I know there is probably nothing that can be done, but it's worth a shot to ask...
The other night when I was texting on my phone at work, I got a random notification that said something to the effect of "SD Card has unmounted unexpectedly". I just cleared and figured it was no big deal. Later on, I noticed that I couldn't access any music or pictures that were saved so I restarted my phone, and still nothing showed up. I went to recovery and it wouldn't mount my SD card(external 16GB, by the way). When I look at my SD card in root explorer, some of the stuff still shows up but they all say "0 bytes". And now, I just have this constant notification that says "SD card blank or has unsupported file system". I click on it and it gives me the option to "Format" or "Cancel". My question is, is there any way to recover what's on the SD card before I format? I don't understand what caused this at all. I've never had a problem with my SD card on any of my EVOs before, and now it suddenly gets 'corrupted' or something? I don't get it... But I really don't want to lose every picture and song on my SD Card, if possible.
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Did you try putting it in your pc to see if your files were there? I don't know if anything can be recovered. You probably don't want to hear this, and not to be a jerk, but that's what Dropbox and other backups are for. Someone might have an idea for helping out though, that really sucks if you lost it all. I'm always afraid of that happening.
This happened to me. I downloaded "test disk" to my PC and recovered everything
Edit: its a free program.
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Did you try putting it in your pc to see if your files were there? I don't know if anything can be recovered. You probably don't want to hear this, and not to be a jerk, but that's what Dropbox and other backups are for. Someone might have an idea for helping out though, that really sucks if you lost it all. I'm always afraid of that happening.
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Lol, three years ago there was no Dropbox to count on and I never had this problem until now... I have some saved on the PC, but it's several months so I will still be missing some pictures, music, and other files.
clavin78 said:
This happened to me. I downloaded "test disk" to my PC and recovered everything
Edit: its a free program.
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Thanks! I will give this a try and hope I can recover everything as well.
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Yeah, I've been slowly adding old stuff to Dropbox. Along with my subscription which is only $9 a month, and the free space we got with our phone I have like 100 gb. Hopefully you can recover your stuff though.
Well a couple of things to try, boot into recovery and try to fix permissions. I had a problem where out of the blue pics music and apps didn't work that were on the card. I couldn't get anything to work so I fixed permissions and everything came back. Now as far as recovery goes, what OS are you working with on your computer. If it is mac, try DISKWARRIOR that program is AMAZING, so far I have had to use it on a mac and a windows pc at work. This program literally found every doc, pic and mp3, flipchart and smartboard pages on each HD and the HD was corrupt enough that NOTHING was able to see it when I put the HD's in an external case.
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Well a couple of things to try, boot into recovery and try to fix permissions. I had a problem where out of the blue pics music and apps didn't work that were on the card. I couldn't get anything to work so I fixed permissions and everything came back. Now as far as recovery goes, what OS are you working with on your computer. If it is mac, try DISKWARRIOR that program is AMAZING, so far I have had to use it on a mac and a windows pc at work. This program literally found every doc, pic and mp3, flipchart and smartboard pages on each HD and the HD was corrupt enough that NOTHING was able to see it when I put the HD's in an external case.
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I run Kubuntu(Linux) on my personal computer that I built almost three years ago now(still a beast!)... I have Windows 7 on one of my secondary HDs for those rare times that I require the use of Windows. My mom has a Mac, though, so I hopped on there to see about DiskWarrior and it costs $100! Maybe if I can find a free trial version somewhere or something... I'm going to give a few things a try, though. Obviously the information is still on there but there's something causing it to not read correctly on anything. The Mac won't read it normally either...
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When I saw MP4 was the file type for my Photon's video, I was happy - a simple format that is rather easily converted to others. Boy was I not only wrong about it being easy to convert, I can't even watch the darn videos on my computer. I installed numerous codecs, Media Player Classic, and of course I tried VLC (first). Am I missing something, because I cannot find any other threads with this question??
I use klite codec pack and I don't have any issues.
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I use klite codec pack and I don't have any issues.
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Strange, because I did too, but even Klite didn't work. Hmm, going to have to test the waters a bit more. Thanks.
What video player do you use to watch the videos? I assume yours are also MP4.
