Hi all,
I am trying to figure out whats taking all the space on my internal sd card. I switched to twrp recovery and deleted all clockworkmod related things, but it still says theres only 1 gb of free space left. I know for sure I could not possibly have used that much space. I store no music, very little photos.
I have tried using pc programs to visualize the space usage but none of them have been able to read the sd card, only the drives on the computer (spacesniffer for example).
Multiple apps installed (SDcard manager, Slim file manager) state i have 1 gb free space left, while another app (Storage Analyser) says I have 9gb free space.
Anyone have a program that will allow me to see whats taking up my space?
Thank you very much!
How many CWM backups did you have? When using CWM, after deleting your CWM backups did also you select the option to free up the space? How many TWRP backups do you now have?
Do you have any games installed? Have you checked file sizes or tried deleting leftover files under /sdcard/android? A lot of app data resides in the following three file paths:
/sdcard/android
/sdcard/data
/sdcard/Download
SlimSnoopOS said:
How many CWM backups did you have? When using CWM, after deleting your CWM backups did also you select the option to free up the space? How many TWRP backups do you now have?
Do you have any games installed? Have you checked file sizes or tried deleting leftover files under /sdcard/android? A lot of app data resides in the following three file paths:
/sdcard/android
/sdcard/data
/sdcard/Download
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had a few cwm backups. When using the "free up space" option in cwm about a week ago, it was such a small amount it said it would free up. I only have 1 twrp backup right now. I deleted all the CWM blob files and the file folder.
I'll take a look at the three file paths and come back. Thanks for your help
EDIT: nothing in /sdcard/data, sdcard/download is minimal, and sdcard/android is fairly minimal too
amotamatapia said:
I had a few cwm backups. When using the "free up space" option in cwm about a week ago, it was such a small amount it said it would free up. I only have 1 twrp backup right now. I deleted all the CWM blob files and the file folder.
I'll take a look at the three file paths and come back. Thanks for your help
EDIT: nothing in /sdcard/data, sdcard/download is minimal, and sdcard/android is fairly minimal too
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No problem. Roughly 5 GB of data are set aside for the system, so as a reference:
-the 16 Gb GSIII would have at most 11.5 GB of free data
-the 32 GB GSIII would have at most 27.5 GB of free data
SlimSnoopOS said:
No problem. Roughly 5 GB of data are set aside for the system, so as a reference:
-the 16 Gb GSIII would have at most 11.5 GB of free data
-the 32 GB GSIII would have at most 27.5 GB of free data
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, the weird thing though is that about a month ago i ran into the same issue of running out of space. and found that the CWM blob files were taking up about 5gb. And i had thought this was the same issue again, so I flashed TWRP and deleted the CWM files, but they arent the ones taking up the space this time
That's weird but like I said those are the main directories where app data resides on /sdcard. Which GSIII do you have 16GB or 32GB?
SlimSnoopOS said:
That's weird but like I said those are the main directories where app data resides on /sdcard. Which GSIII do you have 16GB or 32GB?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have the 16gb version. I thought for sure I used "spacesniffer" last time to view the files on my sd card, which gave me a visual on whats taking up space. But I just cannot pinpoint it this time since no program ive downloaded views the internal sd card
Your best bet may be to copy over all your important files to a pc, nandroid to your external sd, then Wipe data or Factory reset in TWRP (the one that warns that it will format /sdcard. With those folders on your pc, you should be able to see their files sizes then do the math once it's back onto your phone. Maybe even do a screenshot of all the /sdcard folders first then do the above steps. You may be able to see which folder that is missing is the culprit once you put the folders back onto your phone.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app
I have rom with swapped SD and local memory. I have fast, stable big[32gig] memory card. I have free space on each visible partition.
Is there any quantity limit of applications installed on the Android phones?
When I remove one app I can install another instead of that previous, if not I am getting errors about 'insufficient storage'
The size of removing apps doesnt mattrer - I have tried to delete big games and I cant install more than one small app.
Please let me know what should I check. Maybe I have overloaded any hidden partition?
thank you
xysen0 said:
I have rom with swapped SD and local memory. I have fast, stable big[32gig] memory card. I have free space on each visible partition.
Is there any quantity limit of applications installed on the Android phones?
When I remove one app I can install another instead of that previous, if not I am getting errors about 'insufficient storage'
The size of removing apps doesnt mattrer - I have tried to delete big games and I cant install more than one small app.
