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900mb free but low on space. need help

Hello,
Just bought new SD-card. According to titanium backup theres 12mb free phone storage and 1gb ext4 partiton (982mb) free space, but still i get Low On space and cant install any apps. What should i do ?

MisterMonitor said:
Hello,
Just bought new SD-card. According to titanium backup theres 12mb free phone storage and 1gb ext4 partiton (982mb) free space, but still i get Low On space and cant install any apps. What should i do ?
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The 12MB phone storage is what's killing you. In 'Manage Apps' under 'Settings', you can click on each individual app and send some of the larger ones to the SD card. You can also try clearing data for the Facebook app, which can hold a lot of data due to contact photos if you use it.
Just for curiosity's sake, what phone are you using?

Im using HTC Desire.
I understood that due to 12mb phone storage i get Low on space, but i made ext 1gb partition, so shouldnt now phone storage expand and became 12mb+1gb ?
All my apps are on sdcard, and no facebook app.
I made 1gb partition why its not helping ?

MisterMonitor said:
Im using HTC Desire.
I understood that due to 12mb phone storage i get Low on space, but i made ext 1gb partition, so shouldnt now phone storage expand and became 12mb+1gb ?
All my apps are on sdcard, and no facebook app.
I made 1gb partition why its not helping ?
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It sounds like you don't have apps2sd installed, or that the ext4 partition isn't recognised properly. I remember it was particularly fussy about whether the ext4 part was the first partition in the table or not, I'm not sure if this is still the case
Sent from my HTC Vivid

With previous SD card, There's 12mb free internal storage and 134mb a2sd free, 238 a2sd occupied.
So i really dont understand now :/. This partition is working but not all space in a2sd are used (134mb) free , but also 238 a2sd occupied. So its working, so why i get Low on space :/ .
On new card I made 1gb partition and 0 occupied.
And i cant run restore in titanium backup, because it shows there's no space, but i adjusted to write everything to external storage in titanium backup settings.
Please help, because now i bought a new card and cant use it :/ .

I see what you're trying to do now
The phone will never show that you've added to phone storage, because you can't. Adding an SD partition won't increase your phone storage at all, it just gives you a place to put all your apps so they don't take up your actual phone storage.
There is something on your phone taking up the ~150MB phone storage. It may be contact photos, it may be SMSs/MMSs, it may be camera pictures and videos (if you haven't set the camera to save to SD by default). You've already moved your apps so it's not those. You need to go through all your apps and see how much each is individually using (in 'manage apps').
Pay particular attention to 'contacts storage', 'calendar storage' etc as they are usually the hogs in my experience, and you can't move them. If you sync your Facebook contacts with your phone, the photos and details can easily use over 200MB.

Thank you very much for helping me ).
I understood about memmory usage. Cleaned almost everything in phone memmory, but still 18mb left.
Its just a new SD card and so many problems. Now apps cant find root access, watahell ? My phone was always rooted .

Please someone help to fix problems, i want to use my new SD card.
1. Something happened to root. Titanium gets root rights. I BusyBox installer shows that my phone is rooted, but when i push install busybox it fails .
In titanium backup i press "Problems?" and it offers to updade superuser. I press Update superuser and imedietly get force close.
I really apreciate if someone help me :/ .

Try rooting again. If you're S-OFF already, SuperOneClick will make mincemeat of your Desire in one click (link in my signature)
As soon as something goes wrong with root, you need to have another try at it. If you get an error, post it here and I will help if I can

Partition resize help request.

Anybody wanna help me resize my data and system partitions? I can't figure out how to do it myself, the closest thing I found was for evo 4G, but I'd rather not take the risk of blocking my phone using that method. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077426

Question I have to ask is why ?

Garridon said:
Anybody wanna help me resize my data and system partitions? I can't figure out how to do it myself, the closest thing I found was for evo 4G, but I'd rather not take the risk of blocking my phone using that method. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077426
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It can't be done with this method, it looks like that's firerats custom MTD partitions and the Shift is EMMC partitioned which means no one has even thought about that.
prboy1969 said:
Question I have to ask is why ?
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The reason this mod came about was because the older phones like the hero and whatnot had very little system memory, but after running firerats script it would give the hero like 300mb of system memory on Sense, so its a major memory increase and it would most likely eliminate the need for a2sd
Sent from my myTouch_4G_Slide using Tapatalk 2

Might be a better idea to do use a sd-ext rom with a partition on your sdcard. The shift has so little internal space in general, it might be a better idea to do that if your looking to get space.
Also, the OG Evo has a MTD memory, and the Shift has EMMc, which I believe is a lot less flexable to being changed than MTD is. Tell me if I'm wrong though.

