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I have a rooted vibrant with lag fix, the day before yesterday my camera wad working fine, but now when I went to it today it gives me a warning saying not enough memory, yet my internal is showing 910mb and my sd has 10.3gb. The only thing I can think of howe this might be messed up is I installed metamorph last night, buy never even tried to apply a theme being that the file did not unzip properly. Besides that,i only installed an app called disk usage (which doesn't even ask root permission) from thee time I took my last photo. Any ideas on how to fix this before I reinstall my nandroid backup to see if that works?
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I changed the directory where the files go to the phone instead of the sd, because in reality my true sd was full but the phone memory sd is not.
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Leoslick said:
I have a rooted vibrant with lag fix, the day before yesterday my camera wad working fine, but now when I went to it today it gives me a warning saying not enough memory, yet my internal is showing 910mb and my sd has 10.3gb. The only thing I can think of howe this might be messed up is I installed metamorph last night, buy never even tried to apply a theme being that the file did not unzip properly. Besides that,i only installed an app called disk usage (which doesn't even ask root permission) from thee time I took my last photo. Any ideas on how to fix this before I reinstall my nandroid backup to see if that works?
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I posted a fix for this a while back
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=752471&highlight=Database+Storage+Low
looks like the thing to do is click on the warning and delete the bloated contacts link and you will be fine.
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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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
Can anyone confirm this bug? I just picked up my replacement Inc 4G due to various issues. However, this one sticks.
Click on the Music app or go in through settings, personalize, sounds and set a custom ringtone.
Now, restart the phone.
Is it still there or is it gone? It's gone for me every single time.
You can also plug it in to your computer, mount as disk drive and then charge only. It reverts back to the stock tones here too.
Note: Default factory tones work but customs tones do not after a restart.
HTC has noted the bug since they can't help me.
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Works fine for me. Are you running any third-party apps that deal with ringtones/notifications?
Interesting. No I am not. Are your tones mp3, wav or something else? Also, what folder are they coming from (sd storage folder, phone storage, etc.) Thanks in advance!
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carrevan said:
Can anyone confirm this bug? I just picked up my replacement Inc 4G due to various issues. However, this one sticks.
Click on the Music app or go in through settings, personalize, sounds and set a custom ringtone.
Now, restart the phone.
Is it still there or is it gone? It's gone for me every single time.
You can also plug it in to your computer, mount as disk drive and then charge only. It reverts back to the stock tones here too.
Note: Default factory tones work but customs tones do not after a restart.
HTC has noted the bug since they can't help me.
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A little late, but yes, I did have this problem and actually got so frustrated by it, I returned the phone. My replacement phone seemed to be ok until today, when I had to reinstall my RUU (stock ROM) and now it won't recognize ANY of my custom ringtones, even though they're still clearly visible on my SD card. Furthermore, there is no message in the notification bar when it boots up "Preparing SD card" like I believe there used to be. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
I think HTC dropped the ball on this phone.... so many bugs :/
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carrevan said:
I think HTC dropped the ball on this phone.... so many bugs :/
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It's a day later and I'm still having no luck getting the phone to see my custom ringtones, which I've basically carried around with me from phone to phone over the years. I thought maybe copying them into the pre-installed folders that were installed on my SD card (alarms, ringtones, notifications) would help, but that didn't work either.
Before that they were in the standard setup for the OG Incredible: Media>Audio>Ringtones, etc, which always worked fine, and worked fine on this phone until my recent issues and having to reinstall stock RUU. Flashed Viper 2.0 last night, however, and custom ringtones still not showing up.
Note: I've unmounted and remounted SD card several times, done battery pulls, and all physical files are visible using Astro. Just not visible when I try to set them via the Personalize Setting.
Any thoughts? Thanks
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It's a day later and I'm still having no luck getting the phone to see my custom ringtones, which I've basically carried around with me from phone to phone over the years. I thought maybe copying them into the pre-installed folders that were installed on my SD card (alarms, ringtones, notifications) would help, but that didn't work either.
