I went to do a nandroid backup and it failed, "no space on my SD card".
Thats weird, as usually have at least 4 gig on my Nexus S 4g.
Poking around, it was the cache from Google plus, com.google.android.apps.plus (Android\data). That, coupled with my titanium backup of same ate my SDCARD. easy to fix Titanium from backup it up, but the cache is still several gigs large. 40,000 + files with [number].screen extensions.
I have like 2 friends on google+, 3 posts, and can not for the life of me figure out what in the world all that data is.
I'm going to remove the data , freeze the app, but just wanted to know if anyone else noticed a disproportionate amount of data in the Google+ app compared to the amount of activity/usage I have on google+.
Same problem here
... I'm running out of room on my Nexus, Google+ storage is over 5GB (!)
jfbaudio said:
... I'm running out of room on my Nexus, Google+ storage is over 5GB (!)
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Old thread I know, but it probably is Google Plus photos sync. What I'm wondering is if auto backup could be done without also having to sync G+ albums to the phone.
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Hi all,
Since some weeks I'm happy owner of a Galaxy s2 (g-Version, Android 2.3.6, unrooted). So far I'm really happy with the phone.
BUT, after some time of usage (approx. 1 week) my internal Memory fills up rapidly. I have approx. 35 apps installed. Of those most apps are only to have Widgets for some stuff and thus should not be too big. No huge apps. Since a few days the internal storage fills up more an more although I do not really use the phone. For instance, last night I lost 100 MB in several ours over night without using it.
What I tried so far:
- Gmail and K9 only sync 1 day and selected folders and K9 syncs to SD --> they cannot really casue the problem
- chaches of apps are emptied regularly
- I read about a huge .trashe(s) file. I cannot find it. Any suggestion where to find this folder/file?
If anyone has an idea which apps might cause this kind of issue, I would appreciate any feedback!
Cheers
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Hi all,
Since some weeks I'm happy owner of a Galaxy s2 (g-Version, Android 2.3.6, unrooted). So far I'm really happy with the phone.
BUT, after some time of usage (approx. 1 week) my internal Memory fills up rapidly. I have approx. 35 apps installed. Of those most apps are only to have Widgets for some stuff and thus should not be too big. No huge apps. Since a few days the internal storage fills up more an more although I do not really use the phone. For instance, last night I lost 100 MB in several ours over night without using it.
What I tried so far:
- Gmail and K9 only sync 1 day and selected folders and K9 syncs to SD --> they cannot really casue the problem
- chaches of apps are emptied regularly
- I read about a huge .trashe(s) file. I cannot find it. Any suggestion where to find this folder/file?
If anyone has an idea which apps might cause this kind of issue, I would appreciate any feedback!
Cheers
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See this thread. (but you'll need to root to apply the workaround described)
Then see this thread. (specifically #1)
Thanks a lot! I was looking for the wrong keywords. Looks like I need to root!
Cheers
first get ur phone rooted as in the aboue links u will get an idea y to...
intall apps on sd card..there r many apps tht will help u,its free in market....
second thing u say lot of data is used,so turn ur auto sync off an widgets an live apps will periodically run to check updates so lok out for those...hope u get the point.....cheeeeerz
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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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?
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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?
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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!
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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!
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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
First of all, I know this have been asked numerous times but I only got more confused of the threads that were aboout this...
My S2 has been showing the message "Insufficient storage available" for the past 8 or 9 months, but it has gotten worse since. At first I couldn't download any big apps, now I can't even download apps that are small (like 5mb). Anyway, I don't exactly know how it started but it probably has something to do with Android 4.x.x ... It has gotten really annoying because I needed to do some necessary updates on certain apps (WhatsApp for example) and I can't use them anymore because of this problem.
It's probably something with System Data. (yes I know I still have about 600mb of apps, but those are either apps I really need or apps that are on my phone as a default.) But as far as I know, I can't reach that System Data... It's just a chunk of (useless??) data that's just there. I don't really what it consists of, because the app (DiskUsage) I used to look into me storage won't let me open that map (as can be seen).
