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obb folder taking all my internal storage

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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xtool said:
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

[Q] Storage Full of "Other"

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
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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

[Q] Can't Move Apps To SD Card!

Hello, I am currently running CyanogenMod10.1 on a Samsung Galaxy S3. I have tried many apps but they all don't work. What do I do? I cannot click "Move to SD card" on "Apps" because there is not button. Please help, I am running out of space.

TimeAndroid said:
Hello, I am currently running CyanogenMod10.1 on a Samsung Galaxy S3. I have tried many apps but they all don't work. What do I do? I cannot click "Move to SD card" on "Apps" because there is not button. Please help, I am running out of space.
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You can't with this phone. Move all your files to your sd you might gain a lot of space if there are large files in your internal storage. and/ or get sdmaid. can clean alot of worthless **** on your phone lol. caches, can optimize your databases. ETC.

amzi said:
You can't with this phone. Move all your files to your sd you might gain a lot of space if there are large files in your internal storage. and/ or get sdmaid. can clean alot of worthless **** on your phone lol. caches, can optimize your databases. ETC.
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I don't have much pictures and I have no media so this SD card is a waste...Is there any "hacks" I can type into terminal emulator to move apps?

TimeAndroid said:
I don't have much pictures and I have no media so this SD card is a waste...Is there any "hacks" I can type into terminal emulator to move apps?
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Unfortunately it is completely impossible. It appears that Google has revoked access permission that use to allow 3rd party apps to write to the external SD card. You can see this link here for more information: http://www.chainfire.eu/articles/113/Is_Google_blocking_apps_writing_to_SD_cards_/
Generally you would want apps installed on the internal memory due to higher read write speeds. This would allow apps to run smoother and faster. Even if it were possible to move apps to the external card, I wouldn't advise it for certain kinds of apps, like games, this would only hinder the performance.

RPelham said:
Unfortunately it is completely impossible. It appears that Google has revoked access permission that use to allow 3rd party apps to write to the external SD card. You can see this link here for more information: http://www.chainfire.eu/articles/113/Is_Google_blocking_apps_writing_to_SD_cards_/
Generally you would want apps installed on the internal memory due to higher read write speeds. This would allow apps to run smoother and faster. Even if it were possible to move apps to the external card, I wouldn't advise it for certain kinds of apps, like games, this would only hinder the performance.
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Any way to increase internal space? I am really close to running out of room.

TimeAndroid said:
Any way to increase internal space? I am really close to running out of room.
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Unfortunately not, other than buying a device with more internal memory. With no pictures or media (according to your prior post) you must have a ton of high graphics intensive games...
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RPelham said:
Unfortunately not, other than buying a device with more internal memory. With no pictures or media (according to your prior post) you must have a ton of high graphics intensive games...
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Nope. My phone says I only have 10 GB in total. For some reason I am using 5 GB. Only 1 of my apps need extra files, other than that my apps are simple.

TimeAndroid said:
Nope. My phone says I only have 10 GB in total. For some reason I am using 5 GB. Only 1 of my apps need extra files, other than that my apps are simple.
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something is definitely eating your storage space then.. I have the 16gb variant and have 47 downloaded apps from the play store and am only using 1gb of data.
Go to Settings > Storage and see what's eating most if your space.
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RPelham said:
something is definitely eating your storage space then.. I have the 16gb variant and have 47 downloaded apps from the play store and am only using 1gb of data.
Go to Settings > Storage and see what's eating most if your space.
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Available: 5.90GB
Apps: 1.62GB
Pictures, videos: 96KB
Audio: 648 KB
Downloads: 12 KB
Cached data: 142 MB
Misc: 2.77 GB
Clockworkmod: 2.56 GB <--Wth?
cmupdater: 163 MB
At appears clockworkmod is using the most. Why is that? How do I fix that?

TimeAndroid said:
Available: 5.90GB
Apps: 1.62GB
Pictures, videos: 96KB
Audio: 648 KB
Downloads: 12 KB
Cached data: 142 MB
Misc: 2.77 GB
Clockworkmod: 2.56 GB <--Wth?
cmupdater: 163 MB
At appears clockworkmod is using the most. Why is that? How do I fix that?
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Would TWRP be a good alternative?

TimeAndroid said:
Available: 5.90GB
Apps: 1.62GB
Pictures, videos: 96KB
Audio: 648 KB
Downloads: 12 KB
Cached data: 142 MB
Misc: 2.77 GB
Clockworkmod: 2.56 GB <--Wth?
cmupdater: 163 MB
At appears clockworkmod is using the most. Why is that? How do I fix that?
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Cwm contains the nandroids you've made. If you have several in there, that's what you're seeing

xBeerdroiDx said:
Cwm contains the nandroids you've made. If you have several in there, that's what you're seeing
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I've just deleted all of them (one backup). It still uses 2.56 GB. Something is wrong, yes?

