Hello i have installed Nova3 and various Other Big Apps On my O3D and because they don't run so good on the O3D i uninstalled them but it are Still Some Data Left From the apps which are Taking up all my internal memory any one know how to Take Away This Data Please Help and fellow O3D User if English are bad is because i am From Sweden Thanks before Hand
Using a file explorer navigate to internal sd and open folder called android. check the obb and data folders inside for nova3 named folders and delete them
or just use this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.sdm
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Okay so this phone has an internal memory that is split into internal storage (2GB) and phone storage (10GBs). I've been going through the memory and trying to clear it out because it always seems full. After freeing up some space it says I have 1.43GBs being used on my phone storage for all my apps, music (which is really just a couple of podcasts consisting of 550MBs), and my gallery only 90 photos. This leaves only 1.6GB free out of 10 on that partition? Where is all this missing space? I completely cleared the app cache and like I said there is no video or music of any kind. I figured the OS was part of the internal storage as well so what could be taking up the other storage?
I forgot exactly how its split up, and I think whether your are ICS, JB or AOSP it gets displayed a bit differently. But I think its 2 GB for apps, 4 GB for the OS, and 10 GB is user accessible storage (basically an SD card, just internal or "virtual"). I don't think the OS takes any of the 10 GB of user accessible storage ("phone storage").
Are you rooted/bootloader unlocked, and have TWRP backups or Titanium Backup data, because both of those take up lots of space on the SD (phone storage).
Do you have any apps, like games, that may have had additional content data downloaded after you started up the app the first time? These can often take up a lot of space on the SD (phone storage) as well. You will often see them in folders specially named after the app or the software company (such as Gameloft). This data is obviously needed to play the game or run the app.
Also take a look and see if you have a LOST.DIR folder. Sometimes corrupted files will get dumped in here, and never deleted until you do it manually. I think I found a couple hundred MB worth of files in here once. Unless you know you have corrupted files that you want to recover (like photos you took), this data is safe to delete.
Also use es file explorer. Go menu -> manager -> sd card analyst it will tell you where your storage is being used
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area51avenger said:
Also use es file explorer. Go menu -> manager -> sd card analyst it will tell you where your storage is being used
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Great tip. Thanks. I love ES File Explorer, and its my go-to file browser app for the time being. But I don't think I ever knew that feature existed.
Good Evening Everyone !
You may have already seen this subject many times but I really need help as I can't find a way to fix my very particular situation.
Actually, HTC Chacha is a very particular smarthpone as it contains only 150 Mo Internal (/data).
I have also a 2gb sdcard which is composed of 1,3Gb truly external (for photos and my documents, this partition comes unavailable when I plug my smartphone to my computer for instance) and the other part is sdext2 which remains mounted inside the smartphone at any time.
Even though internal storage is reduced, I managed to set-up many application thanks to Linked2SD which helps me move apk and dex toward my 2nd partition (sdext2). However, as you must know, an app is composed of apk, dex and data. This last part is still stored in the internal memory (150 mo) (Link2SD does'nt link the data of the application but only the application itself).
How can I move those data to my external sdcard ?
Second question, is it possible to do this with data from the application contacts (in this particular case, data = my contacts database) which apk and dex haven't been linked by Link2SD. I would like to "get rid" of my contacts because 30 Mo of database makes my smartphone run out of internal storage (you can laugh, but the OS (Sense) doens't like this at all !!!).
I thought about FolderMount to move data stored in data/data to a folder on my sdcard but I don't how to do ?
Do I need first to move manually the data of the application (stored in /data/data) to my sdcard and then create a link ?
The source will be the folder in sdcard that I've just moved and the destination would be its former location ?
I hope I have been clear. Ask me if I haven't.
Thank you so much for you help !
Never owned a phone that came with microsd and this new Sony phone intrigues me. Biggest bummer about this phone is that it only comes with 16 GB internal storage. I don't know how this work since the kit-kat upgrade came out but my question is that say I'm a heavy Whatsapp user and and have lots of photos and convos saved onto my phone so can that automatically transfer to my sdcard? With this little memory im scared I might run out of room with all my other apps as well. Btw i'm not a guy that roots my phone so that would be out of the question unless that was the only last option to make this work. Hope to get some detailed feedback from you guys. :fingers-crossed::laugh:
I don't think you would need to root the Z3 to do what you want. I haven't had an expandable memory slot since my old HD2. Nexus 4 for the last few years, working with limited memory is something I wish to finally again leave behind.
