Hey guys. I was on the ICS4Bionic ROM by dhacker and used Safestrap, going through a normal installation and boot and everything. After deeming it as not usable daily for me, I decided to back out and return to my debloated stock 2.3.
That was actually my first time using Safestrap, so a few things are unclear to me. Once I toggled safe mode off and returned to my stock ROM, to 'back out' completely (just gives me a peace of mind), I uninstalled recovery and also used Root Explorer to delete the safestrap folder in my internal SD (had a large 300MB folder 'orig' in it). One thing I notice is that my application storage seems lower than before (3.29GB as opposed to 3.5GB+, which would seem more normal to me). Is there something large left over taking up this space that I'm not aware of?
My primary storage location is the external SD (pictures/video/music), so the only thing taking up my application storage is obviously apps. But these definitely don't take ~700MB of space. Could anyone weigh in on whether this really is just my apps and I'm just being miscalculating or if it has anything to do with my use of Safestrap earlier? If it has anything to do with the latter, how do I go about recovering that space so it's available for my use again?
Thanks.
Alright so I've been doing some reading.. I forgot that everything from the enabled safe mode is in the 'preinstall' partition. I went to that folder (/preinstall) and ALL the apks from the ICS4Bionic are still there. The app folder inside takes up over 250MB, which I'm assuming is the missing space I've been asking about.
Before I do anything rash, I want to know if it's unsafe for me to touch the /preinstall folder and get rid of these apps. Do I delete everything in the /preinstall folder (there are many other folders i.e. xbin, fonts, framework, etc.) or will that kill my chance of ever using Safestrap again? I just want my space back. I have no need for any of those ICS apps at the present time.
It also seems that I have TWO preinstall folders; one in /system and one at the first level of the internal SD.
Permissions for the one at the base level of internal SD: rwxrwx--x
Date: 11 Feb 12
Permissions for the one in /system: rwxrwxrwx (and a '-> preinstall' to the right of said permissions)
Date: 15 Aug 11
Yet BOTH preinstall folders have those apps from the ICS4Bionic ROM and other folders that were created on 11 Feb 12. I'm very confused.
I'm very confused about the storage on my Moto G 2nd Gen 2014, running stock KitKat.
If I look at System Settings - Storage, for the Internal Storage it shows Total 5.51GB, Available 1.08GB, Apps 6.06GB (what!), Pictures 7.09MB, Audio 220KB, Downloads 24.49MB, Cached data 389MB, Misc 316MB.
Link2SD - Storage Info shows the same 5.51GB Total, 1.08GB Available for Internal /data and SD Card /storage/emulated/legacy.
When I look with ES File Explorer, it shows 5.51GB Total and 4.43GB Used for my internal SD (/storage/sdcard0 or storage/emulated/0). However, checking the properties of the folders, they don't add up to anything like that and if I run SD Card Analyst with Root Explorer and Show Hidden Files enabled and tap Directory Analyse it finds a total of 735.78MB, with Apps being only 42.30MB, Others 460.79MB, Audio 194.90MB, Picture 15.19MB, Document 17.79MB and Video 4.82MB. In the folder view sorted by size it shows Android 402.12MB, Recordings 109.34MB, voix 82.82MB, TunnyBrowser 50.58MB, com.alk.copilot.mapviewer 27.20MB, Download 24.41MB, six more folders under 10MB and 40 more under 1MB, with about half of those showing 0.00B.
So can anyone explain what's going on here, as I'm completely baffled?
Just bumping in the hope someone will see this who can help me.
Depending on how an app works when it stores it's data on the microSD it can still show in the Settings>Storage as on the internal memory (WoT Blitz did this when I had that installed) so that can make your apps look like you have 6.6GB on the internal memory, also in a file explorer the directory in which Android, DCIM, Music, Ringtones ect. is not the 'top most' directory, in ES File Explorer you can hit the '/' (also called Device) in the top bar and there are a load more files there. If you do a 'Select all'>Properties does that come close to the 4.4GB space used?
jay2the1 said:
Depending on how an app works when it stores it's data on the microSD it can still show in the Settings>Storage as on the internal memory (WoT Blitz did this when I had that installed) so that can make your apps look like you have 6.6GB on the internal memory, also in a file explorer the directory in which Android, DCIM, Music, Ringtones ect. is not the 'top most' directory, in ES File Explorer you can hit the '/' (also called Device) in the top bar and there are a load more files there. If you do a 'Select all'>Properties does that come close to the 4.4GB space used?
