Questions tagged [storage]
The place where your apps and data are stored. Please follow the 'info' link below for some generic details.
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Obtaining app storage details via ADB
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On-device, we can navigate to Settings › Apps, and for each app separately can call up details on storage used: by the app itself, by its data, by its cache. Is it possible to obtain those ...
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Since which Android version is exFat supported?
Which Android version supports exFat, if at all? The web seems unclear about that.
Thanks!
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Android scoped storage on Android 11 - permission denied
The scenario is that one app is creating some files on its external storage /sdcard/Android/data/myPackageName and during testing automation I need to retrieve some files from that folder using adb.
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Android automatically deletes content of my Downloads folder
Previously I had a Nokia 7.1 (Android 9) when I started to notice this issue. Every few time, the older images I had on my Download folder disappeared without I doing nothing. From time to time it ...
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permanent storage space warning
I have an UMIDIGI A3X with Android 10 (16GB internal ROM) with an 64GB SD-card, that is formatted as internal storage.
I am using 19,39GB storage but it's so poorly distributed that only 3,8 are on ...
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How to access /storage/emulated/10 (multi-users env) in adb shell on Android 9+ without root access?
I have two Android system users configured.
$ pm list users
Users:
UserInfo{0:Owner:13} running
UserInfo{10:security space:13} running
UserInfo{999:XSpace:800010} running
When the mobile ...
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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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Unlimited Google Photos storage?
When I bought my Pixel 3, one of the appeals was that Google promised unlimited storage at Google Photos (although not at max resolution).
Now, https://one.google.com/storage and https://one.google....
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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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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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Recovery of unsaved 40 minute long video on Samsung A32
I took a video of approximately 40 minutes long this morning at a funeral. I stopped taking the video and waited for it to "process". It took very long, so I switched my phone off. But now I ...
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Reformat SD Card from internal to portable
Device: Redmi Note 11
I formatted a SanDisk SD card as internal, using the Android's native file app (com.google.android.documentsui) but now I can't see the card anywhere.
However when inserted, the ...
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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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Interoperation between DroidVim and Termux
I've been using DroidVim under Android for a few years now, primarily to edit a rather sprawling notes repository that I sync with my PC using git under Termux. The repo lives in a subdirectory of ...
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Where does Whatsapp store its data on the phone? [duplicate]
I was clearing up some storage in my phone. The File Explorer App says Whatsapp takes 10.68 GB (see screenshot 1), whereas the folder Android/media/com.whatsapp is only 6.23 GB (see screenshot 2). Is ...
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What are folders Gift, MBSTGO & MBSTPH? [closed]
Moto G, Android 4.4.4
What are folders MBSTGO & MBSTPH?
Which app creates them? Can I safely delete them?
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Storage location of "adb_keys"
I have a Galaxy s3 (I9300) that has a broken touch screen (display is fine). I therefore can not click the authorization dialog that pops up when I try to access the device via adb on any ROMs above ...
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Access Mega Cloud Storage from File Manager on a non rooted device
Is there a way to mount Mega cloud storage from file manager. Mega has some option to do that as Webdav Server for Desktops but is there a way Android Phone with TLS encryption. I am even comfortable ...
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Storage manager (SM) Partitioned Micro sd card but how to mount the extended partition and use it as internal storage.?
Question:- Storage manager (SM) Partitioned Micro sd card but how to mount the extended partition and use it as internal storage.?
I purchased 6 months before, Samsung Galaxy s20 Fe with android 12 ...
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Other storage taking over
My other storage has taken over my phone. I have factory reset it and cleared cache, removed unneeded apps. But still the other storage keeps increasing. I don't know what to do anymore.
I have a ...
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how to bulk move Android apps to the SD card
Currently all my Android apps are on the phone's internal storage, which is quite low @ 8GB.
I've recently install a 32GB SD card into the phone.
I understand that I can go to Android Application ...
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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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There's only 5.5 gb of stuff on my GalaxyTab A, why is my storage almost full?
I've deleted as much as I can. I only have a handful of apps and two pictures.
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Whatsapp backup - storage issue
I am changing phone from Nexus 5x to a AGM M7. This has 8GB of internal storage and I bought a 32GB SD card that I formatted to internal storage. When I install whatsapp, it finds my google drive ...
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Cannot access sdcard on Android 9 from Settings?
This is weird; I have an Android 9 device, and I have added an sdcard there. Using a standalone file manager, I can access the sdcard. However, when I go to Storage from Settings:
... I can see the ...
