So, i have VERY low storage on my Internal memory.
I have 2.78MB out of 303.99MB.
But I'm very confused as to why i have taken up all this space, i have all my videos,songs, pictures on my memory card.
Maybe its my text messages because i have plenty of them, is it possible to transfer my text messages to my memory card? So everytime i get a text it will save to the memory card, aswell as my old ones.
Each text message is only about a few kb. 300mb of text message is about 500 million text messages-if my math is correct! Go in to "Settings" and "Memory" and at the bottom is a feature to find large files. You probably have either photos/videos, backed up files or internet cache files clogging your arteries.
i already cleared my history,cookies and cache from the internet.
I have no idea what to do, i dont have anything saved on the internal memory, and i have searched for big files but they are all on my memory card
mtreesize is the answer. Invstigate
You may have a log file running out of control somewhere. Open windows and sort by size with total commander. Then look in \my documents and \application data and all the temp files. Clear Temp or a similar program may help you out, it's not always easy to find stuff like this. Also, check your Youtube folder or any streaming folders. Sometimes the stream dump hangs around, and it can be huge. Files with weird extensions don't necessarily show up in the 'search for large files.'
Joe_PDA said:
Each text message is only about a few kb. 300mb of text message is about 500 million text messages-if my math is correct! Go in to "Settings" and "Memory" and at the bottom is a feature to find large files. You probably have either photos/videos, backed up files or internet cache files clogging your arteries.
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That's absolutely true, but what about the mms'es? Do you have a lot of them too?
The other very important question is where do you install all of your software (programs and games)? I have a game installed on my Raphael that uses over 100mb!
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I always install to my storage card but it seems that no matter what i do, my device memory keeps filling up! I ran critically low to 785 KB on a HTC Kaiser. i noticed that the programs put things in /Program Files on my device and on /Storage Card/Program Files
Questions!
In the memory app located in settings it says under the main tab that there is "Storage" and "Program". My "Storage" keeps getting full while my "program" has 39.31 MB free. What is the difference?
Can I simply place all the /program files folders over to my /storage card/program files folder and fix shortcuts or does the programs require to take space on my device itself?
I have NO pictures or videos saved on my device, only storage card, and save all attachments/etc to my storage card aswell. I have reflashed and ran memmaid and no use...
I have tried copying the program files folder over to my storage card. Have 40MB free now but all sorts of broken shortcuts. I have turned off "Shortcut To" in windows via a registry key but when I create shortcuts on the device the pesky "Shortcut to" is still showing. I have decided to flash to the lastest rom and let SAMACHI handle my cab installs...
Other Ideas:
Emails:
I sync my Hermes with a huge Outlook personal folder with lots of emails, tasks and notes. By default, email "bodies" are stored as binary files (*.mpb) in the \Windows\Messaging folder (may vary?). This folder can grow in size up to 10 - 15 MB depending on the number of emails. So in my case it wasn't enough to move the attachments to the Storage Card, I also had to move the emails "bodies" to the Storage Card. You can do this by moving the folder to the Storage Card AND changing the registry as explained in the WIKI (Change the location of email and attachments) to point the new folder location. BUT PLEASE MAKE A BACKUP OF EMAILS AND ATTACHMENTS IF YOU ATTEMPT THIS. Windows stores email headers separate from email "bodies" so if you move the "bodies" and the registry points to the wrong location, you might get empty emails and loose all data permanently if you sync. BE CAREFUL...Opera 9.5:
If you use Opera 9.5, you will loose another 10 - 12 MB in the \Application Data\Opera9 folder (may vary depending on opera version). In that case is better to run Opera from the Storage Card and tweak it so that its cache is also in the card.Themes:
Some custom made themes are in the 100 - 500 KB range and if you have many themes in the \Windows folder it can take a couple of megs of storage space. I moved all my themes to the card and keep only the one I use in the \Windows folder.
You could add more system memory by using a rom that has Ramdisk in it. In case you are not familiar, Ramdisk is a feature that basically uses Program memory as storage memory. It is similar to wm2003 and earlier, with the difference that you cannot manually allocate it. It has to be a hex edit in the rom itself. Now, regarding your question... program memory refers to the ram that is allocated for program use (as its name specifies). Basically, the more programs you have running, the lower this number gets. This is the memory resource of your device. Storage memory acts as your "hard drive", where you will place all your stuff (installation programs, pics, etc) provided that you do not send it to your storage card.
A lot of programs will install to device memory whether you instruct them to go in memory or not. Now, it should be perfectly possible to put the programs in the card as long as you rework the shortcuts...
I don't know which GPS program you are using (if any). But if you are, make sure that it is not downloading data into your device directly (things like maps, POIs, etc).
Try the first part of my post though. That might help you some.
Good luck!
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You could add more system memory by using a rom that has Ramdisk in it........
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I wouldn't recommend doing so though, you want all the ram you can get.... less ram equals less speed. If you have other space (such as your storage card) then use that.
I reccomend one of garmins rom, they usually come loaded with extra space (dk4 comes with like 110mb)
Certain programs have to be installed to the main memory, but if you install to the storage card.... you should only lose a couple kb to shortcuts and such...... something isn't adding up.
