My rooted Fire TV has over 2 gigs of space that I can't retrieve. I was using the swap internal storage to an SSD drive, but when I reverted back to internal storage I have not been able to recover the lost space. It always shows up as around 1.5 gigs. I even tried rbox's suggestion to format data and format cache. I even installed rbox's boot menu factory reset in CWM recovery and upgraded to pre-rooted 51.1.4.1_user_514013920 and still it only shows 1.5 gigs of internal storage. What could I be missing? I have formated data and cache multiple times. This is driving me crazy because I can't see what is causing the lost space and nothing I have tried will restore it. I have searched the forums and tried several suggestions but nothing has worked.
any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
dk1keith said:
My rooted Fire TV has over 2 gigs of space that I can't retrieve. I was using the swap internal storage to an SSD drive, but when I reverted back to internal storage I have not been able to recover the lost space. It always shows up as around 1.5 gigs. I even tried rbox's suggestion to format data and format cache. I even installed rbox's boot menu factory reset in CWM recovery and upgraded to pre-rooted 51.1.4.1_user_514013920 and still it only shows 1.5 gigs of internal storage. What could I be missing? I have formated data and cache multiple times. This is driving me crazy because I can't see what is causing the lost space and nothing I have tried will restore it. I have searched the forums and tried several suggestions but nothing has worked.
any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
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check all of /sdcard/ also no extra data_firetv dir left from the swap?
check with a file manager that can search for files exceeding specific sizes and count the space of folders?
just a few suggestions, i'm sure you tried the first one but just in case.
realtuxen said:
check all of /sdcard/ also no extra data_firetv dir left from the swap?
check with a file manager that can search for files exceeding specific sizes or count the space of folders?
just a few suggestions, i'm sure you tried the first one but just in case.
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Thanks for suggestions. Yeah I have been looking through file system using ES File Explorer and Root Browser. Extra data_firetv dir havent seen that. Where would that be? in SDCARD or Storage? Is that an actual folder? Using ES File Explorer I even enabled show hidden files to see if perhaps a folder was hidden.
thanks
right besides /data mounted at root you can't miss it, its used for the swap i think it will get left over if one does not revert before flashing a upgrade, containing the stuff that was on the fire tv before the swap.
realtuxen said:
right besides /data mounted at root you can't miss it, its used for the swap i think it will get left over if one does not revert before flashing a upgrade, containing the stuff that was on the fire tv before the swap.
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Thanks again for your suggestions. I believe I found it. I had 2 CWM backups on the sdcard. I always back up to my external drive but for some reason had backed up twice on the internal space. Nothing I did touched those backups, even factory reset. Oh well. I have 3.8 gigs free so I'm not complaining.
thanks again
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Galaxy s3 T999 tmobile phone.
Liquid Smooth ROM. - Amazing rom btw. I cant thank those folks enough for their brilliant work
TWRP for recovery
Ive done numerous dalvic/system/cache/data wipes through twrp in preparation for new roms. But my INTERNAL 16 gb SD card always shows that i have around 12GB USED. thats with no personal apps installed
Heres my question. How do i remove all unnecessary data thats hogging up space. I want a CLEAN space to work with!
I do have 4 twrp recovery files (4gb worth of data?) stored in there. Im assuming the system uses about 3 gb's. plus the gapps and liquid rom are only 194 mb combined. So that accounts for maybe 7 or 8 gb
So how do i do a totally clean wipe without losing twrp, recovery files AND root!
the only wipe option ive never used is USB-OTG. (USB On The Go?) No idea what it is or what it does. so i never messed with it. Ive read that it acts like a driver of some sort to allow usb devices to communicate with each other..
Ive also never gone into the Format data section of twrp out of fear that i might wipe the wrong things and render my phone useless
One article i read said that i might have to revert back to stock? im hoping thats not so. And do a factory wipe. Is that different from TWRP's functions? Im assuming that i would lose root.
they said din flash to stock
Odin master clear (or wipe SD from settings)
*2767*3855# on the phones keypad ...(i think codes in general only work on stock TW)
Do i have to format the sd card? would i lose important partitions that would delete the recovery system?
any ideas? i considered opening a partition wizard app to see the different partions on the internal sd card.
