Hi,
I'm just about to sell my XDA as I've now got myself a nice shiny new XDA II
Can anyone tell me how to remove my contacts that I had originally stored within permanent flash memory?
Cheers,
Neil.
go into the settings... then to the permint save bit untick both boxes the apointmens and contacts....
then go into your contacts highlight em all delete then soft reset it all done
element110 said:
Hi,
I'm just about to sell my XDA as I've now got myself a nice shiny new XDA II
Can anyone tell me how to remove my contacts that I had originally stored within permanent flash memory?
Cheers,
Neil.
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if I were you I would add one step ... I would have overwiritten that space 2 or 3 times with other and useless data - just to make sure no-one can un-erase your sensitive information
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monika
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hi i juz bought my X10 last week and i'm wondering where all the apps that i downloaded from market will save to? the phone itself has 1gb memory but when i check the "SD card & phone storage" > internal phone storage available space is only 366mb left.
are all the apps saved to my phone's memory how do i move it to SD card?
thanks for the help.
adanoob said:
hi i juz bought my X10 last week and i'm wondering where all the apps that i downloaded from market will save to?
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They download and install to the phone. If what you're asking is where does the original apk go you can find it in data/app
adanoob said:
are all the apps saved to my phone's memory how do i move it to SD card?
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You don't.
there is a forum on devlopment thread appto sd which might be of some help in case you wanna move ur contacts to sd card, personally i havent tried it coz i never used so many apps, but please refer it in case you want to move ur apps..
The apps all collect together in a little room inside your phone, which is full of thousands of the little green android guys, and the each take a little piece of the app, and then when you touch the screen, or press one of the buttons, they all run around with little torches shining them in the right spots to make what you see on the screen.
If you get a microscope, you can actually see them doing it.
But you've got to be really quiet, cos they're very timid, and they'll try to hide from you.
k1sr said:
But you've got to be really quiet, cos they're very timid, and they'll try to hide from you.
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If your phone has ever locked up, now you know why, you were being too noisy.
Hello everyone,
I am using galaxy sIII international version with android 4.1.2 installed.
There is a huge problem I am having with my contacts. My contacts storage file kept getting larger and larger, yesterday it got to 3gb and now when i look at contacts storage it shows it has a size of 5gb. All my phone memory is thus now full, and I don't have that many contacts.
I am not able to open contacts, however. I can not view any contacts when I connect my phone to my pc with Kies also. And while doing these I have been really patient for them to load, and no, they do not load. I have deleted facebook and haxsync thinking they may be filling it, but still, no change.
So now I have a contacts file that takes 5gb of space (it is stuck to that as it got my memory full) and can not be opened. It is as if my phone has a huge cancer.
Anyone, who can advise anything, I am desperate, waiting for your help. I just want to save my contacts that have a phone number.
Camekan said:
Hello everyone,
I am using galaxy sIII international version with android 4.1.2 installed.
There is a huge problem I am having with my contacts. My contacts storage file kept getting larger and larger, yesterday it got to 3gb and now when i look at contacts storage it shows it has a size of 5gb. All my phone memory is thus now full, and I don't have that many contacts.
I am not able to open contacts, however. I can not view any contacts when I connect my phone to my pc with Kies also. And while doing these I have been really patient for them to load, and no, they do not load. I have deleted facebook and haxsync thinking they may be filling it, but still, no change.
So now I have a contacts file that takes 5gb of space (it is stuck to that as it got my memory full) and can not be opened. It is as if my phone has a huge cancer.
Anyone, who can advise anything, I am desperate, waiting for your help. I just want to save my contacts that have a phone number.
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have you tried doing a wipe data/factory reset.
squ89r97 said:
have you tried doing a wipe data/factory reset.
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If I wipe the data I will lose all the contacts that I use. I aim to find a better solution, yet in the end if someone can't help that seems to be what I will have to stick to.
Any other ideas?
Camekan said:
If I wipe the data I will lose all the contacts that I use. I aim to find a better solution, yet in the end if someone can't help that seems to be what I will have to stick to.
Any other ideas?
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Sync your contacts via your google account if they aren't already! You'll get them back that way, or download an app and save them to your external sd card!
squ89r97 said:
Sync your contacts via your google account if they aren't already! You'll get them back that way, or download an app and save them to your external sd card!
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Thank you sir, a lot! I had forgotten that Google synced all my contacts, I cleared the data and now all are restored from Google.
Again thank you so much, this had made me busy all day, and now it's solved
For the second time in just a few months I have a notice: "storage space running out of memore".
I have just 99 MB free.
I've deleted even apps that I want but can't seem to find what is using up all the memory.
Internal memory fine, SD fine.
I've moved what ever I can to SD.
My phone: GT -I9100
Android 4.1.2 "up to date"
I really don't want to do a factory reset again and again every few months.
Loking for advice and help.
Thanks,
Shofar1 said:
For the second time in just a few months I have a notice: "storage space running out of memore".
I have just 99 MB free.
I've deleted even apps that I want but can't seem to find what is using up all the memory.
Internal memory fine, SD fine.
I've moved what ever I can to SD.
My phone: GT -I9100
Android 4.1.2 "up to date"
I really don't want to do a factory reset again and again every few months.
Loking for advice and help.
Thanks,
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If your s2 is rooted download link2sd from the play store then you can move unmoveable apps like facebook to your sd card and also then you can delete bloated apps aswel.
Delete Cache
try deleting the cache.....
It might be taking up your memory.
Piyush Pastor said:
try deleting the cache.....
