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Whenever I try and upload a file to Google Drive or add a picture from my gallery to instagram, my phone creates a file called .thumbdata3 in the thumbnails directory on my SD card. The problem with this is not the creation of the file, it's that the file is exactly the size of all the free space on the memory card... When plugged into the computer it displays "0 Bytes Free" on the SD card...
So when I choose a file from the gallery to upload to google drive or instagram, it will hang on a black screen until this file has been created (filling up the SD card), and then upload... Then i check the free space, and it is 0Bytes.
Anyone else had this and fixed it?
PS Sorry for being a noob here
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Anyone had this? Or have a solution?
Same thing here, unfortunately no solution. Apparently it is safe to delete the file, but it will be recreated at some point, taking up all the space on the SD card again.
For me, it grew up to 400 MB and even beyond (IIRC), which seems a bit excessive, even taking into account that there are > 2000 pictures in the DCIM folder of my SD-card at the moment. Still, 400 MB is more than a quarter of the 1.4 GB that the pictures take up, which surely does not make much sense if that is supposed to speed up the process of reading/displaying the thumbnails!?
Does anybody know a fix? Is it ICS related? I'm on Stock 4.0.3 ICS BTW, and I never noticed this behaviour before the update...
Same here, with a SE Xperia Mini Pro (4.0.4). It happened with me when the phone tried syncing Evernote notes (with pictures attached).
Maybe this topic should be moved to a more generic sub-forum; apparently it's an ICS problem...
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I am also currently having this problem, specially when trying to upload/import photos from gallery to instagram. the ".thumdata3...." file can go as large as 2.5 gig for me, depenending on how much space I have on my SD card before importing pics from gallery to instagram
Same happenned to me - a siolutions that worked for me
Same happened to me the .thumdata3 ate up all remaining space (1.2G) on my Samsung Galaxy S2, android 4.0.3. Any time I deleted it, it was recreated any time I opened the camera app. Then the camera app was unable to take any pic due to sd full. If I deleted this file it was re-created any time I started camera again.
Installing and running the SDrescan app (from play store) helped. Though SDrescan made stock ringtones disappear. However reboot helped that, and the large file did not came back even after restarting camera.
This worked for me, though I am not sure in the reason. Might work for you as well, or not. I must say that android 4.0 is much worse than I expected. Not the first annoying error I have found.
My guess for the reason of the error happening: I once inserted an sd card with LOTS of media content. Then all this was cached somehow in gallery.
My guess for the reason this solution works: the app erases cached SD data thus helps reducing the thumbnail cache.
rasnadas said:
Same happened to me the .thumdata3 ate up all remaining space (1.2G) on my Samsung Galaxy S2, android 4.0.3. Any time I deleted it, it was recreated any time I opened the camera app. Then the camera app was unable to take any pic due to sd full. If I deleted this file it was re-created any time I started camera again.
Installing and running the SDrescan app (from play store) helped. Though SDrescan made stock ringtones disappear. However reboot helped that, and the large file did not came back even after restarting camera.
This worked for me, though I am not sure in the reason. Might work for you as well, or not. I must say that android 4.0 is much worse than I expected. Not the first annoying error I have found.
My guess for the reason of the error happening: I once inserted an sd card with LOTS of media content. Then all this was cached somehow in gallery.
My guess for the reason this solution works: the app erases cached SD data thus helps reducing the thumbnail cache.
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I had the same issue, but unfortunately your solution didn't help me. Initially I thought it did, but after a reboot and launching Camera app, it hanged and created the .thumbdata3 file once again.
I also tried messing up with databases using SQLite Editor, as described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28466334&postcount=9, but that didn't help either.
I've done some more research and found a solution here: http://www.mobilephonetalk.com/show...in-memory-card&p=311954&viewfull=1#post311954. After I deleted the .thumbdata3 file, created a blank one with Root Explorer and removed write permission to it, the file stays at 0 bytes and Camera and Gallery apps still work fine.
