Hi
I removed an app from my phone
I connected my phone to my computer and checked if there are any left over files, and yes there are
I am trying to remove the app folder in Phone->Android->Data
It gives me this error: "cache_blablabla cannot be removed: the storage location is write protected. Remove the protection and try again"
Could I somehow get administrator permission so I can remove it?
denniserino said:
Hi
I removed an app from my phone
I connected my phone to my computer and checked if there are any left over files, and yes there are
I am trying to remove the app folder in Phone->Android->Data
It gives me this error: "cache_blablabla cannot be removed: the storage location is write protected. Remove the protection and try again"
Could I somehow get administrator permission so I can remove it?
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Any time you add or remove apps(especially apps in the system partition), you can boot the device into stock recovery mode and select the "wipe cache partition" option, then reboot. This is necessary because left over cached data from apps that are no longer there can cause conflicts with your device functioning properly.
When the device reboots, it will rebuild the cache as it needs and everything will work like it is supposed to.
This will wipe all cached data on your device, this does not remove your personal files or anything else important, it is not the same as factory reset, it only wipes the "live" data that the app has stored/loaded in the background while the device is on. Similar to clearing your RAM space on PC, it doesn't wipe the user data or any other data from your harddrive, it just dumps what is in your RAM.
One other thing, the Android/data folder is a necessary folder, that is where it stores app data for ALL of the apps that you installed. If you look inside that folder, you will see other folders, each of these other folders is a folder for each individual app that the phone is storing data for.
What you are actually probably looking for is how to remove that data that was associated to the app that you removed. That can be deleted using your phones file manager. Just open your file manager on your android device, select your internal storage. There you will see the Android folder, open it, then you will see all the folders for the individual apps. Find the folder there that is associated to the app that you removed. When you find it you can delete it from within your file manager app.
You don't need a PC, ADB or any other apps or fancy special tricks to delete folders that are stored within the Android/data folder.
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Droidriven said:
Any time you add or remove apps(especially apps in the system partition), you can boot the device into stock recovery mode and select the "wipe cache partition" option, then reboot. This is necessary because left over cached data from apps that are no longer there can cause conflicts with your device functioning properly.
When the device reboots, it will rebuild the cache as it needs and everything will work like it is supposed to.
This will wipe all cached data on your device, this does not remove your personal files or anything else important, it is not the same as factory reset, it only wipes the "live" data that the app has stored/loaded in the background while the device is on. Similar to clearing your RAM space on PC, it doesn't wipe the user data or any other data from your harddrive, it just dumps what is in your RAM.
One other thing, the Android/data folder is a necessary folder, that is where it stores app data for ALL of the apps that you installed. If you look inside that folder, you will see other folders, each of these other folders is a folder for each individual app that the phone is storing data for.
What you are actually probably looking for is how to remove that data that was associated to the app that you removed. That can be deleted using your phones file manager. Just open your file manager on your android device, select your internal storage. There you will see the Android folder, open it, then you will see all the folders for the individual apps. Find the folder there that is associated to the app that you removed. When you find it you can delete it from within your file manager app.
You don't need a PC, ADB or any other apps or fancy special tricks to delete folders that are stored within the Android/data folder.
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Wow, thank you a lot!
Can I do that without rooting my phone?
And I am doing it because there's an app that gives away something free, you can use it max. 5 times and then you have to purchase. So I thought it'd be a good idea to remove everything associated to that app what might makes it possible to give me the free stuff again, haha
Do you know if it's even possible by removing those files? And if it isn't, do you maybe know where I should be looking at?
denniserino said:
Wow, thank you a lot!
Can I do that without rooting my phone?
And I am doing it because there's an app that gives away something free, you can use it max. 5 times and then you have to purchase. So I thought it'd be a good idea to remove everything associated to that app what might makes it possible to give me the free stuff again, haha
Do you know if it's even possible by removing those files? And if it isn't, do you maybe know where I should be looking at?
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It is pointless for you to even try, the information that keeps track of how many times you've done it is probably stored online somewhere in some server for the developers/owners of the app.
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Requirements :
Xperia Arc [Rooted]*
Root Explorer
How :
First... Update all your standard programs in your phone, from Market [Example : Gmail, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Maps, Adobe Flash Player, Data Monitor & ...]
Download your important programs from Market [Example for me : Root Explorer, Adobe Reader, Bluetooth File Explorer, Advanced Task Killer, Facebook Messenger & ...]
