Sorry for such an elementary question. How can i tell what is taking up all of my internal memory. When i use es file explorer and analyze the internal storage. Twrp is the biggest file @ 5 gigs next is android @ 1 gig. Ive got no storage space left and i dont know what to delete.
1moneymark said:
Sorry for such an elementary question. How can i tell what is taking up all of my internal memory. When i use es file explorer and analyze the internal storage. Twrp is the biggest file @ 5 gigs next is android @ 1 gig. Ive got no storage space left and i dont know what to delete.
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This is your internal storage, yes? That twrp is your recovery made backups. You could move it to external storage, or make a new one in ext storage and delete it.
First things first: TWRP and Android aren't files, they're folders, each of which contains multiple files and folders within it.
Nandroid backups are very large. I generally keep only the latest two on my phone (on an external SD card), and copy all the older ones to a PC.
Android has a subfolder called data, which contains all the data stored by [some of] your apps. Depending on the app and what it does, that could be a lot of data.
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I installed Bionic rom today. I know the phone has 16gb of memory. After install i have 12GB total, and 6GB available. What occupies the rest of 6gb? Is that rom that heavy? I am new so forgive my question.
The rom doesn't take up any storage room room as it's stored in a portion of the internal nand that's not counted. Besides, the rom is only a couple hundred megs large.
2 gigs is used for apps storage, the rest is internal storage (basically you can think of it like an internal sd card). Some space is lost due to file system overhead which you really can't do anything about.
As for where the 6 gigs went, if you were making nandroid backups, you should know they are quite large and can easily eat up a lot of space. If that is the case, delete some of the unimportant backups.
Another option you have, backup the contents of your internal sd card, then format it from the phones options menu. Copy back anything you need. Ensure you at least copy back the update.zip used by rom manager.
thank you.
So, I'm using Titanium Backup on my Photon and I took my 16GB sdcard from my evo and stuck it straight in my new Photon. As I'm looking at the home screen in TB, I notice 4 different partitions: System ROM (500MB), Internal (3.17GB), SD Card (9.56GB), and Ext. SD Card (15.9GB) {storage sizes are total, not available}.
A couple things stand out here. Firstly, I thought internal storage was 16GB...there is nowhere close to that amount in total (although in storage settings it says 8GB total). Secondly, because of the two partitions in the sdcard, I am limited in my storage. When I use root explorer (yes I am rooted), I have files stored in each of the two partitions which sometime prohibits some files, esp video files from showing up in my gallery.
Now, I have removed my sdcard, transferred all files to my computer, replaced it in the phone, and "formatted" it in the phone's menu, put the files back on it, then replaced it back in the phone. I figured this wouldn't do much since it's due to partitions but it was worth a shot.
Q: Can anybody help me determine how to free up the most space on my sdcard to be used for all files? Should I get rid of the sdcard-ext partition (that's how it shows up in root explorer)? Any help would be greatly appreciated as well as some clarification on how these partions are actually influencing the Photon ( I am aware that ext partitions are used mainly for A2SD but is it necessary in this case to have that partion?)
Its 16gb internal memory. Webtop takes up 3 gigs and there are 8 (I think) partitions total. That add up to the 16
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hi guys,
So i got the 16 GB Note. However, i dont understand where all the apps are being saved.
when i go into storage it shows usb storage total 10.84 GB and available 9.51
and then system storage now shows 1.37 GB
what is system storage? and why is USB storage only showing 10.84gb
when i go into the applications > manage applications - it lists all the apps and below it shows system storage 588mb used and 1.4GB free
someone can correct me but I believe apps are probably being loaded into system storage via default and the related application data such as music/photos/etc on the usb storage.
The NOTE is sold as having 16GB internal memory which is made up of 2GB system memory (some call it phone memory) and USB Storage (/sdcard) of about 11GB. What is using the other 3GB left of the 16GB??? Don't really know but probably data w/the preloaded apps?
how can i check if thats the case?
or how can i change that?
the system storage is very limited.
I see system apps in system/data/apps......now in sd card there is a extension with the da_g kernel I noticed...where when pluged in...all recovery backups go to into a folder named clockwork...and I see a download folder where my new downloads are going...so I have 2 folders now of clockwork and dcim and download.....but the sd is through a folder named external sd ...its almost like its backwards.....messed up I know....
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i need help i cant find ****
Hello there well im not a happy person right now as i cant find out how to put on the roms and cant find roms for i717R so yeah and i just need help someone plz
intolaomair said:
how can i check if thats the case?
or how can i change that?
the system storage is very limited.
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actually the system storage of 2GB is more than enough as it is just used to store the applications themselves.
QUESTION
the size of my internal storage is 11.4GB (which is 12GB from 16GB, so the phone uses the 4GB as system)
BUT when i format it, it says only 10GB (9.9GB to be exact) is available.