I have an issue with the size of the thumbdata3 file in DCIM/.thumbnails on internal memory (camera is set to store to ext SD) at the moment it is 314MB on internal memory but the thumbdata3 file in the DCIM/.thumbnail folder on ext SD is less than 1MB (I only have around 100 photos and pictures on my phone) - but camera still works (other than in the scenario described below)
If I delete the large thumbdata3 file from internal memory and then attempt to use the camera, the photo is taken without any problem but when I try to view it in either gallery or QuickPic by clicking through from the 'last image taken thumbnail' in the camera and then click back to carry on taking another picture the camera FC's. It usually does this twice and is then absolutely fine - apart from the fact that the large thumbdata3 file has been recreated on internal storage.
I've tried it numerous times and every time the same results - delete thumbdata3 from internal memory, couple of camera FC's, large thumbdata3 file recreated, no more problems (bar the loss of 314MB of storage)
I've tried replacing the thumbdata3 file on internal memory with a copy of the smaller one from Ext SD, creating a blank thumbdata3 file and setting it as read only/no write permission and neither have helped.
Its a bit weird and annoying but I won't let it take the shine off my fun with CM9, however it would be nice to recover that large chunk of storage space to be put to better use.
All the same, many thanks Arco - Beta 1 is my first CM9 install and its great :good:[/QUOTE]
Hi - haven't full troubleshooted this issue yet, but see my notes here. I have the same issue (GNEX JB 4.1.1 stock) and for me it is caused by the app KeepSafe which hides/unhides pics/videos on your phone. Note I believe this is an interaction issue between this app and the media scanning functionality in JB (and I suspect ICS), and so there are likely other apps that have the same issue. For me it creates 1 or 2 .thumbdata3 db files each around 1.3GB.
Certainly, irrespective of app causing it, you can follow the steps to purge Gallery and Media Storage, resync your gmail account and they should disappear on their own. Opening the camera and taking a photo causes the db to come back at around 400MB with a single thumbnail - one of the test files I was hiding and unhiding with KeepSafe but has since been deleted. Can't really explain this behaviour!
Any way, I made some notes on what I tested, the results and some ponderings in case this helps someone work it out:
Thumbdata3
Hiding in keep safe seems to create both the thumbnails and thumbdata file.
Clearing data/cache for gallery and media storage removes all these files? So far doesn't seem to be the case. File and db still there after. Rerunning the media scanner now. Perhaps they caused it? Also forced resync of all items in gmail account. Thumbs and db now gone. Not clear if it was the media scanning completing or the re-sync, but steps to resolve issue now appear deterministic.
Tested with single pic. Restored. No thumbs. Re-hid, thumbnail appeared for this pic and a 435MB db file.
All thumbs were for pics hidden in keep safe. However previously there were far more thumbs. Speculate - cumulative issue thru successive hide/restore cycles, possibly due to file name collision avoidance.
Deleting pic in file explorer also causes the problem? Does not appear to be the case. Gallery/Media Scanner/Media Storage handles this manual intervention far better under ICS/JB. Previously, manually removing a picture rather than deleting it thru Gallery tended to mean the tile/thumb remained. Scanner didn't or didn't very effectively detect this. Probable algorithm change in ICS. Now it sees the deletion immediately. Possibly implicated in keep safe not correctly interacting with the gallery/media scanner properly under ICS/JB.
I´ve the same problem.
After restarting the phone, the camera freezes for a while and regenerates the file, no matter how many media files are in the phone or sd card, it always growth to 431mg after restarting.
(I also find many lost files in the LOST.DIR (almost 2.300gb...many are dissapeared files that I forget about them!)
The .thumbdata files on my SGSIII take up ~4 GB worth of space. Already a quarter of my phones internal memory is being wasted. I wonder if this is a bug or "working as intended"? It makes me wonder how google can still justify the lack of an external microsd card slot on their nexus phones when there is so much space being mismanaged by the OS.
