[Q] Insufficient free storage space error - Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3

Hello!
Yesterday I've upgraded my rom to 4.4.2 KitKat NC5. Right now after I'm trying to do backup with my Titanium Backup app batch backup for new system and user apps I'm getting the message "Batch backup interrupted. Insufficient free storage space", I still have 20 gb of free space on my SD card. How can I fix it?

antila said:
Hello!
Yesterday I've upgraded my rom to 4.4.2 KitKat NC5. Right now after I'm trying to do backup with my Titanium Backup app batch backup for new system and user apps I'm getting the message "Batch backup interrupted. Insufficient free storage space", I still have 20 gb of free space on my SD card. How can I fix it?
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The only fix I found was to delete the /data/date folder and then factory reset.
Hope that helps.

toviaheli said:
The only fix I found was to delete the /data/date folder and then factory reset.
Hope that helps.
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Did you mean /date folder for Titanium Backup on SD card? All settings and so on? Or this is something else?

toviaheli said:
The only fix I found was to delete the /data/date folder and then factory reset.
Hope that helps.
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I think all problems appears because for some reason Titanium Backup says my SD card folders not writable and I don't know how to fix it.

antila said:
I think all problems appears because for some reason Titanium Backup says my SD card folders not writable and I don't know how to fix it.
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Sorry, big fingers on a small keyboard, I meant to delete the /Data/Data folder in Root on internal storage...

toviaheli said:
Sorry, big fingers on a small keyboard, I meant to delete the /Data/Data folder in Root on internal storage...
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I've tried everything but only this has worked.
joemamahey said:
So I was having this same problem but the aforementioned fixes didn't address the external SD card. I figured out that the error message is a bit misleading and that the actual problem was that the backup storage location wasn't writable by TiBU. searching on that issue I found the below post and modified the platform.XML file using root explorer. The original platform.xml on my phone looked a bit different than bleez99's. This is how I changed the file:
Before mod:
<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
<group gid="sdcard_r" />
<group gid="sdcard_rw" />
</permission>
After Mod:
<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
<group gid="sdcard_rw" />
<group gid="media_rw" />
</permission>
A reboot is required for changes to take effect.
All credit to bleez99 for this fix. If this helps you please thank his post below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44370296&postcount=357
edit:
For those worried about moding system files I haven't seen any adverse side effects from this mod. This might be anecdotal but I figure if anything does go screwy I(or you) can always change the file back in 2 min.
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In recovery, I wiped ma sd ... HELP

So I was running latest DroidTheory rom. And because im a retard. I decided to go into recovery and WIPE WIPE ALLL. This included the "mounts and storage > format SD card". Now my phone wont boot up at all. It stays on the "HTC" screen
Im freaking out and I dont know what to do
When I go into Bootloader I see that I still have S-OFF. So i guess I aint that screwed .... Any thoughts?
I lost my nandroids. maybe should I just reflash my former rom?
kevenrivera said:
I lost my nandroids. maybe should I just reflash my former rom?
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yes, download and reflash. whatever you had before is lost.
Thank you. I was honestly freaking out! But all is good now
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I am always afraid of doing something like that, or having my SD card go bad. I make a copy of my SD card every couple weeks and keep it stored on my PC.
before you put anything else on your sd card pull it and put it in a card reader and try to run a data recovery tool on it. when you formated you didnt delete it all it just told the sd card that it could now write over everything, esecially making it empty, but its still there untill you write anything else to it
dak_181 said:
before you put anything else on your sd card pull it and put it in a card reader and try to run a data recovery tool on it. when you formated you didnt delete it all it just told the sd card that it could now write over everything, esecially making it empty, but its still there untill you write anything else to it
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omg, I didnt know that!
im such a purist and I need to be aware its completely clean.
Thanks for the input to all of you
Originally Posted by dak_181<br />
before you put anything else on your sd card pull it and put it in a card reader and try to run a data recovery tool on it. when you formated you didnt delete it all it just told the sd card that it could now write over everything, esecially making it empty, but its still there untill you write anything else to it
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omg, I didnt know that!<br />
im such a purist and I need to be aware its completely clean.<br />
Thanks for the input to all of you
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Keep that in mind because that is how all data storage works. I had an SD card go bad and lost 300+ pictures from an amine convention; a free program was able to retrieve all but 10 images. Also, this is why, when throwing out any storage medium, DESTROY it so that no one may recover your data. In the case of selling something they make programs that will rewrite the data until it cannot be recovered.
With enough time, patience, and thousands of dollars, you to can have your data recovered off of a burnt hard drive...
Cast by the Odinson's mighty Mjolnir!

