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Hi folks, I am having alerts displayed warning me that device memory is critically low. I have tried going through all sorts of files in explorer but can find nothing to free up memory.
Any tips?
Welcome on this forum
I had the same problem with only 0.04 free memory !!!
I solved it by deleting some cache, like Opera cache...
pfedestarke said:
Hi folks, I am having alerts displayed warning me that device memory is critically low. I have tried going through all sorts of files in explorer but can find nothing to free up memory.
Any tips?
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do you happen to install a bunch of programs? Open up task manager and see how many are running in the background.
Open up task manager [...]
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I suppose he's talking about storage memory, not about program memory..
Many thanks. I am now at 169mb / 181mb. This still seems low. What do your HD2's run at?
This is my first HTC and have got to say i love it. It frustrates me at times but then that's all part of the ownership experience I suppose.
Thanks for the welcome guys
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What do your HD2's run at?
Thanks for the welcome guys
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You're welcome !
I didn't understand very well your question ? Do you ant the list of all programs I've isntalled on my Leo ?
lancelot54 said:
You're welcome !
I didn't understand very well your question ? Do you ant the list of all programs I've isntalled on my Leo ?
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No, I just wondered what memory was being used on your device compared to mine. Device storage
It's not the memory that is low it's the storage space so it's kind of pointless to compare it with someone else.
Stockage
- Total : 176.62 Mo
- Used : 146.69 Mo
- Free : 29.93 Mo
Program
- Total : 336.93 Mo
- Used : 189.80 Mo
- Free : 147.13 Mo
Try Importing any photos and videos using activesync. It worked for me, don't know why though
I went to delete cache etc from my phone but I cannot find where it is stored in file explorer... Can someone point me in the right direction?
You have to go into Opera and delete the cache from the settings in the software, the cache file is probably hidden.
mine were in [SD CARD]\Opera\Cache
I've deleted the full fodler and create again one.
Hello,
I have...
Storage
Total: 180.11
Used: 167.49
Free: 12.62
Program
Total: 336.93
Used: 173.36
Free: 163.56
I have cleared my cache in Opera and Explorer as detailed in above posts, I have next to nothing in My Documents on the device, and I have no programs running, so where is around 150 MB of my device storage being used?
I have even moved all of the pre-installed items from My Documents to my storage card. I get the pop-up message about freeing up some space quite often, each time I try something else to delete but I'm running out of obvious things to get rid of now!!
Any more ideas?
Is there a place I can go and look at the section set by for storage, rather than just all the files on my device?
facebook thumbnails, twitter thumbnails, album cache, internet cache, attachments from emails etc all could use up internal storage memory.
I had this same problem and found that it was the emails and attachments that took up all the room once I deleted all the old emails (about 70 emails in total) this cleared loads of memory, part of the problem is that some had large attachments.
Hope this helps
Move the opera cache and HTC Album cache to SD card
You can move both the Opera cache file and the HTC Album cache permanently to the storage card. Then you will find you have a lot more room in your storage memory.
Look in this thread (page 6 I think) for the cab for HTC Album cache http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=600578 and this thread for how to move the Opera cache to storage card from within Opera:config http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=601475&highlight=opera+cache
creed said:
You can move both the Opera cache file and the HTC Album cache permanently to the storage card. Then you will find you have a lot more room in your storage memory.
Look in this thread (page 6 I think) for the cab for HTC Album cache http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=600578 and this thread for how to move the Opera cache to storage card from within Opera:config
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Thanks for the help, I'll give this a go later!
How come some people have lower total storage? Like the OP I have 181.23 MB total as well.
I copied the copilot folder from program files on the device onto the storage card. That saved me a pretty amount of memory
(It merges the 2 copilot folders, and you need to have to recreate the application shortcut manually, but no biggie).
Hi there. Just wondering if anyone has a solution to resolving my internal memory situation, my phone keeps telling that the internal memory in critically low, I've deletes all my messages, most of my pictures bar the odd few that were sent to me from some hot chick, and I mean really hot!! sorry as I was saying, I deleted almost everything and I still keep on getting this message popping up. Does anyone know what I need to do, and also would it be advisable to save my message and everything else to the SD card automatically once it's sorted?
Cheers
try ClearTemp,
if you want some insight into storage load, try MemMaid - it has nice 'Storage usage' tab, to quote:
See where your storage memory is consumed, explore those directories using the system file explorer (or your own custom explorer) or compare the directories size using MemMaid's charts
(app is commercial, but this feature should work on trial version)
Take a look at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
65. + 67 are two hints off the top of my head.
Go to My Device\Application Data\HTC\HTC Album and delete the contents of the folder and the Cache folder. You can get 20 meg + in there quite easily.
If you don't use WM default ringtones you can delete My Device\Windows\Rings that will save you 6 meg.
My Device\My Documents\My Wallpapers will save you 3 meg.
And using Clear Temp is a very good idea, make sure all of your photos are being saved on the SD card.
Installing programs to your SD card also, some will by default save to the system device like some of the HD2 games.
You can also just force-delete some of the programs on your HD2 that you don't use by going to My Device\Program Files, taking out the ones that are installed by default with your networks ROM is a good idea.
And if you haven't already, flashing a custom ROM will reduce your OS's footprint even further, I can get ~165 meg of free storage from Energy ROMs following the steps above after flashing a new ROM, that's only ~35 meg of memory used by the system, instead of ~60 meg from your network providers ROM.
