Hey guys, long time no see. I've recently came back to Android after a longtime hiatus with iOS. Nonetheless, I've acquired a 64GB HTC One. Although they guy I got it from didn't specify it being rooted, the device has been, and I even found a rom.zip on the root of the card. I've since deleted it, however, I believe it was labeled "Stock AT&T, Rooted, Deoxed". That's a fine and whatever, as I planned on rooting the device anyway, however, I have a HUGE "Other" usage under storage. The total size of it is 14.75GB. Can someone explain what in the world is taking up that much space? I've ran an analysis using ES File Explorer, but it shows the folder taking up the most space is my music. I can't pinpoint where all this data is.
are you on 4.2.2?
I am as of now. This thread can be closed, flashing Android Revolution cleared up the issue
In case you come across this issue again, I use an app called "memory usage" that gives you a detailed breakdown of what's using what storage. Been using it for ages. Very simple to use, and it really helps track down folders and files that eat up a lot of space.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...EsIm9yZy5yamouYW5kcm9pZC5tZW1vcnltb25pdG9yIl0.
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_MetalHead_ said:
In case you come across this issue again, I use an app called "memory usage" that gives you a detailed breakdown of what's using what storage. Been using it for ages. Very simple to use, and it really helps track down folders and files that eat up a lot of space.
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I am having a similar issue. Almost 9Gb usage is listed under "other", this in a 32 Gb HTC One(AT&T). The memory usage app does not show anything that would contribute to this 9Gb usage.
Any ideas on what it could be?
bjartskular said:
I am having a similar issue. Almost 9Gb usage is listed under "other", this in a 32 Gb HTC One(AT&T). The memory usage app does not show anything that would contribute to this 9Gb usage.
Any ideas on what it could be?
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Post a screen shot of what the app shows you. I've always been able to track down erroneous storage issues with it.
Did you flash 4.2 without wiping your sd card?
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I hadnt wiped the sd card.
Attaching the screenshots from the "memory usage" app as well as the "Usage" results. Apparently I goofed with my first post, the other section has 7Gb usage. Still pretty high.
Wipe your sd card like you're supposed to do
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OK, we are supposed to have like a huge amount of memory for the 3D but when I check my task manager I have like about 80 to 100 free. Is that normal? I do have a task manager, memory optimization, and this is still going on.
Thoughts?
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snake411 said:
OK, we are supposed to have like a huge amount of memory for the 3D but when I check my task manager I have like about 80 to 100 free. Is that normal? I do have a task manager, memory optimization, and this is still going on.
Thoughts?
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Only use the task manager that is pre installed on the phone. Also you have 1gb to play with why not use it
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aray92 said:
Only use the task manager that is pre installed on the phone. Also you have 1gb to play with why not use it
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Why only the one with the phone? That doesn't give you much flexibility. It simply allows you to kill running applications.. And you have to do it manually.
Any other thoughts to get my memory up? It's just weird that i have 1gb oh memory, the same amount of software as i did my evo4g and I still only have the same amount of memory free as i did the evo4g.
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Why only the one with the phone? That doesn't give you much flexibility. It simply allows you to kill running applications.. And you have to do it manually.
Any other thoughts to get my memory up? It's just weird that i have 1gb oh memory, the same amount of software as i did my evo4g and I still only have the same amount of memory free as i did the evo4g.
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Because other task managers and such mess with the system. the stock one works great and kills things when it needs to. nothing wrong with all your apps running, if you need more memory it will kill whatever is open that you are using the least. makes your phone faster because you dont have to re load everything all the time
Android manages memory on its own and is a lot different than say how Windows handles it. I'll try to explain this, but my explanation will probably be a little simplified.
First, Sense 3.0 uses more memory to begin with and secondly there was reports of the Evo 3D reporting used/available memory slightly incorrect but I don't remember if that was confirmed or how far off it was.