I WANTED TO SHOW A PICTURE HERE BUT I CAN'T SINCE I'M A NEW MEMBER BASICALLY, THE SITUATION IS LIKE THIS:
DATA [2015 MB]
- APPLICATIONS [574 MB]
- SYSTEM DATA [1397 MB]
- FREE SPACE [what's left. this ranges between ~90mb and ~10mb since I clear cache now and then]
I've been to a store with this problem and they basically said that there is nothing I can do... Is there really nothing I can do? I tried wiping my cache but that didn't do enough. I usually clear 90mb of cache when I do this once in every 3 days (after those 3 days I have about 5mb of space left), but like I said, this doesn't do enough.
Any suggestions? Sorry again as I know there are some threads already about this, but I looked into them and didn't really got a lot out of them...
Thanks in advance.
Did you try *#9900# on phone call menu?
From what I think, it's because of your application files. For example if you always use whatsapp(what I mean here is, if you keep on chatting), it'll store your chat messages into your phone memory which will 'eat' your memory bit by bit. And also, this is from what I've experienced, whenever you uninstalled an application, let's say TubeMate, you'll see tubemate's folder(s) is/are still inside your phone.
So what I'm trying to suggest here is, whenever you want to clear some space, try to delete some of your whatsapp chats or maybe other chat apps that stores chat messages if you don't want to uninstall other app. And when you want to uninstall an application, make sure you delete the app's folders inside your phone.
I'm don't know much about phone memory, so if I'm wrong about it, correct me
p/s: If you can't post link your image since you're new here, you can put your images as attachment.
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Did you try *#9900# on phone call menu?
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Why haven't I thought of that 2 months ago... I thought that option was only for clearing my storage of calls and texts and since I don't call or text a whole lot, I thought it wouldn't be beneficial.
I've cleared over 1,2 GB by this. Thanks for your help, really appreciate it!
Hello Everyone.
I own a Samsung Galaxy Ace (S5830) and until 2 days ago i was running a CM7 on it until it suddenly just stopped working and the phone hung in some kind of boot loop. That's when i decided to "upgrade" to a newer version of CM and searched for everything necessary.
I tried some CM11 alpha but since it's pretty unstable (at least the version i had was) i tried others until i settled for a stable 10.2 version (cm-10.2-20140309-UNOFFICIAL-cooper++). So far i am pretty happy since it actually is running very smoothly on my phone and i did not expect that at all. But then i ran into the same issue that basically everyone owning this phone runs into - it's very limited internal space.
Fact is i do need some google apps since i'm using gmail and synchronizing my contacts through it. Also i want to use Whatsapp, basically the only reason for me having a smartphone right now. I Installed the Dolphin Browser aswell since a decent browser is also something i'd like to use from time to time, but it seems to be full on external anyways so it should not count towards the internal storage.
Problem is now, all that is already too much for the phone's internal storage to handle since whatsapp has to stay on internal - at least that's my experience - and the google-play services that are needed aswell are placed on internal too without option of moving them.
I tried some things but basically all of them failed on one or another weird way..
- titanium backup - uninstalled system apps that i am not using (radio, browser, google play voice things, etc.) but after a reboot they were all back again. Even before rebooting, uninstalling them seemed not to open up space at all.
- Link2SD - tried linking whatsapp to my SD card, failed since whatsapp wasn't running very stable anymore. If anyone has a solution for this i'd love to hear it!
- App2SD - didn't even show any internal apps, and wasn't helping at all.
Also something i've tried, i have a message backup for whatsapp that's ~14mb but lies on my SD card. Problem seems to be that Whatsapp on recovering these messages put's them somewhere on the internal storage, at least it takes those ~14mb away from it after it recovered them. I tried to change the path whatsapp uses for internal storing of data with the app 'FolderMount' (like i found tutorials on the internet for exactly this issue) but wasn't even able to locate the internal stored data :/ Not because i just didn't find it, but because it seems not to exist...
I know i can't really increase the size of the internal storage but i think there has to be something i can do. I can't even update whatsapp since i am just living on the edge of the "low storage space" message with 20-15mb left.
