So I understand the OS takes up a certain percentage of the device's memory but something seems ridiculous in this? I don't have many apps installed (few social networking apps and two games, Flappy Bird and Sonic 2) and I don't download documents or anything like that, so I don't know what's going on. Any idea what "miscellaneous files" would be taking this much space?? I've cleared cache by the way, just to make sure.
Did you root your phone? Are you running a custom ROM by any chance?
In my case, I have a rooted S4 running the Hyperdrive ROM, and I forgot to delete the installer after I flashed it; it takes up a whopping 2GB of space almost, and I was wondering what was using it up. I used the file browser to delete it and regained space.
I havent seen a stock phone use up that much space in misc, so maybe you've got updates or carrier bloat? More info would help, device model, build version, the like.
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Did you root your phone? Are you running a custom ROM by any chance?
In my case, I have a rooted verizon S4 running the Hyperdrive ROM, and I forgot to delete the installer after I flashed it; it takes up a whopping 2GB of space almost, and I was wondering what was using it up. I used the file browser to delete it and regained space.
I havent seen a stock phone use up that much space in misc, so maybe you've got updates or carrier bloat? More info would help, device model, build version, the like.
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Yeah, sorry about that. I'm stock rooted, all the way up to date (mk2). No custom Roms (or safestrap). but I did use xposed for a bit with a lot of modules which I have since deleted. think it could he leftover files? not sure where to look exactly though. and I wouldn't think it would just be bloat because I've only recently noticed it taking that much space.
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Yeah, sorry about that. I'm stock rooted, all the way up to date (mk2). No custom Roms (or safestrap). but I did use xposed for a bit with a lot of modules which I have since deleted. think it could he leftover files? not sure where to look exactly though. and I wouldn't think it would just be bloat because I've only recently noticed it taking that much space.
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Yeah, I think it could be leftover module files. I was always told to disable modules before deleting them, otherwise they might not be completely deleted, even after reboots. Xposed, once installed, should create a small file you can flash in Safestrap that removes all modules. If you dont have that file, reinstall the framework only, reboot, and then use a file manager to see if its there. Its usually in the root of the internal storage.
You both must be new to the GS4. When it was released people kept complaining about the 9 GB of available Internal Storage.
So that 7.37 GB your'e seeing are all the miscellaneous files your phone needs to run. You can't/shouldn't delete them and everyone that owns a GS4 has them.
Regarding yo applications, you have 7.26 GB of application data on your phone. I highly doubt you have only "2" applications installed. The phone comes with at least 200 apps already installed on it :crying: Try rooting and uninstalling most of those you don't use.
And here is what my phone shows. Only 9.59 GB of TOTAL SPACE available and it only shows 5.43 MB of Misc. data cause Stock Android is way more realistic than TouchWiz. I'm running CM11 so its a bit more realistic than what the stock TouchWiz version shows but yeah I don't think anyone who owns a GS4 has ever had more than 9.5 GB of data to use. It sucks because Verizon and Samsung misled people when they said it had 16 gigs.
Good Luck :highfive:
Exactly... Never more than 9.59 g total lol it was a big deal when the s4 came out. Here's mine.. In running BeanStalk ROM
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I knew the problem of not much space being available when new, and I am not new here. After trying to uninstall xposed, remove the files, etc I was getting nowhere so I decided to do a factory reset. Turns out it was something to do with my Apps taking up a ridiculous amount of space. After resetting and installing the EXACT SAME apps, my app space is down to 0.90GB. I am still set on it being something to do with xposed modules not being removed correctly and leaving leftover files around or something along those lines (?). But got it fixed. Thanks everyone for the help and suggestions!
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I have a Verizon GS4 rooted with Safestrap on MK2 and hyperdrive 14 rom. My miscellaneous file is also crazy. I have 13 GB in this folder and I don't know why. PI erased everything and repartitioned safestrap, but still got this. I don't know what to do. I did the data at 3000, the cashe at 600 and left the system alone at it's default setting.
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I have a Verizon GS4 rooted with Safestrap on MK2 and hyperdrive 14 rom. My miscellaneous file is also crazy. I have 13 GB in this folder and I don't know why. PI erased everything and repartitioned safestrap, but still got this. I don't know what to do. I did the data at 3000, the cashe at 600 and left the system alone at it's default setting.
