using ES Explorer, I see the following:
1 - /phone icon - when opened contains about 15 folders starting with acct and ending with vendor, with another dozen or so individual (look like system) files
2 - /mnt/media -contains folders labeled Android, B&N Downloads, LOST.DIR, My Files) and a file called System.apk
3 - Two other folders labeled Downloads and Pictures (both presently empty)
Questions:
Is it correct that the /mnt/media is the 1GB space where my stuff is supposed to go? If so, why is there a B&N Downloads folder in there?
Is the /phone icon directory the 12 GB of space that was supposed to be just for B&N content? Can I use it to put my stuff now? I tried adding a few new folders with stuff but later found them gone??
I would appreciate anyone who can lay out in simple, straightforward language the who, what and where of the new space allocation/availability since rooting the NT. Is there any app that can show me the space by partition?
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Hi all,
I use TreeSize Mobile, a great little app, to monitor where my internal memory is being used. I've noticed there is quite a large file sitting in the Windows Directory called simply ''files''. What I want to know is are these files temp files that I can get rid of or does the system need these files?
My hunch is that they are system files but I just wanted to be sure.
I've attached a couple of pics showing this file. Pic2 is a selection of files within the main file.
i suspect that means there are files totalling 407 meg in teh windows folder, not one file of 407 meg, , followed by the sub folders and their size.
Open up the storage card tree (click the +) and see if that starts with 'Files xxxMB'
samsamuel said:
i suspect that means there are files totalling 407 meg in teh windows folder, not one file of 407 meg, , followed by the sub folders and their size.
Open up the storage card tree (click the +) and see if that starts with 'Files xxxMB'
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Thx for the reply.
You mention opening the storage card tree, the file i'm refering to is not on the storage card, it is in the windows directory. So i'm puzzled as to your answer.
because i think if you open the storage card (or indeed any other folder) you would see
storage card
[20mb] files
[150mb] DCIM
[2gb] music
[100mb] program files
the values and names are an example, the point i am making is that the top entry is showing you the total size of the files in the opened folder. so in your image it is telling you there are 400megabytes worth of files in the windows folder, not one file 400megabytes big.
After rooting I can create folders, move files into, etc in the "hidden storage" using root explorer. Problem is I can't get apps to see anything there.
Example: Created Music folder and moved files into it. They will play by going there with root explorer and tapping on one, but music player will not see them on its own.
So far I have not found a music player that will allow me to designate that folder as the one containing the music.
To my knowledge, third party apps still do not see the storage area mounted there. Hopefully with the CM7 ROM, that can be rectified!
ok - thanks. I have put a couple of movies in that space as it is not much trouble to drill to them and tap the one I want to play - saves sd card space. For now will use it for movies and storage of little used material.
hi cdo5
check it here
you will get all "hidden storage" to use
edwardxi - Tried both methods (rename/copy) and manually adding with the same results - in root explorer /mnt/internal opens and has all the files I placed in /data/usrdata, but neither of two music players on the system see them. Someway I am missing how to tie them to the /mnt/internal folder. Additional direction please.
Take a look at the end of http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355969&page=10 -- the thread on accessing the whole filesystem.
cfoesch discovered that parted is a viable tool for resizing (well, deleting and recreating) partitions on the device.
I used a nook OS sideboot card with a modified vold.conf (commented out all the lines, essentially) that did not mount any of the internal partitions and had parted on board, then used the ADB interface to delete partitions 10 and 11 and resized them.
parition 10 is 1 gig and called media;
paritition 11 is 13 gig and called userdata
I recreated them, tried to put filesystems on them and reassigned the default names in parted, powered down, removed my card, and forced a hard reset (8 failed boots.) This completely reformats and reinstalls, but leaves the partition sizes alone.
Before I started, still booted from the rooted internal OS, I used dd to make copies of the first 8 partitions
/dev/block/mmcblk0pX of=/data/X.img
and copied those out to an sdcard.
http://nookdevs.com/Dump_NookTablet_Partitions explains who is who.
If the hard reset won't work, you can copy those 7 dd images to your boot card, boot, and use dd to put them back - in fact, I did that preemptively, but I suspect I didn't need to.
The command there would be dd if=X.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0pX
A hard reset after restoring the first 8 does work. (It would probably work to do only the first 7.)
My NT now has 4 gig for BN stuff and close to 10 gig for my files manageable by Calibre, etc.
The last thing I did was, after rooting, to remove the directory
/data/media/B&N Downloads and symlink it to the directory
/media/B&N Downloads
Now, my books and magazines from B&N download to media and I can manage those in Calibre as well.
At first, I tried doing that last step by linking to a directory on the sdcard.
I had two issues with just using the sdcard, which (in addition to being annoyed by the partitioning scheme on general principles) made me very interested in resizing /media:
- the sdcard I'm using fails to mount at boot some of the time. So the library gacks some of the time.
- the /media partition on internal memory supports permissions assignment enough that magazines can be read when they're downloaded to it. The sdcard does not support permissions, or at least mine didn't (despite some attempts to force it to by changing values in vold.conf) and so magazines would download there, but could not be read if they were on the sdcard.