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strom87 said:
I had the same issue, but unfortunately your solution didn't help me. Initially I thought it did, but after a reboot and launching Camera app, it hanged and created the .thumbdata3 file once again.
I also tried messing up with databases using SQLite Editor, as described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28466334&postcount=9, but that didn't help either.
I've done some more research and found a solution here: http://www.mobilephonetalk.com/show...in-memory-card&p=311954&viewfull=1#post311954. After I deleted the .thumbdata3 file, created a blank one with Root Explorer and removed write permission to it, the file stays at 0 bytes and Camera and Gallery apps still work fine.
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It's works with me!
that works
That works for me:
1. copy name of thumbdataX--x file
2. delete that file
3. create folder named the same as deleted file; reboot your device
4. look in folders named LOST.DIR (you can find it in the root directory of your internal memory and your SDcard) - huge temporary files may be left in these folders, so delete these files
New thumbdata file can't replace the folder and doesn't appears :victory:
until now the folder solution works :laugh:
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That works for me:
1. copy name of thumbdataX--x file
2. delete that file
3. create folder named the same as deleted file; reboot your device
4. look in folders named LOST.DIR (you can find it in the root directory of your internal memory and your SDcard) - huge temporary files may be left in these folders, so delete these files
New thumbdata file can't replace the folder and doesn't appears :victory:
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It doesn't work, camera still overwrites the .thumbdataX--x folder. And as /mnt/sdacard is using FAT32, I also can't set file permission to 000 or use /dev/null symlink.
Hey guys I am facing an issue regarding space in my phone's internal SD CARD. I checked in root explorer n found that 2 files of thumbnail in DCIM folder taking 600mb of space. though all my photos n videos are in external SD CARD. But I don't know how its still being created in the internal SD CARD and I wanna tell that I use quickpic galary app to browse all the photos n videos and never used phones original galary app....
So plz help me guys n provide a solution. M using Sony Xperia go phone!!
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Maybe You Can find solution in one of those threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1318827
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28447099#post28447099
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35259164&postcount=7
It seems a problem with android 4+ I made a goo.gle link but haven't posted much here yet oQSfA is the extension of the url. If I am erroneously posting this, I am sorry. I have the same issue. If anyone can post a clickable link it might get stars quicker. It might be fixed in jelly bean, but I don't know.
Issue 39546:Files under DCIM/.thumbnails are eating away at SD card storage
I have since done factory restore with formatting the stock SD. File is there, much smaller though 197 KB. No pictures to thumbnail, so it isn't necessarily solved. I did switch out cards (old 16GB to stock 4GB) before format and delete the .thumbnail file but that was recreated even with no pictures. I figured it may be my picasa account, but have since opened gallery. After letting more (from Picasa) picture and folder thumbnails appear than ever before my file is still small
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it still (6+ hours) has not grown giant. In fact its not really there. I didn't disable any of TMobile bloat like I did initially, and have the blank SD. In the process of reinstalling apps reopening gallery and checking space with storage analyzer.
I still don't like not being able to choose internal USB or external storage SD. Most apps "moved to SD card" just move to USB storage. Interestingly tapatalk appeared to move to the real external SD card as did a few others.
I doubt this will be fixed on ICS. I can hope though. It seems like the app itself needs to use the external SD directory, but the stock gallery might never be updated.
Samsung galaxy blaze 4G with stock ICS 4.0.4. All the extra TMobile apps are a pre-installed, but not updated.
I don't claim to be knowledgeable enough to know what I don't know. I always reserve the right to be wrong.
Taking pictures didn't make thumbnail file huge, but one relatively small video of 29 seconds with a 5MP camera created a 47mb file and two 3mb files in the thumbnail folder. Not huge but bigger than 10%.
