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[Q] Running out of memory

Has anybody else run into issue with running out of space ???
I just reset my razr M last week to factory because i kept having issue with memory running out. i reset it last week and only reinstalled what i had to deleted a bunch of crap as well as rooting it since i was taking it back to factoory and losing all my setup i figured id root it so i could reset again and not lose stuff but now today it says im out of memory again and clearing cache of a few apps (which is how i was fixing it before reset ) doesnt seem to be working the cache isnt full on anything and i cleared the ones that did have anything built up.....
Any ideas ?? it worked a week without problems and i have plenty of space on SD card if only i could move apps to sd card ???
Any help would be great

Rpatton said:
Has anybody else run into issue with running out of space ???
I just reset my razr M last week to factory because i kept having issue with memory running out. i reset it last week and only reinstalled what i had to deleted a bunch of crap as well as rooting it since i was taking it back to factoory and losing all my setup i figured id root it so i could reset again and not lose stuff but now today it says im out of memory again and clearing cache of a few apps (which is how i was fixing it before reset ) doesnt seem to be working the cache isnt full on anything and i cleared the ones that did have anything built up.....
Any ideas ?? it worked a week without problems and i have plenty of space on SD card if only i could move apps to sd card ???
Any help would be great
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Do a safe boot. Power up & hold the vol down key, once you see the first splash logo, all the way home.
But I think you need a RSD lite restore. LOOK around with a real browser. I posted a House of Moto link in the general forum. There is one "stock restore" in my stickys

FDR doesn't always clear all the data. Do like Avi said and do a complete restore. Also, the phone doesn't have a lot of memory, so get rid of any apps that you don't use. There's no point in having hundreds of apps if you never use them. I DL less than 20 apps on both my phones and most of them are for root functions and a few "useability" apps.

If you have any big games (like Gameloft and EA games for example), they sometimes use gigs and gigs of space so you don't even need very many apps to fill up your /data partition.
What I do is move the gigs of data off the /data partition and to physical sdcard using the Directory Bind app. You will need to be rooted to use the app.

Internal storage way more full than it should be?

Hey I have a weird issue with my internal storage lately and cant figure out what the issue is or find anything really online about it.
I have a Galaxy S5 with Android 5.0. The problem right now is, that im having way more internal storage occupied than it should. If im connecting my phone to the PC, it says that 2,04 GB are free from 11,6 GB (so around 9 should be full). This is ridiculous though, as currently I only have a few apps installed and some fotos. The weird thing also is, if I copy all the files to my computer, its only 101 MB ??!? When im looking in the storage menu, it says that 9 GB are from applications (also listing internal ones), but how can this be? Is there anyone having a fix or a link where this was already described maybe?

did you try emptying the cache?

FeuchtVonLipwig said:
Hey I have a weird issue with my internal storage lately and cant figure out what the issue is or find anything really online about it.
I have a Galaxy S5 with Android 5.0. The problem right now is, that im having way more internal storage occupied than it should. If im connecting my phone to the PC, it says that 2,04 GB are free from 11,6 GB (so around 9 should be full). This is ridiculous though, as currently I only have a few apps installed and some fotos. The weird thing also is, if I copy all the files to my computer, its only 101 MB ??!? When im looking in the storage menu, it says that 9 GB are from applications (also listing internal ones), but how can this be? Is there anyone having a fix or a link where this was already described maybe?
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If it says 9GB is taken from apps, then find out which ones are using up most of the room and remove them...
Android itself takes up a fair whack, along with touchwiz and bloatware cr4p

Okay I managed to remove some of the data from google services apps, like chrome and maps, but actually a phone restart after that freed a lot of internal storage again. I cant remember having this happen like that before.

FeuchtVonLipwig said:
Hey I have a weird issue with my internal storage lately and cant figure out what the issue is or find anything really online about it.
I have a Galaxy S5 with Android 5.0. The problem right now is, that im having way more internal storage occupied than it should. If im connecting my phone to the PC, it says that 2,04 GB are free from 11,6 GB (so around 9 should be full). This is ridiculous though, as currently I only have a few apps installed and some fotos. The weird thing also is, if I copy all the files to my computer, its only 101 MB ??!? When im looking in the storage menu, it says that 9 GB are from applications (also listing internal ones), but how can this be? Is there anyone having a fix or a link where this was already described maybe?
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You only can copy 101MB from your phone due to file name restrictions...the file path is too long somehwhere in the Android folder app data, use smart switch to backup and it'll backup all used space (idk about app data)

S5 on Cyanogen 13.0 Nightly Issue with Insufficient Storage

I'm having some issues with trying to figure out how to free up space on my S5. I recently had to encrypt the phone to keep getting school email and it erased everything, however I'd been having issues in the past with low data notifications even though my apps and files are only taking up 1-2 of 12 gb total.
I went through root access and I've gone through a few menus looking for large files and I can't find anything. At this point, I tried doing a factory reset back into cyanogen and that didn't erase those files either.
I'm really confused as to why this is happening and would appreciate any help. I stopped updating nightlys because my phone was stable enough for day to day use and I was happy with it.
Can anyone please help advise me on how to get back to baseline since factory reset didn't clear the space? Or point me to a few threads to try to figure it out. I've spent all day trying to figure this out and I'm getting nowhere.
Edit: Internal storage says 11.17 of 11.58 gb used. Apps are only taking up 888mb. I feel like android system files are taking up the rest due to some error, but I can't figure out what's doing it. Already did a factory reset and dalvik cash reset. I lost all my apps when the phone encrypted and it says there's insufficient storage to add any now even though they were there this morning.
Thanks so much!

