Hi everyone.
I've done a bit of reading about this Android / Gameloft bug which keeps 900mb of data on your phone after uninstall!
http://eatmycomputer.com/2011/12/02...-bug-locks-up-over-900mb-of-your-phone-space/
Has anyone else come across it? I'll be checking my device later to make sure it's not happened to me. I think a lot of users will be surprised to see they have this useless data on their phones...
Jonny
use a file manager to check your sd card gameloft normally has u downlod over 50mb to support its games onto ur sd card
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Hey Ppl
Someone who knows about the "save games" from Gameloft are stored on the device's memory or on the SdCard?
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dong2007
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I´ve talking with gameloft today and they say the saved games are stored on the phone memory and not the sdcard memory (working only with Android 2.2)
X10 saves games are store on SD, in '/sdcard/gameloft/' and then the specific game folder.
wolf0491 said:
Why do you need to? If you are restoring your phone or something titanium backup will keep you at same state in all your apps
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Gameloft games dump a lot of data onto your SD card, which I don't think Titanium backup touches - I discovered this when my phone crashed and rebooted whilst playing Dungeon Hunter, which corrupted the files it stores there (mainly graphic & sound files). Once the game restored these files from the Gameloft server I found I'd lost my savegames too. Tried to use Titanium Backup to restore what it had (probably wouldn't have my most recent saves, but would have grabbed older files), I found it didn't restor any save data.
HunteronX is right dong, the files are saved on your SD card.
Citat mail from Gameloft:
Hello
Games from Gameloft are saved on the internal memory on the device, also saved games are also saved directly onto the devices internal memory
Best Regards
Daniel H.
Gameloft Support
:S
how many games till today have u ran on the x10i?
how many games till today have u ran on the x10i?
give list!
ok cool now that we knows saved game files are saved onto the phone memory...but then where is it located exactly? im about to change my ROM completely and i will have to reinstall my games. and i would hate to have to start my game from the beginning again.
edit- nm, see next few posts..
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AyDee said:
Actually HunteronX is right. Have a look at your sd card & see.
(On 2.1 at least... haven't tried other roms)
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the game files are saved on the sd card, but the save states are saved to internal memory. I'm 100% positive as I've switched roms many times and had to start game from the beginning due to not saving the apk+data, only the apk
Oh, now I see- the Gameloft games just have game data (sounds,sprites,etc) on the sd card. Saving is internal, I had them confused with Camelgames (Shoot U etc) that save on sd.
Got it.
I think u find it in data/data/com.gameloft.android."name of the game" on the internal memory.
Click on it and then copy the folder/file named data.sav
I found Lets Golf save files that way.
Hope this helps...
baltazar.nilsson said:
I think u find it in data/data/com.gameloft.android."name of the game" on the internal memory.
Click on it and then copy the folder/file named data.sav
I found Lets Golf save files that way.
Hope this helps...
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You rigth... I found all saves of my gameloft games in there.
Was revisiting some old android gameloft games, specifically The Dark Knight Rises (TDKR), and wanted to backup my save data, as it has been about 10+ years since this thread was created, things have changed a bit with Android 13, and it is similar but slightly different.
The following path is roughly where you can expect to find the save data for old gameloft games on Android 13 (not sure about modern ones):
Code:
/data_mirror/data_ce/null/0/com.gameloft.android.GAMENAMEORWHATEVER
Replace GAMENAMEORWHATEVER with what ever the short name they used for the game may be, for example for TDKR on android it is
Code:
/data_mirror/data_ce/null/0/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftKRHM
For reference, inside that folder there are a few .dat files (a.dat, b.dat and so on) and I just backed all those up elsewhere then deleted them from the path above and started the game. As I suspected the save data was not shown by the game anymore since the files containing it were gone. When I put the .dat files back in the same directory the game recognized my save data once again so I confirmed that is where TDKR stores the save data at least.
Hope this helps anyone else that may happen to stumble upon this thread like I did in the near future.
Hey guys,
I really need your advice/help...
Ever since I installed the app2sd about a month ago
(following this guide :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833722)
My free internal memory still keeps on dropping down slowly...
There are even days with no new installation, no web browsing, just sms and calls done - and still a 1Mb or so "disappears"...
Un-installing apps has almost no effect...
I have also tried to delete sms threads and incoming / out calls from the logs.
But nothing seems to help...
What can be done ?
I don't want to do the proccess again at the moment, because of not being able to root after SEUS...
(I even bought a 16GB SD card and it waits patiently at the moment )
Please advice / explain the reason...
Thanks !
I can't tell you exactly why you're losing storage space like that but I'd suggest you get DiskStorage from Market and watch exactly what is eating up your memory.
Did you installed JiT?
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What is JiT ?
Hi - probably a stupid question, but when I open up Titanium Backup... on the home page, it shows the space available for the various partitions: System ROM, Internal, SD Card, and Ext SD Card. I notice that my System ROM partition is 87% full (87MB free, out of 667MB total).
When I first noticed this, I started to move some more apps to SD card, hoping to clear up some space. I think I moved about 15 apps, some of which were pretty large (Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio, Firefox, for example). Yet, after a reboot, the System ROM space availability was exactly the same. What gives? Is this a fault in Titanium Backup? (dev won't answer any questions.. so I'm asking here...) If it's just a fault, then how do I know what an accurate space availability is?