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Strange, because I did too, but even Klite didn't work. Hmm, going to have to test the waters a bit more. Thanks.
What video player do you use to watch the videos? I assume yours are also MP4.
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I just use windows media player on a windows 7 pc. They are also mp4 videos.
Using gom player on win 7 and my videos play and look great.
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Using gom player on win 7 and my videos play and look great.
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I tried GOM player (never heard of it before) and it also did not work. I'm perplexed as to why this would be an issue, because I've tried what I thought were the proper codecs and it changed nothing... They play perfectly normally on my Photon
EDIT: I think I just figured out why I'm having issues. I like security a lot and by encrypting my entire phone, I created this problem...
That doesn't sound good, let us know how you fix the issue.
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i don't have that issue too..
Update: I'm pissed. I have tried all the different options from importing (via Windows/Photo gallery/picasa) to getting the files directly, etc. Nothing works! Big thumbs down to the morons who developed the piss-poor encryption implementation. They failed miserably to develop a truly comprehensive solution.
I'm still working on finding a resolution, but would love any help!
Encryption is designed so people can't download files from your phone and just view them. You must decrypt the files
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Encryption is designed so people can't download files from your phone and just view them. You must decrypt the files
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Problem: By encrypting the storage card (both internal memory and sdcard), it encrypted every picture and video I took AFTER I enabled encryption.
Attempted solutions:
Copy encrypted files directly via USB mass storage device to computer. Result: FAILED, because files were still encrypted.
Copy files via Motorola Phone Portal to computer.
Result: FAILED, because files were still encrypted.
Import files via Windows/Photo Gallery/Picasa
Result: FAILED, because files were still encrypted.
Seeing a pattern yet???
Fast forward to calling Sprint; first guy didn't have a clue what I was talking about (no surprise, this is quite technical). Second guy thought he knew my problem; he was not even close, also didn't understand what encryption was. Put me on hold to speak with manager, came back 15 minutes later to tell me there was nothing that could be done. I moved on unsurprised by Sprint's inability to help.
Upload files to Youtube/Picasa/Qik
Result: Mixed. Youtube refused to upload the videos correctly - FAIL.
Picasa uploaded only the smaller videos, which was a great start - too bad Picasa doesn't allow you to download your videos off your account - Facepalm FAIL!
Qik uploaded my massive video (800MB), but then online told me streaming was unavailable at the time and also didn't let me download the video - DOUBLE FACEPALM FAIL!
Renamed DCIM folders in SDCARD and SDCARD-EXT to "100MEDIA" then used Windows Media Sync on phone and Windows Explorer to copy/paste files.
Result: SUCCESS! My suspicion is that Google's encryption system design was totally half-assed. They allow encryption of SDCARD data, but not decryption?!?! They allow decryption of personal data! Which reminds me, TURN OFF ALL ENCRYPTION if you want to recover your data, because that MAY HELP!
If anyone else has this issue and needs more help that was not clear already, let me know and I'll try to provide some assistance!
Hi slmclarengt,
I tried following your example of renaming the folders but couldn't figure out what you did for the 'Windows Media Sync on phone' part. I can copy and paste the files but don't know how to decrypt the blasted encryption on the Photon. I've turned off the stupid encryption but of course it won't decrypt the files. Stupid software engineers who wrote the encryption was dumb enough not to include a decryption. Any whoot, suggestions/hints to help with decrypting/viewing my photos/videos would be a lot of help.
Anyone else who can chime in would be I would be grateful as well. TIA
Ok, so I searched and found similar posts for Tablets and other devices. I'm starting this one for the Samsung Galaxy S2.
Model: SGH-T989
Android Ver.: 2.3.5
Baseband Ver.: T989UKID
Kernal Ver.: 2.6.35.11
Build Number: GINGERBREAD.UVKID
I haven't Rooted or Modded my phone in any way. I just got it 12 days ago. This has been happening now for a few days. Might be a conflict with some apps? or what?
Recently, I have lost some apps. So far about 4 in total. I would use it, then the next time I go to use it,a day later, or a few hours, it appears ghosted out and if I touch it, it would say, "you do not have this app installed". I didn't move it to my memory card either. I would have to re-download it again, and my files are still there after the re-install.
Does any one else have this issue?
Does any one know why this is happening?