PS: The difference between storage and program:
Storage= Hard drive memory
Program= RAM memory
PSS: There is a program called clear temp you may want to try, it gets rid of alot of you temp files for you.
After flashing my device and reinstalling everything to the storage card, I have came to the conclusion that some programs install to the device anyway even if you select Install to Storage Card. I went from 110MB free down to 78mb, all in the program files folder! Time to be moving these and fixing shortcuts!
Hi,
I flashed my HTC Touch Diamond yesterday with this ROM. Suffice to say Im pretty pleased with it, however my Diamond doesnt have a lot of storage space left (on the device, i.e. not the 4GB internal storage or RAM) and as a result I keep getting nasty messages telling me to free up some space etc...
I appreciate that its a beefy ROM with Sense 2.5 but I dont understand what is happening. When i flashed the phone I had about 8MB free. I put a 6MB ringtone into the ringtones folder before noticing how little space that left me with (2MB) and then deleted it. Now a couple of days later I notice that I have less than 1MB of space, yet I havent installed any apps to the device storage so what has been filling the space up? This morning I attempted to install Facebook and Google Maps to the storage card via Marketplace as these were already on the device storage but it doesnt seem to have freed up any space.
Does anyone know how I can free up some space please? None of the apps cooked into the ROM appear in the "Remove Programs" app.
Cheers.
Hi,
Things like e-mail import, text messages, temporary files just take a lot of space of the memory.
AthenaROM is not very good, I suggest you flash for example Gen Y D2X.
Hard-resetting is the only way to clean it up, most of the files are system files that will return after deletion.
Hi thanks for your reply.
I'll check out that other ROM; for the moment I've simply copied some non-Marketplace apps to the storage card and placed shortcuts into the /Windows/Start Menu folder on the device memory. Only thing is the icons dont show, anyone have any ideas please?
Thanks.
My whatsapp folder is a humongous 527 MBs and "databases" alone take around 350 MBs. For a phone (GT-S7562 galaxy S duos) with a usable internal memory of 1.6 GB without the ability to move apps (Probably because samsung developers thought it's cool to make people manage apps in that limited space and see them scratch their head to blead ) this is a huge chunk of memory the app is taking.
Is there a way to reduce the size of databases folders? I am amused because it's just text, and all of my conversation cannot in any way sum up to 350 MBs. Does everyone have this sized whatsapp database folder?
Though I am rooted and I have link2sd, but I don't want to move whatsapp, because in any case my sd card is removed I will not be able to use it, which is obviously one important app.
gurtejgps said:
My whatsapp folder is a humongous 527 MBs and "databases" alone take around 350 MBs. For a phone (GT-S7562 galaxy S duos) with a usable internal memory of 1.6 GB without the ability to move apps (Probably because samsung developers thought it's cool to make people manage apps in that limited space and see them scratch their head to blead ) this is a huge chunk of memory the app is taking.
Is there a way to reduce the size of databases folders? I am amused because it's just text, and all of my conversation cannot in any way sum up to 350 MBs. Does everyone have this sized whatsapp database folder?
Though I am rooted and I have link2sd, but I don't want to move whatsapp, because in any case my sd card is removed I will not be able to use it, which is obviously one important app.
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You can do is remove all db files..
Now go in whatsapp.. Backup your messages.. The unwanted backups will be deleted and present one will be there without taking space..
Cooked and tested solution:
The real solution for this is to stop the application from doing backups, which by default occur daily at 02:00 (AM).
Just deleting the databases solves nothing because WhatsApp will continue creating a new dated copy every day and only delete the “outdated” ones: it keeps seven copies.
Since this behaviour adjustment has no official support, here's the solution: the /WhatsApp/Databases folder must be “disabled” for this to happen, which is as easy as deleting the folder and then creating a file named “Databases”.
You can still enjoy a Google Drive backup from time to time this way with this simple procedure:
Rename your “Databases” file to something else, like “Databasex”, for example.
Open WhatsApp and go into Settings/Chats/Backup menu. Tap on “Save”. It may take a nice while.
Open your file explorer again and redo the trick: delete the re-created “Databases” folder and give back this name to your “Databasex” file.
This can alleviate a lot of storage use for certain fellows.
Cheers
Barkuti said:
The real solution for this is to stop the application from doing backups, which by default occur daily at 02:00 (AM).
Just deleting the databases solves nothing because WhatsApp will continue creating a new dated copy every day and only delete the “outdated” ones: it keeps seven copies.
Since this behaviour adjustment has no official support, here's the solution: the /WhatsApp/Databases folder must be “disabled” for this to happen, which is as easy as deleting the folder and then creating a file named “Databases”.
You can still enjoy a Google Drive backup from time to time this way with this simple procedure:
Rename your “Databases” file to something else, like “Databasex”, for example.
Open your file explorer again and redo the trick: delete the re-created “Databases” folder and give back this name to your “Databasex” file.
This can alleviate a lot of storage use for certain fellows.
