I have a AFTV2 and I keep getting the storage is low message and I have a nagging feeling that there are some left over files on my Fire TV from before, I did my last factory reset. I used to have a rooted ROM on my Fire TV but have been using official updates for the past few months. What would be the best way to either clear junk from my Fire TV or give it a proper reset?
You need to sideload or get a file manager from the app store and go through the file system... Mainly "elumated>0>downloads. And remove all that remains. Also go through the app manager and clear cache from everything you think would cause storage issues.
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Being an aftv2, you also need to use the available usb to expand non-app storage.
Did a factory reset from both the menu and recovery. I'm back in ES File Explorer and in being told that I have 5.59 GB of user storage with 1.69 GB already used . That's about 3.9 GB left. Only apps installed so far are, Netflix, Pluto TV, YouTube and ES File Explorer. Does this sound about right or is there something odd going on with that 1.69 GB of storage already used?
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I just ran the Darkside script and reinstalled Jug 4.1 from scratch, but I want all the files from my internal sd card gone... I want to make it like it was when I first got the phone and turned it on. Do I just manually delete all the files or how do I format it? Thanks!
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if you do that so of the pre install app's will or might stop working. i would see what it connects to or ask if that would be OK to uninstall , what files are you wanting to delete
don728871 said:
if you do that so of the pre install app's will or might stop working. i would see what it connects to or ask if that would be OK to uninstall , what files are you wanting to delete
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Basically I want only the files that are installed and needed by the OS by default
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To format the internal sd card, go into CWM recovery and go to mounts/storage. go to format emmc. I don't recommend it but you can do it
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it will automaticly make files needed for OS in internal sd after you format this. Hoped this helped
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don728871 said:
if you do that so of the pre install app's will or might stop working. i would see what it connects to or ask if that would be OK to uninstall , what files are you wanting to delete
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This information is incorrect, the pre-installed apps will remake those files if you open them and operate them.
CyanModICS said:
To format the internal sd card, go into CWM recovery and go to mounts/storage. go to format emmc. I don't recommend it but you can do it
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it will automaticly make files needed for OS in internal sd after you format this. Hoped this helped
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Perfect that's exactly what I needed
Our Kindle Fire is mainly used by my 7-year old (since the rest of us have Android phones) which is synced up to my Amazon account, different from my Google account on phone. Since he is the main user and only computer in house is a Mac, I have been hesitant to root (like my phone is)
There are a few paid apps that I have purchased on Google that I would like to put on my Fire without re-purchasing them again through Amazon.
Is this possible without root or installing Google market and framework?
NOTE: This question is not meant to be a way to install hacked paid apps for free! I appreciate the creative things that developers come up with and have donated much more than asked for certain things.
backup the app you wish to install on your phone and transfer the apk to your kindle check allow installation from unkown sources find the apk with a file manager after you have transfered it to the sdcard and simply just install it
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sideloading
That is what I was going to try, but didn't know if paid apps carried something like a user checker or not.
I just converted from stock to 10.1 8/12 and seem to have run into a little hiccup. Most things work well but for some reason the latest playstore version of swiftkey tablet isn't functioning well. Sometimes it will come up for a couple of characters and then close and not come back up. Others it won't come up at all. I've tried uninstalling it, reinstalling it, etc. but I can't seem to make it happy. I've got the same version of swiftkey running on my nook that's converted to cyanogenmod 10.1 and it runs without issue so it seems to be something specific to this device. The stock keyboard works but after using swiftkey for years it's a pretty crappy experience in comparison. The tablet is pretty much a stock 10.1 install so I'm not really sure where things could have gone off the rails.
Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Same problem here. Already opened a case with SwiftKey support. No solution yet.
Interesting, the trial version is working.
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I just checked the issue again and found the problem.
Logcat:
08-27 05:05:57.739 D/dalvikvm(12232): Trying to load lib /mnt/asec/com.touchtype.swiftkey.tablet.full-1/lib/libswiftkeysdk-java-internal.so 0x420aaa28
08-27 05:05:57.840 F/libc (12232): Fatal signal 4 (SIGILL) at 0x5df73b46 (code=1), thread 12232 (key.tablet.full)
Interesting. Looks like the Swiftkey is getting installed on sdcard. The trial version is getting installed on /data/app and is working.
Now I just moved the app to /data/app by backup/restore within Titanium backup.
Now its working.
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On my Note the phone version is installed on /mnt/asec too but its working.
