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Storage space low, sizes don't add up

Hey everyone,
Would it be possible for someone to help me figure out where my storage space has gone? I seem to have only about 500MB left on my internal memory, but the things using space don't add up to that and neither does checking the folder sizes. I'll post the picture of my storage map. I've been trying to figure out what is going on, but I'm stumped. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
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hungry4cheese said:
Hey everyone,
Would it be possible for someone to help me figure out where my storage space has gone? I seem to have only about 500MB left on my internal memory, but the things using space don't add up to that and neither does checking the folder sizes. I'll post the picture of my storage map. I've been trying to figure out what is going on, but I'm stumped. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
Sent from my SGH-I747 using xda app
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Find a better app that actually lists folders and file sizes, i uses 'Storage Analyser' from the play store. This should help you narrow down where the culprit is (or confirm androids report).

hungry4cheese said:
Hey everyone,
Would it be possible for someone to help me figure out where my storage space has gone? I seem to have only about 500MB left on my internal memory, but the things using space don't add up to that and neither does checking the folder sizes. I'll post the picture of my storage map. I've been trying to figure out what is going on, but I'm stumped. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
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ES File Explorer also has a tool to analyze the storage, Upper left globe>Tools>SD Card Analyst :good:

drx895 said:
ES File Explorer also has a tool to analyze the storage, Upper left globe>Tools>SD Card Analyst :good:
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my drives works perfectly, get it now on the Play Store

Thanks for all the replies! So went ahead and ran the SD tool in es and ran the storage analyzer tool as well. Very bizarre data: es reports free space of 1.36gb and I added up literally all the files listed and got about 5.8gb used on the storage card while es reports 10.68gb used. So I went ahead and ran storage analyzer which shows a whopping 7.27gb free. Taking the full size of the memory 12gb - 7.27gb actually gives the sizes of the files added up manually. System storage reports about the 1.36gb free. Any further ideas?
Edit - I forgot to mention I'm running paranoidandroid 3.99 rc2 on this s3.
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hungry4cheese said:
Thanks for all the replies! So went ahead and ran the SD tool in es and ran the storage analyzer tool as well. Very bizarre data: es reports free space of 1.36gb and I added up literally all the files listed and got about 5.8gb used on the storage card while es reports 10.68gb used. So I went ahead and ran storage analyzer which shows a whopping 7.27gb free. Taking the full size of the memory 12gb - 7.27gb actually gives the sizes of the files added up manually. System storage reports about the 1.36gb free. Any further ideas?
Edit - I forgot to mention I'm running paranoidandroid 3.99 rc2 on this s3.
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How many applications do you have installed? Also, how much data are they all taking up? The SIII is very strange as opposed to my previous device. As you know, we have 16GB devices. 4GB are unusable. Every application you installs to the internal SD card, as well. Meaning you have less space for more things. Very poorly managed, but what can you do? Unless partition sizes are updated and allocated in a better way, there is no way around this. So depending on how many applications you have installed and the data that they are taking up, that could give you the answer to your problem. Also, check the Download folder on the internal storage. Not sure how much you download, but I find a lot of stuff in there that takes up space. Especially ROMs, GAPPs packages, et cetera.
One more thing that you can do if all else fails is reinstall your ROM from a clean wipe. Not sure if you dirty flash or anything but if so, you are leaving files on your device that take up storage. So if the above does not help, try this and it should help you out. Wipe data, cache, dalvik cache, format data, system, and cache and then install everything.
Hope this helps you out and if not, let me know and I will see if I can come up with anything else. If I am a broken record and you know all of what I said, disregard and sorry for wasting your time. But again, hope I was able to help out.
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Need help

Even though i dont have any app installed my aftv says im running low on storage. On the setting menu i only have 470mb free. I already did a factory reset and wipe cache partition and wipe dalvik cache in CWM recovery, and reset to factory defaults on aftv settings.
Getting desperate as i cant sideload anything not even es file explorer...
Any ideas where i should look?

