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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techinv said:
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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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)
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OK so basically I went from gingebread to jellybean by going to ICS in between. Whilst on ICS I noticed that the internal SD card wouldn't mount and in recovery it showed all of the file folders that there should have been but nothing in them. Now I'm on jellybean its the same. Is there any way to get it back to normal without going to stock?
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Bump need an answer family want to see holiday pics.
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check in file explorers for EMMC that will be your ext sd, if it shows up that way, look for an app on xda called RemountSD that will make your ext sd be shown as ext sd instead of emmc
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check in file explorers for EMMC that will be your ext sd, if it shows up that way, look for an app on xda called RemountSD that will make your ext sd be shown as ext sd instead of emmc
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I just get this.
OK what's happened is that the two files that I put on the external SD card are in download and nothing is in the external SD card file. I just need my internals back.
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Update: I can't take a screenshot of notifications but that other screenshot I took, in notifications under the screenshot it says SD card is currently in use and shows a USB symbol although my phone is charging from a wall socket.
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Try...from that screen press favourites, hopefully your get this (screenshot)
then press the phone icon and hopefully your get (2nd screenshot)
from there hopefully your find all your stored ext sd files in the emmc folder. If that is the case the i would recommend finding the RemountSD apk on xda, it saves alot of confusion finding your files
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I just get this.
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from there press the phone icon and you should get my 2nd screenshot appear (root folders etc) the emmc folder should be in there aswell
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This is what I get. There was 2 lines more but thy were nothing.
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Only thing i can suggest is if its nothing is in your extSD folder in that area then as a long shot, try fi ding and using the RemountSD app, do a search on the xda forum, it should be easy to find, once its installed tell it to remount and hopefully that will solve your problem and everything will be found on ext sd
this is the link to the app, hope that helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1734826
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Thanks for the help but the apo didn't do anything because I think the locations are wrong. I'll try reverting back to stock gingerbread or ICS later...
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No probs, hopefully someone will be able to help out more, i've not used any JB roms yet, if your looking for something custom but close to ICS the neutrino rom is quite good, comes with the remountsd aswell, i've not had any probs so far over the last month or 2 using it
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Try ics sd binder first and see if that helps
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Thanks for the help but the apo didn't do anything because I think the locations are wrong. I'll try reverting back to stock gingerbread or ICS later...
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Try ics sd binder first and see if that helps
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Bump this back up. Im back to stock ics and yet the same friggin problem.
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Please guys. Im now back in gingerbread but yet i cant access my interbal storage. I dont want to format it because I need my holiday pictures guys. Pleaseeeee. Thanks.
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Ok if it helps when i go into storage instead of internal sd card it says usb storage.
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Can you access it from recovery, mounts and storage and back them up to a pc. Not practical but at least you might salvage your pics.
Also I used ICS SD binder with no problems, you have to change the file path from emmc to extSdCard though otherwise it won't find it.
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Can you access it from recovery, mounts and storage and back them up to a pc. Not practical but at least you might salvage your pics.
Also I used ICS SD binder with no problems, you have to change the file path from emmc to extSdCard though otherwise it won't find it.
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Apparently all it needed was a factory reset/wipe data.
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Edit I was wrong. Basically I wiped and rebooted into f1 pure gnex rom. Went into camera and behold my 500 pictures were there but all blank. I then rebooted again and they all disappeared.
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Ever since flashing jb Roms on my phone I've noticed folders by those names in root folder. Is that something new or is that possibly left over from a previous install?...I was tinkering around with a file explorer and tried to delete "storage", (which also has sdcard0 inside) and it ended erasing all my external sd contents. Can anyone else verify this is normal or something wrong with my internal sd linking etc?. Just wanna make sure its supposed to be like that. Tia
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Ever since flashing jb Roms on my phone I've noticed folders by those names in root folder. Is that something new or is that possibly left over from a previous install?...I was tinkering around with a file explorer and tried to delete "storage", (which also has sdcard0 inside) and it ended erasing all my external sd contents. Can anyone else verify this is normal or something wrong with my internal sd linking etc?. Just wanna make sure its supposed to be like that. Tia
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That's normal for aosp roms
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Thanks for the reply. What if I'm running the stock rooted ruu based Rom by viperboy? Is it a jb thing?
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onefasttreopro said:
Thanks for the reply. What if I'm running the stock rooted ruu based Rom by viperboy? Is it a jb thing?
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On sense roms u can acess external sd card just like you always did
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Well that I figured out. I'm just confused where the "storage" folder came from....was it added since I started using jb Roms? Because ics roms don't have a folder named "storage", they only have sdcard and sdcard2. "storage" seems to have come up since jb Rom installs. I hope I'm explaining correctly. Is having a "storage" folder along with the other 2 sdcard folders normal when using a jb rom?
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Yup, nothing to worry about man
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Ok looks like ill just have to be careful with messing with that folder....thanx.
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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.
Running CM10.1, I wiped my sdcard already so that my phone could read both which it does I have pictures on both my extsdcard and sdcard which gallery can see both but when I download a picture it saves to sdcard but the gallery can't see them even though it sees other pictures in that folder. I can access the pictures through root explorer though, anyone know anything?
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Running CM10.1, I wiped my sdcard already so that my phone could read both which it does I have pictures on both my extsdcard and sdcard which gallery can see both but when I download a picture it saves to sdcard but the gallery can't see them even though it sees other pictures in that folder. I can access the pictures through root explorer though, anyone know anything?
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I think this is due to the media scanner. If you reboot I bet it will show up in the Gallery.
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I think this is due to the media scanner. If you reboot I bet it will show up in the Gallery.
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No luck... I tried to refresh list as well as reboot phone and still nada...
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Try wiping data for Media Storage.
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Try wiping data for Media Storage.
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This didn't work either but this morning strangely enough they're being read
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Hey guys I have about a gig of free space on my internal storage and close to 10 gigs on my SD and my phone keeps telling me to free up space when I try open the gallery. Any ideas?
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move some apps over to your external sd....(apps to sd)
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move some apps over to your external sd....(apps to sd)
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I have a gig free
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If you're rooted and dirty-flashed a rom, you can get the same error. I had the same issue awhile back with a particular rom I flashed/upgraded. Hope that helps.
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could be not enough room in the system partition due to the way some apps work?
just guessing but the space it needs might not be in the partitions you are looking at?
how can I view the internal storage on my phone? it says I have 9 gigs full but I don't know how to view it in astro
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