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[Q] Out of Internal Memory

i'm running out of internal memory on my tab (sprint). i haven't installed a lot of apps. i have more apps on my droid incredible so not sure how i filled up the 2G. maybe it's coincidence but it started going low when i installed clockwork mod. i verified that my backup for clockwork mod is in the sd card so that's not it. any other places i can start to look internally? i barely have 10 or so apps in here.

Maybe check if files and pictures are going on your sd card and not the internal memory.
Try moving some apps to sd card and see if anything changes.
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Ice dream angel said:
Maybe check if files and pictures are going on your sd card and not the internal memory.
Try moving some apps to sd card and see if anything changes.
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yeah, i moved all the apps that possible to move to the sd card. i've taken only 3 pictures. i still only have 28M left. i guess it's time to check all the folders.

I'm willing to bet that as far as Clockwork is concerned, that 2GB internal storage is seen as your SD card, and the MicroSD card is sdext, which Clockwork probably isn't aware of.
That's the way it works on non-CDMA Galaxy devices (though all those have like, useful amounts of internal storage so it's not really an issue like it is on the crippled Verizon/Sprint versions).

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I'm willing to bet that as far as Clockwork is concerned, that 2GB internal storage is seen as your SD card, and the MicroSD card is sdext, which Clockwork probably isn't aware of.
That's the way it works on non-CDMA Galaxy devices (though all those have like, useful amounts of internal storage so it's not really an issue like it is on the crippled Verizon/Sprint versions).
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I think I found the culprit. There's a file called /data/local/tsprsp . Wtf is this file? Can I delete it?

Just deleted that file and it's fine now. Saw it in another post.thx

mach330 said:
Just deleted that file and it's fine now. Saw it in another post.thx
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How big was the file?

mach330 said:
I think I found the culprit. There's a file called /data/local/tsprsp . Wtf is this file? Can I delete it?
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I installed that version of clockwork mod and yeah my memory said it was full so i did a factory reset and delete it and all is fine now,,,something is wrong obliviously with that version and not worth installing until it is fixed,,, looks like it can cause def problems if we fool around with it,,,nothing against then mods.

slopokdave said:
How big was the file?
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around 1.7Gb !!!
camblue said:
I installed that version of clockwork mod and yeah my memory said it was full so i did a factory reset and delete it and all is fine now,,,something is wrong obliviously with that version and not worth installing until it is fixed,,, looks like it can cause def problems if we fool around with it,,,nothing against then mods.
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yeah, i think i'm going to do a factory reset and reroot.

Wp7 and sdcards.....be careful!!!!!

Well its my own fault but I thought maybe I can save some others the heartbreak of a damaged sdcard. We all know that wp7 reformats the sdcard when installing the first time. Also if you switch sdcards while phone is off or anything and then boot into wp7 you will fry your card.
I flashed wp7 just to see what it was all about blah blah. Decided it was time to return to android. Blah blah i stuck my android sdcard with all my backups, pics, work stuff back into the phone and rebooted to flash android back through nand . Somehow i let it boot back to wp7 instead of nand and it killed my card. Lesson learned. Keep your sdcard 10ft. away from Wp7 at all times. Don't switch out your wp7 sdcard till you are actually back in android just to be safe. Oh and backup your sdcard!!!!!!!!
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Though the information is greatly appreciated, why did you post this here? This is a test forum created to see how the site would react to adding sub-forums when the new forum layout project is started on Saturday.
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Mark.

If for any reason your sd card becomes corrupt just use this program: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml

lol, hard lesson but it was obviously worth it as you wont be stupid enough to do something like that again, especially when it clearly states in read-me that card is partitioned etc.

Thank you for this post, I was not aware that something like this can happen, and now I'll take precautions so it wont happen to me.

