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Hi all
I have just installed CyanogenMod 7 on my HTC Desire.
I partitioned my 16GB Class 10 MicroSD card into a 14GB FAT32 partition and a 2GB ext3 partition. I installed DarkTremor's apps2sd scripts, and the apps2sd gui. I set it to save apps to the SD card, and to move the dalvik cache to the SD card.
Everything was working well: I was able to install apps, and they were going to the SD card (had they not, I would have hit the limit of the Desire's internal storage!). Rebooting didn't negatively affect anything - I rebooted several times and the apps were still there.
Then, when I opened the Theme Explorer, the phone just hung. It didn't respond to any input, from the touch screen to pressing or long pressing the power button. Eventually, in desperation, I took the battery out to do a hard reset.
When the phone booted back up, all the apps I had just installed were gone. Their icons remained on the homepage, but with the generic Android icon instead of their actual icon. They were missing from the ADWLauncher panel. The apps are still present in the list of apps, but are missing their icons and proper names. Instead they are displayed with a generic Android icon, and their "long-form" name, for example "com.amazon.kindle".
In addition to all the apps I had installed being missing, certain apps that came with CyanogenMod were also missing, such as: ROM Manager and the program that lists the apps with root permissions (I forget the name). Also, the Market application is missing. However, the calendar, messages, Google Talk, Theme Chooser, etc are all still present and working.
I tried rebooting the phone multiple times, as well as unmounting and remounting the SD card, with no improvement.
Using the terminal emulator, I can see that /sd-ext still has five directories: app, app-private, dalvik-cache, data, lost+found. However, all these directories, including the /sd-ext/app directory, are empty.
Running a2sd reinstall goes through the list of apps, but for each app that is missing, it says that it cannot find the .apk file for that app.
I suppose, then, that I have two questions:
1. Can I restore my apps somehow?
2. If not, and I have to reinstall, how can I prevent this from happening again?
(At the root of both of these is the question "why did this happen?" so if anyone knows that, that would be a great help too!)
Thank you all in advance - please let me know if there's any other information I can provide.
I have a similar problem with my Samsung Galaxy S2 on Sprint. I used Apps2SD by Sam Lu to move many of my apps over to my new 32 gig SD Card. After a bit I realized that I had moved many of the apps over that should have stayed on the main internal storage, mainly because of widgets. So I moved many of them back.
Shortly after doing that I was at a retreat with my phone on airplane mode to preserve battery life. I took some pictures and videos, read my Kindle app and Bible and then plugged it in to charge. The next day several of the pictures and videos I took showed up as a black icon and were not accessible. Then I noticed that all the apps that I had moved to the SD card were "greyed out" and even some of the apps that I had moved back to the internal storage. The phone then told me the SD card needed to be formatted.
Since then I have tried to use file recovery software to recover missing files on the SD card and it finds hundreds of photos and several videos, but nothing else. So the big question is, where are my apps? I hope you find a solution to your issue because it may be the same solution for my issue.
Sincerely,
Nathan
Hey there, I hope someone can assist me.
I updated my Galaxy S2 to ICS and everything went smoothly.
Only problem is that existing movies that were copied are now missing and cannot be seen in any explorers (phone or windows) yet when checking the properties in windows of the internal drive it lists the used size as 8.38GB, although just checking the properties of the visible folders the size is only 858MB.
If I remember correctly I had them copied in the usbStorage folder before doing the update to ICS, now the folder is empty.
I have all system and hidden files set to be visible in windows.
Has anyone seen this before or know how to rectify it.
Thanks
Gandalf_The_Grey said:
Hey there, I hope someone can assist me.
I updated my Galaxy S2 to ICS and everything went smoothly.
Only problem is that existing movies that were copied are now missing and cannot be seen in any explorers (phone or windows) yet when checking the properties in windows of the internal drive it lists the used size as 8.38GB, although just checking the properties of the visible folders the size is only 858MB.
If I remember correctly I had them copied in the usbStorage folder before doing the update to ICS, now the folder is empty.
I have all system and hidden files set to be visible in windows.
Has anyone seen this before or know how to rectify it.
Thanks
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Good to have a copy of personal data from your phone on a different place, such as your PC.
Maybe the media scan needs a kind of "refresh" or update to collect all media files on your phone.
Have you already wiped cache partition (and Dalvik cache) in recovery mode?
If not, just do so by pressing Volume UP + Home + Power buttons as long as recovery menu appears, then select wipe cache and reboot.
Sometimes this helps media scanner after updating to ICS.
Good luck !
Thanks for the feedback.
I tried clearing the cache but the problem is still there.