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I've suggested this several times before: use the Disk Usage app from the app store to explore the internal memory to see what's consuming space. In my case, it was thumbnails for the Gallery app eating several gigs of space.
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After playing with all the different android versions out there I think I'm running out of space on the device. The unit is a 16gb version and even with no apps or video or anything on it, I'm lucky if I have 4gb left with webos and CM9. Is this normal? If no, how do I fix it? Would wiping the unit completely and starting again be advisable?
Try installing "Tailor" from preware on webos to find out what the partitions are like; using that you can readjust the sizes to get what you need.
Nice....thanks. What about flattening the android side and going from scratch? There a howto for that?
install "file manager for honeycomb" I think its called. There's an option to view size which will tell you what files/folders are taking up space. Easiest way IMO. On my phone it helped me find out that lost.dir was taking up nearly 6 gigs of space, so I deleted it. You might have the same issue. The app is made by rhythym software
I actually am a huge fan of this app. Best file manager/root browser IMO. And I paid for root explorer! Since file manager has a root option, I don't know that I will ever use root explorer again.
Dumb question but is there any documentation on how to install it? I don't see it in the webos store
He's talking about an android file manager.
If you want to wipe completely and start fresh, there's a really good thread for that HERE that allows you to remove everything - including all of the partitions - and remake them from scratch.
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He's talking about an android file manager.
If you want to wipe completely and start fresh, there's a really good thread for that HERE that allows you to remove everything - including all of the partitions - and remake them from scratch.
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Yes, you can download it from the market, or play I guess. Thing is, I doubt that doing a uninstall will do much for you. It sounds like you simply have a lot of old files built up over time. Android is partitioned on the hard drive, so it would *probably* take up the same amount of space whether you uninstall/reinstall or not. The rest of the hard drive is treated as SDcard space, which is why I suggested that app to see what's taking the most space.
In my case, lost.dir took six gigs of sd card. Reading up about it, it seems lost.dir is a folder for "orphaned" files, sort of like the recycle bin on a pc. It might be the same case for you.
Who makes it? I'm having trouble finding it. How would I install Taylor? I tried looking but the lost+found folder is small on mine.
File manager HD by rhythm software
Also, if you've been making a nandroid backup each time you flash a new rom, that could be taking up a fair bit of space too. It's under /clockwordmod/backup
ACMEUninstaller?
http://forums.webosnation.com/webos...partition-filesystem-editor-beta-testing.html
You have to install "Preware" first before you can get Tailor. Just search this site on how to install preware on the TouchPad or google it. Preware is like another app store for WebOs. You just have to follow a couple steps to get it on the TouchPad. Wish you luck.
Cant find "Tailor" on Preware.
i second that
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Cant find "Tailor" on Preware.
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cant find it either
I believe it may require alpha or beta testing feed access. Go here
To learn more about that en.m.webos-internals.org/wiki/Testing_Feeds?wasRedirected=true
Rootin' and fastbootin' on my Droid razr
Not only will My Galaxy S2 not let me install new apps (trying to install VX Connectbot at a little over 800K) although it has 1.97 GB of internal storage space free, it won't let me update four apps either. They were sitting there trying to update for about half an hour before I gave up.
There's nothing wrong with the (Wifi) Internet Connection, as proved by other apps on the phone as well as by the Google Play Store updater.
If I go into Settings, Apps to look at the Play Store entry, it never finishes updating the Cache and Data storage figures, so the 'Clear Data' button is greyed out. If it wasn't I could clear the data and force the app to re-download it from Google's server. I've also tried rebooting but this makes no difference.
I really don't want to have to do a factory reset to fix this so I'd be grateful for any ideas. The phone is running stock Jelly Bean supplied by Samsung.
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Not only will My Galaxy S2 not let me install new apps (trying to install VX Connectbot at a little over 800K) although it has 1.97 GB of internal storage space free, it won't let me update four apps either. They were sitting there trying to update for about half an hour before I gave up.
There's nothing wrong with the (Wifi) Internet Connection, as proved by other apps on the phone as well as by the Google Play Store updater.