Thanks in advance!
Hey gang,
Ok - so it's been a few months since my last post about this. I've even updated to JB a few weeks ago too. Removed a bunch of apps entirely, moved some more to SD Card, and now I have even less System ROM space - I'm down to 2kB What gives? Does anybody understand how this is calculated? Why is it showing such a small amt of free space? 2kB available should mean that my phone would lock up because there's no space available, I would think.
Does anyone know how to create more space? Just about a week or two ago I had 30MB avail, now down to 2kB!
Are you on xt912?
System is only for "main ROM" not really a biggie
Apps use internal for data
Sd card is for your data
Sd card ext is well the removable sd card
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Oops - sry, yes, I'm on 98.72.16.xt912.Verizon.en.us - CDMA - JB 4.1.2, using stock OTA update without any custom recoveries at the moment (I'm still deciding if I want to put BootStrap back on, or change to SafeStrap).
I guess I'm not overly concerned about the minimal space to the ROM, but 2kB! C'mon, that's virtually out of space. I have a hard time figuring out why I have so little space. If Verizon pushes out any updates (that's a huge IF), then I won't have any room to update. That could cause an issue, don't you think? How much space do you have on your ROM?
I have 37mb available in my system, i do remember on ics there was video in the system that could be removed to free up around 40mb.. Worth a look to see if it's hidden somewhere , although root access is probably needed. Lucky for me i have it
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I might have to remove the vids - where are they located? Are they the ones in the /preinstall/KnowYourDevice/ folder??
If so, I removed them and placed them on my PC. System ROM size didn't change. hmph
Hi,
I have a weird problem with my S2 running samsung stock ICS 4.0.3. i have been using sgs2 for over a year now and whenever my free internal storage goes below 250MB i move the apps to SD card. But now No. of apps in SDcard has hit the Android limit so i simply delete the Apps. But off late that is not freeing up my internal memory. Soon after deleting apps it shows internal memory freed but by next day or it again fills up. This is when i check my storage at Settings-> storage (shows ~220MB). when i check my with settings -Applications it stays free and now its showing 600MB free. This was not the case earlier. Both the values above remained more or less same. So i have deleted ~300MB worth of applications without freeing up my storage
I have been searching vigorously but found no solutions. I have read about Wifi logs issue but it should have started soon after ICS upgrade. In fact till very recently it was fine coz i had to delete lot of Appa due to Android SD card bug. my free space went upto ~400Mb. Not now suddenly. In fact i changed nothing in my sgs2 to cause this. I noticed this issue when i installed and then uninstalled SYBIL. Would deleting Dalvik cache help? if yes then how to do it?
What else should i do? Is there a way to resolve this of find a workaround without Rooting. I love to root my phone and enjoy the freedom it offers but i have absolutely no time to do that.
Please help
Helppp... something .... anything ... am i the only unfortunate one with this issue??
or if you know a an expert in XDA who i can PM .. please forward me his handle.
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shekharpati said:
Helppp... something .... anything ... am i the only unfortunate one with this issue??
or if you know a an expert in XDA who i can PM .. please forward me his handle.
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finally found a solution in a thread in xda "A simple way to free up storage space is by deleting all the log files in the device memory. Just dial *#9900# on your phone and select option 2 “Delete dumpstate/logcat” in the prompted menu. It's not necessary to root your phone either. I restored 1.4 gig of space after doing this."
So the thing is that 2 days back I transferred Asphalt 8 obb file from Sony Xperia L to my Moto E into the folder Android/obb. Everything was working fine, game was running smoothly etc etc. Now today when I tried to open the game, it said that I don't have enough space left(1.92 gb) full. I was wondering why it needs more space!
Then I tried looking into apps space and every other place but couldn't find where the damn obb file went and yet space was full. I tried deleting obb folder but it kept saying operation failed. My data was taking up only 1 mb of all storage space.
Finally, in the end I had to factory reset and then the storage became normal once again.
So can anybody tell me what might be the cause of it? Only 2 apps were installed- Superbeam and Asphalt 8.
Also, anyway not to reproduce this problem again?
If you are rooted, next time you can use TricksterMod to rescan your media:
Trickster MOD-->Tools-->Media Scanner
If you don't have root and rebooting does not helps, there are many alternatives available on play store. Though I have not tried them.
Shivam Kuchhal said:
So the thing is that 2 days back I transferred Asphalt 8 obb file from Sony Xperia L to my Moto E into the folder Android/obb. Everything was working fine, game was running smoothly etc etc. Now today when I tried to open the game, it said that I don't have enough space left(1.92 gb) full. I was wondering why it needs more space!
Then I tried looking into apps space and every other place but couldn't find where the damn obb file went and yet space was full. I tried deleting obb folder but it kept saying operation failed. My data was taking up only 1 mb of all storage space.
Finally, in the end I had to factory reset and then the storage became normal once again.
So can anybody tell me what might be the cause of it? Only 2 apps were installed- Superbeam and Asphalt 8.
Also, anyway not to reproduce this problem again?
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Not sure but it seems relevant to the game data. 'Cause you were unable to delete it. IMHO, transferring game files from one device to another is not a sure shot process. I've experienced many issues with that. It is time and bandwidth consuming but you should prefer to re-downloading the game data.