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"Not enough memory delete some items"

Hello,
I am new with Android and I need your help...
I recently bought the 8GB galaxy s. I have about 13 applications installed from the market in the internal sd and I have bought an external sd of 16GB yesterday where I placed all my music and photos. Suddenly today I try to open the galery and the "Not enough memory delete some items" comes up. I checked the internal SD card and from a total og 5.78GB I now have 160kb left!!! I checked where alla the spce went and it went to a file called Adroid. I think this happened since I put the external sd. Does anyone know what might have happened..
Thanks,
Chryssa

Make sure that the directory you copy your music files are really the microsd card. Lots of people get confused between these two directory.
Other than that check what directory in the android directory are taking up the space. The name of the directory will often correspond to the application.
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kcharng said:
Make sure that the directory you copy your music files are really the microsd card. Lots of people get confused between these two directory.
Other than that check what directory in the android directory are taking up the space. The name of the directory will often correspond to the application.
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Thanks for replying. The directory is the right one. I found the problem the file named Android which had inside a folder named Data and in there com.cooliris.media- cache was eating all my free space for thumbnails of photos! I deleted itand I got back all the space with no problems. I wonder why it did that though....
Chryssa

Bug most likely. Glad you resolved the problem.
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Keep in mind there is a different between RAM (512Mb) and Storage space (8GB).
the error message could also have been referring to not enough RAM memory, rather than not enough Storage memory.
chryssa33 said:
Hello,
I am new with Android and I need your help...
I recently bought the 8GB galaxy s. I have about 13 applications installed from the market in the internal sd and I have bought an external sd of 16GB yesterday where I placed all my music and photos. Suddenly today I try to open the galery and the "Not enough memory delete some items" comes up. I checked the internal SD card and from a total og 5.78GB I now have 160kb left!!! I checked where alla the spce went and it went to a file called Adroid. I think this happened since I put the external sd. Does anyone know what might have happened..
Thanks,
Chryssa
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I get this message from time to time recently as well. I have lots of ram space left and lots of internal memory left as well. Whenever I get this message, the phone cannot read the internal and external sd cards. I usually solve it by wiping cache.
Anyone else with this issue?

Yes! I just tried to download an app yesterday, and the phone told me I did not have enough space. I have 1.7 GB left of internal storage not to mention the 1.6 GB of Internal SD card storage. Any idea what is causing this?

trekki said:
Yes! I just tried to download an app yesterday, and the phone told me I did not have enough space. I have 1.7 GB left of internal storage not to mention the 1.6 GB of Internal SD card storage. Any idea what is causing this?
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Move some apps to the sd card.

Thanks, now my Problem has been solved.

delete the Market Updates. It will revert back to the Old MArket but you will be able to install new apps.

i'm a iphone user, but i'm a IT so very often i got android phones in my hands for maintenance, updates and stuff related
i got an s2 sgh-i898, it was having issues about 'not enough internal memory' i bought a 16Gb SD card and do the required steps to change al the downloaded stuff transferred to the SD card, and set up (via command line) the phone, so the next items will always be installed in the SD card, but now i got the same problem and the same issue of low memory, i have done the cache cleaning and yet it still shows that had around 70Mb free space, now i'm wondering what else could be eating so much memory??

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i got an s2 sgh-i898,
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diras2010 said:
i'm a iphone user, but i'm a IT so very often i got android phones in my hands for maintenance, updates and stuff related
i got an s2 sgh-i898, it was having issues about 'not enough internal memory' i bought a 16Gb SD card and do the required steps to change al the downloaded stuff transferred to the SD card, and set up (via command line) the phone, so the next items will always be installed in the SD card, but now i got the same problem and the same issue of low memory, i have done the cache cleaning and yet it still shows that had around 70Mb free space, now i'm wondering what else could be eating so much memory??
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apps have also big data.
try to delete some apps or app data.