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Maybe You Can find solution in one of those threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1318827
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28447099#post28447099
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35259164&postcount=7
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thanks bro.. u really helped me.. just tried some solutions from the links u gave me.
will post feedback again if its working or not. i hope those thumbnail files wont come back now.
Glad i could help a bit .
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Glad i could help a bit .
Sent from my LT18i using xda app-developers app
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finally it worked... thanks a lot bro...
for all others dealing with same issue, here is what i did... just replaced the thumbnail file with another file created with root explorer named it same as the thumbnail file n removed the write permissions of the new file created... so it wont let system write any data in it. therefore it stays empty.
Dear Xperia L Geeks! I was happy that i have 5.8gb memory in my device for apps, but after little time i got mad when i saw that apps memory is only 1.5gb, now i cant install more apps due to low memory. Now what should i do? I am not a gamer, neither a apps geeks. I just use for email(SMTP) and for browsing purpose and some office utilities. Kindly suggest my step by step tutorial to increase the APPS memory, i have 16gb sd card and 3gb free in my device, but apps memory is all low. Kindly help
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Dear Xperia L Geeks! I was happy that i have 5.8gb memory in my device for apps, but after little time i got mad when i saw that apps memory is only 1.5gb, now i cant install more apps due to low memory. Now what should i do? I am not a gamer, neither a apps geeks. I just use for email(SMTP) and for browsing purpose and some office utilities. Kindly suggest my step by step tutorial to increase the APPS memory, i have 16gb sd card and 3gb free in my device, but apps memory is all low. Kindly help
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You can move apps to that internal memory no?...and 1.5 gb is more than required cz u said you are an average user...
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You can move apps to that internal memory no?...and 1.5 gb is more than required cz u said you are an average user...
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Dear Crytech: Thanks for the reply, yeah i am a average user, but what i am using is SMTP email, few office utilities, one game, ftp clients etc, but its require space. umm i am having only 100mb free. Yeah i moved few apps into phone memory but cant move other heavy apps into phone memory. So now i think i dont have any option to increase the 1.5apps partition. As far as i know that this is only possible in root. But i am not familiar, (Root,Bootlocker). What should i do now to increase memory for apps?
naeemdal said:
Dear Crytech: Thanks for the reply, yeah i am a average user, but what i am using is SMTP email, few office utilities, one game, ftp clients etc, but its require space. umm i am having only 100mb free. Yeah i moved few apps into phone memory but cant move other heavy apps into phone memory. So now i think i dont have any option to increase the 1.5apps partition. As far as i know that this is only possible in root. But i am not familiar, (Root,Bootlocker). What should i do now to increase memory for apps?
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Without Root nothing can happen...And afaik Apps partition cannot be increased w/o root....Can you give me screenshot of your apps memory?
producing neunio
Crytech said:
Without Root nothing can happen...And afaik Apps partition cannot be increased w/o root....Can you give me screenshot of your apps memory?
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Please have a look on screenshot, i just got free few memory by removing some office utilities to work with other apps.
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Please have a look on screenshot, i just got free few memory by removing some office utilities to work with other apps.
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Dear i would appreciate if you can help me to root my Xperia L. So that i can finally enjoy.
A question for you...
naeemdal said:
Dear Xperia L Geeks! I was happy that i have 5.8gb memory in my device for apps, but after little time i got mad when i saw that apps memory is only 1.5gb, now i cant install more apps due to low memory. Now what should i do? I am not a gamer, neither a apps geeks. I just use for email(SMTP) and for browsing purpose and some office utilities. Kindly suggest my step by step tutorial to increase the APPS memory, i have 16gb sd card and 3gb free in my device, but apps memory is all low. Kindly help
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Hi naeemdal,
I read your post with interest. It sounds like we've been having the same issue with available device memory on our Xperia Ls. By the sounds of it though, I may have more apps installed on my phone than you have. Having said that, I'm not a gamer.