As for Android, to keep the phone optimized for performance and battery, it keeps apps stored in memory - seemingly as much as it can to an extent. The apps don't run, they're just preloaded. This also allows those apps to do their thing if needed (update information every so often for example).
Since they're not exactly running and just sitting in memory, they have minimal drain on the battery. If you have a more detailed task manager, you'll see CPU usage is sitting around 0% for everything that's open.
While Android manages its own memory, when one app closes, it most likely will open another to keep loaded. The problem with using task managers to keep your memory free is that most of the time you're fighting the system. Close one app, another or the same one loads again. It drains more battery opening/closing constantly than to just leave it sit.
I think the only reason a task manager should be used ever is to close a rogue app - one that can't/won't close and is just working the CPU.
I think the suggestion to just use the stock one is so you don't set anything up that would fight the system or close something the core system needs running.
Hell, I have around 100MB showing free and the phone still flies. Android doesn't need to keep so much memory free like Windows does.
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Why only the one with the phone? That doesn't give you much flexibility. It simply allows you to kill running applications.. And you have to do it manually.
Any other thoughts to get my memory up? It's just weird that i have 1gb oh memory, the same amount of software as i did my evo4g and I still only have the same amount of memory free as i did the evo4g.
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gk1984 summed it up pretty well for you. Here is an article if you have interest in reading a little. http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
Just stick with the built in task killer, and let android manage it's memory. As has been noted, the reason that you have such a huge amount of your memory being used up is simple: Sense 3.0 uses a ton of resources, period. When we get an AOSP rom on this thing, install that. I guarantee we will have 700mb or more free memory. Sense is nice, but a resource hog none the less.
Hi all;
For some reason, within the last couple of weeks, my phone has been freezing like crazy.
I uninstalled Advanced Task Killer and I use the installed Task Manager to monitor my ram usage and it's weird.
At any given time, I only have about 40-50 mb of ram left.
On average, out of 304 it shows that something is using anywhere from 230-260 mb of ram.
I shut everything down (using the task manager...shutting down level 1 and level 2) and still there is no change. I tried to not shut anything down to see if things would work themselves out, but still my ram is being eaten up.
I even went so far as to do a factory reset, hoping that this would fix the problem, but nada!
I've uninstalled every single program that I've installed within the last week or so, but still nothing.
My phone is becoming a brick and I don't know why. Next step is to call Tmobile, but seeing that my warranty is over, I"m sure that they will rape me with a replacement fee.
Any help would be most appreciated.
What rom? I'm experiencing the very same thing. Usually this happens when I've been in a rom for a very long time.
Maybe try wiping the SD card?
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What rom? I'm experiencing the very same thing. Usually this happens when I've been in a rom for a very long time.
Maybe try wiping the SD card?
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This. But only on sense roms, just install cyanogen mod, that rom never bogs down.
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Is there a way to increase my RAM memory? I tried partition SD but it just increases my internal memory..
Thank you in advanced!
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maybe it have a software on market but i dont remember it
Nope. From the factory we have a misleading 512mb. I say that due to the fact that something like 170mb is automatically eaten up by the Android system. Leaving us with a meager 340mb. In the beginning kernel makers were tweaking the amount we had available but it left other things broken. We can never have more ram available without ruining other processes. And adding a new chip of ram like a pc is absolutely out of the question. May I ask why do you need more ram? Are your homescreens widget city? I've needed to compromise which widgets I use but thanks to circle launcher makes it not half bad.
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One of the things that I do when I flash a new ROM is delete all the /system/apps that I do not use. Well, delete isn't really the right word. I move them over to a folder on my external, so just in case I ever want to reinstall them, I can just move them back to /system/app, wipe Dalvik and reboot and viola they are there. Another thing that I also do is if I don't know about a certain app and what it does, I'll use TBPro to freeze it and wait for a few days to see if there are any adverse effect. If not, then I'll uninstall, If so, then I will defrost and make note.