If I go into Settings, Apps to look at the Play Store entry, it never finishes updating the Cache and Data storage figures, so the 'Clear Data' button is greyed out. If it wasn't I could clear the data and force the app to re-download it from Google's server. I've also tried rebooting but this makes no difference.
I really don't want to have to do a factory reset to fix this so I'd be grateful for any ideas. The phone is running stock Jelly Bean supplied by Samsung.
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I don't think Stock JB is rolled out yet by Samsung. But anyways try to clear cache and dalvik cache from recovery. This mostly resolves issues in any ROM.
Secondly, what are you referring to when you mention internal storage? If it's data partition then 1.97 is total size and not free. So please check that.
Lastly what ROM are you coming from? If its ICS then a factory reset is strongly recommended.
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I don't think Stock JB is rolled out yet by Samsung. But anyways try to clear cache and dalvik cache from recovery. This mostly resolves issues in any ROM.
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Sorry for the confusion. I'm trying to handle a million things at the same time, which is always when something else goes wrong. It is, of course, running ICS 4.0.4. I thought about clearing the cache via recovery and I'll do that if I don't find another solution. The phone won't be out of action for too long.
Secondly, what are you referring to when you mention internal storage? If it's data partition then 1.97 is total size and not free. So please check that.
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Ooops! Quoted the wrong figure. There's 834 MB free.
Lastly what ROM are you coming from? If its ICS then a factory reset is strongly recommended.
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It was running Gingerbread when I got it but I did the factory reset before doing an OTA update to ICS.
No issues
Since you are now on 4.0.4 do not do a factory reset since your kernel might have the Brick bug.
There are threads that provide steps on re flashing ROM over 4.0.4. You will need to first flash a custom kernel that does not have this bug like Siyah or cf-root and then flash a ROM.
Just ensure that you follow the steps properly to get a clean install.
Edit: Check below thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756242
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I powered down and booted into Recovery, wiped the cache, and rebooted. It only took about 40 seconds to reboot which seems strange to me as under 2.2 and, I think, 2.3, it took a few minutes to rebuild the cache. Then the first thing that happens on keying in my pin and reaching the home page, I get the message, "Unfortunately, eBay has stopped." Maybe this has something to do with the problem, maybe it doesn't.
One other thing I noticed earlier but didn't mention as it didn't seem relevant is that some apps have changed their name in Settings, Applications. For example, Picshop Lite is now listed as air.ca.esdot.PicShop.Lite.
Anyway, it has made no difference. I look at any app in the list and it sits there saying "Computing...". I can force-stop running apps but I can't install apps, uninstall apps, or update apps. I'm going to leave this overnight (it's late here) and if I can't think of anything else before tomorrow I'll have to do a factory reset and reinstall everything.
Thanks, acekay, your post appeared while I was still editing mine. I knew absolutely nothing about this bug so you might have saved me from bricking the phone. The page you linked to mentions CWM. Since mine is a Samsung stock ROM it would be the stock recovery I'd be using. Is this likely to brick the phone? I guess it's better to be on the safe side and follow the instructions.
I'm also wondering about my legal position here. I got the phone from Virgin Mobile (UK) on a monthly plan. It was running Gingerbread before I did the OTA update to ICS and the update went OK. If the phone messes up and I do a factory reset and that bricks the phone, who is responsible, I wonder, Virgin Mobile or Samsung...
It took some lateral thinking but I think I've solved it. I powered down the phone, took out the micro-SD card, and powered up again. I went into Settings, Applications, Google Play Store and cleared the Data. I then ran the Play Store app and ran the four updates that were pending and everything went OK, so I tried installing VX Connectbot and that went OK, too, as did uninstalling the original Connectbot. As a precaution I uninstalled the eBay app just in case that was causing the problem. It's possible that somehow the eBay app got installed onto the SD card in error and that might have something to do with it stopping with an error every time I rebooted the phone.
I've noticed that the names in Settings, Applications are all now back to normal so I'm guessing that in fact it was something in Play Store's data that was messed up. Of course, that might have been caused by the eBay app. <Sarah Connor> God, a person could go crazy thinking about this. </Sarah Connor>
Anyway, thanks again, acekay. Working through my problem and your responses led to a solution.
