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Removing temp files

not sure what app out them there but they reside on the top level of my sd card and I would like to clean out my sd card. Is there a way to find what is what?
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babystewie said:
not sure what app out them there but they reside on the top level of my sd card and I would like to clean out my sd card. Is there a way to find what is what?
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Can you give more detail of why you have this need and what findings brought this up to you?
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I have a similar question about the files that read:
diskcacheindex XXXXX

elrey75 said:
I have a similar question about the files that read:
diskcacheindex XXXXX
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I believe the diskcacheindex files can just be erased. Do you have journaling on by any chance?
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No, I'm unrooted EC05
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elrey75 said:
No, I'm unrooted EC05
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Anything cache-related is used to avoid buffering during real-time program execution. I know, a bunch of gibberish. But a great example is Gallery. By building a cache of the pictures, it can provide more instant thumbnails, rather than re-scanning and generating them each time the app is launched.
The simple answer is that virtually anything on the SD card can be manually deleted with any file explorer or through your computer. Cache files can manually be cleared for any app. But note, cache files will simply re-build each time apps are run.
If there's more you're asking about, feel free to elaborate.

Try sd maid. Its free in the market
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DropBox alternative!

It's called Minus. Website: http://min.us/
Use this link to register and you will earn extra 1GB storage. (it's not advert, i already have 50GB storage which is limit so i dont get anything back, it's just for you)
10 GB of Free Space
Unlimited Downloads & Transfer
Share Large Files up to 2 GB each
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Also they even have Android app on market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.minus.android
Might be pretty usefull for dev's mirroring ROM's.

The dropbox limits are pretty annoying.

Thanks, cant ever have enough free space to put things

rootSU said:
The dropbox limits are pretty annoying.
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Agreed. I'm waiting for proper SkyDrive app and I'm ditching Dropbox for good.

Terepin said:
Agreed. I'm waiting for proper SkyDrive app and I'm ditching Dropbox for good.
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Yeah its a shame as it works well but with a root tools thread I have, getting blocked twice per month. It's next to useless really
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Anyone found how to create a folders? I'm either stupid or blind but cannot find a way to do it.
And it's slowly getting a mess without proper files organization...

k3lcior said:
Anyone found how to create a folders? I'm either stupid or blind but cannot find a way to do it.
And it's slowly getting a mess without proper files organization...
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try dragging in a folder from the desktop
its strange - when i did it with an empty folder i got a folder and an empty file in the folder - deleted the file..
that's the only way i found to do it so far.
also when the top link is full (50GB i think is max?) feel free to use mine to give you and me an extra gb storage
edit: my account is maxed out

minus faster or Dropbox?
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Lothaen said:
try dragging in a folder from the desktop
its strange - when i did it with an empty folder i got a folder and an empty file in the folder - deleted the file..
that's the only way i found to do it so far.
also when the top link is full (50GB i think is max?) feel free to use mine to give you and me an extra gb storage http://min.us/rdiBKVs
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You get 50gb?? I used your link, started with 11gb.
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Phateless said:
You get 50gb?? I used your link, started with 11gb.
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i havent got 50GB - but you can get that much free I think from referrals - Android Police said they maxed theirs out a few days ago on Google+ and I am sure I read at 50GB.
you start with 10, 11 if you sign up from a referral.

Free 25gb here (skydrive)
http://www.appbrain.com/app/sorami-skydrive-beta/shoozhoo.sorami
easier mount as network drive on PC
http://www.gladinet.com/p/intro_microsoft_skydrive.aspx (trail works fine also suports other cloud storage)
Linux
http://skydrivesync.codeplex.com/
also when i registered my phone with dropbox they upgraded it to 5gb (for 12 months) just install the app on your phone after installing on PC
hope this helps...

Without (proper) Android app is SkyDrive useless. Microsoft is suppose to release official one, but I have no idea when.

maybe but it works well enough for me along with dropbox ofc

Terepin said:
Without (proper) Android app is SkyDrive useless. Microsoft is suppose to release official one, but I have no idea when.
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probably in time for Win8.
they are hyping it up for that I think

It should be out with WLE 5, but again, not sure when or if it will be in beta. Only time will tell.

k3lcior said:
Anyone found how to create a folders? I'm either stupid or blind but cannot find a way to do it.
And it's slowly getting a mess without proper files organization...
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looks like if you upload a file too, you click on it to open it there's a 'rename folder' option at the top left - so you upload a file it creates a folder automagically which you can then rename - and add more files to that folder

my account is maxed out
50GB storage space

Is it possible to move files between different folders?
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If someone want he's ref link in first post PM me, as my storage is full aswell (50gb)

So Is started using Minus and I must say the comfort of using it is nowhere near DropBox.

