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How can I get more internal storage?

I've moved all my apps th at I can to the SDCard but I'm still low on storage.
Nexus One running CM6 RC2

You can't "get more internal storage". Try deleting some stuff though to free up more space, your one and only solution

cymru said:
You can't "get more internal storage". Try deleting some stuff though to free up more space, your one and only solution
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Yea that's what I meant. Wasn't there something where you could move the dalvik cache to the SD card to free up lot of space?

Hmm yeah but moving the Cache to a slow Storage Card basically defeats the point of having cache.... Also I know a few people who have done it have ended up with unstable phones.
It would free up alot of space but its whether you wanna risk having to hardreset your phone if all goes tits up
Here is the Cyanogen How-To on moving the dalvik cache, im not sure how up to date it is though -->
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Dalvik-cache-relocation

google earth installed? at 20+mb maybe remove it (until it's able to be moved to SD card), you got maps anyway

jojoatt said:
google earth installed? at 20+mb maybe remove it (until it's able to be moved to SD card), you got maps anyway
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I got google earth on the SD card.

I found my web browser eating a ton of data that it stores. If you clear it fully, it frees up around 10mb or more, depending on how long since you did it last, but be careful. It's very possible to delete your bookmarks and other important data depending on how you delete it.

iVisionX01 said:
I got google earth on the SD card.
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Using Froyo's method? That moves like 4M of 20M for Google Earth.
If you want more space, you'll want to use the old apps2sd method, which moves EVERYTHING.

khaytsus said:
Using Froyo's method? That moves like 4M of 20M for Google Earth.
If you want more space, you'll want to use the old apps2sd method, which moves EVERYTHING.
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Oh I see. If I were to use the old method then tried restoring my apps would they automatically reinstall even if I wiped the ext2/3/4 partition?

Ota failed bc "not enough storage"

My friend tried to update his phone to gb, he said it downloaded and then it said not enough storage in his phone...does the update use the phones internal memory or sd card...any solutions? I feel a factory reset should work...he is completely stock
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Delete a few hundred apps.
But seriously, look at his storage usage. I guess it's possible he filled his 8 gb internal memory...just not sure how. Try moving items to his sd.
Edit: now that I think about it, it may be the other way around. He may need to move items to his internal memory from his sd. Either way, find the full storage and clear some space.

He probably has WAY too many apps

Thanks for the help guys, much appreciated - i'll relay the info to him hopefully it'll work out at the end
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[Q] Where did my app storage go?

I've run out of app storage space on my phone. Its given me a low storage space warning and wont let me install anything else until I remove something.
I use apps 2 sd pro which was the free app on amazon a long time ago. It is telling me that I have 39.04MB available out of 498.38MB total on my phone. I have moved every possible app that will let me to my sd card. The are 40 apps that are left on my phone though that can not be moved and are the standard things I always use and dont want to get rid of. Things like maps, market, music, flash, etc.
I've added up the size of all of the apps installed to the phone storage and it comes to about 162MB. How are 162MB's of apps taking up 498MB of space. Where did the other 336MB go?

kswis001 said:
I've run out of app storage space on my phone. Its given me a low storage space warning and wont let me install anything else until I remove something.
I use apps 2 sd pro which was the free app on amazon a long time ago. It is telling me that I have 39.04MB available out of 498.38MB total on my phone. I have moved every possible app that will let me to my sd card. The are 40 apps that are left on my phone though that can not be moved and are the standard things I always use and dont want to get rid of. Things like maps, market, music, flash, etc.
I've added up the size of all of the apps installed to the phone storage and it comes to about 162MB. How are 162MB's of apps taking up 498MB of space. Where did the other 336MB go?
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Epic will raise "Low memory" warning when phone has less then 50Mb of free memory.
Clearing the cache for some programs will make it go away.
Open Samsung program manager and it has all stats for available memory on the last two tabs.

The other 336 MB is the operating system and system apps.
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I thought the phone had 1GB of ROM though. And that about 500MB of it was for the OS, and the other 500MB was for apps. Is this not how it is? Is it only 500MB of ROM and I only get about 160MB for apps after the OS takes the rest of the space?