Good to know its solved. So the issue was with moving the apps to SD . Better still that you tried this before a reset.
In case you plan on playing with custom ROMs in future just keep this bug in mind. Better to be cautious than sorry.
Cheers...
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So the issue was with moving the apps to SD .
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Well, I can't be sure. I'm nowhere near needing to move apps to the card yet, and since I've uninstalled the eBay app I've no way of knowing if that's where it was. Or if it was causing the problem. But I do know that I won't be staying on ICS forever. If Samsung ever get round to giving us JB, I'll update to that. If they don't I'll look for a non-stock (and non-Touchwiz, thankfully) ROM. So thanks for telling me about the bug.
Same problem with SGS2 4.1.2, stock rooted rom. No external SD card.
I noticed one thing. When I do the following:
Settings->Application manager->All
it displays about 200M free and 1.7GB used, but after few seconds it changes to about 450M free and 1.5G used.
At the same time it (long pressing home button and select memory usage->storage) shows 1.77GB/1.97GB free memory of system storage. So only about 200M is free. The same result is obtained in Teminal Emulator by inputting DF command. So it is very strange that in Application manager the free system memory is increased from 200M to 450M but in terminal and memory manager system manager is constant 200M.
So what the algorithm to solve the problem of install or update apps from market?
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Same problem with SGS2 4.1.2, stock rooted rom. No external SD card.
I noticed one thing. When I do the following:
Settings->Application manager->All
it displays about 200M free and 1.7GB used, but after few seconds it changes to about 450M free and 1.5G used.
At the same time it (long pressing home button and select memory usage->storage) shows 1.77GB/1.97GB free memory of system storage. So only about 200M is free. The same result is obtained in Teminal Emulator by inputting DF command. So it is very strange that in Application manager the free system memory is increased from 200M to 450M but in terminal and memory manager system manager is constant 200M.
So what the algorithm to solve the problem of install or update apps from market?
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Try clearing cache using some application like ES Task Manager, I had useless cache data of about 400Mb once and the biggest contributor was chrome at 100Mb.. And try using apps like SD Maid which will help you clean out clutter.
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I am rooted on a Verizon Note 2 Android 4.1.1 using Exynos Abuse. I used the Voodoo OTA RootKeeper to keep from being updated or whatever. I have heard Verizon just rolled out 4.1.2. I would like to update.
Could someone explain how to do this without losing my root? I would like to remain w/ the ease of Exynos but if i need to learn to do it another method I guess i will.
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I am rooted on a Verizon Note 2 Android 4.1.1 using Exynos Abuse. I used the Voodoo OTA RootKeeper to keep from being updated or whatever. I have heard Verizon just rolled out 4.1.2. I would like to update.
Could someone explain how to do this without losing my root? I would like to remain w/ the ease of Exynos but if i need to learn to do it another method I guess i will.
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With mine i did a back up of my root, defrosted SDL (had it frozen for some reason,maybe to keep myself from auto accepting updates?), ran the update, after a couple reboots. Opened Voodoo and restored my root and i was good to go.
Good Luck
Ok. trying to figure out exactly how to do that. I used OTA Rootkeeper to 'unroot' my device. Basically i pressed the Temp.un-root button. closed program. I don't even know what SDL is so i am pretty sure it isn't frozen.
Next i went to setthigns and About phone -- pressed Software update. after about 10 seconds i get a pop up that says "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped.
So it won't update. Not sure what i am doing wrong
curious
Curious as to why you would want to upgrade to 4.1.2 when the hacks and mods available on 4.1 far exceed that of which 4.1.2 offer. you should have all apps in multi window.. 23 toggle task manager.. with root you can freeze or disable all bloat just curious?
Seriously its a very very minor update if I upgraded it would be to 4.2 and the very least
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lwsoccjs said:
Curious as to why you would want to upgrade to 4.1.2 when the hacks and mods available on 4.1 far exceed that of which 4.1.2 offer. you should have all apps in multi window.. 23 toggle task manager.. with root you can freeze or disable all bloat just curious?
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you have a very good point. I have no real reason. I just figured 'latest and greatest.' I do, however, want to be able to do it when the time comes 4.2. I really don't run any mods. I only am rooted for the ad blocker and titanium backup. I am looking up 23 toggle task manager now.
