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Hi, can anyone help me? my internal memory is at about 20MB and i already moved my apps to my sd card, what can i do?

Please......

Try going into clockwork and wiping your cache.

Now I Have 26.5MB What Else can i do??

Clear cache on your browser um...dunno what else if I think of anything else I'll reply back
Also clear cache on market

wow i just got it to 40MB by deleting some data from facebook and some other apps. any other tips?

Other than deleting apps that's about it. You could move all your ringtones to the sd card. Since they're located on /system that should free up a little room, not much, but some.
EDIT: get Cache Cleaner from the market, it makes clearing all your caches a one click process.
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if you have the newest version of google maps, it stores a cache of maps on your phone so that you can access them offline/offnetwork. you can clear this and it may give you upwards of 40 mb back depending on maps usage.

If you're rooted, install Dark Tremor's Apps2SD - and then move all your apps back to internal memory. Why? Because it will move all your apps (except system apps) to an EXTn partition on your SD card, which the phone thinks is internal memory. Also, you can move your Dalvik cache to your SD card. I went from 20% free internal memory to 70% free almost instantly this way.

Can you do something like this on rooted phone??

BuckMulligan said:
If you're rooted, install Dark Tremor's Apps2SD - and then move all your apps back to internal memory. Why? Because it will move all your apps (except system apps) to an EXTn partition on your SD card, which the phone thinks is internal memory. Also, you can move your Dalvik cache to your SD card. I went from 20% free internal memory to 70% free almost instantly this way.
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vujkovicv said:
Can you do something like this on rooted phone??
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You just needed to look at the posting previous to yours to see the answer.

Removing Bloatware

Due to the fact that I can't directly reply to the thread that was created because I don't have enough posts, I'm posting here looking for an answer.
I followed the advice in this post. The only difference is that I used Super Manager instead of Root Explorer to delete the files from /system/app/.
Here is the odd part, after finishing I rebooted and when I powered back up and checked my available memory, it didn't change at all. Naturally I went back in with Super Manager and checked for the files and they are not there. I also looked with Astro File Manager and the files were not in /system/app/. I don't understand that if I deleted the files, why didn't my available memory increase? That is the whole reason I removed.
Thanks,

Why do you need more space in system folder?...
Go in data folder and check dalvick and data folders for leftovers.
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Removing the so-called "bloatware" won't free up app storage space.
The tablet uses different partitions to store different things. System applications are stored on a different partition than user-installed apps. They each have their own space, indepentantly of each other.

When I started this exercise in removing the "bloatware" from my S7, I had a little over 85 MB free from the 175 MB available. After removing the "bloatware" I didn't see a change. Over the weekend, I removed the battery from my S7 to check the version number. After starting the S7 again, I check the memory and I now have 101 MB free. The only change was to remove the "bloatware". After installing two more apps on the tablet and moving the .apk file to my Link2SD partition on the internal SD card, I now have 98.97 MB of available space.
For the other post about removing the cache, I just ran cachemate and now I have 105 MB of available space.
Removing the "bloatware" does have an effect on the available memory.
While I did restart my S7 after removing the "bloatware", I didn't remove the battery. I don't know what I had the difference, but by completely removing the battery I saw that I had more space available after removing the "bloatware".

Couldn't have been. All of the apps you deleted reside in /system/app. That's on a completely separate partition from /data.
/data is where apps you install from Market go. It's also the space listed under "Internal Tablet Storage".
/system is where the system core files (and any pre-bundled apps) reside. There is no way to see the space free/used without going into a root terminal and running "df -h"
There is no way deleting system applications freed any sort of space on your /data partition.
It would be like if you had two hard drives in your computer, labled C:\ and D:\. Why would deleting files from C:\ free space on D:\? It's the same concept.

Ok. I understand what you are saying. However, I'm just reporting what I see when I look under:
Internal Tablet Storage
Total Space = 175 MB
Available Space = 100 MB
After removing the .apk "bloatware" files from /system/apps the available space increased.

tedkitch said:
Ok. I understand what you are saying. However, I'm just reporting what I see when I look under:
Internal Tablet Storage
Total Space = 175 MB
Available Space = 100 MB
After removing the .apk "bloatware" files from /system/apps the available space increased.
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he's just being hostile and doesn't understand...
the bloatware resides in /system... now some of those files are Maps.apk which is an outdated version, and when you update it to the newest version from the market it installs to /data...
now...
it says it is updated, but we still have the outdated version which is still in /system taking up INTERNAL space. removing that apk from within /system and rebooting will add that much more space to your internal and the maps will still be installed because they are updated and installed to /data.
if you want to be so high and mighty, think before you talk.

also... data is installed internally, hence why we have the a2sd or links2sd method.

joenilan said:
it says it is updated, but we still have the outdated version which is still in /system taking up INTERNAL space. removing that apk from within /system and rebooting will add that much more space to your internal and the maps will still be installed because they are updated and installed to /data.
if you want to be so high and mighty, think before you talk.
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I think you need to think before you talk.
Space on /system is not (normally) accessible to the user to use for storage of any kind. It's reserved solely for the OS' system files to be stored.
I think this is where you all are getting confused. Yes, the entire storage (including the internal storage) is all on the same flash ROM chip. But, it's not all contiguous space. It's broken up into partitions, and changes you make to a single partition does not affect any of the other partitions.
I'm not TRYING to be hostile, and I understand more than you think I do. I understand the underlying Android OS' mounts, whereas it seems you do not.
If you had said "removing these apps keeps them from running and using up CPU cycles and ram" I wouldn't have an issue with it. But, saying they free up space for the user to install apps to is just plain wrong.