I am attaching a few screen shots so you know what I am talking about.
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Missclicked quick reply with thanks -_-
Anyhow, that usualy shows if you moved your apps to external sd card, ive seen it on some phone after boot ups while it takes some time to read them depending on sd card usualy slow one. But if you dont do that, and use no sc card, maybe faulty usb storage? Just like faulty flash disc ? cant hold information and just ghosts on you.
not 100% sure tho just assuption.
Thanks for the reply! I do have a SD card installed, but I only have my music, pictures and Documents on there...no apps..I'm toying with the idea to restore the phone back to original out of the box status...I'm wondering if something got corrupt..I have pulled the battery and SD card and reinstalled them..It's randomly happening and to different apps..this is actually the second time it happend to angry birds...
It happened to me once as well. I don't have any apps installed on my SD card, but I had about 4 apps that did exactly the same as you.
I did a factory reset and all seems well now. I am not sure what the heck that was all about though. I don't have an answer for this problem either.
Also one thing I happened to notice by accident, when I do a factory reset, after the phone boots up, for like a few seconds it comes up with a notification box with a message and didn't get a chance to read it. Not sure what it said. But I noticed it the 2 times I did factory resets.
Although the issue with the ghost apps hasn't returned for me, it makes me wonder if I got a bum phone. I dunno.
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Although the issue with the ghost apps hasn't returned for me, it makes me wonder if I got a bum phone. I dunno.
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I'm going to hope that it wasn't a bum phone and just some sort of software conflict, seeing how you've restored twice and it hasn't returned..
Question: Did you have to do a restore for the same problem, twice? or different reasons?
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I'm going to hope that it wasn't a bum phone and just some sort of software conflict, seeing how you've restored twice and it hasn't returned..
Question: Did you have to do a restore for the same problem, twice? or different reasons?
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Ya that really irked me doing it twice.
I did it once cause I wanted to go fresh with everything. Then after I got all my stuff reinstalled, I copyied all my pictures on my SD card, and then I noticed those icons dissappeared.
I wasn't sure what happened, so really mad, I ended up doing another factory reset to start over again, thinking like you that I might of had something corrupted.
So far so good, but it does make me wonder what it was that caused it. Cause the icon makes it look like the apps were installed on the SD card when none of mine are.
BTW, in your program list, are your Movies, video maker and videos icon black and white? I thought that was weird that they are B&W when all the other icons are color.
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Ya that really irked me doing it twice.
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Ouch! Do I need to know anything before I perform this?...like what to save/back up?
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Ouch! Do I need to know anything before I perform this?...like what to save/back up?
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Not really. I keep a list on paper of all the apps I usually install on my phone. All my contacts are on my gmail account.
It's just a drawn out process setting up everything over again from scratch. I don't backup apps, I prefer the fresh approach.
Well here is when it happened to me.
First off, I was not originally aware that you have to go under Wireless settings and enable USB transfer to copy stuff back and forth. I am used to the phone asking what you want to do when you plug it in.
So that being said, when I plugged the phone in, it said MTP mode I believe. If you click on the phone in explorer, it showed the phone memory and the sd card. So I started copying all my pictures to my SD card. Half way through it stopped and said the device stopped responding. I unplugged the phone, went into settings and formatted the SD card.
That is when I noticed I had like 4 apps that were ghosted with the SD card symbol saying they were not installed. That is why I thought I might of corrupted something, being that I never installed any apps on my SD card.
After that I noticed that setting under wireless which turns on USB mode to copy stuff back and forth. I did a factory reset, then used the USB mode and copied all my stuff and everything has been fine ever since.
I don't know if it was a coincidence or not. But I guess copying files in MTP mode shouldn't be done eventhough it still shows up in explorer.
I hope someone else chimes in here with any ideas or a reason why this happened. Even though everything is fine now, and it might of been a fluke, I was wondering if I should exchange my phone or not, being as I don't know if it was a phone issue or not.
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Well here is when it happened to me.
First off, I was not originally aware that you have to go under Wireless settings and enable USB transfer to copy stuff back and forth. I am used to the phone asking what you want to do when you plug it in.