Please let me know what should I check. Maybe I have overloaded any hidden partition?
thank you
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Partition for Google Play download data, kinda impossible to locate via stock file manager. Even my fresh Galaxy V (4GB) had this prob.
You may explore the whole storage module via root explorer or somewhat, or tweak the ROM to download any data to SD card.
Hi Guys,
I have a really strange problem with my storage on my nexus 5.
Im running latest cm12.1 nightly.
This problem started as i wanted to install some bigger apps on my device.(like Hotman go, ormini motor racing). Both of these app need permission to write on external storage.
So during the installtion both of these apps fail to install. Okay anyways i can live without some games on my device.
Some minutes ago I tried to load some music on my device via mtp. my laptop and pc both regonise the storage and I can browse the whole directory. So ..as i starting to copy any data the explorer frezzes and does not copy any of the data.(not important if 2mb or 250mb)
Even creating new folder or renaming them leads to a frezz of the current explorer. I wanted to see the storage options built in . now the odd part. if i scroll down the two options to mount or delete the storage are not clickable. Is this normal??
What i tried:
-chainfires app for mounting/dismounting storage ---> app force closes
-fix permission---> nothing
-viewing if storage is mounted via TWRP ---> data is mounted
Does anyone experienced this problem?!
greetings
/e add the storage screen
Have you tried doing a factory reset?
Skyrocket, rooted, CM10 (older version). Please see attached screenshot showing available memory. Will not update or load new apps. Please reply.
Vincom! You are the king and savior of all skyrocket users. So many thanks for your monumental efforts on our behalf. I would never have had the courage to root my phone without your concise, thorough and voluminous advice. Thank you.
...The best cellphone is the one you have...
Using your file manager go to( /data/log/) you will need to do this as root. In that folder you will probably find a bunch of dump files which are eating up your space. Delete the dump files. I personally changed the permission to read only and never had that problem again
I too am having this problem. I viewed the location suggested using CoolMuster Android Assist program. I only had the trial version son so I'm having to buy the full version to actually delete these dump files. I had only 4 files, but they are rather large. Being a novice at this Android stuff, I have a dumb question. How do you interpret the storage information in the phone settings? I'm seeing that my phone has almost 2 GB of "device" storage, a little over 11.2 GB of "usb" storage and I have a 16 GB SD card. I have moved all possible apps, pictures, videos, etc. to the SD card and phone shows there is almost 10 GB of free usb space. Therefore, I don't understand how I can keep getting these insufficient memory messages when I try to download new apps or even when I try to update existing apps.
use a android 6.x.x rom,
When I bought this phone (LG Optimus L90 D410 Dual) 2 years ago, when I checked the storage, system was using only 3GB, which left me with 5GB (it has a total of 8GB). But now, when I check how much system storage is using, it is using 5GB, leaving me with only 3GB of storage. How can I make my system data as small as it was back when I bought it?
Hyoretsu said:
When I bought this phone (LG Optimus L90 D410 Dual) 2 years ago, when I checked the storage, system was using only 3GB32GB, which left me with 5GB (it has a total of 8GB). But now, when I check how much system storage is using, it is using 5GB, leaving me with only 3GB of storage. How can I make my system data as small as it was back when I bought it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
clear junk data using clean master app or use sd maid pro for better cleaning..... and if you want your storage like before as was your phone new.. you shall carry less apps as less you can... and move apps to sd card for more system storage.....
The thing is, I already use Clean Master (frequently), the apps I install they all use the 3GB of storage I have and I can't move apps to sd card cuz' I'm on 6.0.1 (Cyanogenmod 13)
EDIT: System data was using 5GB before I installed CM 13
Hyoretsu said:
The thing is, I already use Clean Master (frequently), the apps I install they all use the 3GB of storage I have and I can't move apps to sd card cuz' I'm on 6.0.1 (Cyanogenmod 13)
EDIT: System data was using 5GB before I installed CM 13
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try debloating your current android installation by removing system apps that you would not use. This can be accomplished using applications such as <Mod snip of warez reference > or system app remover in Google Play.
All the bloatware I have with CM 13 is some apps that only use KB of storage and Gapps (Nano), which they all sums up 293.6MB
Hyoretsu said:
All the bloatware I have with CM 13 is some apps that only use KB of storage and Gapps (Nano), which they all sums up 293.6MB
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The problem is that the disk is partitioned in such a way that leaves little space for apps.
