Hey guys so when in my storage options it does not adequately reflect my storage availability I'm wondering if this is normal. This only represents about 4-5 gigs being used but only 700mb available. Is this normal? I honestly don't have that much on my internal but it is running low faster than it should be. Just wanted to know if this is normal.
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I would venture to say that's not normal... Try an app called "Disk Usage" and see what exactly is taking up the space.
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I would venture to say that's not normal... Try an app called "Disk Usage" and see what exactly is taking up the space.
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Im having the same problem and I used that app and its saying for me that system data is 7.2gb is that normal?
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Julianmgn said:
Im having the same problem and I used that app and its saying for me that system data is 7.2gb is that normal?
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No thats not normal. mine is at 523mb
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No thats not normal. mine is at 523mb
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Any suggestions?
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Julianmgn said:
Any suggestions?
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No, I really dont have any. Sorry. Are you sure that is the amount of storage that the system data folder is using?
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No, I really dont have any. Sorry. Are you sure that is the amount of storage that the system data folder is using?
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Well I guess im not really sure. Thats what the app said.
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Well I guess im not really sure. Thats what the app said.
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Yeah, seems correct. Do you have a Galaxy S4 or are you on a different device?
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Yeah, seems correct. Do you have a Galaxy S4 or are you on a different device?
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Yeah I have galaxy s4 from tmobile.
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Now what exactly could cause the system data to soar to 7GB? Have you tried exploring around the directories to see exactly what files or directories are abnormally large?
Op-is your device rooted
Backups may be the issue then.
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Thanks for all the responses I just got a chance to look at this I'll take a look at that app and see what I get. What kinda backups are we talking? Because I haven't intentionally backed anything up. And I am rooted yes
Edit: currently running wicked v4 but have had a few before that with same circumstances. I always factory reset, wipe cache, dalvik cache.
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Thanks for all the responses I just got a chance to look at this I'll take a look at that app and see what I get. What kinda backups are we talking? Because I haven't intentionally backed anything up. And I am rooted yes
Edit: currently running wicked v4 but have had a few before that with same circumstances. I always factory reset, wipe cache, dalvik cache.
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I havent looked through my directory but I will today.
And im also running wicked v4 and have also had this problem before.
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I've looked through everything, and using the disk space app, showed about 5.7 gigs to system. Went through system couldn't find specifics as the culprit or what I could remove to make space. Is there any type of reset that'd clean it up, like a Odin flash? I'm usually better with these things but this is just odd and outta character for me.
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I think I found the problem I was wondering wtf was going on... Everything has been different folder setup in cwm than before when I go to flash from SD card I get 0, legacy, and one other folder. Well... I found a folder in my system called emulated... It's basically two extra copies of my entire internal system. Anyone know where this came from? And how to prevent it from reoccurring? It shows updated today. Please correct me if this is not the issue... Gonna try deleting it will post after
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Well... That only deleted everything on my internal SD... Wtf so strange. My internal SDcard showed like 2.7 gigs taken up the 'emulated: legacy and 0' folders were exactly 2.7 gigs each... Leading to the theory these were copies of the internal SD but when deleted they took the internal with them, now it shows I have 3.3 gigs avail and one being used... Outta 9+ gigs... Wtf ha
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Ok so I figured out that its was my nandroid backups that where taking up all the space. Especially my nandroid of stock.
Its under data/media/clockwork
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Julianmgn said:
Ok so I figured out that its was my nandroid backups that where taking up all the space. Especially my nandroid of stock.
Its under data/media/clockwork
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Idk if it's my es file explorer but there's nothing in the data folder, I checked the 'show hidden files' too let me know if any other jnfo
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Idk if it's my es file explorer but there's nothing in the data folder, I checked the 'show hidden files' too let me know if any other jnfo
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I used root explorer, I got the paid version
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Figured it out... Wish I'd have waited 5 min before deleting all my internal storage haha I wonder if there's an easy way to restore that crap...
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I was transferring music to me phone, and I saw a file called "and me.destroying" and it's kinda worrying me. Should I delete it ASAP? And if known, what does it do?
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EggosEvo said:
I was transferring music to me phone, and I saw a file called "and me.destroying" and it's kinda worrying me. Should I delete it ASAP? And if known, what does it do?
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What does your heart tell you to do? Lol I'm kidding.. Do you to think you down loaded any apps that would have something to do with it? Go through the file and see what's in it, see if you ecognize anything
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Delete it. If an app needs it, it will just recreate it. No worries, people format sdcards all the time so no critical app data is on the removable storage unless you moved the app to the sdcard.
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I was transferring music to me phone, and I saw a file called "and me.destroying" and it's kinda worrying me. Should I delete it ASAP? And if known, what does it do?
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Perhaps you could copy it to your PC and share it so we might see what it is?
