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suddenly getting storage space is zero

Hello.
I am on Jedi master 12, suddenly last night , I an message that storgae space is low, I check the internal storage it is at zero. I don't understand it just yesterday my storage space was at 2.6GB. I did not install anything since then.
I run the AVG virus nothing was seen.
Any advise
thank you in advance

tomasitoc said:
Hello.
I am on Jedi master 12, suddenly last night , I an message that storgae space is low, I check the internal storage it is at zero. I don't understand it just yesterday my storage space was at 2.6GB. I did not install anything since then.
I run the AVG virus nothing was seen.
Any advise
thank you in advance
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Have you try, setting > Applications, go to each app, clear cache?

leprophotography said:
Have you try, setting > Applications, go to each app, clear cache?
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I tried to do wipe cache, wipe dalvik, didn't work.
But I didn't install nay new apps, the last app I installed was the windows 8 launcher , but I uninstalled it last saturday.

Are you saving larger files like pictures, video, games, etc. To your internal? Maybe time to go through and do some cleaning and change camera settings to save to external sd card...move stuff from internal to external and just be aware of where you download stuff

Disk Usage is a good app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC5kaXNrdXNhZ2UiXQ..
It will graphically show you what is using the storage space.
It helped me the other day when I realized some app had made 1.5 Gb of thumbnails on my internal storage.

The Android folder takes up a lot of room. Like the person above said download disk usage or android tuner/system tuner..http://bit.ly/10ccwQw
..Also if it is your sdcard/Android folder. try JB ExtSD App Binder. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2021049

ronin178 said:
Are you saving larger files like pictures, video, games, etc. To your internal? Maybe time to go through and do some cleaning and change camera settings to save to external sd card...move stuff from internal to external and just be aware of where you download stuff
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picture are saved in my external SD card

pbelcomp said:
Disk Usage is a good app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC5kaXNrdXNhZ2UiXQ..
It will graphically show you what is using the storage space.
It helped me the other day when I realized some app had made 1.5 Gb of thumbnails on my internal storage.
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I will try this app

I found another app called: SD maid system cleaning tool.
It has good reviews but I am unsure how to use it.
Has anybody used this app?

I deleted some files last night I had around 600mb of free space, then this morning when I woke up. A warning message on the notification bar said storage system memory low. I went to the storage setting, the internal storage available space is zero!.
All my photos are saved in the external SD card, music are in the external SD card
Don't know what is happening, any ideas.
I will transfer the CWM backups into the external SD card, I will check if the problem still presists.

tomasitoc said:
I deleted some files last night I had around 600mb of free space, then this morning when I woke up. A warning message on the notification bar said storage system memory low. I went to the storage setting, the internal storage available space is zero!.
All my photos are saved in the external SD card, music are in the external SD card
Don't know what is happening, any ideas.
I will transfer the CWM backups into the external SD card, I will check if the problem still presists.
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Copy all the files you want to your extsd. dcim,android,downloads ,Pictures nandroids ect or Make a copy of your whole sd to your pc.... reboot into TWRP and wipe internal sd (it wont wipe system btw)

deeznutz1977 said:
Copy all the files you want to your extsd. dcim,android,downloads ,Pictures nandroids ect or Make a copy of your whole sd to your pc.... reboot into TWRP and wipe internal sd (it wont wipe system btw)
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I am using CWM.
I think I found what the use is, I upgrade to the new CWM 6.0.3.1, now it is making a backup size of greater than 1GB.
can anybody help me/give instructions on how to go back to the CWM version before the upgrade.
How do I go back to the last CWM version?
thank you in advance

Used to be open rom manager, scroll down to older version or something like that, click on it and select what version you want..

Ok

tomasitoc said:
I am using CWM.
I think I found what the use is, I upgrade to the new CWM 6.0.3.1, now it is making a backup size of greater than 1GB.
can anybody help me/give instructions on how to go back to the CWM version before the upgrade.
How do I go back to the last CWM version?
thank you in advance
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yup, ditch cwm and use twrp much better you can store your backups on you external sd

deeznutz1977 said:
yup, ditch cwm and use twrp much better you can store your backups on you external sd
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I've been reading a lot of good feedback with TWRP. I like to try it, how I get TWRP

What is the file size of your CWM backups?
Presently the file size of my CWM backup are more than >1GB, before it was just maybe less than 100mb.
I don't what was is causing this. Has I unknowingly chnage a setting?
This is probably the reason why I am running out of space.