It might be taking up your memory.
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I am not rooted.
When you say delete cache, do you mean individually in each program or is there a way to do a major cache delete somewhere else.
Thanks
Shofar1 said:
I am not rooted.
When you say delete cache, do you mean individually in each program or is there a way to do a major cache delete somewhere else.
Thanks
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search on google play, there is a raft of apps that can help you clean your cache.
Hope this helps
My mate have had this problem. Like 7 apps installed, but no memory left. It just sort of happens. I have not been able to pinpoint the cause of the problem.
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Go into your dialer and key in *#9900# and in the menu that comes up select "Delete dumpstate/logcat". This will free up a lot of unnecessary log files.
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garryknight said:
Go into your dialer and key in *#9900# and in the menu that comes up select "Delete dumpstate/logcat". This will free up a lot of unnecessary log files.
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Thanks this did it!!!
Freed up more than 1GB.
I guess this needs to be done periodically.
Great help.
Shofar1
Also go to Settings and check under the storage part what is taken up space, in my SII it was a lot of garbage under DCIM, the photos are stored on the SD card but "small copies" (do not recall what they are called) filled up nearly a GB on my unit. I have a lot of photos on Dropbox etc that are shown on the SII.
Shofar1 said:
I guess this needs to be done periodically.
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I would guess so, yes. But not too often. How long have you had your phone? (rhetorical question)
lljungberg said:
"small copies" (do not recall what they are called) filled up nearly a GB on my unit.
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"Thumbnails", and it's a good idea to delete these now and again. They'll be rebuilt as needed.
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garryknight said:
I would guess so, yes. But not too often. How long have you had your phone? (rhetorical question)
I've had my phone I think 3 years. SG II was their newest phone at the time.
I never had this problem till maybe a year ago and not this week.
Thanks again for the "delete" it really seems to have solved the problem.
Last time I couldn't find anyone who could help and went the complete factory reset route.
This is obviously so much better.
Shofar1
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Shofar1 said:
I've had my phone I think 3 years.
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It really was a rhetorical question. I didn't want to know how long you've had your phone. I was pointing out that those logs have built up over that time, 3 years, so it's unlikely that they'll build up to that degree for another 3 years. So you don't need to apply this fix often, maybe once a year or so.
A lot of people are suffering a lack of space on their Samsung phones needlessly, as I did for at least 6 months, through not knowing about this fix. If you find someone else in the same situation, maybe you can help them out.
Hello,
First excuse my English friends, this is not my native language, I support with a translator XD.
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S2 Hercules (T-Mobile) and its used. In the Last week I pull some photos and mistakenly delete them, but with my "Recurva" program i could see all the photos (mine and others owners)
On the one hand I'm happy for having recovered, but if one day I want to permanently delete photos, I have the fear that the other person recovers.
How I can delete all photos, videos and files in the cache memory? And sure, this action dont give me problems...
Zerodrone said:
Hello,
First excuse my English friends, this is not my native language, I support with a translator XD.
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S2 Hercules (T-Mobile) and its used. In the Last week I pull some photos and mistakenly delete them, but with my "Recurva" program i could see all the photos (mine and others owners)
On the one hand I'm happy for having recovered, but if one day I want to permanently delete photos, I have the fear that the other person recovers.
How I can delete all photos, videos and files in the cache memory? And sure, this action dont give me problems...
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You need a file shredder app for your device. When you delete something it is still there just disregarded by the system a file shredder overwrites it with random data. Nothing to do with the cache partition.
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Captain Sweatpants said:
You need a file shredder app for your device. When you delete something it is still there just disregarded by the system a file shredder overwrites it with random data. Nothing to do with the cache partition.
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I wonder if a digital forensics investigator could recover a shredded file (only curious, if anyone knows.)
Hi guys, usually when you're going to format/change another roms for your phone,
how did you backup your whatsapp chat/pictures/videos ?
(Not to mention the newer version of whatsapp that can upload to GD)
Because usually what I do is connect phone to PC and copy the entire Whatsapp file to PC, once I done format, copy it back to phone and install back Whatsapp and restore.
But I notice that some pictures might be gone or replace by other pictures twice or above.. but the chat history is ok
Any solution to fix? or this is normal situation?
You will be hard pressed to get a good answer. Most here have stopped using whatsapp almost a year ago and have moved on to more secure options.
Well most users in the states. I know it is popular in other countries. Like India. Maybe one of those members will have an idea.
zelendel said:
You will be hard pressed to get a good answer. Most here have stopped using whatsapp almost a year ago and have moved on to more secure options.
Well most users in the states. I know it is popular in other countries. Like India. Maybe one of those members will have an idea.
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Yeah it's true, btw thanks for reply
Any idea guys?
Any helps?
U should install titaniyum backup. apk from plystore and backup all apk with data.or u can back up only data when u installed a new rom or new version of whatsapp.
Try it dear
Just move whatsapp folder from your internal storage to sd card and then after flashing move it back to internal.
Or use titanium backup.
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Speedspaz said:
Just move whatsapp folder from your internal storage to sd card and then after flashing move it back to internal.
Or use titanium backup.
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Say I have formatted my phone, then do I move the whole WA folder to the internal storage after reinstalling WA or before that?
zelendel said:
You will be hard pressed to get a good answer. Most here have stopped using whatsapp almost a year ago and have moved on to more secure options.
Well most users in the states. I know it is popular in other countries. Like India. Maybe one of those members will have an idea.
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More secure option?
What is it? Please tell me
Thank you