Preface:
My wife has the atrix HD. I lurked here for a bit, did safestrap and rom installs until BL unlock was relased then went that route with CWM. An issue I'm having now on her phone is the SD card is only recognized as having 5gb instead of 8. I reinstalled safestrap temporarily to see if I had an option of resizing the SD card but didn't seem so and then I was stuck in a boot loop. Reflashing a rom fixed that but I'm still stuck with the storage issue.
Any ideas? I thought about wiping the internal storage but there isn't an SD card so I'd be worried about trying to push files back over to flash a rom after that. Thanks.
You only have 5 because the stock ROM takes the rest try removing bloat and stuff or flashing an aosp ROM
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I have custom rom installed (Carbon kk 1st Sep 2014), I only have 5gb of internal storage visible and out of that only 3gb user available on fresh install. How can I recover the remaining 3gb? i guess some other partition is taking up that extra 3gb but want to know how to recover it.
I found this post useful and claimed my 3gb back thanks @skeevydude u r d best
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2724651
I finally got my att note 3 working again with pre-rooted original firmware after getting it stuck in a bootloop when trying to switch Roms...I have safestrap recovery installed and hand had to reinstall the stock to Rom slot 1 be the stock slot is showing a system size of 0mb..All is working well except that now I'm showing 31.5 gb of system memory out of 32gb used, and can't mount system or systemorig errors still. How can I fix this and reclaim my internal space? I'm afraid to mess with it until I have help! I don't have access to a windows pc, and can't quite figure heimdall out from linux. Could someone give me a step by step?
Hello everyone!
I flashed my XZR from Kitkat to Lollipop a view days ago.
After flashing I had 1 GB lower internal memory left, than a had before.
In detail, I had about 2 GB of memory left, when I started the download over OTA. The file loaded on my XZR and than it flashed. After end of flashing and reboot, only 800 MB to 1 GB internal memory are free now.
Could it be, that lollipop need 1 GB more internal memory as kitkat? I am confused now, cause I need more space in internal memory.
What happend and what can I do?
Greetings Lemmi.
Yes, lollipop needs more internal memory. Because lollipop is ART based, kitkat was Dalvik...
But 1GB, that is very much cause of only 8GB internal storage.
Try moving the apps to your SD. That's why I did to free up space from the internal storage.
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Try moving the apps to your SD. That's why I did to free up space from the internal storage.
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Yes I tryed this already, but it dont helps much. Maybe I have to change to another smartphone with more than only 8 GB of internal memory.
Dont wanna go back to Kitkat, cause I think Lollipop runs smoother and better.
Think about rooting, but I think not everything works well right now on XZR and Lollipop with root and maybe there is no working recovery for it and the secong is I dont wanna open bootloader.
Maybe Link2SD could work and solve this storage problem. Aktually the app2sd function isnt enough on my side.
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Yes I tryed this already, but it dont helps much. Maybe I have to change to another smartphone with more than only 8 GB of internal memory.
Dont wanna go back to Kitkat, cause I think Lollipop runs smoother and better.
Think about rooting, but I think not everything works well right now on XZR and Lollipop with root and maybe there is no working recovery for it and the secong is I dont wanna open bootloader.
Maybe Link2SD could work and solve this storage problem. Aktually the app2sd function isnt enough on my side.
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I have now installed about 100 apps (phone say it took 4,39GB - 900MB Free). After 60 apps installed phone say full storage, so i try scan by Xplore and I find in root folder one rly big folder. That folder is /data/data/com.android.providers.downloads/cache that I deleted and get around 1500MB of space. Seems to be some like thrash from Google Play Store. Root needed.
Ok, that helps me a lot. I will go on and root my XZR again. Think it is simple.
And by the way I read in your signatur that you have root and no recovery.
Here is the way to get a working recovery:
http://www.naldotech.com/install-xzdualrecovery-xperia-devices-android-5-0-lollipop/
I will try it out, when I have root, but I think it will work!
Greetings Lemmi.
Lemmi1 said:
Ok, that helps me a lot. I will go on and root my XZR again. Think it is simple.
And by the way I read in your signatur that you have root and no recovery.
Here is the way to get a working recovery:
http://www.naldotech.com/install-xzdualrecovery-xperia-devices-android-5-0-lollipop/
I will try it out, when I have root, but I think it will work!
Greetings Lemmi.
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yea i know this but in Z forum some1 try this method and said didn't work, also on official thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261606&page=518 of XZDualRecovery is reported as no working. So keep waiting
All you need is Link2SD, I have a lot of apps installed on my phone, yet I still have over 2GB of free memory left
Do link2sd really work with our xperia zr? Cause on 4.4.4 we must do a workaround, cause if dont you end in a bootloop.