My internal sd card running out of space. it says I only have 900 mb free. I went to look to see what's taking up space and found that is the .thumbnail files in the DCIM/thumbnails folder. These files are 4 gigabytes in size. Yet I have very little pictures on my tablet. I'm trying to delete the files, but when I delete them no space is freed up. I have looked on the xda forums but no one seems to have a solution. Since my internal sd card is only 16 gigabytes this 4 gigabyte error takes up to 25 percent of my space. Please help I need a solution.:crying:
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My internal sd card running out of space. it says I only have 900 mb free. I went to look to see what's taking up space and found that is the .thumbnail files in the DCIM/thumbnails folder. These files are 4 gigabytes in size. Yet I have very little pictures on my tablet. I'm trying to delete the files, but when I delete them no space is freed up. I have looked on the xda forums but no one seems to have a solution. Since my internal sd card is only 16 gigabytes this 4 gigabyte error takes up to 25 percent of my space. Please help I need a solution.:crying:
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I had the same problem still have.Just simple deleted the huge file.that's it.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using xda premium
Thumbnails is making phone storage very low for new data
While I have 64gb sd card that I have to move stuff to it regularly
I want some way to make the sd card is the default for everything
Or at least for these huge thumbnails as a start
I have Xperia z2 3g lollipop 5.1.1. The A.1. 232 version
Same problem here
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Can you pinpoint the app that is storing such large tumbnail cache? This is not normal behaviour and can be considered as a bug. You can use CCleaner from the app store to clean this thumbnail cache. Try to do it regularly. I would uninstall the app that is causing this, this can happen if youre using more gallery apps or more file managers. You can use many cache cleaning apps like CM cleaner or Clean Master too to do this.
I think it is the Stock photo app
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I think it is the Stock photo app
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Then do a system cache cleaning, this is possible even trough recovery but the simplest way is to use CCleaner frim the app strore. Try it but if you get that huge cache again then something is definitely wrong.
Yeah some problem here, my thumbdata is only about 1gb but i don't have a ton of photos on my phone, i can imagine this file getting bigger if there are lot's of photos on the phone.
Deleting the files will not solve the problem as android will recreate them very fast. I see and understand the purpose of the thumbdata files but there should be a way to set max size and location for this files...
IF anyone figures a nice solution for this problem please post :good:
Edit: just had an ideia, maybe we could move the folder thumbnails to external sdcard and use foldermount or links2sd to link it to the internal memory? i can't test this right now cause i'm at work but i'll try it later if i have time.
Thanks.
I still insist this is too large thumbnail cache. There may be leftover pics thumbnails that are deleted but thumbs are still here and thats why I propose a cleaning. 5gb worth of thumbs would be equal to 50gb worth of pictures. Sony album app creates thumbs where images are located so its wise to move pics to sd card and set camera to store pics on the sd card and then thumbnails will be recreated on the sd card in DCIM folder.
- First remember the name of the /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/.thumbnails/.thumbdata file, f.e. .thumbdata3--1967290299
(if you have two files, like me, remember also the second name)
- delete this file (s)
- create a new file (or more) with the same name of the file (s) you just deleted, f.e. .thumbdata3--1967290299
that's it. Android from on is not able to create a new large thumbnail file.
Well, actually, this is not the solution for moving the .thumbnail file to sdcard, but it helps to free a lot of memory - forever.
My low budget old phone has limited internal storage and having less than 1 GB of free space i used cleaner apps to ged rid of unnecessary junk. One of the apps found 2 hidden .thumbdata files of 1.15 GB each.
I deleted them, but didn't get free space.
Tested the solutions found on the internet but it didn't work. A new file of aprox 68 MB was generated when gallery was opened again .
Because some people on the internet claim it's a sparse file, i wanted to check it by opening it in a text or hex editor. I managed to open
such a big file in a single one(NMM hex editor) and noticed there is some data only towards the end of the file, what is also confirmed by the "ls" and "du" command.
It is interesting what the editor info says - looks some kind of mounted partition/space(i don't know how to call it), other text editors call it 7190, so it's definety not a normal file with that size in the DCIM folder. Even when almost empty , the system "books" the space from the file and doesn't allow the phone user to benefit from it.
My opinion is that my first deleted files were also space left "mounted" after the erase of the 2 huge thumbdata files.
Has anyone an idea what it is ?
Okay so to start off, I was digging around in my phone a couple days ago (Keep in mind this is a white 16 gig S4 on CM13). And i stumbled across a weird folder, it was a faded one (I did have hidden files on). So I tapped and opened the folder, and for some reason, It was loading so slow (s4s pretty fast storage wise for me), but that slowed it down.
And as ES File Explorer was showing me, there was 44,000+ files. In that very folder alone. So I wondered what it could be (was a ton of old stuff I knew I had deleted).
But the strange thing about it is, once I selected each and every photo, the total amount of storage space used made no sense, it was using 24.6gigs of storage.
My phone remember is only a 16 gig model. But the folder took up 24.6 gigs, and I know it wasn't the sd card, since that was practically full of other things and wasn't in the phone at the time. After moving or trying to move it all to windows, I wound up with about 7000+ photos and 2 12+ gig files that can't be opened nor used at all. it gave me about a gig and a half back in storage as well. (phone has about 6-7+ used with 1.94 or 2.40 left after clearing cache and what not.)
What I'd like to know, has anyone had this 'issue' before as well or do they know what it could be?
I found it in DCIM>Thumbnails. Any information would be very helpful. It still bogs me as to why that happens.
it's function is for gallery apps to show thumbnails. and for the size, maybe the files where a file representing your data partition? very strange.
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it's function is for gallery apps to show thumbnails. and for the size, maybe the files where a file representing your data partition? very strange.
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Hmmm, could be but my data partition is no where near that size. It could of been compressed files, but I'm pretty sure 24.6 gigs would equal a decent 10 or more gig file, and to add to that, after deleting that first one. Two more popped up, each at 25 and 26 gigs respectively, I have no clue what the issue is. But it's only present on cm 13. Cm14 and 14.1 do not give me that issue.