Hi,
I noticed a change in the File Manager app on my S8+ - it shows not only photos docs etc - now there's a dedicated APK button in the main page.
So today I clicked on this button and I received a single line that says APK with the number 423 beside it.
I clicked on the icon and the screen showed all the apps I have installed on my phone. The vast majority were apps installed by me, some of them were apps bundled with the OS (eg Facebook).
But the interesting part is that I could see the previous versions of the vast majority of the apps.... Taking about 11.5 GB of RAM. Some of the apps had 5-6 previous versions.
So I deleted all previous version of one of the apps I had installed, checked that everything was OK - and then proceeded to delete all the other duplicates.
My question is, why does this happen? Did I change some setting?
Note that I don't back the apps to the cloud and that all of these duplicates were in the device RAM (not on the SD card).
Thanks
Hi, if you don't have some important data on it do Factory Reset and Wioe Cache Partition.
wisniak said:
Hi,
I noticed a change in the File Manager app on my S8+ - it shows not only photos docs etc - now there's a dedicated APK button in the main page.
So today I clicked on this button and I received a single line that says APK with the number 423 beside it.
I clicked on the icon and the screen showed all the apps I have installed on my phone. The vast majority were apps installed by me, some of them were apps bundled with the OS (eg Facebook).
But the interesting part is that I could see the previous versions of the vast majority of the apps.... Taking about 11.5 GB of RAM. Some of the apps had 5-6 previous versions.
So I deleted all previous version of one of the apps I had installed, checked that everything was OK - and then proceeded to delete all the other duplicates.
My question is, why does this happen? Did I change some setting?
Note that I don't back the apps to the cloud and that all of these duplicates were in the device RAM (not on the SD card).
Thanks
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Seems a drastic measure...
Surely there's something else.
Everything's backed up but it's a time consuming process.
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Hi,
in the last times I've a problem on my HTC LEgend (non-rooted): i start to install apps and move those on external storage with A2SD.
All works normally, but if shutdwon the phone and restart, all the apps installed on SD are loose!!
All the links on the screen and in the menus are loose, and if I go in application manager, under applications, those installed on SD are listed but if I click on info, from this screen is impossible to remove the app.
Another strange think : from the memory manager, in settings, it's impossible to unmount external SD. They take a lot of time and I must terminate the process.
Last strange think : if I open the SD on PC there's all the contents.
Any suggestions?
P.S. : I've done an hard reset of the phone, and reinstalled all the apps that usually use (30-35 apps), but in this operation I don't formatted the SD.
Fast Boot option may be the culprit
In case anyone checks this old thread...
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Some (not all) of my apps moved to SD (all by Titanium Backup Pro) have begun to disappear and (sometimes) reappear without warning after I began to add and delete large Virtual Machines created in QEMU from my 16GB SanDisc class 10 microSD card on my HTC Droid Incredible running rooted stock Verizon Android Froyo 2.2.3. I know this thread is far from my phone's "home base", but from what I can tell this problem with disappearing apps located on an sdcard is NOT determined by hardware or even Android version.
I also happen to use LauncherPro by Federico Carnales instead of the built-in HTC Sense launcher. I noted elsewhere on XDA that a user had suggested that because at least some (maybe all) launchers start before the SD Card that this may be a problem, especially if changes are made to the sdcard that the launcher did not perform, or was not active during their performance by other apps such as Titanium Backup. That fits my situation, because I unmounted the SD, physically removed it to a PC, and added/deleted large VM files to save (lots) of time. No problems of this sort before I did this, so there must be some connection.
I noted that other users have tried reformatting SD, substituting different brands of SD, using newer/older SD etc. None of these reliably helped. So I skipped these options.
//// The (simple!) solution I tried that SEEMS to work (only time will tell!) is buried in the main Android Settings (accessed from the Menu button while in Home screen). Under "Applications" there is a setting "Fast Boot" that I checked long ago and forgot about (it seemed like a good thing to do at the time). The text warns "Turn off to use some Market apps" (that shows the age of my 2-yr old used phone and Android OS -- ohmygosh!-- because it refers to Market rather than Google Play Store!) Anyway, I unchecked the option and rebooted the phone.
Yes, it took a bit longer to boot (maybe a whole minute!), but after waiting about another minute ALL my home screen apps had normal icons and loaded properly. Titanium Backup Pro batch scenarios confirmed there were no apps in a forced uninstalled state (i.e. I had not done the deed, the system somehow had done it or at least rendered the apps "invisible" to Titanium, which decided they needed reinstallation).
