Has anyone else found the random hidden videos in their s3? These videos don't show up when you go to Gallery > videos. I found 2 videos in /system/media/video . 1 called android in space the other called sunset.
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Yeah I found. Since then wondering what would be their use? They may have use for specific system feature.
The only way to have found them is by having root access or via es file explorer or something similar. Just another of Google's Easter eggs?
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Haha never noticed them android in space is awesome.
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They reside on the preload partition, have no use and come from Samsung.
Not exactly "hidden" if you ask me.
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They reside on the preload partition, have no use and come from Samsung.
Not exactly "hidden" if you ask me.
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Not true, they are part of android, not just Samsung.
Also they are not in preload, they are part of system/media/ as already mentioned.
They are in all android installations, CyanogenMod has them, aosp has them etc. etc.
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The reason for them being on the device as with other phones and tablets is so you can check video play back along with checking the screen quality while playing videos.
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They reside on the preload partition, have no use and come from Samsung.
Not exactly "hidden" if you ask me.
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I would say they were hidden, a normal user wouldn't be looking around the root file systems. Most people who don't know what UNIX is would have no idea that there are directories other than what they can see on /sdcard
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I would say they were hidden, a normal user wouldn't be looking around the root file systems. Most people who don't know what UNIX is would have no idea that there are directories other than what they can see on /sdcard
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From normal user perspective they can be defined as hidden. I agreed. Wih Root and android everything.pretty much. is naked.
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Is there a way into tricking the phone to download stuff to the external sd-card like to the 32 gb i bought thanxs in advance
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Is copy and paste the answer you were looking for? Download what from where? And really...a bump after 30 minutes.....patience!
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No i mean like media hub vids
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Yes you can do that if you use dolphins hd browser. This is what you need to do.
Open the dolphin hd browser.
Then hit menu button and select more-settings -data storage settings-Download directory.
Then type: /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/folderName.
I have tested this and it works.
Edit: the same can be done on stock browser by selecting the default storage from phone to sdcard. It'll automatically create the download folder.
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And for good measures another bump since it took so long to type this.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA I'm stealing his for my signature
No i mean the movies are taking to much space is there way to put on sdcard ext
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No i mean the movies are taking to much space is there way to put on sdcard ext
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The data is located here:
/sdcard/.SamsungMediaHub/files
Not sure if you can have them saved on the external SD card. I downloaded and watched a few shows using the credit they gave us and then deleted the program.
U know what just forgot it i figured it out and that guy that posted earlier and said ure duchbags its true...
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bencozzy said:
all you SGS2 guys are douches
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mohkg said:
and that guy that posted earlier and said ure duchbags its true...
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Sheesh... What's with the hostility? We're all here trying to do the same... getting the most out of our toys.
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Hey so atm I only have 2 gig free on my phone.... Ive barely got any music or videos etc and was wondering whats taking up all my memory? I do have ICS aswell.
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My crystal ball says that your applications and games are using it.
Nope only have a few apps
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When i installed ics it wiped everything and since have only installed a few apps
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You clearly missed the tongue-in-cheek aspect of my comment, so allow me to put this into a clear question for you.
How do you expect any of us to know what is taking up space on your phone?
Try checking out the folder LOST.DIR, also check for backups: ClockWorkMod, TitaniumBackup, also check out the Android/Data/ folder for any left over game data.
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Thanks some backups from clock work actually took up alot of space and oinkylicious if your not going to post anything helpful dont lost at all.
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dw9999 said:
Thanks some backups from clock work actually took up alot of space and oinkylicious if your not going to post anything helpful dont lost at all.
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I thought Onkys post and your original post where both very funny .
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Thanks some backups from clock work actually took up alot of space and oinkylicious if your not going to post anything helpful dont lost at all.
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You're very welcome. If you search for "Folder Size" in the Play Store, it'll tell you what folders are the biggest, etc.
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Look in folder "downloads" you probably will find a lot to delete there
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I'm trying to find out where offline maps are stored. I've looked everywhere
Well I guess almost everywhere. Haha
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I would like to know this as well. It's a pain re downloading them all the time
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Probably best to dl and use root explorer etc to see what updated date wise for specific folders, haven't tried yet but should be easy..
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waterbound said:
Probably best to dl and use root explorer etc to see what updated date wise for specific folders, haven't tried yet but should be easy..
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I did that before asking. If you find something please let us know.
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Android/Google maps/cache..
The files are not named anything that you would recognize but time and date confirms, also it looks as tho offline storage auto deletes itself in 30 days. There is an older version (Google Google Maps 6.8.1 ) which allows storage and real use of offline maps using other apps..rnmaps I think..