I can explain it like this, when you look at the storage space it shows 11.5GB of internal storage with 3.5GB available, but the totals of everything does not add up to 8GB, only to about 900MB.
It seems that the movie files I had on the internal storage are now corrupt somehow and are not visible anywhere.
Still looking around to find a way to fix this.
Alright, so I was kinda flipping between ROMs, Hyperdrive, Bonestock, Beanstown, and even a couple of AOSP ROMs. After all that flashing I realized I had a bunch of crap on my internal memory that I didnt need or want in there, so without even thinking about researching it before doing it I booted into recovery (TWRP) and formatted my internal memory.
Oops.
So, since then I have applied the one click return to stock that odins a stock MDK image. I applied the stock MDK recovery. I booted into the stock recovery and wiped and factory reset everything besides doing the reset and delete everything from the settings menu.
Maybe its just me not paying attention but I am noticing something after starting fresh that I dont remember noticing before.
I have moved pictures from my External Memory card back to my internal memory card and I the files show up in two places, /storage/emulated/0 and /storage/emulated/legacy... My pictures in Gallery are also showing up as in two places, even after restoring back to stock mdk, stock recovery, wiping everything, etc. Is this normal? Is it just something that I missed and didnt pay attention to beforehand? I dont remember the internal memory being like this prior to my attempt to format it in TWRP but hey, what do I know... It doesnt look like the files are being duplicated it looks like its a system thing that shows two different locations that are actually the same lcoation but really, I'm too stupid to know better. Is there a way for gallery not to show the same files twice since it doesnt look like the files are actually duplicated but just maybe some sort of internal link from the folders showing two seperate locations?
If I am wanting to restore files from my ext card that I backed up should they be put in /0 or /legacy or does it even matter?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
I'm pretty sure they are the same thing. I've noticed something similar on my phone.
/0 folder was created when we went to Android 4.2 (becuase of the ability to have user profiles) So system need a way to install apps on a per user basias.
The /legacy is for olders apps that are still written for Android 4.1.2 and below.
I hope I got that right. lol
Gunthermic said:
/0 folder was created when we went to Android 4.2 (becuase of the ability to have user profiles) So system need a way to install apps on a per user basias.
The /legacy is for olders apps that are still written for Android 4.1.2 and below.
I hope I got that right. lol
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Not on my HTC One. Those two folders appear to be duplicates of my entire sdcard.
Can I delete the legacy directory without issue?
ccs86 said:
Not on my HTC One. Those two folders appear to be duplicates of my entire sdcard.
Can I delete the legacy directory without issue?
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They are symbolic links that directory. As a result, they take up next to no space. Deleting them would be inviting trouble for, quite literally, no benefit.
Do not delete either one. I did that on my Galaxy nexus and deleted all my files they are linked together somehow
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Gunthermic said:
/0 folder was created when we went to Android 4.2 (becuase of the ability to have user profiles) So system need a way to install apps on a per user basias.
The /legacy is for olders apps that are still written for Android 4.1.2 and below.
I hope I got that right. lol
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This is correct. They are simply symbolic links pointing to the same directory. No worries.
same issue but doubleing the space used on internal memory
So I have the legacy and 0 folders same size same files. The problem is I have this awesome HTC one mini but stupid none expandable memory. I have not put but about five gigs in my phone, but with these two folders showing twice my phone is counting it twice. Basically I ha e no free space on my phone. Only half is actually there. WTF do I do?
skoobbarnes said:
So I have the legacy and 0 folders same size same files. The problem is I have this awesome HTC one mini but stupid none expandable memory. I have not put but about five gigs in my phone, but with these two folders showing twice my phone is counting it twice. Basically I ha e no free space on my phone. Only half is actually there. WTF do I do?
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No, they're not using the space twice.
/storage/emulated/legacy/ is a pointer to /storage/emulated/0/
Anything in /storage/emulated/legacy also shows up in /storage/emulated/0 but they are the same file.
If you delete something in /0/ it will also be deleted in /legacy/ which means it's gone. Same thing happens if you delete anything from /legacy/.
It's not counting twice, you are. If you try to free space by deleting one of these, you will lose files you need. Look elsewhere for ways to free up space.
Double files for sure.
k1mu said:
No, they're not using the space twice.
/storage/emulated/legacy/ is a pointer to /storage/emulated/0/
Anything in /storage/emulated/legacy also shows up in /storage/emulated/0 but they are the same file.
If you delete something in /0/ it will also be deleted in /legacy/ which means it's gone. Same thing happens if you delete anything from /legacy/.
It's not counting twice, you are. If you try to free space by deleting one of these, you will lose files you need. Look elsewhere for ways to free up space.
