So I've seen all the post about storage issues and solving it by clearing cache, moving apps to the SD card etc and that didn't seem to help me and everyday I'd get the low storage warning after removing more and more apps to get it lowered.
So I decided I would do a little testing myself since I couldn't find an answer to my problem (I'm new to android this is my first phone and I've only had it for a month so if what I did is stupid just help a newb out)
So I did a factory reset on my phone which got me almost a gig of internal storage. I then installed only about 20Mb worth of apps including Disk Storage. I rooted my phone to allow Disk Storage to view the individual internal storage files. I went through every folder in the internal storage and wrote down the file sizes. I turned off my mobile network and wifi so no apps would be able to download anything while I was doing this test. Came back 6 hours later to see I lost 36Mb. I went back into Disk Storage to compare file sizes and the only files that grew were alog_event, alog_radio, alog (alog_radio and alog were very minimal). Oh and I had usb debugging off in case that was causing the extra amounts of logging.
So I think I found my problem I just don't know what to do about this. Does anyone know what could be causing the phone to log so much information that it's growing that fast? And is there not a purge by the OS that clears it when it grows too big or will this alog_event file continue to grow until I'm back to no internal storage again? I barely had any apps on my phone and that explains why after 1 month of using this new phone it ran out of space since i'm pretty sure it was that log file constantly growing for that month. Is there an app or an easy way to manually clean that file? I saw {http} developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb {dot} html but I'm not sure if a regular user should have to do all this set up for regular maintenance. *Had to do that url like that since I'm not allowed to post with a url yet.
Oh and downloaded alogcat to view the log and it was just random OS type logging, nothing out of the ordinary...aleast from my point of view it was random logging, basically I didn't see too many repeated spammed events but like I said I'm new to this so I'm not sure if something in my logs is out of the ordinary.
Thanks in advanced. I'm hoping someone helps me solve this because I was really excited to join the android consumer base over the IPhone but this has really been frustrating.
So I decided I would do a little testing myself since I couldn't find an answer to my problem (I'm new to android this is my first phone and I've only had it for a month so if what I did is stupid just help a newb out)
So I did a factory reset on my phone which got me almost a gig of internal storage. I then installed only about 20Mb worth of apps including Disk Storage. I rooted my phone to allow Disk Storage to view the individual internal storage files. I went through every folder in the internal storage and wrote down the file sizes. I turned off my mobile network and wifi so no apps would be able to download anything while I was doing this test. Came back 6 hours later to see I lost 36Mb. I went back into Disk Storage to compare file sizes and the only files that grew were alog_event, alog_radio, alog (alog_radio and alog were very minimal). Oh and I had usb debugging off in case that was causing the extra amounts of logging.
So I think I found my problem I just don't know what to do about this. Does anyone know what could be causing the phone to log so much information that it's growing that fast? And is there not a purge by the OS that clears it when it grows too big or will this alog_event file continue to grow until I'm back to no internal storage again? I barely had any apps on my phone and that explains why after 1 month of using this new phone it ran out of space since i'm pretty sure it was that log file constantly growing for that month. Is there an app or an easy way to manually clean that file? I saw {http} developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb {dot} html but I'm not sure if a regular user should have to do all this set up for regular maintenance. *Had to do that url like that since I'm not allowed to post with a url yet.
Oh and downloaded alogcat to view the log and it was just random OS type logging, nothing out of the ordinary...aleast from my point of view it was random logging, basically I didn't see too many repeated spammed events but like I said I'm new to this so I'm not sure if something in my logs is out of the ordinary.
Thanks in advanced. I'm hoping someone helps me solve this because I was really excited to join the android consumer base over the IPhone but this has really been frustrating.