So that being said, when I plugged the phone in, it said MTP mode I believe. If you click on the phone in explorer, it showed the phone memory and the sd card. So I started copying all my pictures to my SD card. Half way through it stopped and said the device stopped responding. I unplugged the phone, went into settings and formatted the SD card.
That is when I noticed I had like 4 apps that were ghosted with the SD card symbol saying they were not installed. That is why I thought I might of corrupted something, being that I never installed any apps on my SD card.
After that I noticed that setting under wireless which turns on USB mode to copy stuff back and forth. I did a factory reset, then used the USB mode and copied all my stuff and everything has been fine ever since.
I don't know if it was a coincidence or not. But I guess copying files in MTP mode shouldn't be done eventhough it still shows up in explorer.
I hope someone else chimes in here with any ideas or a reason why this happened. Even though everything is fine now, and it might of been a fluke, I was wondering if I should exchange my phone or not, being as I don't know if it was a phone issue or not.
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Don't know what the other posts are about lol, too lazy. Anyways I only copy files in MTP mode... havent had any problems, but if the SDcard you formated was the built-in, then there could be a chance of the apps having data stored...in which you just removed - leaving them corrupt.
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I hope someone else chimes in here with any ideas or a reason why this happened. Even though everything is fine now, and it might of been a fluke, I was wondering if I should exchange my phone or not, being as I don't know if it was a phone issue or not.
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Instead of quoting your whole post, I just took a bit..
I'm chiming in again..What you said/did makes sense..I wiped my phone clean to the "out of box" settings..and I didn't do it with the normal, Menu>settings>Privacy..ect...I actually did a Hard Format and Cleared all my cache...
Spent all day at work on my downtime, adding all my apps back on..so far everything is working as intended..I'll notice what happens when I plug it in to my comp and use Samsung Kies to sync my phone with my comp..but I never saw anything like that come up when I was syncing it before...will notice next time...
I hope somebody can help me with this cause Im not too happy right now. 2 days ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 and Ive signed into my Google Accounts so I can install my apps.
The device has 8GB of memory, Ive installed only 12 games yet the device tells me I do not have enough room to install more ?!?!? WTF ! I have 8GB of storage.
When I go to settings, SD Card and Device Storage it shows I have 5GB of space left.
Then I plugged the device into my computer to see if I can copy over some music, 1.25 GB worth copied to the device with no problem leaving me over 3GB of space so whats the deal? why cant I install a 20mb app but I can copy over a gig of music?
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That's happened to me a few times. Try clearing Market cache in Menu > Applications > Market and reboot
I am curious... what error are you getting from your phone?
I get a "can't install on USE or SD card" error....
And its getting worse...
I have like 30 meg free... and get an error installing a 4 meg file...
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And I obviously have an error with tapatalk....
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redpirate8 said:
That's happened to me a few times. Try clearing Market cache in Menu > Applications > Market and reboot
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If you meant Settings>Applications>Manage Applications I just did that and the option to clear the cache is greyed out and its already set at zero.
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I am curious... what error are you getting from your phone?
I get a "can't install on USE or SD card" error....
And its getting worse...
I have like 30 meg free... and get an error installing a 4 meg file...
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the exact error reads:
Error
Error downloading "world of goo". there is insufficient space on the device.
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the exact error reads:
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Error downloading "world of goo". there is insufficient space on the device.
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Hi,
I'm still new to the SGP5 (in my case), but if you can, try to get something like App2SD installed. That tells you how much "internal" (not sure what its called on the SGPs) memory is available. At least on another device I have (a Droid), even though you have lots of space available, they only allocated a relatively small amount for "system", which is where apps normally go, so you can run out of that "system" space way before using up all of the internal SD space.
Apps like App2SD/App2SD pro will "move" parts of some apps (not all apps are "moveable") to the external microSD, leaving a much smaller "footprint" in the internal SD.
Jim
This is quite common, what you want to do is clear all the cache and everything else. To do this go to the Sd card or root of device and deleting the tmp folder and going into android and deleting other cache related to the device. Thats how mine got fixed.
hey thanks for the info. I was beginning to think I had a defective device. I wound up installing my apps a little bit at a time, took me a couple of hours. for some I actually had to side load them.
I will definitely get App2SD and see how that works.