Where are only 70MB free space? which mountpoint?
diras2010 said:
i'm a iphone user, but i'm a IT so very often i got android phones in my hands for maintenance, updates and stuff related
i got an s2 sgh-i898, it was having issues about 'not enough internal memory' i bought a 16Gb SD card and do the required steps to change al the downloaded stuff transferred to the SD card, and set up (via command line) the phone, so the next items will always be installed in the SD card, but now i got the same problem and the same issue of low memory, i have done the cache cleaning and yet it still shows that had around 70Mb free space, now i'm wondering what else could be eating so much memory??
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[Q] making the external SD primary SD

I just got the OpX2 and 16 GB SD to use with it. I found out the hard way the phone can only uses the internal SD (5.5 GB). This makes the phone practically unusable! There is a setting to unmount the internal SD, but that also unmounts the external SD >:-(
I'm thinking: Root the device and mount the external SD as primary.
Has anybody tried this?
Update:
I started this thread because I was angry about my Spotify cache did not fit on the 5.5 GB internal SD. But Instead of mounting the cards differently, I figured well maintained Apps will gain support for this kind of internal/eternal storage so changing the mount points might disturb other apps, I hacked the Spotify apk to put the chache on the external SD card. The path to the eternal storage is hard-coded not a setting, anyways I changed it from /sdcard[/spoify2] to /sdcard/_ExternalSD[/spotify2].
Here is a link to the modified Spotify apk.

Yeah, I would like to know this too.

What exactly are the problem you think you have which makes it unusable ?

If you add a 32 gb SD card then it is seen as external SD card and you cannot use it to install applications on because the internal storage is mounted as "internal memory" and "SD card". That's the problem.

Well, it would need a kernel change first but it can be done:
First:
mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 to something other than /sdcard at boot
Then:
mount /<your mount point>/_ExternalSD at /sdcard
I think your SD card would have to have an EXT partition which is what would be used. And because of this there's little point.

ULJ said:
If you add a 32 gb SD card then it is seen as external SD card and you cannot use it to install applications on because the internal storage is mounted as "internal memory" and "SD card". That's the problem.
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No that is not really a problem. You can never install applications on the SD card - no matter if its internal or external (unless you hack the phone)
On android phones, theres a dedicated apps partition where apps get installed, on most phones this partition is only a few hundred mb big (the Desire for instance only has 145mb), on the LG it is 1.45gb - besides this internal apps partition Android 2.2 has a function called "move to sd" which you can select for individual applications. This function only moves some part of the application to the SD card but still leaves some part of the application in the apps partition. Hov much you can move and if you can move anything at all depends on every individual application - some apps dont support this function, others only move little to the SD card, and then others again move a larger part to the SD card.
Its true that when using this function you are limited to the internal SD card which is an extra 5.5 gb - but the point is that this is plenty space for apps, because Android apps dont take up GB's of space. They are mostly very small (few kb or mb) and hundreds of these will easily fit inside the 1.45gb apps partition, except for a few 3d games which make take up an additional 1-300mb of gametextures being stored on the SD card.
But overall you have easily around 6gb for apps storage which is plenty of space for this particular purpose for almost anyone, no matter what use they have. It would normally mean allowing for hundreds of varied apps to be installed. Just dont fill up the internal SD card with other things like mediafiles (music, video etc.) - instead place these kind of files on the external SD card.
Talking about the phone being unusable because it "only" has around 6gb of apps space is a little silly. Sure if the only apps you want to install are 3d games and we imagine each of them taking up 200mb for textures - then you are limited to 30 games, or 60 games if each take up 100mb (unless some of them would allow the textures to be installed on the external SD card) - but how likely is that scenario ? And even if, it doesnt really make the phone "unusable" - then you would just prioritize and install the 20-40 most important ones. Noone "needs" to have 30-60 3d games installed at the same time on a phone. You cant even get 30 3d games of that size currently.