For me it started about a month or so ago, when I began getting notifcations on the phone saying something like "Storage Space is running low, some functions may therefore stop working correctly". By that point I had only about 20 or 30 mb of available device memory remaining out of a total space (not including Internal Storage) of 1.57 gb. I didn't understand how the available memory can have gotten so low as I hadn't installed anything new recently.
Anyway, I removed whatever apps I could but the available device memory continued to drop, until eventually the phone started to malfunction. Various system apps began to fail or not start up properly on boot. The first thing to go I think was USB connectivity, then messaging.
So I backed up as much as I could and did the first of several full factory resets.
After closely monitoring my phone for large or sudden changes in the available device memory, I am fairly certain by now that my installation of Spotify (the music streaming app) is responsible for this problem. Let me explain why I think this: After the first factory reset, the first app I reinstalled was Spotify. The following day, the device memory started to fall until it reached 0 mb within about 48 hours and the phone began to malfunction. I then did another factory reset, but this time I installed all of my other main apps leaving out Spotify. I used the phone as normal for a few days and there was no change in the device memory. Only then did I install Spotify, and by the following morning the available memory had dropped from 1.11 gb to 1.08 gb (a drop of 30 mb). By the afternoon the available memory had further dropped (by another 90 mb) to 0.99 gb. I immediately cleared the Spotify data and uninstalled the app. More than 24 hours have passed since then but the available device memory has remained at 0.99 gb, i.e. not further drop in memory level.
The screenshots you supplied to Crytech are just what I've been seeing on my phone. Out of total space of 1.57 gb, you have 578 mb used for Apps and 216 mb Available. So what has happened the remaining 813 mb?
In light of this, my question to you is whether you too are a Spotify user? If you are, then Spotify's devs need to know about this.
Victoristics said:
Hi naeemdal,
I read your post with interest. It sounds like we've been having the same issue with available device memory on our Xperia Ls. By the sounds of it though, I may have more apps installed on my phone than you have. Having said that, I'm not a gamer.
For me it started about a month or so ago, when I began getting notifcations on the phone saying something like "Storage Space is running low, some functions may therefore stop working correctly". By that point I had only about 20 or 30 mb of available device memory remaining out of a total space (not including Internal Storage) of 1.57 gb. I didn't understand how the available memory can have gotten so low as I hadn't installed anything new recently.
Anyway, I removed whatever apps I could but the available device memory continued to drop, until eventually the phone started to malfunction. Various system apps began to fail or not start up properly on boot. The first thing to go I think was USB connectivity, then messaging.
So I backed up as much as I could and did the first of several full factory resets.
After closely monitoring my phone for large or sudden changes in the available device memory, I am fairly certain by now that my installation of Spotify (the music streaming app) is responsible for this problem. Let me explain why I think this: After the first factory reset, the first app I reinstalled was Spotify. The following day, the device memory started to fall until it reached 0 mb within about 48 hours and the phone began to malfunction. I then did another factory reset, but this time I installed all of my other main apps leaving out Spotify. I used the phone as normal for a few days and there was no change in the device memory. Only then did I install Spotify, and by the following morning the available memory had dropped from 1.11 gb to 1.08 gb (a drop of 30 mb). By the afternoon the available memory had further dropped (by another 90 mb) to 0.99 gb. I immediately cleared the Spotify data and uninstalled the app. More than 24 hours have passed since then but the available device memory has remained at 0.99 gb, i.e. not further drop in memory level.
The screenshots you supplied to Crytech are just what I've been seeing on my phone. Out of total space of 1.57 gb, you have 578 mb used for Apps and 216 mb Available. So what has happened the remaining 813 mb?
In light of this, my question to you is whether you too are a Spotify user? If you are, then Spotify's devs need to know about this.
