Need some help. I have a Dell Venue with 2.2. I have rooted the phone and installed ClockworkMod so I can get to the root directory. I frequently get low memory warnings and even warnings that an SMS message was rejected due to low system memory!
I have moved all of my downloaded Apps to the SD card (and deleted quite a few). I have set my email app to store email on the SD card. I have gone through the root directory and removed system apps that I do not ever use. I have even cleared the cache and the dalvik cache. All of this has helped, but only briefly. After doing all of this, the phone will be ok for maybe a day or two, then the warning returns. When I 1st got the phone a year ago, I had no problem having tons of apps stored on the phone, now I can't hardly have anything.
The warnings start at about 53M of internal storage available. Is there any way to free up more internal storage? Are there unnecessary files that can be deleted?
I really liked this phone when I 1st got it, but now I absolutely hate it and I am stuck with it for another 6months! HELP Please!
/cache and /system are seperate partitions: cleaning them won't give you any more space on /data.
you could move some apps into system if you understand some of the risks:
You have to manually update the copy in /system or you will end up with an old copy in /system and the new one in /data
modifying /system can lead to bricks if you don't understand what you're doing
Thanks!
TheManii said:
/cache and /system are seperate partitions: cleaning them won't give you any more space on /data.
you could move some apps into system if you understand some of the risks:
You have to manually update the copy in /system or you will end up with an old copy in /system and the new one in /data
modifying /system can lead to bricks if you don't understand what you're doing
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Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, something else has happened and my phone may actually be bricked for some reason. I decide to just factory reset the phone and reload everything from scratch hoping this would clear up the problems. As it goes through the start up, I connect to WiFi, connect to my google account, and when it attempts to start the Dell Stage, it just locks up. I have factory reset it 3 or 4 times with the same results every time. Not sure what happened.
Going to search on here to find a fresh copy of the factory ROM or maybe someone has posted a Nand backup that I can load from the SD card. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
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So, I'm a bit stumped as what to do here. I have an LG Optimus V, running on Virgin's network. I have rooted my phone through IHO (using CM7.1). The guide I used to root the phone I would link but since I'm a newbie I can't...
My problem is the system cache is slowly diminishing. I've noticed this when I try to go and install an app on the market and it says I have insufficient space on the device. Well, I have around 100mb free on the phone, and around 7gb free on my SD card. So, after some research I found how the market install apps through the cache.
Every post and guide I've read to fix this issue says to wipe the market cache and data, or wipe the phone's cache and dalvik cache. I have done both. Still, I have insufficient space on the device. I got a system stat app that displays info about the cache. For system cache, it says I have around 110mb total, but only about 12mb free.
So, I recovered a backup of mine (it still had IHO running). This time it had 20mb free, even after wiping all the cache. I tried wiping the cache through Titanium Backup, with no luck.
At this point, I'm unsure how long I've had this problem. I wonder if I had it from when I first flashed IHO (which was sometime early January) and the cache has just slowly decreased over time, and it's gotten so low I'm now having issues. I didn't have this before I rooted my phone. But this is obviously a problem, because if it continuous to decrease, not only will I not be able to install hardly any apps, but I won't even be able to download updates, to my understanding.
So, after that backup failing I went on to flash my other backup, rooted but without cm7 flashed. However, before I tried recovering this backup I wiped the entire phone (data, cache, dalvik cache). Then after trying to restore I got a MD5 mismatch! error.
I've scoured the internet and can't find anything relating to my cache issue. I feel helpless! And I have no idea what to do. Any ideas?
EDIT: I don't know if this matters or not, but I forgot to mention that the recovery I'm using is called "Xionia CWMA" v1.2518.6. I'm assuming this is a modded version of ClockworkMod.
I think you are getting the system and data partitions mixed up.
When you install apps from the market, they take up space in the /data folder in your phone. I believe this folder can also be looked at as your internal memory.
The system folder is a whole other folder that the market does not touch at all. The apps in the /system folder are your system apps (pretty much all the apps that cannot be uninstalled through settings).
When the market says you have insufficient space on your device, it is saying that you need to free up some room in your /data folder, not your /system folder. One thing you can do is start moving all of your apps to the sdcard. There are two ways:
1. Go to settings>applications>manage applications. Under each app, select the option "move to sdcard."
or
2. Using titanium backup, you can do a batch operation that automatically moves your apps to the sdcard for you (menu button>batch>move user apps to the sdcard).
This should free up a lot of space if you haven't done this already.
As for your md5 error, I have no clue about that.
Hmmm. OK. Well I have most of my apps moved over to my SD card. I would barely have much space to do anything if I didn't move them to the SD; this phone has a pathetic internal space.
