Hello, Guys I jus purchased my first Android Smartphone is possible can you delete Miscellaneous Files. In setting-Device-Storage-Device Memory.
Many Thanks
No idea it probably means those files are unimportant or left over by other apps?
Why do you wanted to del them?
cixtim3 said:
No idea it probably means those files are unimportant or left over by other apps?
Why do you wanted to del them?
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Just trying to save memory space.
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Hi,
My gf has a galaxy s2 and it shows low on space for the device memory. Weird thing is it shows the apps are taking 200mb space, but there is only few mb left out of 1.9GB. I deleted some apps and moved them to sd card. It opened 100mb of space. But again in quite short time it went down to less than 2mb free space. (Without doing anything)
Its usb storage and sd card has quite a lot space.
I'm suspecting some malicious application, but none seems like that. I'll probably do a factory reset. Before that is there anything I can try?
I tried downloading lookout security, but although it's a 4mb app and I had 10mb free at the time, it said insufficient space and did not install.
Have a read of http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1589970 and see if it applies to you.
I must have missed this one. Thanks a lot.
Though its not mine and don't want to root it. I'll try to find a workaround.
Guys thanks i read this forum..
I had the same issue my S2 is rooted so i was able to sort out and delete the dump files
I noticed that the dump file date is everyday with 438kb each how so I was getting this?
I had to delete 2000+ dump files is this some sort of malware?
I was suspecting an app doing this, I will post the actual screenshots of the file maybe you could do something about this..
demerok said:
Guys thanks i read this forum..
I had the same issue my S2 is rooted so i was able to sort out and delete the dump files
I noticed that the dump file date is everyday with 438kb each how so I was getting this?
I had to delete 2000+ dump files is this some sort of malware?
I was suspecting an app doing this, I will post the actual screenshots of the file maybe you could do something about this..
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Could you please tell the location of the dump files? Or how did you go about deleting them?
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mugenishere said:
Could you please tell the location of the dump files? Or how did you go about deleting them?
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I use FX Explorer> System Root > Data > Log
Delete the log folder to save you time from deleting the dump file one by one
then just create another folder and name it as log.
hope this helps.
In the device memory, despite the memory of 414MB used by applications (out of 2GB) ,the available is only 505MB.
Where is it gone?
Big question is "How can i get it back?"
Additional - ICS 4.0.3 (I777UCLE5) ,Rooted
EDIT : I found in root explorer, /data/log has occupied 514 MB (of the 2 GB device storage).
Is it an important folder or can i just delete it?
Ok you mention memory. Are we taking about memory or STORAGE space? ?
gvcabc said:
In the device memory, despite the memory of 414MB used by applications (out of 2GB) ,the available is only 505MB.
Where is it gone?
Big question is "How can i get it back?"
Additional - ICS 4.0.3 (I777UCLE5) ,Rooted
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That's strange, did you repartition anything? I would also not depend on the information you get from touchwiz. Try installing a 3rd party app to verify this is the case.
Phalanx7621 said:
Ok you mention memory. Are we taking about memory or STORAGE space? ?
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no its not RAM..its device storage
dsmboost said:
That's strange, did you repartition anything? I would also not depend on the information you get from touchwiz. Try installing a 3rd party app to verify this is the case.
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no repartition done.....can you mention a 3rd party app...
Factory reset
Always press thanks for help
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gvcabc said:
no repartition done.....can you mention a 3rd party app...
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Any task manager app will probably give you that info.
dsmboost said:
Any task manager app will probably give you that info.
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I don't think so.
He need DiskUsage.
Just download from play.
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Look at the contents of the folder. If there are only logs - you can delete (the logs, not the folder). If not - post the contents here (filenames and respective sizes).
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I don't think so.
He need DiskUsage.
Just download from play.
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Task managers usually have disk info.
Jack_R1 said:
Look at the contents of the folder. If there are only logs - you can delete (the logs, not the folder). If not - post the contents here (filenames and respective sizes).
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I went ahead and deleted the folder.....
I got much storage back. 1.2GB free now.
( After reboot it formed a new "log" folder without any log files....)
I found other folder "data/lost+found" consuming nearly 350MB.Can i delete this one too?
So in the end, what did we learn from this? Search through your phone with a file explorer app and delete anything unnecessary. Don't know if its important? Google the file name or directory name. I'm sure someone somewhere has wondered the same thing be4 you did. I'm glad you got your issue resolved bud. Good luck, happy flashing.
I'm not going to delete the "lost+found" folder.1.2GB is suffice for me now.Why mess-up?
Hi!
I have a problem in LG G2 mini of my brother!
He have make upgrade by wifi to Lollipop but he see that System Data
is too big 3,76Gb.
I have tryed to update with LG Flash Tool two times but System Data
increase to 4,11Gb.
How can I resolve that?
The phone is original, still under warranty and never root that.
Is a solution?
I have set twenty LG G2 Mini and this is the only one that have this
problem.
Thanks to everything.
On KitKat, it only shows user accessible space (a little less than 4GB).
On Lollipop, it shows the whole storage chip (8GB), including the ~4GB taken up by the system.
