First off, I'm on Phone Bricker 2.2. When plugged into my PC, it mounts my phone/card as a media device, so it doesn't assign it a drive letter.
I've used programs in the past in Windows that will search drives for large files/folders and identify them, and I like to do this from time to time on my phone, as space runs out, so that I don't have completely scour my card for some folder that's getting filled up with junk or whatever. My only problem is that with my computers mounting my phone as a media drive, none of my programs I've used in the past can search them, as there is no drive letter associated with the phone or the card.
Anyone got any suggestions?
i thought there was an app that mounted the phone with a drive letter. I'll see if I can find it. I'm not sure what you can do as a "workaround".
I use an app called storage analyser, it's free in the market. It helps you identify large files taking up space.
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datnukkapenut187 said:
I use an app called storage analyser, it's free in the market. It helps you identify large files taking up space.
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Thank you so much! The app is so nice, it recognizes multiple mount points so both internal memory and card can be search independently. Perfect for this phone.
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Just noticed my available space on my internal sdcard is sitting at around 2 gigs. This makes no sense. I dont have any music on it and I have gone through and deleted old pics and videos. I have also deleted old nandroid backups as well as files that i used to flash like roms and fixes.
Any ideas on whats causing this. I am running Kirf custom with voodoo enabled.
Are you sure that, that's your internal sd card and not the external sd card that you are reading off of? If you do have an external sd card please remove it, then reboot your phone, then check your memory once again without the external sd card inserted. Doing so should eliminate any confusion/confusions of you reading the wrong information.
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Im looking at the right one. It says phone storage Total space:12.78 available space:1.90. With the apps I usually have installed I remember having at least 7 gigs free. This makes no sense to me.
adamboyd83 said:
Im looking at the right one. It says phone storage Total space:12.78 available space:1.90. With the apps I usually have installed I remember having at least 7 gigs free. This makes no sense to me.
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Do you have a lot of ROMs stored on it?? a lot of game data?
these two things tend to chew up a looot of memory
I did delete all my stored roms. I do have need for speed shift installed I know it installed 150mbs when it first started up but maybe its the game save data then. I just would have thought the videos I was recording would have taken up alot more space than they did.
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adamboyd83 said:
I did delete all my stored roms. I do have need for speed shift installed I know it installed 150mbs when it first started up but maybe its the game save data then. I just would have thought the videos I was recording would have taken up alot more space than they did.
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Just mount your sd to your PC and arrange all files/folders according to size, then browse around and you should find out whats eating your space up
I had a similar problem earlier on, it turns out that one of my database files had some how gotten corrupted and bloated to taking up a lot more space than they should have. I would check the size of your database files to make sure this hasn't happened to you.
So I figured it out. Set file manager to show hidden files. There was a folder called. trashes. Went into the folder and there was everything I ever deleted. Hit select all and delete and I am now back at 12 gigs of space. That folder had 10 gigs of trash in it! I recommendations to every one look into doing this if you are low on space.
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adamboyd83 said:
So I figured it out. Set file manager to show hidden files. There was a folder called. trashes. Went into the folder and there was everything I ever deleted. Hit select all and delete and I am now back at 12 gigs of space. That folder had 10 gigs of trash in it! I recommendations to every one look into doing this if you are low on space.
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damn, never heard of that before
Me either. I was just messing with it. Stroke of luck I guess.
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adamboyd83 said:
Me either. I was just messing with it. Stroke of luck I guess.
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You must have a mac, adamboyd. Am I right?
This has to do with the way macs "send" files to the trash can, which is different than a PC's recycle bin. A mac does not move the file from where it was located when you send it to the trash can, it simply places it in a hidden "trashes" folder. This isn't an issue when the files are on your computer, but when you're using your mac to delete files on an external drive (flash drives, or your phone's sd), the file remains on the drive in the hidden folder your mac created and eventually you run into the problem you experienced.
Solution: Always empty the Trash Can before ejecting the drive from your mac. That action searches out and permanently deletes all files located in the hidden trashes folders. If you empty the trash can after you've ejected the phone's sd from the computer, then obviously it won't be able to locate and delete the files that you had "moved" to the trash.
Hope that helps!
Good to know. And yeah I have a mac. I never knew that but I do now.
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No problem! I remember that frustrating me bad when I first got mine until I figured out what was going on.
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Also, if you make ClockWorkMod nandroid backups, they can add up fast as well. If you're low on space then you might want to move the older ones elsewhere or delete them from the phone.
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Also, if you make ClockWorkMod nandroid backups, they can add up fast as well. If you're low on space then you might want to move the older ones elsewhere or delete them from the phone.
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ah yes, i forgot about this..these can take up almost 1gb each
Ok so i have a dell streak that i busted the lcd on. I went and bought a new phone and theres some stuff i need off the streak. I cant see anything on the screen so i was wondering if its possible to connect to the phones internal sd card from a computer, like u normally do with th external sd card. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
You can remove the inner sd and hook it up to a pc, but it's partitioned and formatted differently.
