Recently i'd been having a real problem with my system storage space. The low space alert kept going off, sometimes as many as two or three times a day. I figured that i was just filling up the unused space with cache really quickly and kept deleting app data and started removing apps i wasnt using so frequently etc.
Then this afternoon i got to the end of my tether and decided it was time to figure out what the hell was going on.
I fired up root explorer and headed to /data and started looking at the sizes of all the folders and discovered something totally daft.
In the folder /data/logger there were several log files such as "radio.log", "main.log" etc. and one called "kernel.log". I was shocked to discover that kernel.log was taking up 450+MB of space as well as radio and other logs all taking up 10-20MB per piece accounting for more than half of my system data partition. I deleted them and rebooted the phone.
No problems so far.
Just thought I'd share incase this is happening to anyone else.
Running Acura 7.1 with titan kernel.
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Wondering if anyone can think of anything I can try before returning the phone this afternoon.
What happened:
Yesterday, I rebooted the phone because a prog had hung and wasn't responding to force quitting via Applications. When I tried to turn it on, it didn't respond -- zilch. I plugged it in and tried a few times to turn it on over the next hour with no luck. Finally it started to boot and hung at the ATT screen, but after sitting there for a min, horizontal lines appeared across the screen. Tried again over the next hours with the same result.
Left the battery out overnight. A few minutes ago, I tried it again and it actually got past the ATT screens, but after the Samsung logo sequence was done it hung on the blank screen. The phone is rooted and clockworkmoded, so I tried to boot into recovery to do a nandroid restore. No dice: I get an error about not being able to write/read to the sdcard.
So at the black screen, I can shell into the phone. Can't SU (seg fault). Can't get to the internal SD storage (which is all I really want at this pt. I took a bunch of awesome pics while surfing yesterday and want em).
It looks to me like there is some sort of corruption of the internal storage. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
From the looks of it your nand crapped out...
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Yeah thats what I'm thinking.
This does highlight a flaw in the storage setup: having internal storage like the iphone is seriously awesome from the usability standpoint. But android is set up to assume that when you back up, it's to a removable card. So I have a Ti backup, but that doesnt help me if I can't get to it if the phone dies.
Seriously bummed. I've had a really crazy # of dead iphones (like 6 over two models -- its one of the reasons I finally switched) but the upside was that when it was switched out I was rocking all my stuff on the new phone within an hour. With this, I'm now starting from scratch.
FWIW: I got the phone working again by wiping user data and reformatting the internal storage. I'm guessing that there was something corrupted.
Here's the warning I'd offer though: Ti backups etc do you no good if they're on the same file system as the phone boots off of. I was backing up regularly, but since they were on the internal drive that did me no good. Unless I'm missing something, Ti doesn't allow you to choose a location (just a folder name) for backups.
if it lets you choose a folder name then choose sdcard/sd that is where the phone's linux mounts your external SD Card.
Also I keep my Titanium backups and Nandroids on my Computer for extra safety.
Hi,
Few days back, my phone started randomly rebooting and it got stuck on boot. When I checked logcat, I got some fatal error in java. I tried fix_permissions and all but nothing seemed to work, so I just restored a recent Nandroid backup. However, in attempts to fix the issue, I must rebooted around 50-60 times. So, anyway, the problem was fixed. This was 3 days back.
Today I check the photos, and I see only 30-40 photos are remaining of around 500-600 photos which I had. I've done a thorough search on my phone but they haven't been moved anywhere else. AFAIK, if there is a data loss, it should take down everything not just selective items, no?
Is there any solution to this problem? I don't want to have all those 1 year's worth of photos gone.
Can I use 'dd' to make an image and mount it as ext and run ext data recovery tools? Or is there anything else I can do? Would really appreciate some help here.
Thanks
Also, what is the partition mounted as in Nexus S, ext or fat?
FAT32, so it retains compatibility with all OS.
And no, you're not right. If there is data loss, it doesn't necessarily mean you will lose everything at once. The memory can be partially corrupted either by a physical problem with the chip(s) itself or the connections or by a software problem.
I have a LG G2 Mini and a few weeks ago, I got a notification asking me if I want to update to Lollipop - I did it and, to my surprise, a few days later all the apps stopped updating screaming that there was not enough disk space - being confident that there is at least 3GB free, I went to the settings to check and... there was only 400MB free, with "System Data" folder under "Other" occupying 5.2GB (out of 8GB my device comes with).
This state of things has persisted ever since and, as a consequence, my phone is really laggy, apps crashes often and I can't even update anything. From what I googled, some people had this problem as well on various devices but no one came up with a definitive solution. I've tried zeroing the apps cache but to no avail, it only freed 30MB or so.
What can I do with it, apart from the ever-present golden advice of a factory reset? I would prefer not to root either. Is there anything I can do, then?
No without rootng you cant free a single mb from your system folder.
If your dwvice is out of warrenty you have no reaaon to stop yourself from rooting it.