tomasitoc said:
I've been reading a lot of good feedback with TWRP. I like to try it, how I get TWRP
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Download goo.im from the playstore open, press menu button.. grab SU... click install OpenRecoveryScript.... yes... it goes to the goo.im website downloads than installs all on its own...... profit
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deeznutz1977 said:
Download goo.im from the playstore open, press menu button.. grab SU... click install OpenRecoveryScript.... yes... it goes to the goo.im website downloads than installs all on its own...... profit
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what is the file size of the TWRP backups ?

tomasitoc said:
what is the file size of the TWRP backups ?
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It depends since you can choose what to back up i would say anywhere firm 1.75 gig up to 4–5+
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[Q] Insufficient storage even though most apps have been linked to SD

Most apps are on the SD card and I still can't install new apps because of low storage. I think the stock email apps is causing problems because I sometimes get the message "delete old messages to download new ones".
When a program first installs, it installs on internal memory right? So there has to be enough room in internal memory before it can be moved to SD?

Exactly.
Don't forget app data (maybe dex and lib files too) is still in internal memory as well, unless you have used app to link those as well.
Check Settings - Applications to see, how much free space you have.
EDIT: Please be clear - did you link apps (ext partition) or did you move them (Android feature)? You use both wording, yet these are completely different.

Someguyfromhell said:
Exactly.
Don't forget app data (maybe dex and lib files too) is still in internal memory as well, unless you have used app to link those as well.
Check Settings - Applications to see, how much free space you have.
EDIT: Please be clear - did you link apps (ext partition) or did you move them (Android feature)? You use both wording, yet these are completely different.
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link apps using link2sd

imgoingtowin said:
link apps using link2sd
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if you have the free version then you cannot link everything. do you have the free version?

imgoingtowin said:
Most apps are on the SD card and I still can't install new apps because of low storage. I think the stock email apps is causing problems because I sometimes get the message "delete old messages to download new ones".
When a program first installs, it installs on internal memory right? So there has to be enough room in internal memory before it can be moved to SD?
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clean your apps cashe regularly

Take a look here..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2162233
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974972
They both worked great for me, I didn't use the link2sd anymore.

[Q] insufficient space on the device

hello guys its been some time i've been trying to download apps from play store that are 3-4 or more mb and i always get an error saying that there is insufficient space on the devide
i have tried to clear the cache from recovery mode but the problem remains.
i checked the partition mounts with the app partition table and i cant understand why i get this error...
storage/emulated/0 and /data has about 500mb free
/system has arround 200mb free
here are some screenshots of the partition mounts of my device
error
mounts_1
mounts_2
has anyone any clue how to fix this problem and why do i get this error?

nobody?

jimacid said:
nobody?
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If you are rooted, you can try the FolderMount app. Worked for me by freeing up space on the emulated SD.

madura said:
If you are rooted, you can try the FolderMount app. Worked for me by freeing up space on the emulated SD.
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from what i see this app is used to transfer app files to the sd card and while it may help a little (since i really dont have games and huge apps on my phone) eventually after a few months i will still have the same problem since all the apps are constantly getting bigger in mb and i will continue to install new apps.
what i am trying to find is the reason the phone reports it has no space since from what i can see it does have plenty of space left.
by the way i did tried to install the app you recommended but guess what?
there is no available free space on the device

I'm having the same problem at the moment. Short of installing a custom rom and getting rid of TouchWiz altogether, I hope someone figured something out.

kabloomz said:
I'm having the same problem at the moment. Short of installing a custom rom and getting rid of TouchWiz altogether, I hope someone figured something out.
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I found out that if I unmount my sd card the phone was able again to install big apps and that made me think that maybe there are some corrupted files in my sd card, so I installed the APP sd maid from the market I cleared the dead files and cleared the system and since then the problem has been fixed.
Just make sure that in order to clean dalvic cache too you need to enter the settings and allow the app to delete unwanted odex,obex files

jimacid said:
I found out that if I unmount my sd card the phone was able again to install big apps and that made me think that maybe there are some corrupted files in my sd card, so I installed the APP sd maid from the market I cleared the dead files and cleared the system and since then the problem has been fixed.
Just make sure that in order to clean dalvic cache too you need to enter the settings and allow the app to delete unwanted odex,obex files
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I had the same issue. Format SD/factory reset did not help in my case.
I hope "insufficient space" has gone from your device, nevertheless I suggest you to instal and run the FolderMount app anyway. When I ran it for the first time, it detected problem with writing on (fresh formatted) SD by non system apps and prompted for fixing it (I let). Since that i have no more problem with installing new apps.

