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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Android - is there any negative impact when you wipe out RAM and CACHE data for all Apps at once?
in Android phones, there are settings related to the phone's internal storage.
I am interested in two of those settings, "delete all RAM data for all Apps", & "delete all CACHED data for all Apps"...
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Low disk storage Space, 47G is used by Bixby Vision
I started getting low disk space a week ago, everyday I clean up cache and data from Apps, even uninstalling apps, but still get the space issue again after a few hours.
I download DiskUsage app and ...
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Where do Android apps save their working state?
Where do apps store their working state?
Occasionally an app will crash, or I'll get the Android message that X app has stopped responding ("Do you wish to close?"). In either of those cases, after ...
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Reclaim space occupied by an uninstalled app
I have recently uninstalled Economist.
According to Settings -> Apps, it was taking up ca. 530Mb in data (from the internal memory).
After uninstalling, I did not get that space freed.
Is there any ...
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How to replace SD card formatted as internal storage?
I need help..
I have a redmi 4a device, with android 7,
I formatted a 64 gb ADATA SD card as internal storage, worked great for long, until after a restart the SD card is corrupted with precious ...
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How do I search the SD card with standard Android File Explorers?
My Android Pie SD card storage looks like this:
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├── Android
| ├──data
| | ├── com.amazon.mShop.android.shopping
| | | └── ...
| | ├── com.amazon.venezia
| | | └── ...
| | ├── ...
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How do I access `$HOME/storage` outside of Termux (with a file explorer)?
How do I access $HOME/storage Termux directory on Android Pie with a GUI File Explorer?
In Termux I print the working directory with pwd and it shows $HOME/storage as:
/data/data/com.termux/files/...
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Why bowsers cannot download files to storage (path looks /dev/null/Download)?
The phone is Samsung Galaxy Note N7000. For the last few years I use NightOwl custom rom (Android 7). I do not remember when I faced with this problem, maybe after repartitioning with REPIT (but ...
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How to bind mount a folder inside /sdcard with correct permissions?
I am using a Sony Xperia M4 Aqua. As is well known, the internal memory is rather small. Especially the Media directory of WhatsApp uses a lot of precious space, therefore I am trying to move it to ...
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Droid Turbo 2 storage doesn't clear
We often get out of storage messages on our Motorola Droid Turbo 2 phone. We delete an App, and, say it's a 100 MB app, we only see about 10 MB free up. Likewise we've transferred and deleted ...
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How to use SD card formatted as internal storage for arbitrary data?
On an LG V30 with 64GB internal memory I wanted to be able to use a 200GB SD card (which strangely gets reported as 256GB) to store larger amount of data like pictures, music and movies.
I learned ...
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Is it possible to transfer the internal memory/storage chip of an S9?
My Samsung Galaxy S9 is physically damaged and the board is dead. The phone will not turn on or show any signs of life. Plenty of important photos and data are on that phone which I need to retrieve.
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How to clear all of this Bloatware that is insidiously being put on my phone? [duplicate]
As is probably a very regular question here, I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo and I'm having problems with the amount of memory being clogged up by what I will assume is garbage. I have installed on my ...
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How disk space is used on Android device?
I have critical low storage level and can't understand what takes much of it and how that's possible that the installed applications can use 7 GB? I only use a few social media clients without any ...
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Purpose of sdcardwritable file
In some directories there's .sdcardwritable file. It's a empty file. What is purpose of this file?
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recovery of data on MMC protected internal memory device
I have a broken HTC Sensation with a forensics lab who are trying to recover the data from the phone's internal memory chip. The technician says he is unable to recover the data on the chip because ...
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What Is Using Up My Storage/Data on Android Phone?
First, I appreciate that there are lots of similar questions to this online, but they are often so specific that I haven't been able to solve this question myself (through online forums/questions/etc)....
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Read adopted and encrypted SD card with external SD reader?
My Moto G5 sd reader doe not work anymore, and does not read the SD card that was adopted and encrypted. I want to access the sd card to save the data/pics etc.
I thought that I could use an ...
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Camera folder displayed as empty, but contains 20GB data
My Lenovo Moto G5 Plus' internal storage ran full, and now there appears to be a problem with the photos that are saved on its internal storage. The internal DCIM/Camera folder is displayed as empty ...
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no more space on device while writing to exFAT folder on MicroSD card
JasonR:/ $ su
JasonR:/ # cd /stor*/emu*/0/WhatsApp
JasonR:/storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp # cd Media
JasonR:/storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp/Media # ls -al *.jpg
-rwxrwx--x 1 root everybody 506827 2019-02-22 ...
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Where are notepad notes stored?
A simple question really, where do apps such as notepad store their data (the notes)?
Additionally, where do offline games store their information (such as what level you're on)?
I've looked at the ...
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How to tell if an SD Card is already internal storage?
I have a Nokia 6.1, and Android One phone, running Pie. Is there any way to tell if my SD card is already formatted for internal storage?
Thanks
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Mobile Legends takes total of 2.2 Gb in my internal storage, but I can't locate where the other 1.4 Gb is
Mobile Legends takes total of 2.2 Gb in my internal storage
I want to know where that 2.2 Gb is located.
I went to /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.mobile.legends but only 600+ MB is in there
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Android OS Storage Usage
I have two fresh Galaxy device on Android 9 , the difference is in storage , one is 512GB and another is 128GB. System usage in both is different , 128GB version uses 27GB on fresh but the 512GB ...
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How to stop apps writing to "Android" folder on the SD card?
I have a (seemingly) simple question to which I haven't found a clear answer to. My phone creates an "Android" folder on my SD card and I'm wondering if it could be moved into the phone's internal ...