Open "Root Explorer"
Go to "/data/app" folder.
Press Menu key, then press "Multi-select" Button.
Select all file (Programs).
Press "Copy" Button.
Now, Go to "/system/app" folder.
Press "Paste" Button.
For Now, delete old programs, if you new programs is paste this folder. [Example : COPY "com.google.android.apps.maps.apk" from "/data/app" to "/system/app". So DELETE "google maps.apk" (old file)]
Sync or Backup your personal data, if you have.
Factory Reset Device from Phone, with Erase Memory Card.
Finish!
Now you can see over 200-250 MB Free storage in Phone Memory! While your application is installed in internal memory!!!
* I think this trick is working for other Android Device (Rooted!).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1089470
I made a mistake doing this, I moved com.android.vending to a wrong place.
Can anybody tell me where it should be ?
Result ; no more Market ...
Cheers
ChefChaudart said:
I made a mistake doing this, I moved com.android.vending to a wrong place.
Can anybody tell me where it should be ?
Result ; no more Market ...
Cheers
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updated market (com.android.vending.apk for your case) should be inside /data/app
Sweet trick, as long as I don't update any apps in the future
If you update an app isn't just a case of moving it from data/app to system/app?
Does the factory reset do that much?
stu1978 said:
If you update an app isn't just a case of moving it from data/app to system/app?
Does the factory reset do that much?
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No, isn't...
Yes... If you do factory reset, all your app (changed app) is updated...
What does 'convert to system app' do in Titanium Backup?
Any advantage/space saving?
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or you can just use app2sd
gonemad02 said:
or you can just use app2sd
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If you like to slow your phone down..
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Lord Takyon said:
What does 'convert to system app' do in Titanium Backup?
Any advantage/space saving?
Sent from my Arc via subspace beacon.
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I tired that many times without success. I tired to convert the FB to a normal application ending up TB running for about 8 hours and my battery dead. After I booted up the phone, FB is neither here nor there and ended up restoring from backup!
Not sure it's only happening to me though .
stu1978 said:
If you update an app isn't just a case of moving it from data/app to system/app?
Does the factory reset do that much?
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I have just tried to move one app and it is working fine without factory reset.
Thanks allot for this excellent tip to save some space
I copied data from /data/app to /system/app, then uninstalled the app and rebooted device. The app is now a system app, not sure if it will work for all kinds of apps, will continue to move more of my apps to the /system/app folder.
One disadvantage could be that upgrading firmware also requires that all the systemized apps are reinstalled.
Im using the a2sd script + titanium backup's ability to freeze a background app/process then unfreeze them\it when I need it
very useful indeed
Does anyone know how to delete the windows.old folder as it's not needed but I've only managed to delete the user folder from within it?
Roland
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You need to take ownership of the folder and replace ownership of all subfolders and files. You then need to change permissions to give yourself full control and again replace ownership of subfolders. The reason its not deleting is because the files and folders will be protected with security rights. Its a real pain and you may need to do it by command line if right click does not work.
lumpaywk said:
You need to take ownership of the folder and replace ownership of all subfolders and files. You then need to change permissions to give yourself full control and again replace ownership of subfolders. The reason its not deleting is because the files and folders will be protected with security rights. Its a real pain and you may need to do it by command line if right click does not work.
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How do you do it via command line?
Roland
or a somewhat quicker way to do it is to use the cleanup tool, select sytem files, let it do its scan and it will let you delete all manor of crap windows uses
go to metro and search settings for "disk clean" click on free disk space
let it scan your windows drive, it shouldnt take too long, it will give you a list of normal crap you can delete, then click on the "clean up system files" button, let it scan your windows drive again, tick all the old guff you don't want including windows.old stuff and bobs your uncle
it might take a while as there is usually several gig, in my case it was over 200GB of data so give it a chance.
dazza9075 said:
or a somewhat quicker way to do it is to use the cleanup tool, select sytem files, let it do its scan and it will let you delete all manor of crap windows uses
go to metro and search settings for "disk clean" click on free disk space
let it scan your windows drive, it shouldnt take too long, it will give you a list of normal crap you can delete, then click on the "clean up system files" button, let it scan your windows drive again, tick all the old guff you don't want including windows.old stuff and bobs your uncle
it might take a while as there is usually several gig, in my case it was over 200GB of data so give it a chance.
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I tried the disk cleanup but it didn't list the windows. old folder.
