[Tips & Tricks] 5 tips to keep your Android's Internal Storage space free - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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If you are an owner of a smartphone then it is a very common thing as smartphones have found their way in each and every person's hands today. With some cool and cheap Android phones being launched, Android is creating a large number of users. But there is one thing that many people has to compromise with when they buy an Android phone. The thing is the internal storage space. Most of the phones come with very less storage space. When you click some photos or share some important files they get stored in the internal storage but alongwith this useful data some useless data also finds its place and thus the processing speed of an Android is hampered. But you can stop such unused data from using the free space by following these 5 simple tips.
1. Use your Memory Card instead of internal space.
Whenever you want to install an app or a game, don't install it in your internal memory space; rather use your memory card. Your Android is capable of doing many things. Also you can move your apps that are installed in your internal memory to your memory card storage. This will help you keep your internal memory free.
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2. Delete Temporary data of Installed App.
Try removing temporary data from your Android device on a regular basis. Surf through the market and you will get many third-party utility applications that will help you in removing the temporary data of the installed app from your device.
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3. Remove unwanted apps.
There are thousands of apps available in the market that can help you monitor the category-wise memory storage very accurately. Install such apps so that you can know which app is consuming how much memory and you can also know that in which places how much memory is used. So install such Apps to monitor you memory usage.
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5. Backup your Photos.
Don't keep all your images in your phone for a long time. Try to keep a backup of all such images in your computers. You can even change the settings of where the photo will be stored; change it to your memory card. But after some days remove the images from your Android device and copy it in your computers, This will ensure that you won't run out of memory when needed.
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[Q] Internal Storage Low with 1 GB Free?

I use CM7 (nightly builds) and recently ran into a warning message about low internal storage, but I had about 2/3 of the total internal storage free (about 1 GB). Moving a couple of apps to the SD card made the warning go away but I'd like to know why the warning occurred when I appear to have so much space available. I can't just ignore it because sync stops when this warning occurs. Since going to a 32GB SD card is not a reliable option with this phone, I'd like to resolve the issue without resorting to wholesale transfer of apps to my existing 16 GB SD card. The screenshot below is my current storage after I moved a couple of apps, but the difference in free space now vs. when I was getting the warning is tiny.
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I have had that also while getting apps from the market.. I ignore it and just try again and it works.. Don't know what the deal is.. I'm running pool party and glitch
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this is a known issue on aosp based roms. if you check jt's posts here, you will find a post about /datadata being full, along with the fix. your /data partition is not full but another one, /datadata, is. as jt said, this will never be changed upstream, so either use the fix after every data wipe, or use less apps/move to sd all apps possible.
to confirm, open better terminal, or android term, and run df -h, look for /datadata, bet it's about %85 full.. Much beyond that you will start to get massive amounts of FCs, and it will make the phone nearly useless until you either use the fix or remove/move to sd some apps..
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System ROM full. Any solution

Any help on this guys ? I'm unable to install more mods as my system ROM is full. I have already dedicated 1GB to internal memory. What to do to solve this problem ?
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delete unusefull apps
Teshand said:
Any help on this guys ? I'm unable to install more mods as my system ROM is full. I have already dedicated 1GB to internal memory. What to do to solve this problem ?
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- Are you really sure you need all those mods?
- You can always move apps to sd card, even if they are system apps - just convert them to user apps and move them.
- Integrate updates into system apps, and them move them to user (like gmail, maps, youtube...)
- Delete things like live wallpapers, xperia wallpapers, any app thats basicly just pictures, use the smallest size defaulttheme apk you can find: run file explorer, go to system/app, sort by size and start deleting things from the top (that arent really necesarry)
- save all images you got trough mms, and delete messages. They take up a lot of space (mine took up 14MB) Use SMS backup or something, save them and delete them in the phone, also clear dial history
Other than that, what the hell did you isntall that takes up so much space? Are you REALLY sure you need all those things?
Oh yeah, that 1gig you 'dedicated to internal memory', thats only really useful for android <2.1, which didn't support native app2sd. Link2sd allows you to move any app to sd card with native app2sd. And you can only store apps trough link2sd on that second partition, system doesnt see it as system (unless you remounted system as /system + /sd-ext but thats only my theory, I have no idea how that would be possible.