This device is a Xmas gift for my 8yr old because he likes my Galaxy S II more than the iPhone 4 I gave him. he would not have been able to put all the games on it so I figured Id open it up and at least put all the games on it.
thanks again for your help.
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hey thanks for the info. I was beginning to think I had a defective device. I wound up installing my apps a little bit at a time, took me a couple of hours. for some I actually had to side load them.
I will definitely get App2SD and see how that works.
This device is a Xmas gift for my 8yr old because he likes my Galaxy S II more than the iPhone 4 I gave him. he would not have been able to put all the games on it so I figured Id open it up and at least put all the games on it.
thanks again for your help.
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Hi,
Mind you, not all apps will be moveable. I'm not sure of the technical details, but I think they have to be written a certain way to be moveable. In any event, a nice side benefit of apps like App2SD/App2SD Pro is that they will show you the space available for apps, so you get an idea about how much "headroom" you have.
Good luck,
Jim
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Really wanting to pick up one of these Notes but, as I learned with my HTC Desire, I ran out of space for my applications rather quickly (until I rooted it), so I'm wondering if the Note suffers from the same issue of not enough space on the stock RoM? I really don't feel like rooting it but if that's the solution then so be it but I'm a bit of an app whore and I need space for them all.
Thanks all.
Any input appreciated.... Probably still getting one but I just wondered if app space has been an issue for anyone?
You have 11gb after all the system files are on there. That should be plenty, and if it isn't you can always save apps to sd.
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On my old desire only 512 MB or so was dedicated to app storage so it got consumed quickly, just wasn't sure if the Note had a similar spec for its internal memory.
I made the mistake of going back to BlackBerry and I've been out of the android loop for a bit but I'm coming back!
Coffinfeeder said:
You have 11gb after all the system files are on there. That should be plenty, and if it isn't you can always save apps to sd.
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That is the internal sdcard for user storage...not apps
The data partition (where user apps are installed) is a bit over 2gb.
Way less than 11 but still should be plenty
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Any input appreciated.... Probably still getting one but I just wondered if app space has been an issue for anyone?
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Dude, I just bought the note about a 10 days ago, I'm not sure but it seems like i have a problem with the storage. My problem is that, I downloaded many games and all the data of those games that i downloaded stored automatically to the internal memory of the phone not to my SD card. Now my 32 GB SD is empty and my phone memory is full. I don't know what to do, if I ever move any of the data to my SD card then i can't play that game it will asked to download the data again. My phone is not rooted. I was wondering if rooted, does it going to help.
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Dude, I just bought the note about a 10 days ago, I'm not sure but it seems like i have a problem with the storage. My problem is that, I downloaded many games and all the data of those games that i downloaded stored automatically to the internal memory of the phone not to my SD card. Now my 32 GB SD is empty and my phone memory is full. I don't know what to do, if I ever move any of the data to my SD card then i can't play that game it will asked to download the data again. My phone is not rooted. I was wondering if rooted, does it going to help.
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Can't u click menu on some of those games and see if it will allow you to place backups or saved data to another file? And redirect it to external sd card ?
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Just move the data to your SD card.
It should look like this after.
-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke
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Dude, I just bought the note about a 10 days ago, I'm not sure but it seems like i have a problem with the storage. My problem is that, I downloaded many games and all the data of those games that i downloaded stored automatically to the internal memory of the phone not to my SD card. Now my 32 GB SD is empty and my phone memory is full. I don't know what to do, if I ever move any of the data to my SD card then i can't play that game it will asked to download the data again. My phone is not rooted. I was wondering if rooted, does it going to help.
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Apps can only be saved to the ~16 GB on the phone/internal sd card. The external is pretty much for music/videos/pictures. You can root, install titanium backup and backup apps to external SD. Then if you run out of space, uninstall less used items and you can restore from where you left it vs re downloading and starting over. Not perfect, but it's this way on a few phones (Droid bionic comes to mind)
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I call Samsung and they told me the phone was designed like that. There is nothing to do
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Mine is on its way! Can't wait, bout to poo my slacks! LOL
Anyone have any idea where all my internal memory is going.
I realized that I only had 2.85gb of memory on my internal sd
I deleted some crazy but I truly have no idea where it's getting these numbers.
