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Rooted G1 with Cyanogen... only 14 MB internal Memory left?

Ok Guys, new to this site, hopefully y'all can help me out.
I recently rooted my G1, Installed the latest Cyanogen (4.7.2.1) and installed a theme ( Marks Theme). I dont have very many apps cause I didnt want to bog down the phone memory.....
I love the set up but it started running slower even after I started running the over clocker widget.
My phone is only showing 14.18 MB of free internal memory. I went through my applications installed and can only find around 25 MB being used from all installed apps ( including browser and messaging etc.)
I even tried to do a factory reset ( by going through the settings) and the factory reset is not working. It changed nothing.
Is there something that Im missing? I feel like I should have much more free memory.
I love the way my phone works and the set up, I just wish it had more free memory so that it would run faster.
Ive thought about doing the Apps2SD but I feel like I chould have much more memory on my phone even before doing something like that.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

This is a question, and as such belongs in the Q&A section. You'll receive a better response to such things there.
The internal memory you're referring to is your /system partition.
It is where the entire OS is stored, basically. Which takes up, in your case, a whopping 55 MB (out of 70 MB).
If you //really// want more room, follow the Apps-2-SD tutorials out there. You'll get /plenty/ of space.

You could always upgrade to the new amon ra and then let it partition the sd card for you.Then you can have all that free phone storage for whatever it is.Bext time just try to restrict yourself from posting in wrong section
-Best regards

IConrad01 said:
This is a question, and as such belongs in the Q&A section. You'll receive a better response to such things there.
The internal memory you're referring to is your /system partition.
It is where the entire OS is stored, basically. Which takes up, in your case, a whopping 55 MB (out of 70 MB).
If you //really// want more room, follow the Apps-2-SD tutorials out there. You'll get /plenty/ of space.
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Thank you for the quick response. Is there a way to move this thread?
Also is there a better ROM that will take up less memory? I like this version but obviously it is wayy to large.
Anyone else running cyanogen 4.7.2.1 having this issue?

Most people using the Cyanogen ROM also utilize A2SD. Partition your SD card and you'll get more room.

pewterwest said:
Anyone else running cyanogen 4.7.2.1 having this issue?
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There is no issue, you just don't have an ext partition ergo, all applications are installed to your phone which is why you have low phone memory.

pewterwest said:
Thank you for the quick response. Is there a way to move this thread?
Also is there a better ROM that will take up less memory? I like this version but obviously it is wayy to large.
Anyone else running cyanogen 4.7.2.1 having this issue?
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Hello! app2SD will put the apps to ext...Then you will have more memory, why do you think people use it? To save even more money on geico?
Go here for the amon recovery...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566669

Hi, first of this has nothing to do with development, should be in Q&A. Please remember for next time
OK, when you're on a custom ROM, don't use factory reset. Instead boot in to the recovery image and perform a wipe from there, and that's exactly what I'd suggest. Be prepared to loose everything stored on the phones memory, but you can use a backup app from the market for that... No you really should way more space than that, I can't really explain why...

IConrad01 said:
This is a question, and as such belongs in the Q&A section. You'll receive a better response to such things there.
The internal memory you're referring to is your /system partition.
It is where the entire OS is stored, basically. Which takes up, in your case, a whopping 55 MB (out of 70 MB).
If you //really// want more room, follow the Apps-2-SD tutorials out there. You'll get /plenty/ of space.
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The phone has two main partitions: /system and /data. It isn't /system that's filling up, it's /data (which makes sense...). The phone can't write to /system when it's unrooted, so it's not possible to store files there...

Everyone is trying to help but for a noob it can be a bit too much...4.2.7.1 is the best Rom available so keep that....RA Recovery is the best way to set up your memory card to accept your apps and keep them there freeing up a ton of space on the phone....simple way to fix is....Just format you sdcard with EXT3 using the RA-recovery v1.5.1 then once your card is formatted just reboot and Cyanogen's rom will move all the apps for you.....will not need to wipe any info on the phone that way...done it many times......Pm me if you need help!!!!
EDIT:
some threads to help:
Ra - Recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566669
OR-
[REF] manual partition of sdcard w/parted,goto ext3/4 from adb. no liveCD req'd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714