The only odd behaviour was that auto brightness was turned off after I unchecked Fast Boot and rebooted. Going into Android Settings > Display and rechecking "auto brightness" took care of that. No other oddities or strange behaviours thus far (but it has only been about an hour).
I will report back here on this thread only (Samsung Fascinate > Fascinate Q&A > What just happend? apps on sdcard) if anything else requires reporting. Silence implies success!
link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1873670
(I am copying this post to other relevant threads, but will not post anything further elsewhere -- only there. This is a bit arbitrary (although this thread appears to be the most recent active one on this topic), but I hope this approach pleases the XDA sysops/admins) :angel:
First of all, I know this have been asked numerous times but I only got more confused of the threads that were aboout this...
My S2 has been showing the message "Insufficient storage available" for the past 8 or 9 months, but it has gotten worse since. At first I couldn't download any big apps, now I can't even download apps that are small (like 5mb). Anyway, I don't exactly know how it started but it probably has something to do with Android 4.x.x ... It has gotten really annoying because I needed to do some necessary updates on certain apps (WhatsApp for example) and I can't use them anymore because of this problem.
It's probably something with System Data. (yes I know I still have about 600mb of apps, but those are either apps I really need or apps that are on my phone as a default.) But as far as I know, I can't reach that System Data... It's just a chunk of (useless??) data that's just there. I don't really what it consists of, because the app (DiskUsage) I used to look into me storage won't let me open that map (as can be seen).
I WANTED TO SHOW A PICTURE HERE BUT I CAN'T SINCE I'M A NEW MEMBER BASICALLY, THE SITUATION IS LIKE THIS:
DATA [2015 MB]
- APPLICATIONS [574 MB]
- SYSTEM DATA [1397 MB]
- FREE SPACE [what's left. this ranges between ~90mb and ~10mb since I clear cache now and then]
I've been to a store with this problem and they basically said that there is nothing I can do... Is there really nothing I can do? I tried wiping my cache but that didn't do enough. I usually clear 90mb of cache when I do this once in every 3 days (after those 3 days I have about 5mb of space left), but like I said, this doesn't do enough.
Any suggestions? Sorry again as I know there are some threads already about this, but I looked into them and didn't really got a lot out of them...
Thanks in advance.
Did you try *#9900# on phone call menu?
From what I think, it's because of your application files. For example if you always use whatsapp(what I mean here is, if you keep on chatting), it'll store your chat messages into your phone memory which will 'eat' your memory bit by bit. And also, this is from what I've experienced, whenever you uninstalled an application, let's say TubeMate, you'll see tubemate's folder(s) is/are still inside your phone.
So what I'm trying to suggest here is, whenever you want to clear some space, try to delete some of your whatsapp chats or maybe other chat apps that stores chat messages if you don't want to uninstall other app. And when you want to uninstall an application, make sure you delete the app's folders inside your phone.
I'm don't know much about phone memory, so if I'm wrong about it, correct me
p/s: If you can't post link your image since you're new here, you can put your images as attachment.
Artwing said:
Did you try *#9900# on phone call menu?
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Why haven't I thought of that 2 months ago... I thought that option was only for clearing my storage of calls and texts and since I don't call or text a whole lot, I thought it wouldn't be beneficial.
I've cleared over 1,2 GB by this. Thanks for your help, really appreciate it!
Hello
I'm having a little trouble understanding what is going on because this never occurred to me. I have just installed to new CM 12.1 Nightly on my old Galaxy S2 (I9100 Model). I came from the just ROM JB 4.1.3 as I was sure this phone could handle much more than that. Expectations were high and they were met. Although I had some problems installing the KitKat compatible recovery, I eventually did it and it all works well for now - well, except one little annoying thing: after installing about 10 apps the phone started complaining about the internal storage running out.
First thing I do is to check the 'Storage' option in Settings to make sure about the actual space being used. I have 1,96GB total space and at this point the bar was almost filled showing that, in fact, I had about 100MB free space left. I then go to the 'Apps' option to move as many as I could to the SD card. All could be moved except for Google Play Services which itself takes about 200MB. To my surprise, although the apps were supposedly moved to SD card, if I go check the each App Info I still see that almost all space the Apps take is still being stored in the 'internal storage'. Almost nothing is stored in the SD card even if the app was "moved". I also made sure I cleaned the cache of every app.
