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Hi there!
I use a G1 with Super E mod.
apps2ext with a 512 mb ext partion for that.
I have about 60 apps installed, all working well.
now i installed the new opera mini and the message "few storage" poped up..
I uninstalled it, but the message didn't disappear.
Then I look it up: only 5 mb left
I removed some other apps, but as suggested, this didn't free up much space (~,5 mb), because of apps2ext..
I cleared my cache using nandroid, but still the same..
What is using all my phone space?
can I clean that up somehow?
Thanks!
Cholera
As you wrote, you have apps to sd, so most likely the app are not stored on /data, but on /sd-ext/...
Cleaning /cache will not help you, because it's almost unused. The problem you might have is, that internal space on /data is filled up, so try to clear all the application caches, especially browser, market, ....
This should free up some amount of memory and you should be able to install Opera Mini.
i ran into this same problem a couple of days ago. it was a difference of method to get this error however. my phone crashed after trying to open an app and then corrupted alot of my apps so i had to uninstall and re-install. i then found it was telling me i had low space. i cleared all my caches and checked which apps were installed on my phone and which on SD. however the only comonality is the Opera Mobile app. i too installed it when i got this error too. can this be a coincidence or not?
market cache: 450kb
browser cache: 200kb
opera mini cahce: 0kb
gmail storage : 800 kb
news and weather: 28kb
downlolad manager: 250kb
deleted these, but still have 7,8 mb free space..
had a look at /data:
du ./data -h : 47mb used
I had a closer look at the stuff and found:
13.1M ./com.opera.browser/lib
even if i dont have opera mobile installed, i also found
925.5K ./com.opera.mini.android
which i currently use...
removed the com.opera.browser .. 20mb free...
additional apps that use much space here:
# du ./ -h |grep M
1.5M ./com.facebook.katana
1.7M ./com.rovio.angrybirds
1.0M ./com.android.providers.contacts/databases
3.0M ./com.adobe.reader
17.5M ./com.navigon.navigator
these are large, but ok..
and this one:
899.5K ./com.android.packageinstaller/files -> i delete the tmpCopy.apk
now i have a bit of a breath.. lets see what we can delete from the system
i created an sd-ext and lost about 250 mb of internal memory. what gives? also, i see no extra partitions anywhere and i dont know where my apps to sd are
v941726 said:
i created an sd-ext and lost about 250 mb of internal memory. what gives? also, i see no extra partitions anywhere and i dont know where my apps to sd are
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im not sure about the loss of space, however you will not see an ext partition using windows as it does not recognise it. with some file explorers you can pick it up if im right. otherwise you have to use linux on the sd card to see the partition. it cannot be done via the usb mount
I thought it might be something like that. i'm a windows guy. mcse. but i know zip about unix/linux. lol. it doesn't make sense though to presumably make a partition on the card and then it takes from your internal space. so I don't see the point of partitioning your card. hence, app2sd seems useless. I cannot find an explanation anywhere of how it works. also, I have an incredible, what the hell is that 8gb of memory for. no explanation anywhere. it just sits there free. what is it for if it can't be utilized?
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I thought it might be something like that. i'm a windows guy. mcse. but i know zip about unix/linux. lol. it doesn't make sense though to presumably make a partition on the card and then it takes from your internal space. so I don't see the point of partitioning your card. hence, app2sd seems useless. I cannot find an explanation anywhere of how it works. also, I have an incredible, what the hell is that 8gb of memory for. no explanation anywhere. it just sits there free. what is it for if it can't be utilized?
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I cant understand why its taken up space on your phone tfor a2sd apart from when it adds the data files for the apps. the a2sd partition stores the apps on the sd card in a partition that it cons the phone into thinking is an internal section.
Where is the 8gb you are referring to? is it on the phone or the card?
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I cant understand why its taken up space on your phone tfor a2sd apart from when it adds the data files for the apps. the a2sd partition stores the apps on the sd card in a partition that it cons the phone into thinking is an internal section.
Where is the 8gb you are referring to? is it on the phone or the card?