The reason I mention this is, aside from being in widget/homescreen hell, there are system apps that you may not need/use that are running and taking up unneccessary RAM. Example: If you never use Maps, then move it out and that service (locator- I think it is) won't be running in the background.
There are times that I opened a lot of apps,some still runs in background even if i already closed it and it decreases the performance of my phone.. I have a friend who have a Samsung Ace and he was able to add up memory of his ram..I did the same thing and it just adds up on my internal SD... just wondering if that is something to do with tweaking.. by the way I'm on MIUI
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There are times that I opened a lot of apps,some still runs in background even if i already closed it and it decreases the performance of my phone.. I have a friend who have a Samsung Ace and he was able to add up memory of his ram..I did the same thing and it just adds up on my internal SD... just wondering if that is something to do with tweaking.. by the way I'm on MIUI
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Any of the "hacks" to get more memory on this phone will result in either lower performance or breaking something or both. That's why there's not anything around for "increasing" memory.
Any by the way, he probably added a swap partition on his phone, which NONE of the roms for vibrant support/have implemented.
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Well try what I do. Im using startup manager and blocking which apps are allowed to startup without me starting them. Start up cleaner is free and appears to do the same thing. Much better than freezing in titanium because they are still useable. A VERY few apps might start up anyway but who cares you will be in much better shape overall.
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I calculated my apps and the memory is no where near 2gb and yesterday it said I was low, I cleared the cache and all the data I could, still low while I remember having a few hundred mbs couple weeks ago.
I was trying to mod my webtop using the old scripts, long story why I wasn't doing it with webtop2sd, but I got the low space warning then. I think something big might have gotten moved into that folder but can't find anything unless I'm not looking in the right spots.
How much space needs to be free before the warning goes away? I freed a lot and there is no way I used it all unless something moved there by accident.
Thanks
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I've got myself a 9305, the first day the battery life was awful the battery graph was in free fall. Data usage for the first 6 hours was well over 1 Gb.
I have installed the usual social apps and a couple of smaller games and am now over 10gb used on my system storage. I have come from a DHD that I had the latest custom roms installed, used a2sd and merrily has 130+ apps installed.
I am not rooted yet, but my question to you is what's taking up all that space? I have looked through the internal storage and not found anything large. I do have 600 fully complete Google contacts and 1000+ Picasa images 900 tracks uploaded to Music, are the indices that large?
I will be rooting soon enough when there's a range of roms available. In the meantime any suggestions more than welcome. Thanks
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Well...130+apps installed is quite alot. Alongwith 1000 photos or whatever. Its like a penny. You can find loads of them and it wouldnt be much value until it adds upto a pound. That pound will turn into more. Just like your photos. They could be 1kb each (probably not) and as you add more it will become 1gb before you know it. Along with cache. You could try delete some cache. Or when you get root delete system apps or add a vanilla rom (plain no bloatware)
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I agree that was a lot of apps, but never hit a problem. I don't think at this rate I could install enough apps to cover two pages.
This can't be typical as I'm sure there would be an outcry.
Thanks for the reply though, appreciate it.
I'm going to factory reset in case this handset took a wrong turn somewhere.
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I agree that was a lot of apps, but never hit a problem. I don't think at this rate I could install enough apps to cover two pages.
This can't be typical as I'm sure there would be an outcry.
Thanks for the reply though, appreciate it.
I'm going to factory reset in case this handset took a wrong turn somewhere.
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Woah...2pages??? You should of hit at least 5! This is information that would of been helpful as this is nowhere near normal for an s3. do Try to reset it and see if that helps.
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Get the app disk usage and see what is using your storage up
I tried using windirstat but could only analyse the sd card.
Used Astro to browse about but couldn't see much wrong, without root I guess there's a lot hiding.
I have factory reset and installed most of the apps back and am using less than a gig at this point.
I should have done this more scientifically but it seems at this point the issue is resolved but with no real information to pass on to a future sufferer. I'll report back when the usage is similar to when I put the first post.
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