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lol, hard lesson but it was obviously worth it as you wont be stupid enough to do something like that again, especially when it clearly states in read-me that card is partitioned etc.
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Did you actually read the second paragraph????? Yes I read the read-me. That's how I knew to use a spare sdcard. Plus the read me states that the card will be reformatted upon first boot and if removed the phone will lose all userdata. Had nothing to do with stupidity. Has to do with a pregnant wife needing my attention and me letting go of the power button to soon. Stuff happens.
Now to be more helpful than negative......unlike the athiest with his stellar "I don't believe in God, but I sure think I am a God of android" bad attitude.
The sdcard wasn't reformatted. It was showing as being damaged. I was able to find a simple, free data recovery program that was able to recover most of the card.
I see this may happen often because after using wp7 you may be in a haste to flash back to android (wp7 is just sad IMO). Just wait till you are booted into android just to be safe. Also while fixing my mess up yesterday I stumbled on another problem.
Recently read a post about partitioning the sdcard for optimum use when ram builds came out. System -ext. for data and another for cache. I picked up this sdcard off the desk after finding my main card had been damaged. Then did a task 29, flashed magdlr, and Mdj's gingerbread. Inserted the sdcard and did first boot. To my surprise I had all of my apps pre loaded and I hadn't logged into Google yet so I knew it wasn't Google data backup that loaded my apps. So I went into root explorer and saw the ext. and then realized which sdcard I had slid in. There for a second I thought "WOW me and mdj have the exact same apps". Blah blah reformatted card and reflashed gingerbread. Done.
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Thank you....srry for the mix up.
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Mark.
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Myself, and a few others, have manged to reformat the SD card in a single button press by puttinf it into a digital camera and using the format option. It shows the card as 200mb but after the lighting quick format reads the correct size...voila.

Thanks...good to know. I will try it today. It took 8 hrs. for that application to fix my sdcard so that the computer could read it. Though my phone still wont read it. Out of 3700 pics I recovered 98% of them, all of my work files and android apps. Got real lucky. Took another hour after that for the computer to copy them to another 16gb card. Made for a long night. Now when I get home I can reformat the bad card and use as backup.
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I´ve repaired a lot Sd cards, usb-sticks.... making a low-level format with this tool:
http://hddguru.com/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
The only care you have to have is not to format your hd

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I´ve repaired a lot Sd cards, usb-sticks.... making a low-level format with this tool:
http://hddguru.com/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
The only care you have to have is not to format your hd
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Do you have any suggestions for a good data recovery application. The one I used was free and easy to use but cost me about 4 he's of sleep. I know a lot of ppl experience sdcard corruption frequently maybe we can get it into a sticky that ppl will find before they reformat. I did not know till last night that it was possible to recover drives this way. I almost erased all of my families Christmas pics. PREGNANT wives don't like that kind of news. OF COURSE THE BEST WAY IS TO BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
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Where is the wp7 Rom
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Its on the table by the remote control!!!
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Where is the wp7 Rom
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okay, i've tried using minitools partition to try and delete the 200mb partition and then recreate the entire 16gb that is my microsd as well as sdformatter with full (erase as well as overwrite) with size adjustment on but the problem is that i can only see one partition, the 200mb partition, i can't even see the the second partition or whatever that wp7 created. I even tried doing the low-level-format but it's still stuck at 200mb!
anyone have any other solutions?
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figured it out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10719128&postcount=6

vinbomb said:
okay, i've tried using minitools partition to try and delete the 200mb partition and then recreate the entire 16gb that is my microsd as well as sdformatter with full (erase as well as overwrite) with size adjustment on but the problem is that i can only see one partition, the 200mb partition, i can't even see the the second partition or whatever that wp7 created. I even tried doing the low-level-format but it's still stuck at 200mb!
anyone have any other solutions?
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Just download and install SD Formatter 3 on your pc, run the program and in the options change FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT to ON and leave it at QUICK FORMAT. Dont worry that it only shows the 200MB partition it will reformat your card and bring back its full size. It worked everytime for me.
Mark.

i tried that through android usb storage mode but it would keep on going back to 200mb. the only way that using sdformatter proved to be successful was to connect the microsd through magldr and not through android
thanks for the tip though!

google samsung sd formatter. Format as FAT32 with overwrite enabled. It fixed my bad card when i returned to android
By the way, you have to mount the card via MAGLDR as it wont mount in android (it is detected in windows this way)

vinbomb said:
i tried that through android usb storage mode but it would keep on going back to 200mb. the only way that using sdformatter proved to be successful was to connect the microsd through magldr and not through android
thanks for the tip though!
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have you bought the sd card from ebay? it might be fake. It happened to me too, bought a 32gb microsd, for about 20 euro, knew it was fake, but i just tried my luck. When the package arrived it got myself some brand new earrings, probably worth 2 bucks.

