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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Side-effects (unexpected/unwanted) of changing the "default" SD card
In have a Huawei phone that came with 32GB. If I add a new bigger SD card what are the implications?
I mean would my installed applications be affected/disappear? Would any configuration any app ...
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How to get library installation path
Some Android apps require libraries to be linked against by specifying <uses-library> in their Manifest (in the application element):
<uses-library android:name="com.example.customlib&...
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Why does encryption doesn't work/apply to access device storage or Google photos or drive when we upload a file from device/cloud to any webpage/apps
Example : YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Chrome ( any app )
If I'm accessing YouTube or any other app where I can upload content from Android device with or without the app lock features, whenever I ...
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Remove files left in main storage from failed "Clear Data"
I used the SnoreLab app for a while and was using the full night audio recording feature. I started to run out of space on my phone and found that I had accrued 20G of nightly recordings while ...
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Does uninstalling system apps using ADB commands increase internal storage?
I just wanted to know if uninstalling system apps or bloatware using adb commands frees up storage space. I know that uninstalling system apps using adb doesn't actually removes the app from your ...
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Android incorrect reporting of storage usage
I have a moto g 7 power running android 10. I am attempting to clear out some storage. In the storage portion of the settings app, it shows 4.6GB of audio, but when I go to delete those files, it ...
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How do I get rid of broken, invisible files that take up lots of space?
I tried downloading a pretty big mp4 file, but that failed because i didn't have enough space.
However, it filled up all my leftover storage. I tried getting rid of it but it doesn't show up in the ...
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Data Recovery on Android 11 with broken screen
I have a pixel 4a running android 11 with a broken screen. The full screen is black; the lower part of the touch screen seems to be responsive but I can't really tell what's going on so I don't know ...
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Downloaded files consistently disappearing from Internal Storage
I have a Moto G Power running Android 11.
I like to listen to audiobooks, so I routinely download files from OneDrive, using the OneDrive app, to folders in my internal storage.
When I open the "...
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Android 10 system taking up too much hard drive space [duplicate]
I have a Nokia 5.3 running Android 10. Of the 64GB hard drive space, the system file is currently taking up 52GB.
Couple of days back, it was taking up 48GB and my phone was complaining of running out ...
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How to prevent WhatsApp (Web) from losing received media?
EDIT: The problem described happened to be related with the use of WhatsApp Web instead of WhatsApp app on the phone.
In my WhatsApp chats a couple of months old, I see placeholders for photos, videos,...
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Why no storage error showing with my space empty?
Im having more than 12GB free space
And when i try to install app or update app im getting no storage error. I have clear cache also still showing same issue. Any suggestion. Thanks
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Android file transfer does not mount Android internal storage
How could one mount internal storage of Android phone within the macOS terminal as a volume?
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Fail to find an Android device sound file
In the clock app (bedtime tab, sleep sounds) I can choose a device sound Deep space.
I would love to use it as my alarm sound.
Every file-exploring app that I have used hasn't found this file.
How can ...
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How to resolve an encryption issue?
I used a lockscreen to encrypt my phone and accidentally messed up the system and TWRP. I've since formatted it and am using it normally, albeit without root this time lol. But, just in case, I made a ...
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How to restore whatsapp data from local storage? [duplicate]
I have tried multiple options to restore data from internal storage. Unfortunately, none of them has been successful. Every time I get prompted to google drive back up even though I don't have any ...
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Why does Windows think my phone has 52 GiB of internal disk space whereas my phone sees 64 GB? [duplicate]
From my phone:
From Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate:
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Is there a reliable way to know which is the home dir of the phone?
I'm making a program for termux and i need to access to the home directory(where are the Downloads, Android, DCIM, etc directories).
The problem is that i know that not all the phones have the '/...
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How to identify google account based on "internal shared storage"
I soft bricked my grandma's (soft-broken (play-services kept crashing)) phone [Samsung A3] by performing a factory reset not knowing about Samsung/Google's factory reset protection and thinking she'd ...
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can only access SD card; cant access the internal storage on pc
i need to delete 3 gigs of "pictures" from my internal storage,it says there is 3 gigs of photos in there but they dont show up in the google file manager and when i connect to pc it only ...
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Lenovo - Internal Storage and SD-Card empty (on device and pc)
As stated above.
Someone asks me to help him with his phone.
I have no clue what happened, I never heard about thats happening before, soo.. yeah...
The phone is an Lenovo with Android 6.0.
It has an ...
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My phone is not saving things (screenshots, download from browser, etc)
So one day my phone shutdown and when restarted I started to get some issues. Screenshot was not working saying that there was no space left. Gallery had no images/videos at all. File manager was not ...
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The normal directories of storage of this app is empty. Does it got anything to do with my phone being unrooted? [duplicate]
There is an educational app in my android phone that allows me to download videos for studying them offline. I have downloaded a lot of videos and have my storage filling up to the brink because of it....
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Is there any way to force apps to use internal memory only on rooted Android device?
I have OnePlus 5T 8GB RAM + 128GB internal storage. 100GB free space is available on phone. I rooted the device.
Now, I am facing a problem regarding installing apps from Google Play Store. When I try ...
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I'm looking for a data recovery program for my android phone [closed]
I had a Samsung Galaxy J7 it was stolen I managed to get it back but not before it was wiped completely but they weren't able to get passed the frp lock and I had some very valuable data on some of ...
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Can't format SD card as internal storage
Today I installed my first custom ROM (Lineage OS 17.1, official page) on my old Motorola phone (Moto G3 Turbo edition, XT1516). Everything great until I wanted to format my SD card as internal ...