I don't have any interest in storing apps on the SD, I want apps that store things on SD to have enough space.
I might want to use Spotify (a music player streaming music from a remote server). This app has the possibility to cache music so you do not have to wast your battery on constantly streaming over 3G/wifi and also have it available where connection speeds are low or no connection is available, or if you are abroad.
All in all the standard music cache I had on my Desire HD (before it was stolen in Cambodia) will nott fit on the 5.5GB of internal SD and if I cut it down to fit, I will still have problems with other apps like map applications that also need a lot of storage. The phone camera also stores it's pictures on the internal SD.
There are just so many reasons why what LG has done is stupid. It's a top of the line phone, why on earth limit the external SD used by applications to 5.5GB when you otherwise could put in 32GB SD-card??

sorech said:
I don't have any interest in storing apps on the SD, I want apps that store things on SD to have enough space.
I might want to use Spotify (a music player streaming music from a remote server). This app has the possibility to cache music so you do not have to wast your battery on constantly streaming over 3G/wifi and also have it available where connection speeds are low or no connection is available, or if you are abroad.
All in all the standard music cache I had on my Desire HD (before it was stolen in Cambodia) will nott fit on the 5.5GB of internal SD and if I cut it down to fit, I will still have problems with other apps like map applications that also need a lot of storage. The phone camera also stores it's pictures on the internal SD.
There are just so many reasons why what LG has done is stupid. It's a top of the line phone, why on earth limit the external SD used by applications to 5.5GB when you otherwise could put in 32GB SD-card??
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+1 I do agree. This phone is useless if you can't use its external SD like it works on HTC Desire etc.
It doesn't make sense that the phone support SD cards up to 32GB, but you can only use it as a backup space. Practically.
I also use Spotify with Offline function enabled. Then I have aprox 3000 songs stored, and my internal storage isn't big enough. Doh!
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No that is not really a problem. You can never install applications on the SD card - no matter if its internal or external (unless you hack the phone)
On android phones, theres a dedicated apps partition where apps get installed, on most phones this partition is only a few hundred mb big (the Desire for instance only has 145mb), on the LG it is 1.45gb - besides this internal apps partition Android 2.2 has a function called "move to sd" which you can select for individual applications. This function only moves some part of the application to the SD card but still leaves some part of the application in the apps partition. Hov much you can move and if you can move anything at all depends on every individual application - some apps dont support this function, others only move little to the SD card, and then others again move a larger part to the SD card.
Its true that when using this function you are limited to the internal SD card which is an extra 5.5 gb - but the point is that this is plenty space for apps, because Android apps dont take up GB's of space. They are mostly very small (few kb or mb) and hundreds of these will easily fit inside the 1.45gb apps partition, except for a few 3d games which make take up an additional 1-300mb of gametextures being stored on the SD card.
But overall you have easily around 6gb for apps storage which is plenty of space for this particular purpose for almost anyone, no matter what use they have. It would normally mean allowing for hundreds of varied apps to be installed. Just dont fill up the internal SD card with other things like mediafiles (music, video etc.) - instead place these kind of files on the external SD card.
Talking about the phone being unusable because it "only" has around 6gb of apps space is a little silly. Sure if the only apps you want to install are 3d games and we imagine each of them taking up 200mb for textures - then you are limited to 30 games, or 60 games if each take up 100mb (unless some of them would allow the textures to be installed on the external SD card) - but how likely is that scenario ? And even if, it doesnt really make the phone "unusable" - then you would just prioritize and install the 20-40 most important ones. Noone "needs" to have 30-60 3d games installed at the same time on a phone. You cant even get 30 3d games of that size currently.
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You are correct in most of what you are saying. However, if one uses a GPS navigation application like the one from Sygic, then you cannot place the maps on the external sd card as they will not be viewable for the application. Only from the sd card (on 5.5 GB which is part of the internal built-on memory) is the maps viewable. Now, thats a problem!

Its not LG that is doing something wrong .
Its actually all the people that are making apps that are on the wrong end. When they made their apps they werent accounting for the fact that phones would have 2 SD cards and as such wrote their software rather "limited".
All you need to do is basically to get the app developers the notice that phones like the LG, and various other phones with both Internal and External SD are having storage issues with their app. And then hope your app will get adapted in such a way that it supports the option that you can select where to save your files .
Look at Titanium Backup for one, it fully supports the external SD. Astro does as well. Its all a matter of "proper" coding from the app developers. The second they adapt their code to support external SD the problem is solved.
SO as such this is not an LG related issue but more a app related issue

ah ok I understand
- the spotify and GPS navigation examples are certainly valid points, I agree in situations like that it is an issue.
But its an issue that wont be limited to the LG, several new models will be coming with some amount of limited internal SD storage.
Shouldent it be an issue that is delt with on application level by the app developers rather than on hardware level ? Like, isnt it just poor application development that the source placement of this cache, maps, textures or whatever isnt selectable by the user ?
A sollution might be to contact the developers of the apps in question and ask them to
make a selectable option in the App for where to store this - an option where the user can select either internal or external SD.
Edit: I see MeX_DK had the same thoughts as I did