Young Money. Cash Money.
(partition sd card)

The non rooted standard T-Mobile rom is about the same size and will give you about the same amount of free space. There could be a more barebones rom but I think it's just a lot easier to run Apps2SD then to create a rom that might get you an extra 10mb of internal space. This is the fault of the internal memory on the phone being small. The only way to fix that is getting Apps2sd running which if you make a partion of 100mb should be enough to install all the apps you need. Getting a larger SD card for $10 is also another option so you wont have 1/10th of your sd cards storage gone.

djdarkknight96 said:
Everyone is trying to help but for a noob it can be a bit too much...4.2.7.1 is the best Rom available so keep that....RA Recovery is the best way to set up your memory card to accept your apps and keep them there freeing up a ton of space on the phone....simple way to fix is....Just format you sdcard with EXT3 using the RA-recovery v1.5.1 then once your card is formatted just reboot and Cyanogen's rom will move all the apps for you.....will not need to wipe any info on the phone that way...done it many times......Pm me if you need help!!!!
EDIT:
some threads to help:
Ra - Recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566669
OR-
[REF] manual partition of sdcard w/parted,goto ext3/4 from adb. no liveCD req'd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714
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Guys thank you very much for your help..... i partioned my sd and now i have 58.8 MB free on internal.... you guys are great.
Is there anything else i can do besides rooting, apps2sd and overclocker to make even faster?

pewterwest said:
Guys thank you very much for your help..... i partioned my sd and now i have 58.8 MB free on internal.... you guys are great.
Is there anything else i can do besides rooting, apps2sd and overclocker to make even faster?
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You can always try different roms. CM is good and fast, but maybe try dwang 1.13 or Wesgarner version. wg is based on CM. I find it faster and more stable but this is just my opinion. if you back everything up with nandroid and some app like mybackup, you can flash all you want. you'll be able to get everything back with a nandroid/mybackup restore. try different stuff out and figure out what you like!

[Q] Why isn't apps2ext supported on Cyanogenmod?

Hi, I have my phone usually a little bit too stuffed with apps, and even now with cyanogen, I'm starting to receive space warnings again. I know the easy answer is to make some room by erasing unneeded apps, but I'm not so eager to get rid of many of them. (Then I wonder why the heck the dolphin browser hoards 20MB of the internal memory even though the app has been clearly stated to store the cache on the SD).
Anyway, I was toying with the idea of the apps2ext, which I believe allows to move all the apps (or the system partition) to an ext3 partition on the SD, hence freeing a lot of space on the phone. I decided to read onto some documentation, just to find Cyanogenmod doesn't support it. And my question would be, why? Is there any problem with this kind of messing?
Thank you!

Depends what you mean by apps2ext, because that term gets used for generic processes, as well as specific implementation methods.
There are a number of methods than can be used with Cyanogen, such as Darktremors script, out even apps such as S2E, or Link2sd...

danger-rat said:
Depends what you mean by apps2ext, because that term gets used for generic processes, as well as specific implementation methods.
There are a number of methods than can be used with Cyanogen, such as Darktremors script, out even apps such as S2E, or Link2sd...
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Huh...Thanks, now I'm confused...Where could I find some information regarding the differences between each one?
Thanks a lot!

danger-rat said:
Depends what you mean by apps2ext, because that term gets used for generic processes, as well as specific implementation methods.
There are a number of methods than can be used with Cyanogen, such as Darktremors script, out even apps such as S2E, or Link2sd...
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Apps2Ext is typically DarkTremor or a variation of it, but must admit I've never heard of the others.
I think the point here is to use an Ext partition rather than the daft FAT .android_secure Apps2SD in Froyo onwards.