WHY? and what is using the 1.5GB rest of the storage?
Can it be cleaned up?
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So, as you can see i did a full format of internal storage to START OVER CLEAN
and i copied every thing to "A folder" in my external memory
BUT after i formated the internal memory i went to the External memory to find that my folder turned into a NON recognizable sort of file with 0kb of size.
the memory size shows that my files are in there but WHERE?
my little girl's birthday videos and pictures are in there so i really really need them back.
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
omid_freesky said:
So, as you can see i did a full format of internal storage to START OVER CLEAN
and i copied every thing to "A folder" in my external memory
BUT after i formated the internal memory i went to the External memory to find that my folder turned into a NON recognizable sort of file with 0kb of size.
the memory size shows that my files are in there but WHERE?
my little girl's birthday videos and pictures are in there so i really really need them back.
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
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No idea what you are doing but to recover files you can try RECUVA .
Looks like you formatted external sd card .
jje
Take the card out and plug it into your computer.
(Or use my Usb mass-storage mode scripts around here somewhere if you're rooted, it makes no difference)
This is a known issue with the phone and exFAT, Fat32 seems to work fine.
Should the file really be damaged (and not only non-readable by the phone) you can use Recuva as suggested by the parent.
Thank you Guys for the help, and I GOT the whole thing back.
when i removed external memory and put it in my windows laptop (because i did it with mac the first time) i found the folder there.
i renamed it and put it back in the phone and it was OKEY.
QUESTION THOUGH:
as my first post i did this format to have a clean Empty 12GB of internal memory BUT i end up having less than 10GB even after format.
What is this and why can't i empty the rest?
You can't just format the internal memory as it is using a shared file system with the system. Can you tell us what you did to format it?
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i connected it to the computer and did a format.
it was totally fine but it shows the Total size is 11.9GB and after format it still uses about 2GB and says 9.9GB available (2GB used)
the total size of the internal memory is 16GB and 4GB is used by the System but why 2 more is taken from the 12GB too
Probably installed apps. They share the available space with the folder you see as /sdcard/. Check your storage in the settings.
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I have one problem. Recently I have been noticing that I'm losing nearly 70 MB storage space on a daily basis, without having downloaded any music or any other file! How is this possible? I have about 200 apps installed in my phone. Even my Call recorder app does not eat that much space....so how am I losing so much space on a daily basis? Any ideas?
I have all the other usual apps like Tweetcaster, Friendcaster etc.
I am on XWLSK rooted with Siah Kernel
Where are you losing storage space?
Phone memory, internal storage or external sdcard?
Internal Storage, from the 11.5 GB available space. I have a 16 GB (actual available is 11.5 GB approx.) internal storage Galaxy S 2. Firmware XWLSK 4.1.2. And I'm not downloading anything, still losing about 70 MB space on a daily basis. Have to keep deleting my stored Music & Video files to make room every time the available space gets close to Zero.
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Where are you losing storage space?
Phone memory, internal storage or external sdcard?
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I think it's called the INTERNAL SD CARD Storage. The 16 GB (Actual usable only 11.5 GB approx) storage that came built in by factory in Samsung Galaxy S 2.
Could be app's cache building up, have you deleted cache of apps yet? But 70MB that seems too much so i dont think i can help you any further... :/
Download ES File explorer and then press a "analyze SD-card" option. You will then see what is taking so much space on your internal storage (internal sd.card).
1. Open Es file explorer
2. press manu button and then "manage"
3. press "analyze sd-card"
TheMasterOfToast said:
Could be app's cache building up, have you deleted cache of apps yet? But 70MB that seems too much so i dont think i can help you any further... :/
Download ES File explorer and then press a "analyze SD-card" option. You will then see what is taking so much space on your internal storage (internal sd.card).
1. Open Es file explorer
2. press manu button and then "manage"
3. press "analyze sd-card"
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Ok. I will download this app, then do the analysis and will revert after that. Even I am perplexed what is eating up so much space. Maybe it is some google system app.
It can't be the cache as I clean it regularly with 1 Tap Cleaner. And the cache is used from the dedicated 1.98 GB (Phone memory) space allotted to it. I am talking about losing space from my 11.5 GB Internal SD Card which came pre installed from Samsung.
Some app's cache are stored in the internal storage. Go check out /android/data in internal sdcard (storage)
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Some app's cache are stored in the internal storage. Go check out /android/data in internal sdcard (storage)
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Used the ES File explorer to analyse SD, and I found the culprit! It was the Root Uninstaller app whose folder had occupied something like 3 GB of my Storage Space! What the hell was being stored by this app in its folder!! Anyway I deleted it and gained about 3 GB space. Thanks a ton mate for the help
Delete the lost.dir folder and also thumbnails folder under dcim/
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