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Why can't I use my full internal storage?

So I noticed that when I go to the storage options it says there is 28-29 gigs worth of miscellaneous files when I know for a fact that my internal storage does not have that much on it. I have games installed but nothing more of 5 gigs. I tried running a new game and it said my storage is full but I can't figure out why? Any ideas?

Here's a picture. What I don't understand is why can't I use a larger partition for my internal storage ?

Click on miscellaneous files and it should tell you what's using up your memory
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You are safestrapped aren't you... You CAN use all that memory... The settings/storage menu is just showing you how much memory you have left in the rom slot you are in right now... Use Root Explorer or whatever to see your actual free memory... It's still there... And yes.. Safestrap is supposed to work this way so you know when the slot partition you are in is getting full.

Well that's the problem. I click on misc files and it doesn't show. The highest one in there is 1.3 gigs then it goes down to ~50mb. I added up them all under misc and it's less than 3 gigs, which is why I don't understand why it says 28? It's causing me to not be able to install certain games >.>

Logan3824 said:
Well that's the problem. I click on misc files and it doesn't show. The highest one in there is 1.3 gigs then it goes down to ~50mb. I added up them all under misc and it's less than 3 gigs, which is why I don't understand why it says 28? It's causing me to not be able to install certain games >.>
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You need to set the rom as the main. If you put it in one of the slots you will be limited to the storage space. Activate the main partition in safe strap. Delete the rom slot. And flash rom as normal on to the main slot.
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mrlaigle said:
You need to set the rom as the main. If you put it in one of the slots you will be limited to the storage space. Activate the main partition in safe strap. Delete the rom slot. And flash rom as normal on to the main slot.
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This is the answer I needed. Thank you sir. I gave you thanks!:good:

b00mb00mchuck said:
You are safestrapped aren't you... You CAN use all that memory... The settings/storage menu is just showing you how much memory you have left in the rom slot you are in right now... Use Root Explorer or whatever to see your actual free memory... It's still there... And yes.. Safestrap is supposed to work this way so you know when the slot partition you are in is getting full.
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YES, this!!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
mrlaigle said:
You need to set the rom as the main. If you put it in one of the slots you will be limited to the storage space. Activate the main partition in safe strap. Delete the rom slot. And flash rom as normal on to the main slot.
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Logan3824 said:
This is the answer I needed. Thank you sir. I gave you thanks!:good:
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You don't need to do this and ideally you should leave the stock ROM slot stock.
Android just doesn't read storage right when you have safestrap. The only internal storage you loose when using safestrap is how big of a ROM slot partition you create. If you look at your internal storage through something like ES File Explorer, it'll see the true available size. Even though Android says it's full, it's not and your phone will allow you to use it.

Yes but ss reads memory correctly when done in the main slot.
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Just increases the chance of borking your device if something goes wrong with the stock slot... You could also just create a slot with a larger memory partition so you are still SAFEstrapped
Loading a custom rom in Stock slot goes against the whole purpose of why Safestrap was created.
It's a bummer when the stock slot goes bad and the phone won't even boot into download mode to use Odin and hack your way out of a tight spot.

Safe strap is sandboxed even the stock rom slot. Nothing you do it in can hard brick you. You can always Odin back.
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b00mb00mchuck said:
Just increases the chance of borking your device if something goes wrong with the stock slot... You could also just create a slot with a larger memory partition so you are still SAFEstrapped
Loading a custom rom in Stock slot goes against the whole purpose of why Safestrap was created.
It's a bummer when the stock slot goes bad and the phone won't even boot into download mode to use Odin and hack your way out of a tight spot.
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How can a ROM not booting affect the Download mode portion of the phone?
Since we have locked bootloaders and the ROM loads after the kernel that controls the hot keys combinations at boot, I don't get it and never heard of such a thing happening to anyone