I managed to clear out enough space to download DiskUsage and in /data I have files marked lost+found that are taking up about 10 gigs of space!
I tried to delete the files through the program since I've read that these are safe to delete, but I get an error message saying that the files don't exist.
So I made some progress, but I'm still stuck! Does anyone have any insight? It seems like there's a lot of corrupt data here for some reason.

Adoptive Storage on XT1575

Hello,
I have nothing something very interesting on my Moto X, but before that, a little story on my situation is in order. Almost a year ago, I had set up Adoptive Storage on my phone, because I liked the idea of having more app space (I wanted to install tons of games at the time). So, I set it up and continued to use my phone as normal. Fast forward to 5/16/2017. All the custom ROMs I had tried until that point didn't give me the performance I wanted. Apps would freeze, the phone would be choppy and laggy sporadically, etc etc. I was fed up with it, because, no matter what ROM I'd install, the same aforementioned issue would arise. My fed-up self decided to return to stock Marshmallow, so I followed the guide here, using the AutoFlashFirmwareScript section. Big mistake. It was too late. I had booted into my system, set everything up, and realized that my SD Card was giving an error saying that it isn't recognized by my phone. Of course it wouldn't, because I HAD SET IT UP AS INTERNAL! It would seem that all hope is lost....
However, I had just noticed something very peculiar. My phone was showing that it had 4.14 GB used out of 24.06 GB, but when I added up all the storage that each section took up (1.64 GB for apps, 24 KB for images, 8KB for videos, 40KB for audio, and 4.08 MB Other, as well as 21.5 MB Cached data), it didn't total the 4.14 GB that it was saying it was using. I also attached an image of what my file info looks like. Does this mean something?
I was reading this guide, and there seems to be a way to decrypt the External SD Card. Is this possible using a VM, since I don't have Linux on my computer?
Thanks in advance for any help!

You can only try to restore backup from google account(created before 5/16/2017).
Decrypt without key is impossible by home way.

dzidexx said:
You can only try to restore backup from google account(created before 5/16/2017).
Decrypt without key is impossible by home way.
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That wouldn't bring back the music I had.
Is there any way to get the key? Also, what do you mean by "impossible by home way"?

Maybe Israel can help - like with Iphone.
Find any firm "restoring digital data".

How to fix Samsung Galaxy On7 storage problem?

Hello, i'm new to the forums so i apologize if i shouldn't be posting this here, but i need help.
I have a Samsung Galaxy On7 with Android Marshmallow 6.0.1. I was happy with the phone and liked everything it had to offer me, except for one critical flaw that is driving me nuts: IT'S STORAGE.
I started downloading my apps so i could transfer them to my 16Gb SD card, which i happily bought for the purpose of this new phone... But little did i know that simple storaging concept changed with Android Marshmallow (before this phone i've only used Lollipop and KitKat). Apps weren't automatically being placed in the SD card. Fine, i could move them myself anyway, right? But it only transferred about 10 or 15 Mbs... Useless. My phone was struggling after installing WhatsApp and Messenger just because i couldn't move them from the phone storage, and 5 out of 8 Gbs of phone storage were occupied by bloatware. I could just root it and delete those, but i use more than 8 Gbs anyway so i considered that option meaningless.
I naturally did research on what options i had to fix this. Tutorials listed an option which "merges" your SD card and use it as internal storage. Now God knows why Samsung decided to get rid of that option, i simply don't have it.
I figured i could install a Nougat ROM but i never installed a ROM before, and the fact that i have a Samsung might mean the problem still persists after that, so maybe i could just downgrade to Lollipop and problem solved. I just need to hear from someone it's going to work before trying it myself.
If there are more options i'd be more than happy to listen to them, i'm at the point where i can't update apps anymore, while i have 16 Gigs unused...

that's the sad thing about this device. it's internal storage is not much and it got some bloatware. I just stayed on minimal user installed apps. Also moving an app to sd card is reducing the apps performance.

Actually there's a solution for the merging SD storage with Internal storage problem. Although Samsung has disabled it there's a patch here in the Forum to bypass that.
Here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/patch-adoptable-storage-enabler-t3460478
I used it on mine and worked just fine.
One more thing. I actually opted for two solutions: (1) root and uninstall bloatware and (2) apply the patch through TWRP and merge the storages.
Good luck.

Kyrohn said:
Actually there's a solution for the merging SD storage with Internal storage problem. Although Samsung has disabled it there's a patch here in the Forum to bypass that.
Here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/patch-adoptable-storage-enabler-t3460478
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I highly recommend not doing it. I have rooted my Samsung on7 (G600FY) only to use this resource but it didn't work.
I could install the patch through TWRP but there were no options on Settings -> Storage -> Format SD as Internal. Only Portable Format was available. Then, after some searches I could do it with Root Essentials App, it did the trick but still all my apps were getting installed in the internal memory (even I did migration to SD), also it kept showing Full Storage messages like before (even tough there was more than 29gb free after the "merge").
Back to 0.

So is this topic is useless? It doesnt work?
If everyone tried and it still failed, why not closing this topic?

I was having same problem with this device. But now I have fixed it!
Before storage was 97% and I have only 2 apps: Mozilla FireFox and Samsung Max VPN.
And my all other apps and games were in SD card.
But now I have 88% storage (just reduced a good amount)
Its simple just open Settings > Applications > Applications Manager
Now pick those apps which you don't use them anymore. Like Chrome, Google Photos, Samsung Internet, GDrive, etc.
Select on those app and click on 3 dot > select "Uninstall Updates".
When you do this, the app will be uninstalled and replaced by factory version of app which is lower in size.
Just do these to apps like GDrive, GPhotos because you can access them on web too.