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exactly! there is 8gb free. well, 7+, but I don't know linux. so it's just a waste. i ended up reformatting my card and got the space back on my internal memory. can anyone explain that? I gave it a shot cuz I know computers and it worked. i back up everything, but it's a 2 hour downtime. I would just like to know what the heck is the point? anyone know what that 8gb is wasted for on the Incredible?
what rom were you using or trying to use? all the info helps solve the issue
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what rom were you using or trying to use? all the info helps solve the issue
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using ultimate droid now. no themes. pretty simple. have used several rom's. no one can explain what the 8gb is for. not even verizon. or HTC.
the incredible has 750mb of internal storage. I can see that's for apps and OS. but there are 8gb of other internal memory that is free. wtf? I've been kind of ignoring it thinking it might be for future use or something, til I partitioned my sd card and realized it took from that 750mb space.
as far as i know it shouldnt have taken anything from that space at all. it should have done what every computer does and only create a partition on the card. thats odd. do you get any names for the areas that are free? like you would with a folder name.
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as far as i know it shouldnt have taken anything from that space at all. it should have done what every computer does and only create a partition on the card. thats odd. do you get any names for the areas that are free? like you would with a folder name.
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thats what i thought. like i said, i know windows through and through. there was no indication of a partition anywhere. kind of bugs me. always heard linux was easy. still would like to know about that 8gb too. don't get me wrong, i love the droid, but the way memory and or storage works makes no sense at all
there is an app called root explorer on the market. its a paid app but it lets you explorer all the folders and from what i can see the ext partition is known as sd-ext. sdcard is the obv one. system is the rom or os as it were and if installed correctly (only know this from the G1(Dream)) the data folder is where it stores all the information and settings for the apps and system settings
have you checked your text messages? because those also takes up space too, even tho text messages are really small in size, but if you have a LOT of them without deleting them, over time they usually build up
My file system is totally confused. When I browse to EMMC from a file manager it goes to my SD Card. If I browse to SD Card it actually goes to the internal drive.
I've had my rooted Nook Color for about 5 weeks now (CM7 booted from a SD card). Everything was working great until I tried installing some different launchers. I tried GoLauncher, Zeam, ICS, Honeycomb and maybe one more. The default was ADW. Maybe I confused the system by constantly switching from one to the next but at some point the system crashed and I rebooted.
Once rebooted I noticed that many of the games I installed told me I needed to redownload their data files. I looked on my card, through my Mac, but the original files were still there. Turns out the Nook now installs apps on the internal drive rather than the card as it had been before.
Wouldn't be so bad but, as mentioned earlier, the file system is confused. When i need to manage files I've loaded on my SD card I have to browse to EMMC and vice versa. Makes my head spin.
Is there a way to fix it without starting from scratch? I'm using CM7.2.0.
Thanks for your help
That's not a bug, it's a feature. Anyway, what you likely did is Settings -> Cyanogenmod Settings -> Application Settings -> Use internal storage (checked). If you do this, then it swaps the mount points for the SD and the internal memory, so the SD card is mounted at "/emmc" and the internal memory is mounted at "/sdcard". See the first post in the thread in my sig for more information about this.
If you really want to return it to the original way, wasting 5G of internal storage space, then you can uncheck that box in the settings and it'll go back to normal.
Thanks for pointing that out and glad to see there's an easy fix. Seems a bit confusing though, like it's renaming your hard drives or something. I had been using the internal drive for storing media files, video, music, comics. Does it matter where apps or files are stored?
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Thanks for pointing that out and glad to see there's an easy fix. Seems a bit confusing though, like it's renaming your hard drives or something. I had been using the internal drive for storing media files, video, music, comics. Does it matter where apps or files are stored?
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Well, the "fix", IMHO, is to leave it with them swapped.
Yes, it matters where apps are stored and it matters what is mounted at /sdcard. Apps use space on the /sdcard partition for settings, temp storage, downloads, etc. Mounting that 5G partition at /sdcard instead of /emmc allows these apps to use that space rather than cluttering your actual SD card. And apps are going to wind up on your 1G partition, not on either the /sdcard or /emmc mountpoint.
