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What's best and easiest way to free up some internal storage space ?
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Transfer any apps you can to the sdcard seems like the obvious move, and I think there's a few apps on the market that will clear the cache for you

Crawshayi said:
Transfer any apps you can to the sdcard seems like the obvious move, and I think there's a few apps on the market that will clear the cache for you
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Tried that.....looking for something more in depth....thanks
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[Q] anybody know how to move data apps to system

I am using the gingerbread offical rom but it has low internal memory as we all know, but i noticed apps like maps and facebook and twitter are saved on the data partition not the system, and the is 50mb left unused on the system where these large none app2sd apks can go, so anyone know of an app or any other way to move them
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Titanium backup (paid version)
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asilvan said:
Titanium backup (paid version)
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So that can move them thanks ill give it a go
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Saving pictures?

Running CM10.1, I wiped my sdcard already so that my phone could read both which it does I have pictures on both my extsdcard and sdcard which gallery can see both but when I download a picture it saves to sdcard but the gallery can't see them even though it sees other pictures in that folder. I can access the pictures through root explorer though, anyone know anything?
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Running CM10.1, I wiped my sdcard already so that my phone could read both which it does I have pictures on both my extsdcard and sdcard which gallery can see both but when I download a picture it saves to sdcard but the gallery can't see them even though it sees other pictures in that folder. I can access the pictures through root explorer though, anyone know anything?
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I think this is due to the media scanner. If you reboot I bet it will show up in the Gallery.
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I think this is due to the media scanner. If you reboot I bet it will show up in the Gallery.
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No luck... I tried to refresh list as well as reboot phone and still nada...
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Try wiping data for Media Storage.
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Joecascio2000 said:
Try wiping data for Media Storage.
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This didn't work either but this morning strangely enough they're being read
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Strange problems in storage

Hi there I'm running my mobile on latest root box version. I face a strange my phone storage automatically gets full. Even if delete some files it actually occupies the deleted space. This thing is not happening with my external card. Is this a virus problem? Please let me know
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any one knows?
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any one knows?
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Are you playing a game called "Wild Blood" (it had a bad habit of making huge save files which ate up a lot of my memory) and have you tried clearing cache, cache files are generated every time you use certain applications, for example Chrome browser may generate more than 100mb of cache data .
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Telling me I don't have enough storage but I do.

Hey guys I have about a gig of free space on my internal storage and close to 10 gigs on my SD and my phone keeps telling me to free up space when I try open the gallery. Any ideas?
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move some apps over to your external sd....(apps to sd)
droidstyle said:
move some apps over to your external sd....(apps to sd)
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I have a gig free
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If you're rooted and dirty-flashed a rom, you can get the same error. I had the same issue awhile back with a particular rom I flashed/upgraded. Hope that helps.
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could be not enough room in the system partition due to the way some apps work?
just guessing but the space it needs might not be in the partitions you are looking at?
how can I view the internal storage on my phone? it says I have 9 gigs full but I don't know how to view it in astro
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Storage Full??

So when I go into storage it said I have 9gb of "other" ?? Anyone have an idea what it can be? I've looked everywhere through my phone to find these mysterious files.
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Like a bunch of text maybe game saves obb files
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Try file manager in root mode and check for your old files and ROM backups in /data/media folder.
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OK just to be sure here. I'm on a 4.2 rom as well and I have a about 9 gigs taken up. I turned es file Explorer on root mode and unhid the hidden files. I looked and there was a data/media folder with about 9 gigs in it. Should I delete this and I will be fine?
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That's all your personal data. Don't delete the whole thing but look for the large directories under there.
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Well I looked through there and it seems to be almost a copy of my SD card folder. I looked through all the files and there is 5 files with the exact same contents. They are all identical to the SD card folder and they are taking up the same amount of space . the files are SD card, inside the data/media and 0 inside the same folder. Inside the storage folder there is both sdcard0 and legacy. All these have the same contents.
What's up with this?
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Your old home folder is /data/media the new one is the 0 folder. You can delete most of the duplicates from media, and can move anything into 0 that you want to keep.
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When you upgrade from a 4.1.1 rom to a 4.2.2 rom or 4.3 rom your storage changes from sdcard0 to something else so you will find a lot of duplicates that can be deleted. Just for future reference.
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If you check the size of the /data it will probably explain the missing space. Just backup your important info to the pc and do an internal wipe
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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I've had this problem, and like torrentd said back up important files to pc and I format internal storage in recovery. Deletes all useless files and replicas.
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henslo said:
I've had this problem, and like torrentd said back up important files to pc and I format internal storage in recovery. Deletes all useless files and replicas.
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Thanks, but would you mind giving me some specifics on what directories/file systems to format? The space usage for me doesn't appear to be in /data/media like many others have posted so part of my problem is that I'm not sure where to look.
techinv said:
Thanks, but would you mind giving me some specifics on what directories/file systems to format? The space usage for me doesn't appear to be in /data/media like many others have posted so part of my problem is that I'm not sure where to look.
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If you use twrp recovery, just go in wipe, and wipe internal storage.
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henslo said:
If you use twrp recovery, just go in wipe, and wipe internal storage.
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Okay. Would I be flashing my ROM/kernel combination after that step?
I assume that restoring a backup might introduce problems so probably better to stay away from that??
Thanks
techinv said:
Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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That screenshot is useless, depending on if you are using android 4.1.x or android 4.2.x
4.2.x introduces a new filesystem and starts using a new directory /data/media/0
all of your old data is still in /data/media and your phone is looking at /data/media/0 for sdcard space
it calculates total space by how big /data media is and its contents are under /0 (the 0 is the user that is on the device, /1 would be a second user account, however user accounts are disabled on phones)

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