[Q] Is the dalvik cache mod worth it?

Right now, I have 109 mb free (16%) in /data. I also have 128 mb free of 146 mb available in /cache.
I applied the dalvik-cache to cache move through recovery and adb and then listed the results of the move:
221 mb (or so) free in /data. Awesome!
21 mb (or so) free in /cache. Not so awesome.
Here's my thinking:
1. Without this mod, I still have 109 mb free for app storage.
2. With this mod, I only have 21 mb left for the dalvik-cache, minus whatever else the system decides to put in there (those annoying Download.apks)
3. Even though it will report that I have 221 mb free after the mod, there is no way the dalvik-cache produced by those 221 mb of apps will be less than 21 mb.
4. Quite possibly, it will leave us with less app space as well as other problems, aka, the phone doesn't like it when the /cache partition is full and can't write anything else to it.
I did not reboot my phone, instead I deleted the dalvik-cache folder from /cache and deleted /data/dalvik-cache. I didn't want to go through the trouble of setting permissions for /cache.
So, is it worth it? It makes sense why HTC didn't increase the /cache partition as well as the /data one. It's not like they have us in mind when they roll out their new phones. I'm just wondering if this mod has reached the end of its rope, so to speak. Is there another directory we could move it to? Moving it to system seems the only possible option, but we would have to have the phone boot with /system as rw. Can we resize the cache partition? Seems rather dangerous. Bottom line: Is it worth it?

Anything downloaded into cache typically clears itself out. If you want to get more space on your cache, switch to an odex rom, will clear up a lot of space from dalvik. But 148 MB of cache is way overkill.
I want to look into modifying firerat's partition mod to work on our phones and move some of that huge unused system space to /data but I am horribly too busy at the moment to mess around

danaff37 said:
Anything downloaded into cache typically clears itself out. If you want to get more space on your cache, switch to an odex rom, will clear up a lot of space from dalvik. But 148 MB of cache is way overkill.
I want to look into modifying firerat's partition mod to work on our phones and move some of that huge unused system space to /data but I am horribly too busy at the moment to mess around
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Personally, I am okay with the amount of space given for apps. I just wanted to raise the question.
I am new to xda and so am not familiar with all the mods that have been implemented on other phones. When I had the Moment and was involved over at SDX, we were so busy fixing the Moment to make it usable that many mods were never implemented. It's amazing what is being done here at xda, and not to detract from the good folks at SDX, who I love, but it seems the sheer number of quality devs is staggering here. I think I'll be content being an end-user for a while and helping out where I can.
I'll look into firerat's partition mod and though I can't promise I'll be able to apply it here on the Shift, I'll give it a good go. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, danaff37

I sure do miss fireat's partition mod on the Hero. I have about 50mb left in data on my Shift. I've used a2sd before, but I prefer my apps to run off the phone memory.

I agree with ya. And it annoys me to see over 200 megs free on system, just sitting there!
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qngds said:
I sure do miss fireat's partition mod on the Hero. I have about 50mb left in data on my Shift. I've used a2sd before, but I prefer my apps to run off the phone memory.
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I'm running most of my larger apps off of the SD card and haven't had any issues.
I'd say give it a try and see what you think.
I'm also running a Class 10 card.
If you don't have one I suggest this one

[Q] how to clear system data?

so i had about 120mb free internal storage on my galaxy y. after installing a few apps that i was just trying out my internal storage reduced to 20mb. no problem i'll just delete them... but after deleting the apps internal storage was only 33mb. doing some investigation i saw the data/ system data was taking up about 110mb (using diskusage app). trying to figure out the problem i deleted all apps linked to sd-ext. the internal storage remained around 35mb. i've tried a variety of apps like sdmaid, systemcleanup, root cleaner, clean master etc but none helped with my problem. even after using these said cleaner apps and deleting them after internal was reduced to 15mb. i manually went through every single folder in /data checking size of files but nothing suspicious. but system data was now 122mb (seen to be growing every reboot) and the system data folder is not accessible with any root browser apps.
i was trying to figure out the problem so i made a cwm backup when phone was low in storage (15mb free, avg), so if bootloop i had a backup of phone when internal storage was full so i could continue troubleshooting. bootloop was inevitable.
the strangest thing now is after restoring the same said backup where internal storage was full and rebooting i saw internal storage was now 140mb. i got back all of my internal space but how? is it the system data shown in diskusage is filled with "ghost" like files. i read somewhere that android keep a little bit of data of every app ever installed, even after deleting.
my question is, is there a apk or script to clean system data.
i dont want to have to backup and restore every few days. cause this is what worked for me to regain my internal storage.
i hope u all understand what i'm saying. thanks in advance.

Partition size : how to change it?!

Hello, i see the cache partition is 1GB and almost empty while system partition struggle with free space (even though i delete lots of system apps, it should get more free space but doesn't.. Crazy); how do i change these?