I am gonna be as clear as I can:
You cannot take that space back, as it is required for the system to work!
and you posted in the wrong section
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On KitKat, it only shows user accessible space (a little less than 4GB).
On Lollipop, it shows the whole storage chip (8GB), including the ~4GB taken up by the system.
I am gonna be as clear as I can:
You cannot take that space back, as it is required for the system to work!
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is there a list of safely removable programs?
brenyoka said:
is there a list of safely removable programs?
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That won't change anything. (You need root anyway)
System apps are stored on the system partition ( /system ) which by itself is 2GB and you can't change its size without root. However, even if you had root, it is very dangerous and the stock Lollipop ROM leaves ~30MB free on it, so the system would brake (and you would end up with a soft-bricked phone).
The other 2GB are taken by other partitions, all of which are required and you can't reduce their size.
Sorry
numpea said:
and you posted in the wrong section
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I'm sorry!
Curiosity
Vagelis1608 said:
On KitKat, it only shows user accessible space (a little less than 4GB).
On Lollipop, it shows the whole storage chip (8GB), including the ~4GB taken up by the system.
I am gonna be as clear as I can:
You cannot take that space back, as it is required for the system to work!
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Ok, thanks for the reply. But it's strange that in my smartphone there isn't this separation, while in 4 smartphone I noticed it but of different sizes. Why different sizes? Strange...can you tell me also that my curiosity ?
2 gigs for system folder, 700 mb for cache. Plus some folders between 200 and 500. Maybe some carrier chances using or not these folders. Would need to look further to find the reason.
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Dalvik cache stuff...
Hi, ive heard you could delete the dalvik cache file of the leftover of kitkat... Is that possible ? And would that be fine?
Voidpursuit said:
Hi, ive heard you could delete the dalvik cache file of the leftover of kitkat... Is that possible ? And would that be fine?
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You need root.
Simply delete /data/dalvik-cache
BTW, it will free a lot of space.
Vagelis1608 said:
You need root.
Simply delete /data/dalvik-cache
BTW, it will free a lot of space.
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Wow, thanks, I'll do that. But that won't affect anything, right?... since im in lollipop now.
And, is everything in data/dalvik-cache safe to remove? Thanks a bunch!
Voidpursuit said:
Wow, thanks, I'll do that. But that won't affect anything, right?... since im in lollipop now.
And, is everything in data/dalvik-cache safe to remove? Thanks a bunch!
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Delete everything under /data/dalvik-cache and then reboot immediately!
If the system needs any of those files, it will recreate them on boot.
Hi, I've downloaded MIUI 8.1.3.0, the latest version released, but I'm getting a problem: 'misc' is taking too much memory space, but I've deleted all de folders and files from the internal storage. Could someone help me?
iRomulls said:
Hi, I've downloaded MIUI 8.1.3.0, the latest version released, but I'm getting a problem: 'misc' is taking too much memory space, but I've deleted all de folders and files from the internal storage. Could someone help me?
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It's always like that on MIUI. You have to examine those files manually. Yo can also try app called SD Maid which did a great job on my phone before, deleted unused files far more thoroughly than MIUI's own cleaner.
khnoizer said:
It's always like that on MIUI. You have to examine those files manually. Yo can also try app called SD Maid which did a great job on my phone before, deleted unused files far more thoroughly than MIUI's own cleaner.
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SD maid didn't work :\
It never happened before I update to 8.1.3.0
Do you know something else?
iRomulls said:
SD maid didn't work :\
It never happened before I update to 8.1.3.0
Do you know something else?
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I'm not sure, but because you're updating, then got this problem, maybe you should suspect old MIUI files from previous rom being the culprit. For example "MIUI" folder on internal storage. However, you might lost some things when you delete this. Themes for example.
But I'm not too sure, so please be careful and look for other possibilities too before do it.
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khnoizer said:
I'm not sure, but because you're updating, then got this problem, maybe you should suspect old MIUI files from previous rom being the culprit. For example "MIUI" folder on internal storage. However, you might lost some things when you delete this. Themes for example.
But I'm not too sure, so please be careful and look for other possibilities too before do it.
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I've already deleted the folder, but nothing changed... Thanks, I'm gonna do another factory reset
I have noticed whenever I delete a file on the internal memory the space does not free.
HELP!! Whats going on?
here with FULMICS 3.5 custom rom i can not confirm that! After deleting a 875MB file, the free space was directly add to free mem!
Juko Experience said:
I have noticed whenever I delete a file on the internal memory the space does not free.
HELP!! Whats going on?
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Did you use ES file manager to delete?
It moves deleted ones into trashbin or something similar like that. You should look for that folder and empty it, or just disable that function.
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Juko Experience said:
I have noticed whenever I delete a file on the internal memory the space does not free.
HELP!! Whats going on?
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I have had this issue on my g4. Somtimes will take a few min to reflect changes. Also some folders will not disappear until rebooted.
i always chalked it to a bug in the system . Have you tried any other apps that read disk space?
ted presley said:
Did you use ES file manager to delete?
It moves deleted ones into trashbin or something similar like that. You should look for that folder and empty it, or just disable that function.
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It ask for the root directory whenever deletng then it fails