I guess i thought i was missing out on something if i don't update. I read in another thread someone talking about the "radio" being updated. I don't have bad reception or anything , but i get nervous when i see something like that is updated and i dont know if mine is 'good enough' anymore.
edit: ok i googled "23 toggle task manager" with quotations.. this tread is the only one on the entire internet that showed up as a result. Is there a different name for that mod?
where would i find it, or info about it?
okay
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you have a very good point. I have no real reason. I just figured 'latest and greatest.' I do, however, want to be able to do it when the time comes 4.2. I really don't run any mods. I only am rooted for the ad blocker and titanium backup. I am looking up 23 toggle task manager now.
I guess i thought i was missing out on something if i don't update. I read in another thread someone talking about the "radio" being updated. I don't have bad reception or anything , but i get nervous when i see something like that is updated and i dont know if mine is 'good enough' anymore.
edit: ok i googled "23 toggle task manager" with quotations.. this tread is the only one on the entire internet that showed up as a result. Is there a different name for that mod?
where would i find it, or info about it?
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My advice is hit it with Adams casual and unlock the bootloader and of course twrp. I am seeing a fair number of people on your situation losing root and ending up with messed up phones.
Get it unlocked do you are safe moving forward.
Then all you have to do is use twrp to flash bean's stock 4.1.2 which is rooted. He had that up within hours of the update rolling.
Your check for updates is failing because at some point you renamed the apk for it to prevent updates. I forget the name of it. It's mentioned here somewhere.
Thanks to everyone that helped and thanks to lwsoccjs for the link to 23 toggle. I ended up taking the plunge and doing casual and teamwin last night as TonikJDK suggested. I have kind of been wanting to do it anyway but wasn't sure where to start. After reading TonikJDK's post i looked up Casual read a few how-to's about it. Seemed pretty easy. (so far so good)
I upgraded to 4.1.2 using 'beans' version. I think i may still use 23 toggle though. I will probably experiment now with a few different roms just to see what is out there, but i will probably end up keeping it stock, assuming i don't find something that blows it away.
Any suggestions on where to start for a few roms to 'play with?'
I am quite sure i want to keep with a touchwiz style ROM but i may try a 100% stock android becasue this is my first android and i've never used 100% stock before.
Is there a main depository of ROMS? a one-stop-shop so to speak?
thanks again for the help! I hope you guys didn't send me down the path to a new 'addiction!'
~mike
crash613 said:
Thanks to everyone that helped and thanks to lwsoccjs for the link to 23 toggle. I ended up taking the plunge and doing casual and teamwin last night as TonikJDK suggested. I have kind of been wanting to do it anyway but wasn't sure where to start. After reading TonikJDK's post i looked up Casual read a few how-to's about it. Seemed pretty easy. (so far so good)
I upgraded to 4.1.2 using 'beans' version. I think i may still use 23 toggle though. I will probably experiment now with a few different roms just to see what is out there, but i will probably end up keeping it stock, assuming i don't find something that blows it away.
Any suggestions on where to start for a few roms to 'play with?'
I am quite sure i want to keep with a touchwiz style ROM but i may try a 100% stock android becasue this is my first android and i've never used 100% stock before.
Is there a main depository of ROMS? a one-stop-shop so to speak?
thanks again for the help! I hope you guys didn't send me down the path to a new 'addiction!'
~mike
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There isnt really a one stop shop for rom on the Note 2, XDA has pretty much everything posted to it thats available for the VZW Note 2. There may be one or 2 mods posted to rootzwiki that arent on XDA but I havent really checked it out because a lot of it is outdated and the mods I use are posted here, on the S3 it was a whole different story.
As for trying AOSP, stock android, I would advise you do it just to see how you like it. I was new to AOSP with my S3, all my other phones had locked bootloaders to that point, and I gave it a try and absolutely loved it. All I ran on my S3 was ParanoidAndroid and MIUI. You may decide you dont like it as much as stock TW on the Note 2 but its always good to test it out and see for yourself because its such a different experience.
