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Notification says i'm low on storage. I should have 1gb left

I keep getting a persistant low storage notification. It persists even after switching roms as soon as I restore all of my apps. In settings it shows that I have about 1 gb free. However, many of my apps are on the sd card and the phone will not allow me to move them to primary storage because it says I don't have any free storage on the device.
What's going on here? How can I fix it?

Are you on CM7 or 9? Both of these put their application data in a smaller partition than the Samsung ROMs for speed reasons, but you can run out of space much more easily. Download a cache cleaner from the market, clear out all of your application caches, and see if that resolves the issue.

Also, move movable apps to sd card
Sent from my CM9 ICS i897 Captivate

apbthe3 said:
Are you on CM7 or 9? Both of these put their application data in a smaller partition than the Samsung ROMs for speed reasons, but you can run out of space much more easily. Download a cache cleaner from the market, clear out all of your application caches, and see if that resolves the issue.
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I was on cm7. Now I'm on a asop ICS rom.

k2snowboards88 said:
I was on cm7. Now I'm on a asop ICS rom.
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I believe AOSP ROMs are the same. Clear caches and move apps to SD.

apbthe3 said:
Are you on CM7 or 9? Both of these put their application data in a smaller partition than the Samsung ROMs for speed reasons, but you can run out of space much more easily. Download a cache cleaner from the market, clear out all of your application caches, and see if that resolves the issue.
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I'm getting the same message just recently and I too have over 1 gb phone storage left... so is this number wrong? I understand what u mean about apps on smaller partition but does that mean it actually smaller then the 2gb space? I'm on cm9. Sgsics 4.0.3 rc 4.2
So even though I have over 1.2 gb of phone storage left and over 8 gb of USB storage left I should still be installing on ext SD? And or cache cleaner? Is there way to find out how much app storage space I get on these roms? I'm only using 743mb thus far. Does this mean I will run out soon even though it says I have lots of room left?
Thanks
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As I understand it, it's not that it is a wrong number so much as an incomplete one. The apps are installed there, but their cache, settings, databases, etc actually live in data/data for performance reasons. This is the partition that is actually full. You can check the available space with a terminal emulator by typing "df datadata" (without the quotes, of course."
This is why clearing app caches usually helps.

apbthe3 said:
As I understand it, it's not that it is a wrong number so much as an incomplete one. The apps are installed there, but their cache, settings, databases, etc actually live in data/data for performance reasons. This is the partition that is actually full. You can check the available space with a terminal emulator by typing "df datadata" (without the quotes, of course."
This is why clearing app caches usually helps.
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Hi i have the same problem. I have 1,5 GB free for the internal storage but running "df datadata" command reveal partition seized 172 MB used 161 MB free 10MB ...
How can i fix this? I also have 32GB SD card completely FREE
I moved some apps to SD card but that does not free up space. Is there a way to resize this partition?

can i resize device memory 2gb !!!

when i install apps and some apps need to install in device memory and phone go very slow , i have 16 gb integrated and 16gb sd but device memory is only 2gb very interesting, if have any solution please help.

Witch memory are you talkin about?
RAM, you cannot do anything unless removing bloatware.
Storage aera, you can try to move some apps to external sdcard or use the preload partition.
Anyway, phone slowing down is the sign of low RAM, so you should try to remove apps you are not using.
Search here in XDA for apps safe to remove like "social hub", "music hub" and so on.
Remember that you'll need a rooted device to do so.

lionelia said:
Witch memory are you talkin about?
RAM, you cannot do anything unless removing bloatware.
Storage aera, you can try to move some apps to external sdcard or use the preload partition.
Anyway, phone slowing down is the sign of low RAM, so you should try to remove apps you are not using.
Search here in XDA for apps safe to remove like "social hub", "music hub" and so on.
Remember that you'll need a rooted device to do so.
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Im talking about system storage it is very small , and i think this is a problem why phone work very slow , have any way to resize it or to merge with internal memoty 16gb or sd card 16.gb, now i use 4.1.2 jelly bean , i try some differ
ent rom but with all i face same ptoblem.

svchost said:
Im talking about system storage it is very small , and i think this is a problem why phone work very slow , have any way to resize it or to merge with internal memoty 16gb or sd card 16.gb, now i use 4.1.2 jelly bean , i try some differ
ent rom but with all i face same ptoblem.
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You can repartition your Internal storage increasing "data" partition - to have more than 2GB for installing apps. Look in the forum. I've seen repartition info for 4GB,6GB etc. Just search in forum.

