Questions tagged [internal-storage]
Use this tag for questions concerning the internal storage space on your device that can be used for installing applications and their associated data.
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Can't Access internal storage after formatting SD card as internal then removing it
I integrated my SD card to use as phone memory. Everything was fine until a couple of days ago.
All of a sudden I saw the "insert SD card" notice appear on the notification bar. I open the ...
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Moving whole internal storage to external SD card
My phone is an (old, trashy, crap, …) LG l65 phone with custom ROM with patches on patches on patches on…
This phone has 2 GB of internal storage, is fully rooted (along with custom recovery and ROM I ...
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High storage usage with Samsung Galaxy S8 and image / image quality retention
My Samsung Galaxy S8 alerted me that the storage was critically full and may result in data corruption or failure to boot.
I immediately deleted some apps to free up 2GB. But I am worried that it may ...
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How to prevent an app clearing its own data
How to prevent an app clearing its own data . Thats the 3rd time WhatsApp deleted its own data against Users wish. There can be a zillon reasons which I don't care . If the user does not clear data - ...
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How to Decrypt and Save the Files from a Phone
I accidentally wiped the metadata partition along with Dalvik/ART Cache and Cache using TWRP and now I can't boot into the OS. Internal Storage and USB-OTG were excluded.
I know that the data is still ...
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How to Recover Data if Metadata partition was deleted
I accidentally wiped the metadata partition along with Dalvik/ART and Cache using TWRP and now I can't boot into the OS. Internal Storage and USB-OTG were excluded.
Is there any way to backup my data (...
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Files inside random directories are not readable by ls or any binary in linux
This is from my Android mobile. I am using a terminal app similar to ubuntu which is installed in my mobile. I am doing copy of my files to laptop and some are being skipped randomly.
When doing ls ...
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Can't view SD card used as internal storage
OK, I probably screwed myself here but here's hoping:
I was using an SD card as portable storage until I got fed up of my internal storage constantly filling up thanks to a game getting updates every ...
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Is there a way to delete from /data/local without root access?
I copied a file to my phone with this command:
adb push large.zip /data/local/
It took a few minutes and copied successfully, but then I realised that I couldn't find it on my phone. I copied it ...
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Android 12 Settings Storage keeps crashing
Problem description & Background:
My phone suddenly stopped storing or retrieving files after I swapped the 64Gb SD for a bigger one - 1Tb.
I cannot access Settings/Storage to query, eject or ...
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Internal storage goes missing and reappears after a few seconds
Whenever I use the media apps i.e gallery or any other app like file manager (the apps that require internal storage mostly), the apps close automatically after running like 5 seconds and upon ...
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Android 11 - Format SD as Adoptable storage
I use a device on Android 11, Xiaomi OEM, MIUI 12.5.7
I formatted my SD card as Adoptable storage, though I had to get that "Fix SD card" prompt to select "format as phone's storage&...
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Move app data to external memory
I'm on android 11 rooted with magisk, I downloaded and installed a large game, occupying most of my internal storage (64gb).
How can I link the app data to my external card (128gb) and play the game ...
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Link2SD - Game ignores binded data after link
I use Link2SD Plus mostly to link app data from my internal storage to my external memory, I don't do anything fancy like creating a second partition to link obb, I simply link the game DATA FOLDER (...
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What is the path to the trashed content of the Samsung Gallery app?
On Samsung Android devices, I'm looking for the path to the trashed content of the Samsung Gallery app. Not Google Photos app.
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What happens with phone with no SD storage (only GoogleDrive) when you don't have cellphone/internet signal? And how much data does transfer takes?
I have a S8 android phone with microSD card where all my pictures are stored. Now I need to change phone, and I've just learned the recent phones don't have microSD slot and all goes to Cloud Storage ...
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How to boot the phone in recovery mode in bootloop?
The phone's internal storage was full.
Bootlooped due to lack of internal storage memory.
