This has been going on for a while throughout a good deal of updates and roms. I've dirty flashed every update of Bad Boyz and ran into no issues except this. Right now I have ran out of storage for apps. My phone seems to think I have 19GB of pictures and videos stored on the internal storage when in fact all of my pictures and videos are stored on the external sd card. My external sd is working fine. Is this simply the amount of pictures and videos within these roms now. It doesn't make any sense considering the rom sizes are about 1.25GB. I've checked all the internal folders and found nothing. I don't know where this is coming from. Is anybody else seeing this or should I do I complete wipe. I would hate to have to do it.
I ended up doing a complete wipe including the internal storage and it seemed to fix the problem.
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I have read about Memory Leakage and I think that is the best way to describe what is going on with my Hero. I am Running Damage Controls last ROM and my memory keeps going away until I get the low memory icon. This has been going on for a few months now. Three months ago the problem first showed its head. So I start cleaning everything out. I do not store ANY email, texts, SMS or anything that I have control of on the phone. I do not sync with facebook, Gmail, Twitter or any of those other services. But my memory keeps "leaking" away. I got a cache cleaner, I have dumped all but three programs that I put on off the phone and while I first beat this back to 40mb to 30mb to 20mb and now I can't get it above 18mb. It's like every time there is a program up date from the Market it loads a whole new program and the old one stays. At least that is what it seemed like. I have been told to dump DC's rom and move on to something else but I like the phone and what it does when it works. I have the usual problems with slow dialing and bluetooth connection problems and that kind of stuff but all in all the phone works pretty good except for this memory problem. No I don't have apps2sd working but I don't think that would matter at this point as I have mentioned I have had this phone back up to 40mb and that memory over time just leaks away. Any idea's??? Is there another rom like Damages where the phone looks pretty stock? I am really used to the way it works and hate the idea of setting it up again. But if that is the recommendations I get from this forum I gather this is where I will have go.
Any help or idea's will be greatly appreciated. As I mentioned installing a new ROM is a last resort for me and if that is where I have to go then some suggestions would be appreciated too.............
Thanks so much.........
Lisa
That's not memory leakage, that's just from apps. Install apps2sd... then you won't have to deal with that problem.
Or use Firerat's custom partitions to free up a ton of space in data.
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Okay, aps2sd is the way to go. Being I'm not a total computer wiz I have to study how to do this. So, Firerat was mentioned and how do I do the apps2sd thing? I realize I have to back up my sd card to my PC and that is no problem and the Damage Control Rom that I have has a toggle that I can check to move the apps to the SD card so I think I'm okay there. But I have to partition and reformat my SD card. I have never done that before. Could you give me a link that I can go to so I can read all the instructions on how to do this. I have Titanium so I am well backed up there and I have recent Nandroid backups but partitioning the SD card is the trick I haven't done yet. Can I take the card out of my phone and do it with a card reader on my PC or do I have to do it through the phone? You can see the kind of help I need here and while I have resisted doing any more to my phone I think if I can free up this internal memory ALL my issues with the HERO and Damage Controls last ROM will go away for me.
As usual I appreciate the links and all you help............
Lisa
To partition your SD card:
BACK UP SD CARD CONTENTS TO YOUR PC
boot into recovery
partition sdcard
partition sd
follow instructions
i personally set the data partition to 256 MB, but even with ~100 apps i still have like 100 MB free. there are many other size options.
i forgot the other numbers it asks for (like cache or dalvik partition), but you can leave them at zero.
back in the Partition sdcard menu, choose SD:ext2 to ext3
reboot
now you can enable a2sd and retransfer your backed up sdcard contents from your PC. you will probably need to reboot for a2sd to move your apps and take effect
Were you using Damage Controls ROM?
You're instructions are very straight forward and that is kind of the way I saw the process too. I'll back up everything before I start and I'll give it a go when I get a chance.........
I was not using DamageControl ROM, but I have a hunch that's how it will work.
Interesting thing, I was just looking through Damage Control's "control panel" and apps2sd is checked already. Looking at Titanium Backups "control panel on their latest version it shows memory or storage usage for Phone Memory, Apps2sd and SD card usage and it shows that I have stuff in there already even though I have NOT partitioned my SD card. How can that be??? I guess these are the kind of things that come up when you use a ROM that has been abandoned by the developer. I really like everything about this ROM But this memory thing has gotten to be a real problem. I guess if I partition the SD card I will get it working faster? Or working completely? But this is an interesting question I think..........
Any feed back on this discovery would be helpful too..............
Ok, for some reason my ROM thinks its an awesome idea to store crap(Apps data) on my external sd card while having 2GB of dedicated internal storage left untouched. I dont quite get why people love this App2SD bulls*** but I loathe it. Apps performance suffers because external sd cards are never quite as fast as system ones, and a whole load of reasons more.
I like to format my external SD quite a lot and find that 30-40 of my apps are now useless, and I have to reinstall them. How do i stop this from happening? I dont want my system to install ANY app on my SD card, EVER. And if it must, let it be the internal one, not the external. I'm on 2.3.4 Thanks in advance.
I'm also interested in this. Dunno why it can't be switched off especially with the huge amount of free storage on the SGS....