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Hmm, I am using Obb2SD to move all my game data from Android/Obb to the external SD card, so maybe that's confusing it but that seems like it could be a problem as if it think the internal storage is full even when there's really plenty of space free, I imagine it will start throwing up errors and won't allow me to store anything else on it, which rather defeats the point of moving the games in the first place.
If I do select all->properties from / that includes my external SD as well and totals 46.42GB. Even if I unselect /mnt and /storage it still comes to 8.03GB which can't be just the internal storage as that's only 8GB in total and I supposedly have 1.43GB free on that. Just /data is 6.21GB.
You do know that your internal storage is a combination of your phone storage and internal storage right?
In case you didn't know just open root explorer and go to data folder (long press and select properties) and calculate how much storage it use...then do the same things with systems folder...then combined data storage + system storage + internal storage used and you will get almost the same amount like in settings/storages show you...
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When I say Internal storage I simply mean that which is not the external SD card. I don't know what the difference between phone storage and internal storage is though, as far as I'm aware there's just 8GB internal storage.
Checking the properties for /data shows it as 6.21GB (6.31GB Used), so I suppose with 1.08GB available that totals 7.39GB which could be close enough to 8GB to be correct. /system is 1.17GB. Still doesn't make any sense that Settings - Storage and Link2SD shows Total 5.51GB, 1.01GB Available but Apps as 6.06GB. Nor does it make any sense that the Homepage in ES File Explorer shows 4.28GB used on 0 but tapping that, which takes me to emulated/0 and selecting everything, Properties only shows 700MB used.
Doing directory analyse on /data shows the majority in Others 3.70GB, then Apps 1.95GB. It's a pain there's no way to see how much storage is used by each folder without checking Properties for each one individually but if I untick all the folders starting with a then the total is 4.06GB (4.15GB used), so there's about 2.15GB in those folders. Unticking all the folders starting with b through d drops it down to 2.07GB (2.12GB Used) so they account for another 2GB. Digging deeper I can see that /data/app uses 1.73GB, /data/app-lib uses 432.15MB, /data/data uses 1.25GB, data/dalvik-cache uses 717.77MB, /data/media/ uses 554.41MB, /data/sdext2 uses 272.20MB, /data/user uses 1.25GB and everything else is inconsequential. Adding those up comes to roughly 6.2GB, which exceeds the Total 5.51GB that Settings - Storage shows, even without adding the 1.17GB from /system.
None of this helps me understand what in those folders is using up all the space though, so does anyone know of an app that will show the space used by folder, like Treesize for Windows?
Can no-one help me make sense of this? The weirdest thing is that 0 (Internal storage) in ES File Explorer's Home screen shows 4.28GB but opening that folder and selecting all the folders gives a total of only 700MB, which doesn't make any sense.
I see that Titanium Backup can produce a list of apps sorted by space used, so I'll try adding those up manually and see what they total. I have linked a few large apps to the external SD with Link2SD though, so they shouldn't be using any internal storage and I'll have to subtract their amounts from the total.
Well I decided to wipe data and dalvik-cache (i.e. factory reset) from TWRP and start again, to try and get to the bottom of this.
TWRP showed about 370MB out of 5.51GB used after wiping. After booting, this was about 560MB (I guess due to the dalvik cache repopulating, currently 258.98MB) and by the time Google Play had finished updating the pre-installed apps, this had risen to 1.27GB.
The majority of this, 1.17GB, is in /Data. Settings - Storage shows 4.24GB out of 5.51GB available. ES File Explorer is a bit stupid, as it shows the same in the Homepage the same for 0 (i.e. 1.27GB used out of 5.51GB) but tapping that links to emulated/0 (which is just an alternative path to /storage/sdcard0), which only has a total of 4.32MB in it. What the Homepage shows is actually the used space from root (i.e. /) so it should show and link to that, not /storage/ emulated/0.