TimeAndroid said:
I've just deleted all of them (one backup). It still uses 2.56 GB. Something is wrong, yes?
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Have you researched/seem anything about this in the cm10.x thread? Have you tried reflashing the rom? Did you have this experience in a previous rom?
If you can't locate a fix in the thread, I would make a nandroid, do a full wipe and flash the rom again (or try a different rom)

xBeerdroiDx said:
Have you researched/seem anything about this in the cm10.x thread? Have you tried reflashing the rom? Did you have this experience in a previous rom?
If you can't locate a fix in the thread, I would make a nandroid, do a full wipe and flash the rom again (or try a different rom)
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I have never really noticed my space was being taken up a lot by clockwork recovery. And isn't this just a problem with clockwork recovery?

TimeAndroid said:
I have never really noticed my space was being taken up a lot by clockwork recovery. And isn't this just a problem with clockwork recovery?
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I suggested a full wipe and re flash because it seems that your internal memory is either not reading correctly or something is taking up space in the background. Have you tried anything I asked in the previous post?

xBeerdroiDx said:
I suggested a full wipe and re flash because it seems that your internal memory is either not reading correctly or something is taking up space in the background. Have you tried anything I asked in the previous post?
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Not too long ago, I re-flashed my ROM. Sorry, Its just that I don't want to lose my data.

TimeAndroid said:
Would TWRP be a good alternative?
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Personally, I prefer TWRP and use it over CWM. I have one backup and it is taking up 991.00 MB I generally only keep one backup at a time.
Keep in mind your experience may vary as we have different apps and data.
How many backups do you have in CWM?
P.S. If you do decide to try TWRP, please note that TWRP cannot restore CWM nandroids.
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RPelham said:
Personally, I prefer TWRP and use it over CWM. I have one backup and it is taking up 991.00 MB I generally only keep one backup at a time.
Keep in mind your experience may vary as we have different apps and data.
How many backups do you have in CWM?
P.S. If you do decide to try TWRP, please note that TWRP cannot restore CWM nandroids.
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I have 0 backups. To install TWRP, I just install the zip via CWM, right?

TimeAndroid said:
I have 0 backups. To install TWRP, I just install the zip via CWM, right?
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The easiest and fastest way is to install GooManager from the play store. Once done, grant it SU, press menu and select "install open recovery script" and your done. takes maybe 30 seconds depending on DL speed. Wait for the toast message stating its been installed. Once you reboot to recovery you will have TWRP. Delete your CWM folders to clear up the space afterwards.
I've never flashed a recovery via another recovery so I don't know how or if that's possible. I either dd in terminal, Odin or use GooManager.
On a side note I found this, which may be useful to you. The trade up is you would need to be on Touchwiz with a kernel that has init.d support. Take a look: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849861
There would also be a decrease in performance since SD cards can't read/write as fast as internal memory can. also, unless you have a 32gb or 64gb card then the mod is useless.
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RPelham said:
The easiest and fastest way is to install GooManager from the play store. Once done, grant it SU, press menu and select "install open recovery script" and your done. takes maybe 30 seconds depending on DL speed. Wait for the toast message stating its been installed. Once you reboot to recovery you will have TWRP. Delete your CWM folders to clear up the space afterwards.
I've never flashed a recovery via another recovery so I don't know how or if that's possible. I either dd in terminal, Odin or use GooManager.
On a side note I found this, which may be useful to you. The trade up is you would need to be on Touchwiz with a kernel that has init.d support. Take a look: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849861
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How do you update TWRP?

lost internal memory

so my wife's gs3 was stock rooted...made backups of everything including a nandroid. everything was on the internal memory. i've flashed carbon rom and now cannot seem to find anything. internal appears to be what was on her sdcard. yet when i go into settings-storage sdcard is greyed out without an option to mount. connecting to a pc only gives me one option to connect to. i can't even restore the nandroid. it's been a while since i've been off of a nexus personally so i'm hoping this is something easy i've overlooked and any help is appreciated, thank you