SD card issues ...

Well, I don't know what to do at this point besides unrooting and taking it to sprint.
I had no problems with my SD card when running miui. I switched to cm7 and the rom was working just finw until the SD card was no longer read. The gallery/music app would no longer find anything on the SD card...and my SD card apps were gone. Yet, the phone was able to read the SD card with a file explorer. I first thought it was a rom problem...but it doesn't seem like it. I already wiped and reflashed several other roms and I'm still having the same SD card issues. I have already reformatted the card and started from scratch ..with no luck. I've also done the SD card fix by calkun with no solution. Additionally ..I've tried other SD cards and still not able to have a read/write on my phone
What could be the problem here and what's a possible fix? I'm desperate for help and I've tried researching to find a solution..but nothing seems to work.
I would gladly appreciate some help

if you tried other roms, other cards, formatting and such. check your card in a pc, if flawless then you got yourself a hardware malfunctioning evo

Yup no problems with reading/writing from a PC
Its weird. Something very similar happened to my brother and he was like that for weeks ...and it magically fixed itself someday.
And I don't see why it would be a malfunctioning evo when I had no problems and it happened all of a sudden without any physical damage.
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dongator7 said:
Yup no problems with reading/writing from a PC
Its weird. Something very similar happened to my brother and he was like that for weeks ...and it magically fixed itself someday.
And I don't see why it would be a malfunctioning evo when I had no problems and it happened all of a sudden without any physical damage.
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Scan for errors on the card?

already did..and tried several sd cards
the problem is not the SD card(s) .. there's something wrong with the phone

Try wiping EVERYTHING twice and installing a ROOTED sprint ruu rom. This sometimes helps fix problems. I had a problem once with my vibrate function and had to do this to correct the problem. Worth a shot right?
ROOTED RUU

do you have a link to a most recent sprint ruu rooted rom?
edit: nvm you already included the link thanks

Update:
Stock Sprint Rooted RUU rom didn't fix it either
I don't know what to do at this point...

I have the same probelm with cm7. Once I started to use cm7 my SD card has been unable to read twice...to where I have to reformat the card in android.....the card is fine and reads fine in all Roms ....

I've already reformatted the card(s) in android as well..no luck.
I have no idea what the problem is..

Do you have tep? Try bringing it back to a Sprint store and see if they will replace it.

Check and blow some air on the microsd slot
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SD card in, phone won't boot

So yesterday I was trying to find a picture on my phone, but right before I clicked the gallery icon, the phone said "SD card suddenly disconnected" or something like that.
So I rebooted, which is what i usually do when I get a SD card error.
Now the phone won't boot with the SD card in. The computer shows the status bar on the top loading when I use a micro-sd adapter, but it will not respond and restart Explorer if I try to to right-click or access it.
I'd really like to get my pictures back at least.

I would try to put the sd card in another phone and try and see if it works. If it does, make a back up on your pc, then format your card. Then restore the back up.
Don't know if that would fix it but its worth a try.
Evo SHIFT

Yeah had similar thing happen other day. Phone popped up a little msg sayin "can't read sd card so popped it into comp copied to desktop reformatted card copied everything back all good
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Enraged21 said:
I would try to put the sd card in another phone and try and see if it works. If it does, make a back up on your pc, then format your card. Then restore the back up.
Don't know if that would fix it but its worth a try.
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+1 I would use SD Card Formatter . Works great, and it's free .

prboy1969 said:
+1 I would use SD Card Formatter . Works great, and it's free .
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Or, you know, just right click the drive and select format.

linuxman008 said:
Or, you know, just right click the drive and select format.
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Lol +1
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linuxman008 said:
Or, you know, just right click the drive and select format.
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Enraged21 said:
Originally Posted by linuxman008
Or, you know, just right click the drive and select format.
Lol +1
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Yes that works. But it also sometimes does not format the entire card . Such as in the case of an sd ext partitoned card.

