Has anyone on EVO come across this problem. I keep getting low disk space on my EVO. I uninstall apps to get more internal space, but then it drops again. On Friday I had approx 48mb of internal storage, then by 4:00pm I had 323 kb. I uninstalled a bunch of apps and now I am back at around 48mb.
I went into sd and storage to monitor my space. I also went into menu settings/ applications to see what was taking up the space. By chance I noticed that my Mail icon in the morning was at about 75mb and when I checked it that afternoon it was at 111mb. I called sprint tech support and we deleted/ then added my email accounts again to see if that would clear up space. We also set the max amount of space for msgs to 25 kb. text only. This seems to be working, but still under my mail settings under applications, the MAIL still shows using up about 95mb of storage.
Sprint tech support states that that is really high, but for some reason it is not something that can be erased. Of course I can always do a wipe, but that is always as a last resort. Just trying to gain back some of that precious internal storage.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
In the few years I spent supporting mobile phones for companies low internal storage space was almost always caused by pictures, mp3s, and movies.
So how much of that do you have on your phone?
deathsled said:
In the few years I spent supporting mobile phones for companies low internal storage space was almost always caused by pictures, mp3s, and movies.
So how much of that do you have on your phone?
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The EVO saves that kind of media to the SD card.
OP, what ROM are you running?
I know that apps like streamfurious will cache its content and store it to the phones memory. It can Max you out in a matter of hours. Do you use streaming apps?
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I know that apps like streamfurious will cache its content and store it to the phones memory. It can Max you out in a matter of hours. Do you use streaming apps?
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A misbehaving app is probably the culprit. I'd really recommend Cachemate in the market. There's a chance that one run of that may solve your problem.
Also, if OP is running CyanogenMod w/ Turbo that'll occupy a good amount of internal memory as well.
I use Xiia Live llite. Usually in the evening. . I'll check that out and see if it shows how much is cached.
Thanks
I'll check it out. thanks. Ok it cleared about 3mb.
My mail icon still shows 99 mb of data. If you go menu, settings,applications, manage applications, It brings up everything that you have installed. You can list them by size. The Mail icon HTC, is the one taking up all the space. is there any way to eliminate it? I am running rooted 2.1. I will probably OTA to 2.2 tonight and unrevoke 3.21. Don't know if this will help.
Thanks
I'm running into low storage also.... I have alot of apps but have moved most to sd card that I can... Anymore tips to get storage back?
Im running a stock hox with the latest update. Before the last update I had the problem I was hopeing that after this new update it would change but unfortunate itdoesn't.
I have about 12 pages of apps. I spend at least 3 hours a day avarage on this phone if not more. Love the device best phone I had so far but. When I was on vacation last may. I got the issue where my sdcard was gone. So I called HTC and they told me to reboot using that 3 second hard reboot p whatever its called. It did the trick and thusfar I have used this phone quite a lot. But since about 2 months I had the problem that after installing a minor update I had to reboot. After reboot my apps were gone. I lost 70% of my downloaded apps. After searching in a couple of settings I found that if I openend settings where you can copy apps to you and such to make room. I make this app scan for apps to move or remove. And I close it. After that the apps show. After the last update still nothing changed. Other then that I now get issues with my memory to. I can't even move a app that's 6megs big to my sd card even though the diskusage app shows about 10gigs free. Here comes another weird part in the disk usage part of settings its shows even 14 gigs free but that's not correct either. Since I get these problems to. I'm was hopeing to find a solution.
So my main concern. How come after reboot I lose all my apps.
Hope somebody can make any sense I do had to add I tried finding a solution but i couldn't find anything usefull. or anything about this for that matter thanks in advance for any help.
P.s. I seem to have ended up in general instead of q&a could a mod maybe put this post in the right place. Thanks!
Similar problem is also encountered, in which all applications in sdcard are disappeared after rebooting.
Require 1 or more times of reboot to solve it.
Need a permanent solution to this problem as well.