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I used the script SuperWipe_M4_xpirt.zip to completely clean my Phone because after I copied to my pc then deleted all my titanium back up media and DCIM my sdcard only had 1.4gb in on it. On the device all those files still showed under my legacy and /0 folder and I found a third under storage in the device. This is something funky. So after the SuperWipre Script from thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2423576 I then flashed 4.3 sense 5.5 from thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2575766 and now I have 11 gb on my phone. I will pay more attention to my storage when installing and changing things so I can see what, where, and/or how that happened. I have never encountered something like this before, nevertheless, i have never settle for a phone without external storage either. I wont ever do that again. But for a free phone plus a $56 credit to my account, I can't complain too much. Just a little. The One Mini is way better than the crappy lame POS LG Nitro HD .
I deleted /storage because the only thing inside it was "emulated" which appeared to be a random file, as opposed to a folder with a 0 inside of it. Expectedly, it seems, I lost everything. (Even though it was inside /mnt/sdcard/ with all my other files, i.e. /mnt/sdcard/DCIM, /mnt/sdcard/Music, /mnt/sdcard/storage, etc, so I didn't think it could somehow lead back to my files). Am I totally screwed and everything is gone or is there a way to like recreate the links to the files or something? Not sure if this made things worse too, but I've already restarted the phone somehow hoping it would recreate the directory structure or something.
Anyone know how to fix this issue.
Build Number: LMY47X.G928PVPU2AOI6
Model Number: SM-G928P
/storage/emulated/0
/storage/emulated/legacy
They both contain the same files and are linked together. So if I erase something from one it is erased on the other. That's fine I understand they have the same files.
The issue is my phone is counting the space being used twice. Say I have 14 gb's of free space. Then I download a 2 gb file and I go from 14 gb to 10 gb free.
I also noticed that these 2 paths are linked and have the same files /storage/sdcard0 and /sdcard.
Now I've discovered that all 5 of these paths have the same files I have a Galaxy S6 so I only have internal memory.
/storage/emulated/0
/storage/emulated/legacy
/storage/sdcard0
/storage/sdcard
/mnt/sdcard
Please help it's bad enough I only have 25 gb of space to begin with. Having 12.5 is even worse.
Sharpshank said:
Build Number: LMY47X.G928PVPU2AOI6
Model Number: SM-G928P
/storage/emulated/0
/storage/emulated/legacy
They both contain the same files and are linked together. So if I erase something from one it is erased on the other. That's fine I understand they have the same files.
The issue is my phone is counting the space being used twice. Say I have 14 gb's of free space. Then I download a 2 gb file and I go from 14 gb to 10 gb free.
I also noticed that these 2 paths are linked and have the same files /storage/sdcard0 and /sdcard.
Now I've discovered that all 5 of these paths have the same files I have a Galaxy S6 so I only have internal memory.
/storage/emulated/0
/storage/emulated/legacy
/storage/sdcard0
/storage/sdcard
/mnt/sdcard
Please help it's bad enough I only have 25 gb of space to begin with. Having 12.5 is even worse.
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Dammit this thread screwing with everyone. Every path is like the way to get to a file in your sd card. The two paths are like different sets of directions, but both lead to the same place.
I know they are different paths but why the double space
whowatchlist said:
Dammit this thread screwing with everyone. Every path is like the way to get to a file in your sd card. The two paths are like different sets of directions, but both lead to the same place.
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I know they are different paths but why are they taking up twice the space? My S4 had the same paths but it didn't count the files twice towards used storage.
/storage/emulated = 7 gb
/storage/emulated/0 = 3.5 gb
/storage/emulated/Legacy =3.5 gb
Shouldn't /storage/emulated = only say 3.5 gb?
Hello fellow Asus Padfone S users, my name is Andy.
I have a question regarding Internal Storage. Using Asus File Manager, I open the Storage Analyzer at bottom.
There I noticed something fishy,there are 9 Gb of memory in Others Tab. When I click the detail, it is said that I'm using only 3 Gb of space. So,where is the other 6 Gb...?
OK,so then I check in Asus File Manager Internal Storage. Then I click the root (my phone isn't rooted) directory withou hiding the system files. There, I see 2 folder, sdcard and storage, which has the same amount as my internal storage.
The sdcard folder contains my internal storage data. But in the storage folder, it contains emulated and sdcard0 folder which the sdcard0 folder has the same data as the sdcard folder in root.
Then I open the emulated folder. In there, I found 2 folders, 0 and legacy folder. And it has the same amount of data as my sdcard folder in root.
So what is this folders means...? They duplicate my internal storage data and making my phone internal storage full. Can I delete the other folders...? Will it corrupt my phone...?