janla said:
I had the same issue. Format SD/factory reset did not help in my case.
I hope "insufficient space" has gone from your device, nevertheless I suggest you to instal and run the FolderMount app anyway. When I ran it for the first time, it detected problem with writing on (fresh formatted) SD by non system apps and prompted for fixing it (I let). Since that i have no more problem with installing new apps.
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well as i wrote earlier it stopped showing me the insufficient space for a few days but then it came back...
i was pretty pissed and started deleting some apps to see if for real there is no free space, the same time you wrote this message, i saw it and installed foldermount app right away.
it really did find a corrupted file and a rule that prohibited acceess to sd card, i let it fix those both errors and after that till now i am able to install and updates apps without a problem.
not really sure if the problem was fixed because i deleted apps or from the foldermount app but its ok now. (i think foldermount worked its magic because i have done several big updates so i dont think that the fact i deleted some apps helped resolve this issue)
anyway. thanks a lot for your answer

Internal Memory full

Hi all,
I've just rooted and changed the rom of my HOX and to be honest it's amazing how fast it is and the battery seems to last a little bit longer.
Anyway, I am not writing a new thread for that of course. After trying to install several Apps, I've figured out that my internal memory is almost full even if I only have 706mo of apps. I've moved everything I can from the internal memory to the "sd card" and still, it only remains me 1.28gb of free space.
Do you know what's this "Other" folder which is taking me 4.79Gb of space?
Do you know if I can delete some stuffs?
Thanks,
Alex

Hey
Hi,
It shows others which includes space for system partition and kernel and all the system which is stored on your nand memory.
You only get around 2gb for applications
If I helped you hit that thanks button

Thanks for your answer but I know that. I would like to know if I can get clean the space used by the system and the kernel in order to get more free space?

alvercruysse said:
Thanks for your answer but I know that. I would like to know if I can get clean the space used by the system and the kernel in order to get more free space?
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no you can't. If you want more space for apps migrate to the new layout

Thant said:
no you can't. If you want more space for apps migrate to the new layout
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What do you mean by "new layout"?

alvercruysse said:
What do you mean by "new layout"?
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THIS ONE
read all your 25 GB is for data and data is used for APP'S you will have more space this is repartitioning on HOX memory most of the latest lolipop and kitkat roms are for the NL and have som JB roms converted for the NL. And will be good to learn the search function for your next question all your question is answared on many places just search it:silly:

Thanks, I will read that.
Alex

alvercruysse said:
Hi all,
I've just rooted and changed the rom of my HOX and to be honest it's amazing how fast it is and the battery seems to last a little bit longer.
Anyway, I am not writing a new thread for that of course. After trying to install several Apps, I've figured out that my internal memory is almost full even if I only have 706mo of apps. I've moved everything I can from the internal memory to the "sd card" and still, it only remains me 1.28gb of free space.
Do you know what's this "Other" folder which is taking me 4.79Gb of space?
Do you know if I can delete some stuffs?
Thanks,
Alex
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it's a fictional space that will make you believe you really have 32GB...
its just a dirty trick by htc.
in reality you have 29gb where 2 is the data 25 is the "sd card" and the rest is system.

insufficient Internal storage

Hello..
I have htc desire 816 with 8gb of internal storage ....when i bought it,it had about 4gb free of that storage.....which is quite normal.
After buying it, I updated to lollipop 5.1 then i got it rooted......
Lately i've noticed the insufficient internal sotrage,so I've uninsalled ALL the apps and games from internal and external memory,however,that only freed up about 2 gb of the intrrnal storage ....so what is taking all that space despite there is No apps ....I know that the system files are taking some space....but those files only took 4gb when i bought the phone
Now i don't have any apps ,However, there is only free 1.8gb
I tried using clean master,but it only cleaned about 300mb of junks and cache