I would really like the answer to this, since I have yet to find a fix. Please anyone, this is a very annoying issue! And it should be simple to tweak, since its just a command probably.
Can any devs please fix this problem?
Moving too many apps to SD will cause auto reboots.
Removing the SD card will stop the reboots.
Unmounting the SD card immediately after the phone starts up will stop the reboots.
Mounting it back will cause the phone to auto reboot again.
Already tried with stock ROM and different SD cards so it's not a custom ROM or SD card problem.
Tried on 2 different handsets and has the same issue.
Read on the Galaxy S2 forums that after Samsung upgraded to 2.3.5 onwards, there's this problem. On 2.3.4 problem doesn't occur.
I can confirm that I have this issue on my SGS2. This ONLY happened after the 10 x .10 a day sale. I downloaded a bum-load of games, and then I started having more and more serious issues.
I haven't had this issue on my note (yet), and I hope I don't :s.
The same thing happened to my Note soon after I transferred many apps to the Ext SD. Unmount or removing the Ext SD solves the problem and there will not be repeated reboots.
Took out the Ext SD and removed the ".android_secure" folder in my PC and that also solves the problem about the reboots but the apps will no longer be available.
I have many other files in my Ext SD such as Photos, Videos, eBooks, Music but these did not affect the phone at all. So the main culprit is the apps in the .android_secure folder.
I trimmed down the apps in the folder and transferred some frequently used apps such as the Launcher's Themes, Wallpapers etc back to the phone. Deleted or uninstalled some of the apps and reinstalled into the phone. Now everything appears to work normally now.
I am not certain why the Android 2.3.5 cannot read some of the apps in the Ext SD and maybe the "Masters" in this forum can help in this area. The Ext SD is good for storage of bloaty files such as music, video, ebooks, photos and these are accessible by Android - no problem. I have a Note with 16 GB Int SD and an Ext SD 32 GB. I do have ample space for most apps in my Int SD for the time being and will try to avoid transferring apps into the Ext SD. Use the Ext SD to store the heavy stuffs such as videos and music and books. The photos, music and videos taken with the phone will be stored in the Int SD (these can be a lot esp for videos) but if the space in my Int SD is getting filled up, I would rather transfer them to the Ext SD and leave the Apps alone.
I still have about 50 apps in my Ext SD and it is still working fine. Until this problem is solved by the Experts in this forum, I will try to avoid transferring too many apps to the Ext SD.
Hope this input is useful. I am also relatively new to Android.
Yes i also face this problem. Transferring too much app to sd reboot the system. And the problem is easily replicable
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I have the same problem, last time was this morning, when I moved about 5 apps to the SD . The result was 5 restarts....
Anyone else having trouble getting the camera app to save to SD? If I change the storage setting to internal, take a pic, then change it back to SD, and take a pic, it will actually go to SD. Then, I wait an hr, take a pic, it goes to internal even though SD is still selected! Very frustrating. I am on stock rom. I've tried "clear data" on the gallery and the camera app. I also tried, obviously, rebooting the phone. Been having this problem since I got the phone.
Mine works fine. It originally was set to store photos in internal storage but I changed it several months ago and now all my photos and videos go right into the dcmi folder on my sd card.
If the problem persists, I probably contact VZ tech support and talk to them about the issue. Are you rooted? If not maybe just call and get a replacement sent to you...
I seem to have found the issue by accident today. I found the button under manage storage that allows you to move all to sd. On inspection, turns out for whaever reason my internal and external are mounted backwards. If I set camera to store to internal memory it will use dcim on the sd. Also, if I select move all to sd, it takes the stuff from the sd and moves it to internal. Odd. I'm sure this will be solved when ics gets pushed or when I root and put a different rom on. Guess ill just deal with it for now.
So, yeah, i think i made a BIG mistake
for context: a week ago my 32gb SD card got corrupted, so i formatted it with my phone, while doing so i didn't pay much attention, so i just tapped without looking. (after looking it up on Google it seems that i tapped an option called "use SD card as internal storage").
the process said "this will take several minutes" and i thought it was normal . It ended up taking almost 2 HOURS (turns out the SD card was a cheap one) and most of my apps took a long time to open (and for games with big OBB files it didn't even load at all).
I was scared because i had very important stuff from my college that i didn't want to lose, so i asked on several sub reddits to see if anyone could help me but it was fruitless.
the next day, in the morning, i check my phone just to see most of my data was gone (music, documents, photos), everything was corrupted, files and folders now with random names of letters and numbers, and well at this point i was just dissapointed.
I can't use the camera, it says "insert SD card" (and without the SD card it won't even open the camera app), i can't take screenshots, download stuff, i can just use chrome, twitter and youtube.
If i remove the SD card and go to About Phone, in the storage tile it says "22gb/32gb" but when i tap to check the details it says "32gb/32gb" and it crashes (so the internal storage is still there, but like hidden ).The MIUI cleaner says "0b Avaliable".
Needless to say there's no "Eject SD card" option because the phone says the SD IS the internal storage.
I'm about to unlock the bootloader just in case the phone gets in a bootloop after doing a factory reset, just to be sure
I really hope you guys can help me