Terepin said:
So Is started using Minus and I must say the comfort of using it is nowhere near DropBox.
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How so?
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[Partial Solved] Note 2 reducing available space

Hi,
My note 2 has this weird problem. The available memory will gradually reduced without any reason until it reaches 0 and all the phone functions cannot be used including receiving calls.The phone is stock ROM with minimal app installed. It happened after a month of usage.Initially I tot it was some rogue app that causes the problem hence I did a full wipe, rooted with wanam lite ROM installed but the problem still persisted.
I factory reset without any app installed except for Whatsapp and Facebook but the available memory still reduces until 0 bytes without any reason. The phone only shows 2GB files while the rest vanished into thin air unless I factory reset again.
I have exhausted all troubleshooting methods including wiping cache and dalvik, factory reset, rooted and custom ROM installed.
I would like to see anyone has a solution with such issues. Thanks.
Update: Partially solved
farscope said:
found the culprit. it was cause by the dumpstate from the phone which consistently building up over time with 6MB per file. Once cleared all the file, the missing space will return.
No idea how to stop it thou, but at least I do not need to factory reset it every time now.
it's located within the root directory under data>log
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Re: Note 2 reducing available space
Possibly your miscellaneous files taking up space. These are all your synced pictures etc. Try to locate cloud agent via settings storage misc. See how much space its using?
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koalauk said:
Possibly your miscellaneous files taking up space. These are all your synced pictures etc. Try to locate cloud agent via settings storage misc. See how much space its using?
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But the file explorer and es file explorer are not able to analyze the internal storage properly.
That's why I'm not able to determine which misc files is building up over time. No cloud storage used.

Re: Note 2 reducing available space
Could be a virus. Do you have 4.1.1 or 4.1.2?
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UtkarshGupta said:
Could be a virus. Do you have 4.1.1 or 4.1.2?
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4.1.2.. I did a factory wipe before..

Re: Note 2 reducing available space
CREate a difeerwnt google account and use the phone with that acfount for a little while to see that makes a different. I am thinking something is installed without you knowing it. I can only assume culprit is with your google account and virud as mentioned before. Do you have a sd card inside ? If yes remove and tey diferewnt one. And rhe last thin comes to my mind is your internal srorage might be failing.
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Re: Note 2 reducing available space
download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage it will show you exactly what's eating up your space. its probably the thumbnails folder in /dcim ..if that's the case just delete the whole folder
don't forget the Thanks button
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lesalloum said:
download it will show you exactly what's eating up your space. its probably the thumbnails folder in /dcim ..if that's the case just delete the whole folder
don't forget the Thanks button
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But if the phone actually gives you a notification about low disk space then you can't install apps...

Re: Note 2 reducing available space
Nothing weird in settings> storage?
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lesalloum said:
Nothing weird in settings> storage?
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nope.. everything looks normal except for the missing available spaces..
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But if the phone actually gives you a notification about low disk space then you can't install apps...
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not only when install apps, even calling is disabled..

found the culprit. it was cause by the dumpstate from the phone which consistently building up over time with 6MB per file. Once cleared all the file, the missing space will return.
No idea how to stop it thou, but at least I do not need to factory reset it every time now.
it's located within the root directory under data>log

Had the same problem, I formatted the internal SD card and now I have a lot of free space!!
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FOUND A FIX
I was searching for the cause of space getting low day by day without any app installed n figured out it was logs under /data/log as u hv already found out.
I deleted all files in the folder n changed permissions n now no more log files.
FIX:
Remove "write" permission to the folder /data/log
Change it from rwxrwxr-x to r-xr-xr-x or r--r--r-- or ---------
I changed it to r-xr-xr-x
Report any unusual behavior after changing permissions.

In my case always this is the culprit. Always keepa on drinking storage and comes back after deleting.
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all those caused from /data partition and specific from /data/media
You can formata data/media from recovery(suggesting philz) and solve your problem.
Be aware that you will loose all user data

Partition issue

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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deltafire006 said:
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.

deltafire006 said:
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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same problem
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

fix read/write External SdCard whitout root

Iam a owner of a Samsung Note 4 ... Iam new born here... and my problem its I don't want to root ( on this time ) the cell....so I need to know if exist any way to : read and write a External SdCard.. because I cant do this...
please any ??

I don't understand why you can't. Lollipop allows it (you have to choose sd card directory for the app in question), at least on an app-by-app basis.
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keithfrombm said:
I don't understand why you can't. Lollipop allows it (you have to choose sd card directory for the app in question), at least on an app-by-app basis.
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Well for example the app called: e-sword.. that cant access or run if the modules its on a external SdCard..so I need to put all the modules in internal memory..
Atach my system and the nag screen of e-sword
But they are another apps like "Pixlr" its a photo editors and cant save in the ExtSdCard... I came from S4 and on that phone dont have any problems
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Oy. Sorry, I haven't even explored this dilemma, since I hadn't encountered it with any of my apps (yet). I tested out Pixlr, and you're right, it won't saved to the sd card (from the app). Not sure why. But I could still move the pictures with ES File Explorer or the built-in My Files. As for e-sword I can't find it in the English Play Store. So I couldn't test it out. Wish I could be of some help, but it'll take one of the smarter guys to field this question.
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This feature is available on lollipop but the app developer needs to implement it, most are using the old method of read/write which only works on 4.3 or earlier, if you can use an alternative until the app gets updated