If you reformat and repartition it to work like a normal card it wont be able to be used to boot a streak anymore.
If you wanna grab your contents off it you'll prob do it easiest though linux, though i dont know the specifics
What are you trying to get off of your Streak?
If you set the phone up with gmail your contacts will be backed up there and even if you don't have an Android phone now you can export them from the gmail web page and then probably import them into your new phone.
This thread or one of the screen replacement guides shows how to disassemble the phone to get to the card, you can also make the card accessible like this. I have notched a non-working Streak as was done in the picture and it only takes a few minutes with an exacto/razor knife even if you are being careful.
How you get to the card depends on what you want to do with it now that it's broken and how badly you want access to the card. The partitions are formatted ext3 and can be accessed with a linux live cd/dvd once you remove it from the phone if you don't have a linux box setup.
edit: if you notch the cover the internal sd card slides out to the left if you are looking at the phone from the back with the flash at the top.
I do actually have an android phone... I need my notes from ak notepad mostly, and other things would be nice to have. I figure if i could get to the contents i could prolly get the notes as theyre prolly in .txt format or something. If it would be easier from a nandroid backup, i nandroided the morning the phone broke
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It appears that AK notepad saves the notes in a proprietary format and to get plain text you have to export the notes to your sd card. See their FAQ. You might want to email them and ask the best way to recover your notes.
Well i guess i'll try removing the internal sd since its gonna be taken apart soon ayway when my replacement screen comes in
Thanks for the help!!
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Remote web desktop from the market gives you access to the internal sd's contents also
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Remote web desktop from the market gives you access to the internal sd's contents also
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I cant install that cuz i cant see my screen to know where im pressing. That would be awesome tho
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Ok so i have the internal card out. Tried putting it in a card reader and the computer asks to format it. Is there any program or anything i can do to be able to read it?
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Ok so i have the internal card out. Tried putting it in a card reader and the computer asks to format it. Is there any program or anything i can do to be able to read it?
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You have to connect the card to a computer that can read the ext3 file system. Sounds like you connected it to a windows box. You can download a linux live CD/DVD and boot that from your CD or DVD drive and you will probably be able to plug it in and see the contents.
I recommend Linux Mint or you can try this, which is an application that allows windows to read ext3. I would not use the windows application to write to the card.
I tried both ways you said to try marvin02. Linux Mint wouldn't read the card reader for some reason. The link you gave for the windows ext reader doesnt work with windows 7 so i googled windows 7 ext3 and found a program that works. Ran it and its reading the card. I installed ak notepad on my new phone and tried to copy everything i could over and see if somehow it would read the old notes, no luck. I think the way my new phone installs apps and data is different than the old one and has a different folder structure.
Is there any other solution anyone could think of?
Hey guys,
My phone was quite fast and responsive when i first bought it. But now aftre 9 months of use i have found that it has slowed down. I shifted from GB to ICS but that hasnt made any difference. The load up of contacts takes especially long.
I was woundering if like in computers we defragment the HD do we need to do the same on phones ocasionaly.
Please let me know if there are apps for this or any solutions.
If u do this u can break ur phone
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if your device has become slow, you might want to think about performing a wipe / factory reset every once in a while. also, delete contents from your sd card, apart from music, videos and pictures.
defragmenting from a pc won't help, but also won't break your phone.
The filesystem that Android uses doesn't fragment like Windows' one does, therefore defragmentation isn't possible. You could try clearing up some space though. E.g. deleting apps, music, photos etc.
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The filesystem that Android uses doesn't fragment like Windows' one does, therefore defragmentation isn't possible. You could try clearing up some space though. E.g. deleting apps, music, photos etc.
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only half true. sure, the filesystem on the system partitions can not be defragmented, but they are not directly accessible from a windows pc anyways, i believe the op was talking about /sdcard/ and the external_sd/ or /emmc/, which usually are formatted in fat32 and can be defragmented. if he copied several things simultaneously, it might even be fragmented.
Check the free space available on the internal sdcard - my Wife's GSII had a similar problem where it would almost grind to a halt. It turned out the sdcard was full, and transferring the photos/videos off the 'phone returned performance to normal.
Thnks all. I think they are good suggetions and i will try them out and let you know the result.
BASICALLY INTERNAL DRIVE READS AS CD-ROM AND NOT AS A PARTITION - HOW DO I FIX THIS?
Hey
Disk drive mode is killing me
I was one of the first to get this phone - I like HTC products
But ever since I received this phone I cannot access my internal storage when I plug it into disk drive mode. Why is this and how can I fix it?
I thought both internal and external are plug and play ready (meaning no driver needed to access to info), But for some strange reason my internal 9 gbs will not come up, my external is fine.
I would like to fix this issue today (searching all over the web for the answer) but I am trying to set up a wireless syncing with my phone and I am going to be using my external sd as my media and files and my internal for android system stuff.
I am thinking about formatting my internal memory but I need to first take the info out of it.
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thesssfactor said:
Hey
Disk drive mode is killing me
I was one of the first to get this phone - I like HTC products
But ever since I received this phone I cannot access my internal storage when I plug it into disk drive mode. Why is this and how can I fix it?