Another anomaly is that /data/data and /data/user are alternative paths to the same place, containing 230.99MB, which results in it getting counted twice, so really there's only a total of 965.51MB of files in /data, not 1.17GB. Obviously as /data/data grows, that's going to result in even more space being doubly allocated and thus unavailable, i.e. if I have 1GB in /data/data, it's going to reduce my free space by 2GB.
I also notice that /data/app contains all the apks for the apps that are installed. I thought apks were just install packages, like Windows msi or exe installs and that when installed they unpacked to somewhere, so isn't it just wasting space keeping all of the apks here? It's only 357.19MB at the moment but when I checked it before I factory reset it was 1+, maybe 2+ GB, so that's obviously a lot of space to waste out of 5.51GB.
Hopefully someone can help me clear up these questions, as I don't want to start reinstalling all my apps yet if I might need to wipe it all again to reset it. I've backed up everything with Titanium but it's still quite a hassle, as there doesn't seem to be a way to make a list of installed (as opposed to backed up but not installed, or frozen) apps before wiping and then restore just those afterwards, so I'll have to go through the list and try and remember what I didn't have installed before and de-select those.
Hi. 2 weeks ago, I updated my i9295 to the official 5.0.1 update. Upon checking the internal storage, I notice something strange with the amount of space used. Thinking that there are some files from CM12 that have not been deleted yet, I decided to factory restore my phone. However, after restoring all my apps and data, the issue still persists.
From the screenshots attached below, it says that the Used Space takes 4.60 GB. Clicking on that, I'm presented with a more specific breakdown. However, if I were to add everything, it only amounts to 1.28 GB. Same thing applies to the Miscellaneous Files; it says that it takes 4.39 GB but adding the size of every file, it totals to just 2.52 GB. How can I know what files are in the unaccounted 5.19 GB?
Hello guys I just checked my storage today and I found 15gb other files, and I can't find out what those files exactly!
I used es explorer and other many files manager and I read it's a bug after the latest update not forget to mention I'm on oos 4.1.3 not rooted.
Any thoughts?
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Same thing happening​ with me.
Freedom os 2.7
Yeah same, mines at 13gb on freedom OS beta 7 and this is the 13gb which I can't account for. I have used multiple file explorers too see where this storage is but I can't find any files or anything.
"Other" means the rest of the Data on your phone which is not a Video, Audio or some Images.
This data could be application data, any files that you may have downloaded from the internet, The Temp data, Thumbnail Cache yadda yadda yadda.
It's basically anything else on your storage other than the Three i mentioned earlier. As you add more files on your storage which is not recognised by the Phone as an Audio, Video or an Image, it gets categorized as "Others"
Lol, had the same "problem" today - wondering about that much Space occupied by "Other" Data - most of it came from my TWRP backups maybe it's the same for you?
Hi folks, because 64 GByte overall memory were to less, I inserted a 128 GByte SD-card and defined it as internal storage, so I could move data and apps to it (adb> sm partition disk:179,128 private / pm move-primary-storage 74dd4781-*****). Since update miui_LANCELOTEEAGlobal_V13.0.1.0.SJCEUXM_64ecf18c80_12.0.zip was published, updating by Recovery method always fails, see screenshots attached.
Will there be a chance performing update by Fastboot method (dirty flash) of lancelot_eea_global_images_V13.0.1.0.SJCEUXM_20221115.0000.00_12.0_eea_d84edf24d3.tgz with script flash_all_except_data_storage.bat, or will that fail due to my storage tweak, too? Of course I wouldn't like to lose all data/apps or even the phone itself. Any idea or suggestion from an expirienced user?
Hmm..
Start by making a backup to online storage or better usb stick or NAS
Options:
Find where the "update.zip" is located.
Boot into recovery choose update from zip..go to location zip file
Or
Copy zip file to internal storage directory :
/downloaded_rom
Make sure it's called "update.zip"
Reboot phone..it should say update found.
Good luck