You can go read up in my guide on my recommendation on how to best use this space. The normal way is inefficient and wasteful of internal memory, IMHO. But you know, maybe you like it that way
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You can go read up in my guide on my recommendation on how to best use this space. The normal way is inefficient and wasteful of internal memory, IMHO. But you know, maybe you like it that way
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I think efficiency is more in how you choose to utilise the spaces rather than fundamentally in which switch option you use. For example, I choose to completely fill the 5GB of internal with sound and picture media as they get included in the normal app scanning process. Leaving the SD card to hold yet more media, app data and back ups.
It's still good to have the choice offered by the switch.
Hey all,
My friend just got his Galaxy Ace S5830i couple of weeks a go, and he isn't a phone\computer expert, i helped him install several apps on it (waze\whatsapp\tunein\ Facebook and.. that's it)
and the phone reports that he is running out of space, it says he have 20mb left out of 200mb, but he have 2gb sd card with 1.8gb free on it, it doesn't seam like there is any app that he can move to the sd, I attempted to use the app called "apps 2 SD", i got him rooted for this app to work and it says that there are no apps that could be moved to the SD card.
what gives? how can this be solved? how can i force move apps to the sd card or remove locked system apps that he doesn't use (like voice search, Google navigator\street view, alarm clock, memos etc, Samsung account related apps)?
Root the phone and use some a2sd script!
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Root the phone and use some a2sd script!
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I did, in the format of a program (app) that requires root permission, i therefore rooted the phone beforehand, and I did move 2mb worth of apps.
any other idea? perhaps the script you refer to can do something the app cant?
also try cleaning all the Dalvik cache it, I hope I have helped.
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also try cleaning all the Dalvik cache it, I hope I have helped.
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Did it just now, no effect what so ever, 167mb available, 23mb free, phone screams for space to be free, any nonlocked app is on the sd, most of the others removed, why did Samsung make a phone with total of 300ish mb storage is beyond me, the much older galaxy s 1 had 8gb in the cheap module, i mean .. come on didn't they think that a simple user might ran out of space by simply using 5 utility apps??
very very sad for my friend, which in turn is mad at Samsung, also shop dont accept return for any reason after 14days (which is inline with the laws here) so he cant do jack, i suggested selling it as "as new" condition with bonus of free screen protector, case, and the original box for say 70% of the new price.. not sure if he will even manage to move it that way :-\
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Did it just now, no effect what so ever, 167mb available, 23mb free, phone screams for space to be free, any nonlocked app is on the sd, most of the others removed, why did Samsung make a phone with total of 300ish mb storage is beyond me, the much older galaxy s 1 had 8gb in the cheap module, i mean .. come on didn't they think that a simple user might ran out of space by simply using 5 utility apps??
very very sad for my friend, which in turn is mad at Samsung, also shop dont accept return for any reason after 14days (which is inline with the laws here) so he cant do jack, i suggested selling it as "as new" condition with bonus of free screen protector, case, and the original box for say 70% of the new price.. not sure if he will even manage to move it that way :-\
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You only tried one app. It may be buggy.
I'd suggest trying the Link 2 SD app. Just long click on any (user) app in the list then try to move it.
Look into partitioning sd card and linking apps to the partition using link2sd. This is by far the method that frees more memory in stock rooted devices.
To remove system apps you don't want:
Link2sd and/or titanium backup can be used to uninstall system locked apps.
Manually you can remove system apps by going into system/app with a root explorer (es file explorer is a free app for this) then delete the .apk and matching .odex files of the apps you don't want.
Method 1:
Use a App Cache Cleaner
Move applications with Link2SD
Link apps using SD partition and Link2SD
Use A2SD
Method 2:
Amarullz Script:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591079
Read it carefully!
