Anybody know the best way to really, I mean REALLY deep clean out the SD Card/Internal Memory of the XTZ? I've been running low on space for a while now, and no amount of SD Maid/Cleaner etc seems to help. I've gone through and deleted everything I can, but frankly I only really see 1-2gb of files, another 1-2gb of TB backups, and then <1 gb of miscellanous app data and what not. Nowhere close to the 16gb, even giving a little leeway for system/os size.
I therefore figure it has to be the internal memory/android secure -- something like that. Can anyone give me a good idea of how I might totally release all that storage?
Alternately, if anybody knows a way to TRULY zero out the XTZ -- rom/software wise -- I'd be willing to completely rebuild my setup from the ground up, just to get a bit more breathing room.
Thanks very much for any assistance/ideas, I really do appreciate it.
marlowe310 said:
Anybody know the best way to really, I mean REALLY deep clean out the SD Card/Internal Memory of the XTZ? I've been running low on space for a while now, and no amount of SD Maid/Cleaner etc seems to help. I've gone through and deleted everything I can, but frankly I only really see 1-2gb of files, another 1-2gb of TB backups, and then <1 gb of miscellanous app data and what not. Nowhere close to the 16gb, even giving a little leeway for system/os size.
I therefore figure it has to be the internal memory/android secure -- something like that. Can anyone give me a good idea of how I might totally release all that storage?
Alternately, if anybody knows a way to TRULY zero out the XTZ -- rom/software wise -- I'd be willing to completely rebuild my setup from the ground up, just to get a bit more breathing room.
Thanks very much for any assistance/ideas, I really do appreciate it.
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Flash firmware with flashtool with all wipes or do wipes via recovery (need to be installed manually). Or you can try factory reset of device.
For stock 16Gb model, ~11Gb are free after clean reflash.
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I only have 1.4MB left on my internal SD.. And it is confusing as hell. I have all my music on my external SD. I tried cleaning out as much as possible (the things that i knew what they were, and i didn't need them anymore)
Idk what to do
I just copy all the important stuff to my cpu and format the card from the phone then put it all back
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Check your nandroids. If you backup alot you've probably got a crapload of old backups and they will end up rating alot of space. Delete what you don't need.
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Docavelli said:
Check your nandroids. If you backup alot you've probably got a crapload of old backups and they will end up rating alot of space. Delete what you don't need.
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I already deleted all of them except my last one..
And what exactly does formatting the card do?
formatting the internal SD card will just erased everything.. I think..
The K-Zoo Kid said:
I only have 1.4MB left on my internal SD.. And it is confusing as hell. I have all my music on my external SD. I tried cleaning out as much as possible (the things that i knew what they were, and i didn't need them anymore)
Idk what to do
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It's like this....The contents of your internal SD are....the contents of your internal SD. There's no real way for us to know what is in there. It will be different for you, me, and everyone else.
Music and video files eat tons of space fairly quickly, but since you say all your music is on your external...well it's hard to say what might be going on. You have SOMETHING eating nearly 14gb of space...
Time to get your learn on, browse through your phone's folders and see what's there. Best to do this from your PC...Best of luck
You can pretty much delete the entire contents, but I wouldn't delete the clockwork folder since it helps you recover. For some reason it doesn't like it when I delete the update.zip file thou either. Something about root and screwing around with LOL
+1 on the last two posts...
are you sure it's not 1.4GB? The 14GB internal SD is good enough for most. In fact I bet that most people with all the music and videos and other stuff still have a few GBs.
Definitely DO NOT get rid of your Clockwork folder and the update.zip. Those two will save you in a pinch. Now as for everything else, you can always re-flash a ROM and start from the beginning.
Good luck and keep an eye if that happens again. I'm not sure Samsung expected people to run out of space on the internal so quickly.
I just copied the contents of my internal card to my computer and it said there the only 620mb. WTF?? Im going to format it and report back.
Alright guys, I noticed today that my Titanium Backups aren't on my mount/extsd storage, and I tried to change the backup location under preferences, but it wouldn't allow me. While checking my sd card I noticed the only file stored on it is my pictures? I tried downloading apps to sd in an attempt to move titanium backup, and that's when I realized I have a serious issue I believe. I was given a message when apps to sd opened that said, "this device does not have a real primary external storage, or the primary external storage is emulated"? Whatever the hell that means by emulated I don't know? The sd card was working in the last phone I used it in.
Biggest problem is that I'm rooted, so I can't return it under warranty! At least I can't to my knowledge. I'm in serious need of some help here, I purchased the phone at the T mobile retail store, so I don't know if I can sneak it past them somehow, or if I should maybe just (it hurts to say it) brick it on purpose, and pull the old" it just shut off and wouldn't turn back on" routine?