Darktremors is more commonly known as a2sd.
When talking Cyanogen, apps2ext typically refers to the older system that was in place in CM5, but has since become unsupported. This is possibly where the confusion arises?
From what I can gather, the old apps2ext made some trick use of repartitioning to exploit the unused cache space that occurs on CM, as well as moving apps to the ext partition. Firerat has a working version, but it is no longer integrated in the ROM. I've used it, and you get way more space than with DT, but the maintenance is a nightmare... CM not longer support it because there are so many alternatives available (though none are as effective)...

danger-rat said:
Darktremors is more commonly known as a2sd.
When talking Cyanogen, apps2ext typically refers to the older system that was in place in CM5, but has since become unsupported. This is possibly where the confusion arises?
From what I can gather, the old apps2ext made some trick use of repartitioning to exploit the unused cache space that occurs on CM, as well as moving apps to the ext partition. Firerat has a working version, but it is no longer integrated in the ROM. I've used it, and you get way more space than with DT, but the maintenance is a nightmare... CM not longer support it because there are so many alternatives available (though none are as effective)...
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IMO A2SD or Apps2SD is too vague, so I (and other folks) refer to it as Apps2Ext to differentiate it from Froyo's method.
And as for how CM5 did it, wasn't that just using DarkTremor? I could certainly be wrong, as I've only recently started using CM on my Nook Color.
I still assume the OP wants an Ext partition on his SD card used for Apps, aka: Dark Tremor.

khaytsus said:
And as for how CM5 did it, wasn't that just using DarkTremor?
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Yes. DT was integrated into CyanogenMod ROM 5.0x. Then there was great wailing and gnashing from many when CM6.x releases lacked DT. TeamDouche stated that they planned to put it back in for CM7, but they never did.
OP: Please visit DarkTremor's XDA thread to learn how easy it is to implement on CM6/CM7.

No, CM5 (and 6) was NOT just DT integrated. Read this:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/19160-modhow-to-apps2ext-for-cm7-updated-03312011/

10th Post!!!
danger-rat said:
No, CM5 (and 6) was NOT just DT integrated. Read this:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/19160-modhow-to-apps2ext-for-cm7-updated-03312011/
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Thanks for the link... not applicable to my assertion AT ALL. Read the page twice, nada.
Please visit this one:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Apps2SD#Apps2EXT
The CM5 releases implemented a extX partition scheme that later came to be known as DarkTremors Apps2EXT. CM6 did not.
Another link, posted by none other than Firerat (possibly Danger-rat in a former life?). I guess the scripting/symlinking came along in the later, excised incarnations dubbed DarkTremor's Apps2SD, then Apps2EXT:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6385186&postcount=2581

Your link to the CM wiki states that the apps2ext solution was integrated into the framework, not a script that tricks the phone into thinking the ext is internal memory...
Here you have Firerat (no relation) providing a solution to the apps2ext problem, where "the base is from CM5":
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...p2sd-built-in/page__view__findpost__p__166163
Note that Firerat states that it is not perfect, but "better than scripted a2sd solutions" (read Darktremors)
Here is the xda Darktremors thread, with the title containing "Script" and "a2sd":
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715940
The CM apps2ext and Darktremors are not the same thing...

Whoops
Ok. Thank you.

danger-rat said:
Darktremors is more commonly known as a2sd.
When talking Cyanogen, apps2ext typically refers to the older system that was in place in CM5, but has since become unsupported. This is possibly where the confusion arises?
From what I can gather, the old apps2ext made some trick use of repartitioning to exploit the unused cache space that occurs on CM, as well as moving apps to the ext partition. Firerat has a working version, but it is no longer integrated in the ROM. I've used it, and you get way more space than with DT, but the maintenance is a nightmare... CM not longer support it because there are so many alternatives available (though none are as effective)...
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Hi guys, thank you very much for all the useful information! So, as you say, it's a maintenance nightmare...does it means trouble when updating the rom? What are the risks? I'm gibbs search a little bit regarding this dark tremor...thank you!

Darktremor isn't the nightmare, the repartitioning trick is. I would recommend using Darktremor, and staying away from the fancy stuff, unless you are really confident about what you are doing...

