I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I've searched for this on XDA & Google. All I get is a generalization for All Android type devices. I've been noticing that through my various flashes, backups, & restores that somehow my internal SD card has filled up!! I don't know how I've managed to fill up an almost 16GB worth on my phone (yes, I know it's not a full 16GB because some of it is partitioned), but...ummm...how do I get it back? I've deleted all of my backups, but that only freed up about a gig or two. Would a simple unroot/root work, would that clear everything on the SD card? Or is there an easier way? I've tried checking the phone's settings, but all that seems to do is a nothing more than a Factory/data reset. I guess what I'm asking is:
1) How does an SD card get filled up like this from normal flashing, backing up, restoring, etc?
2) What's the best way to get all the space back on my SD card?
Thanks for the help everyone. Please don't be too mad at me; I did attempt to do various searches first.
Thats strange...you say that you deleted all your backups so that should clear a lot of space(it did for me). You cant see what it is taking so much space when you plug your phone to your computer?
Plug phone into computer --> mount usb storage --> windirstat
Or just look through each folders properties in ES File Explorer, Root Explorer, etc. Nandroid backups are placed in the clockworkmod folder, btw. There are likely other folders with backups on the card, too.
fergie, underneath me, has an even better idea. Basically windirstat for android, thanks
You can use this app and see what is taking up all that space
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
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You can use this app and see what is taking up all that space
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This! Disk Usage is a must have app.
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Just so I understand this correctly. This image is telling me that most of my usage is coming from games? Namely, Game loft games?
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Yes. Gameloft games are grotesquely obese and do not remove their downloaded data when you uninstall them.
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Yes. Gameloft games are grotesquely obese and do not remove their downloaded data when you uninstall them.
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So, then what's the best way of getting rid of them? Just to manually delete the file/folders?
I'd really just like to start fresh. Would unrooting/rooting the phone be the best way to do that?
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So, then what's the best way of getting rid of them? Just to manually delete the file/folders?
I'd really just like to start fresh. Would unrooting/rooting the phone be the best way to do that?
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I'd just copy the files on to your PC and format SD card. Actually I'd just delete the large files manually. Just click the large file in Disk Usage hit menu and then delete em.
Feel free to delete just about any folder on the internal sdcard, it's not a major problem. Just make sure you keep what is personally needed and any data that apps have put there that are needed.
Thanks everyone! I went ahead & just deleted them. I don't feel so cramped any more! I have almost 7gigs now! Also, thanks for telling me about that app! Really helped me!
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I have a 8gb class 6 ADATA sd card in my Vibrant. What would make it show multiple images ( 3 - 5 ) of each item on the card when i view it to chose an icon or a wallpaper ? When I connect to PC via USB and view the card it only shows one image of each image. LOL That make sense ?
And if I delete one of the multiple images while in the phone naturally it deletes the image even though it still shows there is several more of it .
Really, I'm not crazy. Maybe I can do a screen shot ? I'll try that and post it if it works so you will understand better what I mean .
ok, here's a couple of screen shots from two different files on my sd card. It shows multiple images when viewed on the phone but when viewed on the PC it only shows 1 image of each. Doesn't cause any malfunctions but is kind of annoying.
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This has happened to me before. The thumbnails when you choose icon/wallpaper are stored in a cache folder in your SD card. You can also clear data/cache under settings/applications/manage. I hope this helps!
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This has happened to me before. The thumbnails when you choose icon/wallpaper are stored in a cache folder in your SD card. You can also clear data/cache under settings/applications/manage. I hope this helps!
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I'll check that out . Thanks !
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I'll check that out . Thanks !
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I forgot to mention that you need to clear data/cache for the gallery app.
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I forgot to mention that you need to clear data/cache for the gallery app.
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Did that and it didnt help. Reformatted the card and that didnt help.
Defective card ?
Perhaps you can open up gallery and let it set there. Sometimes it's slow to refresh data. It's not your cars I promise. Sometimes the cached images are hidden (ie .image.PNG makes it hidden). Do you know how to view hidden folders/files? Also can be in a folder called .Trashes
Note: the period (.) In front of trashes and image.PNG.