I'm no expert on this, but I think that Liquid Smooth has a place in Settings to let you view the space allocation of the storage in your phone and external SD card.
Go to Settings > Storage (or something similar) and take a look at how much space is being allocated of each of the different types of data. It might give you a better idea on what might be taking up that additional ~4GB of space.
If you can, provide us with a screenshot of the Storage screen. If not, you can just type them here so we can better understand what might be going on.
Back up internal sdcard to your computer.
Wipe data/factory reset.
Wipe /data/media.
You can do this through TWRP. Won't lose anything except contents of your internal sdcard. Which is why you back it up first.
Don't forget the formatting of the filesystem does this. Just like windows a 100gig hard drive formats to a smaller amount.
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I've read everything I can about my issue and not sure what to do. I was no longer able to install apps because internal storage reported it was full. I went through all the normal "fixes" that I read about here and then gave up and did a factory reset. Now my phone reports:
Internal Memory:
Total space: 9.62 GB
Available space 1.01 GB
What are my options?
Thanks, Maren
re: free space
mgk said:
I've read everything I can about my issue and not sure what to do. I was no longer able to install apps because internal storage reported it was full. I went through all the normal "fixes" that I read about here and then gave up and did a factory reset. Now my phone reports:
Internal Memory:
Total space: 9.62 GB
Available space 1.01 GB
What are my options?
Thanks, Maren
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Most likely you have some nandroid backups in your internal storage/memory taking up all that space.
Use a file manager and find a CWM and or TWRP folder, inside those folders you will see nandroid
backups which you have made at one time or another. When you find the backups, just copy it to your
computer if you want to keep them or you can simply delete them .........
Good luck!
Download My Drives from the playstore, it will show you all the big files on your phone....and you can delete them
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Most likely you have some nandroid backups in your internal storage/memory taking up all that space.
Use a file manager and find a CWM and or TWRP folder, inside those folders you will see nandroid
backups which you have made at one time or another. When you find the backups, just copy it to your
computer if you want to keep them or you can simply delete them .........
Good luck!
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(system root)/data/media/clockworkmod is where CWM backups are stored
(internal storage)/TWRP is where the TWRP backups would be.
Misterjunky said:
Most likely you have some nandroid backups in your internal storage/memory taking up all that space.
Use a file manager and find a CWM and or TWRP folder, inside those folders you will see nandroid
backups which you have made at one time or another. When you find the backups, just copy it to your
computer if you want to keep them or you can simply delete them .........
Good luck!
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Thanks for reply. I use TWRP and all those backups (5 right now) are on external card because that is what I choose. Incidentally I did try to restore to the earliest one of those backups and same issue with internal memory.
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Download My Drives from the playstore, it will show you all the big files on your phone....and you can delete them
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Is that the same as Device Storage Analyzer? (My Drives did not show up in playstore.) If so, it's helpful...thanks.
Shows 8.72 GB occupied with the biggest sized file was 501 MB. Next was 52.70 MB. I removed them but don't think all of these will add up to 7GB that's missing.
Yep. I use TWRP and I always choose external memory for backup. Checked anyway, and not there. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Thanks for reply. I use TWRP and all those backups (5 right now) are on external card because that is what I choose. Incidentally I did try to restore to the earliest one of those backups and same issue with internal memory.
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Yes it was ^.^ and glad to be of help. I think your datas were just jacked up lol
Though if all comes to fail, you just have to close your eyes and ODIn if you cannot find the source of the issue. What I did when i first got my GS4 and since than I have been keeping up with the storage and know when its acting funky lol
mgbotoe said:
Yes it was ^.^ and glad to be of help. I think your datas were just jacked up lol
Though if all comes to fail, you just have to close your eyes and ODIn if you cannot find the source of the issue. What I did when i first got my GS4 and since than I have been keeping up with the storage and know when its acting funky lol
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On the Odin note; being that you have your backups saved to your external SD, download time aside, you should be able to zip right through the stock restore and be back to whatever you're on with all 9GB storage like you'd never restored within 10-15 minutes. Just saying, don't be afraid of it. It's pretty quick, simple, and painless.