I deleted it earlier today. It seemed as if it appeared after installing a J2ME application, as part of the file name also included andme.
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Hi I might have erased something on my phone. I have flashed roms before but something must have gone wrong. I flashed a cm10 rom and it messed my folders up by creating a folder on the phones memory (I forgot what it was called)I tried moving the folders out of it because my files looked ok and something happened where it erased my external 64gb and crashed my phone( it became unresponsive when trying to move the data to my pc. I flashed the stock rom using odin and it took ok I rerooted and installed twrp and tried to flash different roms but they all stay at the boot screen. Wierd thing is I can restore/backup just fine. i just can't install custom roms. I also saw something that i never noticed before in my folders on the phones internal memory I will provide a pic. Are those usb folders normal ? I can't access them though. Someone please help what can I do to be able to flash roms again? Also before anyone mentions it I tried with clockwork same issue.
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Flash new ROM. Factory reset.
Yeah, I think I know what's happening, enter the sdcard folder, and if you see a folder in there called "0", all of your stuff should be there. This happened to me while using CM10.
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That's what happens on cm10.1 just look in your 0 folder.
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That's what happens on cm10.1 just look in your 0 folder.
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Ugh its so annoying
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Ugh its so annoying
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Doesn't happen on aokp 4.2.1 tho... not with Twrp at least... in case u wanna give it a try
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Doesn't happen on aokp 4.2.1 tho... not with Twrp at least... in case u wanna give it a try
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Nice... but actually I had another problem with all AOSP based roms, the wifi wont connect for some reason
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Nice... but actually I had another problem with all AOSP based roms, the wifi wont connect for some reason
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Mine does. Automatically whenever I get home it connects to my network
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Thanks for the help guys yes i'm Puerto Rican and I already knew about the 0 folder issue and the work around (i do look at this site quite frequently but don't post much because i look before posting) but the problem happened when i tried to move the items from that folder to my pc. The fact is it just stopped transfering files completely my phone shut off it erased my external 64gb sd card and it pretty much corrupted the internal storage thank god i was able to factory reset with odin. However even after i factory reset with odin i couldnt flash roms. Thats why i posted this thread, and also to make sure that those usb folders were normal (which i found out were normal to see) Reflashed Odin factory rom 3 times in a row and that seemed to clear up the issue. Like i said thanks for all the help and sorry if it seemed like i was noobing. :good:
So I did a fresh install of a tw rom and its saying I have used 5.4 gb Ive factory rest like 3 times already ... whats the deal thanks.
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Your system and recovery partitions use a portion of the 16gb that the phone has. Kind of like if you do a fresh install of Windows on you PC, the system files take up part of the hard drive. There's no real way around that.
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What's on your internal sd card?
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nothing. This is a fresh install and I deleted everything and I'm using 5.4 GB....
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xxjrsmith3xx said:
nothing. This is a fresh install and I deleted everything and I'm using 5.4 GB....
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Are you saying the device shows total available internal memory to be ~9GB? If that is the case, that's the way it is with the way it's partitioned. If you mean there's 5.4GB missing out of the ~9GB it's supposed to have, then there's a problem.
your backup is in the external, can't see it unless you're in recovery. I figured out the hard way.
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Are you saying the device shows total available internal memory to be ~9GB? If that is the case, that's the way it is with the way it's partitioned. If you mean there's 5.4GB missing out of the ~9GB it's supposed to have, then there's a problem.
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OK it says I have 9.62 GB then out of those I have 3.95 GB left to use but under what I'm using I'm only using about 1gb or less 900mb why is it saying I'm using about 5.4 GB I connect it to my PC I look under all the folders nothing in them plus fresh install factory rest 2 times. ....
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OK it says I have 9.62 GB then out of those I have 3.95 GB left to use but under what I'm using I'm only using about 1gb or less 900mb why is it saying I'm using about 5.4 GB I connect it to my PC I look under all the folders nothing in them plus fresh install factory rest 2 times. ....
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If you are using CWM and have made a backup (or two) check /data/media/clockwork. It's the root of the phone, not of the internal memory partition or SD card.
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If you are using CWM and have made a backup (or two) check data/media/clockwork.
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I have but on my SD card let me go check .... Sorry guy might even be my own fault thanks though.
EDIT: so I deleted 2 back ups in cwm smh had no idea they were saved in internal but thank you guys !
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xxjrsmith3xx said:
I have but on my SD card let me go check .... Sorry guy might even be my own fault thanks though.
EDIT: so I deleted 2 back ups in cwm smh had no idea they were saved in internal but thank you guys !
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Good to know! Glad you got that resolved!
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I have but on my SD card let me go check .... Sorry guy might even be my own fault thanks though.
EDIT: so I deleted 2 back ups in cwm smh had no idea they were saved in internal but thank you guys !
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Thought you said there was nothing on your internal sd card?