A few things to remember with AOSP are that when you flash it your SD card has to be FAT32, NTFS definitely doesnt work and I dont think exfat does either but I may be wrong with exfat. If you dont have your card formatted as FAT32 it will corrupt everything on your SD, of course when you format the SD card (if it isnt already FAT32) you need to make a backup of everything on it because formatting wipes the card. Also when switching to AOSP, 4.2 and up, it has a different file structure than 4.1 which is what we have. That means your stuff will be in a different location on your SD card after you flash an AOSP rom but it isnt hard to find. Also when you switch back to TW you have to flash a SD card zip, that restores the file structure to what it was when you were using Touchwiz, after you flash the rom.
If you want some suggestions I would recommend Cyanogenmod is the closest you can get to straight AOSP until someone builds straight AOSP for our phone,ParanoidAndroid is Cyanogenmod based AOSP that lets you change apps to different modes to looks like tablet or phone apps and looks excellent on this phone just because of its size, and Vanilla Rootbox is Cyanogenmod based (as are pretty much all AOSP apps unless its straight AOSP) AOSP rom with things taken or kanged from ParanoidAndroid and others.
I prefer Vanilla Rootbox and ParanoidAndroid on this phone just because they both have some amazing features that make this phone more of what it should have been in the first place IMHO.
The S-pen will still work on AOSP roms but it wont have the features it does on a TW based rom because it is dependant on TW. A remedy to that is GMD Spen control, you can get it from the Play store, a little over $5 if I remember correctly, but you can even use it on TW and it adds a whole slew of features that really should have been in the stock TW rom.
I may be forgetting something seeing as how I wrote this up for a friend a few days ago, he got his first android and it happens to be a Note 2. I really feel as if I did but can't think of what it is....
If you have any more questions just ask away and someone will answer them!
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A few things to remember with AOSP are that when you flash it your SD card has to be FAT32, NTFS definitely doesnt work and I dont think exfat does either but I may be wrong with exfat. If you dont have your card formatted as FAT32 it will corrupt everything on your SD, of course when you format the SD card (if it isnt already FAT32) you need to make a backup of everything on it because formatting wipes the card. Also when switching to AOSP, 4.2 and up, it has a different file structure than 4.1 which is what we have. That means your stuff will be in a different location on your SD card after you flash an AOSP rom but it isnt hard to find. Also when you switch back to TW you have to flash a SD card zip, that restores the file structure to what it was when you were using Touchwiz, after you flash the rom.
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Thanks for the suggestions. Could you elaborate on the above. What stuff will be moved? Lots of stuff? will i even realize it ? does putting back just mean renaming folders?
What does "i have to flash a SD card zip" mean? Do u mean for the ROM or is there a way to restore file structure w/ some sort of hack or something?
Also, what do you think of Liquid Jellybean? I saw it available when looking at GooManager. Thought it would be a good one to check out. Version 2.3! it will be years before Verizon catches up to that.
First few things: I don't know if I'm supposed to be posting this here, idk if the problem is device specific or not... Sorry if I've done anything wrong. I've searched already, can't find any similar threads that actually help. I have the international version. I was running the CM10.2 Rom prior to 'the accident'. I will pay for a resolution if need be - PM me.
There's a bit of a story to this so I'll go over it all - not sure what's relevant.
I've been running out of storage for days, a 64GB SD card is in the mail. I currently have an 8GB one as well as the internal 16GB, both of which were near full, but the external one had relatively more than the internal one, so I decided to use foldermount and link2SD to move some space over. That all went fairly well.
This morning I got invited to the Aviate Beta launcher, which looked interesting. Tried to install, didn't have enough space. So I decided to make a backup of Nova, go into the play store, uninstall nova to free up space and then install Aviate without leaving the playstore. It worked, turns out I don't like Aviate much, so I worked backwards. Uninstalled Aviate, went to install Nova. Not enough space (idk how). Uh oh.
So I deleted some less-necessary apps that I could reinstall later. Not enough storage. Notification comes up in the bar along the lines of "storage critically low, device may malfunction". Now whenever I attempted to enter settings, the process crashed. Great. Simple fix, flash a NANDroid back-up in CWM. I can't remember what the message was, but there was something wrong with the back-up.