Move Apps from phone to SDcard Using Link2SD
that worked for me
A phone...with 300 mb...i know roms worth a gb. I dont own a ace myself but i can tell you that if an app cant be moved to sd card via settings>applications>manage apps>[app name]>move to sd card then it wint move. Because some apps are made so that the files it accesses can only be in one big file. Some however (like some games) have 2 folders that it can access seperatly. Like save data and the game itself. One the save data is accessed it dosnt need to load any more information from the sd card. It will only re write the data. But with things like facebook it cant keep going between login details and app. Once logged in it keeps that information until you log out. If it part of it were in the sd card then it would keep telling you to re-log because it looses your data once it switches back to phone memory. Because of this most apps that require something that must be read all at once with app and login at the same time. Also the ace is low on ram. If you moved apps like that onto the sd card it would slow down as well. Apps like app2sd are kinda useless as it does the same as the manage apps part of settings. Even if you did move an something to sd card you would still have the app and needed data in phone memory so not alot of memory would be moved unless its something like a game as i said. The phone storage keeps the levels all in one. But the game data will unlock those meaning more game data space than app space. Or maybe you could try delete system apps with that there rooted device. Should improve memory quite a bit. Right now i dont even know how i wrote all this...but still. I say samsung mucked up if the ace has 300mb. My phone is only a wee bit better (0.1 inches...yes...you heard) and even my phone is alot better then this and the best part is...its a samsung! Anyway. I hope i helped you.
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Thank you all for the replays !
I have downloaded titanium backup and with it I am backing up bloatware and then uninstalling it (and then moving the backup out of the phone and to my friend's computer.. just in case)
next up I plan to follow the wiki in regards to SD card partitioning:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/SD_card_partitioning
in order to format the sd card to two partitions, data partition (fat) and ex2 (if i understand correctly) so that I could link apps to that parttion (the ex2 one)
and then I plan to use link2sd to link app's data to said partition
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD
then I plan to uninstall link2sd as its not neccery for day to day operation.
and then I am going to check that app moving script here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591079
to see if i can get something out of it
just as an FYI, the phone got 384mb (according to the wiki) out of witch only 220 is visible, and stock status (first boot up) + whatsapp\waze\tunein\facebook\shazam .. the phone sits on 196mb used and 24mb free, at which point it screams for space, that is the source of all the problems of this device.
not to mention the low ram quantetiy, which in theory shouldn't even be a problem as long as you use one app at a time (no tunein radio while facebooking, for example) which is acceptable.
again, many many thanks for all the helpful replays ! !
I am going to post an update once I am finished with titanium backup root (free).
* in regards to formatting\reparttioning the sd card, did i get my idea right? its part FAT (for pictures and mp3 files) and part Ex2 for apps, so from a 2gb memory card I could in theory get away with 1500mb FAT partition and 500mb EX2, assuming I plan to not install any additional apps and just need some breathing space (23mb is clastor****bik to say the least)
I even went as far as to find the startup\shutdown sound files and replace them with one byte (1/1000 of a KB) size silent file to save additional ~150kb.
I removed oh so many system apps and Samsung bloat ware nonsense, googled some safe-list apps posts made on xda and used them to guide me as for whats safe to be removed, live wallpaper, Samsung accounts, all share, duel clock and many others are now gone.
and I am now on whooping 25MB free with 165MB used, nothing else to do, used all apps and scripts I simply cant free more space.
the free space error msg is gone now, the phone can receive SMS messages once more, but few Waze updates and some more sms and I am not sure how well will it be :-\
my friend is so furies at Samsung, as am I :\
Use the following command in Terminal emulator :
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After this all apps will be installed to sd card by default!
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Use the following command in Terminal emulator :
pm setInstallLocation 2
After this all apps will be installed to sd card by default!
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Thanks, done that now, but that is not the problem, the problem is only having 25mb free as is, even with new pictures saved to the sd card and new softwares install to the sd card, some stuff simply stay on the internal memory and the only thing left for me to remove is the internal screws of the actual phone.. thats how far i went with this :-\
My guess right now is that Samsung had chips of 384 (or maybe 256+128) left over after a production of some phone got stopped so they figured it would fit perfectly into entery level phone .. cant say that i am happy with there result.
Sigh, this is exactly what I was worried about when upgrading from my EVO 3D.
I noticed my new M8 has a sdcard0 and extsdcard folder. And of course, the apps and games which download hundreds of megs of data in order to run are downloading to the 24 gig internal sdcard0 mount point instead of the nearly empty 64gig extsdcard0 mountpoint. I really REALLY hate how so many Android phones seem to do this, why can't it just be partitioned as internal instead of faking a sdcard, thus making large apps install to internal with no option of installing to the actual external card?