Hello, please anyone have any idea. Right now my aftv is useless even though its not bricked

Check xbmc thumbnails folder? I had an issue with it at one point, so I deleted the thumbnails folder in my kodi userdata folder which was huge and added an imageres tag in advanced settings file to 720 and let kodi rebuild thumbnails. I have several games installed and so far seems fine to me.
Look into that as a possible solution. If you have a lot of fan art and posters that could be eating up storage via thumbnails. I did try a path substitution for them at one point too, but I use a heavy skin and it was too slow to browse my media with the path subs for the thumbnails. Thinking of trying it again with another skin if I find one I like.
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Check xbmc thumbnails folder? I had an issue with it at one point, so I deleted the thumbnails folder in my kodi userdata folder which was huge and added an imageres tag in advanced settings file to 720 and let kodi rebuild thumbnails. I have several games installed and so far seems fine to me.
Look into that as a possible solution. If you have a lot of fan art and posters that could be eating up storage via thumbnails. I did try a path substitution for them at one point too, but I use a heavy skin and it was too slow to browse my media with the path subs for the thumbnails. Thinking of trying it again with another skin if I find one I like.
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Did using the advanced settings method greatly reduced the size of data for XBMC? Mines' well over a 1.5g and I'm looking at moving my data to an external drive purely because of XBMC. I did the stickymount/foldermount method using a flash drive, but it was insanely slow.
Can you share your advanced settings file?

I can post it later for you. I use a central media server for my files and a mysql library so my kodi database is not on my fire tv, but like I said my thumbnails folder was huge in the userdata folder, so I shrank it by deleting it and setting imageres tag to 720 and it regenerated the thumbnails to a smaller size. I proved speed on my skin which is xeebo.
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ashmanmb thanks for your reply but the problem is that of this moment my aftv has zero apps installed.
In the last few weeks i started getting the low storage message and i had xbmc, netflix and some other apps installed. Even after uninstalling and reinstalling i still got the message. Then a few days ago xbmc streams started getting a full cache in the beginning message.
So i thought i'm doing a factory reset through CWM recovery. After doing that i was stuck in a loop where it would go to the amazon logo and back to recovery. As suggested by rbox i updated my aftv version. After the update it went smoothly to the homescreen but with the same storage space (470mb). Back to recovery i did another factory reset and the storage space the same. I tried wipe cache partition, wipe the dalvik cache and even reset to factory default inside the aftv settings. I still have the same space. And the problem is i cant install any app like es file explorer to look for any files that may be occupying space.
So as if now i cant determine the problem...

Do you have any ROM files pushed and sitting after any upgrade? Do you have any backups done in CMW?
Look up the "du" command that you can run from shell (if rooted, can be run from root). Might need Busybox installed, not sure...
http://www.linfo.org/du.html
Eg: du -a / | sort -n -r | head -n 50
This gives you a top 50 hogs in your system. Read up on that and it should be a good starting point. I didn't search for scripts, but I am sure there are some good ones out there. There is also a "find" command, which might help you.

Dbdoshi thanks for your help
Will try tomorrow when i get home. If busybox is needed im in trouble because i can't install anything.
I'll let you know tomorrow
Thanks

[Q] How to free up space on amazon fire tv?

Hi all,
I rooted my fire tv. i downgrade firmware and installed CWM, install rbox bootloader, then upgrade pre-rooted firmware by rbox. Now when i check under setting --> system -> about i see 3.61gb free space from 5.49gb available space. I don't have a lot app installed in my rooted fire tv so i didnt think what i have installed would taken up 2gb. Here is what i have installed.
Google play store, kodi, llama, es file explore, busybee box, supersu, chrome, firefox and the whatever was required to gain root access, upgrade and downgrading firmware and whatever app is pre-installed from pre-rooted firmware.
Is there way to check which apps and files are taking up the most space and how do you free up space?
Also, does this sound right that only 3.59gb is left. At one point during my root process when i was pushing update.zip file thru adb to downgrade firmware, it took a very long so i exit out of adb (i simply click on "x" bar to close the connection) and started again but i am not sure maybe i installed update.zip file 2x. How do i check? How do ensure i don't have any unnecessary file on fire tv internal drive.
Thank you

I have 3 FireTVs, all rooted and they have between 3.0G to 3.4G free space so I say your free space is within reasonable range

lowbee said:
I have 3 FireTVs, all rooted and they have between 3.0G to 3.4G free space so I say your free space is within reasonable range
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hi thanks for posting back. Makes me feel better but still out of 8gb user only has 3.5gb, not ideal. i wonder where did the 5gb go.
I am curious to hear from others to see how they cleaned up space, if there are any methods.

I'd have to say kodi might be the culprit taking a lot of space with excessive data storage.
Anything similar to xbmc can be a resource hog for storage.

ashsha7877 said:
hi thanks for posting back. Makes me feel better but still out of 8gb user only has 3.5gb, not ideal. i wonder where did the 5gb go.
I am curious to hear from others to see how they cleaned up space, if there are any methods.
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You don't get 8GB of usable space. I think it is only about 5GB. So you are using about 1.5 GB for apps. Not too bad if you are running Kodi.

