Whenever I go to the storage option in settings, it shows that my downloads take up 2 gigs of space. but when I look at my downloads folder in root explorer, I don't have 2 gigabytes worth of files. Can someone tell me what's happening and help me fix it?
somedude011 said:
Whenever I go to the storage option in settings, it shows that my downloads take up 2 gigs of space. but when I look at my downloads folder in root explorer, I don't have 2 gigabytes worth of files. Can someone tell me what's happening and help me fix it?
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I'd maybe try clearing your cache in whatever recovery you have even if it's stock if you truly can't track that down and see if it helps or grab Disk Usage app from play store and see if maybe it's hiding somewhere you haven't thought to look
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somedude011 said:
Whenever I go to the storage option in settings, it shows that my downloads take up 2 gigs of space. but when I look at my downloads folder in root explorer, I don't have 2 gigabytes worth of files. Can someone tell me what's happening and help me fix it?
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I agree with Mistertac, you will need to clean your dalvik cache and any other cache that you might possibly have. If you are not rooted, then I would recommend to use the app called Clean Master, which can help with you clearing up your downloads folder, boosting ram, and getting rid of unwanted applications. You can find the Clean Master application here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard
Another app to try is SD Maid
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Safe strap is most likely taking up most of your space
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pwned3 said:
Safe strap is most likely taking up most of your space
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I don't think so because I'm on stock
somedude011 said:
I don't think so because I'm on stock
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It shows safe strap installed in your picture:what: it will show up as miscellaneous files which is showing 6gb
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pwned3 said:
It shows safe strap installed in your picture:what: it will show up as miscellaneous files which is showing 6gb
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No those aren't installed apps they are just apks.
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I have around 3gb free of internal storage. How is everyone managing their storage? Are yall using any apps to delete cache files? Refer to the pic for what my storage looks like.
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I never even worry about space. I have an 8gb sdcard and I out downloads on that but beyond that I just let the phone do its thing
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I put everything I could on my external sdcard: Camera default directory, Titanium Backup, game data, and ubuntu image (complete linux installer).
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k3v0 said:
I put everything I could on my external sdcard: Camera default directory, Titanium Backup, game data, and ubuntu image (complete linux installer).
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How did you get your games to default save to ext SD?
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Gahh Its Lee said:
I never even worry about space. I have an 8gb sdcard and I out downloads on that but beyond that I just let the phone do its thing
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Not many big apps installed eh?
Install a couple big games and watch internal storage go bye-bye. So much for letting the OS do its thing.
I use DirectoryBind to redirect big apps to my sdcard. App isn't perfect, but it works.
adrynalyne said:
Not many big apps installed eh?
Install a couple big games and watch internal storage go bye-bye. So much for letting the OS do its thing.
I use DirectoryBind to redirect big apps to my sdcard. App isn't perfect, but it works.
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Actually I thought I had a decent amount of apps installed. I have 16 games but I dont play the big ones usually since I hate most on screen controls. Thanks for the app though.
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Storage analyser or grid size free are both great Apps to see what is taking up your space.
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speedfreak228 said:
How did you get your games to default save to ext SD?
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Some larger games have the option within the game itself; Bard's Tale for example. The option was offered when downloading the 1.8 GB datafile. The game still partly installs to the internal sdcard.
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k3v0 said:
Some larger games have the option within the game itself; Bard's Tale for example. The option was offered when downloading the 1.8 GB datafile. The game still partly installs to the internal sdcard.
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Most don't have that option though.
Anyway to move uccw to ext SD?
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I put everything I could on my external sdcard: Camera default directory, Titanium Backup, game data, and ubuntu image (complete linux installer).
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How'd you get Miscellaneous files so low? I have system memory in miscellaneous files. That can't be moved can it?
Not sure, but it may be because I am on Sprint and have android 4.1.1. If you notice, my 16 GB internal memory is reported as 10.95 GB. The other screenshots from VZW report the full 16 GB.
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Install Apps to SD card
Everything i install is put on the sd card i did this by following instructions on this link galaxynote2root .com/galaxy-note-2-tutorials/how-to-store-apps-on-sd-card-with-rooted-galaxy-note-2-app2sd-mod/
YOU MUST BE ROOTED for this to work
hope this helps
johnnyvol said:
How'd you get Miscellaneous files so low? I have system memory in miscellaneous files. That can't be moved can it?
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Mine is that low, if I remove my downloaded files.
LightCCB said:
Everything i install is put on the sd card i did this by following instructions on this link galaxynote2root .com/galaxy-note-2-tutorials/how-to-store-apps-on-sd-card-with-rooted-galaxy-note-2-app2sd-mod/
YOU MUST BE ROOTED for this to work
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So if you were to flash an aokp or cm rom will you still have sd swap or will it revert back to its original form.
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ive never encountered this before, i have barley anything on the phone. just a few pictures and videos but i only have 2gb of space left?
see my screenshot of a better understanding of what im on about.
any help would be great!
Have you tried clearing the apps caches? I had nearly 2n a half gbs of data
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blade30p said:
have you tried clearing the apps caches? I had nearly 2n a half gbs of data
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Done that and its given me another gig, I even connected my phone through usb and gone though every folder looking for whats taking up all of my space. And found nothing
Download Sandisk or any other storage scanning app and have a look. Do you have any music streaming apps that store data on your phone?
Dmwitz said:
Download Sandisk or any other storage scanning app and have a look. Do you have any music streaming apps that store data on your phone?
