You probably came across this question before, and if you have htc one you will probably have the same problem..
I looked into a lot of threads but none found the answer.
When i go to storage, "other" is occupying 7gb of space.. That's pretty insane considering from other threads I saw it's only system or software os space and there is no way to look into it and find out what it is. I have 1 picture below and on the far left it says I have 25gb of storage.. Completely ignores those 7 other go cause I have a 32gb phone.
Some say it may be backup information, stuff you deleted and it stays there so if you need it back you can access it.
Is there any way to fix it? Without whiping everything cause that's proven to only decreases the size a bit. It's only getting bigger, I hope I can get rid of a big part of it so I can have more space. I'm not rooted.
Andromon 01 said:
You probably came across this question before, and if you have htc one you will probably have the same problem..
I looked into a lot of threads but none found the answer.
When i go to storage, "other" is occupying 7gb of space.. That's pretty insane considering from other threads I saw it's only system or software os space and there is no way to look into it and find out what it is. I have 1 picture below and on the far left it says I have 25gb of storage.. Completely ignores those 7 other go cause I have a 32gb phone.
Some say it may be backup information, stuff you deleted and it stays there so if you need it back you can access it.
Is there any way to fix it? Without whiping everything cause that's proven to only decreases the size a bit. It's only getting bigger, I hope I can get rid of a big part of it so I can have more space. I'm not rooted.
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Ok so your phone have a memory chip of 32gb.
Its divided in 37 different partitions.
Partitions 1 to 34 are reserved for the firmware (bootloader, secondary bootloader, recovery, radio, kernel, mfg, misc, drivers and some more).
partition 35 is the system
partition 36 is the cache
partition 37 is your user data partition and is composed of the remained space.
Available user memory is +/- 25gb for everyone.
That's not good.. So there's no way I can make that size smaller?
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I've had a scenario where the storage memory dropped to <5mb only. Coz of that I couldn't launch Youtube which required at least 8mb of memory.
I've tried stopping all running programs, using Memmaid and soft-resetting but to no avail. The memory remained at <5mb.
I only got back my storage memory to its optimum level on doing a hard reset. Is there a way I can regain storage memory without doing a hard reset?
I have the same problem. Have you been able to fix it without a hard reset? Tnx.
I had this problem yesterday, Lost about 12meg but i can't find where.
maybe opera stores its cache in the storage? but if it does i cant find where.
rumpleforeskin said:
I had this problem yesterday, Lost about 12meg but i can't find where.
maybe opera stores its cache in the storage? but if it does i cant find where.
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Try to run Advanced Config and change the storage folder for cache, downloads, temp files etc to internal memory. it may work. But my guess is that the storage memory is low to begin with. You run/install a couple of programs and it's in red.
My own solution is to flash to a "modified" ROM which gets rid of unnecessary pre-installed programs to free up space. Works wonders. Now I am not in red after installing like 20 programs on my diamond and believe me, it's MUCH faster. There is whole ROM section for diamond in xda-developers for you guys to play around. Read carefully and thoroughly before you try. It's not like adding a new software but you wipe out the ROM (Read only memory) and HTC will tell you that the warranty is void if you do that.
thanks for the info
im running TLR3 at the moment and generally happy with the amount of memory it left me, i was just a little supprised at having 12 mg dissapear on me.
i followed your advice about moving the caches to the internal storage, hope this will prevent the situation recoccuring.
thanks
I reformatted the Internal Memory (4GB) with the trialversion of CnetX Flash Format, using FAT32 with 16k clustersize (as opposed to 4k clustersize).
Starting large applications from the Internal Storage is now 25% faster. TT7 took 17 seconds from start to 100% route calculation, after formatting it takes 13 seconds.
Remember to backup internal storage first.
Format the internal storage is a good thing to do from time to time, i defrag it with Perfect Disk
omaga said:
Format the internal storage is a good thing to do from time to time, i defrag it with Perfect Disk
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Perfectdisk - sounds interesting...where did you get that from?
neilsupermac999 said:
Perfectdisk - sounds interesting...where did you get that from?
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http://tinyurl.com/awwxn3
JonInAtl said:
http://tinyurl.com/awwxn3
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The reason for asking the question is that googling 'perfect disk windows mobile' doesnt bring up anything particularly obvious in relation to defragging handset storage.
I'll refrain from passing any more comments on your post..but thank you...no...really.
omaga said:
Format the internal storage is a good thing to do from time to time, i defrag it with Perfect Disk
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Defrag a Flash based memory? This is absolute unnecessary:
Flash memory isn't accessed by a single read/write head. So it doesn't need its contained files to be made contiguous and moved closer together to speed access. This means that there is an unexpected - by me at any rate - benefit to flash memory compared to hard drives. You don't need to do so much house-keeping.
You may have applications that assume or require files in flash memory to be contiguous. In that case defragging would be a good idea. But wait, there is a problem. Flash memory only supports a finite number of writes and defraging involves a lot of writing. So by defragging flash you are shortening its working life.
neilsupermac999 said:
The reason for asking the question is that googling 'perfect disk windows mobile' doesnt bring up anything particularly obvious in relation to defragging handset storage.
I'll refrain from passing any more comments on your post..but thank you...no...really.
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I had the same results but after going ahead and looking at the demo version it's still not clear how Perfect Disk works with the Diamond internal storage.
--Never mind--
Figured it out, forgot I could use Settings/USB to PC to set device as a "removable disk". Works fine.