I actually had that thought when I got my LG and looked up the issue at first, thinking I was supposed to have a choice and then found out it was an app issue and not a phone issue .
So just like you I thought it might be worthwhile to spread the word so that many people can open their mouths and let the world know of the problems to come

TB won't find my External..
MeX_DK said:
Its not LG that is doing something wrong .
Its actually all the people that are making apps that are on the wrong end. When they made their apps they werent accounting for the fact that phones would have 2 SD cards and as such wrote their software rather "limited".
All you need to do is basically to get the app developers the notice that phones like the LG, and various other phones with both Internal and External SD are having storage issues with their app. And then hope your app will get adapted in such a way that it supports the option that you can select where to save your files .
Look at Titanium Backup for one, it fully supports the external SD. Astro does as well. Its all a matter of "proper" coding from the app developers. The second they adapt their code to support external SD the problem is solved.
SO as such this is not an LG related issue but more a app related issue
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You wrote that Titanium Backup finds the external SD-card...does it ? It won't find my external....if you know why, please help
//K

See the following Image and you will see what I have done in order to get Titanium Backup to do to use my External.
Just a shame dropbox doesnt do the same >_<
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any usefull script plz? i have 1gb free.....TERRIBLE!

Go blame your app developers. ITS THEIR FAULT....
If you have an app that uses or is supposed to use a lot of space go bang on that developers door and ask him/her to please support external SD usage.

devel? it is way on long time....>D

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could any one tell me and write me a sript for boot?
mount -t vfat -r -w /dev/block/vold/179:17 /mnt/sdcard/
mount -t vfat -r -w /dev/block/vold/179:9 /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD

rulezzzor said:
could any one tell me and write me a sript for boot?
mount -t vfat -r -w /dev/block/vold/179:17 /mnt/sdcard/
mount -t vfat -r -w /dev/block/vold/179:9 /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD
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You'd have to do it in the kernel really. Swapping them after they've been mounted would be a bad idea.

yeah, any idea could anyone create a zip with update? it will be nice

SD card usage after updating to Windows Phone 8.1 dev preview

I have a small SD card (1.83 GB) inserted in my Lumia 525 that I'm using to store some music and images.
Before I updated my phone to Windows Phone 8.1 dev preview, I had roughly 100 MB of free space. Upon updating, it had suddenly gone down to 0 KB. Yet when I added up the data in the memory stick, it was only close to 1.7 GB, and thus should've had ~100 MB free.
I couldn't figure out what was happening, so I decided to format the memory stick. After formatting, I clearly had all of 1.83 GB free. Then I copied around 800 MB of music and around 600 MB of images. But after that, instead of having the expected ~400 MB of free space, I have just 12 MB. Just like before, the space had vanished magically. (Note that I did nothing other than just copy the files, though I did notice that copying the images took a long time unlike before.)
Even now, if I check the size of all the folders in the SD card, they add up to only 1.35 GB.
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Yet, only 12 MB is free.
What is happening here? And no, I haven't installed any apps onto the SD card, and new apps are set to be installed into the phone's internal memory.
I was planning on buying a large SD card now that apps can be installed onto it, but if the space is just going to be eaten up, I'm not so sure.

Do you have "Show Hidden and System files" enabled in Folder Options?

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Do you have "Show Hidden and System files" enabled in Folder Options?
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Yeah, I do. "Show hidden files and folders" option is selected, and "Hide protected operating system files" option is unchecked. These are all there is in the SD card.
And now not just the SD card, but it also happens in the phone memory. Had 1.9 GB free. Copied 600 MB of images. Suddenly only 900 MB free. Might have to reset the phone to get that space back now. This is a real annoyance.

