Hello,
I have a following problem. When I install a new rom (after wiping all data) it seems that the old stuff still remains on the device - i now have a whooping 260 MB of free space available.
Shouldn't the full wipe delete all app data (example: Spotify downloaded tracks)?
Servantez said:
Hello,
I have a following problem. When I install a new rom (after wiping all data) it seems that the old stuff still remains on the device - i now have a whooping 260 MB of free space available.
Shouldn't the full wipe delete all app data (example: Spotify downloaded tracks)?
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if you go from 4.1 to 4.2 rom, data may be "stuck" in data/media folder, instead of transfered to data/media/0.
if you're on 4.2 rom, delete everything in data/media EXCEPT 0, if you're on 4.1 delete ONLY data/media/0 folder.
the cause is 4.2 has different user data folder when compared to 4.1.
Yup. Solved the problem. Thanks very much.
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Hi people,
I have a Nexus One with Cyanogenmod 7, and I recently got an error saying that the SD card is blank or has f*cked filesystem (Sandisk SDHC 8GB). I managed to format the motherf*cker but now I still have cache left on the phone from the apps I had on my SD card.
On phone, with only some basic apps.
Available : 31.98 MB
Total Space: 196 MB
So how can I clear that cache, or leftovers from the apps I had on the SD ?
Thank's in advance.
Well, any of the apps that you had moved to the sdcard will still require removing from your phone. Using Froyo's app2sd moves only a portion of the app to the sdcard, so parts of it still remain along with the dalvik cache and the data for that app. So go into Settings -> Applications -> Manage and remove the apps that you no longer want (or were originally stored on the sdcard).
Oh, you're right, I found the apps that were on the SD and I can delete them from there. It's kinda silly, I've tried all sorts of different things but I didn't look in that section.
Thanks alot mate !
No problem. Glad you got it working.
I uninstalled everything that had leftovers on the phone but that only gave me about 12 mb space on the phone, so now I have 45 mb free out of 192. Is this normal ?
Thank you.
Were you running any app2sdext or just using the Froyo method of putting apps on there?
If you run
Code:
su
cd /data
du -hd 1
It will show you the size of each folder. If you go into those folders and run that command again, it will show you the sizes of those as well. If you change the command slightly to
Code:
du -hd 1 | grep M
It will only show you things that have a capital M in it (which is what is used to designate MB, so it will weed out some of the smaller folders).
This might give you an idea of what is taking up your space. I assume you have already sorted your apps by size in Settings -> Applications -> Manage?
I was using the App2SD free app from the market.
I ran the commands you said and this is what I've got (only high values here) :
31.1M ./data
94.6M ./dalvik-cache
28.7M ./app
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I would wipe your dalvik cache (can be done in the advanced section of recovery). You might be able to manually do it yourself, but it is easier in the recovery). There are probably caches from previous programs that haven't been erased. Android will regenerate any caches that it needs when it boots back up.
Seems like wiping dalvik's cache did the trick, now I've got over 100mb free on the phone.
Thank you very much brother.
If you are in need of more space on your phone, I can highly recommend using an app2sdext option. This can make the phone think it has much more internal memory. I am using a 1GB partition on my sdcard to store all my apps and dalvik cache. I use S2E which is an extremely easy app that is on the market. All you have to do is partition your sdcard (which does require it to be wiped again) and install this app. Then you just check what you want moved over to this new partition, the phone will reboot, and you will now have space to have everything installed that you want.
Ok, long story short, I have 113MB of 'system data' in my /datadata folder (66% full), and I want it gone.
But I can't get rid of it... I've tried a full clean install, I've tried manually formatting /datadata from CWM, and I've also tried formatting boot, cache, data, datadata, and system from CWM followed by a fresh install (Kang 12/17).
My wife has the same phone and ROM and she only has 26% full in /datadata. I can't - for the life of me - figure out how to completely clean /datadata.
One thing I noticed in terminal emulator is that the data in /data and /datadata is about equal to what is listed in /system. However, formatting /system did not clear it out.
Please help as this is driving me insane!
Isn't datadata based on your apps? Like dalvik? I think ur wife just has less apps.
mbc663 said:
Isn't datadata based on your apps? Like dalvik? I think ur wife just has less apps.
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I thought so to, but even with no apps (nothing but what comes with the ROM) I have 3x what she has... and she has what comes with the ROM plus all her other apps.
