Hey,
I keep getting low storage errors. Running Cyanogenmod.
When I look at the local disk usage it only has 11303MB available with 7945 MB being taken up with System Data.
The phone is I9305. Should have 16GB local storage.
Is this normal?
Could something have duplicated that I need to delete?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Best to search before posted a new thread. Read rootsu's helpful post on 4.2 storage, which is probably your issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274218
boomboomer said:
Best to search before posted a new thread. Read rootsu's helpful post on 4.2 storage, which is probably your issue:
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Why is that one assumes that the poster has not spent anytime searching?
Anyway, thanks for the information, I am running it now.
Hopefully it works but not sure if it is going to remove the issue that the System Data is taking up a lot of space and keep getting messages about running out of disk space. Resulting in having to constantly manually manage the files on the phone. Which I didn't have to do before I rooted the phone? Still makes me think maybe there are duplicate files or something on the phone?
jbryce said:
Anyway, thanks for the information, I am running it now.
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Nope, didn't work. I tried to copy the files as mentioned but it gives me an error:
The paste operation failed. It may be that there was not enough free space on the target file system.
And now I lost any free space that I had.
Searching would have found you several identical posts.
You need to carefully read the instructions and understand them before you started, copy and paste will indeed result in losing all free storage space.
boomboomer said:
Searching would have found you several identical posts.
You need to carefully read the instructions and understand them before you started, copy and paste will indeed result in losing all free storage space.
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Need to use "Cut" really. Copy leaves existing data which duplicates.
jbryce said:
Why is that one assumes that the poster has not spent anytime searching?
Anyway, thanks for the information, I am running it now.
Hopefully it works but not sure if it is going to remove the issue that the System Data is taking up a lot of space and keep getting messages about running out of disk space. Resulting in having to constantly manually manage the files on the phone. Which I didn't have to do before I rooted the phone? Still makes me think maybe there are duplicate files or something on the phone?
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rootSU said:
Need to use "Cut" really. Copy leaves existing data which duplicates.
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Yeh I used Cut. Going to try moving to SD Card first.
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Hi,
My gf has a galaxy s2 and it shows low on space for the device memory. Weird thing is it shows the apps are taking 200mb space, but there is only few mb left out of 1.9GB. I deleted some apps and moved them to sd card. It opened 100mb of space. But again in quite short time it went down to less than 2mb free space. (Without doing anything)
Its usb storage and sd card has quite a lot space.
I'm suspecting some malicious application, but none seems like that. I'll probably do a factory reset. Before that is there anything I can try?
I tried downloading lookout security, but although it's a 4mb app and I had 10mb free at the time, it said insufficient space and did not install.
Have a read of http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1589970 and see if it applies to you.
I must have missed this one. Thanks a lot.
Though its not mine and don't want to root it. I'll try to find a workaround.
Guys thanks i read this forum..
I had the same issue my S2 is rooted so i was able to sort out and delete the dump files
I noticed that the dump file date is everyday with 438kb each how so I was getting this?
I had to delete 2000+ dump files is this some sort of malware?
I was suspecting an app doing this, I will post the actual screenshots of the file maybe you could do something about this..
demerok said:
Guys thanks i read this forum..
I had the same issue my S2 is rooted so i was able to sort out and delete the dump files
I noticed that the dump file date is everyday with 438kb each how so I was getting this?
I had to delete 2000+ dump files is this some sort of malware?
I was suspecting an app doing this, I will post the actual screenshots of the file maybe you could do something about this..
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Could you please tell the location of the dump files? Or how did you go about deleting them?
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mugenishere said:
Could you please tell the location of the dump files? Or how did you go about deleting them?
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I use FX Explorer> System Root > Data > Log
Delete the log folder to save you time from deleting the dump file one by one
then just create another folder and name it as log.
hope this helps.
I am a noob and I am not a developer or even really great at programming or PC's in general.
I've managed to mess up my phone and have been looking all over the web for how to fix it and I am at a loss.
I decided to register and ask for help. Please be patient and understanding if I ask a lot of questions or don't understand things you accept as basic, understood or common. I looked through existing threads for help and couldn't find the answer I needed. Many thanks in advance for the help. Readers digest of the issue below.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G. T-Mobile. T959V5B5-Custom.
I tried the non-mandatory firmware update from T-mobile and it wrecked the functionality of my phone. I tried to go back with a couple new Rom versions and think I more or less ended up with three roms installed on my internal storage which has given me basically no space which was never an issue for me before. I have used a disk viewer to verify there is unmounted data that is taking up space but I can't figure out how to get to it through the phone or my pc to delete it. I assume if I do this that the empty space will be absorbed and fix the internal storage issue.
Again, thank you for taking the time to read and respond. I love my phone and just want it working right again.
