I'm having a reoccurring issue with cached thumbnails on my prime every few months, this is the second or third time I have been nearing full capacity on my prime off /data alone. The problem is that I'll always have an obscene number of that in gallery thumbnails. I had the stock gallery app and quickpic installed, but I just removed stock to see if that fixes anything. This time SD maid picked up 6gb of cached thumbnails.
My music and videos stored on my microsd card, and I clean browser downloads weekly, so not much beside /data is on the internal storage.
What worries me is this might be a system issue, has anyone else experienced this problem?
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I am running CM7.2 on my Atrix, and when I stored photos on the internal storage, it would store them in reverse chronological order, as it was supposed to. I had never kept an SD card in my phone but I recently got a good deal on a 64gb SanDisk card and set the camera to store pictures on the external storage.
Pictures stored on the SD card were being stored in chronological order, instead of reverse chronological order, so I had to scroll through all of them to get to my most recent. Pictures on the internal storage and pictures in other albums (such as downloaded pictures) were still in reverse, it was just the SD photos that were wrong.
A few weeks ago, I was going to be out of cell coverage for a week, so I transferred all of my photos to the SD card so I would have more space for pinning music from Google Music (why doesn't Google Music allow you to use external storage for pinning music?) and now all of my photos, except my downloaded photos which are still on my internal storage, are in the wrong order. I have over 400 photos, so this is kind of a pain.
Is there a setting I am missing, or is this a known issue with external SD cards?
Use quickpic. You can choose how you want them displayed. Its the best out there.
That is a great alternative, and I have been playing with it for a little bit now. Thank you for pointing it out. But what I would really like is to know why the stock gallery app is acting like it is.
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That is a great alternative, and I have been playing with it for a little bit now. Thank you for pointing it out. But what I would really like is to know why the stock gallery app is acting like it is.
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That I don't know. From the day I got my phone I've used quickpic as the stock gallery never finds all of my 2000+ pictures internally or externally.
Not sure if anyone has noticed this, but the storage app is showing Pictures, Videos as 8GB+ but when I select that entry, it shows up a few MB of files (DCIM, camera phone pictures). there's nothing on the internal memory in terms of pictures and videos.
Also Total Space is 11.35GB, and Available is 9.87GB with 1.31 GB taken up by apps.
so I'd say the Pictures, Videos entry is just plain wrong, not that it's counting random images stored in the memory.
Tried clearing cache, dalvik etc, but no joy, it just won't show properly.
Anyone notice this problem or have a fix handy ?
Hi,
I'm on Omega ROM V24 XWLSW (4.1.2) and I have recently encountered a weird and annoying problem. At first, I noticed that Instagram couldn't refresh its feed and trying to load videos made it crash, then I saw Facebook was refreshing feed, but not loading pictures. I didn't know what caused this and I thought it was app-related, but then I saw the gallery thumbnails appearing as simply grey squares, and when trying to load a picture it loads it with "lag" (imagine the picture divided to 16 squares, and each square loads after another...). Then I realised it had to do with the internal memory.
Every time I reboot it's back to normal, but after a period of time (which I can't really say is constant) the internal memory is back on "half-sleep". I can still access it with file explorers and I can still view pictures on it via gallery (read above), but apps like Instagram/Facebook/WhatsApp can't use it (I can't download photos). Maybe it becomes read-only? I don't know. When I connect the phone to my computer with the USB function in "Settings" it has to reload the internal memory and the SD card so it also timely resolves the problem.
I have no idea what causes this and I'm asking here for any suggestions you guys might have before I factory reset or whatever.
Thanks in advance!
Nobody?
After using the phone for a while, even if you don't install lots of apps, the 16GB internal storage area will eventually get full. Facebook, chrome, twitter etc develop large caches on the device. The thumbnail file balloons to several GBs. Even if you have a microSD, Google these days limit portability to the microSD. There are some workarounds. I use an app called Link2SD. I have created a 2nd partition on my microSD card, and use this app to move app data and cache files to this storage area.
How do you cope with the 16GB storage limit? How do you move apps and/or app data to the microSD card?
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After using the phone for a while, even if you don't install lots of apps, the 16GB internal storage area will eventually get full. Facebook, chrome, twitter etc develop large caches on the device. The thumbnail file balloons to several GBs. Even if you have a microSD, Google these days limit portability to the microSD. There are some workarounds. I use an app called Link2SD. I have created a 2nd partition on my microSD card, and use this app to move app data and cache files to this storage area.
