Hi, new to the forum here. I recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy S5 (Exynos variant), and have been facing issues while trying to get games to run. I tried putting the data files of various games in Android/obb (the obb folder isnt there by default, i had to create it) and then installing the apk and running the games, they work fine until this point. But when i restart the phone the games dont work, i checked the obb folder and its empty but it still takes up space. i couldnt delete the game files from obb since they werent showing up in obb but were still taking space. i had to factory reset the phone.
So any ideas what might be causing this?
PS Im running an unrooted phone at 4.4.2
kronos865 said:
Hi, new to the forum here. I recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy S5 (Exynos variant), and have been facing issues while trying to get games to run. I tried putting the data files of various games in Android/obb (the obb folder isnt there by default, i had to create it) and then installing the apk and running the games, they work fine until this point. But when i restart the phone the games dont work, i checked the obb folder and its empty but it still takes up space. i couldnt delete the game files from obb since they werent showing up in obb but were still taking space. i had to factory reset the phone.
So any ideas what might be causing this?
PS Im running an unrooted phone at 4.4.2
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lol yeah so just updates my bootloader to v7 0.03.14-mul
thought i should make a new nandroid backup,
found last backup had backed-up all files to direct sd no in a clockworkmod folder?
so i proceeded to delete the doubles/backups of files i had sitting right next to eachother,
then bam, literally everything got deleted ....i dont know why.
now sometimes when i look from my pc i cant see the files on my sd card through my a500 even though when i click root explorer i can see the file are in fact there,
now also
when i click to play music i see loads of tracks i no longer have on the tab and the player just attempts to play them then moves on to the next.....?
i just checked without the sdcard inserted and the music tracks are still showing in google play with 0:00 next to them, ?
im worried these unusable tracks are taking up internal memory
ok i found out the unusable tracks were for some reason on the internal-sd not the external?....kinda weird i still dont know why my memory card killed itself its working now
Hi guys, im totally new to this
So i've found out that i have to transfer this file called ''obb'' files for most premium games like Modern Combat 4.. Asphalt 8 etc, and its really frustrating that i've tried so many many times, but i still cant do it. I even did it whilst watching a youtube guide on how to do it.
How do i transfer obb files to my phone?
Here's what i usually do, please tell me where did i go wrong and what i should do!
I download the file
I open it up, because its in a 'rar' format, i unzip all the obb files.. usually four or five or them
then after extracting them all, i put them into my SD card of my s4, and i put them into a folder called Obb..
but when i tried transferring the obb files to my phone, because i have already transferred the first part of the obb file into my phone, when i try to transfer the remaining files to my phone, it says something like that '' would you like to transfer this file? there is already a duplicate of it in your phone '' .. along that lines..
Good day, I have an S4(i9505) rooted w/ a stock google ROM.
I was moved files from the obb and to make the long story short the files in the obb folder went mssing but still seems to be taking up space.
I don't know what happened.
Any help is gladly appreciated.
Screenshot of my storage provided.
Hi guys..
just want to know what seems to be the problem with my phone.
i've installed GTA: SA this afternoon and played for about an hour.
and now when i wanted to play again it says that the downloading of the data/obb file of the game had failed, then i checked the obb folder on on my device the obb file is gone, so i decided to uninstall the game. when i checked on my storage it says that i have 5.27gb available space when it suppose to be 7gb+ because i uninstalled the game.
Where is the 2gb+ memory? how can i retrieve it without the option of doing a factory reset. Please help. Thank you
P.S. ~ i'm on Android Lollipop 5.0 flashed firmware from poland
Factory reset don't touch in the sdcard. Try a treesize or similar app on you card
Hello everyone,
I've searched endlessly on this topic with no luck. If there are any posts on XDA that relate to this issue, please do refer me to them.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone. A few days ago, I realize that the DCIM folder has disappeared from my gallery. I do not have a micro SD card installed, so the DCIM folder is on the device storage. I've tried using recovery software such as "Jihosoft Android Phone Recovery" and "Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android", but I get loads of connectivity issues. I've tried using them on another S4 where only Jihosoft's worked, yet there are loads of deleted photos that do not appear.
Anyway, I am not asking about how to use such software, I just want to know if there is any efficient and solid way of dealing with this issue. It really bugs me to have valuable photos disappearing in thin air. Please and thanks !
-Kevin
Is the folder present when browsing with a file explorer?
That is basically an essential folder. Even if you delete it, android will create it again. So it doesn't just disappear.
try and do as little as possible that will make the phone write to your internal memory aka downloads (apps should be ok as it's in a different partition). if you do you are possibly overwriting a photo making it impossible to recover. I tried an app called dumpster recycle a few years back, I was impressed at the time at what it could recover...
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.baloota.dumpster
Internal storage files can't be recovered due to something called trimming.
I don't know if this has changed with the recent android versions.
never thought about that, yes trim effectively formats deleted files...
I saw a guide on how to do it some time ago, so it is possible. But it seemed like you have to go through a lot of trouble for this.