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On the Odin note; being that you have your backups saved to your external SD, download time aside, you should be able to zip right through the stock restore and be back to whatever you're on with all 9GB storage like you'd never restored within 10-15 minutes. Just saying, don't be afraid of it. It's pretty quick, simple, and painless.
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I used twrp to recovery back to stock from AOSP and now I am having issues with my apps downloading or saving. Any ideas?
Things I have tried:
Tried uninstalling/reinstall,
wiped the cache in the rom,
wipe the dalvik cache/CACHE in twrp
, and fixing permissions in twrp.
NO LUCK Any ideas besides reflashing the stock rom?
TO THREAD CREATOR: Sorry to jump in on your question and everything man. Don't mean to disrespect or nething.
I have had this problem since 4.4.2 after a restore. I checked in titanium backup and if I try to change the backup location to the internal card it will say that it is not writable. I do not know why but it will do this on stock touch wiz roms after a restore on 4.4.2 and up.
there is hope....
mremghz said:
I have had this problem since 4.4.2 after a restore. I checked in titanium backup and if I try to change the backup location to the internal card it will say that it is not writable. I do not know why but it will do this on stock touch wiz roms after a restore on 4.4.2 and up.
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I had this same problem and solved it using TWRP v2.8.3.0 Wipe/Format Data. I installed a NEW OS (not a backup file) and voila. :laugh: hope this helps.
shelat.
I performed a wipe via recovery today, and now my phone won't read the data within Internal Storage. The wipe DID NOT delete pictures and other media files, and the "storage" page in Settings still reports that 21.81 GB of space are occupied. However, I can't access my media files. If I navigate to the "emulated" folder using a file manager, it just says it's empty. Apps can't properly utilize my internal storage.
I know that the files and whatnot are still there for several reasons. One, like I said, my phone still reports over 21 GB being used. Two, if I go into my recovery as if I was to flash a .zip, I can explore my internal storage and all the files are still there. My ROM just cannot read them. I'm on stock rooted and debloated 5.0.2. Please help!
DrFeelgood246 said:
I performed a wipe via recovery today, and now my phone won't read the data within Internal Storage. The wipe DID NOT delete pictures and other media files, and the "storage" page in Settings still reports that 21.81 GB of space are occupied. However, I can't access my media files. If I navigate to the "emulated" folder using a file manager, it just says it's empty. Apps can't properly utilize my internal storage.
I know that the files and whatnot are still there for several reasons. One, like I said, my phone still reports over 21 GB being used. Two, if I go into my recovery as if I was to flash a .zip, I can explore my internal storage and all the files are still there. My ROM just cannot read them. I'm on stock rooted and debloated 5.0.2. Please help!
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Read and follow the two commands in the second post of my GPE thread...problem solved.
I have an old HTC One X running Android 5.1 (Pacrom), and TWRP recovery.
I think my dad screwed something up yesterday because the phone literally has NO internal storage. It doesn't exist. The phone just isn't registering the internal storage. I can install apps (due to that partitioning) but I can't take pictures, download files, etc.
I need to fix this within the next couple days, as my brother needs this phone.
What do I do? I'm not sure if ADB is working yet — but will that work with the lack of a storage folder?
In the TWRP File browser, there's no /storage or /sdcard but in the phone file browser, there is. It just can't be used. I can't mount storage either.
Any advice?
Maybe try formatting all partitions in TWRP?
If you haven't fixed yet.
dylankxs said:
I have an old HTC One X running Android 5.1 (Pacrom), and TWRP recovery.
I think my dad screwed something up yesterday because the phone literally has NO internal storage. It doesn't exist. The phone just isn't registering the internal storage. I can install apps (due to that partitioning) but I can't take pictures, download files, etc.
I need to fix this within the next couple days, as my brother needs this phone.
What do I do? I'm not sure if ADB is working yet — but will that work with the lack of a storage folder?
In the TWRP File browser, there's no /storage or /sdcard but in the phone file browser, there is. It just can't be used. I can't mount storage either.
Any advice?
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Is your phone new layout?