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downloaded sandisk app, and its saying that "other files" are taking up all of the space? but i cannot find them! very frustrating!
and no dont even have a music player let alone a music streaming app.
thanks for your reply!
Does anyone know how to make this work on safestrap? Folder mount reads o mb for all of my apps and if I try to connect the folders from internal to my ext, my games always try to download the data as if there isn't any there. I'm stumped
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vdub2pt0 said:
Does anyone know how to make this work on safestrap? Folder mount reads o mb for all of my apps and if I try to connect the folders from internal to my ext, my games always try to download the data as if there isn't any there. I'm stumped
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I got a woody when I read your thread title. :cyclops:
Anyhoo, I posted this exact problem in here some weeks ago and so far no solution. The DIR structure for the source is completely wack I think to allow FolderMount to work out of Rom Slots with Safestraps. Nobody has had any answers to it.
lazer9 said:
I got a woody when I read your thread title. :cyclops:
Anyhoo, I posted this exact problem in here some weeks ago and so far no solution. The DIR structure for the source is completely wack I think to allow FolderMount to work out of Rom Slots with Safestraps. Nobody has had any answers to it.
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I changed the title to a question. Lol my bad. I would love to figure this out. I made the source folder ss/emulated/0/Android/obb/com.... and got it to pin on folder mount, but the game still doesn't pick it up. :banghead:
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Seems like it won't work. So a better question is... Is there an alternative to folder mount that we can use to store our game files on our external sd that will work with safestrap???
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Is there any app that moves not just the app but the data as well to the sdcard? I'm running safestrap and hyperdrive and only have 50mb left in my device so need to move things to sdcard
Thx
I asked this a while back as well. From what I understand there is no way to do that unfortunately. I guess that's where flashing ROMs via Safestrap gets us huh?
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I've been searching for an answer to this for a couple weeks now since Folder mount doesn't work anymore with safestrap. Haven't found the solution yet
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In the mean while, any manual way to do this? I desperately need to reclaim some space off my internal storage and moving apps doesn't help as they are all about 10mb each
sam008 said:
Guys
Is there any app that moves not just the app but the data as well to the sdcard? I'm running safestrap and hyperdrive and only have 50mb left in my device so need to move things to sdcard
Thx
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There is a way to accomplish part of what you want. You need to be rooted (which you obviously are). There are two apps in the Play Store you need, Aparted and Link2SD. Aparted will allow you to partition your external sd card where app data and other data will be stored and Link2SD will create a "link" to that partition so that data can be updated, stored and retrieved when needed. Depending on the apps you use the amount of storage freed can be significant. It does not work for "system" apps, only works for downloaded apps. Hope this helps.
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There is a way to accomplish part of what you want. You need to be rooted (which you obviously are). There are two apps in the Play Store you need, Aparted and Link2SD. Aparted will allow you to partition your external sd card where app data and other data will be stored and Link2SD will create a "link" to that partition so that data can be updated, stored and retrieved when needed. Depending on the apps you use the amount of storage freed can be significant. It does not work for "system" apps, only works for downloaded apps. Hope this helps.
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this method will work with safestrap?
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vdub2pt0 said:
this method will work with safestrap?
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I don't use safestrap so I can't say for sure. I don't see why it wouldn't though.
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I don't use safestrap so I can't say for sure. I don't see why it wouldn't though.
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Folder mount worked without safestrap, but wouldn't with it because of something with the path names. I'll give it a shot later
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Please do and let us know
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I've never used aparted before, but it says it will erase my sd card... uhhh I can't lose everything, so I won't be trying this any time soon. Unless I am wrong and my card will survive.
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I've never used aparted before, but it says it will erase my sd card... uhhh I can't lose everything, so I won't be trying this any time soon. Unless I am wrong and my card will survive.
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You would probably have to copy everything off your SD to computer. Run Aparted and make sure you leave enough partition space on one side for your stuff you copied to computer to bring back to that partition.
Curious about this to as I'm a safestrap user but not sure I have the time to try it any time soon.
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You would probably have to copy everything off your SD to computer. Run Aparted and make sure you leave enough partition space on one side for your stuff you copied to computer to bring back to that partition.
Curious about this to as I'm a safestrap user but not sure I have the time to try it any time soon.
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I'm in the same boat. My computer takes several hours to move my 20 GB of data each way. I would give it a shot if it didn't take so long. If anyone else tries this, keep us updated
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I installed Hyperdrive 10.2 in my stock slot, and folder mount works as it should!
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Im dealing with this error "unkown error -24" after trying to install SoundHound ∞ from playstore. I had it installed before and trying to install back and cant get around to do it.
There's many threads on this saying I should delete files from previous installation, I already tried deleting data/data but I cant find com.android.soundhound or anything. A search for "soundhound" on my whole SDCard comes out empty.
Where does soundhound saves its files?
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Im dealing with this error "unkown error -24" after trying to install SoundHound ∞ from playstore. I had it installed before and trying to install back and cant get around to do it.
There's many threads on this saying I should delete files from previous installation, I already tried deleting data/data but I cant find com.android.soundhound or anything. A search for "soundhound" on my whole SDCard comes out empty.
Where does soundhound saves its files?
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Did you search internal storage? It may of hid itself somewhere in there
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Did you search internal storage? It may of hid itself somewhere in there
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Got a Nexus 5, my internal is the same than my SD hehe
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Got a Nexus 5, my internal is the same than my SD hehe
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Oh yea I forget they have no external capabilities. Then I'm not sure how to help you here. Other than if I download the app myself but I'm on a Samsung phone I'm kinda at a loss on where to direct you from here
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