Wiped everything and tried to flash CM10.2 from the external SD Card but it wouldn't mount. Data also wouldn't mount. I tried several SD Cards ( ie about 10, different brands, sizes, classes, etc out of hope). So I decided I'll open up and Odin and just re-do everything per /showthread.php?t=2387980.
Turn the phone back on, stock Jelly Bean lockscreen was there, and once unlocked only the notification bar was there (no launcher). So I used different versions of Odin, different cables, downloaded the image several times, etc etc. Nothing fixed it. In fact, it's worse now. after booting past the Samsung logo, the screen just goes black now. smh
Can anyone help? It would be extremely appreciated. It's also a time sensitive issue as I need the device for work on Monday.
Sorry if I've missed anything. Yes I'm a noob, but you great people at XDA have helped a lot of people out before so I'm hoping you can help me.
Thanks!
Hi, Running greenify on Oneplus one with AICP Rom Nougat 7.1.2
Today I git storage warning and checking usage showed Greenify has 5+ GB gib.xml file !!!!
Is it safe to delete ?
ghpk said:
Hi, Running greenify on Oneplus one with AICP Rom Nougat 7.1.2
Today I git storage warning and checking usage showed Greenify has 5+ GB gib.xml file !!!!
Is it safe to delete ?
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Something is obviously amiss. Uninstall Greenify and delete the gib file if it remains. Then reinstall/reconfigure Greenify and monitor.
This happened to me today. Greenify was using over 12 GB of storage space! It basically just expanded its size (I know, sounds weird, an obvious bug?) to use up all available storage space on my phone. It happened suddenly, this morning I woke up to low space warnings/notifications on my phone.
Phone is an unrooted sprint LG G5 (LS992) nougat 7.0 using the non-beta version of Greenify on the play store.
I uninstalled and re-installed, re-did adb permissions, all seems ok now.
my phone got low on space, I deleted this file, total available space after clearing this and deleting other stuff was above 10GB, a few hours later, phone gave low space warning, before I could do anything,
phone got rebooted, and went into boot loop, even dirty flashing the ROM didn't helped, played around with lot of flashing, skipping user partition but it didn't worked.
I had to re-install the entire ROM along with user partition from Stock ISO, took a lot of time, but everything is fine now.
Nothing due to Greenify but it had largest file on my 1+1 so I reported here.
Since full flashing everything is normal as of now, just bought greenify donation package to support.
Thanks for awesome app, I could never use a android without root and Greenify.
I am using greeinify on my Moto Z play with Lineage OS. I am very surprised to see that it consumes 15.81GB of the internal storage !!!! Dont know why is this ...I have version 3.4.3 of the app.
red_phase said:
I am using greeinify on my Moto Z play with Lineage OS. I am very surprised to see that it consumes 15.81GB of the internal storage !!!! Dont know why is this ...I have version 3.4.3 of the app.
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Appears to be a bug introduced in the 3.5.x branch.
I just encountered the exact same bug on an EmotionOS/hsbadr Nougat build of CM, on my Note 4.
My Greenify version is 3.4.3. I have a "pro" license.
Weird. I just installed Greenify today for the first time ever. Will definitely be checking my storage every so often.
ghpk said:
my phone got low on space, I deleted this file, total available space after clearing this and deleting other stuff was above 10GB, a few hours later, phone gave low space warning, before I could do anything,
phone got rebooted, and went into boot loop, even dirty flashing the ROM didn't helped, played around with lot of flashing, skipping user partition but it didn't worked.
I had to re-install the entire ROM along with user partition from Stock ISO, took a lot of time, but everything is fine now.
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I had the same problem twice. Stuck in bootloop. First time I did a full new flash too. Second time I realized that there was no space left. So I checkt and /data/data/com.oasisfeng.greenify/files/gib.xml was 20+GB big. And /data/system/ifw/gib.xml was 7GB big. Deletet these two with twrp and the phone boot up as normal. Then reinstalled greenify. Works good since then. The last time is a couple of weeks ago.
Right now the gib.xml is again 10GB big.
I just reinstalled greenify and will keep an eye on the XML.
I have a rooted OnePlus 3 with stock android 7.1.1 oxygenOs 4.1.6
Greenify 3.4.3
I just had the same issue except that the file actually toook 25GB of the phone disc