Difference in how asec is mounting:
fire cm 10.1:
/dev/block/dm-29 /mnt/asec/com.vito.lux-2 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1 0 0
note cm 10.1
/dev/block/dm-35 /mnt/asec/com.team17.ab-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,barrier=1 0 0
Don't know if it could be the missing user_xattr but I doubt it.
Other apps that have libs works on asec.
Okay, something looks wrong with the asec.
I just found another app that only works after moved to /data/app.
It is Osmos HD.
Could be other apps and games too. Games will often be installed on "sdcard".
As far as I understand, in this ROM we don't have a second internal storage like we have on the Note.
Because all is in one big storage we should not need this asec crap in the first place:
Fire
Code:
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/data 13G 11.3G 1.7G 4096
Note
Code:
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/data 2G 1.6G 368.4M 4096
The real question is, why get apps installed on this asec? As far as I know a app could request to be installed on external storage. When this android_secure feature first showed up, there was a option to force apps to get installed on the sdcard. But we can force it the other way too:
In a adb shell (as root):
pm get-install-location
This should show 0 which is auto.
pm set-install-location 1
This set package manager to force all apps to install on /data/.
Looks like this does not work. I tried to uninstall and reinstall Osmos HD from the Play Store and it still gets installed on asec. I'll post a info about this thread in the rom discussion thread, hope we get a solution for this.
Now whats with already installed apps?
On the Note we could manually move the app back to the internal storage within settings / apps.
This does not work on the Kindle because there is no "sdcard" storage in the first place. So it does not show the buttons. I tried two App2SD Apps from the Play Store, they did not work because they find no "sdcard" too.
For now the best way I found is to look into /mnt/asec and manually backup / restore the app (no uninstall needed and you can restore only the app) inside Titanium Backup. This will move it to the internal storage.
I've attached the logcats of the two apps crashing when started from asec.
Not all the apps that where installed on /mnt/asec had this issue but I found more, mostly games:
Worms 2
Perry
Getaway
Tiny Thief
Sonic 1 & 4
I'll check games I tried before that wasn't working.
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With this trick now Asphalt 8 is working too!
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NFS most wanted works too. Now that's a game tablet.
That was it, you nailed it!
Thanks so much for the help. The native keyboard was driving me crazy but I had no idea what the root issue was. A simple backup and restore with titanium backup fixed the problem completely. I wasn't sure if I would need to explicitly indicate the destination but it figured it out.
Do you think this is something that is a compatibility issue with the app combined with the Roman or an issue with the Rom itself that might get resolved?
brotbuexe said:
Okay, something looks wrong with the asec.
I just found another app that only works after moved to /data/app.
It is Osmos HD.
Could be other apps and games too. Games will often be installed on "sdcard".
As far as I understand, in this ROM we don't have a second internal storage like we have on the Note.
Because all is in one big storage we should not need this asec crap in the first place:
Fire
Code:
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/data 13G 11.3G 1.7G 4096
Note
Code:
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/data 2G 1.6G 368.4M 4096
The real question is, why get apps installed on this asec? As far as I know a app could request to be installed on external storage. When this android_secure feature first showed up, there was a option to force apps to get installed on the sdcard. But we can force it the other way too:
In a adb shell (as root):
pm get-install-location
This should show 0 which is auto.
pm set-install-location 1
This set package manager to force all apps to install on /data/.
Looks like this does not work. I tried to uninstall and reinstall Osmos HD from the Play Store and it still gets installed on asec. I'll post a info about this thread in the rom discussion thread, hope we get a solution for this.
Now whats with already installed apps?
On the Note we could manually move the app back to the internal storage within settings / apps.
This does not work on the Kindle because there is no "sdcard" storage in the first place. So it does not show the buttons. I tried two App2SD Apps from the Play Store, they did not work because they find no "sdcard" too.
For now the best way I found is to look into /mnt/asec and manually backup / restore the app (no uninstall needed and you can restore only the app) inside Titanium Backup. This will move it to the internal storage.
I've attached the logcats of the two apps crashing when started from asec.
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Sorry rom not Roman, I got a little too SwiftKey happy there.
gizmotn76 said:
That was it, you nailed it!
Thanks so much for the help. The native keyboard was driving me crazy but I had no idea what the root issue was. A simple backup and restore with titanium backup fixed the problem completely. I wasn't sure if I would need to explicitly indicate the destination but it figured it out.
Do you think this is something that is a compatibility issue with the app combined with the Roman or an issue with the Rom itself that might get resolved?
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It only affects some apps installed in /mnt/asec, not all.