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Dear Victoristics: Thank you so much for the reply. I am using following apps;
1- Flahslight (Average)
2- NQ Andriod Booster
3- Airdroid
4- AndFTP
5- Angry Birds
6- Any.Do (Frequently using)
7- CamScanner (Frequently Using)
8- Chess
9- Chrome (Regular)
10- Clean Master
11- Daily Motion
12- DropBox
13- Dictionary (Local Language)
14- ES file Explorer
15 Facebook (Regular)
16 Fing Network Tool
17 FTP Cafe
18 GMAIL (Regular)
19 Gstring
20 Hotspot Shield
21- Kingsoft Office (Regular)
22- Minion Rush
23- Mx Player
24- Neo Reader
25- NQ Mobile Security
26- Office Suite
27- Live Tv channels
28- Photoshop
29- Power Toggels
30- Skype (Frequently Using)
31- Sound cloud
32- Team viewer
33- Temple run 2
34- Twitter (Frequently Using)
35- NQ Vault
36- Viber (Frequently Using)
37- Whatsapp (Frequently Using)
38- XDA (Frequently Using)
39- Y Mail (Frequently Using)
40- Youtube
41- Utorrent
I am not using all apps on regular or frequently basis. Whenever i need i use. But office regular, but i dont keep data in my app device so i move to internal memry sd card 0
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naeemdal said:
Dear Victoristics: Thank you so much for the reply. I am using following apps;
1- Flahslight (Average)
2- NQ Andriod Booster
3- Airdroid
4- AndFTP
5- Angry Birds
6- Any.Do (Frequently using)
7- CamScanner (Frequently Using)
8- Chess
9- Chrome (Regular)
10- Clean Master
11- Daily Motion
12- DropBox
13- Dictionary (Local Language)
14- ES file Explorer
15 Facebook (Regular)
16 Fing Network Tool
17 FTP Cafe
18 GMAIL (Regular)
19 Gstring
20 Hotspot Shield
21- Kingsoft Office (Regular)
22- Minion Rush
23- Mx Player
24- Neo Reader
25- NQ Mobile Security
26- Office Suite
27- Live Tv channels
28- Photoshop
29- Power Toggels
30- Skype (Frequently Using)
31- Sound cloud
32- Team viewer
33- Temple run 2
34- Twitter (Frequently Using)
35- NQ Vault
36- Viber (Frequently Using)
37- Whatsapp (Frequently Using)
38- XDA (Frequently Using)
39- Y Mail (Frequently Using)
40- Youtube
41- Utorrent
I am not using all apps on regular or frequently basis. Whenever i need i use. But office regular, but i dont keep data in my app device so i move to internal memry sd card 0
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Thanks for the reply naeemdal,
It looks like you have a lot more applications installed than I do after all.
The only apps you use that I also have installed are Chrome, Clean Master, ES file Explorer, Gmail (disabled), Neo Reader, OfficeSuite (Pro) & Youtube. I'm really not sure therefore what it is, if anything, that your memory problem and mine have in common. Crytech, if you're reading this, do you have any perspective on what the problem might be here?
As I said, I believe that, in my case, the serious reduction in memory is connected with my installation of Spotify, so I intend reaching out to their support guys over the next week or two once I've monitored the situation and and tested a bit more.
Dear Victoristics,
I am using Spotify and I am having the same issue all the time.
Solving this problem I reset to factory settings over ten times already and installed the new firmware of Xperia L.
I havent installed a clean install of Android yet, maybe it will help. But I thought I will go to the shop and switch my phone to a new L and see if it happens there as well.
Greetings from Finland
My Xperia L and Spotify = the same problem.
I have to check if the problem exists on Xperia Tablet Z.
I'm curious is it Sony fault or Spotify.
I have Spotify and the same problem with the memory. But I also suspect that the problem may be motivated by the photos and videos. A few days ago I let the phone to my 7 years old daughter to record some videos and photos. When she returned me the phone were only 50 Mb of available memory, and I had left him with 250 Mb. And the Album App does not work well, occasionally I have the black screen.