Cheers
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Excellent! I have save almost 900 MB :good:
My Nexus S (GT-I9020)keeps giving me an "insufficient storage" message. Particularly when updating "Google Newstand".
So I have cleared out lots of Photos and music and stuff. Cleared caches. Moved stuff to SD etc. Still keeps happening.
So while connected to my PC by USB, I ran "Treesize" on it, and it tells me that I have 9.87Gb free. What is the problem?
Of the few Gigabytes that are used, by far the biggest folder is called "DCIM", I know that this is where pictures are stored, but I have cleared out loads of photos. The largest file in there is called " thumbdata", at 966Mb by far the largest file on the entire phone. What is this waste of space? Can I delete it?
It seems that whenever I take a pic. with my phone, it is stored there, then a little while later a second copy appears thanks to Google upload or something, but the new copy is not as high res as the original. I do want Google to upload my photos back to my PC, but why does it have to send them back to the phone? How do I stop this? I spend too much time deleting copies of pics that are already on the phone in original. I think that the thumbnails folder is a result of all this.
The biggest memory hog after DCIM is Clockwork Mod, within it a folder called "blobs". What is it and can I delete it?
The Next biggest memory hog is called "TWRP". What is it? Can I delete it?
Is there a guide to what all these things mean and do, for us learners?
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My Nexus S (GT-I9020)keeps giving me an "insufficient storage" message. Particularly when updating "Google Newstand".
So I have cleared out lots of Photos and music and stuff. Cleared caches. Moved stuff to SD etc. Still keeps happening.
So while connected to my PC by USB, I ran "Treesize" on it, and it tells me that I have 9.87Gb free. What is the problem?
Of the few Gigabytes that are used, by far the biggest folder is called "DCIM", I know that this is where pictures are stored, but I have cleared out loads of photos. The largest file in there is called " thumbdata", at 966Mb by far the largest file on the entire phone. What is this waste of space? Can I delete it?
It seems that whenever I take a pic. with my phone, it is stored there, then a little while later a second copy appears thanks to Google upload or something, but the new copy is not as high res as the original. I do want Google to upload my photos back to my PC, but why does it have to send them back to the phone? How do I stop this? I spend too much time deleting copies of pics that are already on the phone in original. I think that the thumbnails folder is a result of all this.
The biggest memory hog after DCIM is Clockwork Mod, within it a folder called "blobs". What is it and can I delete it?
The Next biggest memory hog is called "TWRP". What is it? Can I delete it?
Is there a guide to what all these things mean and do, for us learners?
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how many apps in your device? u can check your remaining storage at setting>apps>downloaded...if the remaining is under 100mb...u need to delete some apps to update some apps...
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how many apps in your device? u can check your remaining storage at setting>apps>downloaded...if the remaining is under 100mb...u need to delete some apps to update some apps...
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I have 51 countable icons for apps, 102 in the list of "All apps." which includes all sorts of android stuff.
Under "downloaded" (36 apps) internal storage shows 784Mb used, 224Mb free.
Under USB it shows 3.4Gb used, 9.9Gb free. Aha! so that's what Treesize is looking at.
I get it, my 1Gb of internal storage is being used up. I will try and move more apps to USB.
Is that it?
also check your system partition, google apps often go there, if you're not rooted you wont be able to free space on it, the system partition is about 500MB large so it gets easily filled up, it contains your android rom and system apps
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monkey shoulder said:
I have 51 countable icons for apps, 102 in the list of "All apps." which includes all sorts of android stuff.
Under "downloaded" (36 apps) internal storage shows 784Mb used, 224Mb free.
Under USB it shows 3.4Gb used, 9.9Gb free. Aha! so that's what Treesize is looking at.
I get it, my 1Gb of internal storage is being used up. I will try and move more apps to USB.
Is that it?
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yes i think you must move some apps to sd, or delete it.... hope it will work
Hello everyone!
While I was cleaning my internal memory deleting cache and some app data, I found that almost 30% of my 2gb dedicated app memory has been used by Whatsapp (≈640MB)
This doesn't include Media files on SD CARD (1,3GB)
Sooo, I started to think about it.
It's true that I have so many conversations stored, but god damn it 640MB?
So I opened the Root File Explorer and start digging inside data/data/com.whatsapp
Inside /databases/ I found a strange file apart from the actual message database which is about 282MB.
It was called "msgstore.db_new" (140MB) and it was unmodified since April.
I moved it to the SD card and Whatsapp still works perfectly fine with all my conversations available, so what the **** is that file supposed to do?
Also, I found a tmp log file (90MB, but internally it's compressed so about 11MB ) that contains MORE THAN 30k pages of log and almost 7M words . WHY is this so neccesary so it's stored in the internal files and not on cache!?
Sometimes at some pages it includes the package name of all my installed apps (maybe whatsapp collects info about everyone's installed apps??) and also contains info about all my numbers and names.
A single second of time can stand for more than 30 pages of log.
Edit: The entire log (all the 30k pages) starts yesterday at 14:28 and ends at 23:59 of the same day.
I don't understand what is going on.