About a year ago I moved from KK to LP using the directions in one of the XDA forums, and have G900VVRU2BPB1 on my rooted Verizon phone. It has been working great. But recently, I have been having issues with the internal memory saying it is full, and indeed, using ES Explorer it shows my internal memory at 10.1 out of 10.52GB, even after I removed all unused programs and moved all photo, movie and music files off the internal memory to the SD card. The only thing I can think of doing now is a factory data reset, hoping to recover some space.
If I do this, do I have to worry about losing root, or will it just clean up files and caches as expected?
Does anyone have any other ideas? Should I move to MM?
Thanks in advance.
Frank in Michigan
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So, I've got a weird problem. Anything moved to my SD within the phone OS is deleted (or super hidden, non accessible), pretty much instantly. If I copy something over from internal storage it will be gone very quickly, it just disappears, no errors, just gone. I have not done a factory restore and would like to avoid if possible, but if needed I can easily do it. It is rooted on 4.4.2, pretty much the only thing I have done to it using root capabilities is to enable external SD card access through apps other than My Files. I know something I did there could easily have messed this up but I am stumped. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
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hi guys,
My stepson has a galaxy s4 i9500
he plays alot with it and has installed several roms after rooting the phone.
at some point he realized that after burning a new rom ha has almost no storage left on the phone itself. we tried to check the data visible during a usb connection but the total size doesn't even come near te 16GB. now he has no games or heavy apps installed and after running cleanmaster app he has 18mb free left. what can we do?
thanks alot
Michael
hokerme said:
hi guys,
My stepson has a galaxy s4 i9500
he plays alot with it and has installed several roms after rooting the phone.
at some point he realized that after burning a new rom ha has almost no storage left on the phone itself. we tried to check the data visible during a usb connection but the total size doesn't even come near te 16GB. now he has no games or heavy apps installed and after running cleanmaster app he has 18mb free left. what can we do?
thanks alot
Michael
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It's all your downloads and other stuff like that.
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thanks but this is not the case
LiL_Assassin said:
It's all your downloads and other stuff like that.
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As i said before we have just installed a new rom so there are almost no downloads at all.
i must say that im an IT specialist so i am familiar with storage folders downloads an temp files. obviously the problem is a bit mor sofisticated then that but thanks anyways
It doesn't work like that. 16gb is not one partition. It are multiple partitions. The rom itself (TW based) eat up a lot of storage. Together with a few apps it can become full easily. But maybe it's also possible that he didn't wipe properly before flashing a new rom and old files are still left.
So do a full wipe from the custom recovery and flash the rom again.
Installing a custom rom will not wipe the internal storage (unless you/he chose to do it when doing the standard wiping procedure).
So, even if he installed several roms, files usually still remain on the internal storage. Backups, rom zips, game data, etc.
Try this: Backup everything that is on the internal storage onto your pc and do a factory reset. See if it fixes anything. A factory reset wipes everything, including the internal storage.
You should also note that, even though Samsung advertised the phone as 16GB, it's actually only 9GB of usable space.
The rom partition takes about 2-3 GB. So that's a total of 12GB. Not 16, like Samsung says..
Hello,
I have a problem with internal memory in my phone
I moved all my stuff to SD card , photos files etc
also i moved all the Movable apps to the sd
But some apps can't be moves i don't know why "see attaches pic"
I tried Clean master , ES files and some apps but didn't help
Please help me
I attached some photos shows the files and the "can't be moved" apps
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You don't have a problem with the internal memory. You're simply encountering a normal occurrence, as not every app supports moving its data to the MicroSD card. Since your list of apps doesn't support being moved to the MicroSD the only way to clear storage is to uninstall the apps. You may of course try apps to SD card options, but I'm not sure how well they will work on Android 5.x.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
You don't have a problem with the internal memory. You're simply encountering a normal occurrence, as not every app supports moving its data to the MicroSD card. Since your list of apps doesn't support being moved to the MicroSD the only way to clear storage is to uninstall the apps. You may of course try apps to SD card options, but I'm not sure how well they will work on Android 5.x.
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thanks bro
even there's no way to force move this apps ?
i can't even make any update to my apps via store :crying:
To move the app data from internal storage would be to break the app itself. You don't want that.
Humor me here. Are you rooted, and are you using a custom recovery? If you are, which recovery?
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
To move the app data from internal storage would be to break the app itself. You don't want that.
Humor me here. Are you rooted, and are you using a custom recovery? If you are, which recovery?