This is strictly a personal opinion but you should lose Clean Master and anything else made by Cheetah Mobile.
As for your storage issues... You state you've rooted. Have you done a backup? If so, are you sure your recovery is saving backups to the external storage?
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Ibrahim elhossiny said:
Hello..
I have htc desire 816 with 8gb of internal storage ....when i bought it,it had about 4gb free of that storage.....which is quite normal.
After buying it, I updated to lollipop 5.1 then i got it rooted......
Lately i've noticed the insufficient internal sotrage,so I've uninsalled ALL the apps and games from internal and external memory,however,that only freed up about 2 gb of the intrrnal storage ....so what is taking all that space despite there is No apps ....I know that the system files are taking some space....but those files only took 4gb when i bought the phone
Now i don't have any apps ,However, there is only free 1.8gb
I tried using clean master,but it only cleaned about 300mb of junks and cache
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Had the same issue. The firmware is in it's own partition with room for updates but some of those files fill up your internal storage as well, they did for me when I updated so the solutions are either use a root file explorer or Titanium Backup app to move some user apps to system apps , use the forum here in XDA for altering your SElinux permissions and enable write permissions to your system partition(WP.MOD_KO) so that you can use Link2SD app to move your user apps to your external SD card or pay to obtain full S off using the Sunshine app and have those permissions plus more enabled at the system level so that you can also use Link2SD app to move user apps to the external SD card.
The last 2 methods are the most used and also require you to reformat your external SD card into 2 partitions using EaseUS PARTITION MANAGER on a P.C. Instructions for doing this are easy and available on Youtube and Google if you want to read them instead. These are really the only ways to help your storage issue other than just not using very many apps. I chose the full S off method and Link2SD but the other works it just alters your SElinux permissions and has to be removed to do stock updates whereas S off doesn't affect stock updates. Only system file changes do like the mod I described.
I also echo the previous posters thoughts on Cleanmaster and most all "task killing" apps. Android has built in RAM management that does a good job on its own of managing memory and there is the on screen square button on the right that shows you open apps and tabs and allows you to quickly close them all out. You'd be better off regulating Wavelocks using Amplify app and Greenify to freeze apps from staying on . Root required and there are paid version but the basics are free in both apps.
I had a brain f**t and misread that you've uninstalled "all" of your apps so the previous poster might be onto something if you've done any TWRP nandroid backups to internal instead of micro storage. They can take up to 2 to 4 gbs just on their own even with compression enabled. If you haven't and even if you have my previous info and advice is still accurate for improved storage space.

On my phone, the .thumbnails folder in DCIM takes 1 GB...

TobiBot said:
On my phone, the .thumbnails folder in DCIM takes 1 GB...
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Yeah mine says 550 mb total in thumb data but it is not pictures from my camera like the other few kbs are. Can't open it so I wonder if it's some sort of cache for something else. Don't know all the ins and outs of the Android file structure but I do know that when I started flashing custom roms,CM in particular, my internal storage went up due to the lack of bloatware coming from my stock Rom. Good to know this though. Not going to delete it though for now till I find out what it is.

Some Facts About Thumbnails
thoctor said:
Yeah mine says 550 mb total in thumb data but it is not pictures from my camera like the other few kbs are. Can't open it so I wonder if it's some sort of cache for something else. Don't know all the ins and outs of the Android file structure but I do know that when I started flashing custom roms,CM in particular, my internal storage went up due to the lack of bloatware coming from my stock Rom. Good to know this though. Not going to delete it though for now till I find out what it is.
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Some Apps, like WhatsApp save pics in .thumbnails to work smooth, i think.
You can delete them, but they will create themselves at the next boot again, i also tried to write an init.d script which deletes them at boot, but it doesnt work.
Also if you create a file ".thumbnails" which isnt writable, the system doesnt give you the space
Ive read something about creating this file before first boot after flashing so it works, but i havent tried it...
Damn thumbnails
Sorry if my english is horrible ^^

TobiBot said:
Some Apps, like WhatsApp save pics in .thumbnails to work smooth, i think.
You can delete them, but they will create themselves at the next boot again, i also tried to write an init.d script which deletes them at boot, but it doesnt work.
Also if you create a file ".thumbnails" which isnt writable, the system doesnt give you the space
Ive read something about creating this file before first boot after flashing so it works, but i havent tried it...
Damn thumbnails
Sorry if my english is horrible ^^
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Your English is perfectly fine. Better even than some to whom English is their "first" language. Thanks for that breakdown and I bet that's what it is. I forgot about the apps storing their stock images in your phone. I used to love using the app called Pocket until I found that it stores all the saved links and images directly on your phone. I saved almost a full gb by deleting it finally. Great app other than that and if I had a device with more storage I'd still have it on my phone instead of just my computer. This is all why it pays to be curious about your own phone storage and learn how to navigate a good root file explorer.