Ahh ok, from what I saw it involves a bunch of options in the boot menu. I was doing the goddamn backup of the SD card, it took ages. Now I'm ready to start. It's a pity there isn't yet a partitioner that makes the partitions without erasing your data (kind of partition magic of sorts).

timonoj said:
Ahh ok, from what I saw it involves a bunch of options in the boot menu. I was doing the goddamn backup of the SD card, it took ages. Now I'm ready to start. It's a pity there isn't yet a partitioner that makes the partitions without erasing your data (kind of partition magic of sorts).
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Isn't GParted able to do this?
Btw, if you don't want to play through recovery menu, go get S2E from Market, it is free and it works great IMO

Sooo here I am again!
I'm not sure at all if this is working. After booting the first time (it took a looong time), I was greeted with a "welcome to Nexus One" home screen. I have lost all my data, apparently. Not very sure regarding that.
I'm also not very sure if this is working at all?
Let's see, I made a 1024MB Ext4 partition, inside the 16GB SD card. Now when I see Manage Applications, it shows me 136MB free...But I don't get it, wasn't I supposed to have more space?
The other possibility I'm thinking, it's just listing the internal memory space, while all the applications are in the SD Ext4 partition.
If that's the case, then if I install stuff, it won't be listed, and I won't be able to know how much space I have left, right?
I don't know, can anybody clarify this? Thank you!

If you're using the DT script, you need to activate it by typing either "a2sd install" (apps only), or "a2sd cachesdreset" (apps and dalvik) into a terminal emulator (need to type "su" first, to get superuser rights).
To see better idea of the space allocations, use Titanium. It has a nice breakdown on the first page...

Yup, I typed the commands from the adb shell, which I reckon is the same. But now everything seems like a big loss in contacts and stuff.
I have a question: If I install a new rom (cyanogen nighties, I'm running), will I lose the DarkTremor script? And if I restore a full backup made with Clockworkmod?
I'll try to fight with Titanium backup, but for each app to restore I have to manually accept the installation...Seems a lil bit pain in the ass

Are you sure your contacts are set to sync? You can lose that setting from nightly to nightly...
When updating between nightlies, I believe you can flash the nightly then the DT script and all should be good (I always wipe).
The DT settings etc will be backed up with CWM backup, so you can restore that and it will include the ext also.
If you buy Titanium Pro, you won't have that problem... xD

timonoj said:
Sooo here I am again!
I'm not sure at all if this is working. After booting the first time (it took a looong time), I was greeted with a "welcome to Nexus One" home screen. I have lost all my data, apparently. Not very sure regarding that.
I'm also not very sure if this is working at all?
Let's see, I made a 1024MB Ext4 partition, inside the 16GB SD card. Now when I see Manage Applications, it shows me 136MB free...But I don't get it, wasn't I supposed to have more space?
The other possibility I'm thinking, it's just listing the internal memory space, while all the applications are in the SD Ext4 partition.
If that's the case, then if I install stuff, it won't be listed, and I won't be able to know how much space I have left, right?
I don't know, can anybody clarify this? Thank you!
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Manage Applications only shows how much ROM space is left
If your really want to check the space usage, you could try Free Space or Titanium Backup from the market

AppMonster backup?

I've got everything backed up with the appmonster.
Will this be adequate prep for flashing a ROM?
Are the backup files stored on the external SD card?
Is it easy to retrieve your apps after flashing the ROM?
I gather only the internal SD and phone memory will be reformatted.
I'm I ready to go flashing?

Check the App Monster's description at AppBrain (and the program's settings of course, where did your phone saved the needed files)...
Did you saved the SMS and call log? And what about Titanium Backup? Have you ever tried it?
Did you download all the needed files before doing ROM change?

I would say that when you can answer these questions yourself, then maybe you are ready to flash roms. Do not rush in, read plenty, get familiar with the lingo, procedures, ways to salvage a bad flash etc etc....when you are comfortable then proceed. Read all the faqs, then when you need help people will be far more helpful.
Also make sure you have 3 button d/l mode.....and enjoy! It is addictive, fun and harmless! Welcome
GTi9000 insanitycm010/insaneglitch

slaphead20 said:
...when you can answer these questions yourself, then maybe you are ready to flash roms...
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10:10 point, you are right.
When somebody have no further questions, he is ready to flashing (I was in the same situation some month before).
Reading, reading, and do everything as it is written.