Hope that helps
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Scratch that..at least the location part..I used root explorer and search date, name etc and can't find it..yet
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Scratch that..at least the location part..I used root explorer and search date, name etc and can't find it..yet
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Haha. Its like they're hiding them. I posted here once I gave up.
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First off: sorry if im posting in wrong section. Onyl thing is this xda dev app does not have a search button, plz redirect me or try to answer me if i posted this in wrong section.
Aroma file manager seems a little lacking some features....many features...where can i get a more complete one and still be able to use it as aromafilemanager under philz recovery?
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there's only one Aroma file manager AFAIK
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there's only one Aroma file manager AFAIK
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Damnatio......
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Afaik newest aroma filemanager version is 1.8 and there aren't any newer ones. But what features are you missing exactly? You have basic filemanager, possibility to copy/move/delete files, and the almighty terminal, so in general you can do everything .
Dunno..an image viewer or movie player would be nice (movie player is lessere useful...).
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Dunno..an image viewer or movie player would be nice (movie player is lessere useful...).
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Why do you want those in a recovery file manager? It's not like you want to move an image or video in recovery for any reason
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Dunno..an image viewer or movie player would be nice (movie player is lessere useful...).
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well, those are not features of a file manager but separate programs.
and no, that will not happen
Yeah i do. Say i wanna flash my phone and completely wipe sdcard0 but i have some images in it and ive already formatted rom folders and concerning stuff yadayada...well i could just take the whole folder and move it to my microsd and then look at it while im in the rom...but its much better to look at the images while im still in recovery...this stuff would be nice to have. Along with a more user friendly file browser..take fx browser from play store for example.
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won't happen
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won't happen
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Bro plz dont spam here...im just answering other dudes question, not saying it will happen
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I am answering your initial question since you ignored the first answer
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me then, i shall be sure to press the appropriate aknowledgment button
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So when I go into storage it said I have 9gb of "other" ?? Anyone have an idea what it can be? I've looked everywhere through my phone to find these mysterious files.
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Like a bunch of text maybe game saves obb files
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Try file manager in root mode and check for your old files and ROM backups in /data/media folder.
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OK just to be sure here. I'm on a 4.2 rom as well and I have a about 9 gigs taken up. I turned es file Explorer on root mode and unhid the hidden files. I looked and there was a data/media folder with about 9 gigs in it. Should I delete this and I will be fine?
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That's all your personal data. Don't delete the whole thing but look for the large directories under there.
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Well I looked through there and it seems to be almost a copy of my SD card folder. I looked through all the files and there is 5 files with the exact same contents. They are all identical to the SD card folder and they are taking up the same amount of space . the files are SD card, inside the data/media and 0 inside the same folder. Inside the storage folder there is both sdcard0 and legacy. All these have the same contents.
What's up with this?
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Your old home folder is /data/media the new one is the 0 folder. You can delete most of the duplicates from media, and can move anything into 0 that you want to keep.
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When you upgrade from a 4.1.1 rom to a 4.2.2 rom or 4.3 rom your storage changes from sdcard0 to something else so you will find a lot of duplicates that can be deleted. Just for future reference.
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If you check the size of the /data it will probably explain the missing space. Just backup your important info to the pc and do an internal wipe
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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I've had this problem, and like torrentd said back up important files to pc and I format internal storage in recovery. Deletes all useless files and replicas.
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henslo said:
I've had this problem, and like torrentd said back up important files to pc and I format internal storage in recovery. Deletes all useless files and replicas.
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Thanks, but would you mind giving me some specifics on what directories/file systems to format? The space usage for me doesn't appear to be in /data/media like many others have posted so part of my problem is that I'm not sure where to look.
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Thanks, but would you mind giving me some specifics on what directories/file systems to format? The space usage for me doesn't appear to be in /data/media like many others have posted so part of my problem is that I'm not sure where to look.
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If you use twrp recovery, just go in wipe, and wipe internal storage.
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henslo said:
If you use twrp recovery, just go in wipe, and wipe internal storage.
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Okay. Would I be flashing my ROM/kernel combination after that step?
I assume that restoring a backup might introduce problems so probably better to stay away from that??
Thanks
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Similar issue, except /data/media doesn’t appear to be what's using my space. See attached screenshot for details. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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That screenshot is useless, depending on if you are using android 4.1.x or android 4.2.x
4.2.x introduces a new filesystem and starts using a new directory /data/media/0
all of your old data is still in /data/media and your phone is looking at /data/media/0 for sdcard space
it calculates total space by how big /data media is and its contents are under /0 (the 0 is the user that is on the device, /1 would be a second user account, however user accounts are disabled on phones)