I have done that before and yes it does seem to speed up the phone
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Defrag a Flash based memory? This is absolute unnecessary:
Flash memory only supports a finite number of writes and defraging involves a lot of writing. So by defragging flash you are shortening its working life.
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So you would recommend not using the built in capability to use the Diamond memory as a removable disk or is there something in the defrag process that is substantially different than user read/writes related to working life?
Interesting that your post is a direct quote from a Nov 05 Techworld posting (for which you may have been the author). Here is a more contemporary and empirical exercise on the subject of fragmented flash memories:
http://www.lagom.nl/misc/flash_fragmentation.html
Having said all that, I didn't expect much just thought there might be some overhead cleanup, and I didn't worry over shortening the life of the memory, but could be convinced otherwise.
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Reformatting with bigger cluster size will give a bit better performance at the cost of space. You wont notice much unless there's loads of small files though. A 1 byte file will still take up the same amount of size on the disk as the cluster size. If a file is 1 byte larger then the cluster size it will take up the same amount of space as 2x the cluster size. In other words it will always round up.
Defrag a flash unit however I don't think is wise. I red that you should not defrag SSD drives for pc as it may affect the life span on them, and it makes no sense defraging them anyway since they are not accessed like a harddrive.
Trying very hard to keep the Internal Storage on my Eris @ 50% . Wonder how low I can really go before I run into issues ???? Too bad I'm not rooted otherwise I would move/install some of my apps to my 16GB MSD card.
gemro311 said:
Trying very hard to keep the Internal Storage on my Eris @ 50% . Wonder how low I can really go before I run into issues ???? Too bad I'm not rooted otherwise I would move/install some of my apps to my 16GB MSD card.
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Just try to make sure you're only hanging on to apps you actually use versus something that was cool for like 10 minutes and then forgotten. I would also reccomend wiping dalvik cache every now and then. Also there's a cool little app called app monster that allows you to store apps on your sd card. you can't run them but if its something you dont want to get rid of then you can have a back up.
why does it matter if your internal storage is at 50%?
Maybe a bit of obsessive complusive (not saying this to be derogatory) mixed with hoping to keep his phone as fast as possible?
Don't know about the compulsive part, but yeah I am looking to keep my phone "mean and lean". I gather I can load up my phone with tons of Apps and not be concerned about how little storage space I wind up with. By the way I am a Windows person , and learned the hard way . Tis not the case with Android?
Yea, the system paths are set up a little different in that respect. What's holding you back from rooting? If you're leaked, I understand, and sympathize. If it's warranty issues, then you can always recover and go back to stock. If you aren't sure how to do it, well there are plenty of how-to's and helpful people here. Apps 2 SD is pretty nice, and that's just the beginning...muahaha.
I was leaked the day it came out in March ..just my luck . Just wondered about space. Saw/heard on another forum where someone ran out of space and ran into issues. To me this is the best forum to get positive answers
I am coming from Vibrant in which when i mount the sd card, in my computer it would show 2 disks, one was internal and one was external, but in nexus one, even though i have external 16gb, but it only shows on which looks like it combines them
anyway in any custom roms, i have about 15 to 20 apps with not lot of data, but after than i get the low space notification. how to solve that issue, nothing seems to be going in my external 16gb at all.
i am sure there has to be a way, i heard something like app2sd but i dont know how to do that, or what is that mean.
can someone point me to the right direction thanks
Sorry, I don't get any "noticications".
A2SD/app2sd is basicly putting the apps on the SD card, instead of phone internal ROM.
Read my signature, go to Wiki, it'll point you to the relevant thread.
I'm having some trouble lately, maybe the past week? I keep seeing low memory, and I'll go in and delete some apps and it'll go away, and keeps coming back, I've cleared all my caches and such and am still hovering around 15-16MB of memory.. I rooted my phone about a month ago and flashed Fresh 2.4.0 onto it, and have really liked it versus stock! But, this low memory thing has me a little worried.. I've tried searching and haven't found much, anybody have any advice for me?
I've found that after wiping data and reinstalling my apps, I gained about 50 megs. Even with all the same apps and data from titanium restore... Just a lot of trash gets built up over time (it had been months since I had wiped data)
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Andrew486 said:
I'm having some trouble lately, maybe the past week? I keep seeing low memory, and I'll go in and delete some apps and it'll go away, and keeps coming back, I've cleared all my caches and such and am still hovering around 15-16MB of memory.. I rooted my phone about a month ago and flashed Fresh 2.4.0 onto it, and have really liked it versus stock! But, this low memory thing has me a little worried.. I've tried searching and haven't found much, anybody have any advice for me?
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Use firerat's internal partition mod...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754805
It repartitions the internal space. When youre donr you have 2-300 mb of space for apps and cache. Very simple to do
you have a few choices here
1. switch to an odex'd build these have more internal space because of how odexing works
2. modify your partition like PMDColeslaw suggested
3. delete some of the apps your not using, i know on my phone i can name atleast 6 apps i have installed that i use barely at best
Andrew486 said:
I'm having some trouble lately, maybe the past week? I keep seeing low memory, and I'll go in and delete some apps and it'll go away, and keeps coming back, I've cleared all my caches and such and am still hovering around 15-16MB of memory.. I rooted my phone about a month ago and flashed Fresh 2.4.0 onto it, and have really liked it versus stock! But, this low memory thing has me a little worried.. I've tried searching and haven't found much, anybody have any advice for me?
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If you switch to cm, you'll gain about 50 mb of storage immediately
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