Roland
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Rolandh said:
I tried the disk cleanup but it didn't list the windows. old folder.
Roland
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I don't think it was listed as windows.old. I think it was previous version of windows or something like that, its now vanished off my system so I assume that when its cleaned it goes away. Did you try deleting any of it manually as the first post said? if so perhaps that deletes some setup files needed for clean up tool to know its an old version of windows
just to be sure though, you did click on the "clean up system files" button once you initially ran the clean up tool? the first part of the clean up tool BEFORE you click that button only shows you user related rubbish, recycle bin etc
the other way of doing it as the first post said is to gain control of it, that is a pain to be honest and shouldn't need to be done
right click on the .old folder
properties
Security
advanced
change owner (this may appear different depending on which version of windows you use but what you want to do is change the owner, then find your user name and select it, and then apply those settings, if it says "select user / groups" and gives you an empty box, click advanced again, then click find, select your username)
Once you have done that you can the go back in to properties for that folder, go to security, and change permissions, by pushing the "edit" button, select your users and give full control to everyone
the taking ownership is the hard bit, once done your pretty much sorted
dazza9075 said:
I don't think it was listed as windows.old. I think it was previous version of windows or something like that, its now vanished off my system so I assume that when its cleaned it goes away. Did you try deleting any of it manually as the first post said? if so perhaps that deletes some setup files needed for clean up tool to know its an old version of windows
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I only managed to get the user folder to delete all the others won't delete. I'll give it another try and see.
Roland
dazza9075 said:
I don't think it was listed as windows.old. I think it was previous version of windows or something like that, its now vanished off my system so I assume that when its cleaned it goes away. Did you try deleting any of it manually as the first post said? if so perhaps that deletes some setup files needed for clean up tool to know its an old version of windows
just to be sure though, you did click on the "clean up system files" button once you initially ran the clean up tool? the first part of the clean up tool BEFORE you click that button only shows you user related rubbish, recycle bin etc
the other way of doing it as the first post said is to gain control of it, that is a pain to be honest and shouldn't need to be done
right click on the .old folder
properties
Security
advanced
change owner (this may appear different depending on which version of windows you use but what you want to do is change the owner, then find your user name and select it, and then apply those settings, if it says "select user / groups" and gives you an empty box, click advanced again, then click find, select your username)
Once you have done that you can the go back in to properties for that folder, go to security, and change permissions, by pushing the "edit" button, select your users and give full control to everyone
the taking ownership is the hard bit, once done your pretty much sorted
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Disk Cleanup has now sorted it and my Free HDD space has gone from 194GB to 201GB.
Roland
Rolandh said:
Disk Cleanup has now sorted it and my Free HDD space has gone from 194GB to 201GB.
Roland
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nice one, I saw you post about temp files etc, if you look at the clean up lists there's nothing that will give you big problems, id leave the thumbnail pics tho, itll just have to load them all up again anyway but all the temp stuff can go too
Hello everyone!
One of the main reasons i root my phone is to be able to delete useless files and folders in root's DATA folder.
Files and folders like LOGS, DALVIK CACHE (when i have uninstalled many applications and only with a specific "method" described in third post), ANR and TOMBSTONES can be deleted to save some storage space.
Do YOU know any other files or folders that are useless and can be safely deleted?
Do NOT delete Dalvik-Cache and Tomestones.
I don't have logs so that is safe to delete that and you can delete the files inside the ANR folder but not the whole thing.
If you want to remove unused Dalvik cache then get Titanium Backup and the key.
If you see .yuv files in the data folder then that is useless since that it created by the HDR mode by the camera by taking pictures with that mode.
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andyabc said:
Do NOT delete Dalvik-Cache and Tomestones.
I don't have logs so that is safe to delete that and you can delete the files inside the ANR folder but not the whole thing.
If you want to remove unused Dalvik cache then get Titanium Backup and the key.
If you see .yuv files in the data folder then that is useless since that it created by the HDR mode by the camera by taking pictures with that mode.
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Sorry about the dalvik files, i didnt make myself clear.
I only delete those when i have uninstalled many applications
What i do then is turn off the phone, turn it back on, delete all the dalvik files and quickly reboot.
Gonna edit the first post.
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quendil said:
Sorry about the dalvik files, i didnt make myself clear.
I only delete those when i have uninstalled many applications
What i do then is turn off the phone, turn it back on, delete all the dalvik files and quickly reboot.
Gonna edit the first post.