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damngood98 said:
so my wife's gs3 was stock rooted...made backups of everything including a nandroid. everything was on the internal memory. i've flashed carbon rom and now cannot seem to find anything. internal appears to be what was on her sdcard. yet when i go into settings-storage sdcard is greyed out without an option to mount. connecting to a pc only gives me one option to connect to. i can't even restore the nandroid. it's been a while since i've been off of a nexus personally so i'm hoping this is something easy i've overlooked and any help is appreciated, thank you
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All your files are intact, they have just been moved around since you flashed the carbon rom.
If you had any nandroid backups they are intact too.
Read the following article and you will see exactly where they are using a file manager like root explorer.
Here is the link: http://teamuscellular.com/Forum/top...-cm101-is-available-on-rootzwiki-from-noobnl/
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Misterjunky said:
All your files are intact, they have just been moved around since you flashed the carbon rom.
If you had any nandroid backups they are intact too.
Read the following article and you will see exactly where they are using a file manager like root explorer.
Here is the link: http://teamuscellular.com/Forum/top...-cm101-is-available-on-rootzwiki-from-noobnl/
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thanks...i'm aware of the recovery issues going into 4.2....and i've been using a root file manager. yet i'm still unable to find any other storage. i didn't wipe it but this was probably the first time i didn't save everything to the pc before flashing. i have so much crap backed up from her previous phones that i will never need. f+cking murphy's law...and while i could be mistaken, this shouldn't have an effect on the sdcard not being able to mount, no?

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thanks...i'm aware of the recovery issues going into 4.2....and i've been using a root file manager. yet i'm still unable to find any other storage. i didn't wipe it but this was probably the first time i didn't save everything to the pc before flashing. i have so much crap backed up from her previous phones that i will never need. f+cking murphy's law...and while i could be mistaken, this shouldn't have an effect on the sdcard not being able to mount, no?
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Have you found this folder yet? /sdcard/0 using a file manager like root explorer or any other
file manager which can read the root of the sdcard ?

Misterjunky said:
Have you found this folder yet? /sdcard/0 using a file manager like root explorer or any other
file manager which can read the root of the sdcard ?
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This information should be accurate enough for OP to find his files.
The SD cards have a lot of symlinks in Android. The one true path for your internal SD is /data/media. Your files are there.

Misterjunky said:
Have you found this folder yet? /sdcard/0 using a file manager like root explorer or any other
file manager which can read the root of the sdcard ?
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hmm....this always confused me now...i do have the sdcard0 available but not sdcard1 (completely empty)...is 1 the actual sdcard? bottom line, there are other pictures of hers i'm not seeing now and rom toolbox is telling me there is nothing backed up as far as text messages. where ever they're located be it sdcard or internal i just need to find them.

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This information should be accurate enough for OP to find his files.
The SD cards have a lot of symlinks in Android. The one true path for your internal SD is /data/media. Your files are there.
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That's for sure, I don't thing the guy is paying much attention at all to what I am trying to tell him,
judging by his replies he just keeps rambling on about things that don't pertain to anything which
I have suggested to him to try.

Misterjunky said:
That's for sure, I don't thing the guy is paying much attention at all to what I am trying to tell him,
judging by his replies he just keeps rambling on about things that don't pertain to anything which
I have suggested to him to try.
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/sdcard/
/mnt/sdcard
mnt/shell/0/
storage/emuluted/0
storage/sdcard0
data/media/0
all of the above are paths to my internal....none of these are my sdcard
in any case, i believe my card is corrupted. i appreciate the help everyone has tried to give though...thanks to you all

/data/media/ is honestly all you really need to know.. Every single folder/file that exists within your internal storage lie within that directory. Once you find what you're looking for you can take it from there.
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LuigiBull23 said:
/data/media/ is honestly all you really need to know.. Every single folder/file that exists within your internal storage lie within that directory. Once you find what you're looking for you can take it from there.
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i have a almost similar problem. On my pc can see that my internal storage is almost full but when i open it i don't show the files. i can't install apps on my to view the files on my because of the low storage.

JurrienXR said:
i have a almost similar problem. On my pc can see that my internal storage is almost full but when i open it i don't show the files. i can't install apps on my to view the files on my because of the low storage.
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Well go to your phone and try any of the methods mentioned above for locating all your files.
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LuigiBull23 said:
Well go to your phone and try any of the methods mentioned above for locating all your files.
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the thing is i installed a different rom but it doesn't come with a file manager and i can't install one because of the low storage

JurrienXR said:
the thing is i installed a different rom but it doesn't come with a file manager and i can't install one because of the low storage
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Do you have TWRP? You can navigate the same directories using the file manager there or you can simply go into Settings > Storage and look through the categories in which are taking up the most space and remove what you can to then download a root browser and go from there.
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[Q] Storage almost full?

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?

rtphysicist said:
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.

NotATreoFan said:
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.

rtphysicist said:
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.

NotATreoFan said:
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.

rtphysicist said:
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

Crawshayi said:
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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rtphysicist said:
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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santod040 said:
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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rtphysicist said:
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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santod040 said:
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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brholt6 said:
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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