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First of all sorry if this issue has already been addressed, I looked around could not find much on this issue, anyways I have been running deathstalker s3 for a while, I decided to try deathstalker s4 , it installed okay but the phone kept force closing any system app I tried to run , I reverted back to deathstalker s3 and my phone constantly displays low storage and says 330mb of free space, but in the settings > storage, it displays a lot of free space in the bar graph but none of it is useable, once again sorry if this has already been asked, any suggestions in the right direction would be helpful
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I would format the external sd and the internal sd and do a complete wipe and re download the rom to your external sd and flash the newly download ed rom
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Sorry for the late reply been working, here is a picture , the nunbers don't add up I'm not to sure why
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Sorry for the late reply been working, here is a picture , the nunbers don't add up I'm not to sure why
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Do you have any nandroid backup stored on the phone? Those take up lots of spaces. If not you might need to do a format as suggested.
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Sorry for the late reply been working, here is a picture , the nunbers don't add up I'm not to sure why
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Check /data/media/ you must have some hidden files stored there.
Thanks for the help all of you 100% in the right direction, now I'm a lot closer but I think something else is hidding files, now I'm at 4.62gb out of 9.62gb after deleting the the clockworkmod backups, once again thank you for everyone's input
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I'm having the same issue I believe its some kind of block or something like that I downloaded an app called aparted and said it was an block called fats32? not sure what that is though just thought i would put it out there
SO I s-offed with Rumrunner today and did a TWRP backup. Now I didn't notice before, but now my storage is showing 17.96 GB Used. Apps are 1.15GB, Music 15mb, Photos 15mb, downloads 8.78mb, with Other being 16.77GB. My backup is only 2GB, is other the OS?? I am still stock rooted.
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SO I s-offed with Rumrunner today and did a TWRP backup. Now I didn't notice before, but now my storage is showing 17.96 GB Used. Apps are 1.15GB, Music 15mb, Photos 15mb, downloads 8.78mb, with Other being 16.77GB. My backup is only 2GB, is other the OS?? I am still stock rooted.
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Check your entire SD card with a file manager. You've got something big on there.
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cstrife999 said:
Check your entire SD card with a file manager. You've got something big on there.
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I have Astro installed, would that do the trick? Or browse thru the PC connection?
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I have Astro installed, would that do the trick? Or browse thru the PC connection?
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Yea that would work. Either way you're more comfortable with. Check all the files. Sounds really off.
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Looks like the same thing for me. I'm on Bonestock.
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Looks like the same thing for me. I'm on Bonestock.
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Mine is way lower. Dont have much on here yet though I admit
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Mine is way lower. Dont have much on here yet though I admit
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What ROM are you running? It could be space used up by stock system stuff. OP is stock and I'm running Bonestock, which is essentially stock.
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What ROM are you running? It could be space used up by stock system stuff. OP is stock and I'm running Bonestock, which is essentially stock.
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Nos. I don't remember ever having that much though...
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I cant link my screen shot, but my TWRP is only 2.89GB, Still doesn't add up to the 10.53GB used...
I Think I see an issue. on my system folder I have two files in the storage folder named "Emulated" and "sdcard0" . They have the same thing in each one, about 3.40GB. Is this a normal file format for android?
From what I've gathered it's not actually there twice, it's just a reflection, so to speak, of your user data. It's a feature implemented for muti-user setups.
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I Think I see an issue. on my system folder I have two files in the storage folder named "Emulated" and "sdcard0" . They have the same thing in each one, about 3.40GB. Is this a normal file format for android?
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Yea that's normal. Its just a system link.
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Already posted a thread about this........
The HTC One is formatted different than a typical external sd card (FAT). Because it is formatted differently, USB mass storage does not show up on our computers. Use adb to push files. Check your storage space on the phone.
I have 10.08GB used in other with no backups. Just the way the phone came.
Thanks Guy's, just wanted to be sure it wasn't something I did while running Rumrunner or doing my first recovery.
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at one point my other storage was gigantic as well. It was at the point where I didn't have enough room to backup in recovery.
after I uninstalled play music and magazines my other storage dropped to below 10GB and gave me 17 GB free.
lol I can't believe I didn't realize this phone came with no microsd slot. Not being able to put all my media on one is bumming me out.
Its still a great phone but now I'm missing my thunderbolt a little bit.
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This is def a bug, and I might have a fix... Here's how I came to this...
On soff day one I soffed, immediately I installed cwm recovery, and first thing I did was do a backup... Restarted my phone, and immediately got the less than 10 GB left...right after that I wiped and i installed mokee, and still had storage issues... Then I deleted the factory backup and did a nother fresh backup from recovery... Poof all my space is back... Check the size of your factory backup, bet its huge... Take it off your phone and stash it on your PC if you wanna save it...
This is where backups are stored
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Im pure stock on verizon and my other memory is lower..