[Q] out of storage messages again

corvus.corax · Feb 7, 2014

Before I moved from 4.1.2 to 4.4 (trying different ROMs), I repartitioned my storage (PIT file) from 2gb up to 4gb because I was getting messages that I was out of storage, even though I had 300mb left. Since upgrading to 4gb, all has been well until now. Lately, I've been doing a lot of installing, deinstalling, reinstalling of certain apps and now suddenly, I am getting messages again about how much storage is left (1.7gb, as a matter of fact). I want to know why the messages suddenly started to appear - in other words, is their display normal behavior from the kernel or the ROM, or if I can make them go away. With 1.7gb, they seem unnecessary, but then again, I thought that when I had 300mb left of 2gb, so I am a little worried that I might start getting false messages that I am out of storage and even have to repartition again.

Christiaan91 · Feb 7, 2014

corvus.corax said:
Before I moved from 4.1.2 to 4.4 (trying different ROMs), I repartitioned my storage (PIT file) from 2gb up to 4gb because I was getting messages that I was out of storage, even though I had 300mb left. Since upgrading to 4gb, all has been well until now. Lately, I've been doing a lot of installing, deinstalling, reinstalling of certain apps and now suddenly, I am getting messages again about how much storage is left (1.7gb, as a matter of fact). I want to know why the messages suddenly started to appear - in other words, is their display normal behavior from the kernel or the ROM, or if I can make them go away. With 1.7gb, they seem unnecessary, but then again, I thought that when I had 300mb left of 2gb, so I am a little worried that I might start getting false messages that I am out of storage and even have to repartition again.

Do you have logs in /data/log?

AndDiSa · Feb 7, 2014

Do you get error messages or only toast messages? The toast messages are coming from ES-File Explorer every time you install or update an app.

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corvus.corax · Feb 7, 2014

no logs exist. if the message is a toast from ES File Manager, is that a new thing? I never saw that before.

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miguelmflores · Feb 9, 2014

I've tried almost everything and the problem remains, even the *#9900# .. it doesn't work... I'm a bit frustrated and I don't know what to do... I would love to restart my phone with a new kernel or ROM, but with some default settings, but I'm scared, I've never changed the kernel I guess

Christiaan91 · Feb 9, 2014

miguelmflores said:
I've tried almost everything and the problem remains, even the *#9900# .. it doesn't work... I'm a bit frustrated and I don't know what to do... I would love to restart my phone with a new kernel or ROM, but with some default settings, but I'm scared, I've never changed the kernel I guess

Go to settings - storage. Look at internal storage. Does the different components add up to 1,97GB? How much space do you have available?

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miguelmflores · Feb 9, 2014

yeah, it says 1,97gB total space, and and it's supposed to say 1,12GB available.

The weird thing that's the Internal memory but I think it's for apps. When I try to send via bluetooth 1 picture to my phone (to the SD card) it says it is full. It also happens when I try to move an app from the internal memory to the SD. But the real thing is that the SD card it has like 10GB free.

When I connect my phone to the computer, it says that the internal memory has 0kb available and the SD card the 10GB free.

So confusing...

Christiaan91 · Feb 9, 2014

miguelmflores said:
yeah, it says 1,97gB total space, and and it's supposed to say 1,12GB available.

The weird thing that's the Internal memory but I think it's for apps. When I try to send via bluetooth 1 picture to my phone (to the SD card) it says it is full. It also happens when I try to move an app from the internal memory to the SD. But the real thing is that the SD card it has like 10GB free.

When I connect my phone to the computer, it says that the internal memory has 0kb available and the SD card the 10GB free.

So confusing...

Strange, maybe you can search for a folder that's taking up much space. Or maybe formatting. Backup your files and folders to pc.

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miguelmflores · Feb 9, 2014

I have this question, what to delete and what do not delete from the internal memory?

I also wanted to search for a big folder but none of them seems to be big enough.

Christiaan91 · Feb 9, 2014

miguelmflores said:
I have this question, what to delete and what do not delete from the internal memory?

I also wanted to search for a big folder but none of them seems to be big enough.

Just to be clear.
There are 2 different partition called internal storage. One is almost 2gb and one almost 12gb. The second one (12gb) is full?

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miguelmflores · Feb 9, 2014

The 1,97GB internal storage has 1,12GB available. The 11,50GB Internal storage have 0,00B available...

Christiaan91 · Feb 9, 2014

miguelmflores said:
The 1,97GB internal storage has 1,12GB available. The 11,50GB Internal storage have 0,00B available...

I find some app data that wasn't deleted after I deleted the app in /sdcard/Android. Maybe you got that too. Made some recovery backups?

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miguelmflores · Feb 9, 2014

Yeah, I've done many backups in the past, and I've also found many folders of old apps deleted but those folders are still there.

Christiaan91 · Feb 9, 2014

miguelmflores said:
Yeah, I've done many backups in the past, and I've also found many folders of old apps deleted but those folders are still there.

Backups takes a lot of space. Delete the ones you don't need anymore. Also the folders of old apps.

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miguelmflores · Feb 9, 2014

thanks, and yeah, i did delete the old backups, but there are so many old repeated apps and I don't know which delete now

Christiaan91 · Feb 9, 2014

miguelmflores said:
thanks, and yeah, i did delete the old backups, but there are so many old repeated apps and I don't know which delete now

Maybe you can use /data/app names to figure out what folders you can delete.

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miguelmflores · Feb 9, 2014

Thanks, now the last question I guess...

Which folders I should really NOT delete?

Christiaan91 · Feb 9, 2014

miguelmflores said:
Thanks, now the last question I guess...

Which folders I should really NOT delete?

If I'm right there aren't any system files on the internal storage(sdcard), but some apps do store data there and of course your personal files, like pictures, downloads or maybe music. You can copy all of the data to your pc, so you have a backup.

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miguelmflores · Feb 9, 2014

Thanks!! Yeah, I'm currently about to delete all those folders. The pictures, videos, music it doesn't even care.

!!
About the apps, if I delete those folders, should I just re-install the app if it have some problem?

Christiaan91 · Feb 9, 2014

miguelmflores said:
Thanks!! Yeah, I'm currently about to delete all those folders. The pictures, videos, music it doesn't even care. !!
About the apps, if I delete those folders, should I just re-install the app if it have some problem?

I would advice you to do a backup, just to be sure. You can format the internal sdcard in recovery. After that reboot and the necessary files/folders will be rebuild.

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