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at the first place i want to restore my space back
yeah , my phone is rooted and am using omega v28 5.0.1 rom
with custom recovery , TWRP 2.8.7.0 touch recovery
I just wanted to make sure you weren't using Clockworkmod or Philz, as those are notorious for eating internal storage. If you want to restore the lost space, you have to uninstall the apps. It's either that or you learn to live with it until Android 6.0 custom ROMs are made available for your device. Android 6.0 allows you to merge internal and external storage so that Android sees the two as a single volume, and that definitely would eliminate your problem.
Oh dear oh dear
ok thanks bro any way , i will try to live with it
Until it happen
Is there anyway to make Google play download / update to the sd card not the internal ??
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Check your other thread on the topic. An answer was posted there.
Hi All
I have a Samsung i9505 and just moved to Resurrection Remix 5.6.2 ROM using marshmallow and am having issues with writing to the SD card with 3rd party apps.
I have used the ES Explorer fix and mount R/W and enabled root explorer however my 3rd party app still shows as read only. The app is doggcatcher. Whats odd I found an article to sort this problem out for Titanium backup and that worked fine. Also my camera picture and whatsapp all get saved to the SD card without issue.
In the end I have told doggcatcher to use my internal memory but that is quickly filling up.
I am tempted as the phone as 16GB internal memory, whether I should backup my files and choose the options where I can turn my 64gb external SD card as part of my internal memory as I never take out my SD card so that option might work for me but the reviews I am hearing are more negative than positive. I did try it out and went back to the traditional approach but thinking that maybe I didnt give it enough time.
I used FolderMount which was great on LL and recently purchase Link2SD to move files to the SD card but my internal memory still fills up. Currently foldermount isnt compatible with MM, link2SD is but I am having a few issues with it crashing and dont find it as easily to use as foldermount.
Any advice would be appreciated on what others have done.
Thanks
I don't know about anything else, but from what I heard is:
If you format as internal, you will have to do the whole "setup your sd card" step every time you flash a rom. Which is garbage, unless you stay on the same rom for like ever.
Dirty flashing a rom might skip that setup, as you don't lose the data/settingd etc. Problem is, you can't always dirty flash. Especially when changing roms altogether. PC's might not be able to read it either even if it is in your phone.
This is just what I gathered over the time, nothing from personal experience.
Umm interesting well I normally backup my phone nightly using both TB and nandroid backup so restoring to a new ROM as long as it doesn't format the whole CSR I should be OK or does it when you install the new ROM in which case my backups are no good unless I save them to the cloud like Dropbox or google drive?
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Hi All
I have a Samsung i9505 and just moved to Resurrection Remix 5.6.2 ROM using marshmallow and am having issues with writing to the SD card with 3rd party apps.
I have used the ES Explorer fix and mount R/W and enabled root explorer however my 3rd party app still shows as read only. The app is doggcatcher. Whats odd I found an article to sort this problem out for Titanium backup and that worked fine. Also my camera picture and whatsapp all get saved to the SD card without issue.
In the end I have told doggcatcher to use my internal memory but that is quickly filling up.
I am tempted as the phone as 16GB internal memory, whether I should backup my files and choose the options where I can turn my 64gb external SD card as part of my internal memory as I never take out my SD card so that option might work for me but the reviews I am hearing are more negative than positive. I did try it out and went back to the traditional approach but thinking that maybe I didnt give it enough time.
I used FolderMount which was great on LL and recently purchase Link2SD to move files to the SD card but my internal memory still fills up. Currently foldermount isnt compatible with MM, link2SD is but I am having a few issues with it crashing and dont find it as easily to use as foldermount.
Any advice would be appreciated on what others have done.
Thanks
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I've the Same problem!
hey guys
iam using my galaxy s4 for about 3 years now but i encounter a new problem for about a year ago... after rooting my device i started to use titanum backup and foldermount apps to improve my backup and my empty storage to bownload more apps... but after unlinking some apps from foldermount and deleting apps i started to notice that my ext sdcard is losing oculied space by the moved app but my internal storage is still the same... i unlinked all the apps and deleted them and i still lost aproxi about 5 to 6 gb of my internal storage.... i made a factory reset and deleted all the cashe and things starts to go normal... but after a while i started to download games and this time wihout foldermount app i still got the same problem... i used ex file explorer to determine how much space i got but i got 2.3 gb used on android folder...but the app and the system showed that iam using 6.2 gb..... i store nothing in my internal storage ... i linked titanum backup to ise my ext sdcard and offline youtube videos also ... please help because i realy dont inderstand whats going on.....
aorry for the long post and thanks ...
Are you using a custom recovery? If so, which one?
A factory reset will definitely resolve the problem, if nothing else works.