Any opinion on this is much appreciated.
Thank you before.
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Hello fellow Asus Padfone S users, my name is Andy.
I have a question regarding Internal Storage. Using Asus File Manager, I open the Storage Analyzer at bottom.
There I noticed something fishy,there are 9 Gb of memory in Others Tab. When I click the detail, it is said that I'm using only 3 Gb of space. So,where is the other 6 Gb...?
OK,so then I check in Asus File Manager Internal Storage. Then I click the root (my phone isn't rooted) directory withou hiding the system files. There, I see 2 folder, sdcard and storage, which has the same amount as my internal storage.
The sdcard folder contains my internal storage data. But in the storage folder, it contains emulated and sdcard0 folder which the sdcard0 folder has the same data as the sdcard folder in root.
Then I open the emulated folder. In there, I found 2 folders, 0 and legacy folder. And it has the same amount of data as my sdcard folder in root.
So what is this folders means...? They duplicate my internal storage data and making my phone internal storage full. Can I delete the other folders...? Will it corrupt my phone...?
Any opinion on this is much appreciated.
Thank you before.
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Asus roms structure these folders differently than other phones. It differs from other devices.
They are basically the same, basically serves as symlinks to internal storage. (It does the same with my phone)
Your actual SD card should be under removeable/MicroSD if its inserted. No other paths unlike internal storage.
With the exception of the padfone s plus...
They do that so apps can save their data directly into internal storage, and the reason why there are many paths to the same is to maximize app saving compatibility.
Regarding to your issue with you running out of memory around 6gbs is taken out right away because the system uses it. You can use 10.77GB out of the 16GB available. After you first set up your device (Im sure its different with custom roms) Different reasons for that.
Its different with different devices and maybe different roms.
Anything other than that just for say around the system takes more, means there is something is wrong and a factory reset usually fixes that. Pretty confusing stuff I know but other manufacturers do the same thing, samsung got backlash when GS4 got released after users complained that the OS used up almost half of their internal storage.
Justatechie said:
Asus roms structure these folders differently than other phones. It differs from other devices.
They are basically the same, basically serves as symlinks to internal storage. (It does the same with my phone)
Your actual SD card should be under removeable/MicroSD if its inserted. No other paths unlike internal storage.
With the exception of the padfone s plus...
They do that so apps can save their data directly into internal storage, and the reason why there are many paths to the same is to maximize app saving compatibility.
Regarding to your issue with you running out of memory around 6gbs is taken out right away because the system uses it. You can use 10.77GB out of the 16GB available. After you first set up your device (Im sure its different with custom roms) Different reasons for that.
Its different with different devices and maybe different roms.
Anything other than that just for say around the system takes more, means there is something is wrong and a factory reset usually fixes that. Pretty confusing stuff I know but other manufacturers do the same thing, samsung got backlash when GS4 got released after users complained that the OS used up almost half of their internal storage.
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Thank you very much for your respon.
Yes,I do know that my SD Card is under Removable.
And yes,I know that 6Gb are taken out for the system. I can looked it in Setting/Storage section.
But what I meant is that the reduction is from the 10 Gb that I have.
What if i delete those copied folders...? Is that OK...?
I'll try to factory reset it and see if the issue occurs. It may take somewhile cause it's frustrating if you Factory Reset your daily devices.
Thank you for your respons...
My Device:
I am using a Galaxy S7 SM-G930F 32GB Exynos running IronMan-Rom V1.2.0 and have TWRP 3.0.2-4 and the phone is rooted.
The Issue:
Something is using 13.85GB on my internal SD/Storage (see attached screenshots) I discovered this yesterday lunch time and have since spent a few hours on here and other forums across the inter-webs trying to get to the bottom of the issue. To try and discount and head off any none relevant data/answers related o the issue below is a list of what I have done so far -
Its no app cache related, because wiping the delvic and data cache from TWRP did nothing to change the other storage figure.
I deleted every scrape of data from the internal Storage/SD manually and also wiped internal Storage/SD from TWRP and no effect.
Its not app related and I have checked all my app caches and the 10 largest don't account for a fraction of the 13.85GB.
Auto update in the Google play has always been set to disable since I installed the ROM, so it not caching anything
I type *#9900# and deleted the dev/cat log, and this made no difference.
I tried SD maid, It found 2GB which I removed, didn't effect the internal storage and just broke google play services causing to it to constantly FC - utterly pointless app.
I have tried several other SD tools (SD tools, OneTool, CCleaner and numbers our SD manager type apps from the playstore to name a few) to try and ascertain what exactly is using the space in the internal storage and nothing so far has shone any light on the subject.