I'm looking at the app list and it says I have 72mb used, but 107mb free. I'm pretty sure that this is enough space to install an app at 20mb! As for my SD card, I've used 7.06gb and have 7.9gb free.
Thing is, before I rooted I didn't have the insufficient space error, and I had WAAAAY less space free. I would have around 40mb free maximum. Even when I first rooted the phone and put cm7 on it, this problem didn't appear. It started popping up maybe two weeks ago or so? And it seems to be getting worse.
EDIT: Ok, so I went and tried using Titanium Backup to move the rest of my apps to the SD card. I moved everything except my theme (LunarUI) and LauncherPro. I think I read somewhere you shouldn't move those apps. Anyways, I now have around 130mb free of internal space. And I still have the insufficient space error.
Okay, so my phone wasn't sending messages all of a sudden. I have a P769 on jelly bean rooted. I restarted it and it got stuck in a bootloop over and over again after countless battery removals. I used CWM and tried to restore my backup of JB rooted, and all I got was a bunch of force closes. So I restored to my 10G rooted on ICS. All of my Google apps were gone and I went to take a picture and it said my internal memory was full and wouldn't read my SD card. I did factory resets and nothing works. I'm not sure what else to try.. any help would be appreciated!
Edit: I finally got JB to load and it would scan my SD card, then reboot itself while it was still up and running? I could see my backlights on my buttons flashing. So I took out my SD card, same thing. I wiped the cache and reformatted my SD card and now i'm getting an error message saying that my UIDs are inconsistent and it won't let me do a thing on the phone. My phone was fine 12 hours ago.. I haven't downloaded a thing or accessed anything at all.
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Okay, so my phone wasn't sending messages all of a sudden. I have a P769 on jelly bean rooted. I restarted it and it got stuck in a bootloop over and over again after countless battery removals. I used CWM and tried to restore my backup of JB rooted, and all I got was a bunch of force closes. So I restored to my 10G rooted on ICS. All of my Google apps were gone and I went to take a picture and it said my internal memory was full and wouldn't read my SD card. I did factory resets and nothing works. I'm not sure what else to try.. any help would be appreciated!
Edit: I finally got JB to load and it would scan my SD card, then reboot itself while it was still up and running? I could see my backlights on my buttons flashing. So I took out my SD card, same thing. I wiped the cache and reformatted my SD card and now i'm getting an error message saying that my UIDs are inconsistent and it won't let me do a thing on the phone. My phone was fine 12 hours ago.. I haven't downloaded a thing or accessed anything at all.
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I know the UID inconsistent error from my previous phone. Wipe data. Solves the problem.
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How did you 'reformatted sdcard' ? Are you talking about internal memory(built in) or external memory (microsd)?
If you have some fresh backup system like 20x STOCK or whatever. (you can download it from XDA)
After this actions it will totally format your phone. You will no longer have system, apps, files that were on internal memory. It's kind of format C: on computer! So make sure you have backup on your external sdcard (microsd) and make sure to don't format your external sdcard.
I did it few times when I was messing around with custom ROMs so it's safe. I'm owner of P760 but don't think so if it will cause some problems.
1.Then you can go into CWM and mounts and storage and format following:
/cache
/data
/system
/sdcard - it is INTERNAL MEMORY (built in)
2.and then Advanced -> wipe dalvik cache
3. backup and restore -> restore from external sdcard -> choose your backup
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How did you 'reformatted sdcard' ? Are you talking about internal memory(built in) or external memory (microsd)?
If you have some fresh backup system like 20x STOCK or whatever. (you can download it from XDA)
After this actions it will totally format your phone. You will no longer have system, apps, files that were on internal memory. It's kind of format C: on computer! So make sure you have backup on your external sdcard (microsd) and make sure to don't format your external sdcard.
I did it few times when I was messing around with custom ROMs so it's safe. I'm owner of P760 but don't think so if it will cause some problems.
1.Then you can go into CWM and mounts and storage and format following:
/cache
/data
/system
/sdcard - it is INTERNAL MEMORY (built in)
2.and then Advanced -> wipe dalvik cache
3. backup and restore -> restore from external sdcard -> choose your backup
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I've wiped the data like the previous answer, and I also tried this.. I went into CWM and formatted all of this and wiped the dalvik cache, then tried to restore from external sdcard, which I tried my JB and ICS and neither worked. Right now I am on my JB and it just gets stuck at the T-Mobile 4G logo.
EDIT: I tried formatting everything and restoring from my external sdcard and my phone won't recognize my sdcard anymore. It says there are no files on it, but I try it on another phone and I can see the files.