Memory question and others

Hi, yesterday I bought the Galaxy Player 3.6 8GB. Now when I look at my available memory it's far from 8GB, so I have 4.73GB internal memory and Internal device storage I have 1.86GB. Already rooted so have delete some of the stock apps but every app I removed just gave me more internal device storage and I would rather have it as internal memory storage of course, Is there any way to do this?
My other question is that there is a lot of apps installed that are actually phone apps (dialer, etc) would this give problems if I remove these seeing as I will never use it to make phone calls.
Thanks in advance
That is on all devices..i have nexus 16 gb and 13 gb free..rest is system files.
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DZonikg said:
That is on all devices..i have nexus 16 gb and 13 gb free..rest is system files.
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Well yes, I know the OS was going to take something but was shocked how much it took, so the remaining 1.86 Internal device storage I have left is unable to merge with my internal memory storage?
i have the same probleme,and i want my sd-card reconized as internal memory ( or internal device memory) but i don't have find any solution for the moment...
m0i said:
Well yes, I know the OS was going to take something but was shocked how much it took, so the remaining 1.86 Internal device storage I have left is unable to merge with my internal memory storage?
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mimi1305 said:
i have the same probleme,and i want my sd-card reconized as internal memory ( or internal device memory) but i don't have find any solution for the moment...
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There is a 2GB /data partition (where apps are) and a 5GB /sdcard partition (where your files are). You cannot combine them.
Mevordel said:
There is a 2GB /data partition (where apps are) and a 5GB /sdcard partition (where your files are). You cannot combine them.
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So if I install apps they will go into the data partition and not in the sdcard partition or is the data partition only for the stock apps?
Mevordel said:
There is a 2GB /data partition (where apps are) and a 5GB /sdcard partition (where your files are). You cannot combine them.
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I already know that,but on other device,you can get your sd card reconize as internal storage with script or modification.
So you get a bigger storage,that what we need
mimi1305 said:
I already know that,but on other device,you can get your sd card reconize as internal storage with script or modification.
So you get a bigger storage,that what we need
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You can switch and with our device
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m0i said:
So if I install apps they will go into the data partition and not in the sdcard partition or is the data partition only for the stock apps?
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Depends of app but you can go to app setting and click on move to tablet
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m0i said:
So if I install apps they will go into the data partition and not in the sdcard partition or is the data partition only for the stock apps?
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Stock apps are on /system. Apps from the market go in /data, unless you move them to the external SD, and then they will go there.
Mevordel said:
Stock apps are on /system. Apps from the market go in /data, unless you move them to the external SD, and then they will go there.
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hmm I've moved the gameloft games to sd-card but when i browse through the internal memory their data is still found there... maybe its the data which is downloaded online? any way to move that to sd card as well?
jamaljan said:
hmm I've moved the gameloft games to sd-card but when i browse through the internal memory their data is still found there... maybe its the data which is downloaded online? any way to move that to sd card as well?
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Assuming you are on CM10:
If you're looking in .android_secure, that is the app itself, and that bug is fixed with the latest kernel (uploading now).
Otherwise, you are looking at game data. To move that to external, uncomment the "switchablepair" line in build.prop and reboot. Note that any data in /storage/sdcard0/Android/data (mostly app cache) will not be moved, so you need to either copy it over before rebooting, or let it redownload.
For non-cm10 roms, all of the above applies except the bug and the exact line in build.prop. For example, some ROMs always have it uncommented, but have a line saying "ro.vold.switchexternal=0". In that case, change it to 1 to switch them.
Mevordel said:
Assuming you are on CM10:
If you're looking in .android_secure, that is the app itself, and that bug is fixed with the latest kernel (uploading now).
Otherwise, you are looking at game data. To move that to external, uncomment the "switchablepair" line in build.prop and reboot. Note that any data in /storage/sdcard0/Android/data (mostly app cache) will not be moved, so you need to either copy it over before rebooting, or let it redownload.
For non-cm10 roms, all of the above applies except the bug and the exact line in build.prop. For example, some ROMs always have it uncommented, but have a line saying "ro.vold.switchexternal=0". In that case, change it to 1 to switch them.
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am not sure what is CM10. If you are referring to the screen which comes up when we start the player using Power-up+volume+home button, then there I see this CMW-based Recovery V5.0.2.7. I'm posting on your ROM thread because I've some confusion on how to install your rom
jamaljan said:
am not sure what is CM10. If you are referring to the screen which comes up when we start the player using Power-up+volume+home button, then there I see this CMW-based Recovery V5.0.2.7. I'm posting on your ROM thread because I've some confusion on how to install your rom
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Learn what is cm10 and then come back.. ask few question is ok but don't spam whole xda gp forum
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Mevordel said:
Assuming you are on CM10:
If you're looking in .android_secure, that is the app itself, and that bug is fixed with the latest kernel (uploading now).
Otherwise, you are looking at game data. To move that to external, uncomment the "switchablepair" line in build.prop and reboot. Note that any data in /storage/sdcard0/Android/data (mostly app cache) will not be moved, so you need to either copy it over before rebooting, or let it redownload.
For non-cm10 roms, all of the above applies except the bug and the exact line in build.prop. For example, some ROMs always have it uncommented, but have a line saying "ro.vold.switchexternal=0". In that case, change it to 1 to switch them.
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for build.prop, i'm using this guide on how to access it (http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...ds-cse&usg=AFQjCNEe0O89F81Y5NpJ5mXVf7b4DRDO-g).
playing with this file seems a little dangerous. I'm using the following kernel and ROM.
[Kernel][JB][YP-G70] Mercurius v2
[ROM][YP-G70][JB]PARANOID ANDROID v2.57
I see the following in the build.prob. Is that ok, or do I've to change something?
Code:
You can tweak the next 4 properties
# Uncomment to switch internal and external storage
@ ro.vold.swtichablepair=/storage/sdcard0,/storage/sdcard1