I fixed mine by a combination of these methods. I don't think it's your card!
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Okay. I recreated your problem on my phone by felting files that were copied. As yours I had several files in gallery but only one on sd card. Here are the steps I took to fix thiss:
1. Empty .Trashes folder.
2. Empty Android/data folder on SD card.
3. If rooted boot into recovery and clear cache. Optional.
4. Go to settings/apps/manage apps and go to gallery. Clear cache and data.
That should do it. Next time you run gallery it will look for media again from beginning
I hope this helps!
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Some how i have completely filled up the internal storage of my phone and i can't seem to be able to make room . I have a 32 gig sd card an it is hardly getting used. All my apps are bricking when i try to access them as well
So i decided to go into odin mode an just install a fresh image of the root66 file. I did the data wipe an factory reset before i installed the root66 image, an after all was said an done, now my internal storage is still full with only 300mb of free space left.
When you go to Settings-->Storage, what category takes up the most space under 'Device Memory'? For me, it's the 'Miscellaneous Files' section which includes my nandroid backups, wallpapers and other flashable zips.
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When you go to Settings-->Storage, what category takes up the most space under 'Device Memory'? For me, it's the 'Miscellaneous Files' section which includes my nandroid backups, wallpapers and other flashable zips.
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Same here, misc files was like 75% of my storage usage. I definately hate the way the sd card is configured on this phone
Really weard look this, is showing me only 3Gb but on grafic look more
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I'm not sure if this helps but when I connect my phone to my Mac and delete a folder from the phone, the free space on the phone does not correspondingly increase until I've emptied the trash on my Mac. If you did something like that, then the space you would recover by deleting something is probably still held up by the .trash on your computer. This is, of course, assuming you use a Mac. And this entire post is just a shot in the dark as I haven't seen or experienced something like this before.
As for Juan's graphic and size calculation mismatch -- that is weird!!
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I'm not sure if this helps but when I connect my phone to my Mac and delete a folder from the phone, the free space on the phone does not correspondingly increase until I've emptied the trash on my Mac. If you did something like that, then the space you would recover by deleting something is probably still held up by the .trash on your computer. This is, of course, assuming you use a Mac. And this entire post is just a shot in the dark as I haven't seen or experienced something like this before.
As for Juan's graphic and size calculation mismatch -- that is weird!!
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I've noticed on my last phone, that when you delete an app it doesn't delete any of its data. So after a week of trying out big games I noticed that I had no room left. Got an app to search and found it still had the 1 - 3 gig data files for every game/app.
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I'm not sure if this helps but when I connect my phone to my Mac and delete a folder from the phone, the free space on the phone does not correspondingly increase until I've emptied the trash on my Mac. If you did something like that, then the space you would recover by deleting something is probably still held up by the .trash on your computer. This is, of course, assuming you use a Mac. And this entire post is just a shot in the dark as I haven't seen or experienced something like this before.
As for Juan's graphic and size calculation mismatch -- that is weird!!
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actually im using Mac hahaha, the only problem that i see is that after move my self to CM10 my phone wont connect to my Mac unless i go back to stock let me check and i let you know if something happen
I have a file on my internal sdcard called "system data" and it's over 500mb...
Can someone explain what it says and how to downsize it?
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I have a file on my internal sdcard called "system data" and it's over 500mb...
Can someone explain what it says and how to downsize it?
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That's all your stuff needed to run your phone properly. If you want to downsize it you can delete unused ringtones and other sounds, but dont tinker with much more or you could brick your phone.
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That's all your stuff needed to run your phone properly. If you want to downsize it you can delete unused ringtones and other sounds, but dont tinker with much more or you could brick your phone.
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I'm on a fresh format with everything on my external sdcard
There's no reason it should be that large
Internal memory
And
External sdcard
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I'm on a fresh format with everything on my external sdcard
There's no reason it should be that large
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U need to use a root file explorer and do some digging, very curious. Report back the cause if u find
i spent 2 hours going through the entire internal sdcard.. and found nothing out of the ordinary.
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i spent 2 hours going through the entire internal sdcard.. and found nothing out of the ordinary.