If it does have to do exclusively with the apps, I'm more than willing to do everything step by step to figure out which app(s) cause my issue, but in order to do that I need to be able to clear the folder of everything except what true system data is necessary and start from square 1.
/datadata is apps settings and data. A little more info might help...
b-eock said:
/datadata is apps settings and data. A little more info might help...
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What kind of info do you need, and I'll try and supply it. I'm trying to do a clean install so that all of those app settings and data are starting from scratch. Factory resets didn't do it, formatting the folders through CWM didn't do it...
I must be missing something... but I can't figure out what it is.
Some basic background:
Most recently on the 12/17 Kang (CM7.2 RC0) with the glitch v13 (2.6.35.13) kernel and Gapps 08/28
For the just completed testing I only flashed Gapps (08/28) and the 12/17 Kang so I could see if anything I did worked on clearing /datadata.
Other than that, the only modification I've done to my phone is the modem is KG3 i9000.
Have u tried Titanium Backup Pro app ??
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Have u tried Titanium Backup Pro app ??
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I haven't... I have the free version currently. Would the pro version do all of this stuff?
The free version should do for deleting data and removing apps.
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I'll go out out on a limb here but try backing up your sd card and formatting it?
mbc663 said:
I'll go out out on a limb here but try backing up your sd card and formatting it?
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I had thought of that too... once formatted and I reinstall the ROM and stuff, is it easy enough to just copy those folders back on the phone? That was the one thing I was worried about... and thus I hadn't tried yet.
Formatting always makes me nervous
Are you encountering any issues with it being that full? Or is this just to satisfy your ocd?
theyurtingyeti said:
I had thought of that too... once formatted and I reinstall the ROM and stuff, is it easy enough to just copy those folders back on the phone? That was the one thing I was worried about... and thus I hadn't tried yet.
Formatting always makes me nervous
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As simple as dragging and dropping files. Also nice to start fresh every once in a while to clear out junk from old apps.
I'm getting ready to format my SDcard and start all over... but if I format my SD card, I'll no longer have my ROM zips there to flash. I put the ROMs on my external SD card (emmc), but in CWM I can't mount emmc to make sure they are there to flash when I format my SDCard...
How do I get my ROM flashed again once I format my SD card?
EDIT:
Doing more research it appears that I should be able to format my SD card w/o losing my ROM as long as I leave my boot and system folders alone.
So, if I format /data, /datadata, and /sdcard I should be able to reboot and see if it worked
studacris said:
Are you encountering any issues with it being that full? Or is this just to satisfy your ocd?
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I am encountering issues with it being that full. I have like 70 apps with approx 38MB of data taken up... combined with the large amount of 'system data' in the /datadata partition I'm running into the issues when that folder gets to 90% capacity.
It's at the point that I can't install new apps that save any data at all or I will have to constantly shuffle which apps can save their data. Doing research I found that the 172MB cap shouldn't be an issue unless you are hording apps... I have a small number of apps with a small amount of data, so things should be better
Thanks for all the suggestions...
But so far nothing has worked.
I formatted the SD card along with data and datadata and rebooted the phone.
My /datadata folder was still listed at 66% full. So formatting nearly everything still couldn't clear this folder.
I'm still boggled why the other captivate started with 8MB system data and I start with 113MB, both on a clean install...
Perhaps my only hope is to clear stuff out again and flash ICS and hope that something is different enough that this 'problem' goes away...
An additional thought
Would I be able to delete the /datadata folder through Root Explorer, reboot into recovery and reflash the ROM?
I would assume the ROM will repartition the phone correctly. System data can't exist in a folder that doesn't exist - right?
Would it be a bad idea to format my data before I switch to 4.3? I'm thinking that since my titanium backups etc will not be available I might as well format so nothing is left in an unusable folder. I have already made a backup of my storage on my computer just in case.
IF I don't format
I already have a data/0 folder from a previous rom test, will new data not in that folder be moved over? It seemed like after my first boot to 4.2.2 no data was changed when I tried another 4.2.2 rom later. (Some pictures were missing etc).
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I have the galaxy S3 Mini i8190 smartphone, lately, whenever I try to update applications I get an error insufficient storage available, I used a guide I found here on XDA to use my 32GB SD card instead of the internal storage and have been working like it for a long time without a problem, there's still over 9GB free space and on every app above 10MB I get this error, I tried cleaning the cache for all apps, even wiping the cache partition using CWM recovery, removing not needed apps, cleaning junk files, basically every suggestion I could find, nothing seems to work.