Mtp could hide a hold file system. Some of the elic hidden folders can be watched with mediaajdio2 plugin, but the best ghing you can do for investigate is to pu off the card and check the fs with a card reader. But there might be some morereally fs hodden folder, but 99% therd wont be

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Do you have "Show Hidden and System files" enabled in Folder Options?
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kiss.adam.pacman said:
Mtp could hide a hold file system. Some of the elic hidden folders can be watched with mediaajdio2 plugin, but the best ghing you can do for investigate is to pu off the card and check the fs with a card reader. But there might be some morereally fs hodden folder, but 99% therd wont be
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Thanks for the idea of using a card reader. That helped me get to the root of the mystery, though I don't know how to fix it yet.
Alright, so I formatted the SD card again, copied my music into it again, and checked the free space. No problems.
Next, I copied ~100 MB of images. Again, ~160 MB space was lost instead of ~100 MB.
And then, I put the SD card into the card reader. Here, it showed a hidden folder WPSystem. Inside, as shown below, it's as if it's keeping a slightly downscaled copy of every single image I copy into it.
This is where the space is going. And this is extremely irritating. I read comics and manga a lot on this phone, and they're most of the time in the format of seperate images, totalling upto several hundereds of MB. When each 100 MB means I lose like an additional 60 MB, it becomes a huge waste of space.
Does anyone know why this might be happening and what I could do to stop this? This wasn't happening until I updated to 8.1. If someone here has some time to kill, I'd be glad if they could copy a few hundred MB of images to their phone and see whether this occurs. Copying this much of image files into their phones is not something most people do, so this bug might be overlooked.

[Q]

First off, let me apologize if this isn't in the right forum. I come on here every once in a blue moon.
I've reloaded 4.4.2 on my at&t s4 active i537. The first couple times because I've tried different safestrap ROM's and they've all failed. Most recently due to the 5.0.1 lollipop update. I hate it with a burning passion. I feel like if Windows 8 and Apple IOS had a baby, it's name would be lollipop. But I digress.
So anyway, during this process of reloading my stock NE3 rom, I didn't save my pictures to my desktop therfore after a factory reset, they were gone.(thanks TTB for not backing up the sole purpose of the app). So I grabbed an app off the play store called "disk digger". It really an amazing app. It searched through my phone and got every single PNG and JPEG photo I have on my phone, even the ones from my Samsung infuse (I'm using the same SD card). But the only issue is that theyre all squares. They're not the full ratio pictures that they were originally in, but they're the safe 1080p pictures that were taken.
For example, I had used snapsave and had hundreds of automatically saved photos wich I thought were gone. But lone behold, they appeared in this disk digger app. But they were square photos and not the original rectangular ones. It's almost like they're just thumbnails.
So my question here is, if they're somehow still on my phone, how do I get them In there original form?
Thank you in advance.

ZERT_TITAN said:
First off, let me apologize if this isn't in the right forum. I come on here every once in a blue moon.
I've reloaded 4.4.2 on my at&t s4 active i537. The first couple times because I've tried different safestrap ROM's and they've all failed. Most recently due to the 5.0.1 lollipop update. I hate it with a burning passion. I feel like if Windows 8 and Apple IOS had a baby, it's name would be lollipop. But I digress.
So anyway, during this process of reloading my stock NE3 rom, I didn't save my pictures to my desktop therfore after a factory reset, they were gone.(thanks TTB for not backing up the sole purpose of the app). So I grabbed an app off the play store called "disk digger". It really an amazing app. It searched through my phone and got every single PNG and JPEG photo I have on my phone, even the ones from my Samsung infuse (I'm using the same SD card). But the only issue is that theyre all squares. They're not the full ratio pictures that they were originally in, but they're the safe 1080p pictures that were taken.
For example, I had used snapsave and had hundreds of automatically saved photos wich I thought were gone. But lone behold, they appeared in this disk digger app. But they were square photos and not the original rectangular ones. It's almost like they're just thumbnails.
So my question here is, if they're somehow still on my phone, how do I get them In there original form?
Thank you in advance.
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First of all your on the wrong section. Try to post in correct section so that you'll get appropriate help.
So, Were those photos on external SD card?