What i am hoping now through this thread is to get some ideas or options how i could free up some space, move some apps around to SD maybe (utilize Link2SD correctly) or in the end basically have the things i need but some free storage on internal so that i can use my phone, maybe even install apps on SD (without them touching internal space) and have some room to update the important apps like whatsapp.
Regards,
ThePatchelist
One big issue nobody talks about or is completely unaware about is that everytime you download or store any media like movies, not only does the original space of the movie gets occupied, the media storage app in the phone magically increases the exact same amount of storage usage. You could verify it yourself by going into storage and select the view system apps option. So for example if you download a 2 gb movie, instead of going from 62-60gb storage space, it goes from 62-58gb storage space. This is very big issue which is also faced by many OnePlus devices. You cannot force stop the media storage app or delete any data or cache in it. The only temporary solutions which worked for some is deleting the recycle bin data, clearing unwanted data using files app and maybe resetting your device but the fact that this issue exists is a huge problem and is still unresolved for many users. I hope someone might be able to solve this issue or could at least help make realme aware about this issue.
Google has already solved it with Pixel 5. But Chinese manufacturers seem, kind of, lost in translation
Jokes apart, I have this same problem with OP 9RT and am really tired of deleting my videos, photos again and again..... Android 12 didn't solve it and after Oxygen OS 12 I have little hope that Android 13 will be any better.
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Google has already solved it with Pixel 5. But Chinese manufacturers seem, kind of, lost in translation
Jokes apart, I have this same problem with OP 9RT and am really tired of deleting my videos, photos again and again..... Android 12 didn't solve it and after Oxygen OS 12 I have little hope that Android 13 will be any better.
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I think I might have been wrong, after further inspection the Google files app showed the proper storage. I think it may be a problem of the storage app showing wrong storage for some reason instead of actually losing storage. I don't remember correctly if the issue was on the storage options in setting or Google files itself.
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I think I might have been wrong, after further inspection the Google files app showed the proper storage. I think it may be a problem of the storage app showing wrong storage for some reason instead of actually losing storage. I don't remember correctly if the issue was on the storage options in setting or Google files itself.
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Are you sure?
Asking as I also used many Storage apps, like SD Maid etc. and some of them actually did not show the space taken by Media Storage app! As per them the storage was fine and free there.....
But then I found out that when the Media Storage size went over 50-52Gb, I couldn't install a huge game, like Genshin in my phone any more as Play Store showed the message that I have to uninstall some apps to make space!!!
So apparently, at least in my 9RT, the Play Store/System is considering the space shown in Media Storage as real!
This is the present situation in my phone, after many resets ....
Out of this 40Gb apps, the Media Storage is taking 30Gb....
Which, by now, I'm sure is consisting of that 25Gb videos and other app data
All I can hope for now is by some miracle, OP fix it or that Google brings the Pixel 7 to India...... as at least they listen to the Bug reports and do solve them even if it takes some time. OP 9 Pro has this problem since launch, and by now, in almost 1 year One Plus couldn't solve it....so I really have very little hope from them now.
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Are you sure?
Asking as I also used many Storage apps, like SD Maid etc. and some of them actually did not show the space taken by Media Storage app! As per them the storage was fine and free there.....
But then I found out that when the Media Storage size went over 50-52Gb, I couldn't install a huge game, like Genshin in my phone any more as Play Store showed the message that I have to uninstall some apps to make space!!!
So apparently, at least in my 9RT, the Play Store/System is considering the space shown in Media Storage as real!
This is the present situation in my phone, after many resets ....
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Out of this 40Gb apps, the Media Storage is taking 30Gb....
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Which, by now, I'm sure is consisting of that 25Gb videos and other app data
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Are you sure?
Asking as I also used many Storage apps, like SD Maid etc. and some of them actually did not show the space taken by Media Storage app! As per them the storage was fine and free there.....
But then I found out that when the Media Storage size went over 50-52Gb, I couldn't install a huge game, like Genshin in my phone any more as Play Store showed the message that I have to uninstall some apps to make space!!!
So apparently, at least in my 9RT, the Play Store/System is considering the space shown in Media Storage as real!
This is the present situation in my phone, after many resets ....
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Out of this 40Gb apps, the Media Storage is taking 30Gb....