Hi all, I'm new around here and Have done some research but I'm getting a little lost. Maybe you all can help...
First off let me say I have a alcatel ideal 4060a that is for my teenage son.. I know it's cheap phone and older but they got to start somewhere. I'm here because this phone has a HUGE memory leak in the OS (5.1.1) and it fills up the internal memory and slowly makes the phone unusable. I've reset the thing, looked for updates and even looked for old patches but nothing has worked. At this point I'm thinking it needs to be rooted and flashed with a different android but what do you think? what would you all suggest? Is there anyone out there that can pull It all together into one place? Also what rom would you recommend? I would be most grateful for any assistance and thank you in advance.
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Hi all, I'm new around here and Have done some research but I'm getting a little lost. Maybe you all can help...
First off let me say I have a alcatel ideal 4060a that is for my teenage son.. I know it's cheap phone and older but they got to sdtart somewhere. I'm here because this phone has a HUGE memory leak in the OS (5.1.1) and it fills up the internal memory and slowly makes the phone unusable. I've reset the thing, looked for updates and even looked for old patches but nothing has worked. At this point I'm thinking it needs to be rooted and flashed with a different android but what do you think? what would you all suggest? Is there anyone out there that can pull It all together into one place? Also what rom would you recommend? I would be most grateful for any assistance and thank you in advance.
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The 4060a Alcatel IDEAL only appears to have a "memory leak" in the OS. In a nutshell, internal storage is only about 4GB useable out of its 8GB eMMC. Once you install a handful of apps, available storage begins to dwindle away quickly due to the accumulation of app data and app cache junk. Unfortunately, other than adding an external micro SD card for extra storage space, there isn't much you can do to remedy this. One helpful remedy is to go to Settings>Apps and select DISABLE on any app that you have no intent on using. While disabling isn't the same as uninstalling, it will make unused apps dormant abd unable to accumulate app data and cache junk.
Hi XDA,
First time posting so sorry if I'm missing anything.
I have had my OP 9PRO since this summer and have absolutely loved it so far however some time ago I had some problems with updating the phone as it appeared that update would never download. But after that, recently my phone just informed me that the phone is basically full which I'm suprised by as i do have a lot of photos on there, but no movies or anything anymore.
Is it possible that the updates actually HAVE downloaded and are chilling somewhere taking up space in a folder I cant easily see?
My phone is rooted so if i downloaded that update 10X, its about 30GB extra of storage probably.
Attached are 2 screenshots, 1 of the storage overview and 1 of the app storage overview as it says there's about 55 Gigs in there.
Thank you guys in advance!
I'm attempting to bump this topic, maybe someone can help me with this
1. Screenshot, shows how much a app (cache and data) use.
2. Screenshot, how much space is occupied.
I cant see any bug. 119 of 128GB is correct. If i calculate right, u are using 118.66GB
The app is old, but it works without any problem: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/ivan-volosyuk/diskusage/diskusage-4-0-2-release/
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1. Screenshot, shows how much a app (cache and data) use.
2. Screenshot, how much space is occupied.
I cant see any bug. 119 of 128GB is correct. If i calculate right, u are using 118.66GB
The app is old, but it works without any problem: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/ivan-volosyuk/diskusage/diskusage-4-0-2-release/
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Hi Rhein,
Thanks for your reply. this is the result from that app. As you can see, its simply the "media storage "app"" using all the 30GB of space that I am "missing". Would you know what could be causing it?
Thanks so much
I quote Joeeye from the Samsung forum, where someone else had the same question about "media storage"
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Media storage will just be a system app which monitors and reports all media data on your phone, ie camera video and photos, music, movies etc. You can't wipe it as it's an in built system app which isn't really taking much space. The 70GB I assume is an amalgamation of all your media files on the device.