JBMFT said:
I am a noob and I am not a developer or even really great at programming or PC's in general.
I've managed to mess up my phone and have been looking all over the web for how to fix it and I am at a loss.
I decided to register and ask for help. Please be patient and understanding if I ask a lot of questions or don't understand things you accept as basic, understood or common. I looked through existing threads for help and couldn't find the answer I needed. Many thanks in advance for the help. Readers digest of the issue below.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G. T-Mobile. T959V5B5-Custom.
I tried the non-mandatory firmware update from T-mobile and it wrecked the functionality of my phone. I tried to go back with a couple new Rom versions and think I more or less ended up with three roms installed on my internal storage which has given me basically no space which was never an issue for me before. I have used a disk viewer to verify there is unmounted data that is taking up space but I can't figure out how to get to it through the phone or my pc to delete it. I assume if I do this that the empty space will be absorbed and fix the internal storage issue.
Again, thank you for taking the time to read and respond. I love my phone and just want it working right again.
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The course of action I would recommend at this point is using a tool called Odin to re-flash the stock ROM to your phone. I would recommend taking a look at this guide for the step-by-step procedure on how to do this. Let me know if you still have questions .
shimp208 said:
The course of action I would recommend at this point is using a tool called Odin to re-flash the stock ROM to your phone. I would recommend taking a look at this guide for the step-by-step procedure on how to do this. Let me know if you still have questions .
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Hey! Big thanks for the reply. Here come the questions...
I used Odin to put the other OS versions on the phone so I am familiar with the software though its been several months. I also still have the ROM that I flashed to phone. I am curious though that if it didn't wipe the previous partitions last time, what would keep it from doing the same thing this time and really messing me up? Or did I click or not click something in Odin or use the wrong option and doing it differently this time would fix the problem?
I located the files on the phone and have verified they are not mounted and looked at their size using DiskInfo. They are located at "/dev/block". Do you know what this is or why they are there? I can delete them using ES File Explorer with SuperUser. Is it ok to delete these and would I get the benefit of increased storage by doing so? I played around with moving them to the SD card and didn't see an increase in my internal storage but was afraid that a reboot after doing to might be bad.
Can you tell I am a little gun shy?
Here are the names of the files, the set starting with t starts at 0 and goes to 12 and the other 1 to 12.
tsfr0-tfsr12
bml1-bml12
Thanks again!
JBMFT said:
Hey! Big thanks for the reply. Here come the questions...
I used Odin to put the other OS versions on the phone so I am familiar with the software though its been several months. I also still have the ROM that I flashed to phone. I am curious though that if it didn't wipe the previous partitions last time, what would keep it from doing the same thing this time and really messing me up? Or did I click or not click something in Odin or use the wrong option and doing it differently this time would fix the problem?
I located the files on the phone and have verified they are not mounted and looked at their size using DiskInfo. They are located at "/dev/block". Do you know what this is or why they are there? I can delete them using ES File Explorer with SuperUser. Is it ok to delete these and would I get the benefit of increased storage by doing so? I played around with moving them to the SD card and didn't see an increase in my internal storage but was afraid that a reboot after doing to might be bad.
Can you tell I am a little gun shy?
Here are the names of the files, the set starting with t starts at 0 and goes to 12 and the other 1 to 12.
tsfr0-tfsr12
bml1-bml12
Thanks again!
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Using Odin to re-flash the stock ROM will automatically setup the right configuration for. Do Not delete the files in /dev/block these are critical to the phones operation and part of the phones normal partitioning and operation as previously stated deleting these will cause a lot of problems if you delete them. If you really want to free up some internal storage space I would recommend deleting the carrier pre-installed bloatware, before you delete any bloatware makesure to backup the apps you deleted with Titanium Backup or a similar backup or flash Clockworkmod Recovery or Team Win Recovery Project and make a Nandroid Backup which is a complete backup of your phone. And don't worry about being gun shy we are all beginners at some point the only real way to become an expert if practice, practice, practice .
So I am working on the Heimdall One-Click.
Handshaking with loke, got no response. FML.
Help.
Edited: Apparently a low battery is not your friend...
after a little reading around on the net I tried a different one and BAM.
Back to stock. We'll see how this goes.
Being rooted with superuser had me spoiled...so much bloatware.
Hi there,
I'm new here, so it's my first post and I hope I'm in the right place to ask here
Yesterday my girlfriend accidently deinstalled one of her favorite apps from her SGS3 (via Play Store), it's a game and all its game data is stored internally as it seems. No backup or anything else has been made before
She just reinstalled the app from the Play Store and opened it just once, but did not do anything else yet.
I've already searched the forum and googled around a lot, but did not get any appropriate answer to my question:
Is there any way to recover the lost app data to make her happy again?
