ok so this is my first smart phone and i hate that i feel like such a noob! i am accustomed to having control of everything win7.
i have astro installed on my rooted phone. just downloaded an app from amazon. i have not installed it yet and have no idea where the dang app is temporarily stored.
is there anyway to take control of the default file location for downloads? i would like to save the apk to my pc prior to installing it on the phone.
additionally im guessing that when an app is installed it creates folders and file locations that the app needs to function on the phone. so when apps are installed and uninstalled over time will there eventually be orphan files and folders that just take up space and cause performance issues?
Most market apps are stored in data/app. No. It wont cause performance issues.
hi all, i have a question regarding to the additional data that we downloaded for certain games.
to be specific, i've downloaded NOVA2 and SHADOWGUN. but i dont quite like the games so i uninstalled them from the 'Manage App' option.
but seems like those additional data are still in my phone as i checked my storage, a huge portion of space is taken up.
do we have to manually delete these additional data? if yes, how do i go about doing it?
thanks in advance.
Yeah you'd have to delete the "data" file in the sd\android\data folder.
i had that with plants vs zombies where like 50mb of additional data was downloaded.
the data usually should be in ur internal sd card sd\android\data\com.[developer name usually]
just delete that folder and you'll be set.
if there isn't such folder try doing a file search for the developer company name and there should be data files in ur phone somewhere that u can delete.
As morio134 said, it should be in android/data/[folder]
If you can't tell which one it is, you can use something like Grid Size Free File Manager[/img] so show you what takes up how much space on your phone. Really useful if you're not sure what's using up all of your storage space
also it depend on application - some games etc remove also downloaded data when removed via unistall
Game data could be stored in various locations on the sd card, including gameloft, android/data, ea and others.
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thanks all for the replies.
i'll try to check from those directories mentioned. just to confirm though, i wont be able to access those directories from the computer right?
i have to use apps like ES to navigate inside? since it looks like its internal sd directories.
I am writing out of frustration about my experiences moving apps to an external sd card with Android in general. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction to make things less frustrating.
Prior to Android 6.0, I used the Apps2SD: All in One Tool[ROOT] app by Vicky Bonick. Several things annoyed me:
- Apps located on the second partition of the sdcard are not available immediately after booting.
- Sometimes the second partition could not be mounted, without a meaningful error message. I have to reboot the phone several times until things magically work again.
- Moving several apps to sdcard with the batch update is unstable and crashes sometimes.
- The app produces many notifications that I don't care about (e.g. how many apps are linked or what app is being moved atm). I want the app to run in the background and never have to think about it.
- App updates cause apps to be installed on internal storage again. This also means that I can never batch updates apps in the store. I know that there is an option that should move the app back to the sdcard, but that never worked reliably for me.
- Navigating in the app takes a long time. I spent a lot of time managing my storage space.
I have tried other App2Sd apps that improved on some of these points and degraded on others. I also tried some of the apps on other phones and encountered the same nuisances.
Since Android 6, I formatted my sdcard as internal storage hoping to alleviate most of the pain points. It actually made things worse:
- The sdcard is still not available immediately after booting and all my shortcuts to moved apps disappear every time I reboot.
- Not all apps can be moved to sdcard. In fact, most of them can't. Most of my largest apps (Netflix, Amazon Video and Chrome) cannot be moved. Currently, I can move about 11 of my 40 apps. The sdcard is only utilized about 3% (1 GB out of 32) and the internal storage is full. As of yesterday, I cannot install new apps anymore .
- No functionality to batch move apps.
- Some moved apps are not visible in Titanium Backup.
Yesterday I tried to force move some of the apps to sdcard that would rather stay on the internal sdcard. This page told me that the preferred installation location is located in the manifest of the apk and needs to be set to
Code:
android:installLocation="preferExternal"
. I decompiled one of the apks with apktool, changed the manifest and recompiled it. When I tried to move the recompiled app my phone soft rebooted.
I am generally puzzled why this topic is so complicated and such a hazzle. I don't even understand why there are apps that have to be on internal storage. The link above mentions that services, alarm services and widgets become unavailable when the phone is connected via USB. Didn't Android 4.0 (?) change the USB protocol to MTP which main benefit, I thought, is the parallel access by computer and phone.
Did I leave out some information? Is this question too complicated? Should I post the question somewhere else?
Hi guys
Can someone make an app or suggest that can monitor the activity done by apps, etc. ( such as copy, paste etc.) Would be useful if it had ability to block,prompt,allow these activities
The problem is I have a rooted device and my system partition has 140-200 MB free space. But replacing those system apps by editing their icons wont increase their size. But still the empty spaces are used up even if I replace them. Within one or 2 days the free space there gets low to 2 MB.