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That's what I do to my old phone.
Yes it is safe then.
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Navigating through my root tree, I´ve stumbled at so many bloatware files I just want to delete to save some storage space (16GB version here) but I´m a little afraid of. They are on the /System/App folder and for every .apk there´s a .odex file, so I would like to delete them both. Is it safe? Is there any verification process at boot of these files? Some of them look like really system apps that I´ll never touch, but others are for other phone carries in my country, social networks I´ve never heard before etc.
There´s another folder called /System/Apps/Bootup that I would love to delete files from, there´s a lot of LG crapware in there that I think are loaded at boot but I have the same fear of bootloops...
Any solution to my urge to free some memory?
Hi,
Delete some apps in /system/app not gonna free up your "sd card" storage... You always will have the same free amunt of memory available on your 16 Gb...
It's normal to have an .odex file under eachs system apps, your rom is odexed (search on Google if you don't know what is it).
You can delete some system apps but be careful at what apps you delete, make a backup first.
Some system apps are alright to delete along with the .odex ones too. There's a list in the general section I believe that lists off apps that can be deleted with no issue.
Problem is though unless you plan to store stuff in your system partition, deleting apps doesn't really increase your usable storage.
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Re,
Yes there is a (brief) list here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2456974&highlight=list or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2521066.
Like SupaSwag said when you delete an app, delete the .odex file too. If you don't know what you are doing I recommend you to leave the system apps as there are to avoid any kind of issues. At best you'll gain a little free RAM and maybe a little battery life without some apps runing/connecting to the network in background but in any case you will not gain more usable storage. At worst some function will not work at all, Force Closes, bootloop, etc...
In any case backup first (backup in recovery if something goes wrong and you encounter a bootloop) or at least a backup with an app like Titanium Backup (and make an uptade.zip in Titanium).
And what do you think of the apps in the bootup folder?
And then, how van I free some space for my mp3s? Coming from a S3 with a 64gb microSD card.
sylviofurtado said:
And what do you think of the apps in the bootup folder?
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It's some LG apps, the name of the apps say all: TaskManager, FileManager, etc... Nothing very important it's LG stuff but it depends of you... I deleted all the apps in the /system/apps/bootup because I don't need them with my use, but you?
I think the best is to freeze those apps with Titanium Backup, use your phone as "normal" for a few days and if you don't have any issues or if you realize that you don't need them, then delete them...
Another solution is to rename the apps you don't want with the .bak extension, in case you need an app you can rename it by removing the .bak extension, reboot and the app is here
I'm in need of updating certain apps to my phone but can't because of insufficient storage. How can I and what can I delete to create this much needed space without deleting my important things?
Try Clean Master.
You should post your questions in Q&A section btw.
marioc89 said:
I'm in need of updating certain apps to my phone but can't because of insufficient storage. How can I and what can I delete to create this much needed space without deleting my important things?
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Clear Cache files, Temporary files .
go to
/sdcard/DCIM
On DCIM turn on hidden items.
Now delete .tumbnails its more than 1GB file & its no uses.
Do you mean go to settings and the storage and click on cache and empty?
marioc89 said:
Do you mean go to settings and the storage and click on cache and empty?
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No, download ES FILE MANAGER from playstore and turn on hidden items the delete .tumbnails lacated at DCIM folder .
SCREEN SHOTS
But that's the thing. I can't download anything else because of insufficient storage. That's what I'm trying to clear up so I can download my updates at least.
OK. I downloaded it. Thought I wasn't going to be able to though. But, those thumbnails are pics that I want. Will I erase those too? What exactly is a thumbnail or what am I really erasing?
marioc89 said:
OK. I downloaded it. Thought I wasn't going to be able to though. But, those thumbnails are pics that I want. Will I erase those too? What exactly is a thumbnail or what am I really erasing?
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Thumbnail are not original image file they are made when you open gallery & other image explore the small image (thumbnails) are saved for next time open faster.
I was deleted many times , and i can't find important it.
OK.
Thanks for y'all's help thus far and I was able to download some updates for my apps. Is there anything else I can do to create more space right now without buying anything?
marioc89 said:
Thanks for y'all's help thus far and I was able to download some updates for my apps. Is there anything else I can do to create more space right now without buying anything?
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Clean cache with CCleaner or Clean Master, it will free up a few hundred MBs, you can do it regularly (twice a week or something)
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So, instead of downloading another app to clean, can es cleaner can do it since I already have it?