It shows I have 7.83gb in miscellaneous files. When I opened it and added the files size up, it only comes to 2.07gb.
Not only that. I completely cleared my download folder and it still shows 20mb usage.
Damn I miss my 32gb s3
Am I missing something?
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Does it show something different from your computer when you plug it in?
Do you have any games or apps that downloaded extra data? Gameloft games love to use your internal storage and ignore the SD card.
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Does it show something different from your computer when you plug it in?
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No my computer matches up.
Link. said:
Do you have any games or apps that downloaded extra data? Gameloft games love to use your internal storage and ignore the SD card.
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Not a game guy. Just angry birds star wars. But that shows up under apps
Music from Google Play Music?
imnuts said:
Music from Google Play Music?
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Im guessing music also. Turn off automatically cache in google music.
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Try SD Maid and look at the Biggest Files tab.
imnuts said:
Music from Google Play Music?
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I just unchecked the Automatically cache on Google music. Made no difference
Link. said:
Try SD Maid and look at the Biggest Files tab.
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Ill give it a run thanks
I had that problem before on this phone but I just did a full wipe and started over and it was fine but I could not tell ya what caused it cause I haven't been really even using too many apps and games cause I have been too busy flashin different roms and playin around with the phone.. I have been being a huge slacker... If it's not too hard for ya I would just backup everything with TB and start over and then restore with NO app data included. I do it all the time but I have been crackflashin for years so I got it down to a science now. lol It is a pain though so if you can figure it out it would be better, of course.
** And YES, I do miss my 32gb S3 sometimes**
Okay. Downloaded SD maid.
Pretty much tells me exactly what I've seen on my storage tab.
I did clean some corpses (lol) but nothing out of the ordinary.
Don't mind the Six Feet deep episodes, those are on my SD card.
Btw, as far as roms go. I've only flashed beans v2 and I always fully wipe and never restore with data, ever.
I also have never had a problem with a rom, and I credit that towards always wiping clean. So what it takes a few more minutes to set up. At least you know it's a fresh install right?
So it looks like your 4GB of TWRP backups were the culprit?
Edit: Oops - I guess only 1.44 GB of the TWRP backups were on the internal SD.
FormeriPhoney said:
Okay. Downloaded SD maid.
Pretty much tells me exactly what I've seen on my storage tab.
I did clean some corpses (lol) but nothing out of the ordinary.
Don't mind the Six Feet deep episodes, those are on my SD card.
Btw, as far as roms go. I've only flashed beans v2 and I always fully wipe and never restore with data, ever.
I also have never had a problem with a rom, and I credit that towards always wiping clean. So what it takes a few more minutes to set up. At least you know it's a fresh install right?
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YUP! I am just sayin that something is not right and if you do it again and the problem is gone then "problem solved" ... But I didn't know if that was something you wanted to try? I went from the International Note 2 to the T-mobile Note 2 and now am on the Verizon Note 2 and I have seen this issue but I just don't have an answer for ya...?
EDIT: You do have some TWRP backups in your system files (in your internal storage) The one at the top anyways...
I'm confused about the Twrp backups. I only have 1 in there and it's the stock rooted backup.
This is my first time using Twrp. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
I have been using clockwork for the past 2 years. Flashed hundreds of roms from my OG DX, DX2, Bionic, Gnex, Sgs3 and now Note 2. Never had this issue on CWMR
Hmmm here's how I interpret it...
7.83 GB of Miscellaneous files
5.77 GB of which are dedicated to System Memory.
2.06 GB remain
1.62 GB of that being TWRP
0.44 GB dedicated to everything else listed.
I wonder what is in Note II's Android OS that requires 5.77 GB of memory.
TouchWiz is a big *****
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Just want you to know that you're not alone. Stock, I had those 5gb and now on Beans 3 it's still there. I've wiped more times than after eating dirty mexican food and nothing seems to work. I'll be creeping this thread hoping someone finds an answer.
I also have 5.77GB of Miscellaneous Items. Granted reading that post earlier 5.77GB dedicated to System Memory. So yeah. I guess mines alright.
FormeriPhoney said:
I just unchecked the Automatically cache on Google music. Made no difference
Ill give it a run thanks
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That is because it doesn't delete the previous cache, AFAIK.