Thanks for the quick response guys, I was really hoping to increase my data partition. There's so much room left untouched in the system folder. So no hope in doing this I assume your saying?

Sd_ext or move trusted apps from /data to /system

Garridon said:
Thanks for the quick response guys, I was really hoping to increase my data partition. There's so much room left untouched in the system folder. So no hope in doing this I assume your saying?
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You really wouldn't get much more outta system for data as you would a ext partition. Sd-ext is virtually unlimited depending on the size of your sdcard.
Not to mention you would have to revert back to the stock settings in order to install a sense rom for updating prl and such things. This could be very tedious.
Firerat's initial custom mtd was for the G1, which is a aosp phone stock and does not need tons of system/rom space.
Sent from my PG06100 using xda premium

[Q] less system storeage

hi,
I'm using atrix 2 4 last 6 months, mi fone hav asian retail ics ota version updated frm motorola
recently I hav purchased rom toolbox pro. mi fone s rooted. in rom toolbox under -> app manager -> all appa -> system storage it shows 432 used and 45mb free. wy s it so. actually it hav 3.5gb somthing free internal storage free. I'm using 32gb trancend memory cars.

Because the system/app folder have a specific space. It doesn't matter the free or used space of the other folders.

Also, be careful with using ROM toolbox. It has been known to turn phones into bricks quickly. It kinda quirky with the A2.

poweratrix said:
hi,
I'm using atrix 2 4 last 6 months, mi fone hav asian retail ics ota version updated frm motorola
recently I hav purchased rom toolbox pro. mi fone s rooted. in rom toolbox under -> app manager -> all appa -> system storage it shows 432 used and 45mb free. wy s it so. actually it hav 3.5gb somthing free internal storage free. I'm using 32gb trancend memory cars.
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That's 4 gb of internal memory u r talking about. The space given for system apps is only 500mb. That's y u have only 45mb left.!
Sent from my head runnin on CM10!

Lifehacker7 said:
That's 4 gb of internal memory u r talking about. The space given for system apps is only 500mb. That's y u have only 45mb left.!
Sent from my head runnin on CM10!
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Yes this is true.
How the storage is laid out on the AT&T phone is as such:
/system (this is where all of the files for any ROM go, /system/app, is where all the apps that come with a ROM are located), is 500MB and in stock ROMs that are odexed you only have 45-50MB left, and no you can not do anything about this. You can run an opensource ROM like CM10 or MM, and get a lot of that /system space back, but I am still not sure why this matters since /system is locked and really NOT usable. You can also deodex your own stock ROM, or use one that is already deodexed to gain some space as well, but again this is really not usable for a normal user, who is not creating their own ROMs or performing "hacks"
/data is 3.89GB and this is the "internal" 4GB that motorola advertises... now again this is really not all that usable, all you can do is install apps from the play store here, you can not use this space to store photos, or even music or videos.
So in short having 4GB in this phone is a bunch of B.S. marketing, since you will never be able to use it for anything useful.
Oh and the TW/HK versions of firmware with ICS have changed how much of the 4GB storage is actually usable.
P.S. these comments are not aimed at any one person in general, just more for everyone's information, so lifehacker7 I was really not replying to you, just commenting that what you posted was 100% correct, and I just wanted to elaborate on that.
Oh and I second what was said by Fall of Enosis about Rom toolbox. ROM toolbox does not play nice with this phone and really neither does TI BU, so be warned as both of these can soft brick you in a hurry.

As u said, since I'm using CM10, I have almost 100mb space left in /system. I barely had 10mb on stock Rom.

Atrix 2 4.04 Rooted System ROM too FULL! What do I delete?

Atrix 2 4.04 Rooted System ROM too FULL! What do I delete?
Forgive me XDA'ers. I'm getting older & I forget what I've learned here at XDA. It's been close to 2 years that I had my Droid X2, rooted it.
Haven't played with other phones.
So finally got an Atrix 2 & rooted it. Thank God found Boot Menu Manager here because ROM Manager wasn't working.
Anyways in Titanium Backup Pro says:
System ROM: 500 MB (7.16 MB free)
Having only 7.16 MB free concerns me greatly. What do I do to gain space? Ideally I like 20% or more free space.
Have 21 GB free on the 32 GB SD card & 4.31 GB free on the 4.88 GB Internal.
Have all the goodies installed afaik (emulator, Root Explorer etc). If you need more info or in another form let me know. Thank you kindly.