I thought both internal and external are plug and play ready (meaning no driver needed to access to info), But for some strange reason my internal 9 gbs will not come up, my external is fine.
I would like to fix this issue today (searching all over the web for the answer) but I am trying to set up a wireless syncing with my phone and I am going to be using my external sd as my media and files and my internal for android system stuff.
I am thinking about formatting my internal memory but I need to first take the info out of it.
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Choose media sync and choose the drive that pops up and choose the phone I believe
almost got it to work
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this link helped (http://www.xda-developers.com/android/replace-virtual-cd-on-the-htc-evo-4g-lte/)
it says
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Replace Virtual CD on the HTC EVO 4G LTE
Posted August 6, 2012 at 10:30 pm by PoorCollegeGuy
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Replace Virtual CD on the HTC EVO 4G LTE
Every now and then, a mod so unique pops up that it bears closer examination. For HTC EVO 4G LTE owners, a mod such as this has appeared. When booted into a Sense ROM and connected to a PC, one will notice that the device mounts as two drives. One is the internal storage, and the other is a CD-ROM. Yes, a CD-ROM. Naturally, upon discovering this, the first step is to see if it can be used for something else. As it turns out, it can be.
XDA Recognized Contributor closeone has discovered that there is a file on the EVO LTE called PCTOOL.ISO, which is what causes the EVO LTE to show up as a CD-ROM when it’s plugged into a PC. Closeone explains why it is there and what can be done about it:
There is a file named PCTOOL.ISO inside the /system/etc directory that normally contains the HTC Sync Manager Software. By replacing that ISO with another, it’ll mount that one instead. Because there isn’t too much room to spare in the /system partition, the file should probably be kept relatively small.
There are a number of things users can put in place of the HTC Sync Manager Software, although not a whole lot of things have been tested yet. In theory, though, quite a few useful tools can be placed here, as closeone says:
1. ROM Developers can include a package that contains a copy of the ADB and Fastboot executables within their ROM. ADB would be useful while the device is on; Fastboot would probably have to be copied to the computer.
2. Because the ISO is mounted as Read-Only media, it could be incredibly useful for field technicians who need to run portable software, without the risk of being infected with a virus on the host machine.
Being able to run portable software without thread of virus is definitely something anyone could benefit from. Aside from being one of the more unique mods on XDA, having functionality like this on the EVO LTE can lead to various possibilities.
To learn more, check out the original thread."
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Choose media sync and choose the drive that pops up and choose the phone I believe
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Yeah I tired that already, its not plug and play ready.
I believe in TWRP there is and option to mount internal storage so you can access it from a pc
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I believe in TWRP there is and option to mount internal storage so you can access it from a pc
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Yeah that works but I don't want to put my phone in recovery mode every time I want to access my internal.
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Yeah I tired that already, its not plug and play ready.
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If your looking for wireless adb try Jelly Bomb Domination it has it
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bigdaddy619 said:
If your looking for wireless adb try Jelly Bomb Domination it has it
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No I am just looking to get my internal Memory in my phone to open up like a disk drive without the use of any drivers. (Basically have my my internal memory work just like how my external memory works)
Did you install anything to mount internal as a live cd? When I plug my USB and set to media sync I can now copy anything I want even if its over the 4gb max file limit.
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Did you install anything to mount internal as a live cd? When I plug my USB and set to media sync I can now copy anything I want even if its over the 4gb max file limit.
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Not that I know of, I only unlock, turned s off and flashed 2 roms on it. My current rom is recent meanrom
Got media sync to work.
I had to delete everything inside of the internal memory to get it to work
Hello all,
Today I noticed that my DNA only has roughly 1.5GB of internal storage left on the phone. Going to Settings>Storage, I see that my phone currently has 10.64GB of data under the section 'other'.
For the life of me, I cannot find out where these 10.6GBs are hiding. Plugging my phone into my computer, I am not able to find any folder that is using up that much space. I was not able to run a program like WinDirStat (a disk usage statistics program which identifies where most of your storage is being used up) on the phone because Windows doesn't see it as an external storage, but as an external device. I then went into Windows Explorer, unhid all folders, and copied them to my computer. Even when copying it over, it only moved over roughly 4GBs, which is what my apps/music/pics/vids were using up.
I don't have many downloaded apps, and most of them are productivity related (ie - very few games on the phone). I am at a complete loss and just short of simply resetting the phone.
Some helpful data:
Apps: 1.51 GB
Music: 2.64MB
Photos & Video: 2.4GB
Other: 10.65GB
Available: 1.44GB
Stock DNA running 4.1.1
I don't know why its at 10 gigs for you, but it does include the whole os, which is a few gigs.
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What is yours currently at? I'm curious how much more my phone is adding up.
I've also tried rebooting to see if that might free some up, no luck.
aflias said:
What is yours currently at? I'm curious how much more my phone is adding up.
I've also tried rebooting to see if that might free some up, no luck.
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5.something
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My "other" storage is 5gb too.