Out of storage space...

Switched from iPhone to S4.. Everything is on my SD card.. 16GB total, how do I have 108MB? Is there something I have on my phone that needs to be deleted that isn't showing up?
Look in your file explorer and see if you put pics or music in your device maybe before you stuck the external card in.. You may also have 2 copies, one in each place.
Check out "clean master" app too!
Alan.. Sent with Galaxy S4
windstrings said:
Look in your file explorer and see if you put pics or music in your device maybe before you stuck the external card in.. You may also have 2 copies, one in each place.
Check out "clean master" app too!
Alan.. Sent with Galaxy S4
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Under device, I see 2 SDs. 0 and extSdCard. I'm assuming 0 is internal since it says (9.52/9.62GB).
So I'm assuming things like TitaniumBackUp files are located there.. Thought they were in my external.. Any way I can move this to external, or is it not possible yet?
buddyjustinn said:
Under device, I see 2 SDs. 0 and extSdCard. I'm assuming 0 is internal since it says (9.52/9.62GB).
So I'm assuming things like TitaniumBackUp files are located there.. Thought they were in my external.. Any way I can move this to external, or is it not possible yet?
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You can try moving your current Titanium Backup folder in your internal storage to your sd. I would recommend starting fresh and deleting your current Titanium folder in internal. Then go to your Titanium app, menu button and click on preferences, then scroll down to backup folder location and search for your SD location and create a new folder. All your apps will then save to your SD. Hope that helps.
martinpena650 said:
You can try moving your current Titanium Backup folder in your internal storage to your sd. I would recommend starting fresh and deleting your current Titanium folder in internal. Then go to your Titanium app, menu button and click on preferences, then scroll down to backup folder location and search for your SD location and create a new folder. All your apps will then save to your SD. Hope that helps.
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That freed up about 500MB. Still seems like something is really off. In /storage, there are 3 folders.. sdCard0, extSdCard, and emulated. Seems like emulated is the problem? Has 2 folders within that (legacy and 0) which seems to be copies of sdcard0..
buddyjustinn said:
That freed up about 500MB. Still seems like something is really off. In /storage, there are 3 folders.. sdCard0, extSdCard, and emulated. Seems like emulated is the problem? Has 2 folders within that (legacy and 0) which seems to be copies of sdcard0..
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They are copies but they aren't duplicates if that makes any sense. Both are links to the same data.
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Metallice said:
They are copies but they aren't duplicates if that makes any sense. Both are links to the same data.
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Ok, gotcha. Do you know of anything else on my phone that's keeping my memory so low? Only about half of it is used and when looking through the phone I don't see anything that could be affecting the memory.. There should be about 7GB freed, not 500MB..
buddyjustinn said:
Ok, gotcha. Do you know of anything else on my phone that's keeping my memory so low? Only about half of it is used and when looking through the phone I don't see anything that could be affecting the memory.. There should be about 7GB freed, not 500MB..
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&hl=en
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Thanks! Last question: the 16GB S4 actually comes with about 10GB out of the box, 6GB for system files & all, and on top of that, bloatware is about 3.5GB correct? Why is my System data showing 8GB... What the hell is even in there..
EDIT: NVM, lol.. Found out it was my back ups... oops.
martinpena650 said:
You can try moving your current Titanium Backup folder in your internal storage to your sd. I would recommend starting fresh and deleting your current Titanium folder in internal. Then go to your Titanium app, menu button and click on preferences, then scroll down to backup folder location and search for your SD location and create a new folder. All your apps will then save to your SD. Hope that helps.
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You can't scroll to folders. You actually have to type the location. The correct location ins /mnt/extSdCard.

