I've recently rooted my phone for the first time. After all the shenanigans, it seems like I have three "home" folders on my phone where application data has been saved in at one time or another: one in /sdcard/, one in /data/media/, and one in /data/media/0/. Attached are pictures of what I mean. I'm looking to see what I can clear out, since it's very messy atm and could free up considerable space.
It started off in /sdcard/ while I was still running 4.2, and that's where all my twrp backups were. After attempting to flash a 4.3 rom, it pointed to /data/media/ instead. (This of course scared the hell out of me when I couldn't find my backups.) I've seen some information about it changing because of the user accounts feature, but if anyone could clear it all up for me I'd be very appreciative.
I've seen many posts about low internal storage space, but none of the solutions that I have seen seem to work. I've attached two screenshots to try to show the issue.
Basically, even on a fresh install of a ROM, it shows roughly 2gb of free space internally. After what few apps that I use, it shows around 1GB free. I've checked and can't seem to find any CWM backups or anything taking up the extra space. I coudl be looking in the wrong area, but everywhere I have tried turns up nothing. When I use "Disk Usage" it shows that "System Data" is using up about 7GB out of ~9.9GB of internal storage.
Where is the other 6GB that should be showing up in Disk Usage? It shows up under Storage in the Android settings menu, but then it shows a bunch of files in Miscellaneous that I can only assume are the system data files previously mentioned.
It almost seems like the phone is split into two partitions (which from what I understand, is true) but instead of writing the ROM to the system partition, it is instead installing the ROM and running it from what would have been the 9GB or so of usable space that's supposed to be available to users.
Am I missing something obvious here? What could be causing this? As you can see from teh screenshots, the apps, music, pics, etc are hardly taking up any space at all, yet there is very little space available.
Actually, I guess this was my screwup. I thought that I had deleted all of my CWM backups. Turns out I seemed to have missed one that had about 6+GB of files in it. No idea how I missed it the first few times through. But unfortunately, I can't delete posts here at xda. At least I got my space back though!
To my misfortune today, I found that all the photos I've taken on my phone with the exception of today's are wiped. Is there a way for me to recover the data? This is a very serious problem as I am in Paris on a trip... thank you all in advance for all your help, and before someone says whether or not I wiped the photos, no, I didn't do any sort of accidental user input to wipe anything...
That's odd. I'm not sure. Do you use Google photos or other service as a backup?
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Thanks for the response, I used to on my old phone, but I haven't had a chance to set it up yet at the time. After this impromptu data loss happened, I just set it up again, but it's too late for those lost photos. I don't think it's a hardware corruption on the SD card because my music and gameboy ROMs are intact. I think something in the software just wiped all the photos up to a certain point, that point being the last day of my trip. Anything before it is gone.
deathernater said:
Thanks for the response, I used to on my old phone, but I haven't had a chance to set it up yet at the time. After this impromptu data loss happened, I just set it up again, but it's too late for those lost photos. I don't think it's a hardware corruption on the SD card because my music and gameboy ROMs are intact. I think something in the software just wiped all the photos up to a certain point, that point being the last day of my trip. Anything before it is gone.
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I'm not saying it's impossible that they're deleted, but it's not a very common thing to happen... Did you check that they're not locked in the stock gallery or haven't been renamed to a different file type?
As far as I'm aware, you can't restore deleted files without root.
I just got my photos back using Dr. Fone, root is required to pull the photos straight off but I just took out the SD card and the program can attempt to pull the photos off directly. Out if my 700+ photos only about 20 were permanently corrupted. I totally didn't expect this to happen and I am now curious whether this was Android's fault or LG's. I did have to pay 50 dollars for Dr. Fone.
It is also possible, since you're stating that you were using an SD card, that the card got corrupted. In that case it's not a fault of the phone, most likely
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It is also possible, since you're stating that you were using an SD card, that the card got corrupted. In that case it's not a fault of the phone, most likely
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Good point, but I'd expect corruption to wipe more than just my photos. I say this because I am storing my music on the phone too, and all that as well as my PSP and Gameboy ROMs are still completely intact. It's like the phone just decided to wipe all my photos up to a certain point.
So I guess a fair warning to all, use some kind of background backup service like Google Photos.
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Good point, but I'd expect corruption to wipe more than just my photos. I say this because I am storing my music on the phone too, and all that as well as my PSP and Gameboy ROMs are still completely intact. It's like the phone just decided to wipe all my photos up to a certain point.
So I guess a fair warning to all, use some kind of background backup service like Google Photos.
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Corruption can happen in various forms. It is completely possible that your file table sectors got corrupted, essentially "deleting" your Photos folder.
There's loads of programs you can use to recover deleted files from drives. This is a good place to start but there are tons. Just be careful where you download them from.
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/best-free-data-recovery-tools-1321723
Yes the problem is the delete icon when you open up the gallery, you can miss one delete of a pic and mistakenly hit select all and boom all pics gone, happened to me on a trip with my g3 i didn't notice it in the spur of the moment taking pictures and when i tried to show of my awesome shots i noticed i deleted alllll of my pics and they were a looooot and i tried to recover them but most got corrupted and the only saved ones were the thumbnail cache for the real pics rendering them useless since they were small
I noticed a very troublesome problem in Android. First to say that my phone is Galaxy S6 (6.0.1), but the problem is the same for all devices I'm sure.
It's about memory usage, and the problem is that every time when you upload larger files to your phone they occupy almost double space, becouse filling so called by the built-in Smart Manager "Other" files.
This "Оther" takes a significant area of free user memory and unfortunately the system is not possible to trace where and what are these files.
Does someone know where this mystical "Оther" files are stored, because I want to delete them?
hello,
i have redmi note 10 pro and i deleted somes photos i want theme obligatory please is there any way to get them back my phone isnt rooted.
thank you
Ask authorized service center for help: may be they have the forensic tools needed.
Do not use the phone otherwise the data maybe overwritten if not already.
Even so the odds aren't good.
Recovery files have no file structure; it was lost when you deleted them. So the recovered jpegs will have a randomly generated number, no time stamp and no Exif data. A juxtaposed sea of jpegs. Although the Exif files are recovered there's no way to reassociate them with the correct jpeg... except by memory if you happen to have a photographic memory and lots of time.
Just 150 recovered images will try your patience, been there, done that... it was easier to permanantly delete them.
Not a pretty picture.