Now I am stuck while I tried one incompatible port of incallUI, cant paste the stock one though I have deleted the incompatible one.
I am using some root apps and wants to know if they are doing it.
Please help
I have 256gb on my phone.
Each time I download a file it doubles the overall size on the phone because it is in the downloads folder and also allocated to 'media storage'.
How can I free up this space? It's definitely doubling the same files, I've tested deleting a game's ROM and seen the media storage also go down straight away.
Does this mean I actually have 128gb and not 256gb then?
I have the same problem in my 9RT, 128 Gb. After the extended search I have done on the internet, I have no good news for you.... The conclusion I have come to is that -
1) No, you do have a 256GB storage, but effectively this Media Storage bug is bringing it down.
2) Chinese Mobile makers ignoring this issue since last year and it seems there is no way they are going to solve this. Also, many of the mobile owners with 256GB never use that much space, so may be they will not even notice the difference ever.
3) Some experienced/old user say that it is a sort of 'virtual' problem, that the Phone is mistakenly calculating the space twice and it is just a number. But, it is not. I have firsthand experience that when the space reaches its top limit ( in my case it went up to around 110-115 GB with over 50GB 'Media Storage", Play Store will not let you install any big size app/games
4) The only solution is to ditch android and go for an iPhone which my broke ass can't do now..... I first noticed this in Android 11 and now even with Android 12 the Bug continues. I have no hope that One Plus (in effect, Oppo, Realme etc etc) will ever solve it even with Android 13...
Sorry for the bad news, but I am really down now and have no hope of it ever getting solved! Do let me know please, if you ever get any reply from Realme Support though!
markryan44 said:
I have 256gb on my phone.
Each time I download a file it doubles the overall size on the phone because it is in the downloads folder and also allocated to 'media storage'.
How can I free up this space? It's definitely doubling the same files, I've tested deleting a game's ROM and seen the media storage also go down straight away.
Does this mean I actually have 128gb and not 256gb then?
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Media storage counts up whatever stuff you put in the /storage/emulated/0, that is not associated with any category like DCIM/Download/Music etc.
Your screenshot shows 78GB in media storage, and the custom "Game rom" folder is around that. You didn't say what the game rom files are. My guess is that installing these games allocates game files in other directory while source file remains intact so it appears that there is double space used. Game installers often have APK and OBB, where the OBB is the data file for the game, and APK is the game launcher installer.
You should use some app like DiskUsage/SDMaid etc. that shows a breakdown of file structure and what occupies space.
Hey thanks for your reply, to clarify I use dolphin and aethersx to emulate GameCube and PS2 games. Should I put those iso files into another folder to fix the issue maybe?
markryan44 said:
Hey thanks for your reply, to clarify I use dolphin and aethersx to emulate GameCube and PS2 games. Should I put those iso files into another folder to fix the issue maybe?
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These emulators read right off the ROM iso files. In any case, I dont think there is an issue. Go to "About Device" -> Storage. I am pretty sure you will see the ROMs counted up under "Other" category.
But again, you said that
markryan44 said:
Each time I download a file it doubles the overall size on the phone because it is in the downloads folder and also allocated to 'media storage'.
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I think your statement is wrong, because the Download folder is 4GB.
My other section takes up just 19gb but my ROMS folder is almost 80gb. Just to test if the media storage was referring to my ROMS I deleted a random game (Mario kart) and found the extract size was then missing in media storage straight after. So is there another folder perhaps I should be putting these files into? Maybe /android/data perhaps? Would make any changes?
Quake94 said:
These emulators read right off the ROM iso files. In any case, I dont think there is an issue. Go to "About Device" -> Storage. I am pretty sure you will see the ROMs counted up under "Other" category.
But again, you said that
I think your statement is wrong, because the Download folder is 4GB.
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Media storage isn't a location, it is a system service that returns size of all user data including the game ROMS.
It does not duplicate the data.
Do the below and send screenshot. The external storage analyzer apps may be miscalculating the actual space used by counting up the "Media storage" as an app.
Quake94 said:
Go to "About Device" -> Storage.
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On my phone the storage counts up correctly.
Quake94 said:
Media storage isn't a location, it is a system service that returns size of all user data including the game ROMS.
It does not duplicate the data.
Do the below and send screenshot. The external storage analyzer apps may be miscalculating the actual space used by counting up the "Media storage" as an app.
On my phone the storage counts up correctly.
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Numbers seem to check out. In the first post the App count is 78gb in Media Storage (Game ROMs folder and others) and close to 40gb in other games + Spotify, that's already 120gb, plus whatever other apps you have.
In this screenshot it shows 133gb in apps.