The Galaxy II has the 1G, we get 512MB.
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kennyglass123 said:
The Galaxy II has the 1G, we get 512MB.
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Kenny the epic has 1gb of rom 512 mb of ram. The SGSII has 16 gb rom and 1gb of ram.
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Op did u clear the apps cache? also is your phone rooted?
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musclehead84 said:
Kenny the epic has 1gb of rom 512 mb of ram. The SGSII has 16 gb rom and 1gb of ram.
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Acxcording to this it is 512 MB ROM and I only see 485MB listed in the applications storage.
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Samsung-Epic-4G_id4720
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If you are using a froyo rom, you can install an app called move2sd enabler, follow the instructions and it will make more apps able to be moved to the sd card, rescan with apps2sd and it will do the rest.

I wonder the same thing. I moved all my apps to the SD card using Titanium Backup,but still running low on space on the internal memory. So the question is what is taking up the memory? If you look at a app in Manage applications you see the storage breakdown. Total,Applications,Data,Cache, and their respective sizes. Here is the deal, you can move your applications to the sd card but the data stays on the internal memory. The data is all your preferences for the app like saves for a game or bookmarks in a browser,things like that. To find more room on internal memory find a cache cleaner in the market. Delete Pictures on your messaging they too are stored in internal memory. Hope this is helps

Mojonator said:
I wonder the same thing. I moved all my apps to the SD card using Titanium Backup,but still running low on space on the internal memory. So the question is what is taking up the memory? If you look at a app in Manage applications you see the storage breakdown. Total,Applications,Data,Cache, and their respective sizes. Here is the deal, you can move your applications to the sd card but the data stays on the internal memory. The data is all your preferences for the app like saves for a game or bookmarks in a browser,things like that. To find more room on internal memory find a cache cleaner in the market. Delete Pictures on your messaging they too are stored in internal memory. Hope this is helps
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There is no option to install apps on your sd card with Titanium. It only backs up a copy of your apps. You need to go into Settings>applications>manage applications and click on every app and move them to sd/usb storage that allows you (not greyed out).

Titanium has a batch option to move all apps2sd or internal memory.
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DaKillaWilla said:
Titanium has a batch option to move all apps2sd or internal memory.
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Thanks,
I didnt know about the batch option to move to apps2sd, i just did it one at a time.(long press on the app in Titanium brings up the option) Just remember don't put apps that use widgets on SDcard.

I would be careful using titanium to move apps to the sd card. Some apps just can't be moved to sd card, widget apps will break if not in internal memory, and a lot of system apps can't be moved from the system side of the rom. Titanium doesn't care it will move everything if you tell it to weather it breaks it or not. Just saying use care if using titanum to do this.
I'd start with settings, applications, manage, then the sd option at top. Move everything you can that way first before going to other options to move apps.
Also if you use a particular app often it will run faster if left in phone memory then off the sd card.

Use adb or terminal emulator and check /data/log for dmp files. I've had to clean up several times and did the trick.

DaKillaWilla said:
Titanium has a batch option to move all apps2sd or internal memory.
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Holy crap! I never scrolled down the list in batch operations. My bad...thank you sir!
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I thought I had a lot of apps...still haven't ran out of room on the epic. But I do have to say I don't have many games.

you can save some space by using the option in Titanium Backup to merge updates for system apps.

I have this same problem too. I deleted a lot of unused Apps and moved any others to SD. I do not have the option to clear cache from any App. I even deleted all my messages and entire call log and still says internal memory is full. When I add up all my Apps memory its less than 150MB. Its really annoying. Out of curioiousity what ROM is everybody with this promblem running?

BBlunts456 said:
I have this same problem too. I deleted a lot of unused Apps and moved any others to SD. I do not have the option to clear cache from any App. I even deleted all my messages and entire call log and still says internal memory is full. When I add up all my Apps memory its less than 150MB. Its really annoying. Out of curioiousity what ROM is everybody with this promblem running?
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check /data/log you may find some dump files that need to be deleted.