Before that they were in the standard setup for the OG Incredible: Media>Audio>Ringtones, etc, which always worked fine, and worked fine on this phone until my recent issues and having to reinstall stock RUU. Flashed Viper 2.0 last night, however, and custom ringtones still not showing up.
Note: I've unmounted and remounted SD card several times, done battery pulls, and all physical files are visible using Astro. Just not visible when I try to set them via the Personalize Setting.
Any thoughts? Thanks
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Put them in the same folder as other ringtones I think its system/media. Change permission to match the others reboot profit?
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I had this problem for a while, too.
Try putting your custom ringtones in
/sdcard/Ringtones
I haven't had the issue since.
ETA:
Put alarms in
/sdcard/Alarms
Notifications in
/sdcard/Notifications
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jamminjon82 said:
Put them in the same folder as other ringtones I think its system/media. Change permission to match the others reboot profit?
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I've also noticed that my SD card is not being recognized in the Gallery either (none of my previous camera shots are visible). (I'm running Viper 2.0. I'll check the Viper threads when I get home to see if there are any threads related to this)
I actually don't see System Folders on neither the phone, the internal storage nor my SD card, which is kind of odd since I remember those folders clearly on other phones. A few days ago, I "accidentally" did a system wipe from TWRP, as I was used to using CWM, and got a little hasty. I hope that didn't wipe out crucial folders.
After not being able to find System folders, I did move my notifications to internal storage into the folders which came with the phone, but no luck. (Which was suggested above by Junkmail19)
I'm definitely having some issues at the moment, so I'm going to restore back to Stock and see if that helps at all. Thanks for any further insight you or anyone else can add.
P.S. Just restored back to Stock, and gallery is back, but custom ringtones still not accessible. I sure do miss those guys....
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Put them in the same folder as other ringtones I think its system/media. Change permission to match the others reboot profit?
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I finally got this going. Thanks for your suggestion. That's what worked. Just wondering why suddenly after unlocking/root, my custom notifications were no longer recognized on either the external or internal SD?
Does everyone have to (or will have to) move custom ringtones to the System Folder? It seems kind of odd, and I was just curious if anyone had an explanation why or is it just a singular quirk of my particular phone?
dodgerinNH said:
I finally got this going. Thanks for your suggestion. That's what worked. Just wondering why suddenly after unlocking/root, my custom notifications were no longer recognized on either the external or internal SD?
Does everyone have to (or will have to) move custom ringtones to the System Folder? It seems kind of odd, and I was just curious if anyone had an explanation why or is it just a singular quirk of my particular phone?
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This was the ultimate solution required on my OG Dinc as well for this same issue.
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Not sure if I'm posting this in the right forum as it could be either a problem with the phone itself or with the SD card.
Sometimes when I reboot my phone about 50mb-2gb of music disappears from my external MicroSD card (class 10 SanDisk). As far as I can tell its always entire folders that disappear, never individual files. It happens quite frequently (probably 1 in 3 reboots) and its extremely frustrating.
I removed the card from my phone and put it in my PC to perform a disk check (no errors found) and format it but the problem persisted.
Can anyone tell me what's causing this and how to fix it?
You mean the files really gone, not even visible with PC?
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You mean the files really gone, not even visible with PC?
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Yep, the files get completely deleted, I can't even see them when viewing the contents of the card on my PC.
Suggestion: If you have another sd card, try testing it. Then you will know whether is the card problem or the phone problem.
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Arsaw said:
Suggestion: If you have another sd card, try testing it. Then you will know whether is the card problem or the phone problem.
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Okay so I tried testing the issue with an old 16gb class 2 Sandisk I had laying around (the one I'm currently having the issue with is 64gb). I rebooted the phone about six or seven times but I wasn't able to replcate the problem. The thing is I can't seem to trigger the problem again on my 64gb card even after rebooting about 10 times. So I'm geussing there's somrthing elese I've be doing in addition to rebooting the phone that has been causing the files to delete themselves. Any idea what that might be?