You can get the package names from the directory names inside /mnt/asec.
With Titaniumbackup you can search with the package name for the Application Display Name.
Then you could just run the app/game and check if it closes itself.
Then try to backup/restore app only and rund the app again.
I had around 20 apps/games in /mnt/asec. Only some games where affected by this issue and didn't start.
Because /mnt/asec is useless for this ROM I moved alle the packages to /data/.
For now when a app is updated from playstore, the updated app is installed in /mnt/asec again...
All games I tried where working after I moved them to /data. Don't know if there is still a game that would not work on the kindle because of some gpu / driver issues (aside of games for special chipsets).
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.
Sent from my SM-G900T using Tapatalk
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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
Hey guys. I'm very familiar with android and it's processes but I have stumbled onto something that I cannot solve... My Internal SD Card has somehow made it self write-protected.... even to my PC! I can't save anything to my internal SD card at all. All camera apps, with the exception of the stock samsung camera set to ext-sd store mode works. If the other camera apps don't have that option, I can't use it. I can't download anything from the web (it will automatically say download unsuccessful and even ODIN can't touch it (I tried to ODIN back to stock NK3... and it partially worked... except that I still have all my downloaded apps installed)
Here's what happened.
The problem started when I was on DomPop v0.1.3 (5.0.2) It started with me not being able to take a screenshot, which I fixed.
Then I flashed PAC-Man RLS 3 (12312014) and that's when I noticed that I can't save any downloads to my internal SD card.
So I recovered to my saved rooted stock NB1... Still no avail and this is where I found out that my 3rd party cameras don't save anymore.
I've done everything from flashng a new ROM, flashing a new recovery, ODINing back to stock... nothing seems to work! And I'm slowly starting to lose space on my ext-sd soo any help would be appreciated by this chic. Thanks in Advance
PS
As of the time I wrote this, I have ODINed 3x now... still, every time I reboot, I still have my downloaded apps... it's as if my /data partition is write protected from ODIN too!
This happened to my SM-N900T when I installed a custom Recovery which contained the wrong '/sepolicy_version' for my device. The Recovery developer fixed the file but I had to format '/data' after installing it to get files with the correct policy.
Frank
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In your root directory, '/se_policy' should look like this, but notice that this is Android 4.3:
VE=SEPF_SM-N900T_4.3_0002
HS=7708d6f9dfc68813c4dddb915812c67b
HA=7136aebc8fc8205ec9adde19ca84e501
HP=0ef457e4c9cbf00b9100f4872e3f7d50
HF=852e176fdcb7a45fc1617bd4e93c2bf9
HM=7bd39dbe5813e94be374bee74d87bf0c
If it shows the wrong device then you can probably fix it by flashing the correct TWRP. And you will probably have to format '/data'.
Frank
Frank Westlake said:
This happened to my SM-N900T when I installed a custom Recovery which contained the wrong '/sepolicy_version' for my device. The Recovery developer fixed the file but I had to format '/data' after installing it to get files with the correct policy.
Frank
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In your root directory, '/se_policy' should look like this, but notice that this is Android 4.3:
VE=SEPF_SM-N900T_4.3_0002
HS=7708d6f9dfc68813c4dddb915812c67b
HA=7136aebc8fc8205ec9adde19ca84e501
HP=0ef457e4c9cbf00b9100f4872e3f7d50
HF=852e176fdcb7a45fc1617bd4e93c2bf9
HM=7bd39dbe5813e94be374bee74d87bf0c
If it shows the wrong device then you can probably fix it by flashing the correct TWRP. And you will probably have to format '/data'.
Frank
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Huh... I now I remember... I was on TWRP when the problems started... I'm on Philz now and I still have it. Would this fix the write protected internal SD card issue too?
Try this ---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2684384
meoshe said:
Try this ---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2684384
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That looks like the same problem and a much simpler solution, but make sure you have a good policy file first.
Frank
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Up above I use two filenames, '/sepolicy_version' is the correct name of the file. In my case TWRP had the wrong '/sepolicy_version' until the developer fixed it. I still recommend installing the most recent TWRP to get all the right files -- make sure it's the right version (4.3 or 4.4) -- then run restorecon. Then after the fix, return to Philz if you want.
Frank
Did your phone die @deBricker or did this solve the problem? Other people might be waiting with the same problem.
Frank
No. Had to go in recovery and wipe my internal memory (lost everything since I was stupid enough not to make an updated backup... my last one was a month ago) after that, it's been smooth sailing.
I didn't even see that post until today.