kleingy said:
Check the App Monster's description at AppBrain (and the program's settings of course, where did your phone saved the needed files)...
Did you saved the SMS and call log? And what about Titanium Backup? Have you ever tried it?
Did you download all the needed files before doing ROM change?
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I tried Titanium Backup, but it says I gotta ROOT first. I was going to try to ROOT and ROM in one go with the Darky's ROM v10.1.
Monster saved all the apps, I have to study about whether the contacts and logs were backed up too.
I'm just a little confused about what exactly happens when you flash a ROM.
The way I understand it it's like reformatting and reinstalling the OS on a PC.
Where I'm confused is about the internal SD card. Does that get affected? I know the external SD doesn't experience anything.
One my complications is that I don't have a PC, and have to borrow one to get the flashing done.
I've been considering a netbook. But I want to run Unbutu and not windows!
I used to have a windows partition on my MacBook but I ran out of space for it. I hardly ever used it.
I was hoping getting the SGS would get me away from PC's and Mac's.
I guess a cheap netbook wont kill me; and sparing 30Gs for a windows partition now wont be such a bit deal with these nifty 320-500G hardrives out there now.
Maybe I should just have someone slap a fancy 500G drive with flash ram in the MacBook then problem solved.
Fark but I'm also getting old and lazy.
Maybe I'll just wait and study this all a bit more. The phone works pretty well with Froyo anyway. The only real issue is that it eats up the battery fairly fast.

[Q] can i delete app installers?

hi,
very new to android here.
after i download and install an app from either the browser or the market place can i delete the installer once it's done (the installers are .apk right?) and if i can where does the market place store them?
Thanks

Liambass said:
hi,
very new to android here.
after i download and install an app from either the browser or the market place can i delete the installer once it's done (the installers are .apk right?) and if i can where does the market place store them?
Thanks
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don't worry about it... really don't

the trouble is that i only have about 4.5MB left of internal storage even though i've set the phone to install apps to SD

As far as I know, the APK's are not stored on the phone. So that will not make a difference. If you are new to android... two things.
1. Welcome to the world of awesomeness! :]
2. One unfortunate thing you will have to learn about the G1, is that the internal storage is rather terrible. No app can be COMPLETELY moved to the SD card, thus. Even with just 10 to 15 or so apps, you will probably be running into the "low space" error.
Are you rooted, and/or have a custom ROM installed?

yeah, i'm running Cyanogenmod 6.1.0
I've deleted a couple of apps that didn't run very well so i've freed up i little more space.... i guess i'll see how i go.
Cheers Guys

Liambass said:
yeah, i'm running Cyanogenmod 6.1.0
I've deleted a couple of apps that didn't run very well so i've freed up i little more space.... i guess i'll see how i go.
Cheers Guys
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have you looked into doing mtd mod... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717874

mikeyrave said:
have you looked into doing mtd mod... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717874
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i just had a look.... a lot of it means very little to me, what does it achieve?

Liambass said:
i just had a look.... a lot of it means very little to me, what does it achieve?
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It changes your partition sizes so for example lets say you have 3 equal partitions all are 100mb
100 cache
100 data
100 system
You end up taken a bit from other partitions like cache to make data larger

i've had another look and it seems fairly simple.
my system partition is currently 90MB but that's pretty much full does that sound about right?
also how big does the cache need to be, mine is currently 30MB but i'm only using 3 or so. what sort of things are stored in the cache? i've been having a problem with SMSs (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1217173)will it help or hinder that?
and will applying this mod wipe everything i already have installed?

Storage issue

I was tinkering round this morning and looked into my devices storage and saw that 27gb of 32gb were being used.
Did some math on my own:
Apps: 2.82gb
Music: 3.23gb
Photos: 1.12gb
Other: 19.85gb:
-Nandroids: 9gb
-Titanium Back up 1gb
2 roms: 1.5gb
Somewhere in the "Other" category something is eating up 9gb of space. I used my file explorer and couldn't pin anything that big down. I am going to offload my nandroids but I shouldn't have to.
Anyone else run into this or know what this 9gb "other" hog could be
Is there an app or system setting I am missing to ID this?
Sprint HTC One
Running: D3rpONE

Found My Screenie...

tdubbs27 said:
Found My Screenie...
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Your 'other' is really suspicious. Mine is ~7GB. I'd do a factory reset, easiest way IMO.

If you're flashing roms or doing backups with any other apps (CWM or something). I'm guessing they would go there. Check your download folder as well if you do a lot of downloading.
You may also try installing airdroid and using the desktop filemanager to whittle down your list as well.

Download Disk Usage. It shows you visually whats taking up space. It's amazing.

