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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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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How to change the level you are in a game through the files? [duplicate]
I installed the game Word Voyage on my phone because Swagbucks was offering me $12 if I could get to level 1000 in 14 days. However, it is taking up too much of my free time. When I went into android/...
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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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System Suddely Takes Up Too Much Space? [duplicate]
I'm not sure what I did, but it was just today when I noticed that, in the Device Care app, it says that "System" is taking up 52 GIGABYTES of my storage! 76% of my 128GB disk is now used up,...
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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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Installing a large game (APKs) but it wont install but still take up so much storage but i haven't the game installed?
I installing a large game (3.2gb) with APKs format from my sd card (place where i save the APKs file) using zarchiver. I click install and waiting for like 10 minute but there nothing. No app ...
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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 ...
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I need help finding Lucky Patcher's mysterious files
I am using a Samsung A10s with 32gb of storage, running Android 11 and One UI Core 3.1.
I was fiddling around trying to install a ~700mb game through LP. It says storage not sufficient even though i ...
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Issue connecting note 10 to windows 10
My note 10 screen does not display anything. So I cannot see any note 10 pop up prompts. In windows 10 settings bluetooth and other devices. When I connect my note 9 it gives the name of my phone that ...
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How can I backup Samsung Note 10 it if does not work
My Samsung Note 10 went green lines and now it does not turn on. But sometimes when I connect power supply it vibrates. When put on the wirless pad it also vibrates. The phone not the pad. How can I ...
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How to use file picker from command line
I would like to launch a file picker from a script to graphically select file. While I am able to launch a file picker by sending intent
am start -a android.intent.action.OPEN_DOCUMENT -d /storage/...
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Get file from our app on a customer's device
I work for a company that developed an Android app, but since then the guys that wrote it have left. I am a beginner when it comes to Android development.
We have a situation where our customer has ...
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How to give `adb run-as` external storage permission?
So far I've been using adb run-as and cat to extract files from apps private storage /data/user/0/com.myapp.android. Simply catting the file and piping it to a local file on my pc worked a treat.
Now ...
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Is it possible to install game apk on SD storage without root? [duplicate]
Maybe install it to internal storage first then transfer it to SD storage?
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I have 2 .thumbdata files
I have 2 .thumbdata files on my tab for some reason. My tab is the lenovo M10 16GB model
I have some space issues so I was trying to delete some unnecessary files and I came accross DCIM I researched ...
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Avoid re-downloading files with Termux in its own downloads folder
I have some files for which I don't have any app to open them with, but whenever I try to open them, instead of the "try looking in the Play Store for an app to open your file" dialog, I get ...
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where is the binary for fastboot mode located and How can I get a copy of it?
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Thanks to everyone in the commen section, lk.img seems to be what I was looking for and it is indeed right, because it has strings for varies commands like
oem p2u
oem reboot-recovery
oem off-...
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How to "unwipe" internal storage in TWRP Recovery
I accidentally wiped the internal storage of my phone in TWRP Recovery, it contains extremely important data and I need it back asap. The phone has been shut down if it helps, thanks!
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Unable to access my data on the same device on which I mistakenly selected SD card to be used as adoptable internal storage [duplicate]
Currently using pixel experience rom based on Android 12, by mistake selected sd card as adoptable internal storage and migrated my data - Esp Images & videos- to adopted sd card. And then ...
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Can apps read all files in sd card (external removeable micro sd card) without the storage permission?
As far as i know. The way Android storage works is as follows. There is internal storage and external storage.
Internal storage is for the apps data only and apps can only access their particular data....
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Recovering media which is deleted month before from android 10 mobile storage
I have deleted a some media files month before, then I used my mobile as usual. Yesterday I performed a factory reset to mobile clean since it's storage is full. Now I need to get back my media which ...
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Can I read data and IMEI of a phone that can't be powered up?
I have an old Android phone Kyocera Hydro Icon C6730, which is stuck in powering up, while being connected to the power strip. Its battery is also old and I'm not sure if it is still working correctly....