[Question] How to free up as much space as possible?

Hey All!
I'm taking a trip soon and I want as much space as possible on my device for pictures and such. I'm currently using 25 GBs of my storage on my 32 GB Nexus 6. The issue is, under storage, it doesn't show anywhere near 25 GBs being use. I think out of all my pictures and apps and videos it equals something like 11 GBs.
My question is: Why am I using 25 GBs of storage when my apps and such only take up 11GBs? And how do I fix it so that I have more free storage on my phone? I know I can wipe internal storage in TWRP but recently I did that on an HTC One and it royally screwed up the phone to the point where I had to reinstall windows drivers and all kinds of other stuff.
Thanks for the help.

EasyTiger6x13 said:
Hey All!
I'm taking a trip soon and I want as much space as possible on my device for pictures and such. I'm currently using 25 GBs of my storage on my 32 GB Nexus 6. The issue is, under storage, it doesn't show anywhere near 25 GBs being use. I think out of all my pictures and apps and videos it equals something like 11 GBs.
My question is: Why am I using 25 GBs of storage when my apps and such only take up 11GBs? And how do I fix it so that I have more free storage on my phone? I know I can wipe internal storage in TWRP but recently I did that on an HTC One and it royally screwed up the phone to the point where I had to reinstall windows drivers and all kinds of other stuff.
Thanks for the help.
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32GB Nexus 6 only has ~25.9gb of total usable space which is due to the full 32gb being split up for other partitions including the OS, cahce, recovery, etc. If you want to free up space then you need to delete things you're storing on the phone, so uninstall apps you don't need, delete pictures/videos after backing them up somewhere whether it be the cloud or a PC, clear cached data I would recommend going into the apps list to do this rather than the storage list as the storage list will just wipe all cache and some apps will just download the missing files back the first time you use them. If you use google music then going into the app and clearing its cache in its settings is a cleaner solution since it stores its cache as "app data". Uninstall updates and disable system apps you aren't using (preventing their updates from taking up storage space).
Now if you don't care about anything that's currently on your phone then a factory reset will clear basically everything from your phone including google accounts (there's a security feature requiring you to sign in after resetting), apps, files, everything that is possible to remove without heavy modification. After doing this, again disable preinstalled apps in settings that you won't use so that they don't download updates which take up internal storage.

StykerB said:
32GB Nexus 6 only has ~25.9gb of total usable space which is due to the full 32gb being split up for other partitions including the OS, cahce, recovery, etc. If you want to free up space then you need to delete things you're storing on the phone, so uninstall apps you don't need, delete pictures/videos after backing them up somewhere whether it be the cloud or a PC, clear cached data I would recommend going into the apps list to do this rather than the storage list as the storage list will just wipe all cache and some apps will just download the missing files back the first time you use them. If you use google music then going into the app and clearing its cache in its settings is a cleaner solution since it stores its cache as "app data". Uninstall updates and disable system apps you aren't using (preventing their updates from taking up storage space).
Now if you don't care about anything that's currently on your phone then a factory reset will clear basically everything from your phone including google accounts (there's a security feature requiring you to sign in after resetting), apps, files, everything that is possible to remove without heavy modification. After doing this, again disable preinstalled apps in settings that you won't use so that they don't download updates which take up internal storage.
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Would you say it's safe to wipe internal storage in TWRP? I don't mind having to reinstall my apps and such again I just basically want a blank slate and as much storage as possible.