So far the problem is limited to updating apps, I have no problem installing new apps, there are no specific apps the problem occur with.
Please advise on what else can be done
Thank you.
vollachr said:
Hi
I have the galaxy S3 Mini i8190 smartphone, lately, whenever I try to update applications I get an error insufficient storage available, I used a guide I found here on XDA to use my 32GB SD card instead of the internal storage and have been working like it for a long time without a problem, there's still over 9GB free space and on every app above 10MB I get this error, I tried cleaning the cache for all apps, even wiping the cache partition using CWM recovery, removing not needed apps, cleaning junk files, basically every suggestion I could find, nothing seems to work.
So far the problem is limited to updating apps, I have no problem installing new apps, there are no specific apps the problem occur with.
Please advise on what else can be done
Thank you.
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Well, some time ago I couldn't install or update apps, because of your problem. I fixed it like this -->
1. Make a nandroid backup through CWM
2. Enter recovery and wipe : data , cache and dalvik cache (in advanced)
3. Now restore your nandroid backup
4. Reboot and everything should work as normal
PS If the above doesn't work consider flashing a completely stock firmware from www.sammobile.com
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Well, some time ago I couldn't install or update apps, because of your problem. I fixed it like this -->
1. Make a nandroid backup through CWM
2. Enter recovery and wipe : data , cache and dalvik cache (in advanced)
3. Now restore your nandroid backup
4. Reboot and everything should work as normal
PS If the above doesn't work consider flashing a completely stock firmware from www.sammobile.com
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Well, thanks, but I think I managed to solve the problem last night by myself thanks to some suggestions I found on another forum somewhere.
All I did was run the following command in the app terminal emulator:
su
and after that:
set-install-location 0
tried updating the apps that I couldn't update and it updated just fine, hopefully it won't happen again, I wonder what changed that setting in the first place.
vollachr said:
Well, thanks, but I think I managed to solve the problem last night by myself thanks to some suggestions I found on another forum somewhere.
All I did was run the following command in the app terminal emulator:
su
and after that:
set-install-location 0
tried updating the apps that I couldn't update and it updated just fine, hopefully it won't happen again, I wonder what changed that setting in the first place.
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nice, i didn't know about that solution
Dears
I have a question about other files in storage. I received this phone from my brother. It was formatted from the recovery (data wiped). I installed my account and all is right except for an equipped space of more than 1GB in other files. I remember when my brother was using the phone, other files was 0 Kb. I have no backup stored to the cloud or whatsoever. I did several factory reset with no luck. It pisses me off that 1 GB is being used without any reason keeping in mind it's only 25 GB out of the box storage for 32 GB rom.
Any ideas how to get rid of the other files.?
mohawahba said:
Dears I have a question about other files in storage. I received this phone from my brother. It was formatted from the recovery (data wiped). I installed my account and all is right except for an equipped space of more than 1GB in other files. I remember when my brother was using the phone, other files was 0 Kb. I have no backup stored to the cloud or whatsoever. I did several factory reset with no luck. It pisses me off that 1 GB is being used without any reason keeping in mind it's only 25 GB out of the box storage for 32 GB rom. Any ideas how to get rid of the other files.?
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On my MIUI 9.5 "other files" consist of:
- dalvik cache (not the app cache)
- hidden twrp backup files
- archive files like zip, tgz, etc.
The definition of "other files" may depend on MIUI version and perhaps your brother was using a different one, hence 0kb for him and 1GB for you, while there was no real difference.
To find exact storage use you need an app like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
However it will reveal many more details if you root your phone.
Incidentally, my Dalvik cache is 0.9GB and one can not get rid of it as it is an essential part of Android OS.
k23m said:
On my MIUI 9.5 "other files" consist of:
- dalvik cache (not the app cache)
- hidden twrp backup files
- archive files like zip, tgz, etc.
The definition of "other files" may depend on MIUI version and perhaps your brother was using a different one, hence 0kb for him and 1GB for you, while there was no real difference.
To find exact storage use you need an app like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
However it will reveal many more details if you root your phone.
Incidentally, my Dalvik cache is 0.9GB and one can not get rid of it as it is an essential part of Android OS.
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Thanks a lot