanks though for the link
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I'm very interested in this too! My only lasting complaint with my phone is not being able to have Google Music save music to the external card. If anyone can help figure this out I'd be so happy.
I love Google and android but I hate how they keep pushing external cards away and pushing the cloud so hard.
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Alex2x3 said:
I'm very interested in this too! My only lasting complaint with my phone is not being able to have Google Music save music to the external card. If anyone can help figure this out I'd be so happy.
I love Google and android but I hate how they keep pushing external cards away and pushing the cloud so hard.
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Agreed
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a duplicate of the /sdcard also resides at /data/media. you can only access this folded if you are rooted and have a root enabled file system browser like es file explorer.
if you are rooted, you can safely delete the duplicate media folder from that directory as well.

DerekPradoFLA said:
Yea i found this post before posting...... Tried it and it didn't help... Idk it sped my phone up but still have the 1.24 gigs of misc. Thanks though for the link
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Are you sure it's your music? If you click on "Miscellaneous files", it shows you exactly what it's counting and how much space it takes.
(I didn't know that until I just tried it now, so thanks!)

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Storage location.

I'm wondering if anybody has identified how to change the default storage location for downloads. I have spent about an hour searching google this morning and haven't been able to find any solutions. I tried going into the individual browser settings I tried this with the stock browser and with Google Chrome and I cannot find settings within each other to change the default storage location for downloads. I am looking to change from the internal sd card to my external SD card. I'm sure this question has come up for but I have not been able to find anything. Anybody have any thoughts?
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Crap. Sorry Kenny...been bouncing around a lot this morning!
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To answer your question browser>settings>advanced>default storage>memory card.
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To answer your question browser>settings>advanced>default storage>memory card.
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That's my problem though, I don't see an option for settings??? I have frozen some stuff in titanium backup so I wonder if I possibly froze something for the settings.
Edit -nevermind, I'm an idiot. I never actually scrolled down once I hit the Menu key. You can actually delete this thread if you want Kenny.
Edit2 - I checked and the selection is already memory card but it is still saving to the internal storage... Any other thoughts??
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Did you choose another browser or option once when downloading and that app is now controlling where it goes? Go to every app that you think might cause this and clear defaults in app manager. Then when you download something it should ask what app to use to download. Make sure you choose the stock browser.
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kennyglass123 said:
Did you choose another browser or option once when downloading and that app is now controlling where it goes? Go to every app that you think might cause this and clear defaults in app manager. Then when you download something it should ask what app to use to download. Make sure you choose the stock browser.
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OK. I will give that a shot. Only other browser I have is chrome.
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adamdelozier said:
OK. I will give that a shot. Only other browser I have is chrome.
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You never used the pop up browser or goo manager for downloads?
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Loosing Files

I have reaently rooted my phone with Galaxy Note 2 Toolkit. All works fine except one thing - I keep loosing my MP3 files
I copied some mp3 files over to my SD card. Next day they were gone.
fter this had happen several times I decided to re-root my phone again. After the procedure I copied mp3 files over again and they were on
the card for about 2 more days. Today they're all gone.
I noticed that when I use Samsung KIES application and install some files into the music folders using Kies, after some time those files are gone as well. Installed antivirus, scanned, no virus found.
Any idea's what could cause this to happen ?
Arthur

Are they on your external sd card? If so I would guess it's going bad or you bought a cheap ebay one that's not actually the listed capacity so it overwrites your oldest files as you put more stuff on there (just a shot in the dark here, but that's what some cheap ones do)
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What brand/size sdcard do you have
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chrisgto4 said:
What brand/size sdcard do you have
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thank you all for replies and your time!
the card is 64 Gig /made in China of course.
I don't think it is the card quality in this case. I have had SD cards in the past which were loosing data, but usually when this had happened all data was lost not just some specific file type. This is more lie an effect of a:
- some softare making updates
- virus or mallware
Like I said I have another folder on the same level called PFD whith about 100 PDF files, and this folder remains untouched, and the same happens for my picutres. I do not loos pictures on the card, the the only thing that gewts deleted is MP3
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What brand/size sdcard do you have
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Dude nice pic. That is all.
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Is their a way to install to ext sd?

I am running cyanogen mod 10.1 and I tend to play alot of big games that requires typically >1gb and i have close to no room left in my internal storage and have like 10 gigs left on my external and I dont have a way to install them onto their. I've already tried all types of apps2sd apps and none have worked. Is their a way to put these games on my external sd?

Unfortunately no.
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I have same issue, I'm about to try to move game data to external and create a simlink from gme folder to external. Maybe that could work. Dunno. :beer:
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Omar04 said:
I have same issue, I'm about to try to move game data to external and create a simlink from gme folder to external. Maybe that could work. Dunno. :beer:
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Doesnt work.
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Not Yew said:
I am running cyanogen mod 10.1 and I tend to play alot of big games that requires typically >1gb and i have close to no room left in my internal storage and have like 10 gigs left on my external and I dont have a way to install them onto their. I've already tried all types of apps2sd apps and none have worked. Is their a way to put these games on my external sd?
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Have you tried THIS. Or possibly THIS.

prboy1969 said:
Have you tried THIS. Or possibly THIS.
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I tried the first one. Didnt work. Did it twice on 2 diff sd cards
Second one doesnt support the s3
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I tried the first one. Didnt work. Did it twice on 2 diff sd cards
Second one doesnt support the s3
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I just have used the first method. It does work. To make sure I redid it a few minutes ago. Works perfectly. Are you on TW, CM, or AOSP ?

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I tried the first one. Didnt work. Did it twice on 2 diff sd cards
Second one doesnt support the s3
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I'd say to use this app: FolderMount.
Great app, frequent updates, and I've used it myself and can confirm it works. Not to mention that I believe the dev made it, among other reasons, to solve this issue with huge games.

I gonna look into this. And the changing the external to internal
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