Afaik.. System partition only for system stuff.. I think its normal to have that much free space.. All other applications install in future will go to data partition.. Which is 4.31 or ur internal.. XD

This should be asked in Q&A section and not in dev section.
And to answer it, stock ROMs are full of bloatware which leaves you with least amount of space left on system folder.
So if you want more space, you can either delete unwanted system apps ( proceed with caution or you might delete a necessary file for the phone) or flash a custom ROM. I get around 100mb free space on my system with carbon ROM.

So is it ok to have minimal space left or am I just inviting trouble?

zapjb said:
So is it ok to have minimal space left or am I just inviting trouble?
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No problem at all. It doesn't matter how much of space you Have on System folder. If you wanna make an app as system app by manually moving it to system/app with permissions or if you're gonna flash a zip to add a system app, you'll need more space on system of course. All the downloaded user apps will be in /data. It is no way related to /system.

Thank you so much. I was concerned.
And thanks to the mod who moved this thread appropriately. Sorry about that.

Galaxy s4 internal memory problem.

I am using galaxy s4 gt i9500. The internal memory available for the 16gb variant is about 8 gb, out of which i have hardly used 1 gb. I don't know where the rest of the memory has gone. Is it possible to format or something(except the factory reset; it didn't help) like we can format the sd card. Any help is appreciated!
Thanks a lot!

daksh.mehta235 said:
I am using galaxy s4 gt i9500. The internal memory available for the 16gb variant is about 8 gb, out of which i have hardly used 1 gb. I don't know where the rest of the memory has gone. Is it possible to format or something(except the factory reset; it didn't help) like we can format the sd card. Any help is appreciated!
Thanks a lot!
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A large amont of the space is your rom im guessing around 3-5gb then u have probly another 2-3gb for ur stock apps then anything u install after that. They say 16/32/64 or 128 on the box but thats never the room u get software always takes up a large portion. Luckily ur device has a sd card slot i believe so u can use that to expande ur storge for a relatively cheap price.
If you need more room on the device you can always root and install custom software or uninstall apps with titanium backup but be careful read the guides in your device forum and follow them properly.

Root your phone and install link2sd.this will solve your storage problem.

First of all your rom will take a lot, second of all your apps and your old apps data incase you used a custom recovery to factory reset, and third of all Cashe it self could reach up to 1 gb.

MrHollywood said:
First of all your rom will take a lot, second of all your apps and your old apps data incase you used a custom recovery to factory reset, and third of all Cashe it self could reach up to 1 gb.
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I understand that the rom may take a large amount of memory but i dont think so that it can take upto 7-8 gb. I have cleared all the cache so it cannot be cache either. I think i may have used custom recovery to factory reset. But when i use file manager to view my internal the total is around only 400 mb including all the folders (like android, dcim, etc)
Btw, I'm running cm12.1. Do you think reverting back to my stock rom would help?
Please help as this is really irritating because most of my apps crash due to low memory.
Thanks.

daksh.mehta235 said:
I understand that the rom may take a large amount of memory but i dont think so that it can take upto 7-8 gb. I have cleared all the cache so it cannot be cache either. I think i may have used custom recovery to factory reset. But when i use file manager to view my internal the total is around only 400 mb including all the folders (like android, dcim, etc)
Btw, I'm running cm12.1. Do you think reverting back to my stock rom would help?
Please help as this is really irritating because most of my apps crash due to low memory.
Thanks.
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Yup the issue is that you used a costume recovery to factory reset, I had that issue as well with my note 3 until I realized that all apps data were installed but I didn't see them even on file manager, so I just downloaded a stock firmware and did a stock factory reset and then everything was good as new!

MrHollywood said:
Yup the issue is that you used a costume recovery to factory reset, I had that issue as well with my note 3 until I realized that all apps data were installed but I didn't see them even on file manager, so I just downloaded a stock firmware and did a stock factory reset and then everything was good as new!
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Will try this and let you know. Thanks a lot!

daksh.mehta235 said:
Will try this and let you know. Thanks a lot!
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My pleasure! Best of luck.