What you should do:
1. Shrink /system partition where it has enough memory to do all it's stuff, but doesn't take up too much space. You said 3GB worked fine in the past and it probably will now.
2. Allocate the unused space to the /data partition
Warning: If repartitioning goes wrong it will most likely result in a hard brick. Know what you're doing.
Warning 2: Many people say you should never repatition your phone. You will no longer be able to instal updates and the space you take away from the system may be critical storage used for device recovery or some kind of backup or emergency mode. Try app2sd or (if you're hardcore into moving stuff) link2sd.
1st: I thought of resizing the system partition, so I googled it and couldn't find anything, so how do I resize a partition on my phone?
2nd: If I make a backup of my entire phone through TWRP in case anything goes wrong, if I hard brick my device could I just restore the backup?
3rd: I already tried App2SD and Link2SD, but when i partitioned my SD Card, it gave an error. (Gonna move the things inside the SD Card to my PC and try to partition it, so I can specify the error)
if you have upgraded Android it could be that the newer versions are larger than the old one due to more features?
It grew up to 5GB while I was still on stock 5.0.2
bump
Hyoretsu said:
It grew up to 5GB while I was still on stock 5.0.2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can you download X-Plore, click on the 'Disk Map' on the right side bar and screenshot the results?
newbreedsoftware said:
Can you download X-Plore, click on the 'Disk Map' on the right side bar and screenshot the results?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Will do that right away
EDIT: Here it is
Hyoretsu said:
Will do that right away
EDIT: Here it is
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So it looks like your system is taking up less than a GB. Have you used Root Browser to check what is in that MNT folder? The reason I asked is because I checked my Nexus 6 and my LG G Pad 7.0 and I don't see the MNT folder anywhere. I am running Android 5.0.1 on both devices. Below are screenshots of both of my devices
There are 2 links to my home directory (on "asec, expand, media_rw, obb, sdcard, secure and user" folders), and a runtime folder, which has 3 folders(default, read and write), with the 3 of them being a link to the /storage folder
Hyoretsu said:
There are 2 links to my home directory (on "asec, expand, media_rw, obb, sdcard, secure and user" folders), and a runtime folder, which has 3 folders(default, read and write), with the 3 of them being a link to the /storage folder
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Does your phone support external SD card or is it all internal?
It supports external SD, but I "can't" move anything to it cuz I'm on 6.0.1, so I would have to transform it into Internal Storage and I could transform it into Mixed Storage, but the problem is that whenever my SD Card is Internal or Mixed Storage, it randomly pops out, forcing me to turn off my phone, re-insert my SD card and boot it again. I'm not with it cuz' currently I'm putting some pdf files to it on my PC
Hyoretsu said:
It supports external SD, but I "can't" move anything to it cuz I'm on 6.0.1, so I would have to transform it into Internal Storage and I could transform it into Mixed Storage, but the problem is that whenever my SD Card is Internal or Mixed Storage, it randomly pops out, forcing me to turn off my phone, re-insert my SD card and boot it again. I'm not with it cuz' currently I'm putting some pdf files to it on my PC
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you tried using Apps2SD? Not sure if it works on 6.0 but it works on 5.0 and below.
I cannot get it to work cuz' when I partition my sd card and try to mount script, it showed up the error "file not found". When I checked the directory it specified, I realized that I didn't have the 179:66 file, the one I have is public:179_66. The temporary solution (cuz' the file got deleted when i rebooted my phone) was create a hard link from public:179_66 to 179:66, which resulted on the error "Invalid Argument" (Sorry if something's written worng, English is not my native language)
Hyoretsu said:
I cannot get it to work cuz' when I partition my sd card and try to mount script, it showed up the error "file not found". When I checked the directory it specified, I realized that I didn't have the 179:66 file, the one I have is public:179_66. The temporary solution (cuz' the file got deleted when i rebooted my phone) was create a hard link from public:179_66 to 179:66, which resulted on the error "Invalid Argument" (Sorry if something's written worng, English is not my native language)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So back to the main issue, according to your X-Plore results, your system folder is only taking up 876mb. I would download a root file explorer such as Root Explorer and explore the various folders such as Data (2.99gb) and MNT (1.34gb) and see if you have some temp files you can get rid of. There are also apps such as CCleaner that will scan your device for temp/cache files you can safely remove to make more room.