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How to show all folder sizes of Android phone in Windows file explorer?
When I run space analysis it shows about 50GB of others, and I don't what is that exactly, so I wanted to manage the space on file explorer on windows 11, but the thing is it doesn't show the folder &...
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How can I move back data from external SD card to internal memory?
Today I added an sd card to my smartphone (Fairphone 3+, Android 10), I selected to use it as internal storage, and moved the photos and some apps (don't know which ones) to it automatically. After ...
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Exclude folder from storage booster deletion?
My samsung phone has this storage booster feature which deletes cache and unnecessary files daily but it has some caveats. There is a game that can't function without data files which are being ...
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Device cannot access Internal Storage without elevated rights
After my NANDroid restore didn't work as expected, flashed a clean ROM + Magisk.
When booted to system, internal storage is not accessible (regular File Manager, MTP, adb shell, MiXplorer's Internal ...
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Media Storage app taking too much space
I have been using Vivo Iqoo Z6 Pro with 8GB base RAM and 128GB storage for about a week now. This app called Media Storage used to take up almost no space on my phone. And just four days ago, I ...
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Is there a folder called .privacy_safe?
For Samsung Galaxy A10e myFiles app which is already installed on my phone, I go to internal storage then I see .privacy_safe folder. Once opened, it contained 3 things:
db folder (had 1 item)
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Where are notes stored on Xiaomi devices?
The screen of my phone is dead, and I would like to find the notes I have on my phone.
I use a SD card. I found a folder on the SD card named com.miui.notes with a folder named files inside of it.
But ...
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For Android devices, is internal storage memory typically faster, slower, or equal to microSD card storage?
For Android devices, is internal storage memory typically faster, slower, or equal to microSD card storage?
For example, let's take the Samsung Galaxy S10 Android phone. It comes in 128GB, 512GB, and ...
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Should I migrate my data on my moto G7 power
I have a Motorola Moto G7 power. I just recently formatted my SD card to internal bc I needed the space but now my phone seems to be lagging bad and I see this migrate data thing but idk if I should ...
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How to clean com.android.providers.media.MediaApplication App Data?
com.android.providers.media.MediaApplication keeps throwing errors on me and I cannot access internal storage on my Oneplus since this morning.
I've already tried cleaning the media packages ...
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Oneplus Internal Storage not accessible
Since this morning after powering up my Oneplus 6 I'm unable to see any data in my phone via gallery or file manager or any application, and I'm unable to save any data to internal storage. (example: ...
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How should I partition my android device? Should I use gpt or msdos?
so I got myself into a really bad situation and I need to re-partition my device.
I already pushed parted and mkfs to /sbin (following this guide) and made them executable with chmod 777, i just need ...
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SD card / card slot suddenly stopped working
My sd card (or my sd card slot) suddenly stopped working.
All of the apps that used the SD card don't work anymore (obviously), however also other apps have problems. My banking app won't start. The ...
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according to following a post i tried to change system partition size ,now my storage is unuseable what should i do?
my cmd gone wrong here
i tried three times but failed(every time same problem)
now os is working in system folder but storage is not showing
is there any solution?
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Are the Android app switcher/multitasking snapshots created when an app is sent to the background, encrypted?
This post here: https://android.stackexchange.com/a/218963/364009
outlines the snapshots location for the app switcher when an app is sent to the background, /data/system_ce/userid/snapshots, or at ...
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How to access Android phone's internal memory with broken screen?
I have a Xiaomi Mi Android phone. My screen is completely broken but there are some important data available in the internal memory of the phone.
Is there any way by which I can access and copy data ...
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Data recovery from Galaxy S3 that will not turn on
I have an old Galaxy S3 which hasn't been in regular use for at least five years, but which I know has some data on it that I would like to retrieve. However, the phone will not power on, even while ...
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Can I move an App between SD card and Ram?
Is it possible to move an app to an SD card even if it cannot be used and then move it to internal memory to use it? Android 11 Galaxy A20 128GB SD card 32GB internal memory. Most of the answers I see ...
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