Root Storage issues

3vodroid · Nov 1, 2012

Hey guys just wanted to give a quick update. After an extensive look at the internal card I found all kinds of things lurking in the shadows if you will. Lol

I've cleaned out most and moved anything I could to my sd card and gained 2gb. I'm sure I could do even more but until I get my 32gb card that should be fine. Thanks for the help again!

I'm still trying to hunt down where all the rest of that space is being taken up but I can't really find it. I'm really surprised I'm running into this problem only having the phone for 6 months. When it gives me the option to clean things out there is literally nothing there.

Do you think it's normal to only have 2gb out of 9gb free when I have no music, deleted all my photos and vids(backed to the cloud)? I just don't know what's taking up the space. :thinking:

Granite1 · Nov 2, 2012

How many apps do you have installed?

Might that be eating up your space?

3vodroid · Nov 3, 2012

Granite1 said:
How many apps do you have installed?

Might that be eating up your space?

Honestly i dont have many. And the few games i have are simple ones. Nothing like shadowgun or anything like that. I keep looking and looking and it really seems like i have cleaned shop. But at the moment i only have 1.81 GB free internal. I have a 16gb card which i have moved everything i can to. So thats why im confused. My nands, titanium backups, roms, everythings is on the ext SD. I even backed all my photos and videos onto my laptop and deleted them from my phone. Didnt gain much there either. Could it be an issue with the rom im on?

I usually wouldnt care and be this picky. But its bad when you try and save a picture someone sends you and you cant because your out of memory. Thats no good. lol

Maybe ill restore an old nand and see if it changes. Or would that not make a difference? :thinking:

3vodroid · Nov 3, 2012

For example: I had over a GB now I'm down to 688mb but idk why. It shows nothing there to clean out but a few photos. Internal storage is good. But the phone storage is where I'm having an issue.

EarlyMon · Nov 3, 2012

Ok, we're going to get to the bottom of this right now, pretty quick and in a hurry.

If you don't have adb, please take this zip -

our forums' mini-sdk

If you unzip it to your c:\ drive, you should get a folder named sdk-tools - inside you'll find adb and fastboot for Windows, Mac and Linux. Ignore the stuff you don't care about.

Next - make sure you have USB debugging turned on. It's under Developer Options in your main phone settings.

Next - cd to the folder where you have adb, get a DOS window, do this:

cd c:\sdk-tools

(that will work if you unzipped as I suggested - doesn't really matter, just get a DOS window to where adb and its dll files are located)

Next - plug in your phone. Choose Charge Only.

Next - in the DOS window, copy/paste this command -

adb shell "cd /sdcard; ls -lFaR" > sd-contents.txt

When your DOS prompt comes back - do the dir command and you'll see the file, sd-contents.txt.

Next - use your normal way in your file explorer and zip that file.

Next - use the Go Advanced posting feature here, choose the paper clip to attach the file here, browse to the zip of sd-contents.txt.zip (or whatever it's called) and upload it here. Close the attach window (upper right) when it's up, then click the down arrow next to the paper clip to inline the file.

That will give us a recursive directory dump - with sizes - of everything on your sdcard partition.

Wait until one of us can check it properly (I'm not guaranteeing tonight for me, lol) and if all went well, we'll be able to tell you exactly where things are and what you're looking at.

After upload - ok for you to look at it with Wordpad.

No sensitive data can be transmitted this way.

BTW - I've tested this in unix, the syntax should be the same in Windows. If it barfs, give me until tomorrow to get to a Windows machine.

3vodroid · Nov 3, 2012

EarlyMon said:
Ok, we're going to get to the bottom of this right now, pretty quick and in a hurry.

If you don't have adb, please take this zip -

http://androidforums.com/attachment...90-adb-guide-updated-12-05-2011-sdk-tools.zip

If you unzip it to your c:\ drive, you should get a folder named sdk-tools - inside you'll find adb and fastboot for Windows, Mac and Linux. Ignore the stuff you don't care about.

Next - make sure you have USB debugging turned on. It's under Developer Options in your main phone settings.

Next - cd to the folder where you have adb, get a DOS window, do this:

cd c:\sdk-tools

(that will work if you unzipped as I suggested - doesn't really matter, just get a DOS window to where adb and its dll files are located)

Next - plug in your phone. Choose Charge Only.

Next - in the DOS window, copy/paste this command -

adb shell "cd /sdcard; ls -lFaR" > sd-contents.txt

When your DOS prompt comes back - do the dir command and you'll see the file, sd-contents.txt.