How do you cope with the 16GB storage limit? How do you move apps and/or app data to the microSD card?
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And use folder mount. But the ultra does seem to collect a lot of a cache I've noticed over the years. I just clear it. Not to mention es file explorer has a recycling bin which is a nightmare.
I don't use the phone storage expect for Google everything else I run on my SD card.
Link2SD sucks its all complicated folder mount gets right to the point. Plus I use CyanogenMod so out of the box my phone only uses like 700mb
i remember on my desire hd on og the devs made a way to make the phone think that sd card was iternal memory so in other words i had 32gb internal also did this on my samsung tablet too
I have never filled up the internal storage completely. I have a 64GB SD which I use to store some of my music on, and all wallpapers and photos are moved to the SD. The only things I have on the internal storage are apps, and non of them manages to balloon the cache up to several gigs. Chrome has a cache limit of 200 MB, Reddit Sync has an option to clear the cache every day/every time I close it etc, so the things that takes up the most space are games. Those aren't causing any issues either since I only have 2 or 3 games installed at all times. When I'm done with them, I uninstall them. The stock ROM also has "App to SD" (which I don't use, but it's there). So all in all, I don't have to overcome any limits.
I can see how it's an issue if you insist in having 600 apps installed at all times, but then it's not the hardware's fault, but the user that's incredibly messy and stupid.
I use Obb on SD (Xposed) for games such as the GTA series and have a task for cleaning the Album cache with Tasker every day (that app tend to build huge cache files, I have experienced 1 GB....) and I am also careful to move downloaded stuff to the microSD card.
I also clean the cache regularly under storage and is usually with 2 GB free on the internal disk.
It is handy to set up Tasker to do regular cleaning of cache folders for those apps who tend to create big caches as well. When decent Marshmallow ROMs are out, my plan is to format my microSD card as "internal storage" (ext4 per the new feature introduced) which will make everything more seamless.
occasionally (not every day, not every photo, sometimes not even the same photo) on day reset (internal clock 00:00) photos delete themselves from my gallery app. conditions to keep in mind:
-google drive back up disabled, google drive uninstalled
-google photos back up disabled, google photos app uninstalled
-samsung+ not connected, samsung cloud backup disabled
-generic cloud back up disabled
-its not my norton junk cleaner clearing out photos
-its not the Settings>device maintenance cache clear/free up space or optimization tools
(have considerations and settings set so none of these deletes or has access to photos)
and as per norton scan i have no viruses, malware or ransomware.
photos could be recovered by rooting data recovery process but thats not the issue.
the issue is why are photos being deleted( directory file state set to free space) on day change?
the only two things ive been able to determine are that its a problem with either android OS or the stock gallery app itself. how do i debug and fix this?
SDcard?
no on sim card internal memory
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SDcard?
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nope just on normal sim card internal memory. havent added the SD card yet.
I'd reset the phone and if it continues I'd put it down to faulty internal memory then
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I'd reset the phone and if it continues I'd put it down to faulty internal memory then
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it started day 1 on factory out of the box settings
Pictures/Photos disappearing and/or half greyed out
darth_brando said:
occasionally (not every day, not every photo, sometimes not even the same photo) on day reset (internal clock 00:00) photos delete themselves from my gallery app. conditions to keep in mind:
-google drive back up disabled, google drive uninstalled
-google photos back up disabled, google photos app uninstalled
-samsung+ not connected, samsung cloud backup disabled
-generic cloud back up disabled
-its not my norton junk cleaner clearing out photos
-its not the Settings>device maintenance cache clear/free up space or optimization tools
(have considerations and settings set so none of these deletes or has access to photos)
and as per norton scan i have no viruses, malware or ransomware.
photos could be recovered by rooting data recovery process but thats not the issue.
the issue is why are photos being deleted( directory file state set to free space) on day change?
the only two things ive been able to determine are that its a problem with either android OS or the stock gallery app itself. how do i debug and fix this?
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I started noticing pictures/photos disappearing and SOME pictures half-greyed out about a month ago. The problem first appeared close to the time I received a system update. I had 334 pictures stored on my PC and copied onto my SD Card. I now have 84 of those original pictures still on the SD Card, but I can't see some pictures and others are half-greyed out. What is going on is beyond me, but a Google search found the issue reported on several sites, but the problem is not only with the S9 series, but also the S8. So far the best recommendation is to uninstall updates to the Gallery. I'm testing it now. However, I can't copy pictures from my PC onto the SD card for some reason. So, more research is needed.