Anyone know what these files are? It is under settings>storage>device memory. Mine says it is using 4gb of storage. When I click on it there is nothing that shows it is using nearly that much space.
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Hey guys I have about a gig of free space on my internal storage and close to 10 gigs on my SD and my phone keeps telling me to free up space when I try open the gallery. Any ideas?
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move some apps over to your external sd....(apps to sd)
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move some apps over to your external sd....(apps to sd)
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I have a gig free
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If you're rooted and dirty-flashed a rom, you can get the same error. I had the same issue awhile back with a particular rom I flashed/upgraded. Hope that helps.
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could be not enough room in the system partition due to the way some apps work?
just guessing but the space it needs might not be in the partitions you are looking at?
how can I view the internal storage on my phone? it says I have 9 gigs full but I don't know how to view it in astro
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I don't know why, but there's something on my phone that took up 4 gb of the internal memory and I can't figure out what it is. But besides that, I downloaded Modern Combat on my phone (2 gb game) and was curious if there's a way to move it to the external SD card? Along with anything else to free up space on the internal memory? I know Apps2SD doesn't support this phone so I was wondering if there was some other way?
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Folder Mount.
Your used space that you're wondering about is likely consumed by backups.
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But I made sure that the backups made by TiBu were saved to my external memory.
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And I can't figure out where to find the game in folder mount to move it lol. I know I sound like a noob.
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Have you made any nandroid backups?
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Go to settings-storage-then click on the items in the list to tell you where the data is being used.
App data is under data/data or data/media/0/Android/data or data/media/0/Android/obb. I strongly suggest you don't just cut and paste. It won't work at all.
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Folder Mount.
Your used space that you're wondering about is likely consumed by backups.
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Thanks for the app info. I will be adding that to my Rooted ME7 GS4. I want my games but don't want to waste space.
Maybe this is a noob question but I'm running low on space in my internal storage and can't figure out why. I ran sd card analyst inside of es file manager and can't figure or why it's low on space.
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Maybe this is a noob question but I'm running low on space in my internal storage and can't figure out why. I ran sd card analyst inside of es file manager and can't figure or why it's low on space.
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I got a different for explorer and figured out it was the hidden app data. Especially the one data from ea games "need for speed" anyone know if there is a way to put apps on SD card? I'm on paranoidandroid rc1
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So when I go into storage it said I have 9gb of "other" ?? Anyone have an idea what it can be? I've looked everywhere through my phone to find these mysterious files.
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Like a bunch of text maybe game saves obb files
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Try file manager in root mode and check for your old files and ROM backups in /data/media folder.
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OK just to be sure here. I'm on a 4.2 rom as well and I have a about 9 gigs taken up. I turned es file Explorer on root mode and unhid the hidden files. I looked and there was a data/media folder with about 9 gigs in it. Should I delete this and I will be fine?
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That's all your personal data. Don't delete the whole thing but look for the large directories under there.
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Well I looked through there and it seems to be almost a copy of my SD card folder. I looked through all the files and there is 5 files with the exact same contents. They are all identical to the SD card folder and they are taking up the same amount of space . the files are SD card, inside the data/media and 0 inside the same folder. Inside the storage folder there is both sdcard0 and legacy. All these have the same contents.
What's up with this?
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Your old home folder is /data/media the new one is the 0 folder. You can delete most of the duplicates from media, and can move anything into 0 that you want to keep.
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When you upgrade from a 4.1.1 rom to a 4.2.2 rom or 4.3 rom your storage changes from sdcard0 to something else so you will find a lot of duplicates that can be deleted. Just for future reference.
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If you check the size of the /data it will probably explain the missing space. Just backup your important info to the pc and do an internal wipe
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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I've had this problem, and like torrentd said back up important files to pc and I format internal storage in recovery. Deletes all useless files and replicas.
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I've had this problem, and like torrentd said back up important files to pc and I format internal storage in recovery. Deletes all useless files and replicas.
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Thanks, but would you mind giving me some specifics on what directories/file systems to format? The space usage for me doesn't appear to be in /data/media like many others have posted so part of my problem is that I'm not sure where to look.
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Thanks, but would you mind giving me some specifics on what directories/file systems to format? The space usage for me doesn't appear to be in /data/media like many others have posted so part of my problem is that I'm not sure where to look.
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If you use twrp recovery, just go in wipe, and wipe internal storage.
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If you use twrp recovery, just go in wipe, and wipe internal storage.
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Okay. Would I be flashing my ROM/kernel combination after that step?
I assume that restoring a backup might introduce problems so probably better to stay away from that??
Thanks
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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That screenshot is useless, depending on if you are using android 4.1.x or android 4.2.x
4.2.x introduces a new filesystem and starts using a new directory /data/media/0
all of your old data is still in /data/media and your phone is looking at /data/media/0 for sdcard space
it calculates total space by how big /data media is and its contents are under /0 (the 0 is the user that is on the device, /1 would be a second user account, however user accounts are disabled on phones)