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Hello everyone,
Ive noticed this before but anyway.. Yesterday I clean installed a rom on my cel phone and right before I went to sleep my internal memory had around 3gb left, even after restoring all my all apps and its data with the app Migrate. When i woke up, it had barely 600mb. Is there any explanation to this ? the main culprit seems to be /data but even after digging inside each app’s folder and manually deleting the caches, I barely get 1gb free.
Any ideas?
This is just going to be sort of a blog post of what happened to me recently. Not asking questions, or anything of that kind, just if someone else faces this problem then we can see we're not alone.
OK So I was using DevBase (sorry, forgot the version and installed lineage, it was one of the android 8.x.x versions from around a couple of months after official 9.x.x was released, because I hated the new UI.), rooted, Magisk installed (basically for AdAway only, because I didn't know of Blokada before) and Xposed installed (wasn't using it for anything, just experimented with it a couple of months ago and didn't bother removing it yet).
I've always had my storage space close to full, both internal and external memory cards. It's ususally full of pictures and videos saved from reddit, 4chan, tumblr, my meme and porn collections. I could just copy them to my pc, but having to use that ****ty MTP protocol which copies everything slow A.F. and unreliable as hell as well... I very rarely make a backup of my phone. I was just planning to do a major backup (basically just moving my stuff to my pc) of the past year or so of using this phone.
I think it's also worth mentioning that my phone has always been in a sh.tty condition. I bought it with a fully cracked screen, with a mostly non working lcd, and it was network locked before someone unlocked it. I replaced the screen and the back glass with some cheap chinese generic stuff (I know...), which I also managed to misalign the adhesive on, so it wasn't water- or dust resistant anymore and has been to 2 heavy rains since then (where it detected water in the usb port, didn't let me charge it, and had to plug it in while booting in order for it to let me charge it). My sd- and sim card slot has also been having issues since I've got the phone basically, it never did go fully in, even though it was working fine. The case I was using (a spigen case, which later turned out to be a counterfeit, and the seller was also removed from ebay along with the listing, but looks very good) held it in place so I just thought I'm going to see what's going on with it when buying a new battery and new usb port when it fails, and when I have to replace the back glass anyways which is also cracked by this time (xd). So yeah, these might play a role in all what happened.
Couple of days ago I started getting weird messages in the camera app that I couldn't record video to internal storage (64gb). Even though in ES File Explorer it showed a couple of gigs free, these numbers have never been too accurate. I deleted some old, unused apks (I don't use google play or services, I install everything from apks) and large unnecessary videos from both the internal and external storage (wasn't sure which one the camera was using). Still got the same message in the camera app, and in ES File explorer there were some weird happenings, like the deleted files didn't reall disappear, and when I tried to delete them again it said it couldn't find the file. I was too tired for this bs so I just set the camera's saving location to the external sd (128gb), and called it a day temporarily.
A couple of days later I deleted some of the apps in order to free some space up on the phone. I also put my apps into folders, my app selector has never been so tidy. Everyone in our house has been having problems with wifi in the past couple of weeks so I didn't really worry when some issues with wi-fi came up. There was an exclamation mark besides the wifi symbol and it was using 4g. As if it was connected to a wifi network, but had no internet access. This has been the case in the past a few times. This tim though, when I turned of mobile data, wifi just worked fine with the exclamation mark. When I turned it back on, it was using 4g again. Turning wifi on and off didn't seem to help, so I disabled and removed AFWall+, which I thought could be causing problems here. This didn't help either, so...
I decided to restart the phone. It restarted, and after booting, all I had was a black screen with a notification bar. I was waiting, but nothing seemed to happen. The screen didn't even want to turn off for a while. Then I got my lockscreen, where I don't use any codes or anything. At this point I don't remember in which menu I am, probably just the black screen still, with the phone app crashing constantly, and some other apps occasionally. OK, I thought, I'll just restart this and it'll work fine, even though this many crashes at the same time never happened to me before with this phone. It restarted, first thing I noticed that the apps weren't in folders, rather they were just in alphabetical order. Then I noticed some notifications about setting up certain samsung apps etc. When I started some apps, I noticed, none of them had data. My (not synced, of course, because muh botnet) Firefox bookmarks, history, let alone the open tabs. My music playlists in AIMP, the phone numbers, logins to discord, messenger. Everything was lost. In ES File Explorer the internal memory, which was almost full, had 40gbs free... oops...
Fortunately, my external sd, where my recent photos, videos, and 100gb music library is, is intact. Thank god. I just made a backup of that to my pc, formatted the sd, and now through adb in twrp recovery I'm trying to create an image of the internal 64gb memory to the external 128gb, so I can mount the image on my pc and maybe revive some of my memes and such. This is needed because you can't mount your phone easily to the pc in order for it to show up like a mass storage device. You can't use recuva and others on MTP devices....
I now have a 64gb image of my data partition. , or whatever that was mounted to. I will look into restoring the files later.
Moral of the story: nothing. Maybe that I should've been better off using stable roms, use lineage instead of trying to remove/disable google stuff from some touchwiz roms, make backups regularly.