Can I use it without any problems on Lollipop now? I will try it, but it could be better, when I know problems before they happen
An how big you make the sdext partition on sdcard?
Just tried FolderMount for ColorDict and Telegram and both work fine.
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Do link2sd really work with our xperia zr? Cause on 4.4.4 we must do a workaround, cause if dont you end in a bootloop.
Can I use it without any problems on Lollipop now? I will try it, but it could be better, when I know problems before they happen
An how big you make the sdext partition on sdcard?
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There's no need for any workaround. I have an 8GB SD card (I don't know its class right now, doesn't matter), and I've split it 5 - 2:
-5GB for the sdcard1 partition,
-2,2GB for the sdext partition, which the Link2SD app uses.
There is a guide that tells you how to format your SD card right, the best way is via the MiniTool Partition Wizard.
If you've selected ext2 in that app, you want to select EXT4 in Link2SD. That way, when you reboot, everything will be fine.
This is because I've seen many bugs when it comes to creating mount scripts - you select ext2, but when you reboot, nothing happens.
Ok, good news.
I knew link2sd well from my old smartphone.
But I always formated the sdext partition with ext4 and normaly it worked. Hope so here too, cause it may be faster.
My SD is about 32 GB, so I can make a bigger partiton. But I think 2 GB should be best.
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I knew link2sd well from my old smartphone.
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So do I. The guys at the Xperia M section helped me out a lot with Link2SD
Right now I had made a sdext partition of 2 GB and formated it 4ext.
After starting link2sd and setting mountscript to 4ext I get a bootloop Dont work!
Think I need a fix or a new remount boot fix for XZR. Think the old for kitkat will not work or will it?
Hello people.
Just updated my ZR to lollipop, yet I am suffering form the lack of internal storage, moving apps to my 64gb SD card seems useless, it refuses to transfer large data files to the SD card, like OALD 8 have a 450 mb data file that needed to be placed in the internal storage.
the ZR is really nice fast device but it`s internal storage is so horrible that makes you think seriously about changing the phone .
any help how to free some internal storage with out root?
Crag Hack said:
Hello people.
Just updated my ZR to lollipop, yet I am suffering form the lack of internal storage, moving apps to my 64gb SD card seems useless, it refuses to transfer large data files to the SD card, like OALD 8 have a 450 mb data file that needed to be placed in the internal storage.
the ZR is really nice fast device but it`s internal storage is so horrible that makes you think seriously about changing the phone .
any help how to free some internal storage with out root?
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Try uninstalling apps that you don't use. ARTS in Lollipop needs much more space than Dalvik, so every app counts. This is also true for system app. I uninstall several system apps, mostly from Sony. Then most important of all, after all these, wipe Dalvik and cache in recovery and let the system re-create them again. This process increase the free internal space from 500MB to > 1GB for me.
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Try uninstalling apps that you don't use. ARTS in Lollipop needs much more space than Dalvik, so every app counts. This is also true for system app. I uninstall several system apps, mostly from Sony. Then most important of all, after all these, wipe Dalvik and cache in recovery and let the system re-create them again. This process increase the free internal space from 500MB to > 1GB for me.
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Thanks you..
I just want to know if i can do this on non-rooted device, and if yes then how can i delete these files.
sorry but I am noob in andorid
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Thanks you..
I just want to know if i can do this on non-rooted device, and if yes then how can i delete these files.
sorry but I am noob in andorid
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No you need root.
Hi,
I recently exchanged my old 64 GB Nexus 6 for a new/refurbished one due to a failed USB port. I installed the latest stock ROM, unlocked the bootloader, rooted, and used Titanium Backup to restore the data to a handful of apps. While doing this, I got a warning about my device being low on space. From research, I learned that I should've disabled Mount Namespace Separation in SuperSU. So now, no matter what I do, my system files are taking up 35 GB after doing a complete wipe with TWRP and reinstalling the stock ROM.
Is this a problem with the partition table? No matter what the issue is, does anyone know how to fix it? I'm not super experienced with rooting beyond basic tasks, so I'm struggling to come up with ideas.
Thanks!
Nevermind!
It looks like resizing the partitions in TWRP fixed my problem. Sorry for being a noob .
For future reference, don't flash userdata.img in the stock images if you want to avoid resizing partitions in TWRP. That image resizes internal storage to 32GB and ignores the remainder, leading to /system taking more space than it should.