[Q] Unable to write to sd card

I think I have seen this addressed somewhere before but I can not find it.
I have just updated to KitKat and am using Freeza's Stockish rom. When I try to run a restore in Mybackup, I am getting an error that says, Unable to write to sd card. Make sure the sd card is inserted properly, is not connected to your pc, and is not full.
When I go into Es file explorer, it shows all the files there.
How do I fix this?
I also see in Titanium backup that is says sd card not writable.
I GOT IT!!!
cmdauria said:
I think I have seen this addressed somewhere before but I can not find it.
I have just updated to KitKat and am using Freeza's Stockish rom. When I try to run a restore in Mybackup, I am getting an error that says, Unable to write to sd card. Make sure the sd card is inserted properly, is not connected to your pc, and is not full.
When I go into Es file explorer, it shows all the files there.
How do I fix this?
I also see in Titanium backup that is says sd card not writable.
I GOT IT!!!
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Did you figure this out? Having the same problem.
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I'm curious to know if there's a workaround for those who aren't rooted.
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tonyevo52 said:
Did you figure this out? Having the same problem.
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This seems to be a common problem on the deodex rom. I will post what I did to fix it. Just know when you go into a file explorer it is going to show 2 external sd cards. They are both the same, it just shows 2 now. You have to do a simple build prop edit with a program like root explorer. Just navigate to system/etc/permissions/platform.xml. long press on platform.xml and select open in text editor. Under WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE...Add this entry... <group gid="media_rw" />
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Yea, I tried @micmars xml edit, it worked to create folders on the SD card but I still couldn't save twrp files to my SD card in recovery.
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I'm having this issue as well on official 4.4.2 rooted. Can't copy files from internal to external in both root Explorer and es file manager.
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tonyevo52 said:
Yea, I tried @micmars xml edit, it worked to create folders on the SD card but I still couldn't save twrp files to my SD card in recovery.
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The fix that I found allows me to do anything with the sd card.
I get the error when initially trying to copy the files.. seems like the error rests with the internal storage and not the sd card.
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Here's an interesting read.
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/0...ote-3-android-4-4-problem-hits-micro-sd-card/
The "Problem" is not actually a problem apparently. Google actually designed KitKat this way. They are trying to keep as much as possible on internal storage.
I'm also on Freza's Stockish ROM and had the same problem. I can confirm that the platform.xml edit appears to fix the problem of not being able to write to the external SD.
But strangely, Titanium Backup still reports that the backup folder is not-writeable, but then when I run a backup it finishes successfully.
Kennedy808 said:
I'm also on Freza's Stockish ROM and had the same problem. I can confirm that the platform.xml edit appears to fix the problem of not being able to write to the external SD.
But strangely, Titanium Backup still reports that the backup folder is not-writeable, but then when I run a backup it finishes successfully.
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Same thing happened to me. I went into recovery, cleared cache and dalvik, and rebooted. Everything showed up properly then.
TWRP issue fixed by flashing the file located here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471564&page=47 Post number 462.

Unable to save files in SD card

I'm having this problem since I acquired my z5c I just can't save files to SD card. All files I download can only be saved in internal storage and then I can only move them manually to SD card. Any solution for this issue? Thanks
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Root is the solution. This is google's fault. Began from kitkat
rolo143 said:
I'm having this problem since I acquired my z5c I just can't save files to SD card. All files I download can only be saved in internal storage and then I can only move them manually to SD card. Any solution for this issue? Thanks
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Yep, you can fix it. There's an easier fix.
It's about this app: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2684188
Install SD Fix: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix&hl=en
I know it says it's designed for KitKat, but it still works on my device
The manual way of doing it.
/system/etc/permissions/platform.xml needs to be modified in a certain way.
"The /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml is modified to specify that all applications which have the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission are registered as members of the Android UNIX group "media_rw". Membership in this group is necessary to write to the MicroSD card."
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Yep, you can fix it. There's an easier fix.
It's about this app: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2684188
Install SD Fix: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix&hl=en
I know it says it's designed for KitKat, but it still works on my device
The manual way of doing it.
/system/etc/permissions/platform.xml needs to be modified in a certain way.
"The /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml is modified to specify that all applications which have the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission are registered as members of the Android UNIX group "media_rw". Membership in this group is necessary to write to the MicroSD card."
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But it says I need root, and I haven't rooted my device yet. (I won't do that until there's a more stable way to do it)
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Filemanager (eg. Total commander) will ask to set up permission when copying files from int. to ext sd without root. Not sure if it's a per app permission or system wide.
rolo143 said:
But it says I need root, and I haven't rooted my device yet. (I won't do that until there's a more stable way to do it)
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Ok, sorry. In that case I didn't ever hear about a solution for that problem.
It's ok. I've always rooted all my devices but I really don't want to mess up with this one, I'm really happy with it and don't want to have troubles. Maybe later
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