Thanks for advice using disk usage. I don't know why I didn't reinstall that sooner.
I did some digging and searching around the interwebs and found out this is a known issue. Other people have noticed it in droves. From my early intel: when you delete files you lose data blocks and they are marked as bad. If you ran dsk chk they would come up as corrupt. People are losing more storage space than I did.
2 solutions came up:
1. Reformat your SD: Copy everything to PC>reformat>copy everything back....time consuming but worked from what I could tell
2. There is an update that has been released overseas(asia, india, etc) that seems to fix this issue. It's a known HTC ONE issue so maybe someday I will see an update that will fix it.
If you are experiencing the same thing you can do some light reading:
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630914
or
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1632999
Thanks for your help...

tdubbs27 said:
Thanks for advice using disk usage. I don't know why I didn't reinstall that sooner.
I did some digging and searching around the interwebs and found out this is a known issue. Other people have noticed it in droves. From my early intel: when you delete files you lose data blocks and they are marked as bad. If you ran dsk chk they would come up as corrupt. People are losing more storage space than I did.
2 solutions came up:
1. Reformat your SD: Copy everything to PC>reformat>copy everything back....time consuming but worked from what I could tell
2. There is an update that has been released overseas(asia, india, etc) that seems to fix this issue. It's a known HTC ONE issue so maybe someday I will see an update that will fix it.
If you are experiencing the same thing you can do some light reading:
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630914
or
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1632999
Thanks for your help...
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I'm definitely going to check on this
Sent from my HTCONE using xda premium

Also check if you are using Google play music and have a lot of playlists pinned. I believe that and movies actually show there in other.
Sent from my HTC One

I couldn't just let this rest. I like to flash roms and knew I would need strorage space for some nandroids in the future. Here are somethings I tried and had issues with.
Formatting the SD card: I could not for the life of me get this done.
-Nothing in TWRP
-Couldn't do it in windows
-Couldn't mount the sd in TWRP or regularly and get it to show up in windows file explorer as a drive to format
Eventual solution:
I formated the data in TWRP using the format data option. I copied everything over before I did it. When I came back I flashed a new rom and was still missing 7 gb. No apps, no music, nothing. SD card was empty still only showed 25 gb available.
Conclusion: I think I have some bad sectors in their somewhere. I read that I could go back completely to stock and try to star this whole process over.
One question: Can I unlock using HTCdev as many times as I want or is it a one time thing?
Anyone else in the same boat?
help...

tdubbs27 said:
I couldn't just let this rest. I like to flash roms and knew I would need strorage space for some nandroids in the future. Here are somethings I tried and had issues with.
Formatting the SD card: I could not for the life of me get this done.
-Nothing in TWRP
-Couldn't do it in windows
-Couldn't mount the sd in TWRP or regularly and get it to show up in windows file explorer as a drive to format
Eventual solution:
I formated the data in TWRP using the format data option. I copied everything over before I did it. When I came back I flashed a new rom and was still missing 7 gb. No apps, no music, nothing. SD card was empty still only showed 25 gb available.
Conclusion: I think I have some bad sectors in their somewhere. I read that I could go back completely to stock and try to star this whole process over.
One question: Can I unlock using HTCdev as many times as I want or is it a one time thing?
Anyone else in the same boat?
help...
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If you go back completely to stock, your bootloader will probably still be unlocked (unless you relock and use an RUU). The code you got to disable your bootloader the first time around will work however many times you want. To be honest though, I wouldn't be surprised if that 7GB were used by the system ROM/frameworks and I'd be even less surprised if you still found files on your SD card in a .Trashes folder or something from earlier. Formatting data tends to leave weird remnants all over the place.
Also, +1 to the Google Music thing. Definitely shows up in other for me.

