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Camera app says "Insert an SD card before using the camera"

So I just connected my phone to the computer, where I found an extra TitaniumBackup folder. The said folder was located in storage/emulated. Here, the "storage" folder itself was located in the Internal Storage, that shows up on the PC. (I hope I'm clear)
Since there was a more current TitaniumBackup folder already sitting in the root, I decided to delete the extra one inside the sdcard folder.
After deleting, I've lost everything I had on the device. I checked in a file explorer app, and all I had in the internal memory was the Android folder. Apps are working fine at the moment, but camera app asks me to insert an SD card. The amount of free space also suggests all data has been wiped.
What do I do rectify this? I'm guessing remounting in recovery should do it, but I'm not sure. A simple reboot could fix it too I guess, but I'm not sure again.
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This is what you're talking about? check picture attached.
And which folder you actually deleted?

Oh yes, it's storage that I deleted, not sdcard
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It's a mirror storage link that also the same as your main storage.
Deleting the storage meaning deleting your main storage too I would assumed.
Edit:
For the camera asking to insert new SDcard or something. You need to clear data in Settings - Apps for camera.
And the rest of your data in your storage is gone for good now.

Cleared the camera app data, didn't help. You'd say a reboot should help?
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jrjk said:
Cleared the camera app data, didn't help. You'd say a reboot should help?
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If clearing data and a reboot doesn't work it's factory reset time, at least that would be the easiest way.

I guess I panicked more than I should have. Reboot fixed that, so I don't have to reset now
Thanks for chiming in guys
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I wiped internal storage in twrp, will the camera data wipe also work when I did that?

[Q] Nexus 5 storage problem

I installed some games a while back including Badland and Fifa14 and I manually moved the .obb files to my Nexus using a pc which were about 1.8gb combined, then after a while I tried to remove the files manually through the USB connection throughout my pc, the files were gone but it did not affect the storage, I tried everything but I couldn't get my storage back.. I know formatting would solve my problem but I really don't want it to get to that, any help would be appreciated.

@eytch_1 try to restart, see on android with es file explorer or the file still exist, find the trash folder and delete that one. It is maybe hidden but its named like .trash 1000 i believe but its an trash folder i can't say much more since i dont have an phone anymore for 2 months now. Or you must find some app to find big and large files or some trash remover app.
I also had the same problem as you had on my s2 i had my wth moment when that happend and i needed to remove an folder named something with trash and i had my storage back i hope it also works for you.

Also try running fstrim command through elevated terminal emulator. Also use disk usage to see where the space is being used up.
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Restarting eating internal memory

Everytime I restart my phone it goes through the android upgrade process and for some reason instead of overwriting old files it adds new ones and eats up the internal memory. I'm rooted on latest firmware and running Moar 6.1. I have no available space left on my internal SD card. When I came from Moar 5.0 to 6.0 I reformatted my internal memory so I should have plenty. Es file manager shows I have used 2 gigabytes but shows no space available. The only thing I can think of is the system memory is somehow being eaten up somehow. Has anyone else ran across this? Anyone know of a fix?
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dangerruss said:
Everytime I restart my phone it goes through the android upgrade process and for some reason instead of overwriting old files it adds new ones and eats up the internal memory. I'm rooted on latest firmware and running Moar 6.1. I have no available space left on my internal SD card. When I came from Moar 5.0 to 6.0 I reformatted my internal memory so I should have plenty. Es file manager shows I have used 2 gigabytes but shows no space available. The only thing I can think of is the system memory is somehow being eaten up somehow. Has anyone else ran across this? Anyone know of a fix?
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I'm guessing you haven't been following the MOAR thread and the Playstore issue? Using a root explorer, check you data\app folder. You are probably going to find multiple downloads from the Playstore with a -1, -2, -3 etc. after the filename. It's safe to delete all the earlier files. I don't think there's been a fix for this yet.

I'll try that. Thanks.
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Storage space running out

I'm running out of space of phone memory. I've moved all the movable apps to internal storage but the notification keeps coming. And the calculation of space in phone storage doesn't seem correct. Please help me solve this issue.
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grenademik said:
I'm running out of space of phone memory. I've moved all the movable apps to internal storage but the notification keeps coming. And the calculation of space in phone storage doesn't seem correct. Please help me solve this issue.
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If u have custom recovery u can try to delete dalvik catche
and try to use CLEAN MASTER , it useful if you rooted your rom
*** iF YOU HAVE ROOT ROM YOU CAN TRY LINK2SD APK TO MOVE YOUR APP TO SD CARD PARTITIONED *****

I have the very same problem. I could not find any solution that does not require root access. And I can't root the device since it is not mine. :/ Can anyone help out? I tried many different cleaning programs and I also tried this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-l/general/how-to-solve-memory-leak-problem-xperia-t2488573 but none of this works. I can free storage from internal storage but not from device memory.

delete some apps/data

Hi.
I'm sorry, but without root is imposible fix this.
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Internal storage moved

So as the subject says, somehow my internal storage moved to a different location in my phone. It moved from storage/emulated/0 to data/media/0 somehow. I don't know how but now my apps and file managers are unable to access my internal storage and I am unable to download anything from my browser. My nexus 5 is rooted with Android 6.0 and has experimentalx kernel with xposed. Other than that, my nexus 5 is stock. I tried using root browser and solid browser to move my internal storage back to the correct place but that just gives me an error. I also tried using Android commander to move my storage using my pc but it's giving me permission denied. So I don't know what to do. Any help will be appreciated thank you
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So I looked at my brother's nexus 5 and he has the same thing where data/media/0 has all his storage but storage/emulated/0 still also had his storage. So I think my storage is hidden for some reason
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From Settings>>Apps, give the affected apps permission to access Storage.

Wakamatsu said:
From Settings>>Apps, give the affected apps permission to access Storage.
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They all have permission. It's funny cause I was reading everywhere and I found that on storage/emulated/0 is actually a symlink to data/media/0. So I tried making another symlink using root browser and it just gives me an error
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