I've already tried several apps from the Play Store like: Dumpster, Undelete, DiskDigger, Hexamob Recovery but nothing worked or even could access the internal storage or was just able to maybe recover lost pictures or videos.
Device info:
I've rooted her SGS3 I9300 and recently flashed it with CM 10.2 nightly (playing around with the phone while waiting to buy myself a new one )
I really hope there is someone out there who has an idea or just gives me an appropriate answer.
I'm not a native speaker so my apologies for every mistake I maybe made
Thanks in advance!
b3nsen said:
Hi there,
I'm new here, so it's my first post and I hope I'm in the right place to ask here
Yesterday my girlfriend accidently deinstalled one of her favorite apps from her SGS3 (via Play Store), it's a game and all its game data is stored internally as it seems. No backup or anything else has been made before
She just reinstalled the app from the Play Store and opened it just once, but did not do anything else yet.
I've already searched the forum and googled around a lot, but did not get any appropriate answer to my question:
Is there any way to recover the lost app data to make her happy again?
I've already tried several apps from the Play Store like: Dumpster, Undelete, DiskDigger, Hexamob Recovery but nothing worked or even could access the internal storage or was just able to maybe recover lost pictures or videos.
Device info:
I've rooted her SGS3 I9300 and recently flashed it with CM 10.2 nightly (playing around with the phone while waiting to buy myself a new one )
I really hope there is someone out there who has an idea or just gives me an appropriate answer.
I'm not a native speaker so my apologies for every mistake I maybe made
Thanks in advance!
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and what is that app? may be we should know
sriram231092 said:
and what is that app? may be we should know
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Sure, sorry, it's Smurf's Village from beeline
b3nsen said:
Sure, sorry, it's Smurf's Village from beeline
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you said the data is not lost. so cut and save the data somewhere you'd like to. re-install the game and paste this data under android>data.
sriram231092 said:
you said the data is not lost. so cut and save the data somewhere you'd like to. re-install the game and paste this data under android>data.
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The app was deinstalled and as far as it seems all its stored data with it, so I cannot cut and paste it in again, that's why Im asking for a way to recover the app data
b3nsen said:
The app was deinstalled and as far as it seems all its stored data with it, so I cannot cut and paste it in again, that's why Im asking for a way to recover the app data
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you also said the phone is rooted. enable root option to the file explorer and then you will be able to copy/cut/paste the data on the system. my preference es file explorer. menu> root explorer> mount R/W> set permissions to RW. then you will be good to go.
sriram231092 said:
you also said the phone is rooted. enable root option to the file explorer and then you will be able to copy/cut/paste the data on the system. my preference es file explorer. menu> root explorer> mount R/W> set permissions to RW. then you will be good to go.
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Maybe I was not clear enough. I tried your suggestion and searched for 'smurf' to find any data, now I got several files and folders containing 'smurf'.
I think the data was deteled while the deinstallation of the app, am I right?
Hard to answer this, but in which files will the app data be stored and if it is deleted, how can I get it back?
I found a solution, she did do a backup without telling me, 2 months ago...stupid little... my bad or better: her bad.
Thanks for your help so far!
Thread can be closed now...
Just FYI, without that backup, there would have been nothing you could have done.
rootSU said:
Just FYI, without that backup, there would have been nothing you could have done.
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Now that's what I wanted to know
I already thought that there might be no way to get the data back, due to the storage structure / filesystem and even to the fact that she reinstalled the app and started it (main data has maybe been written at that moment, so the old data blocks have been overwritten or so)
Really thanks!
Any clues on how to get FolderMount app to work from a Rom / slot ?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...evasque.fmount
It seems the source path is wrong as compared to running it from the stock ROM where it finds the given folders/apps.
the source path shows: /storage/emulated/0
Normally this would populate with the given apps/folders desired to select but not working (as in listing anything) when trying from a ROM/slot and I have no clue what the path structure is via booted in a ROM slot in safestrap.
lazer9 said:
Any clues on how to get FolderMount app to work from a Rom / slot ?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...evasque.fmount
It seems the source path is wrong as compared to running it from the stock ROM where it finds the given folders/apps.
the source path shows: /storage/emulated/0
Normally this would populate with the given apps/folders desired to select but not working (as in listing anything) when trying from a ROM/slot and I have no clue what the path structure is via booted in a ROM slot in safestrap.
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I thought I was an idiot, glad atleast someone else saw the same thing.
sbollero said:
I thought I was an idiot, glad atleast someone else saw the same thing.
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Yea me to, lol, and I've been having a hard time figuring out where to best report/post about this issue to get a response or possible solution. I brought it up once in the "Safestrap" thread in [General] but got no replies. Then later on in that thread, another user was mentioning the use of FolderMount as his solution to free up internal card memory to another Safestrap user so I replied to that posing my question again, however, got no response as to the answer. I know it's a source (path) issue but can't figure it out when booted into a ROM slot.