Rirere said:
If you go back completely to stock, your bootloader will probably still be unlocked (unless you relock and use an RUU). The code you got to disable your bootloader the first time around will work however many times you want. To be honest though, I wouldn't be surprised if that 7GB were used by the system ROM/frameworks and I'd be even less surprised if you still found files on your SD card in a .Trashes folder or something from earlier. Formatting data tends to leave weird remnants all over the place.
Also, +1 to the Google Music thing. Definitely shows up in other for me.
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Thank you. It gives me more options and more to think about.
-Can't find anything substantial in a .trashes folder
-Dont use any Google Music services
Really wish I could truly reformat/check for bad sectors to find out if it's corrupt or just buggy...

tdubbs27 said:
Thank you. It gives me more options and more to think about.
-Can't find anything substantial in a .trashes folder
-Dont use any Google Music services
Really wish I could truly reformat/check for bad sectors to find out if it's corrupt or just buggy...
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Do you have a custom recovery? If so, try running Fix permissions. It'll tell you for one if it hits any errors (because it finds files it can't change perms for), and may help with the issue (or use the Fix permissions tool in ROM Manager if you'd rather not use recovery).

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Do you have a custom recovery? If so, try running Fix permissions. It'll tell you for one if it hits any errors (because it finds files it can't change perms for), and may help with the issue (or use the Fix permissions tool in ROM Manager if you'd rather not use recovery).
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-Ran fix permissions in recovery: no errors everything went as it should
-Ran fix persmissions in viper rom: terminal settings: no errors everything ran as it should
Is there a way to reformat the SD card/partition? I don't think the TWRP method really reformatted it. Just erased everything.
Clockwork gives you the ability to set a swap partition but not a true reformat

tdubbs27 said:
-Ran fix permissions in recovery: no errors everything went as it should
-Ran fix persmissions in viper rom: terminal settings: no errors everything ran as it should
Is there a way to reformat the SD card/partition? I don't think the TWRP method really reformatted it. Just erased everything.
Clockwork gives you the ability to set a swap partition but not a true reformat
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Have you tried TWRP's advanced wipe? If you haven't, it's worth a shot, but I cannot stress enough that you should be careful. This is exactly the kind of problem that you can bork your phone trying to fix for no good reason.

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Have you tried TWRP's advanced wipe? If you haven't, it's worth a shot, but I cannot stress enough that you should be careful. This is exactly the kind of problem that you can bork your phone trying to fix for no good reason.
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Your exactly correct on the last point. I am going to keep listening and looking. I think/hope/pray the update the internationals got can be applied some way in the future and may help out a bit. Just going to have to utilize some cloud storage a little better.
it's not totally/technically broke and I am not going to do more harm.
Thanks for all your help and suggestions

I've been having the same problem, but notice something interesting. My phone said I had almost 20GB in the other category, and I didn't know why.
I downloaded disk usage to get a detail view of what's going on in my storage and I was able to clear 12GB with just deleting old downloads, TWRP backups, Titanium Backups. Still cleaning house.
Also after doing some research, the data that's stored by your apps (ext. PS3 Trophies is a 8mb download, buts it's total size is 31mb on the phone) is counted in the Other section and not part of the app data. So the more apps u have like this installed, the more likely the Other section will balloon in size.
Remember, when u remove and app, it's stored data is still in the phone storage.
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I've been having the same problem, but notice something interesting. My phone said I had almost 20GB in the other category, and I didn't know why.
I downloaded disk usage to get a detail view of what's going on in my storage and I was able to clear 12GB with just deleting old downloads, TWRP backups, Titanium Backups. Still cleaning house.
Also after doing some research, the data that's stored by your apps (ext. PS3 Trophies is a 8mb download, buts it's total size is 31mb on the phone) is counted in the Other section and not part of the app data. So the more apps u have like this installed, the more likely the Other section will balloon in size.
Remember, when u remove and app, it's stored data is still in the phone storage.
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I use disk useage but it doesn't even show my max storage space as 32gb. It shows 26gb. See Screenshot: So I have 6gb that aren't even registering as available storage. I was trying to clean out some old app storage but the space they use is so small. Would they be worth it? I think the fact I am missing 6 gb is more troubling.

I could be wrong, but doesn't the phone only have 27GB of formatted space?
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any device with internal memory will lose some. this is the exact reason i havent gotten one yet bc im praying that sprint will get the 64gb version. i will say that if they are going to advertise a device at xyz gb then they should build in the extra needed for system so we actually get what we pay for. cloud storage and otg are there but still a slight pain in the butt.
guess ill be holding on to my evo lte for another yr or so.

xanmanz31 said:
cloud storage and otg are there but still a slight pain in the butt.
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Is OTG standard in Android? Does the One need to be rooted?