Please guys, any and all advice will be much appreciated!
Before doing anything drastic, have you thought about maybe reformatting the SD card first? If that doesn't work then try another SD card (they do go bad you know). It sounds like something that should be easy to fix. Whatever you do please don't brick it on purpose. It's not anyone's fault that your device is now acting up after rooting it. At least do them a solid and ODIN back to stock, then try to return it if that's the case.
Hi,
You should read this thread. It should shed some light on your external SD card problem and provide a couple of methods to get around it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1672507
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Paging Dr B said:
Before doing anything drastic, have you thought about maybe reformatting the SD card first? If that doesn't work then try another SD card (they do go bad you know). It sounds like something that should be easy to fix. Whatever you do please don't brick it on purpose. It's not anyone's fault that your device is now acting up after rooting it. At least do them a solid and ODIN back to stock, then try to return it if that's the case.
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Yes I did format it to no avail, and I'm headed home soon where I'll try a different sd card. I don't want to brick the device, and I've had to unroot and return a phone before because of a hardware issue with the screen that wasn't my fault. The problem with doing that in this situation is that I don't believe there's a way to unroot it and go back to the stock recovery or reset the binary flash counter. As far as you saying it's not anyone's fault, it sure is my friend and it's not mine! I had a Galaxy s4g that wouldn't read an sd card two days after I got it & I had to return it. So, as far as being no one's fault, not true... It would be Samsungs fault, and rooting it had nothing to do with it. If I broke a device because of my own foolishness or stupidity, I would ABSOLUTELY NEVER try to exchange it! The entire basis of my spirituality is based on karma and I would suck it up & pay for my mistake but maintain my peace of mind. This however, I am not at fault for, and I shouldn't be responsible for faulty hardware just because I obtained root access.
This is a good read on the external SD card permission problems on the Samsung S3
http://www.chainfire.eu/articles/113/Is_Google_blocking_apps_writing_to_SD_cards_/
and this is one way to get around it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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This is a good read on the external SD card permission problems on the Samsung S3
http://www.chainfire.eu/articles/113/Is_Google_blocking_apps_writing_to_SD_cards_/
and this is one way to get around it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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Okay I've read the links and this is very odd??? I need to hear from someone with the gs3 that they've also discover that they're phone recognizes & reads the sd card, but will not allow apps to write to it. PLEASE, someone check this and help me out here!
I REALLY NEED TO FIGURE OUT IF ALL Gs3's DO THIS, OR IF I NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO RETURN TO STOCK & EXCHANGE IT?
Sorry for the frustration, but I just spent a heck of a lot of money here, and this is a very aggravating problem....
My TB backs up to the ext SD. I had the same problem you did. Too bad I can't actually remember what I did. :crying:
When you go into TB and try to select storage location...nothing comes up but the internal?
I think I manually moved the TB folder from the internal to the external...then went back into TB to select the location...then selected the Detect button...and it came up with a list of folders that I could choose.
It went something like that. Hope that sheds some light...(sorry I cant remember exactly)
FYI...the ext SD folder is under mnt/extSD...or something like that.
I forget to mention something else guys. I am able to copy & paste my Titanium Backups as well as any other files to the sd card. So, the phone recognizes it, and it will write to external sd if I manually copy things there, but it will not allow any third party apps to write to external sd? I also cannot move apps to the sd card? This is a HUGE pain in the ass! I bought the 16gb model because that's all the retailer I my area had, so the sd card is a necessity for me. If I'm downloading torrents or other large files this could be a problem. I'm really wondering if this isn't just my phone?
It'd be great if someone here with the skills could port this mod for us.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433436
It basically makes the phone think that the external is the internal...and all files downloaded from the browsers or whatever app that doesn't allow sd access...to go directly to external.
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My TB backs up to the ext SD. I had the same problem you did. Too bad I can't actually remember what I did. :crying:
When you go into TB and try to select storage location...nothing comes up but the internal?
I think I manually moved the TB folder from the internal to the external...then went back into TB to select the location...then selected the Detect button...and it came up with a list of folders that I could choose.
It went something like that. Hope that sheds some light...(sorry I cant remember exactly)
FYI...the ext SD folder is under mnt/extSD...or something like that.
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Sorry nothing! THANK YOU! I was like 3/4 of the way to that idea, I had already copied the file, but I was just thinking maybe if I deleted the internal file, maybe now it will follow the one I copied to the mount/extsdstorage? I can't thank you enough for just confirming that this isn't a problem specific to my model. I think that this problem should be explained to everyone & stickied. This is a seriously confusing situation. Ppl who don't root or come to XDA won't have any idea why they're music, videos, or anything from third party apps aren't going to their sd cards? Some ppl may not even realize it? I don't know if it's been mentioned in another thread here yet, but I couldn't find anything in our forums about it, and I've been trying to figure out what was going on all day. I still don't understand what the hell it meant about emulated storage?
