I was checking out my storage since im thinking about trying some Roms soon. My 16 GB of storage is just about maxed out...it shows that I have over 10 GB wrapped up in this misc file. I've opened the misc file and there's a ton of junk in there that I have no idea if i can delete or not. Here's a screen shot of my storage, I'd really like to get some space back...apps, music and such I can deal with the room they currently command but the misc file hogging 10 GB is a little much.
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I was checking out my storage since im thinking about trying some Roms soon. My 16 GB of storage is just about maxed out...it shows that I have over 10 GB wrapped up in this misc file. I've opened the misc file and there's a ton of junk in there that I have no idea if i can delete or not. Here's a screen shot of my storage, I'd really like to get some space back...apps, music and such I can deal with the room they currently command but the misc file hogging 10 GB is a little much.
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I use clean master and sd maid. try these to free up some space
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.sdm
I would recommend clean master as it is very useful and reliable.
I was able to free up some space by deleting files that I knew were safe to delete, craigslist, yahoo etc. I still have 6 GB wrappec up in these misc files. Does anyone else with rooted non custom ROM phone have this issue?
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nash2000 said:
I was able to free up some space by deleting files that I knew were safe to delete, craigslist, yahoo etc. I still have 6 GB wrappec up in these misc files. Does anyone else with rooted non custom ROM phone have this issue?
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Tap on the misc and it'll display a break down on the storage used. It's sorted from most to least. See what trading the most s and see if you can get rid of it.
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Tap on the misc and it'll display a break down on the storage used. It's sorted from most to least. See what trading the most s and see if you can get rid of it.
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Sorry, not sure what "trading the most s" means...maybe a typo?
I did tap misc and it does display a break down, this is where deleted the files ive done so far.
Download manager had like 3 GB, I deleted those. Craiglist had some files and, zedge had files and there was a yahoo file that I deleted. I don't even know what these files are but I figured if they're files from apps I've downloaded then I can see harm of deleting them. The rest of the files within the misc tab I'm not sure of...
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Damn spell corrector! It was supposed to be "taking" sounds like you have a lot of smaller files and folders, that makes it difficult. The total size taken isn't atypical though. I have a similar amount in misc.
Misc. Folder has your os in it which typically is around 6gb for the stock tw
no way around that but once it's cleaned up the best you'll see in that misc folder is around 6gb or so really the best way and only way to have multiple roms with safestrap and a 16gb phone is to have an ext SD card and have all your music and photos/videos stored on that
I have ALL my stuff on my extsd and I barely have enough room for two rom slots with only 2gb partitions each
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Misc does not have your os in it. Parts of it are in your data partition which misc is in too. It does have data associated with your apps though so you can't just delete anything. You could and it wouldn't hurt your device but you would lose any data, game saves, etc, of your apps
I was curious reading this and I've got 10 gigs in the misc file too. I've got a 32gb so I'm OK but that's annoying if only 6gb is the os.
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Looking in my Settings>Storage and Applications, I am being told I have 15gb of Apps. This can't be as I only have about 80apps installed.
Anyone have any idea about this.
Thanks.
Reboot and see what happens. Sure its not 15 gigabyte free?
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Reboot and see what happens. Sure its not 15 gigabyte free?
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Thanks for the suggestion but it is now 17.22gb used by Applications.
I suspect something is just filling up the space. I have a 32gb Iconia and a 32gb SD card.
After a bit more digging using DiskUsage App, it appears that in the /mnt/sdcard I have 17,779mb of System Data somehow!!
Any help much appreciated.
Something funky for sure, since even if all 16gb were free, it would of course be less than 16gb total. Out of box, the A500 has 12.5gb or so free, but 1gb can not be used due to Honeycomb's sucky memory management.
Hey guys, I just deleted a whole bunch of photos and videos (all saved to my desktop PC first) and my available storage space went from 4.8 GB to 8.48 GB, so only 2 GB short of the 11.50 GB total space which is great.
About the device memory, it says available space 1.61 GB. How much device memory does the phone come with and if I want to regain memory, how do I do that?
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Device Memory?
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You've already made a thread in the (correct) Q&A section, no need to make another here.
Device Memory?
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Lol, who cares, honestly? Noone answered and it went to page 2. In the time it took you to write your reply you could probably have made an attempt to answer my question. Everyone's a moderator..
Device memory is about 2gb. Its a seperate part where apps are stored, so if you want to regain memery there delete apps. But you will only gain about 400mb max and have no apps.
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Device memory is about 2gb. Its a seperate part where apps are stored, so if you want to regain memery there delete apps. But you will only gain about 400mb max and have no apps.
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Thanks matey. Ah, in that case, I'm fine with 1.61GB if I'm only down from 2GB. I was more curious than anything else.
So all apps get installed to the 2GB device memory only, and the USB storage is only for storing media right?
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So all apps get installed to the 2GB device memory only, and the USB storage is only for storing media right?
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No, lots of apps also store their data on SD.