An easy way to check where files are taking up space is to use the "sdcard analyze" function in esfile explorer. Its under the tools section. Also, with esfile explorer, you can push files from your phone to the firetv pretty easy too. Select whatever file you want to send on your phone, under options choose send, and make sure esfile explorer is open on the firetv too. The firetv prompts you for where you want to save the file.

ashsha7877 said:
Hi all,
I rooted my fire tv. i downgrade firmware and installed CWM, install rbox bootloader, then upgrade pre-rooted firmware by rbox. Now when i check under setting --> system -> about i see 3.61gb free space from 5.49gb available space. I don't have a lot app installed in my rooted fire tv so i didnt think what i have installed would taken up 2gb. Here is what i have installed.
Google play store, kodi, llama, es file explore, busybee box, supersu, chrome, firefox and the whatever was required to gain root access, upgrade and downgrading firmware and whatever app is pre-installed from pre-rooted firmware.
Is there way to check which apps and files are taking up the most space and how do you free up space?
Also, does this sound right that only 3.59gb is left. At one point during my root process when i was pushing update.zip file thru adb to downgrade firmware, it took a very long so i exit out of adb (i simply click on "x" bar to close the connection) and started again but i am not sure maybe i installed update.zip file 2x. How do i check? How do ensure i don't have any unnecessary file on fire tv internal drive.
Thank you
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You can free up quite a bit by pushing these advanced settings to
<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>/storage/usb/drive1/xbmcthumbnails/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>
You need to amend to kodi instread of xbmc if you're running 14.0 or higher AND my external is mounted by adbFire mount drives persistent. If you're using stickmount it would be sda (forget exact path?)
Once pushed and confirmed working, all your thumbnails will dissapear. Just go into userdata/database and delete textures13. Then restart xbmc.
Afterwards I also delete the thumbnails folder on internal. Oh yes...make sure you have a folder on external named xbmcthumbnails.
This should immediately clear about 600 mb and keep in mind you typically add more to your library so the amount it saves long term could be huge.

KLit75 said:
You can free up quite a bit by pushing these advanced settings to
<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>/storage/usb/drive1/xbmcthumbnails/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>
You need to amend to kodi instread of xbmc if you're running 14.0 or higher AND my external is mounted by adbFire mount drives persistent. If you're using stickmount it would be sda (forget exact path?)
Once pushed and confirmed working, all your thumbnails will dissapear. Just go into userdata/database and delete textures13. Then restart xbmc.
Afterwards I also delete the thumbnails folder on internal. Oh yes...make sure you have a folder on external named xbmcthumbnails.
This should immediately clear about 600 mb and keep in mind you typically add more to your library so the amount it saves long term could be huge.
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Is that going to make loading thumbnails A LOT SLOWER??

Neo3D said:
Is that going to make loading thumbnails A LOT SLOWER??
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That's actually a good question. I've been using these so long I don't have a memory of exactly how fast they loaded before. I'll say this--they populate fast enough for me to keep using them. I use usb 3.0. I think it's essential based on how big my library is and the fact I use aeon nox with additional fanart.
But, I'd be very interested in seeing if you or someone else sees a significant lag in load times. You can always delete the xml if you find it slow.
Just an fyi I got these from an xda member awhile back. Since then lots of people have tried them and so far I haven't hear complaints, but I'd still like feedback from someone who can compare.

Another suggestion is to pre-scrape all the necessary support files with a media manager of your choice (e.g. fanart, icon, content info, etc.) and switch to local info only on the scraper for the collection. It depends also on how you have your collection organized from a folder perspective.
I found this to be fastest and lightest on local storage (obviously because the "library" is already built) especially when you have a household of streamers. You have all the content centralized on your NAS already. It's silly for streaming box to build the library and re-download the content each time from the Internet (especially if your like me as a perpetual media player tinkerer).
Edit: For clarity, I mean a "Library manager." Look on the Kodi wiki for links to various clients on your preferred OS.

t3ch42 said:
An easy way to check where files are taking up space is to use the "sdcard analyze" function in esfile explorer. Its under the tools section. Also, with esfile explorer, you can push files from your phone to the firetv pretty easy too. Select whatever file you want to send on your phone, under options choose send, and make sure esfile explorer is open on the firetv too. The firetv prompts you for where you want to save the file.
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Good to know this. Are there any other setup steps required to be able to do this? Or do you just have es file explorer installed and opened on both phone and FTV?