SiNJiN76 said:
It'd be great if someone here with the skills could port this mod for us.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433436
It basically makes the phone think that the external is the internal...and all files downloaded from the browsers or whatever app that doesn't allow sd access...to go directly to external.
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Is this already a widely recognized problem and I'm just late to the freaking party or what? Because I do follow threads, search the forums, and read, and I've never heard of this before... I hope they have this error fixed in roms.
I REALLY NEED TO FIGURE OUT IF ALL Gs3's DO THIS,
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All stock Samsung Galaxies S3 do this. Google in their infinite wisdom is locking down apps so they can not write to an external card that can infect other devices.
Problem is we all want more control with our external cards and there are a lot of unhappy campers with this new "feature". Gamers are especially concerned because they can not install their games to the external card to free up more space.
This is a real strong reason to buy the 32gb model and not the 16gb. One could take the stance that they are forcing us to pay a higher premium for our storage when we purchase the phone.
As I said you can do the work around with directory bind until:
1. A dev comes up with a a patch
2. You install a custom Rom like Cm9 that has patched out this security policy.
Never mind... Now that I'm using better keywords to describe the problem, and searching outside of just the US variants forum, I'm finding threads... I feel like an idiot now! Some folks are talking as if this is better? I don't see it though. I did a nandroid after root, and it only left me with around 8gb or so with my apps installed. I know its faster memory than an sd card, but it's kind of a pain. I hope I never need to download anything bigger than 8gb... Doubtful ill need my phone for anything that big though.
Sorry for freaking out and making a big deal out of this issue, but I thought my device was defective, and I wasn't using good search terms. I should have been able to figure this out without cluttering things with a two Page thread.
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All stock Samsung Galaxies S3 do this. Google in their infinite wisdom is locking down apps so they can not write to an external card that can infect other devices.
Problem is we all want more control with our external cards and there are a lot of unhappy campers with this new "feature". Gamers are especially concerned because they can not install their games to the external card to free up more space.
This is a real strong reason to buy the 32gb model and not the 16gb. One could take the stance that they are forcing us to pay a higher premium for our storage when we purchase the phone.
As I said you can do the work around with directory bind until:
1. A dev comes up with a a patch
2. You install a custom Rom like Cm9 that has patched out this security policy.
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Yes, I really wish I could take it back and pay the difference for the 32gb, but with being rooted its really not feasible. I was browsing XDA on my phone also, and I didn't even catch the link in your first post, I was only reading the links I your second post, lol. I really feel like a dummy here since my question was almost immediately answered. Also, the browser can act a little wonky sometimes on XDA. As soon as I made it home to my desktop, I was looking over the thread & knocking my forehead against the screen!
Yeah...but if someone could modify that script for our phones...(I personally use it on my Transformer...and til this day...has been perfect.) :angel:
Sorry for freaking out and making a big deal out of this issue,
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Actually you are bringing up a valid concern and one of the first to do it in this section of the US version of the S3, my hat off to you!
It would be good idea to have a stickied thread in general that addresses this. That way ppl will be well aware of how to work around it. And yes, a patch for this would be great, because some may prefer things this way, and alot will prefer the previous standards. I for one don't like this one bit!
Put a stock rom on it and go into the store. Tell them you're having issues, they can order one on their end and send it out to you.
I would know. I worked there.
Does filling a phone with only internal storage slow it down? Even if you don't fill it?
I'm asking because I put 10gb of music on my HTC One, and I was just curious as to whether it would effect it in any way.
Thanks for any responses
Well.. in my opinion, since the Internal Storage should be divided into partitions, the user data should go into a different partition, so performance should not be affected.. however in general terms, I'm not sure how the technology works in detail, but if we apply the same principles as a normal hard drive, looking for data, browsing along more files, should bring unnoticeable delay.. but I'm not sure, just giving my honest opinion
Yeah, I only ask because I know that completely filling up the internal storage will cause some performance problems.
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Well.. in my opinion, since the Internal Storage should be divided into partitions, the user data should go into a different partition, so performance should not be affected.. however in general terms, I'm not sure how the technology works in detail, but if we apply the same principles as a normal hard drive, looking for data, browsing along more files, should bring unnoticeable delay.. but I'm not sure, just giving my honest opinion
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I dont think it slows down due to hard disk. It can be slow due to some apps that you are using in you phone. It can also happens if you are using internet on you Mobile.
