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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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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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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Cannot access /sdcard/ (internal storage)
After I got my phone restored from an nandroid backup, I found almost all apps cannot gain access to /sdcard/ (internal storage), including ES file manager, Z archiver and so on.
When any of these ...
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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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Reduce space taken by Outlook
Outlook is eating up space in my Samsung J7 prime. I am currently working with something between 100Mb and zero free space.
If I free up some space, it seems Outlook increases its occupied space.
Is ...
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How do I reduce the amount of storage my Email application data is taking up?
I’m using an LG Tribute phone (Virgin Mobile service). The default email app installed is synced with my Microsoft Outlook account. I only use this account for ticket confirmations, boarding passes ...
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Error - Insufficient storage - Nexus 7
Device: Nexus 7 (2013 WIFI)
ROM: AOKP_FLO_KITKAT_NIGHTLY_2014-07-31
Rooted: Yes
Recovery: TWRP (Not sure if this is needed)
I am posting this because I recently started getting "insufficient storage" ...
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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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How to delete 0-byte files in the root directory of internal storage without root access?
This is the same to this question:
Can't delete file in download folder
But for me, the answer is not clear, as per the OP's answer 'he turned on the SD Maid app' but did not state what option in ...
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Android Phone taking up more space than it should [duplicate]
I have a relatively new HTC ONE M8 running Android 5.0.1 (according to the settings page).
The phone is supposed to have 10.5 GB space according to Windows, but at the moment only 945 MB is free (...
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Local files revisited: Opening local HTML files (file:///path/to/file) in Chrome on Android 10.x
You may note the almost duplicate title from this question. It keeps coming up when trying to solve my current issue.
I created a little web app to help at work. Just some HTML and JavaScript, and ...
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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 can I check whether an app is installed on internal storage or the internal SD?
I asked another question about problems with the default launcher and one user suggested that I might need to check that my app is installed on the internal storage or the internal SD card, but I can'...
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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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Why is "wpa_supplicant.conf" file invisible?
My device LG e510 : Android 2.3 had been rooted and then I changed the privileges to view and see some system files, especially for wpa_supplicant.conf, with RootExplorer app.
But unlike most people,...
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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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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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All apps seem to be gone [closed]
I was using my Chrome on Android 4.1.2 on Samsung Galaxy S II and phone suddenly crashed. When phone restarted it looked like all apps are gone, even Google Play.
App Drawer shows only standard apps ...
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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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Why is my internal memory almost full while the files add up to only a few gigabytes? [duplicate]
My HTC One M8 internal memory is almost full (15.40 out of 16). The phone says it's mostly applications. But when I connect it to my computer, go to Internal Storage and add the sizes of all ...
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How to increase internal memory of the HTC Wildfire S finally?
I've been spending a lot of sleepless nights trying to fix this. I know there are a lot of threads like this on the internet, but I want to go a bit deeper.
I have an HTC Wildfire S with only 512 MB ...
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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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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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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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Transferring data from SD Card to Internal Memory and vice versa
I have a Smartphone; Sony XPERIA SP with Android 4.3 (updated). While recently updating the apps on my phone, it told me that the Internal Memory was close to full. So I inserted a 2 GB microSD Card (...
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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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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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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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DiskUsage app showing system data using around 8GB out of the 24GB usable memory of my Phone [32GB internal]
I have used DiskUsage App. But in the grid, I get system data using around 8GB out of the 24GB usable memory of my Phone [32GB internal]
Application data is also mentioned separately. I can't figure ...
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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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How can I find out what's using all of my internal storage? [duplicate]
I'm using CyanogenMod 11 on an i9300. The internal memory of my phone is quite full, but when I tried to find out what was taking this space I found out something really strange.
I installed the ...
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Can't move certain apps to my SD card [closed]
I recently reset my phone to factory settings, because I didn't have enough space on my internal memory, and I wanted to start off anew.
When I started downloading apps onto my phone that I had ...
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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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Fix Google Play insufficient storage error without rooting my phone [duplicate]
This question is essentially the same as Google Play: Error downloading app - insufficient space, but I want to fix it without rooting my phone. Clearing Cache, uninstalling Google Play updates and ...
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Is adoptable storage in any new android version (9,10,11) original?
Question Is adoptable storage in any new android version (9,10,11) original ?
I am planning to purchase new smart phone mobile for video editing graphic editing game apps. I want to install aprrox ...
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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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