My Defy is once again throwing "Low on space, phone storage is getting low" error messages. When I view the list of all applications and their storage usage, the bottom of the screen displays 1.26GB used, 5.1MB free. However, if I scroll down the list and add up all of the storage being reported by the system for each app, the total is only about 191MB (I don't have a lot of apps). So, is there some type of internal storage memory leak somewhere?
I've been happily running a nightly CM7.2 build from April, and I haven't installed a new app in months. The last time this error happened, I eventually had to do a factory restore and reinstall everything to fix the internal storage limit. And after restoring all my apps and settings, the total internal storage used by the new build was less than 200MB.
Anyway, I'm throwing this out there for suggestions prior to rebuilding everything, again. I already tried wiping caches and updating to the lastest 7.2 nightly, but I'm still getting the error.
I ended up doing a factory reset and reinstallling apps from backup, but would still welcome suggestions for the next time this happens. I wasn't able to try SDMaid, because even after freeing up 130MB of internal storage, the installation would fail with an insufficient storage error . However, I did install SDMaid on the new build, so now I'm ready.
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So I had my S4 (i9500) on Omega v10. I wanted to install a game but it wouldn't install saying there wasn't enough space. After checking the storage I found something weird happening. The phones internal showed 500mb available. From which Applications took 5GB and Misc took 2GB.... so i deleted all files under 2GB. It still showed device has 500mb left so i wiped caches etc to see if the number updates. no go.
So I full wiped and stuff from recovery and flashed Omega v11 hoping it would fix it. But to my surprise the internal has 8.90GB available (which I understand is normal) and then 4.90GB free....
Well then wheres the other 4gb? I looked at all folders through root explorer to see anything unusual but nope. System folder is about 2gb and internal sd after wipte is 3.90gb... I am at a dead end. What do I do?
Figured it out, seems like clockworkmod recovery was the culprit. It was backing up to internal sd card too. Those who have a similar issue check the files at /mnt/shell/~
Hello!
I have a major problem and I really hope you will be able to help me.
For the past several months, I've been using ParanoidAndroid (4.4.2.). Everything was great. I was using the version that had a lot of tweaks added. I used Paranoid OTA to update to versions with tweaks. Last update (04/06) had removed tweaks and the ROM had started to randomly close apps, desktop and glitching all together.
Seeing this, I decide to re-flash. So I go through the regular checklist. Launch Titanium Backup to backup all the apps that are necessary for me. Whilst backuping an app, the rom glitches and closes Titanium and starts randomly closing the desktop so the rom is not usable. I restart.
After the restart I see that all my files have disappeared from the internal storage and I see that there is 25GB of free space (I know that I have about 1GB free). I do not panic and connect the phone to the PC and it also shows that internal memory is empty. I reboot to TWRP file manager which shows original folders but no content. I get worried.
I decide to just go ahead and flash CloudyStock. I know that there is 1GB free, ROM is 1.8GB. When copying to phone, transfer freezes after about half. This tells me that files are on my phone but for some reason are not accessible. So I download the AOKP ROM which is smaller, put it on my internal storage and go through the normal flashing process.
The problem now is that this got me to a bootloop stage and the only things I can enter is "Factory Hard Reset" and "Download mode".
If I use the Factory Hard Reset, it will wipe the internal storage and my files will be lost forever. And with the Download mode I can return to full stock but it will also wipe the internal storage.
In short: ROM glitched, can't see or access my files, flashed ROM, stuck in a bootloop, internal storage is almost full but PC shows that it is empty. I cannot get into TWRP.
Is there anyway to get all the data from internal storage safely to my computer so I can go ahead with the flash to stock?
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.
Dears,
I just bought my S5, suddently unpgraded to Lollipop.
Briefly, I can install 50% of the apps I had before, it's going out of storage.
I did a full wipe after upgrade, so there's no wasted space in the storage.
I couldn't find a partitions scheme, some I'm here to ask if this numbers are normal:
There's a lot of data in the cache, I need to frequently wipe it.
But overall, tapping used space I see in detail 7.5GB of applications, while going to application manager and summing all applications' size I arrive to 3.4GB only: it seems there's 4GB lost somewhere:
Anybody noticed the same?
Where can I check partition sizes for the S5?
Thanks everybody and best regards.
Factory reset after upgrading to Lollipop, KK leaves rubbish files behind and cause more problems than just lack of storage
Also remember now with LP, it uses ART instead of DALVIK, which means app sizes will be bigger
Well, I've been doing it, same problem after several days.
Also, I actually have 350MB of cache, 800MB free, but of I don't clear the cache I can install nothing, Play returns not enough free space...
Possible it partitioned 4GB for "private mode" I forgot to disable it when I rooted and now everything is showing I only have 12GB and trying to find out how to recover that partition and add it back to the internal storage partition currently. Try turning "private mode" on and see if your storage page shows a chunk of space used for that
Hi there,
i'm having some trouble with my S4, i9505.