Internal Memory Issue

Hi,
Not a biggie, more a frustration that I don't understand.
Is this correct with regard Internal Memory.
Am I missing something
I can't see how I am using over 12gb of memory, I don't have video, music etc on the phone that I know of, Titanium is around 1 Gb which seems normal. CWM backup is around 500MB.
1. Is there a way to see what is using my memory?
2. What can I safely delete to free up memory if needed?
Many thanks as always.

oo03sjw said:
Hi,
Not a biggie, more a frustration that I don't understand.
Is this correct with regard Internal Memory.
Am I missing something
I can't see how I am using over 12gb of memory, I don't have video, music etc on the phone that I know of, Titanium is around 1 Gb which seems normal. CWM backup is around 500MB.
1. Is there a way to see what is using my memory?
2. What can I safely delete to free up memory if needed?
Many thanks as always.
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Have you checked the partitioning? I don't know how or why it would be altered, but there seems to be a discrepancy between the visual bar graph (which shows mostly gray = free space) and the actual space it reports to be available.

Try these:
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scream4cheese said:
Try these:
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Thanks for the quick replies,
My second picture was taken when I run Clean Master and shows that I only have 6% free.
I have run and posted the SD Maid, which shows I have only 700MB left.
The graph on my first pic 'the grey bit' shows loads of space. And adding up segments it totals about 4GB .so in theory I should have loads left.
The only issue is that I get low memory warnings when I creeps over 95% and I can't see what is using up the memory to clean/clear it.
Stumped

oo03sjw said:
Thanks for the quick replies,
My second picture was taken when I run Clean Master and shows that I only have 6% free.
I have run and posted the SD Maid, which shows I have only 700MB left.
The graph on my first pic 'the grey bit' shows loads of space. And adding up segments it totals about 4GB .so in theory I should have loads left.
The only issue is that I get low memory warnings when I creeps over 95% and I can't see what is using up the memory to clean/clear it.
Stumped
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Perhaps you can do a factory reset and see if the problem persists. Backup your important data first.
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scream4cheese said:
Perhaps you can do a factory reset and see if the problem persists. Backup your important data first.
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As much as I have been avoiding this I have wiped and factory reset and I am back to 10GB in use and 2ish available.
Still not convinced and still confused as to what is causing it.

Factory reset only deleted internal data. Try also wiping data from recovery. Backup your stuff first.

abaaaabbbb63 said:
Factory reset only deleted internal data. Try also wiping data from recovery. Backup your stuff first.
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I did wipe all and dalvic and that is what went down to 10GB.

Space usage on S7 Edge (Exynos)

Hi, I have a strange problem with my S7 Edge. It seems that my space is running low everytime and I keep deleting stuff to free up space for updates. Im sure my data is no more than 6GB. I know the usable storage for the 32gb version is 24gb. So why cannot access the rest of the storage?
Can anyone run an analyze and see how much storage usage they have on their internal storage?
Here is how mine looks like:

You need to show what is in "others" it is probably your data partition and it perhaps has big game files installed in there to be 20G in size. Do you use Gear VR? There are some huge downloads in that which end up in internal SD only, do you have a dual SIM version? If not, run a micro SD card, move your DCIM folder across and your camera app will typically auto-switch it's preferences to saving photos and videos to the "external" SD instead of internal.
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Have you tried clearing the cache from the settings , storage menu?

I did tried opening the Others- doesnt show anything useful. How can I browse the data partition? I always thought that the internal sd is the data partition. Ideas?
I'm using normal sim version with internal sd card already setup to store images in sd card.
I dont use gear VR. and when I analyze space the Apps and DCIM folder with all my data is around 7GB. I cannot seem to find what takes the rest of the storage - not with a meaningful software. When I browse my internal storage, it seems that the used space there is aroung 7-8GB, and thats all.

Yes, I do this often in order to allow Google updates. Otherwise it cannot update apps.