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Media Storage consumes a lot of data
Hi, I realized that a Media Storage app consumes a lot of data - almost 70GB! I have no idea, what exactly it is. I googled and it should be some new system how to work with storage for applications but... which is inside, which application uses it so much and how can I reduce the amount of...
eu.community.samsung.com
or here
OnePlus Community
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I also found this:
The OnePlus Media Storage app is taking up too much damn storage, and no one knows why
Gobbling up over 100 GB on some people's phones
www.androidpolice.com
OnePlus 9 Pro 128GB, also storage problems.
I've read multiple topics about this issue and the only thing that works temporarily is to completely reset the phone to factory settings (wipe all data).
Tried the following things:
- Clear recently deleted files from gallery (not much there since update)
- Wipe Cache
- Wipe Data (full reset)
See attached screen shot of my system storage taking up too much space. I'm not feeling like wiping my phone every couple of months...
Any ideas to solve this bug?
Florissilfhout said:
OnePlus 9 Pro 128GB, also storage problems.
I've read multiple topics about this issue and the only thing that works temporarily is to completely reset the phone to factory settings (wipe all data).
Tried the following things:
- Clear recently deleted files from gallery (not much there since update)
- Wipe Cache
- Wipe Data (full reset)
See attached screen shot of my system storage taking up too much space. I'm not feeling like wiping my phone every couple of months...
Any ideas to solve this bug?
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Other people had this happen a long time ago they fixed it by using the msm tool
It will wipe your data you have so backup first
I used the MSM Tool and went completely back to stock. System storage (after restoring backup) is now on 8,8 GB. I will have to see if it stays there... Thanks for the suggestion.
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Addition, I went to 11.2.4.4 from MSM, to 11.2.10.10 through OTA.
Is there any other solution except of using MSM Tool ? I just did factory reset recently, I'm not willing to do that again...
Thank you.
BTw, not good...
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/...f-storage-how-do-i-solve-these-issue.1518111/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/system-storage-issue.1533556/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/system-storage-issue.1509797/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/...how-188gb-any-solution-to-restore-it.1482320/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/storage-capacity-easily-getting-full.1474036/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/system-using-31-gb-space.1534439/
Yeah I found those topics as well.
In the meantime, my system storage has increased to 11GB (which would be within normal operating limits).
May I ask you how you have performed backup and restore? I don't believe there is some hassle free solotion...
I went old school:
Hooked my phone up to my computer with USB cable and file transfer; copied the folders Downloads, DCIM, and some other folder I thought important (Telegram for instance). For WhatsApp I created a backup from within the app to Google Drive. For phone settings I used the Backup&Restore function from Settings - System - Backup.
Oh and maybe make screenshots of your Home Screen pages, so you know which app (shortcut) you had where.
So no hassle free solution unfortunately.
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I went old school:
Hooked my phone up to my computer with USB cable and file transfer; copied the folders Downloads, DCIM, and some other folder I thought important (Telegram for instance). For WhatsApp I created a backup from within the app to Google Drive. For phone settings I used the Backup&Restore function from Settings - System - Backup.
Oh and maybe make screenshots of your Home Screen pages, so you know which app (shortcut) you had where.
So no hassle free solution unfortunately.
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Is it fixed after the reset? Currently i have 60GB++ system
I did the same thing and it did fix it, i can recommend doing it.
I feel as if it's still increasing slightly, but less after the last update. I think 17GB for system is quite a lot, especially when there's also 17GB for 'other'?
I was just thinking the other day that I should perform the reset once more on this firmware version but you know... it takes time and effort.
You could try running SDMaid with root permissions and see if that clears things up.
I don't have it rooted anymore, just in case that was the issue. So that won't work for me unfortunately.
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I feel as if it's still increasing slightly, but less after the last update. I think 17GB for system is quite a lot, especially when there's also 17GB for 'other'?
I was just thinking the other day that I should perform the reset once more on this firmware version but you know... it takes time and effort.
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So this is weird... Just checked the size again and it has dropped down to 1,61GB!
Haven't done anything special. Rebooted the phone approximately 38 hours ago, nothing else.
linus tech tips uploaded a video about it.