Thanks for replying though because I myself was starting to think I was losing my mind. :cyclops:
I'm pretty sure I'm one of the "users" you're talking about, and I'm having the same issue
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michaelg117 said:
I'm pretty sure I'm one of the "users" you're talking about, and I'm having the same issue
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Likely so.
Wish we could get help with this as it would be a lifesaver for those of us using safestrap and wanting to free up space on the internal card since even more pressing for us having to slot our roms on it thus losing more phone storage.. :highfive:
I've found that moving apps to become system apps can be of help
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michaelg117 said:
I've found that moving apps to become system apps can be of help
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Just curious a general idea of how much space you've saved on internal SD by doing this?
And I doubt though that in my case the program "CoPilot USA" /maps directory can actually be moved into system.. :silly:
lazer9 said:
Just curious a general idea of how much space you've saved on internal SD by doing this?
And I doubt though that in my case the program "CoPilot USA" /maps directory can actually be moved into system.. :silly:
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I use quite a bit of apps so about 2.3 Gigs and you never know. I just went and did it through titanium backup.
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Any progress on this?
Is this a safestrap issue or is it a hyperdrive issue with the way HD structures the file system?
Does FM app just need to include/make available the option to choose /sdcard0 rather than emulated? The option to choose your own path in FM does not show this branch?
I am caching over 10gb of slacker music and this may be the deal breaker for using safestrap.
I had to do this. Go to Walmart camera section. Buy yourself a sd card reader
for usb. I bought one that can read 6 different sd cards for 10 bucks. Now just
pop that puppy in the computer and move the files you
need to reflash into your recovery. Now put the sd card back in your
phone and reflash.
metropcsmegauser said:
I had to do this. Go to Walmart camera section. Buy yourself a sd card reader
for usb. I bought one that can read 6 different sd cards for 10 bucks. Now just
pop that puppy in the computer and move the files you
need to reflash into your recovery. Now put the sd card back in your
phone and reflash.
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I'm a little confused...what's the fix? And why rooted only? You can have cwm or twrp or another custom recovery without being rooted, and your ext sd card slot doesn't require root? Is there supposed to be recovery files linked here or something? Either the op heading is a little misleading, or some details need to be added cause I'm Def a little confused...or is this just a post about sd card readers? Thanks
Mega
megalomanic14 said:
I'm a little confused...what's the fix? And why rooted only?
-CUT-
Mega
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Let's consider what means 'root' - as you can read in Wkipedia:
Android rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets, and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as "root access") within Android's subsystem.
Rooting is often performed with the goal of overcoming limitations that carriers and hardware manufacturers put on some devices, resulting in the ability to alter or replace system applications and settings, run specialized apps that require administrator-level permissions, or perform other operations that are otherwise inaccessible to a normal Android user.
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(Sorry for long quoting).
That means, without root you can only manage user apps and have not access to /system where are placed most interested things...
So aside of question if this method brings something really new, for successfull meddling in system apps root is a must! And fixing things in Android needs such meddling for sure
metropcsmegauser said:
I had to do this. Go to Walmart camera section. Buy yourself a sd card reader
for usb. I bought one that can read 6 different sd cards for 10 bucks. Now just
pop that puppy in the computer and move the files you
need to reflash into your recovery. Now put the sd card back in your
phone and reflash.
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trurl3 said:
Let's consider what means 'root' - as you can read in Wkipedia:
(Sorry for long quoting).
That means, without root you can only manage user apps and have not access to /system where are placed most interested things...
So aside of question if this method brings something really new, for successfull meddling in system apps root is a must! And fixing things in Android needs such meddling for sure
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Yea I'm well aware of what root access is...I develop roms and kernels, themes and other mods ...my question is about the post...was there suppose to be root packs here or is this just literally about an sd card reader...As the the op is about a fix for all androids which does not exist as they all require different root access files and methods, and most devices other than samsung have no external sd... and response and op have almost no relation to one another? What was the point of the op is what I was asking, not for a quote about root? Thanks:silly:
Mega
Yes, in this point you are right. I think metropcsmegauser a litlle overdone the self advertisements :laugh:
Metromega,
Thanks for posting info. This info could actually be helpful to somebody. The previous posts are probably right about changing title of thread. Current title is an oversell. See you recently joined, welcome aboard and have fun.
Peace
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azpatterson3 said:
Metromega,
Thanks for posting info. This info could actually be helpful to somebody. The previous posts are probably right about changing title of thread. Current title is an oversell. See you recently joined, welcome aboard and have fun.
Peace
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I527 using xda app-developers app
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You are right. I hope Metromega and another developer will get good rating here. I am personally see Metromega's all post. He did good..:good: