I'm thinking about wiping my Nook since I can't get WiFisleep to work anymore. But what will happen to all my books and comics stored on the EMMC then? I'm running cyanogen 7 from the internal memory with no traces of BN(the first thing you get when you boot is a small cyanogen logo). Do I have to back all those files up?
If you wipe data and Dalvik you most likely lose those files (depending on where you have stored this files to save). I would suggest backing them up to your uSD to be safe for now.
skeeterpro said:
If you wipe data and Dalvik you most likely lose those files (depending on where you have stored this files to save). I would suggest backing them up to your uSD to be safe for now.
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Wiping Davlik will not delete those files. I wipe it every time I upgrade to a higher nightly. In fact, it is all that I wipe. The real question is will an update or reflash solve the problem? If it were me, I would flash an update using ROM Manager, wiping Davlik and including gaaps in the update. If that does not solve the issue I would then start from scratch since a system wipe will be needed. However, backing up the apps first using Titanium Backup (but not system settings) will get you back after the new flash.
pat is right, wipe Dalvik doesn't touch files but skeeter also right as wipe /data, everything most likely gone with the wind
votinh said:
pat is right, wipe Dalvik doesn't touch files but skeeter also right as wipe /data, everything most likely gone with the wind
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Wiping /data will indeed wipe all downloaded applications and their associated settings but I think the OP is referring to media files stored on the emmc partition and this will not be touched by a data, system or cache wipe, just like SD card contents won't be touched.
I store some basic media files on internal emmc making use of about 4GB spare capacity. This gets scanned as well as the stuff stored on SD.
I was wondering if someone could tell me a Cache Wipe actually removes from the device?
Is there any risk to doing it? (Can it break anything?)
thanks for your advice
Wipe cache&dalvick doesn´t break anythink All aps or internal memory is OK
Its recomended to do time after time
Cache in general is a temporary and quick access data used which are used by system and your apps. Temporary information(data) created or used by an app or a system is part of cache(recovery logs e.g.) partition. However if you do not have to, do not wipe the cache partition. It makes system and apps run faster by "anticipating" actions, like preloading images e.g. for your apps and more.
Don't worry, no risk at all.
It's just temporary files. No more harmful than deleting the Temp and temporary internet files folders on a Windows.
Hi all,
I'm experiencing a strange behaviour of my Note 3 (SM-N9005 - stock KK 4.4.2 - XXUFNG2 - not rooted). As you can see in the attached image, the cache size is 1,47 TB!!! Going deeper into this, I found out that it is related to three apps, each with more or less 500 GB of cache.
Two of them are user apps (Office suite and Amazon apps shop) and if I uninstall them the amount of cache is reduced of 1 TB, as expected. The last one is a system app, Google Newsstand, and I obviously can't delete it.
If I clean the cache via usual apps the amount of cache cleaned is "right": about 10-30 MB, no mention of strange TB-sized cache.
Yesterday I did a wipe cache partition, with no results at all.
So the questions are:
- why the amount of the cache is so ridiculously high? Maybe the internal SD card is broken?
- why are there two different values for the cache amount (second image)?
Suggestions are welcome.
Bye, Simon
It could be wrong reported cache that is attached to your account. Stop wonder if your device work normally. Have you tried to clean cache with internal setting (just press on cache then clean).
goodoane said:
It could be wrong reported cache that is attached to your account. Stop wonder if your device work normally. Have you tried to clean cache with internal setting (just press on cache then clean).
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Sure I did. The wiped amount of cache is about 10-30 MB, that huge gigasized cache remains completely untouched. Actually it seems to be invincible.
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powersimon said:
Hi all,
I'm experiencing a strange behaviour of my Note 3 (SM-N9005 - stock KK 4.4.2 - XXUFNG2 - not rooted). As you can see in the attached image, the cache size is 1,47 TB!!! Going deeper into this, I found out that it is related to three apps, each with more or less 500 GB of cache.
Two of them are user apps (Office suite and Amazon apps shop) and if I uninstall them the amount of cache is reduced of 1 TB, as expected. The last one is a system app, Google Newsstand, and I obviously can't delete it.
If I clean the cache via usual apps the amount of cache cleaned is "right": about 10-30 MB, no mention of strange TB-sized cache.
Yesterday I did a wipe cache partition, with no results at all.
So the questions are:
- why the amount of the cache is so ridiculously high? Maybe the internal SD card is broken?
- why are there two different values for the cache amount (second image)?
Suggestions are welcome.
Bye, Simon
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It's clearly incorrectly reported cache. No way in hell would our phones have 1TB of memory. If it did then daaaaaaamn.
If after you cleared the cache from Recovery, and used Clean Master to wipe the cache, and it still didn't work, flash stock.
Seeing as how the device only has a 32GB drive, logic clearly dictates this is just a glitch.
Ignore it. You have 12,44GB free.
ShadowLea said:
Seeing as how the device only has a 32GB drive, logic clearly dictates this is just a glitch.
Ignore it. You have 12,44GB free.
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Yes, this was obvious. I was asking if this issue could be related to a broken internal SD...
powersimon said:
Yes, this was obvious. I was asking if this issue could be related to a broken internal SD...
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Doubtful. It displays the original size and free size accurately. Same SD.
Try emptying the cache through Recovery.
(Shut down the device, press and hold volume up, home and power, let go on the Samsung logo, navigate with volume keys to Wipe Cache Partition, hit the home key to confirm, wait and navigate to reboot now. DON'T click home whilst on Factory Reset/Wipe Data.)
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Try emptying the cache through Recovery.
(Shut down the device, press and hold volume up, home and power, let go on the Samsung logo, navigate with volume keys to Wipe Cache Partition, hit the home key to confirm, wait and navigate to reboot now. DON'T click home whilst on Factory Reset/Wipe Data.)
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Already done, as I wrote.
Strangely, nothing changed. Now I'm waiting to completely factory-restore the device.
powersimon said:
Already done, as I wrote.
Strangely, nothing changed. Now I'm waiting to completely factory-restore the device.
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My mistake, thought you meant cleared the cache through settings.
If a reset doesn't work, you can always try reflashing the firmware.
I have experienced this once! It was from changing ROM(Jackaway to Stock or was it the other way around). I was bothered by how I had lesser free space when I had the same apps at that time.
It seems that the emulated path created a copy of everything in my internal memory like the obbs and stuff which were huge. Accidentally discovered it when pressing the back again and again in Solid Explorer. What I did was deleted it there. I lost my files but I had backup so everything was good.
In conclusion, delete the duplicated files in emulated or internal somewhere. Just backup and then manually delete it. And to be even cleaner, factory reset. Hope it helps.
PS. Mine was bigger about 2GB+ lol. Also when restoring, remove the sd card. I hate it when some apps go to sd when restoring. Lol
Hallo..
i have problems with installing some apps from Market. I have 5gb freespace internal and 11gb on SDcard.
i have tryed clear dalvik cache from recovery and system cache also from the recovery. tryed clear cache with "cache fixer" and from settings -> apps -> google play store -> clear data and cache, still no luck :-/
so any ideas ?
Perhaps this is already obvious for everybody but thought I'd share it anyway as I only realised/discovered this (after years of android and flashing).
I have the 32GB version of the S6 and usually have about 2 nandroid backups on my device, I noticed that the size of my compressed backups was about 2.6-3GB which is pretty damn big for this phone (in the past I always had phones with sd-cards so plenty of space and never really bothered with it). Checking out if I could delete some temp and unnecessart stuff I found out that by deleting app cache manually and using (in my case TWRP) to delete dalvik and cache I managed to get this down to 1.6GB! So that means ~2.5GB if you have 2 backups on your device (this is with the xtrestolite v1.5 rom btw).
My steps (from now on)?
( 0. Install DiskUsage to identify main culprits: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage )
1. Install App Cache Cleaner from the market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife.cache
2. Run app cache cleaner and delete cache from apps where desired (I found out that my browser and the playstore had about 1GB of cache combined, so I cleared all app cache)
3. Reboot to recovery (TWRP) and clear cache and dalvik cache in there (in my case there was about 2.5GB of cache files)
4. Make a nandroid backup
The only downside (afaik) is that the first boot takes quite a bit longer because it's rebuilding a lot of (dalvik cache) stuff. But for me that is just a small price to pay for the increased remaining size
Hope this is usefull to some others as well!
I used SD Maid app, the paid version, on my rooted Oneplus One to do the cleaning before nandroid backup. My S6 is still stock and unrooted.
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