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I dont think it slows down due to hard disk. It can be slow due to some apps that you are using in you phone. It can also happens if you are using internet on you Mobile.
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I didn't said it slows down "due to hard disk". I said if we apply the same concept of mechanisms hard drives use, it would Which is not the case.
I think it does... I tried.
Pretty sure it does, with my old phones (g1, original droid and wildfire) when they hit the limit they were practically bricks (which would light up 5 years after they should)
If (and that's an if) I remember correct gmail stops synchronizing once you go below 20 mb
... my two shiny pennies
ButtSwag said:
Does filling a phone with only internal storage slow it down? Even if you don't fill it?
I'm asking because I put 10gb of music on my HTC One, and I was just curious as to whether it would effect it in any way.
Thanks for any responses
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Well.....does it slow it down? Test it and see if the device performs better or worse with the music on it.
I put the music on my phone as soon as I got it practically, so I wouldn't be able to tell.
From the sound of it, you guys completely filled your phones? I mean just half full or something
ButtSwag said:
I put the music on my phone as soon as I got it practically, so I wouldn't be able to tell.
From the sound of it, you guys completely filled your phones? I mean just half full or something
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I usually try to keep internal memory as free as possible by moving and placing files to SDCARD or SDCARD partition.
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I usually try to keep internal memory as free as possible by moving and placing files to SDCARD or SDCARD partition.
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The HTC One doesn't have an sd card only internal
Need some words of wisdom here. My rooted THL W200 has a fat I mean a huge portion of the internal memory crushed by something, no idea what. See screenshot.
I'm so low on internal storage that I can barely do anything. It's crippling my phones basic functionality. Is my OS bloated or what. Is a clean install of 4.2.1 really over 500mb!!!
So far I have tried wiping the dalvik cache with an app, barely freed anything. Is there anything I can do. Bare in mind that the default recovery is running and it's entirely in chinese so I have no idea how to use it and getting CWM doesn't appear to be too simple on this phone.
Thanks for any help.
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Need some words of wisdom here. My rooted THL W200 has a fat I mean a huge portion of the internal memory crushed by something, no idea what. See screenshot.
I'm so low on internal storage that I can barely do anything. It's crippling my phones basic functionality. Is my OS bloated or what. Is a clean install of 4.2.1 really over 500mb!!!
So far I have tried wiping the dalvik cache with an app, barely freed anything. Is there anything I can do. Bare in mind that the default recovery is running and it's entirely in chinese so I have no idea how to use it and getting CWM doesn't appear to be too simple on this phone.
Thanks for any help.
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Sorry, the screenshot does not seem very helpful without the actual measuring of the storage. Might want to use a better storage analyzer.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.levelokment.storageanalyser
Also, it's not a big deal that /system takes up that much space. For one thing, that's a separate partition than where you save your media and files and apps you install are saved to /data/app so doesn't make much difference. Plus many newer phones have systems that are 2 GBs give or take a bit.
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Need some words of wisdom here. My rooted THL W200 has a fat I mean a huge portion of the internal memory crushed by something, no idea what. See screenshot.
I'm so low on internal storage that I can barely do anything. It's crippling my phones basic functionality. Is my OS bloated or what. Is a clean install of 4.2.1 really over 500mb!!!
So far I have tried wiping the dalvik cache with an app, barely freed anything. Is there anything I can do. Bare in mind that the default recovery is running and it's entirely in chinese so I have no idea how to use it and getting CWM doesn't appear to be too simple on this phone.
Thanks for any help.
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also you can reset your phone
Hello, I have the absolutely same issue with the same phone THL W200 rooted and I have to say this problem is unbearable. 500 mbytes of internal storage are being eaten up by nothing rendering my phone almost useless.
I have no idea what's causing it as well and I am not well versed enough in backing up and hard reseting to even try, also I dont have a PC at hand where I can back up.
If you've found a solution please inform me at once, thank you.
So, in short, I used Link2SD to move all my bulky apps over to my MicroSD card. As you can probably tell at this point, I'm somewhat new to Android and apparently that causes a whole bunch of issues. I'm used to dealing with Windows PCs, where you can easily have an small SSD dedicated for your OS and a large HDD for your media storage. I guess Android isn't as simple as that. I thought it was supposed to be better, since it is Linux-based and all. Or maybe I'm missing something. I did some research, and it seems possible but I couldn't find a straight-forward answer.
Can someone explain to me how to use your MicroSD card as storage for your apps without screwing them up? I'm sure this has been addressed before, but I'd like someone to at least point me in the right direction as to not mess anything else up further. Link to another thread perhaps?
In addition, now that most of my apps are screwed up, is there a way to undo this? I am willing to do a factory reset, if necessary, but only if it is the best fool-proof solution.