[Q] Storage Space Running Out/tried everything

My wifes device is stock/rooted. I've tried moving all the apps to the SD card that I can but it's still showing 4.16GB of apps in internal storage. What can I do to fix this and get everything on the SD card that I can? I have tried Link2SD but it only moves somethings. I just want all user apps, downloads and pictures to default to the SD card.
So, does anyone know how to moved everything to the SD card and make it the default storage location?
5.0.2 does not allow moving everything to SD card like previous versions. You can only move the main app, but all data still needs to be on internal. I had the same issue. I tried updating some apps the other day, and got the error of not enough space, so the only option was to uninstall some apps I hardly used. I'm back up to around 1.2 free. Another thing to do is clear cache a lot. I free up around 400MB each clean. I use two apps for that, and both work great. Apps2SD has more features, and you have to enable the cache clean notification in settings. Cache Cleaner does just that. You can even use CCleaner to see if there are orphaned files/folder that can take up needed space.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.cache.cleaner
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.piriform.ccleaner
I just learned that I have the same problem: I moved several apps to the SD card and it's still showing that I have 1 GB of free space. However, when I check which apps I have in the SD card, link2sd shows that nothing's in external memory. Please check the images I attached to this post. The first one shows which apps I supposedly have in the SD card. The other image says otherwise.
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I think this is because the device is rooted, I've heard xt1527 model has some issues with root binaries...

Nearly 1 GB of unknown data appears and I don't know how to get rid of it

Hello all, I need some help.
First of all, my phone is set up with adoptable storage. Before any problems, I had around 3.75 GB used out of 5.51 GB in my phone's Internal Storage. I wanted to migrate data from my SD Card to the phone's actual Internal Storage, so I could format and use the SD card on another phone. I tapped "Migrate data," but it was unsuccessful due to there being not enough space. My phone says "Data left at original location" if I recall correctly. But then the Internal Storage gets nearly full at 5.49 GB used, while all the data still persists in the SD card, unchanged. I've tried multiple reboots, clearing cache and davlink twice, and even deleting many other apps in hopes of updating the storage count, but nothing helped at all. What can I do? Thanks in advance.
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Use an app called Storage Analyser. It will help you easily identify which file taking how much size. It is very powerful tool and Plots out the storage structure of your devices internal External and System partitions.
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Use an app called Storage Analyser. It will help you easily identify which file taking how much size. It is very powerful tool and Plots out the storage structure of your devices internal External and System partitions.
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Thanks, but it did not help, sadly. I think what happened is that some data from the SD Card was copied over to the Internal Storage when I did the migration, but when it failed, it simply left the copy on the Internal Storage rather than deleting it.

System data storage showing not existing data. HELP!

Hello
I downloaded some movies to my phone and then transferred them to my external HD. Now the memory in my phonr is showing like there is some data which is the same amount of data as the movies are even though I transferred them and they are not on the phone. I used an called DiskUsage and its showing 200gb in system data. I cannot access or delete this. I don't want to factory reset my phone, so please can someone help me on how to clear this data?
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I downloaded some movies to my phone and then transferred them to my external HD. Now the memory in my phonr is showing like there is some data which is the same amount of data as the movies are even though I transferred them and they are not on the phone. I used an called DiskUsage and its showing 200gb in system data. I cannot access or delete this. I don't want to factory reset my phone, so please can someone help me on how to clear this data?
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The term System data is absolutely errleading: Downloads never go to Android's /system partition but always to Android's /data partition.
So you just need to look for files in /data that take up the huge amount of space - if any.
The real way to check Android's storage is to go to Settings -> Storage
Example:
Thank you for your answer but I have found the solution to this problem. You see there is something called File Guardian which is a part of Galaxy Labs on Samsung phones. Now the thing is I know exactly where all my files are stored on my phone since I like to keep it tidy ? but since I moved all the downloaded movies to external HD these files were nowhere to be found. Going into storage analyser was showing 283gb in "other storage". This app File Guardian serves as a possibility to restore moved/deleted files but even when I went to search for apps which might be taking much space as I thought there could be some temp/cache data left over from the transfer I could find nothing. Then I remembered to check this File Guardian and there was 512 files there. As I said you cannot find these anywhere except in this app. I deleted it from there permanently and voila the memory is OK now. What's really strange is that I looked all over internet and couldn't find solution to this problem, I was already getting afraid I would have to factory reset my phone. It might be really useful for some people to know about this though.

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