Anyway, without rooting my phone, is there any way I can somehow set it so apps download and install their data to the actual SD card? The whole reason I didn't get the M7 was because I don't want my data to be stuck on the phone's internal memory in case anything happens, as well as to not waste internal memory space on several hundred megs or even gigs of data when I can use a large sdcard for that.
I believe u can go to manage apps and move apps to the sd card. Some may not be able to if it's not comparable but a lot of them should.
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I believe u can go to manage apps and move apps to the sd card. Some may not be able to if it's not comparable but a lot of them should.
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I tried that, it only moves the app executable to the SD card, not the hundreds of megs of additional data it downloaded. The app management screen even tells me how much of this additional data is on the internal memory and how much of it is on the SD card (it's all on internal), but moving the app doesn't move the additional data to the SD card.
One would assume that the ext sd 's bus interface would be quick enough to not bog any app which would be using it. That being the case htc has no excuse for not having interchangeable symbolic mounting points between the two sd's. Ive physcally moved some of the data from app's (dcim, and random music ) directories to the extsd, and at least it unburdens the internal sd.
The apk resource fork in these systems could be processed better in android and it's sdk, or even the runtime.
F yes it sucks.
How do I move apps from internal storage to sdcard?
I can find no option like that on the apps information. I installed an app that moves them but that just opens the app informations where there is no button to change the storage medium.
Also I read it might be possible to format the sdcard as internal storage. Maybe that's needed prior to moving apps.
But I can't find a way to format as such too.
The only thing I was able so far was to set the storage to sdcard for the nokia camera app.
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How do I move apps from internal storage to sdcard?
I can find no option like that on the apps information. I installed an app that moves them but that just opens the app informations where there is no button to change the storage medium.
Also I read it might be possible to format the sdcard as internal storage. Maybe that's needed prior to moving apps.
But I can't find a way to format as such too.
The only thing I was able so far was to set the storage to sdcard for the nokia camera app.
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I guess android one devices don't have the feature to have SD card as adoptable storage.
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that would be quiet disappointing and does not make much sense either as there still is the option to force being able to move apps to sd.
at least partly this is a bug though or maybe a feature?
I installed the sd-card just recently after I setup the device and most apps.
seems if I clear cache and data of an app at least that will now be stored to sd.
some apps like google maps or nokia camera app allow to choose data location.
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that would be quiet disappointing and does not make much sense either as there still is the option to force being able to move apps to sd.
at least partly this is a bug though or maybe a feature?
I installed the sd-card just recently after I setup the device and most apps.
seems if I clear cache and data of an app at least that will now be stored to sd.
some apps like google maps or nokia camera app allow to choose data location.
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There is an option in developer options. Force allow apps on external
I hsve same problem. Got 32gb, fast samsung card. I can't move any apps to it, but copying files work, also cam.
I think option in developent settings is here because of anrdoid one, same as bootloader unlock, won't do nothing.
Can other ppl move apps to sdcard on n7+? Or does this only happens on Samsung card?
I got a replacement device and a new 256GB Samsug card. I'm not offered to format as internal storage as well. There is the option to force apps to sd but it won't work.
I guess there might really be no way to use the card other than media/data storage. And hope apps allow to choose data storage like some google apps and the camera app do.
Got this info at nokia's community forum:
Moving apps to SD is not supported on the 7, as it does not support adopted internal storage. It would perform badly regardless of the SD card used, as the built in storage is significantly faster. Use the SD only for data, as intended; there should be plenty of internal space for apps with larger data stored on SD.
So.. I think ill go root way, something's so much better on rooted device. I like command my own device my way, not google's way..
Edstro said:
Got this info at nokia's community forum:
Moving apps to SD is not supported on the 7, as it does not support adopted internal storage. It would perform badly regardless of the SD card used, as the built in storage is significantly faster. Use the SD only for data, as intended; there should be plenty of internal space for apps with larger data stored on SD.
So.. I think ill go root way, something's so much better on rooted device. I like command my own device my way, not google's way..
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The bootloader is non unlockable atleast officially.
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The bootloader is non unlockable atleast officially.
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Yea, but i know guy who can do it =)
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Yea, but i know guy who can do it =)
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Please share how unlock. Cause really want root acces
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Read nokia7plus rooting from message board, still need to pay like 5euros from unlock... Too bad..
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I cant give name to user who does it..