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Which, by now, I'm sure is consisting of that 25Gb videos and other app data
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How much storage do you have left? Cause I just looked into and remembered that you don't have to worry too much about the media storage app taking your space cause I don't think it actually affects your space even though it shows in your settings.
My phone has a total internal space of 256gb(my phone doesn't have a sd slot also) and as you can see, I've only used 204gb of my space but adding all the storage shown below(especially the video and app storage) I've almost used 300gb space which is almost impossible.
Another example is my Google files app which literally shows I've used 297gb even though my phone literally has a 256gb internal storage. So I think it's safe to assume that the media storage app doesn't actually cause much issue and you don't have to worry about it too much.
Interesting!
My Google Files is showing I have 66GB free (out of 128GB). But Downloads(4.1)+Videos (25) + Docs (4.7) + Apps (40) is totaling to 73.8GB. That comes to a total of 74+66 = 140GB!!!!
Now, taking that (as per Files) I have 66GB free, I have used up 62GB already. That may be as - Videos(25)+Downloads(4.1)+Docs (4.7)+ about 28GB of System, may be? I don't have any idea how much space Android 11/12 takes now a days....
Tomorrow I will fill my phone with some more videos to take the Media Storage app size to around 60GB at least (need some 35GB of movie files, which fortunately I have This should make the device think that I have used up all of my 128GB (incl. system) space. And then I will again try to install Genshin/WOT Blitz/Grid , any one game of about 3-4-5GB and see what the system says......
As it's past 12:30 at night in my end, I'm switching off for today now....Will report tomorrow about the storage experiment! Take care, bye!
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Interesting!
My Google Files is showing I have 66GB free (out of 128GB). But Downloads(4.1)+Videos (25) + Docs (4.7) + Apps (40) is totaling to 73.8GB. That comes to a total of 74+66 = 140GB!!!!
Now, taking that (as per Files) I have 66GB free, I have used up 62GB already. That may be as - Videos(25)+Downloads(4.1)+Docs (4.7)+ about 28GB of System, may be? I don't have any idea how much space Android 11/12 takes now a days....
Tomorrow I will fill my phone with some more videos to take the Media Storage app size to around 60GB at least (need some 35GB of movie files, which fortunately I have This should make the device think that I have used up all of my 128GB (incl. system) space. And then I will again try to install Genshin/WOT Blitz/Grid , any one game of about 3-4-5GB and see what the system says......
As it's past 12:30 at night in my end, I'm switching off for today now....Will report tomorrow about the storage experiment! Take care, bye!
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Have a good day
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Hi!!!
Became so busy I couldn't come to this thread.....
As per my last post, I filled up my phone towards up to 60GB and yup, my total storage went well over 128GB as per Files app And yeah, Play Store didn't let me install a small game of about 10MB as it showed the message of no space available.
Lost the screenshots, as I hard reset the phone again on the advice of some OnePlus customer care service provider. No result, it's still the same......
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Hi!!!
Became so busy I couldn't come to this thread.....
As per my last post, I filled up my phone towards up to 60GB and yup, my total storage went well over 128GB as per Files app And yeah, Play Store didn't let me install a small game of about 10MB as it showed the message of no space available.
Lost the screenshots, as I hard reset the phone again on the advice of some OnePlus customer care service provider. No result, it's still the same......
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So i guess apart from installing new apps after the fake storage filled situation, i guess we won't be having much problems.
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So i guess apart from installing new apps after the fake storage filled situation, i guess we won't be having much problems.
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Well, lol, looks like that....
The short time I had with my Phone being over 128GB in size, it performed normal tasks well, no lag. But, can we record Videos/photos in that situation? As I just hard reset my phone, it will take some time to get filled up again. So I suppose, this time you'll have to test if we can record videos when our phones get well over their storage limits , provided you have the time off course
Did you by chance try using a third party app store or apk files for installing apps when the storage was "overfull"?
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Did you by chance try using a third party app store or apk files for installing apps when the storage was "overfull"?
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Never used any Third Party App Store. It was pure Android 12 issue which OnePlus developers didn't have the time to fix. It is solved now in Android 13.