EasyTiger6x13 said:
Would you say it's safe to wipe internal storage in TWRP? I don't mind having to reinstall my apps and such again I just basically want a blank slate and as much storage as possible.
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Well just wiping internal storage in TWRP will just wipe the section where you store your music/docs/photos...if you want to completely wipe the phone and start from "out of the box new", you'll need to wipe the device and reload the factory images.

wiping internal storage wont wipe your apps. It will wipe your userdata, the stuff that is on your "sd card". Apps are under /data
You can wipe internal storage.

Q: Good ROM for Che2-L11 ?

Which ROM would you recommend for Honor 4X - Che2-L11 ( cherryplus, Kirin 620)? I need to fix my girlfriend's phone
She needs stable ROM with working radio (so Nougat from here won't work), headphones, good battery life and enough internal storage (or possibility to move apps to SD or use adoptable storage with microSD) for apps.
Android 4.4.2 was relatively fine, but it is old. Then we upgraded to stock 6.0 (B570), however she had problems with lack of internal storage - it was not possible to move apps to SD card (4.4.2 was better in that) and adoptable storage didn't work properly (apps are crashing, reporting not enough space, new apps can't be installed etc). Then we tried RROS on Nougat from ksrt12, where adoptable storage seems to work fine, but radio and headphones don't work and there is quite high battery drain (15% per night with data disabled).
Which ROM would you recommend?

lapist said:
Which ROM would you recommend?
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If you are OK with Android 6, you can try Modaco. This was the rom I used before I switched to RROS recently.
You should get a Class 10 SD card (32 Gb if possible). Install Apps2SD from play store and partition the card. First partition FAT32, second partition Ext4, then you move apps to SD card's second partition. (If you wish, you can create three partitions, and use one of them as 'adoptable storage'. I did that.) Modaco rom has a lot of free space on the system partition, so you can move many apps there, which also saves space. But apps that have been moved to system partition will be moved back to internal storage when they are updated.
I had so much free space that I never came close to filling up the storage. But I think regular XDA users would get kinda bored using this rom, as it is basically EMUI with a little bit stock feel.
The only things not working were the default clock and the compass. Clock you can just install another clock app from play store. Compass. .. I never found how to fix. Detecting headphones works and all the other hardware things, as this is basically a modified EMUI 4. I should also add that I don't know if you can flash this from RROS, as that would be "downgrading" from Android 7 to Android 6.

Bob1900 said:
If you are OK with Android 6, you can try Modaco. This was the rom I used before I switched to RROS recently.
You should get a Class 10 SD card (32 Gb if possible). Install Apps2SD from play store and partition the card. First partition FAT32, second partition Ext4, then you move apps to SD card's second partition. (If you wish, you can create three partitions, and use one of them as 'adoptable storage'. I did that.) Modaco rom has a lot of free space on the system partition, so you can move many apps there, which also saves space. But apps that have been moved to system partition will be moved back to internal storage when they are updated.
I had so much free space that I never came close to filling up the storage. But I think regular XDA users would get kinda bored using this rom, as it is basically EMUI with a little bit stock feel.
The only things not working were the default clock and the compass. Clock you can just install another clock app from play store. Compass. .. I never found how to fix. Detecting headphones works and all the other hardware things, as this is basically a modified EMUI 4. I should also add that I don't know if you can flash this from RROS, as that would be "downgrading" from Android 7 to Android 6.
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Thank you for the advice. I see Modaco has 2 ROMs - EMUI style and Stock style beta. Which one did you use?
With use of Apps2SD, does it move all apps to Ext4 partition on the card, or just selected ones? Or is it basically just remapping internal storage to Ext4 partition on the card?
If I have just 16 GB card for this phone, how do you suggest to repartition it?
If there is so much free space on the system partition, isn't it possible to decrease size of system partition somehow and enlarge internal storage instead?