I've had something along these lines before on my Huawei Honor. I never did work out what was wrong. I asked on xda and it was suggested that the partitions on the phone had resized/gone corrupt.
I'm not saying this is what has happened in your case. The sudden force closes and then no boot is what my Honor did.
Can you get software update mode to come on? Switch off, hold volume up and plug in usb from pc.
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Yes I had the same problem when I upgraded from ics to jb. Never figured out what happened but I copied all my files to the computer then I formatted my external sd. After the format I just copied all the stuff back on the card. Also cwm doesn't work for the second partition. Good luck.
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Hi all,
I have come to a conclusion that I need more suggestions than most posted threads that have similar issues. I am past the basic tests, but I am sure there are more options.
The issue: I cannot install any new APK's either from Google Play or even via ADB. I am getting the common "Insufficient storage available" error. I assume all installed files land in /data/app first which is on the internal storage. So I have attached some screenshots below that prove that everything should be working fine given there is a lot of free space left.
Also, other things I have done are:
- Wipe dalvik cache and /cache
- Fix Root permissions
- copy /system/xbin/busybox to /system/bin (cannot update busybox since I cannot install or overwrite due to this error)
- Check both /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/sdcard1 have enough space.
1- you should ask the moderator to move it to S3 Q&A
2- I've also encountered this kind of issue in the past. If you are using Philz recovery:
backup all files on sd + nandroid backup to sd1, do 'wipe to install a new rom', mount&storage->format system, format data and sdcard (it will delete your previous rom and all files on internal sd, so don't forget to copy a new one to your external sd, and be careful not to format sdcard1)
Now you can restore your nandroid backup (don't forget to copy backed-up files to sd afterwards) or to install a freash one
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Try an app called Diskusage ... maybe it helps.
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Try an app called Diskusage ... maybe it helps.
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Hard to install any new APK's / apps since I get this message every single time.
Nothing worse than someone saying why don't you try... app; don't think they understand your dilemma. Can you install an. Apk from phone or ext men?
Can you install things if you remove your ext sd?
Edit #1: Sorry, the question form didn't save the "This is a question post" tick after I previewed, I hope that doesn't mess up things.
Edit #2: I should also point out that I backed up everything previously, so I don't care about saving any data on the phone, I just want it working again...
Edit #3: I keep forgetting some small details, the phone wouldn't boot even when removing the SD card.
Hello,
Two days ago I decided to try the SD Link feature from Link2SD on my Galaxy S2, because I was tired of running low on internal storage space when I had a 32gb SD card just for photos.
I was only linking games and other apps that were not important to the phone's normal functionality, but on 3 our 4 occasions Link2SD would hang on the linking process and I'd wait 10 minutes before force quitting the app each time. This wasn't causing any problems, until the last hang. I restarted the app and saw that it couldn't compute any of the other apps internal size. So I rebooted the phone and got stuck on a boot crash.
Sometimes the boot would go beyond the Samsung logo and into the Cyanogenmod loading, but the phone would shutdown before leaving that screen.
I had CWM on my phone, so I tried a bunch of stuff:
to wipe data/factory reset
wipe dalvik cache
wipe cache
reinstall Cyanogenmod from a zip (either from internal, sdcard0, sdcard1, and even Odin)
After so many attempts, my searches started pointing me to the fact that some system files could be bad, so I tried:
format /system
format /data
I didn't format /boot but it's reaching the point that it's the only thing I haven't tried.
So next I used Odin to flash back to stock ROM, and in the process lost CWM.
Since that didn't work, I flashed a stock Kernel too.
I should point out that the phone was working perfectly before this Link2SD mess, and also that each time I flashed with Odin, I would get a glimpse of the app optimization process, that would reach around 39 of 42 apps before the phone would shutdown.
I'm running out of ideas and search keywords.
Please help.
Thank you for your time.
I did some searching around and didn't find anyone as dumb as me.
Anyways, here is the story.
I was attempting to make a new TWRP backup, and I was having some issues deleting the old ones. So I decided to just backup all my files and wipe my internal storage. I was a dumbass and thought, hey since I'm making new backups, lets the delete the old ones. Herp derp.
I did this in TWRP, rebooted back to the system and now the system UI isn't loading among other things. I can launch any app (they are all intact) but my nav/status bar are completely gone and the internal storage won't load on my PC. I am running stock rooted ZV8 de-odexed.
As of right now, I've pulled backups of system/data after the fact, but I really just need to know how the hell do I restore this internal storage partition.
If anyone else comes across this and did this same stupid that I did, it was a permissions error with data/media after the wipe.
Connect to an adb shell and issue
restorecon -FR /data
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reboot, and your issues should be fixed.