If not then format everything and you are good to go
when first time I flashed PE 12 rom, Twrp showed the internal storage after wiping and the storage was like 53GB after that I found Aosp 13 rom and wanna flash that to try, after booting into twrp the problem has started the internal storage shown 0mb and tried to format, successful but it only showing 48GB storage only not 53GB some part are missing and in the windows explorer it wont show up with MTP enabled and I tried to repair it showing some error while doing it system ext error, vendor error. I think the partition got some issue with it I dont know how to fix it. I flashed the rom using adb sideload only and that it also not worked properly for me, I lost some storage space in my internal storage now only 48gb available and can't able to flash properly, mount internal storage not working when connected to the computer now I can't able to fully wipe the interanl storage to flash the rom properly. Is there any way to fully format and repair to fix the partition error and to get the full max internal storage capacity.
Surenmof1 said:
when first time I flashed PE 12 rom, Twrp showed the internal storage after wiping and the storage was like 53GB after that I found Aosp 13 rom and wanna flash that to try, after booting into twrp the problem has started the internal storage shown 0mb and tried to format, successful but it only showing 48GB storage only not 53GB some part are missing and in the windows explorer it wont show up with MTP enabled and I tried to repair it showing some error while doing it system ext error, vendor error. I think the partition got some issue with it I dont know how to fix it. I flashed the rom using adb sideload only and that it also not worked properly for me, I lost some storage space in my internal storage now only 48gb available and can't able to flash properly, mount internal storage not working when connected to the computer now I can't able to fully wipe the interanl storage to flash the rom properly. Is there any way to fully format and repair to fix the partition error and to get the full max internal storage capacity.
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Where does it show 0MB? In TWRP or the OS itself? If it's in TWRP, I think the problem is your storage is encrypted. So...it can't be read. Which is normal.
It shows the same on my G60. I wouldn't worry about it. I don't think there's anything wrong with your internal storage.
If you want, you can go to TWRP > Wipe > Advanced Wipe, select Internal Storage. You might need to reflash the ROM after that, so you can boot back into the OS.
Personally, I wouldn't mess with these options too much. If it's not a real problem, I wouldn't worry about it.
You can also try a "Repair or Change File System".
I don't know about the MTP thing... Sounds like a driver issue.
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Where does it show 0MB? In TWRP or the OS itself? If it's in TWRP, I think the problem is your storage is encrypted. So...it can't be read. Which is normal.
It shows the same on my G60. I wouldn't worry about it. I don't think there's anything wrong with your internal storage.
If you want, you can go to TWRP > Wipe > Advanced Wipe, select Internal Storage. You might need to reflash the ROM after that, so you can boot back into the OS.
Personally, I wouldn't mess with these options too much. If it's not a real problem, I wouldn't worry about it.
You can also try a "Repair or Change File System".
I don't know about the MTP thing... Sounds like a driver issue.
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in Twrp 0MB,
My internal storage is now only 48gb free after wiping everything was there more like 53gb something I remember.
MTP is media transfer portability to PC didn't work while in Twrp, was working before not now ,
I have tried repair, file system change.
I just wanna know one thing that how much free space left in the 64gb variant after wiping everything in the internal storage.
Surenmof1 said:
in Twrp 0MB,
My internal storage is now only 48gb free after wiping everything was there more like 53gb something I remember.
MTP is media transfer portability to PC didn't work while in Twrp, was working before not now ,
I have tried repair, file system change.
I just wanna know one thing that how much free space left in the 64gb variant after wiping everything in the internal storage.
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I don't know man... Some ROMs can take more space than others, which means you will have less space available for you. But I'm not sure I understand where you're getting that information from. Where is that displayed.
Also, I don't know about using MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) from Recovery. If you know it used to work before...then I don't know. I never tried it from Recovery.
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I don't know man... Some ROMs can take more space than others, which means you will have less space available for you. But I'm not sure I understand where you're getting that information from. Where is that displayed.
Also, I don't know about using MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) from Recovery. If you know it used to work before...then I don't know. I never tried it from Recovery.
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If can tell me how much space left after wiping everything in twrp on a 64gb storage device
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If can tell me how much space left after wiping everything in twrp on a 64gb storage device
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I can't. I don't have one... But maybe someone else with the same device can confirm.