Not enough internal space

I was wondering if I could get help or some insight regarding internal space with safe strap, I'm constantly running out of space and well it kinda sucks
Sorry I came from an unlocked note 2 and im not 100 % sure I understand safe strap so my apologies... Anyways is it possible to delete the original back up in my slot 1
From my understanding it is ment not to be touched but I think thats why I have no space I mean I'm constantly deleting text threads and apps now or is there a way to do like the SD swap that was able to be done on the note 2??
Or if you guys have any other ways of getting space I mean my biggest apps are like chrome and Google text to speech

Move your stock ROM to your pc and back it up there. That will clear up some space
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chriscw81 said:
Move your stock ROM to your pc and back it up there. That will clear up some space
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Not to sound like a total noob but would I have to re load that stock slot or what ?

asimoalex said:
Not to sound like a total noob but would I have to re load that stock slot or what ?
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Coming from another noob......I don't think you have to have a backup in your stock slot. I moved mine to my computer with no problems, I only have roms in slots 1 and 2. Also consider backing up titanium backup files to your pc too, that can be a big folder
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asimoalex said:
I was wondering if I could get help or some insight regarding internal space with safe strap, I'm constantly running out of space and well it kinda sucks
Sorry I came from an unlocked note 2 and im not 100 % sure I understand safe strap so my apologies... Anyways is it possible to delete the original back up in my slot 1
From my understanding it is ment not to be touched but I think thats why I have no space I mean I'm constantly deleting text threads and apps now or is there a way to do like the SD swap that was able to be done on the note 2??
Or if you guys have any other ways of getting space I mean my biggest apps are like chrome and Google text to speech
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I personally only use the stock slot for my daily driver rom. I just put the back up on my internal and it's there if I need it.
I will use slot one to test roms out but then delete the slot if I want and just keep using the stock slot. If you want to put a rom on stock side it's fine just wipe it clean first and remember to back up your stock rom.
This is how you will maintain proper storage.

Harleydroid said:
I personally only use the stock slot for my daily driver rom. I just put the back up on my internal and it's there if I need it.
I will use slot one to test roms out but then delete the slot if I want and just keep using the stock slot. If you want to put a rom on stock side it's fine just wipe it clean first and remember to back up your stock rom.
This is how you will maintain proper storage.
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So my stock rom is the OG rom when I first obtained root and my slot 1 is Hyperdrive can I delete the stock one? In place for Hyperdrive... Because that's how I have my phone atm and im gonna try and just titanium Strait to my pc never tried before but if that's do able I think this method would be easier see from what I've read everyone says not to touch the stock rom

asimoalex said:
So my stock rom is the OG rom when I first obtained root and my slot 1 is Hyperdrive can I delete the stock one? In place for Hyperdrive... Because that's how I have my phone atm and im gonna try and just titanium Strait to my pc never tried before but if that's do able I think this method would be easier see from what I've read everyone says not to touch the stock rom
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If you want the correct storage running on the stock slot is the only way. Like I said I backup my stock rom to internal so it's on my phone if I need it. Stock slot is kinda dangerous but if you have a really stable custom rom you should be okay. I've been flashing to stock slot since safestrap was released for the Note3.

Storage space internal

Hi all,
I just rooted today and got this Note 3 up and running. Coming from a Note 2. I am now getting a "storage space running out" notification. When I click on it says that my Misc files have 29.61GB of usage, however when I click on that-no folders stick out to me as having large file use? I have the stock ROM saved, as well as running BAJA in slot 1. Any suggestions on how to free up some space?

Don't use two roms with all your apps in both.
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Southern_mind said:
Don't use two roms with all your apps in both.
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Ok, thanks. Question is this, do I have to backup the current ROM I am using each time I move from slot to slot to maintain settings? or is it auto saved?

Found my answer to my above question however other than the bloat ware, I only had 3 apps that I downloaded on stock so something else has to be eating it.