Usb storage is external flashdrive if your using an usbOTG adapter.
The SgsII has mainly a 16Gb version although some have reported owning 32Gb versions. That comes down to about 1.8Gb for apps separate, and 11.5Gb for your data.
Some apps can be installed on the 11.5Gb partition. That mainly depends on the app itself.
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Usb storage is external flashdrive if your using an usbOTG adapter.
The SgsII has mainly a 16Gb version although some have reported owning 32Gb versions. That comes down to about 1.8Gb for apps separate, and 11.5Gb for your data.
Some apps can be installed on the 11.5Gb partition. That mainly depends on the app itself.
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Thats the thing, for what the partitioning table (PIT in Odin) is used.
On my phone:
aroung 500MB for the system
2GB for appdata
12.5GB for userdata
These are around 15GB, to be correct i must say 15GiB, because if you convert it to the normal space everyone is talking about, you will get 16GB.
(1GiB = 1,073GB)
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Thats the thing, for what the partitioning table (PIT in Odin) is used.
On my phone:
aroung 500MB for the system
2GB for appdata
12.5GB for userdata
These are around 15GB, to be correct i must say 15GiB, because if you convert it to the normal space everyone is talking about, you will get 16GB.
(1GiB = 1,073GB)
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Also I heard Samsung include the 1gb RAM as part of the 16gb storage ...
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Since the N4 lacks an SD card slot and isn't OTG supported. Is there anything we can delete in the system files to increase internal storage space?
If anyone has any ideas that won't cause the OS to crash or soft brick, I'm all for it because I literally load my phone with music until there's around +/- 200mb's left.
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Since the N4 lacks an SD card slot and isn't OTG supported. Is there anything we can delete in the system files to increase internal storage space?
If anyone has any ideas that won't cause the OS to crash or soft brick, I'm all for it because I literally load my phone with music until there's around +/- 200mb's left.
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Deleting stuff off /system won't do anything because it's not even the same partition as /data (and the /system partition is always the same size, you can't resize it to give that space to /data)
Also /data and /data/media are the same partition, so you would gain more space by deleting non-system apps and their cached data.
Far as music goes, you could resort to using Google Play Music and just stream most of it.
PS: You may have a bunch of cache and data files you don't need left from old applications, in which case I would backup everything you have in /data/media , back up your apps (perhaps with Titanium backup and such).
Then in recovery you can do "Format Data" (not wipe data, but format) as it will format even the /data/media section, giving you a clean slate (you don't need to wipe system or anything like that, when you boot back up it'll be like a fresh install), reinstall your apps (restore their data with titanium backup), and can then move over what you want.
Or you can just pick thru the /sdcard/android/data or /sdcard/data folder and delete folders for applications you know have been removed.
I usually go through the rom and delete live wallpapers and such also, not a huge save but I never use them so might as well get the little bit of space back
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I usually go through the rom and delete live wallpapers and such also, not a huge save but I never use them so might as well get the little bit of space back
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That stuff is usually in /system and will provide no space to /data, at best it just cuts down on the possible background tasks running.
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That stuff is usually in /system and will provide no space to /data, at best it just cuts down on the possible background tasks running.
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I thought it would cut down total ROM size though no? Thus leaving a little, if even marginal usable space. I remember on the HD2 making ROM sizes small as possible was the thing for maximum leftover space but I could easily be mistaken.
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I thought it would cut down total ROM size though no? Thus leaving a little, if even marginal usable space. I remember on the HD2 making ROM sizes small as possible was the thing for maximum leftover space but I could easily be mistaken.
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Nope, even on my old desire-z the /system partition is a set size. Shrinking the rom will just add space to the /system that is usually read only anyways and will not grant you usable space to the /data partition.
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Nope, even on my old desire-z the /system partition is a set size. Shrinking the rom will just add space to the /system that is usually read only anyways and will not grant you usable space to the /data partition.
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Ps: at least on the desire-z you could flash either a DZ or tmobile's G2 bootloader would repartition the system size smaller or larger (DZ one had larger system for sense roms) and no its not possible to customize your own partition sizes without breaking the whole phone.
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Just looked it up system on the nexus4 is a 840mb partition, cache is 560, rest goes to data.
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You can try turning some of your regular apps to system apps. You can do that from TB. But don't fill the system partition leave space not sure how much.then deleting cache and Dev to reoptimze.
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You can try turning some of your regular apps to system apps. You can do that from TB. But don't fill the system partition leave space not sure how much. then deleting cache and Dev to reoptimze.
Edit. Not all apps can be converted. And may misbehave. Make sure you do a full nandroid before converting any apps.
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You can try turning some of your regular apps to system apps. You can do that from TB. But don't fill the system partition leave space not sure how much.then deleting cache and Dev to reoptimze.
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This is true but there are not a lot of larger apps that play nice being system apps. The bulk of the apps space will still be saved to /data. Just as an FYI.