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Internal Storage has no space even with SD card? [duplicate]
So I have an LGK4 android phone with 8GB of storage, and lately I've been having really weird storage problems; When I try to install or update an app I can't because the storage is full; thing is, I'...
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What's the best way to move files from SD card without the risk of losing any files?
So I'm running out of space and I'd like to use link2sd to move my apps to sd card. But before that I need to create a partition on my SD card, and to do that I would have to move my files from it and ...
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Formatted my sd card as internal storage in my Xiamoi phone. but still getting no enough space message when installing apps
I have a Xiamoi note 8 phone running android 9. It has 32gb internal storage and I used most of it, so I decided to buy an sd card to use as internal storage.
I went in settings chose the format as ...
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I formatted my SD card as internal storage, downloads still go to the phones internal storage
Yo, I just formatted my SD card as internal storage, and the storage section says that in my device storage I have 30 GB, but downloads still go to the phones internal storage, is this how its ...
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Photos made this afternoon disappeared after I rebooted phone - how to recover them?
This morning, since the memory of the internal storage reached its limit, I moved all the pics in the Camera album to the SD card. In the afternoon, I took a couple of pics which if I remember ...
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How do I move apps to SD card on Android 7
I'm getting tired of deleting apps to install an app. Right now I need every app I got but also need to download another app. I got no more space left. I've searched high and low for a way to move my ...
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Android du and df very different: File System Corrupted?
On an Android Nougat (7.1.1) set top box, du and df of my /data partition are very different:
$ adb shell du -sh /data
1.0G /data
$ adb shell df -H /data
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% ...
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Are these files safe to delete on Android?
Whilst I was deleting files on my Android to clear up some space; I came across two strange files. One was PubmetricinstalledList and the other was PubmetricmoreApps. The first file contained two ...
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How to determine which app or service is frequently writing to storage and causing lagging?
When I turn on the screen on a sleeping (but not powered off) high-end Samsung Android 7 Nougat device, the device is often very unresponsive (lagging) for 20-200 seconds.
Using the excellent Simple ...
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MacroDroid shell script non-root location permission denied
I am currently trying to run a simple shell script via MacroDroid. devices are Huawei and Samsung (Oreo not rooted).
in MacroDroid tried following locations:
/data/local/tmp/script.sh
/storage/...
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How do I restore a tar Android backup directly to my phone?
Android 11. I made a backup of my Internal Storage using this:
adb exec-out 'tar --create --exclude=data/media/0/TWRP \
data/media/0 2>/backup-errors.txt | \
gzip' | \
dd of=sdcardbackup-$(date +%Y%...
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How do I backup Internal Storage to PC or OTG Drive without it changing folder and file modified dates?
I'm on Android 11 and I want to backup my files to a drive but I don't want it to change the modified date for folders and files...
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Cannot move app to SD card
I am using Android 8.1 in a Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime.
Some apps show a Storage used option. This means they can be stored in Device memory or External storage.
I mean to move all apps to External ...
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Reading corrupted android internal memory sd card
Please I have a Huawei p8 lite phone and I mounted an sd card as internal storage since I don't money for phone with a bigger memory. After using it for months with most of my important documents ...
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System storage taking up loads of space after adopting SD card
I recently adopted an SD card to my Xiaomi Redmi 7. Before I adopted the 64GB card, I was using around 8GB. Now my file manager says I am only using 2%, and under internal storage in settings I have ...
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My storage keeps increasing drastically despite not downloading anything and freeing up lots of space (4GB>200mb??) [duplicate]
I am using a Huawei P10 Lite.
This is absolutely insane and I desperately need a solution, I can't even begin to imagine what's causing this.
I've been getting the whole "storage space running ...
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Lack of available storage on my Samsung Galaxy Tablet [duplicate]
My samsung galaxy tablet is low on storage and i have no idea where the storage is being used. When I go into setting and look up storage I get a reading for the various sources documents,apps,...
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Samsung Phone write protection
I just bought a new Samsung Galaxy M11. I'm trying to transfer my files from my old phone to the new phone connected to a PC but it won't copy. I get the pop-up that says the internal storage is write ...
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Problem with a sdcard under Android 7.1.2 three partitions can not be mounted / used
Happy New Year!
there is a problem with my sdcard under Android 7.1.2 (Custom Rom) (root=true, adb=possible).
The vFat Partition can be used, but the rest is not mounted and can not be used.
mmcblk1p1 ...
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Can't write to internal storage on a rooted phone
I have a Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) which I rooted with Magisk.
Now in the process of installing TWRP and customizing my phone, I might have run some shell commands, like mount or sudo in a place where ...
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"System Memory" taking up too much storage [duplicate]
I have been facing this problem recently, my Samsung S 10+ has the storage information as shown in the image below. I don't know why the system memory is taking up 20 GB of storage. I cannot access it ...
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How to increase the size of the system partition?
I have an old Google pixel 1 and I was trying to install a GSI but I get this a message on TWRP saying Size of image is larger than target device, so I went to wipe > advanced wipe > selected ...
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Accidentally wiped internal storage on Nexus 10 via TWRP now I can't turn on my tablet
I wanted to use TWRP to install an Android image but when I was deleting the already existing Android image files, I accidentally pressed "Internal Storage" and now when I try to operate my ...
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a lot of heavy .txt files in my android. is it safe to delete them to free up memory?
There are lots of text documents in my android phone with over 1 mb size. they are typically named with time stamp like "20200419_11". is it safe to delete them? will it enhance my storage ...
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