I have manually rum TRIM via Lspeed app and that made no difference.
DiskUseage (see screenshot) is showing it as 'System Data', but I am unable to browse or select it - and it doesn't make any sense its called that either.
My knowledge of linux is limited, but I am wondering if the internal storage is an actual drive and not a symbolic link to another location, if that's the case where is the other location so I can see if I can clean out the phantom data from there.
Doing a factory reset does indeed remove the 'phantom' 13.85GB of data, but I absolutely do not see why this extreme measure has to be taken. There surely has to be a reasonable explanation and fix for this?! As I would prefer not to have to spend a chunk of my weekend setting up my bloody phone all over again due to have to factory reset.
So while doing another search on the playstore for tools to help me, I found a tool called 'Diskinfo' and this showed one of the mount names for the internal storage as /Data. I then reinstalled TotalCommander, did a properties check on that folder and found 17.GB of data in that folder. So am gonna painstakingly go through that folder to see if there is one that roughly matches the 13.85GB mentioned in the OP.
I then found the mysterious phantom data, it was all the files I have placed into 'privatemode' So as I now understand it (privateMode), instead of just encrypting the data where it was on the external SD card, it moves the data to the internal storage/SD card. So I will be looking for an alternative app to private mode.
Hey. I'm having that issue with a costumer. I would like to know how you erased and/or solve that problem. Thank You and very helpful info.
Eventually found file '0' using an app called SD Card Manager - Samsung Tab A Android 5. Removed 4gb of data. Excellent!
I seem to be having a similar issue on my s9, I've only had it since early February this year. My apps is only 10gb, and I have ~34gb of files that on there, yet my 60gb is nearly full
Can someone help me, please??
I have an Edge phone that has almost all of my Internal Storage gone!
I have 64.00 GB and 19.62GB is taken up by "Apps", how do I fix this??
I'm not using that many Apps, so I don't understand why this is happening....please help!
Ok so what if you are not using private mode? How do you remove this data without doing a hard reset? I can see it on my disk but can't get rid of it? I have never used private mode on my phone before, used CCleaner and there is still about 17 gigs worth of **** stuck on my phone.
b1k3rdude said:
So while doing another search on the playstore for tools to help me, I found a tool called 'Diskinfo' and this showed one of the mount names for the internal storage as /Data. I then reinstalled TotalCommander, did a properties check on that folder and found 17.GB of data in that folder. So am gonna painstakingly go through that folder to see if there is one that roughly matches the 13.85GB mentioned in the OP.
I then found the mysterious phantom data, it was all the files I have placed into 'privatemode' So as I now understand it (privateMode), instead of just encrypting the data where it was on the external SD card, it moves the data to the internal storage/SD card. So I will be looking for an alternative app to private mode.
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Hello, i have the same problem. Have you been able to recovery/find that data from the privatemode? My brother's S7e is on some Note8 rom and i can't find anything 'private mode' in the Settings. He has 300mb free of 24gb and literally not a single picture on his Internal storage.
Imotep95 said:
Hello, i have the same problem. Have you been able to recovery/find that data from the privatemode? My brother's S7e is on some Note8 rom and i can't find anything 'private mode' in the Settings. He has 300mb free of 24gb and literally not a single picture on his Internal storage.
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Just do a search in setting for 'private mode' and disable it, at some point your brother has enabled to password protect some files on the device.
More relevant info here - https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/what-is-private-mode-and-how-do-i-use-it/
All this is happening to me and my private mode is off. I literally copied and pasted all of my files from my phone storage onto the computer to relief the size, again, plus the CClear app, and the dent released around 2gb.
12gb is used on a 32gb phone, removing everything it is at 29.2gb maxed out.
This is nuts...
I clear my phone out every couple of months. Images to keep on the computer, removing unnessisary things. Private mode has always been disabled... What do I need to do?
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All this is happening to me and my private mode is off. I literally copied and pasted all of my files from my phone storage onto the computer to relief the size, again, plus the CClear app, and the dent released around 2gb.
12gb is used on a 32gb phone, removing everything it is at 29.2gb maxed out.
This is nuts...
I clear my phone out every couple of months. Images to keep on the computer, removing unnessisary things. Private mode has always been disabled... What do I need to do?
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This sounds really familiar, any progress?
Is anybody know how to recover deleted files,images/photos?
My photos/images got deleted by SD maid
So when i use it i accidentally clicked something in SD maid that delete all of my images and photos
-My photos is gone
-whatsapp images is gone too
-photos , images is gone
Are they deleted permanently?
i tried recover apps in my phone , but all of that apps dint work..
Is there anyway to recover it??