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My wife just got an M as a replacement for her old Rezound. She has had it for about three weeks and the phone is already telling her she is out of internal storage. However, when I look at her storage it appears that only her "Backup ASSISTANCE Plus" is full. It's unfortunately causing her phone to be worthless. Does anyone know how to fix this? Her phone is completely stock. Thanks in advance.
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My wife just got an M as a replacement for her old Rezound. She has had it for about three weeks and the phone is already telling her she is out of internal storage. However, when I look at her storage it appears that only her "Backup ASSISTANCE Plus" is full. It's unfortunately causing her phone to be worthless. Does anyone know how to fix this? Her phone is completely stock. Thanks in advance.
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couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
jco23 said:
couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
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Might also want to disable Backup Assistant in the Application Settings.
Also, clear the cache and make sure that no leftover OTA updates are stored.
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jco23 said:
couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
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Thanks for the feedback. I tried to disable it but it wouldn't let me. I'll take another look tonight. I don't want to do a hard reset unless I have to but if I can't disable it, I'll have no other choice.
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Conclusion. This phone sucks if you can't put apps on the SD. 8gb internal hard drive is really only 4 gigs.
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Conclusion. This phone sucks if you can't put apps on the SD. 8gb internal hard drive is really only 4 gigs.
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If you root, you can easily store apps on external. Also, internal is partitioned into 4gb halves. One for the the ROM and the other for media/etc. Personally, I don't understand how people fill that up so quickly. I use very few apps and all my media gets stored to my external SD. I'm still sitting at about 3.5GB available on my storage side.
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If you root, you can easily store apps on external. Also, internal is partitioned into 4gb halves. One for the the ROM and the other for media/etc. Personally, I don't understand how people fill that up so quickly. I use very few apps and all my media gets stored to my external SD. I'm still sitting at about 3.5GB available on my storage side.
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I understand it's portioned but I've never seen a phone require half of its internal storage. As for media, it's all going to her card. I guess if you use few apps your ok, but that's not the case with a 5 year. You shouldn't have to root for a phone to be functional with a relatively low amount of apps in use.
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Her phone....
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Her phone....
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I've got just over 100 apps. Also, a little more than 1 gig of my internal space is dedicated to music.
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I've got just over 100 apps. Also, a little more than 1 gig of my internal space is dedicated to music.
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How are you not having the same issue? Very interesting.
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Do you know if the phone was previously rooted? I know that nandroid backups get saved to internal storage if you don't specify and they will eat up the storage space quickly.
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Do you know if the phone was previously rooted? I know that nandroid backups get saved to internal storage if you don't specify and they will eat up the storage space quickly.
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It came straight from Verizon as a replacement phone so all I know is that it's a refurbished phone. I cleaned up the backup assistance so hopefully that will help. I have a theory that triggered the warning and loss of functionality. We'll see. If it pops back up, it's going back to Verizon.
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How are you not having the same issue? Very interesting.
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gaining root access allowed me to clear out all of the Verizon bloatware.
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gaining root access allowed me to clear out all of the Verizon bloatware.
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Makes sense since this phone is loaded with it. This is our first Motorola smartphone. Is that a Motorola issue with excess bloat? I know all phones have it but this seems like a lot considering the limited amount of internal memory.
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Makes sense since this phone is loaded with it. This is our first Motorola smartphone. Is that a Motorola issue with excess bloat? I know all phones have it but this seems like a lot considering the limited amount of internal memory.
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bloat is an issue with all Verizon android phones (the bloat helps bring down the costs on the device).
one of the drawbacks to this device is the lack of internal memory. however, the bigger drawback is in the OS that prevents folks from moving apps to their SD Card.
but once I rooted, and installed a "clean ROM", I got a lot more space.
with your wife's phone, I suspect she has the latest OTA baseband (check the phone settings, if the baseband is prior to May 2013, then you are in luck - DO NOT ACCEPT the UPDATE). if the baseband reads May 2013, then your only option is to gain root access and freeze/delete the bloatware.
if space is an issue, I highly recommend to go this route. otherwise, start trimming some of the apps she never uses.
Hi all,
I've got a nexus 4 here, running paranoid android 3.9, and my storage is just not right, When I calculate the taken up space by stuff like music, apps, others I should have a bit over 3gb of free space. And my phone says I've got 1gb. Any idea of what might be the problem?
I'll post a snapshot tomorrow when I get to the computer, for some reason it doesn't wanna post it from a phone.
Thanks!
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Hi all,
I've got a nexus 4 here, running paranoid android 3.9, and my storage is just not right, When I calculate the taken up space by stuff like music, apps, others I should have a bit over 3gb of free space. And my phone says I've got 1gb. Any idea of what might be the problem?
I'll post a snapshot tomorrow when I get to the computer, for some reason it doesn't wanna post it from a phone.
Thanks!
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Use the app Disk Usage: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
When you use it, make sure you click /data not just sdcard because /data directory is more accurate for checking storage
Thanks,
CWM backups take a bit more space then the ones on my old phone, where they would be around 500mb and on my nexus is around 2gb
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