I don't know how it works on the Z3, but with KitKat this is the gist:
Apps can write to the sdcard, but only to their "approved" folders. E.g. After 4.3 or so we got an /Android/data/ folder inside the root of our sdcards. Inside that are app package names. So if a developer calls getExternalFilesDirs() it will list an array, one being the internal Android/data folder and the other being the SDcard Android/data folder. However, no change is needed on the app developer if they let you browse directories (you can just point the save location to the proper data folder package name). So, for example, I use FX File Explorer and move files to /extSdCard/Android/data/nextapp.fx/files from my internal memory on my S4.
Currently the only negative are games like Baldur's Gate. They only install to the internal memory and at 2.3GB can not be moved to the sdcard. If you root you might be able to swap the directories, but I haven't tried as I prefer to not root. But as it stands, that 2.3GB would go against the 16GB internal storage.
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I don't know how it works on the Z3, but with KitKat this is the gist:
Apps can write to the sdcard, but only to their "approved" folders. E.g. After 4.3 or so we got an /Android/data/ folder inside the root of our sdcards. Inside that are app package names. So if a developer calls getExternalFilesDirs() it will list an array, one being the internal Android/data folder and the other being the SDcard Android/data folder. However, no change is needed on the app developer if they let you browse directories (you can just point the save location to the proper data folder package name). So, for example, I use FX File Explorer and move files to /extSdCard/Android/data/nextapp.fx/files from my internal memory on my S4.
Currently the only negative are games like Baldur's Gate. They only install to the internal memory and at 2.3GB can not be moved to the sdcard. If you root you might be able to swap the directories, but I haven't tried as I prefer to not root. But as it stands, that 2.3GB would go against the 16GB internal storage.
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Yea Iike the what's app itself is only cpl MB and I don't mind that on my internal but within what's app I have 3GB worth of photos videos from my group chats that I like to keep so I need to know if that can automatically be saved to sdcard or I have to find a different phone.
ms54 said:
Yea Iike the what's app itself is only cpl MB and I don't mind that on my internal but within what's app I have 3GB worth of photos videos from my group chats that I like to keep so I need to know if that can automatically be saved to sdcard or I have to find a different phone.
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Where is WhatsApp saving the pictures? To tell you the truth, no phone post 4.4.4 without rooting will do what you need. So you may need to look for something with larger internal storage.
hi
this may be a stupid question but i have wondered this for a while now and havent been able to find it out,
when you put an apk with obb data on your phone/tab and once the app has been run, can you then delete the original obb to save space?
i keep seeing examples like one i have just put on which has an obb of about 2gig, placed in android\obb, but it still did the downloading bit when running the app, whether it is downloading or just transferring/copying the data im not sure, but i went back into it to change the soundtrack, because it just uses mp3's, and i have again noticed it has copied the entire folder from android\obb to android\data
so basically i now have 4 gig taken up for a 2gig game
Move the file from obb to somewhere else and run the game. If it downloads, freezes or errors out then you know that you must put the obb back.
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Or check the app 'link2sd'
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hi
this may be a stupid question but i have wondered this for a while now and havent been able to find it out,
when you put an apk with obb data on your phone/tab and once the app has been run, can you then delete the original obb to save space?
i keep seeing examples like one i have just put on which has an obb of about 2gig, placed in android\obb, but it still did the downloading bit when running the app, whether it is downloading or just transferring/copying the data im not sure, but i went back into it to change the soundtrack, because it just uses mp3's, and i have again noticed it has copied the entire folder from android\obb to android\data
so basically i now have 4 gig taken up for a 2gig game
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obb is needed. dont delete this. if uninstall any apk it will also delete its obb. theres no need for you to do. theres only big ressource data stored like music from games, or txture files etc. BIG data.
application data itself is stored on SD in Android folder or in data/data. theres no new to tinker there. usally android knows itself what to delete.
hi
thanks for your help and comments guys,
with this particular ea game that copied the entire 2gig obb data to the data folder therefore using 4gig of space, i tried moving the original obb to a completely different folder and the game still worked, then i deleted it and it still worked....
so no hard and fast rule then, cant just delete all of them according to bejunk, but some maybe, dont know if this is a common thing with ea or larger obb games, dont have that many games over about 400/500mb tbh
So I am quite annoyed that GTA San Andreas is taking at most 6gb of my internal storage. There are apparently 2 OBB folders in my android folder they are Obb and obb. Whatever i place on one would be duplicated to the other and they would both take storage space.
Hi,
Thanks for using XDA Assist Those 2 files are vital for the game to run and even if you copy them anywere else it wont effect it has app is default set for using memory location if you delete it your app no longer will work it will be removed only with uninstall
Good Luck!
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