How to boot the phone in recovery mode in bootloop?
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Converting a USB flash drive to a part of the phone's storage without booting the system?
Connect the usb flash drive with otg to the phone and make it a part of the phone's internal storage without booting the system and without booting the Rom.
It is possible or not
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Bootlooped phone due to lack of internal storage memory
Bootlooped phone due to lack of internal storage memory.
The phone is not rooted. Not a custom ROM.
USB debugging is disabled. adb is disabled.
Give me some solutions to have access to the internal ...
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Missing permission to access internal storage
Via Settings > Apps > Fayr > Permissions, I can set various permissions for the Android app Fayr (i.e., Calendar, Camera, Contacts, Location, Notifications), and all of them have been set to ...
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Why if the application is installed in Incremental File System it is smaller than the apk file
When I install an application, in most cases it is smaller than the file downloaded from the play store, I checked these applications in /data/app and it turned out that all applications that use the ...
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After I formatted my SD card as internal, how do I move heavy application to SD card?
I use instruction here to format my SD card as internal.
My phone is Poco X3 128 GB Xiaomi MIUI Version 14.0.2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOZIVbeNrxw
After I did it, I got an option if I want to ...
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whatsapp useless(?) files are safe to delete? dbcrypt and .trash
whatsapp useless(?) files are safe to delete? dbcrypt and .trash.
I was never able to restore a dbcrypt file, and whatsapp creates many.
This folder just seems to try to fill remaining space with ...
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How can I mount an SD card as internal storage on Motorola Moto G Play 2023?
I have a Motorola Moto G Play 2023 (maui), Android 12, rooted through Magisk. It only comes with 32GB of storage, so I bought an SD card to hold more apps. Unfortunately, Motorola has decided that the ...
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Can I use an sd card as internal storage with android 8.0
I have a Samsung galaxy s7 with android 8.0. I've put a 64gb microsd in it. I wanted to use the card to store apps on but it's not working.
I'm trying to move a game of about 11gb on to the card but ...
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How can I listen to an archived voicemail that has been saved in internal storage/music?
My phone is a Samsung Galaxy A20. I have several archived voicemail messages that I am trying to listen to, but when I try to retrieve them, a message pops up that reads, "Unable to play music. ...
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Whatsapp chats and media from internal storage
A few days ago, my Whatsapp deleted all my messages and media. Luckily those are still in my internal folder.
Is there any way to restore my Whatsapp chats and media from my internal storage as there ...
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Memories in Peril: Strategies for Data Redemption on Android 12+
I attempted to cut/paste the Camera folder, which was over 70GB in size, from my Samsung Note 10 to my PC. Copy/paste was taking forever, with a message saying "Preparing to copy files" for ...
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How does an A2-rated microSD card perform as adoptable storage in 2023?
Here's a small backstory. A relative of mine owns a pretty low end Android phone (Redmi 9T) running Android 12. They got the 64gb storage variant which, of course, wasn't the best idea since there was ...
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SD card internal storage - photos not showing in Photos - how do I format/unmount safely to not lose WhatsApp history?
The storage on my Android 11 phone (Fairphone 3) was running out so I mounted a Lexar micro SD card to increase storage. I now realise this was a mistake but not knowing any better I formatted it as ...
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Micro SD Card not detected anymore on Redmi note 11 pro, not accessible from computer
I've installed a micro SD card on my phone, as an extension of the internal storage, but it's not detected anymore on my phone...
With some tools on the computer I found out that the micro SD card is ...
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Where are the locations where games store data?
I am trying to find the sprites for a game. They were not in the apk. I looked in /sdcard/Android/obb. But while there was a folder that matched the game, it was empty. I looked in /sdcard/Android/...
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Shrinking encrypted ext4 partition
I have a micro SD card adopted by an Android phone as internal storage extension. While being adopted it was partitioned/formatted by the phone with two ext4 partitions: android_meta and ...