Anyway if the problem is caused by Spotiy, I'm not willing to give up that application. I think it is Sony's responsibility to resolve this. I have Spotify in other devices and no problems.
My sd card is formatted generic hierarchical which presumably the phone did, don't remember. I tried to take a long video, about an hour at 720p but it cut out at 38 mins and 3.8GB. Have I run into a limitation - I read elsewhere about a max of 4GB. I could record at 480p I guess to get a longer length. Do I have any other options like formating it to something else, what should i format it to and what might be the drawbacks? Thanks
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My sd card is formatted generic hierarchical which presumably the phone did, don't remember. I tried to take a long video, about an hour at 720p but it cut out at 38 mins and 3.8GB. Have I run into a limitation - I read elsewhere about a max of 4GB. I could record at 480p I guess to get a longer length. Do I have any other options like formating it to something else, what should i format it to and what might be the drawbacks? Thanks
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Hello !
what is your phone spces(model) and what camera app are you using ?
regards.
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alfienoakes63 said:
My sd card is formatted generic hierarchical which presumably the phone did, don't remember. I tried to take a long video, about an hour at 720p but it cut out at 38 mins and 3.8GB. Have I run into a limitation - I read elsewhere about a max of 4GB. I could record at 480p I guess to get a longer length. Do I have any other options like formating it to something else, what should i format it to and what might be the drawbacks? Thanks
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Well , i can give a possible solution. You probably are using your internal memory but you can change that to external on the app options.
Regards.
Idol 3 5.5
Using stock camera/video app
Recording to sd card
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Idol 3 5.5
Using stock camera/video app
Recording to sd card
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How much memory ?
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Idol 3 5.5
Using stock camera/video app
Recording to sd card
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I have research and i think that android has a limit and its 4 gb, its not the camera app or anything, its the limit they choose to impose for a reason .
Regards.
alfienoakes63 said:
My sd card is formatted generic hierarchical which presumably the phone did, don't remember. I tried to take a long video, about an hour at 720p but it cut out at 38 mins and 3.8GB. Have I run into a limitation - I read elsewhere about a max of 4GB. I could record at 480p I guess to get a longer length. Do I have any other options like formating it to something else, what should i format it to and what might be the drawbacks? Thanks
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Hello,
External Sdcard should be formatted in FAT32 in order to work well with android. And one of the most remarkable disadvantage of FAT32 is the file limitation to 4GB. FAT32 => file max ~ 4GB
As wikipedia explain that better than me:
The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GB minus 1 byte or 4,294,967,295 (232 − 1) bytes. This limit is a consequence of the file length entry in the directory table and would also affect huge FAT16 partitions with a sufficient sector size.[1] Large video files, DVD images and databases easily exceed this limit.
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You could try to reformat your sdcard into ext4, which is supposed to support files heavier than 4GB, but I cannot guarantee it works well and without inconvenients with your phone. Some phones allow the sdcard to be formatted into FAT32, some not. Try, and see.
But remember, as soons as your sdcard is FAT32 formatted, you won't get file heavier than 4GB
So today I awoke to the low storage warning and decided to check it out, the memory and storage section of settings claims I only had 440 MB left out of 32 GB, but upon examination of everything that occupies space, it adds up to a little over 17 gigs, not 31.5. Any idea what may be causing this and how to fix it?
(I wanted to add a screenshot but apparently you can't from mobile)
Are you using twin application? whatsapp or facebook?
Check the space used on: Phone manager-->Cleanup-->Store manager-->Application restore
pellizzo said:
Are you using twin application? whatsapp or facebook?
Check the space used on: Phone manager-->Cleanup-->Store manager-->Application restore
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Nope, never used app twin. And storage manager apparently can't finish computing the space used by each category even after 5 minutes.
There may be some files hidden somewhere. Also your phone doesn't give you the full 32 GB because it uses some for Android and stuff.