I guess all I can do now is just continue to use the phone normally, keep a close eye on what I'm doing and wait for the problem to arise again.
In the meantime here are few additional details:
The card is about 30gb full but its only ever about 2gb or less that go missing.
I was wrong about individual files being immune from deletion. about 90% of the songs in my GTA Vice City soundtrack disappeared (among other things). The weird thing is, is that when individual files are effected, they don't outright disappear from the card like folders do. The files are there but they're like ghost files or something, they just sort of get reduced dramatically in size and refuse to work. Its like what you'd have if you downloaded an album through a torrent but stopped the download around 10%, the files are visible, just incomplete.
While many things seem to disappear randomly, there also a bit a pattern. For example, my Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley and Rolling Stones folders all disappeared at once like three times in a row(maybe every time, I'm not quite sure). Not sure what's going on with that.
Don't know what is going on with your sd card. Anyway, glad that the problem somehow gone. Enjoy your phone and keep monitoring the sd card.
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Arsaw said:
Don't know what is going on with your sd card. Anyway, glad that the problem somehow gone. Enjoy your phone and keep monitoring the sd card.
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ARGHHH! It just happened again, all but one of the files in a folder somehow to reduced to 0.00kb. I'm just taking a wild guess here, could this have something to do with editing id3 tags in n7player? I think that's something most of the files have in common...
Could be. Try uninstall it or any apps you think may be related.
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Could be. Try uninstall it or any apps you think may be related.
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I tested this theory by editing various tags in n7player, rebooting, checking the available space on the SD card and repeating the process several times. Files disappeared about 3 in every 5 reboots so I think its safe to conclude that n7player was causing the problem. I didn't want to stop using n7player completely as it is by far my favorite music app, so now when I need to edit tags directly from phone I use ID3Fixer (but I mainly stick to editing files on my PC prior to transferring them just to be on the safe side). After a few days of normal usage, no files have disappeared.
I tried copying a Rom to my SD and got a popup saying that there wasn't enough space(although in visable space my SD was almost empty). Out of curiousity I decided to show hidden files, and deleted the .Trash-1000 folder, which for some odd reason was taking up 18 GB on my SD. This ever happen to anyone else?
Various trash folders can appear, the android system should keep them under control though.
If not, delete it yourself.
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I tried copying a Rom to my SD and got a popup saying that there wasn't enough space(although in visable space my SD was almost empty). Out of curiousity I decided to show hidden files, and deleted the .Trash-1000 folder, which for some odd reason was taking up 18 GB on my SD. This ever happen to anyone else?
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never seen this directory. what file app did you use to see it?
In my experience, deleting files on Android doesn't move them to Trash.
I've seen .Trash1000 on my Linux Desktop, so it's probably because of deleting files from your computer while your SD card is mounted as USB storage.
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That's where I saw it. I was trying to copy a Rom to my sd, but got an out of space error although I only had ~10 gb visible crap on my sd. Ctrl-H to show hidden and I saw trash, which had like... 18 gb in it. I've noticed that if my sd is mounted and I go to move something to trash from my desktop, it won't go to my desktop trash, but to trash on the sd.
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That's where I saw it. I was trying to copy a Rom to my sd, but got an out of space error although I only had ~10 gb visible crap on my sd. Ctrl-H to show hidden and I saw trash, which had like... 18 gb in it. I've noticed that if my sd is mounted and I go to move something to trash from my desktop, it won't go to my desktop trash, but to trash on the sd.
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If it went to your desktop trash then it would have to copy all the files to your computer, and waste space on your computer's disk.
IMO "Trash Cans" are pretty pointless. If you're not 100% sure that you want to delete a file, just don't delete it.
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