LTLFTCer said:
Ok, thanks. Question is this, do I have to backup the current ROM I am using each time I move from slot to slot to maintain settings? or is it auto saved?
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if you moving the rom to a different slot a back up is best if you just loading a different slot no need for backup everything is the same as it was when you rebooted the phone its just like having more then one phone if you have more then one slot with a rom on it

started looking at moving my apps to the SD card, at least the ones I could and I only have 2GB of app taking space. And when clicking misc files, only 60MB or so of data is shown, so something huge is taking up internal space that I cannot see. I know BAJA is what, 1.7GB I think, could the stock ROM be taking up that much room?
And when plug it into the computer,it is showing 18.9GB free on internal????

Maybe trying doing a wipe and reinstall the ROM. With stock you should have about 22GB free out of the 32GB total. Sounds like something is glitched?

Maybe I got a bad download of Baja? I haven't tried to re download but everything worked except for this storage issue. I ended up wiping and sticking with stock root after wiping and reinstalling the Baja file I had didn't work again. Might just wait for 4.4 to come out and alliance to be released for the note 3 hopefully.

LTLFTCer said:
Maybe I got a bad download of Baja? I haven't tried to re download
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If it is a bad download and you didn't redownload then it won't fix anything...Why don't you redownload? It's only a little over 1GB and shouldn't take long.

Boot into recovery, create a new ROM slot. Increase the data partition size to the max(I believe its 4gb). Use this slot and flash ROM. Profit
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Novakingwai said:
If it is a bad download and you didn't redownload then it won't fix anything...Why don't you redownload? It's only a little over 1GB and shouldn't take long.
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Oh, I know, I don't have wifi at work and did everything I could without re-downloading at work. Sa the wipe and re-install of the old didn't fix it, so went back to the stock and set u y accounts and screens. Too lazy to do it again, lol.

[Q] increasing size of Safestrap slots

Pretty new to safestrap and the slot system. I don't really need too many slots other than stock and one extra one. Can I increase the size of slot #1 to have the remaining capacity of #2,3,4? Trying to maximize system rom size to the max for my favorite rom.
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Anyone?
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Size of Safestrap slots
I was wondering about this also because I keep getting warnings of running out of memory when I am in slot 1. Mind you, that this is my first rom and rooting experience on the Note 3, so the whole safestrap thing had its own learning curve. When I established my first slot, I just went with the default slot sizes and installed Hyperdrive 7 (which is an awesome ROM, I recommend using it and supporting the staff if you like it!). Anyway, after reinstalling most of my original apps and restoring my sms messages everything was running fine. After a few days of use, though, I started getting running out of memory errors and warnings recommending I delete my sms history. So, to make a short story long, I made the ROM slot too small. Here is how I corrected it ( I just did it and everything seems to be normal as of now.)
Create a full backup of your rom.
Create another rom slot with much larger memory
Once it is created, restore the backup (while in the new larger rom slot). The recent backup should show up.
Re boot into the new rom slot and verify everything is okay.
If you would like, go back and delete the old rom slot to free up phone memory.
I really hope this helps..Seems to be working fine for me. I will update if all hell breaks loose.
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Anyone?
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[Q] Left over files safestrap N900A

Hi so i had my note 3 rooted and i was flashing roms using safestrap and i deleted my stock rom and had to return it using odin 3 and now when i look on my memory i have some of it being taken up by a old rom slot i used to have that i forgot to delete before using odin is there a way to remove this rom slot files because its taking up 8 gigabytes though i do have a sd card but the rom slot is internal
any help appreciated

IssaA1 said:
Hi so i had my note 3 rooted and i was flashing roms using safestrap and i deleted my stock rom and had to return it using odin 3 and now when i look on my memory i have some of it being taken up by a old rom slot i used to have that i forgot to delete before using odin is there a way to remove this rom slot files because its taking up 8 gigabytes though i do have a sd card but the rom slot is internal
any help appreciated
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Look for the safestrap-related folder on your storage and rename it. If it is ok you can delete them later.