They are "remrants" of the photos. The thumbnails saved in temp maybe?
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Americanu93 said:
They are "remrants" of the photos. The thumbnails saved in temp maybe?
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When you formated original copies, were they in internal memory or external?
If they were in external, then there's a software that can help you recover photos in original size.

hitman-xda said:
First of all your on the wrong section. Try to post in correct section so that you'll get appropriate help.
So, Were those photos on external SD card?
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They are "remrants" of the photos. The thumbnails saved in temp maybe?
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When you formated original copies, were they in internal memory or external?
If they were in external, then there's a software that can help you recover photos in original size.
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I had original posted this in XD player forum or something like that. I don't know how it got there but long story short, I reported it and the admin sent it here.
Otherwise I have no clue where they were put originally . I do know that the photos on my SD card that are in DCIM are in the results that are generated by the app and are full. Pictures. I also know that there are stock pictures that from the apps. (like arrows and logos that are put in the app code or whatever by the app creator). I don't understand how these can be there if I had factory reset the phone.
I know disk digger gives the option to select internal and external. When I select external., it came up with over 7000 photos, most of them are the ones I want but are in the format I explained in the original post.

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ZERT_TITAN said:
I had original posted this in XD player forum or something like that. I don't know how it got there but long story short, I reported it and the admin sent it here.
Otherwise I have no clue where they were put originally . I do know that the photos on my SD card that are in DCIM are in the results that are generated by the app and are full. Pictures. I also know that there are stock pictures that from the apps. (like arrows and logos that are put in the app code or whatever by the app creator). I don't understand how these can be there if I had factory reset the phone.
I know disk digger gives the option to select internal and external. When I select external., it came up with over 7000 photos, most of them are the ones I want but are in the format I explained in the original post.
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Usually apps create its directories into internal storage. DiskDigger and other android apps doesn't extract images into it's original form.
I know a computer software that can extract your images in its original form.
You should check this once.
It works on windows.
You have to connect your SD card with the help of card reader.
Scan and recover.
Below is the direct link to download software.
fs37.filehippo.com/5406/cb2c01f67d5b4f9096af0dfd91d5e4cb/pci_filerecovery.exe
(Just copy above and paste it in your browser)
Hope this would help you.

"Other" storage problem

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I already do a factory data for like five times for each week since i bought this phone, the other on storage keeps filing up and i cant find the reasons why, i disabled auto update for system apps and software update as well as on playstore. But still keeps increasing day by day. Any solutions?

Question firmware version used...and phone model
Under developer mode..enable "CPU usage"
See..what app is busy doing stuff
or
install Catlog from f-droid see what's running and see error log
or
Run the antivirus app? or update firmware to latest ?
just..some thoughts
interesting issue..

Its a xiaomi redmi 9 global version 4/64 running the lates miui 12.0.3

Im sorry.im new to this but i cant find cpu usage on developers option. I also installed catlog but i dont know how to use it.and which anti virus are you refering to?also I already installed the latest firmware

Update

perhaps:
Google play/installed apps/review free space
or
DiskUsage | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
© 2010-2021 F-Droid Limited and Contributors
www.f-droid.org
or
Storage Analyzer & Disk Usage – Apps on Google Play
Deep scanning device storage analyzer and disk cleaner in your hands
play.google.com

Still cant detect anything with that. It only tells me how much storage i use but only shows the same data i can see on my file managaer

File manager
internal storage
show hidden files
miui
gallery
cloud
trashbin
delete all the files inside the trashbin.
hope it will help you.

I have the same problem, i tried factory reset how many times, hard reset 2x, the problem still exist. Waiting for firmware update but it takes time and the storage is full again while waiting. Any suggestions friends?

I wonder if the app MIUIREX can help. Any idea who already used this app??