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Thank you for the advice. I see Modaco has 2 ROMs - EMUI style and Stock style beta. Which one did you use?
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It must have been the Stock style beta. I didn't know there was another version.
lapist said:
With use of Apps2SD, does it move all apps to Ext4 partition on the card, or just selected ones? Or is it basically just remapping internal storage to Ext4 partition on the card?
If there is so much free space on the system partition, isn't it possible to decrease size of system partition somehow and enlarge internal storage instead?
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Apps2SD moves the files of apps to the SD card and creates symbolic links, so the system "thinks" the apps are still on the internal storage. In Apps2SD this process is called to link apps. Just so you know the terminology. It is very configurable, so you can choose which apps to move/link to the SD card.
What you describe, to repartition /system, sounds like a good idea, but I don't know enough about Android to say if it is possible. You would probably need some recovery program that can repartition the internal storage. Can TWRP do that? I don't know. This is above my league, sorry.
UPDATE: I found this guide for how to repartition the internal storage. But I haven't tried it.

I installed that MoDaCo EMUI style ROM, partitioned my SD card and made Apps2SD working. So far it looks fine.
However, does it still make sense to use MoDaCo EMUI ROM, which is based on B506 firmware, when there is B580 stock available? Yes MoDaCo has more internal memory free (3.28 GB vs 2.50 GB), but it has security patches only from March 2016, while B580 has July 2017 and who knows how good tweaks Huawei added since B506...

lapist said:
who knows how good tweaks Huawei added since B506...
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I have two Che2-L11 phones, and one of them was running B580 until a few weeks ago. The few small improvements Huawei added are not even worth the upgrade. However, if security concerns you, I would give RROS another try. About your headphones problem, I don't see why it should not work. It works on my phone. (Note three-conductor is detected and switched on, but not four-conductor.)

Bob1900 said:
I have two Che2-L11 phones, and one of them was running B580 until a few weeks ago. The few small improvements Huawei added are not even worth the upgrade. However, if security concerns you, I would give RROS another try. About your headphones problem, I don't see why it should not work. It works on my phone. (Note three-conductor is detected and switched on, but not four-conductor.)
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I also don't know why headphones without microphone didn't work with RROS for us, but it can be also related to parts of firmware that are not flashed together with RROS and they remain from previous full firmware (like modem firmware, hifi.img, dsp.img etc). Also before we flashed RROS, we had Marshmallow B570 showing Balong firmware (in the past, we upgraded from 4.4.2 to B570, but it seems she had Malaysian region set in the phone for some reason - I fixed it now) in the phone.
Unfortunatelly my girlfriend (she has this phone) wants to have headphones and radio fully working (RROS doesn't have radio as far as I know), so it seems as no go for RROS...

Can you help me to find a valid link to download modoco r7 EMUI style plz.

Taito2020 said:
Can you help me to find a valid link to download modoco r7 EMUI style plz.
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Did you try this download link? (Please read the instructions carefully. )

Yes , but unfortunately I got connection refused ... did you try to open the link cause I got error "connection refused" ? just to check the link.

Huawei P8 Lite 2017 SDCard Usage

I purchased a 64GB SDcard for my Huawei P8 thinking I could use it as internal storage so Apps could be stored on it as the current 16GB of memory is not enough.
Only to find that using the stock ROM the only thing you can move to the SDCard are files (Pics etc.) not Apps.
Is this a hardware or software restriction?
If I install a custom ROM will I be able to use my SDCard as internal storage and store Apps on it?
Any recommendations as to the best roms to use?

jeffers24 said:
I purchased a 64GB SDcard for my Huawei P8 thinking I could use it as internal storage so Apps could be stored on it as the current 16GB of memory is not enough.
Only to find that using the stock ROM the only thing you can move to the SDCard are files (Pics etc.) not Apps.
Is this a hardware or software restriction?
If I install a custom ROM will I be able to use my SDCard as internal storage and store Apps on it?
Any recommendations as to the best roms to use?
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I'd like to know that as well

the gladiator said:
I'd like to know that as well
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/p8...on/how-adoptable-storage-oreopra-lx1-t3800073
Difficult in Oreo, a simple ADB hack in Nougat - and apparently inherited if updated to Oreo