My Android S2 is out of memory and unable to update apps. Specifically it is currently using nearly all of the paltry 2gb partitioned for apps.
I'm reading that you can issue *#9900# in the dialer, and select menu 2, that this will clean the dumpstate files. I get Unable to process request
.
My phone is rooted so when I go to terminal and ls -l on /data/log, I'm showing no .log files but several dumpstate.tar.gz files. Is it safe to nuke these tar.gz files?
*#9900#
. Typo here – or in general? // Also see: data/log folder causes “internal storage has run out of space” message and Can I delete the log files on my device? – Izzy♦ Oct 23 '14 at 13:20/data/log/*.log
files. I'm not showing any*.log files
on my device - only*.tar.gz files
. – a coder Oct 23 '14 at 14:01tar xzf *.tar.gz
) to see what's within. I bet the contents turn out being*.log
files, which are just "archived". Everything inside "log directories" should be safe to delete; of course you're free to make a backup first to be absolutely safe. – Izzy♦ Oct 23 '14 at 15:04