I go ahead and check the 'Storage' option again. This time I paid attention to the actual details it shows. Once I enter this option the following screen appears: dnuno. pt (slash)outros(slash)screen2. png
After a while of "calculations" the bar changes and I end up with this: dnuno. pt(slash)outros(slash)screen3.png
(Please add www to the front of the links, remove the spaces and add the \ as I don't have the permission to post outside links yet)
No other statistics other than 'Available space' and 'Apps' appear and as the bar indicates I still have a lot of space left at least 1GB. With the previous JB ROM I started running out of space only much later and I had lots of other apps installed.
Somehow the available space is stuck on that value (166MB) even after all the calculations have been made.
I wasn't able to find any reference to this particular version of the 'storage space running out' problem and I'm unaware of possible solutions to this as well. I hope someone can redirect me to some other thread, post or something that could help me out. Also I couldn't post in the original CM 12.1 thread for I9100 because I have just registered.
Thank you in advance.
I am writing out of frustration about my experiences moving apps to an external sd card with Android in general. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction to make things less frustrating.
Prior to Android 6.0, I used the Apps2SD: All in One Tool[ROOT] app by Vicky Bonick. Several things annoyed me:
- Apps located on the second partition of the sdcard are not available immediately after booting.
- Sometimes the second partition could not be mounted, without a meaningful error message. I have to reboot the phone several times until things magically work again.
- Moving several apps to sdcard with the batch update is unstable and crashes sometimes.
- The app produces many notifications that I don't care about (e.g. how many apps are linked or what app is being moved atm). I want the app to run in the background and never have to think about it.
- App updates cause apps to be installed on internal storage again. This also means that I can never batch updates apps in the store. I know that there is an option that should move the app back to the sdcard, but that never worked reliably for me.
- Navigating in the app takes a long time. I spent a lot of time managing my storage space.
I have tried other App2Sd apps that improved on some of these points and degraded on others. I also tried some of the apps on other phones and encountered the same nuisances.
Since Android 6, I formatted my sdcard as internal storage hoping to alleviate most of the pain points. It actually made things worse:
- The sdcard is still not available immediately after booting and all my shortcuts to moved apps disappear every time I reboot.
- Not all apps can be moved to sdcard. In fact, most of them can't. Most of my largest apps (Netflix, Amazon Video and Chrome) cannot be moved. Currently, I can move about 11 of my 40 apps. The sdcard is only utilized about 3% (1 GB out of 32) and the internal storage is full. As of yesterday, I cannot install new apps anymore .
- No functionality to batch move apps.
- Some moved apps are not visible in Titanium Backup.
Yesterday I tried to force move some of the apps to sdcard that would rather stay on the internal sdcard. This page told me that the preferred installation location is located in the manifest of the apk and needs to be set to
Code:
android:installLocation="preferExternal"
. I decompiled one of the apks with apktool, changed the manifest and recompiled it. When I tried to move the recompiled app my phone soft rebooted.
I am generally puzzled why this topic is so complicated and such a hazzle. I don't even understand why there are apps that have to be on internal storage. The link above mentions that services, alarm services and widgets become unavailable when the phone is connected via USB. Didn't Android 4.0 (?) change the USB protocol to MTP which main benefit, I thought, is the parallel access by computer and phone.
Did I leave out some information? Is this question too complicated? Should I post the question somewhere else?
So, i started getting memory full notifications on my S9+, so went in thinking I'd just have to move some pictures or other media, as it randomly decides it wants to save camera images to internal storage instead of the sd card. Even after moving and deleting apps i wasn't using, i keep getting this message of storage space running low.
Long story short, i finally went in and told it to show me hidden files, and i find this app called VisionProvider. I have 64gb internal storage, and this thing is using 36+gb! What the crap is it, do i need this, and how can i get rid of it or at least reduce its size?
I'd factory reset mine only take up 10.05 mb that seems like something went wrong or its showing wrong
Could try clearing the data and cache for the app to see if that helps.
As for what the app is it was rather easy to determine, and why it is probly best to not mess with removing it.
Looking in my apps list I found the vision provider which is a system app (so not something you can disable via the phone). Upon looking I saw mine is using 1.80MB of storage, but I imagine this is because I do not use Bixby for anything other then voice dictation for texts.
Looking at the "App details in store" I saw it was downloaded from Galaxy Store. Did a quick search on Galaxy store and saw plain as day what it was... A provider app for Bixby Vision, so given it's integrated with Bixby I would just clear the cache/data for the app rather then try to mess with it. IMHO safer to do this rather then attempt to remove it, break something and have more problems.
Vision provider
So, i went into mmt apps, and, through the hamburger menu, told it to show system apps. I had looked at it here before, but the buttons to clean cache and data were greyed out and i couldn't select them. This time, however, i wad ankle to select them both, and, voila, all is well in the Samsung android world. Thanks.