RuKuS4Life said:
Good to know this. Are there any other setup steps required to be able to do this? Or do you just have es file explorer installed and opened on both phone and FTV?
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That's it. As long as the two are on the aame network, it should pick up the firetv as a target.
To clarify, on the phone, long click the file to send, and select send. The firetv ip adress will show up and allow you to send the file. When the prompt shows up on the firetv(provided that esfile explorer is the active and open app), accept the transfer and select tge location to store the transferred file.

t3ch42 said:
That's it. As long as the two are on the aame network, it should pick up the firetv as a target.
To clarify, on the phone, long click the file to send, and select send. The firetv ip adress will show up and allow you to send the file. When the prompt shows up on the firetv(provided that esfile explorer is the active and open app), accept the transfer and select tge location to store the transferred file.
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I got sdmaid. It recovered about 1.5gb. Get the pro version from google play.

How to clean up space?

Hi guys,
I've had some failed attempts at installing Kodi via adbFire, and through the process, I noticed the space on my AFTV decreased after every failed attempt. I've finally been able to install Kodi successfully, but I would like to get back that 400MB or so of space that I lost. Are there any apps that I should know about that makes this process easy? Thanks all!

tektronik said:
Hi guys,
I've had some failed attempts at installing Kodi via adbFire, and through the process, I noticed the space on my AFTV decreased after every failed attempt. I've finally been able to install Kodi successfully, but I would like to get back that 400MB or so of space that I lost. Are there any apps that I should know about that makes this process easy? Thanks all!
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That's odd that it failed yet data obviously something made its way there...I have es file explorer but you could use anything file manager I think. Go to sd card/android/data then see if there's more than 1 xbmc/kodi folders. Maybe you tried installing helix 14.0 and Gotham? But it shouldn't add up to 400mb I don't think???
There are many file cleaning programs. I use sd maid pro but you can find some free apks on playstore.

I use a combo of DU Speed Booster and SD Maid Pro. Together they seem to work the best. I do a cleaning with DU Speed Booster then follow with a cleaning of SD Maid Pro. For some reason they both do not clean the same stuff so regardless of which one I use first, there is still things that are left that can be cleaned by the other app. I always liked SD Maid Pro the best, til I used DU Speed Booster, and in my opinion DU Speed Booster is by bar the best cleaning tool for android.

I use a file manager app to maintain my space and be able to navigate through all my folders, etc. etc. FX File Explorer is awesome for this task. The app does not work with the remote, so you will need to attach a mouse to your Fire TV. Once you sideload and install the app, run it and click on Cleaning Tools. It will then show you what folders are using up most of the storage and its percentage. You can then navigate accordingly and delete what you need. I'm rooted so I do not remember if you also need to be rooted in order to use the cleaning feature. I will include both, the FX.apk and the root permissions apk just in case.
I took screen shots of my Fire TV storage so that you can see how it works. At the moment 98% of my storage being used is located in the Android folder of my /sdcard. If you go into the sub-folders, then you find out that the XBMC folder is using of that storage. Dig in deeper and then you see that the addons and userdata folders of XBMC are the ones using up that storage. (This is normal though)
Here are both links I mentioned above:
If memory serves me right, I'm almost positive you will need to install both. (You will need to be rooted for the 2nd apk)
FX.apk
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u17hn8v5s4ceq1q/FX-root.apk?dl=0
FX-root.apk
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u17hn8v5s4ceq1q/FX-root.apk?dl=0

OP3 Open Beta - Storage space taken by invisible files

Hey guys,
Since a few months I've got the issue that the storage space on my phone is taken up by a lot of (or very big) files which I cannot see. Today my phone was full so I deleted all my offline music which gave me like 20GB back, but there's still only 23GB of free space left.
When I go to 'Internal shared storage' the thing that takes up most space is 'Other' which takes up 21.64GB. When I browse all files on my phone through a file explorer, I cannot find anything that could take up more than 21GB. I can't find anything when connected to my laptop either.
I was hoping that it was a bug I read about a long time ago, where a reboot would fix it. But nope.. Rebooting didn't fix anything.
I've got the feeling that my music was copied to my phone more than once, but I have no way of finding out?
Does anybody here know how to fix this by any chance?

Install Es explorer,Run Space analyzer,go to All files section.
You can probably find the missing spaces or who ate them.

Check out dcim/.thumbnails.

MarcTremonti said:
Check out dcim/.thumbnails.
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Nope, only a few relatively small thumbnails.
Jongla said:
Install Es explorer,Run Space analyzer,go to All files section.
You can probably find the missing spaces or who ate them.
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That helped! Somehow I couldn't see the TWRP backups through regular file explorer but ES File Manager showed me those files. Got some space back!!

Search & Download : Secure Eraser. It will help to clear unnecessary hidden storage without deleting your personal files
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Use TWRP?
TWRP > restore > select backup -> delete backup