Next - use your normal way in your file explorer and zip that file.

Next - use the Go Advanced posting feature here, choose the paper clip to attach the file here, browse to the zip of sd-contents.txt.zip (or whatever it's called) and upload it here. Close the attach window (upper right) when it's up, then click the down arrow next to the paper clip to inline the file.

That will give us a recursive directory dump - with sizes - of everything on your sdcard partition.

Wait until one of us can check it properly (I'm not guaranteeing tonight for me, lol) and if all went well, we'll be able to tell you exactly where things are and what you're looking at.

After upload - ok for you to look at it with Wordpad.

No sensitive data can be transmitted this way.

BTW - I've tested this in unix, the syntax should be the same in Windows. If it barfs, give me until tomorrow to get to a Windows machine.

As soon as I get off work I am going to do this and I'll post my results. Thank you early

3vodroid · Nov 4, 2012

EarlyMon said:
Ok, we're going to get to the bottom of this right now, pretty quick and in a hurry.

If you don't have adb, please take this zip -

http://androidforums.com/attachment...90-adb-guide-updated-12-05-2011-sdk-tools.zip

If you unzip it to your c:\ drive, you should get a folder named sdk-tools - inside you'll find adb and fastboot for Windows, Mac and Linux. Ignore the stuff you don't care about.

Next - make sure you have USB debugging turned on. It's under Developer Options in your main phone settings.

Next - cd to the folder where you have adb, get a DOS window, do this:

cd c:\sdk-tools

(that will work if you unzipped as I suggested - doesn't really matter, just get a DOS window to where adb and its dll files are located)

Next - plug in your phone. Choose Charge Only.

Next - in the DOS window, copy/paste this command -

adb shell "cd /sdcard; ls -lFaR" > sd-contents.txt

When your DOS prompt comes back - do the dir command and you'll see the file, sd-contents.txt.

Next - use your normal way in your file explorer and zip that file.

Next - use the Go Advanced posting feature here, choose the paper clip to attach the file here, browse to the zip of sd-contents.txt.zip (or whatever it's called) and upload it here. Close the attach window (upper right) when it's up, then click the down arrow next to the paper clip to inline the file.

That will give us a recursive directory dump - with sizes - of everything on your sdcard partition.

Wait until one of us can check it properly (I'm not guaranteeing tonight for me, lol) and if all went well, we'll be able to tell you exactly where things are and what you're looking at.

After upload - ok for you to look at it with Wordpad.

No sensitive data can be transmitted this way.

BTW - I've tested this in unix, the syntax should be the same in Windows. If it barfs, give me until tomorrow to get to a Windows machine.

This is probably a stupid question... but what is the dir command? I just Copied/pasted "adb shell "cd /sdcard; ls -lFaR" > sd-contents.txt" So that is where im at right now,

EarlyMon · Nov 4, 2012

And then hit return on that, yeah?

The dir command lists directory contents. I think command line, sorry. You don't need to do that, you can verify the existence of the sd-contents.txt file using your Windows file browser, no problem.

3vodroid · Nov 4, 2012

View attachment sd-contents.zip

OK im pretty sure i did this correctly. : )

EarlyMon · Nov 4, 2012

You did great!

Use EStrongs File Explorer and go to -

/sdcard/OTA-Updater/download

And get rid of all of your MeanRom update zip files that you don't need.

I'll bet you can delete all of them.

Tell me what happens.

3vodroid · Nov 4, 2012

Need I say more.... Thank you x1000 early!

Now I just feel silly for taking all of my pictures and putting them on my tablet and deleting and moving and deleting... And all along it was one folder that I didn't look in. DOH!

EarlyMon · Nov 4, 2012

I love it when a plan comes together.

Silly? Pish posh, you saved your data!

Rxpert83 · Nov 4, 2012

Nice! I knew there had to be something obvious we were missing.

I've made it a habit to clear that folder after updating.

windsorclarenc · Nov 4, 2012

I'm glad you got your storage issue sorted out. I periodically go through both the internal and external sd cards copying everything I want to my laptop. Then I format both to make sure I'm not getting things too cluttered.

And p.s. thanks for reminding me I have to delete the ROMs in my OTA-Update folder. I had 3 in there I forgot about.

3vodroid · Nov 4, 2012

Yeah, I didn't even think about looking in there.

Thank you guys a million. I was really worried that I ran through the memory that easily. That would have been a bummer.

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