I've tried fiddling with those permissions in vold.fstab, without luck, before doing my resize.
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto auto /device/platform/usb/mass/storage/lun1 /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.0/mmc_host/mmc1
dev_mount media /mnt/media 10 002 /devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0 /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.1/mmc_host/mmc0
Looking at the introductory stanzas in vold.fstab it looks to me as if the magic is in that auto auto versus 10 002 -- somehow, the NT is able to assign a permissions mask to a vfat partition, which I had thought was not possible. But when I've tried assigning those values to /sdcard it hasn't worked. I'm forgetting the failure mode now - that is, I can't remember if they just didn't work, or if the sdcard became unmountable.
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edwardxi - Tried both methods (rename/copy) and manually adding with the same results - in root explorer /mnt/internal opens and has all the files I placed in /data/usrdata, but neither of two music players on the system see them. Someway I am missing how to tie them to the /mnt/internal folder. Additional direction please.
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I forgot one thing
when you copy sth to /mnt/internal
you should set right permissions(I got 9 "√" all)
I use TTpod player
it can access to /mnt/internal and play music well
Many thanks! The TTpod player did the job - I was able to select the folder and get play lists. Great.
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hi cdo5
check it here
you will get all "hidden storage" to use
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I tried this method and got stuck in a reboot loop.
porthos75 said:
I tried this method and got stuck in a reboot loop.
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Im sorry to here that
but make sure you set right permissions
pls note that VERY IMPORTANT: change the File Permission using Root Explorer same as the old file too
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Good day Guys
Seems i have a issue which many of us Android users have/experience but, atm, i have been searching and found some solutions but still have this monster of curiosity in my head regarding lost space for internal storage.
My phone is rooted and have custom ROM installed
I have tried the following:
* Delete the LOST.DIR folder
* Move Most big apps to SD
* Deleted unwanted/un-useful Apps
Besides from the Apps/Picts, Music & Vids/ and other downloads
These are the Zip files i have in my internal SD:
* 1 Nandroid backup about 1.3G
* 2 customs ROM zip files that would not reach 1gb of file size
* 3 Files for Kernel, not more than 30mb
* Gapps and fixes, not more than 20mb
as you can see i posted 2 screenshots of my settings>storage and i have no problems with my External SD
I am still bugged about the "available 1.03GB" space left but as you can see the Color Coded categories, i still have that One big fat Gray area that i am not convinced to be JUST 1.03gb of free space
I don't know if i have some virus/malware that eats up my storage.
Your advices are very much appreciated
Thanks in Advance:angel:
It is possible that you have files that do not fall under any of the four categories shown there. Some roms have "Miscellaneous" category, which seems to be missing on your screen shot, and downloaded contents of some games could fall under this category (even if you delete the game, the downloaded contents can stay in your phone).
I am not sure if you tried this already, but use ES File Explorer (so that you can see every single folders and files, even the hidden ones), select all folders and files in the internal storage, and check the total size. If it is ~ 10GB, then you know that the screen shot is telling the truth (in terms of the available space). Just track down the unnecessary files and delete them.
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It is possible that you have files that do not fall under any of the four categories shown there. Some roms have "Miscellaneous" category, which seems to be missing on your screen shot, and downloaded contents of some games could fall under this category (even if you delete the game, the downloaded contents can stay in your phone).
I am not sure if you tried this already, but use ES File Explorer (so that you can see every single folders and files, even the hidden ones), select all folders and files in the internal storage, and check the total size. If it is ~ 10GB, then you know that the screen shot is telling the truth (in terms of the available space). Just track down the unnecessary files and delete them.
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Thanks for the reply, i've done that using ES file explorer (including the hidden folders) and total size is 8.55gb
So, just said above, while I was cleaning some folders I removed SDCARD folder (sdcard?? what f*king folder is???) from Android File Transfer and the I see at leat 11 Gb memory (before "cleaning" was 80 mb... 16gb sdcard)
Could be restored something? Im osx user.. sdcard memory is removed from phone fisically.
I got some aknowledges about disk image creation and some software recovery but I recovery only photos and video, but I need some others folders.
From phone I see all apps, but from ES File Manager, i see only few folders empty.. but with Android File Transfer, i see all folders but I cannot recovery anything (item not available at copy/paste).
Anything is appreciated.
Thanks
I found I had over 7GB of junk files on my phone, this is not a nubia issue but an android OS one. There are other threads on this issue but I guess all Nubia users would be affected.
Here's how to check, have a look at how much space these Two directories are using:
Storage/sdcard0/dcim/.thumbnails
Storage/sdcard1/dcim/.thumbnails
(easiest way to do this is connect to pc and mount as storage drive and check through windows explorer)
If you want to reclaim this space then its easy. Must be rooted!
In your root file explorer, go to both directories delete the .thumbnails folders then create a new *file* called .thumbnails in the same directory. Reboot and your done. There is no impact gallery still works perfect!