I installed Resurrection Remix last weekend, and it hasn't been stable ever since. (cm-Resurrection_Remix_LP_v5.3.2-20150127)
In the beginning it would hold out for a few hours, but it started to reboot more and more frequently.
Finally, it would start to reboot, even whil rebooting into the recovery. Very annoying, and very hard to do anything.
I managed to restore to a nandroid backup from October 2014, but there's another problem.
I had installed that rom early in October It's Cyanogenmod 11.x.... Not sure exactly which version. I used the installer provided by cyanogenmod.org. That one has served me well for a long time, but lately I was having memory issues. I couldn't install new apps and even updating no longer works. I have >4GB free on my external SD, but installing apps to SD didn;t work. Moving apps to SD to make space was no go either. I kept getting "insufficient space" The operating system showed less than half the space on the internal memory was used. Lots of space left, but no space for apps apparently. ES file explorer doesn't think there's much space left on the internal SD. a few 100 MB max.
That's what tirgered moving to RR, but clearly that did'nt work well. I did a factory wipe from the recovery and cleared the cache.
What struck me is that the factory wipe isn't very thorough. Lots of data from apps was still accessible when Resurrection Remix was still behaving.
I tried to install cm-12-20150420-OPTIMIZED-FINAL-jflte.zip, but the installation quickly aborted saying it couldn't mount /system.
I managed to put my nandroid on the SD card and restored to the old situation, but the memory problems are still there.
In short, any idea what could be causing this behaviour?
and is there a way to do a complete and absolute wipe, so that any errors that may have accumulated over time will be erased?
I get the feeling that some link or redirection is wrong and the installs that I do get botched just a little bit.
Cheers,
Everything you are using is old and highly outdated.
1. Flash the latest TWRP from here:
http://teamw.in/devices/samsunggalaxys4internationalqualcomm.html
2.
Download the rom from my signature.
3.
Flash away and it will work fine.
Cool. Thanks. Will try that!
M
Hmmm. Didn't fix it.
OK. So I did that. ... As my phone thinks it's full, I had to do the install using terminal emulator.
Once that was done, it was smooth sailing.
Just started up again. But I only can get a few of the apps I used to have. I'm getting "device memory full" again.
I did the wipe function from twrp. Including wipe of Dalvik cache.
The "storage" item in settings says I have 397 mb available of 9.13gb, but visually the free space looks about 4 times larger than the .75 or so gb of data used by apps, etc.
Any ideas?
Menno
Mainow said:
OK. So I did that. ... As my phone thinks it's full, I had to do the install using terminal emulator.
Once that was done, it was smooth sailing.
Just started up again. But I only can get a few of the apps I used to have. I'm getting "device memory full" again.
I did the wipe function from twrp. Including wipe of Dalvik cache.
The "storage" item in settings says I have 397 mb available of 9.13gb, but visually the free space looks about 4 times larger than the .75 or so gb of data used by apps, etc.
Any ideas?
Menno
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The memory full mesages is displayed when your internal storage is full. TWRP never wipes your internal storage. Delete the files manually or in TWRP select advanced wipe and select /data partiton.
Lennyz1988 said:
The memory full mesages is displayed when your internal storage is full. TWRP never wipes your internal storage. Delete the files manually or in TWRP select advanced wipe and select /data partiton.
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Wow! thanks.
I went into TWRP and used the file manager.
Browsed around a bit and found a folder in /Data which belongs to Clockworkmod. The Cyanogenmod filemanager doesn't get there.
It basically had copies of all the nandroid backups I had made. with Clockworkmod. Not cool. I had made the backups to SD card, so apparently CWM forgot to delete these, or so.
Anyway, I deleted those folders and I'm back in business.
Cheers!
Issues after OtA
So..... just posting on my original thread. Hope someone is seeing this.
Last clean update went well... Apart from a few minor issues the wifi and bluetooth stability.
But since mid August my phone was nagging me about a new update being available. So I went for it finaly. Did OTA update 2 days ago.
Did not go well.
Gmail broken, Google Play crashing and bad wif stability.
Read around a bit on this forum.. Decided to do a clean install. MUCh better! :victory:
But... 2 issues remain...
1. my wifi doesn't seem to want to connect when I want it to. I always had issues with the wifi not connecting when the wifi strenght was not perfect, but since the August update, I can be standing right next to the AP and it's not connecting. My AP shows up right on top, and it just says saved. When I tap it and press connect, nothing happens. It does randomly connect every once in a while, for a couple of minutes... It works perfectly, great bandwitdh... and then nothing. It's not my AP. I'm posting from my laptop which has great connectivity. I put in the neighbour's wifi. Same thing.
2. How do I get rid of the Google search bar on top of the screen. Can't find it in the settings.
Oh. and when I switched over to cM12, I seem to have lost root access. How to get it bacK?
Cheers,
Menno