Anyone know how to remove the partitions? Like get it back to the factory partitions?
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I guess this card is just going to get put away, the computer won't read it to format it, that's the problem.
If I try to right click the drive, it says not responding the Explorer crashes and restart.
I'm pretty sure I said that in the op.
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Did you try a different SD Card adapter?

prboy1969 said:
Did you try a different SD Card adapter?
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No. I did try it in another phone, an Evo. I did boot, but said the SD card was damaged and it needed to be formatted.
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I tried running chkdsk on it, it also froze up the cmd window.
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Well if you can get the SD Card to show in another phone. Place the SD Card into the other phone, boot into recovery and format it from there.

It won't mount or anything in the other phone.
I let the chkdsk run for a while, it finally said it cannot read RAW files.
I found a utility that is supposed to fix this error, I have yet to try it though.
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Well the card might actually be dead then. I would still try and see if you can format it some way. BUt from what your describing it might be done.

What rom were you using. I went throught 2 8gig card recently because of this in a really short span of time. I think it might have to do with the card getting partitioned in a way where part of the card isn't readily read anymore
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I'm using an old Rom. It's nfx stock v2.0.
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SD Card Won't Mount (CM7.2)

Hi. I am running Cyanogenmod 7.2 stable on my Evo Shift.
A few days ago, out of nowhere my phone began displaying "SD card safe to remove, You can safely remove SD card." I removed the card, removed the battery, blew on the card old school NES style, but the issue remains whenever I reboot the phone. None of my apps that are on the sd card will work and I can't access anything on the card. Is there any way to fix this or at least recover the data off the card? I have not tried to access the card in a card reader on my PC yet.
Thanks in advance for any help regarding this issue.

Your SD card could be toast I've gone through a few of them running app 2 sd
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could try reformating it on your computer

+1 on trying to reformat your SD Card. You ca try SD Card Formatter. Works quite well. I've attached it below.

Although formatting your sd card will erase all your data, it may be the only way to make it usable again
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prboy1969 said:
+1 on trying to reformat your SD Card. You ca try SD Card Formatter. Works quite well. I've attached it below.
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What's wrong with formatting it in recovery?
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Turkbot, are you implying that App2SD is the cause of this? Should I avoid App2SD in the future? There's no way I could have all the apps I want on my phone without it or an alternative.
Everyone else, thanks for all the replies. I guess I will just reformat. Luckily I backed up fairly recently.

casper312 said:
Turkbot, are you implying that App2SD is the cause of this? Should I avoid App2SD in the future? There's no way I could have all the apps I want on my phone without it or an alternative.
Everyone else, thanks for all the replies. I guess I will just reformat. Luckily I backed up fairly recently.
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Well I tried to partition one of my 16 gig sd cards and it ****ed up in cwm and I had to throw it away but that doesn't happen very often
Edit: really? You can't cuss on here? What are we, like 12 years old now... That's lame
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I've been running a2sd of some kind for the past couple of years on different devices. From xdandroid for the tp1 (does that count? Everything is run from sd) to the moment, to the optimuss, to my shift. If not running a2sd, then running link2sd. I have yet to kill an sdcard, using the same sd on half of these devices. Can it kill an sdcard quicker? Yes. Will it? For some I'm sure but not everyone. It def. Will wear it out faster but for the most part, it should last longer than the device in my experience.
However on my lg I did have an issue with corruption and had to run a script every so often (unintended battery pulls were the biggest reason). If you google a2sd for the optimus s on androidcentral, I have that script posted to fix sd errors. If I find it ill post. May help your situtation, may not lol.
e2fsck -yf /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 is the script I used. Our mmcblk0p2 is different however. Hopefully someone can chime in with the correct location.
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sparksco said:
What's wrong with formatting it in recovery?
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Nothing. It's just that I prefer to use SD Formatter. I've run into an issue once or twice Formatting the SD Card in Recovery.
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prboy1969 said:
Nothing. It's just that I prefer to use SD Formatter. I've run into an issue once or twice Formatting the SD Card in Recovery.
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I understand completely, one time I formated my sdcard and I never thought I would get it to mount again until I popped it in a card reader and put some stuff on it. Seems like blank sdcards don't like to mount sometimes.
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