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I've had this problem pop up even after running a clean install until I finally figured it out (for myself at least) SD card/DCIM/THUMBNAILS. It would usually use about 3.75 Gig if not more, until I would delete it and free up the space as it's really not needed.
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I've had this problem pop up even after running a clean install until I finally figured it out (for myself at least) SD card/DCIM/THUMBNAILS. It would usually use about 3.75 Gig if not more, until I would delete it and free up the space as it's really not needed.
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I don't keep picture on my phone and I've cleared the thumbnail data multiple times.
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Bumping this hopefully someone knows the answer...
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I've tried searching for a thread concerning my question but couldn't find one. I'm really surprised nobody brought this up. Or my searching skills are really messed up... in which case, I excuse myself.
What I want to do is to make some room in my sdcard by automatically uploading pictures, videos and files (if possible) to my Google Drive (or any other Cloud Storage Service) and delete them locally. Basically, making my cloud drive a truly virtual drive.
Has anyone tried/achieved such a thing?
Thanks.
Is this what you are looking for?
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The default photos app does that
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DropBox does this. Check it out. www.dropbox.com
It allows you to view your files from any device you choose.
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No, that way pics get backupped but won't be deleted locally (to free up space).
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No, that way pics get backupped but won't be deleted locally (to free up space).
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You're asking for functionality that is very hard to be implemented, even tho it sounds simple.
Basically there are no real viable ways to verify if a given file is not corrupted when uploaded to the cloud. At least not in a way that won't be creating singe huge overhead.
Anyway, if you find something that works, let us know, I'm also interested in such app/script/whatever.
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You're asking for functionality that is very hard to be implemented, even tho it sounds simple.
Basically there are no real viable ways to verify if a given file is not corrupted when uploaded to the cloud. At least not in a way that won't be creating singe huge overhead.
Anyway, if you find something that works, let us know, I'm also interested in such app/script/whatever.
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I think I've partially achieved the goal by using DropBox. Unlike Google Drive, files aren't deleted from the cloud when they are deleted locally. But I have to manually delete files from the phone, since I haven't found a way to delete on upload. And, thought, this just works for pictures and videos, not for other files, that would have to be uploaded manually too.
I know that even when sounding simple it's not that easy to accomplish... but I believe Google made the Moto G with such a small storage capacity (to reduce costs too, I understand) to be complete with cloud storage, so...
to SD card. aOS9. I can't recall after a factory default.
If you do that, DO NOT use dcim in the SD card folder name.
I simply transfer the dcim files periodically to the SD card*. That way less my backups I retain 2 copies on the phone. Redundantly is a good thing... flash memory seldom fails but it can.
Forget trying to recover images from a corrupted card, it be a horrible impossible mess
Plan ahead.
*if you're running out of space, copy/paste to the SD card then verify size and if the copy is readable then delete the original images. Always backup the SD card redundantly to at least two hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC!
Best to use the SD card as a data drive, all critical data and backups go there. Only apps, the DCIM and download folders go on internal.
that's all what I do. but how to set the SD as the default. Not worried about losing stuff as I back up quite often.
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that's all what I do. but how to set the SD as the default. Not worried about losing stuff as I back up quite often.
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You're on Pie? I don't know if it's possible on Android 9 or higher. Others have said it isn't.
However I see the camera app on my N10+/Pie does have write SD card permissions.
Try this, first backup all your dcim folders, 2X.
Delete the dcim folder on internal memory and then create a new one on the SD card.
Not sure what will happen... I have NOT tested this.
Maybe someone here has or knows a better way like a adb edit.
Try this. Scratch what I said above
Apparently this is an option for me.
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If you have this option it should work.
yea. did that. my photos are going to SD, but not the screenshots. Darn the Luck ! ! !
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yea. did that. my photos are going to SD, but not the screenshots. Darn the Luck ! ! !
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That's odd. Did you delete the DCIM folder on internal memory? There can only be one.
yup
I vaguely recall someone posting or reading something about this a while back. Lol, screen shots are throw aways for me. Try a reboot and clear the system cache if you have that option.
I did. oh well.
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I did. oh well.
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Play with it, and do more searches on Google.
That's how I solve any issues I have.
ADB editing is a possibility but no idea how to do it for this.