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E:failed to mount /cache (invalid argument) - how to format?
I have a Asus Zenfone 2 and a few days ago it ran out of battery and turned off. Then after I charged it up and restarted it, it wouldn't turn on. It gets to the logo and the loading circle and just ...
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Is it safe to delete logcat.txt files or the whole psysinfo folder to make more space on my Android phone?
I have an android phone and the space on the sdcard is getting scarce...
(I don't understand how android functions - just a simple user.)
In the following directory: mnt > sdcard
There is a ...
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Samsung Galaxy S6 4.6MB/s Seqential Write (Why so slow?)
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S6 in Aug 2016. Everything was fine, until last week.
It got very slow. For example, when I draw my unlock pattern after a reboot, it takes such a long time to load the ...
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Android storage errors, cannot write files, app keeps stopping?
My Android phone runs 8.1, model ASUS Zenfone Live V. I have 15.06 GB/16 of internal storage and roughly 11/128 on an microSD card. (I checked with ASUS when I bought it, it is the max storage and ...
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Device storage gradually increases after Android update for no reason
I have an Android smartphone whose internal storage memory get incrementally bigger after every software update for no obvious reason. I have looked everywhere over the Internet but the answers were ...
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Increase internal memory of Samsung J2 prime
I bought Samsung J2 prime phone. Some details of that phone as follows.
Model - SM -G532G
Android version - 6.0.1
I heard that earlier it came with good feature that allow us to format external SD ...
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How Can I Check the Location of a File (e.g. Cluster or Sector #) in the Internal Storage?
I would like to know If I certain file moves on the Flash memory (internal storage), between writes/updates to it.
Is there some way I can get the file's location on the Flash memory?
(Cluster Number,...
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What data does the Google drive app contain in an android smartphone?
I want to delete some of my android apps data due to storage problems. I see that my Google drive app does contain a lot of data and cache. I have already deleted the cache but I am not sure if I ...
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How do I free up internal storage if I don't have any apps downloaded?
I have an Android Voyager, RCT6773W22B. It's version 5.0.
When I first got it, and years after that, I could download at least five apps downloaded at a time and have a great sum of pictures in my ...
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Samsung "My Files" Downloads folder corrupted on non-rooted phone
On my Note 9 unrooted phone, for whatever reason, if I delete files from the "Downloads" section of the My Files app, these files (or references to them) aren't completely removed. A residual "0 byte"...
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Android Storage Grab
I am having internal memory grab, typically eating about 3gb. Similar to this problem on a tablet Something is secretly eating up my Acer Iconia A500 internal memory and I need help finding it
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Does encrypting an Android phone also encrypt old, deleted files?
I'm going to be selling my phone soon. The advice seems to be to encrypt it then performs a Factory Reset. But does the whole internal memory get encrypted, or just the current, visible files? If ...
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Need to recover data from SD card as used Android Internal storage from PC
I had an SD card as internal storage in my Android, reset my phone to factory. SD card would no work in that device. I am no longer able to use that device because the screen is smashed anyhow. How ...
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Android 6.0.1 Mysterious "Videos" Taking Up Space
I have been made confused by the Storage Info of my phone since it shows 3.16 GB of videos took up my internal space. But then I checked, the videos not even passed 250 MB in total size.
Can't seem ...
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How can I access/retrieve data from an SD card formatted as internal storage from my PC?
My phone's screen broke and I would like to retrieve the data on the external SD (which was used as internal storage).
Using KDE's partition manager tool I can see on my Linux Mint 19.1 that this is ...
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What does it mean when appears a no Sim/SD Card when I turn on internet
I got a Lollipop 5017 A, and sometimes when I use the phone internet it appears a little ícon close to the internet one that shows a card with a diagonal risk as if the phone can't find the SD/SIM ...
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Show size of biggest folders and files in system data
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I don't find, how I can view, which folders and files are the biggest in my system data. So I can manually decide which files to delete and which not.
2. Expected behavior
Ideally to ...
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Does installing GApps save space compared to PlayStore install?
I am about to clean-install a Lineage ROM on my Android and I want to maximize the internal storage space left for the apps I want.
What I understand so far is:
The GApps package will reside in the /...
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Cannot install any APK file due to "Out of Space" misleading error (plenty of space)
I know there are tons of questions about this, but I have tried many possible solutions to no avail. I believe the "Out of space" error is misleading...
I have a problem: I cannot install any .apk ...
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How to find out which apps are creating *.space files in Internal Storage?
There is a folder at internal memory: .space/
Inside it has one folder that is a big hash name (probably sha1sum), and inside that folder there are lots of files (also named as a hash something like ...
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My 6edge is 32gb . I have used aproximately 13gb but in storage option it shows that 31 gb is used ... where is my rest of memory. Please clear [duplicate]
This shows you all pls help my about my storage .how can i get it
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Android tablet has 45 GB free but shows low space warning
So this tablet is pretty new. Hardly even used it. But when I tried to put videos and large apps onto it, it constantly gives me a "insufficient space" warning. it comes with 57.61GB of storage ( no ...
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Can't download due to no storage. I have enough storage
I keep getting a error saying cannot download not enough space. But according to my phone I have 429MB and the file I want downloaded is only 40.08MB. I don't want to use my SD card because the file ...
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Have transferred all music to SD card but still seem to have full system/ user data
My galaxy S7 external SD card seemed to have stopped working. Which caused my phone to show full internal storage. I replaced the SD card with a new and larger one and transferred all my google play ...
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Only image files are showing up in my folder when I view my phone's files on the computer
I need to transfer some sound recordings from my Samsung Android phone to my computer, however when I view the phone's files on my computer, only image files (.jpg, .png, .bmp, etc.) are visible.
No ....
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