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How do I resize internal storage of an Android Studio AVD image that's stuck at 200MB?
When I try to resize the internal storage partition size in AVD (Android Virtual Device) manager to anything larger than 200MB, the darn thing stays at 200MB. This mounts to /data directory. The ...
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Android tablet separate user account - app installed once or multiple times?
I bought a tablet Samsung Nexus 10, it came with latest Android 4.3 installed. Android 4.2 and higher supports multiple user accounts which is awesome.
My question is, if let's say I have Facebook ...
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Reset Partition Table for Nexus 7 2013 (Flo)
To cut a long story short I wanted to make the system partition larger on my tablet PC as it's far too small to do anything practical on. I used ADB push to put Parted into the root directory and ...
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3 storage locations?
I have a Boost Max and am getting an insufficient storage error. I notice, when I look at the storage, that there are 3 storage locations. I'm confused. Shouldn't there only be internal and external ...
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Guaranteed storage locations
I'm writing a debugging tool that needs to create a temporary file somewhere. Normally, I would use /tmp but there's no such directory on the phone I'm using. mount | grep tmpfs shows several ...
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Symlink temporary file
I'm attempting to backup my Signal chats totalling almost 15GB, which presents a challenge in my 32GB phone. I simply have no space to do it, and even stripping the system of pretty much all apps ...
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Move app data (on /data/data) to SD card [closed]
I bought one of those budget phones that claimed to have 4GB of internal storage, but it looks like there is only 1.08GB. I don't know why it says that I only have 1.08GB if I already used 1.12GB for ...
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Does Android hold audio in RAM when listening for ‘hey google’?
When Android phones have the ‘hey google’ wake word setting enabled so it’s always listening for it, are these audio snippets held in RAM when looking for the wake word and not stored on the phone or ...
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How to delete data from an uninstalled app?
My Android 8.0 phone is showing the 32 GB is full. I have deleted videos and stuff but I wonder if apps that I uninstalled have not deleted their data.
How to find out?
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Is it possible to limit read permissions for some folders on external SD card to certain apps on Android 10?
My device has 64 GB of internal storage and it's nearly full. I can expand storage with a 256 GB microSD card. However, I don't like that everything stored on the SD card is freely accessible to every ...
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How do I get rid of uneccessary System Memory?
So, it is as the title says: my Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) is filled up. Not with apps, but with "System Memory". The device only has 8 GB of storage, and about ~48%+ of that (3.3 GB) is used ...
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Is it possible to dump an Android partition with file-based encryption (FBE)?
Consider an unrooted Android 9.0 device with file-based encrypted (FBE), a locked bootloader and only recovery and download modes available. Is there any way to dump the internal storage either to the ...
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How can I find out where all my storage space is gone?
I've seen lots of posts here and elsewhere, including YouTube videos, about how to free up space on your android device or find out where it's all gone, including multiple redmi-specific ones, but ...
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WhatsApp backup shrinks in size for no apparent reason
AFAIK there were never msgstore.db.crypt14 incremental backups in WhatsApp message file backup design strategy - aka everyday WhatsApp leaves a 1.1gb file in /sdcard/WhatsApp/databases . Now I know ...
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Will clearing the app data of Gallery app also delete the pictures?
My phone is Oppo A5s and the Gallery app has been taking all the storage.
Data: 19.7 GB
Picture: 3.63 GB
My phone has been lagging uncontrollably and I'm scared it might break one day.
Is it okay ...
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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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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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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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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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Where is the folder that Termux defaults to?
The Termux app is a terminal emulator. If I create a file or a folder there, and then use another file explorer app to browse my device, where can I find these files?
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Reasonably how much free space should one leave for best performance?
(Reasonably because freeing space brings diminishing returns, correct or no?)
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I'm testing different SD card schedulers to get the best performance. I'm assuming that when I will have more ...
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Is it possible to backup apk from an installed application?
I got some huge games which I don't play regularly but don't want to delete either. Is it possible to backup those apps as apk so that I can install them offline later?
I'm not talking about backing ...
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Can you record video to external drive?
If I connect an external ssd drive to the phone, it can browse its file system and write to it. Is there an app (or a setting) that allows me to record video directly to this external drive? The use ...
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com.google.android.trichromelibrary - An app that gets installs multiple times .....what's the point?
As I understand com.google.android.trichromelibrary is supposed to be a webview replacement in android 10+
find /data/app -type d -iname "*trichrome*" -exec du -hs {} \;
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According to Link2SD I only have 2% system space left
I have plenty of space everywhere else. How can I fix this?
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