Hi all,
my two cents here. It seems that somehow when info is deleted ends in a kind of partition that the cell can't reach or show. I've tried all the storage cleaning apps I could find to no avail.
When plugging to a PC it doesn't show the big files either. In fact, when you look at it as a drive connected to PC it seems to be full; however if you select the contents there's little occupation.
I've also promoted to miui 12 but the issue persists. I've noticed as well that it takes longer to fill when there's no SIM card inserted. It takes a couple of days instead of hours to fill the Other Files storage.
My only other option now is to try and root it with Magisk and try a custom ROM, but never done that before and I don't want to brick it if there's any other option.
PS - there are some other entries for this same problem in mi.com and other pages for this and other xiaomi models and all of them seem to be unfixed, so I wonder if it could be a HW problem instead.

I've had a bit of a time trifling with this device, it's a great bit of kit and a sweet deal. I had the same/similar issue and found that the MIUI local backups never expired. I found a long list of historic backups in the MIUI settings, you can delete them there or just delete MIUI>backups in File Manager. Then perhaps turn off local backups.
Hopefully this is the same for you, holla back.

Thanks for the hint, but no luck either. There's nothing, even toggling on the "hidden files" option, that takes a big amount of space in my device.
Probably the matter is exactly that; the device is not deleting backups but the real issue seems to be that I'm not able to locate them (probably not even see them).

Same problem here; different phone (Note 10) but same problem with MIUI12. Other files category increases by about 2GB/day, even while hardly using the phone. This issue has been reported all over the web, but Xiaomi seems reluctant to admit they have such a basic file operation issue:
Other Files Under Storage Space Keeps Increasing After MIUI 12 Update
To access other files under storage space, head over to settings>>my device>>storage. Compare your details with the pictures above and see if you're also affected.
adimorahblog.com
https://c.mi.com/thread-3370135-1-0.html?t=1602138830713
Invalid - "Other files" filling up my phone very rapidly
In the past 2 months or so I have had this issues where the 64G of my xiaomi mi 8 is being bloated by "other files". They appear predominantly when I delete large video files, so I strongly suspect there is a problem in the MIUI 12 with deleting files properly. At some point my phone becomes 99%...
xiaomi.eu
"Other" storage problem
I already do a factory data for like five times for each week since i bought this phone, the other on storage keeps filing up and i cant find the reasons why, i disabled auto update for system apps and software update as well as on playstore. But...
forum.xda-developers.com
https://www.la-besace.fr/4rtyys/fc237e-miui-12-bug
https://c.mi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3678151&page=1&extra=#pid19385517

Hi there. I have the same issue since last month. I bought the phone last year on May and the problem just came last month. The "Other Files" increased by 3 - 4 GB per day without any reasons. After doing factory reset, my phone memory got full after 1 week (64GB). I went to Xiaomi Service Center. They format the memory and install older version of the OS. However, it didn't help. My phone memory got full after 2 weeks. I went back to the service center, and they had no idea too. Then they replaced the motherboard. Technically speaking, my phone is new, with the new IMEI number. But surprisingly, my memory got full again after 2 weeks! Fortunately, my phone is still under warranty. I insist to get new phone but the procedure is not that easy. I'm requested to go back to service center next week. Hopefully there will be a good news.

Thanks @pangayoman please let us know how you go!
Factory reset seems the only solution here too (Note 10 lite) but over time the other files still increase. Strangely enough all the cleaning and storage analyzer tools don't see the other files at all and can't remove any of it....
Did anyone try a custom rom, like crDroid? That may rule out hardware issues....

I haven't tried a custom ROM yet, as I never did it before, but I think it's time to try it now. Otherwise I have a brick as I can't use the apps I need even if I spend more time installing than using them.

Can someone help me?? Like CCleaner shows that my apps occupied 3+gb,but system shows that my apps occupied 8gb...how can I get access to system storage (apps & apps data)?? (like I can't even click it and find out what takes so much memory)

Licurus said:
Can someone help me?? Like CCleaner shows that my apps occupied 3+gb,but system shows that my apps occupied 8gb...how can I get access to system storage (apps & apps data)?? (like I can't even click it and find out what takes so much memory)
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I have my system in a different language, so the translation might be inaccurate, but it should be something like this: settings--> about my phone --> tap on storage --> Tap on Apps & Data. That should do the trick. The problem discussed here is slightly different, though.

Install 12.0.3 indonesia stable . xiaomi solve this problem in this rom