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Manually moving an app back to internal storage
I am using Android 11 on a Fairphone 3. I have added a microSD card that I use as storage for apps, and have some apps installed on the SD card. But some of those apps does not work properly, these ...
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how can i recovery my files from internal storage [duplicate]
I have samsung s20 fe g780g/ds, android 13. all my files in image gallery are lost or deleted. I would like to recovery but i cant access internal storage for recovery software. my phone is also not ...
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"Your data may be corrupt": /e/os booting into recovery and crashing on startup after running out of disk space
I am on a Fairphone 3 and run /e/os 1.9.
Background
I recently started to run out of disk space each time one of my apps (Signal messenger) started to create a new backup, as my free space was not ...
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ADB Shell / Magisk : Add folder to /system problem
I have an old phone on which I installed a new custom ROM, but the WiFi does not work because /system/etc/wifi is missing. I just have to move the vendor's folder from system/vendor/etc/wifi with ...
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Obb folder empty even though I can see inside data folder
I looked through everything I could find but I couldn't find a specific answer to this, sorry. I'm using a Samsung phone running android 13 - it isn't rooted and I can't risk rooting it. Both by using ...
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Why is my internal storage space constantly so low on my Samsung Galaxy A12 phone when I use an SD card?
My Galaxy A12 is always notifying me to delete unused files to avoid running slowly\apps not working correctly due to low internal storage space. I've moved any\every thing that's able to move to my ...
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How do I recover deleted WhatsApp database (msgstore.db.crypt12 files) without backup?
I accidentally deleted my WhatsApp database folder and have lost all my chat history. How can I restore it?
Deleted from phone's internal storage, Android 7, no root access and no other copy of the ...
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Change SD card back to normal storage
I was cleaning up some files on my phone and saw that I have the SD card set as internal storage. As I understand it, this means that the SD card is considered part of the Android filesystem.
This SD ...
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How to fix "android.process.media keeps stopping" - error re-appears in a 10-second loop
On a Galaxy Tab A on stock ROM the last update was the June 1 2022 patch for Android 10 received from Samsung in Oct 2022 and also brought with it some Samsung updates. The update has introduced a ...
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Using LADB: "sm partition" does not show any differnce in internal storage
Using LADB (Local ADB Shell App) i tried turning my SD card into expandable internal storage (or adoptable storage, which isnt availabe on my samsung).
I am unfortunatly not able to connect my phone ...
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Samsung XCover: can't turn SD external memory into internal memory, even with adb
I have a Samsung XCover 4s, android 11, and I can't find a way to turn a part (or even the entire card) of my sd card into internal memory. With ADB I tried to follow this tutorial:
$ sm list-disks ...
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how to make Samsung j3 with 8G rom usable
I have a Samsung j3 phone with 8g internal rom, 16g sd card and Android 5.1. It is in excellent condition.
Recently "storage is running out" errors started appearing, and even services ...
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"Mount" a loopback device from SD card without root
I'd like to move Termux/Nix-on-droid on my SD card as I lack space on internal storage. Unfortunately, SD cards are formatted in extFat so they can't deal with stuff that are common on ext4 systems, ...
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Replacing a Galaxy S10 internal storage
I have an old Samsung Galaxy S10 that's completely smashed up. I've been trying to recover the data for some time now. The issue I'm having is when I charge it up and power it on, it sounds like it's ...
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App ill installed
I have attempted to install an app from its apk file, but I failed. It was a game created with RENPY, turns out apps over ~2GB cannot be installed and the app I wanted to install was a bit more. At ...
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System internal storage expected sizes on android smartphones
The storage numbers that appears in Android devices are hard to understand.
I have look at Android devices with internal storage of 64GB and with System occupying 24GB and Android devices with ...
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View Android Chrome Cache files on device?
Is there any way to view the chrome app cache files on android without ADB or root just on the device itself?
Edit: or from a file manager on a computer?
Edit 2: does chrome use or cache different ...
