Help Low on Space, "System data" huge!

aalee · Dec 13, 2013

damianoz said:
You don't have to root your phones to fix this problem. Just dial *#9900# on the phone and then select from menu - delete dumpstate/logcat. I tested this solution on my SGS2 and it works.

Thank you so much for this solution. It worked without rooting my device and now I have around 800mb free space

scynz1 · Jan 3, 2014

Thanks to everyone in this thread, this problem had been troubling me for months, despite searching far and wide.

I have posted a link to this thread in a few other places where the solution hasn't been found including at Android Central (sorry can't include link)- hope you don't mind

marech12 · Jan 15, 2014

damianoz said:
You don't have to root your phones to fix this problem. Just dial *#9900# on the phone and then select from menu - delete dumpstate/logcat. I tested this solution on my SGS2 and it works.

Thanks for helping but I tried dialing and for some reason they told me they aren't working anymore. Is it because of the type of phone I have or does it still work for anyone else? is there another way of deleting all the unnecessary space.

mdawdy · May 14, 2014

Does CleanMaster not clean out all of those log files?

Deleted User · Jun 29, 2014

marech12 said:
Thanks for helping but I tried dialing and for some reason they told me they aren't working anymore. Is it because of the type of phone I have or does it still work for anyone else? is there another way of deleting all the unnecessary space.

*#9900# and then - delete dumpstate/logcat. WOW, worked great on AT&T SGS2. System data went from ~990MB to 116. Like the man said, not root, no wipe needed. OBTW this was after deleting browser caches, most all email, and downloads.

jckingjk · Jul 8, 2014

*#9900# does not work on my Samsung Galaxy S2; I get "Connection problem or invalid MMI code" when I dial. Any work-around? Android version 2.3.6.

Deleted User · Jul 13, 2014

Oh I forgot to say I've updated to 4.1.2 Jelly Bean.

Amled · Aug 25, 2014

Wow u just made my day Dude

Ur my mega hyper Android Geek - workslike a dream, system data reduced from 900 MiB to 0 MiB in 5 sec!
Why the "HOTTEST" isn't this information shared more frequently?

Henrik
Samsung Galaxy S2 Android 4.1.2
Dial *#9900" to reset dump files

ashishmalgawa · Aug 28, 2014

i am facing the same problem and i am getting frustrated because it is necessary for me to format my phone in every 10 days :mad:

Marty Van Diest · Sep 12, 2015

Samsung Galaxy S2 T-mobile running HellKat

Same problem, "insuffient space..." System Data was gobbling a huge amount of space. I couldn't get the #9900# to work (Connection problem or invalid mmi code) but I stumbled around looking for huge log files and saw that /data/lost+found was 1.2Gb, so I deleted it with Yaffs Explorer with root privs. Viola! The 'system data' is now a reasonable size and doesn't seem to be growing.

Anthony Dragomanov · Sep 20, 2015

damianoz said:
You don't have to root your phones to fix this problem. Just dial *#9900# on the phone and then select from menu - delete dumpstate/logcat. I tested this solution on my SGS2 and it works.

I just registered here to give you my like and say a big THANK YOU for saving me my sanity!
You, sir, are my hero

Worked beautifully on my Galaxy S2

Julie Gray · Sep 28, 2015

ThoFre97 said:
*#9900# and then - delete dumpstate/logcat. I couldn't get this to work on my phone. I have a LG Tribute LGLS660. I show 2.3 GB being used by System Data. I have 1 photo on my phone, and 4 Apps that I've installed. The rest are all the crappy Google Apps I can't remove. I have 416 MB of space left. I can't even update an app, let alone add a new one.

Julie Gray · Sep 28, 2015

that's more directed to damiaroz. Couldn't figure out how to reply just to him/her.

gavinray1488 · Oct 11, 2015

you're supposed to put in that 999 code and phone like pull up your telephone and dial it in there and then pull the menu down and it should be in there for it to dump the cash or some s***tried it not working but i'ma google it and see if I can come up with something and then I'll give a better explanation on here if I come up with it if anybody else has a little help explaining this

angelocola · Dec 1, 2015

bryandlewis said:
Hi! I'm a relative Android newbee, had MyTouch 4g for two months.

I'm having problems with the "Low on space" warning. I have moved all my apps to the SD card which helped for a while but the warning came back. I then started clearing out data, uninstalling apps but days later it still came back. I read about the "diskusage" app and have it installed after clearing more data. What it is telling me is of my total data (1162 MiB) 115 MiB is free, 63.3 MiB is Applications and 983 MiB is "System data". There is no way for me to tell what this system data is made up of. I installed diskusage on my wife's MyTouch 4G and found her system data was only a little over 100 MiB.

How can I clean up the system data so I get my phone back to normal?

Thanks!

OK my experience:
I solved it like this
I have huawei honor 6 rooted and I use CWM recovery
Backed up phone with CWM on SD1 external just in case
Then
open these folders with root explorer : / Data / clockworkmod / backup /
there was another back up done before but not on the ext card but on the internal memory taking a lot of space
Erased it and now lots of storage on phone

The CWM back ups have to stay on the external card !

lvt · Dec 1, 2015

What version of CWM do you have? I use the latest CWM and the backups go directly to SD card.

Kernel_Panic · Jan 4, 2016

To all who are not able to get *#9900# to work... I cannot either. I have found out that this seems to be because Verizon has locked this option out on their Samsung phones. All of the folks who have succeeded with this must be on AT&T or other carriers.

Source: http://androidforums.com/threads/9900-not-working-on-samsung-galaxy-s5.981140/

FoxyN8iv · Jan 23, 2016

I am having the same problem but seems to always happen when I download Order & Chaos 2 I'm so lost I moved it to my SD card and still shows the almost 2 gb in my internal and extra 1 gb in my system Data?

flare26 · Sep 17, 2016

damianoz said:
You don't have to root your phones to fix this problem. Just dial *#9900# on the phone and then select from menu - delete dumpstate/logcat. I tested this solution on my SGS2 and it works.

*#9900# does ot work for my LG G4C please help me.

Cyclorbit · Sep 19, 2016

flare26 said:
*#9900# does ot work for my LG G4C please help me.

with the * worked with me to have the menu where to choose " delete dumpstate/logcat".
However it just freed 100MB of 1.5GB

flare26 · Oct 9, 2016

Cyclorbit said:
with the * worked with me to have the menu where to choose " delete dumpstate/logcat".
However it just freed 100MB of 1.5GB

I think it depends on where you're living... I'm Turkish

Sky104 · Apr 14, 2017

damianoz said:
You don't have to root your phones to fix this problem. Just dial *#9900# on the phone and then select from menu - delete dumpstate/logcat. I tested this solution on my SGS2 and it works.

Dialing that gave me an error lol

Jerras · Sep 4, 2017

bryandlewis said:
Hi! I'm a relative Android newbee, had MyTouch 4g for two months.

I'm having problems with the "Low on space" warning. I have moved all my apps to the SD card which helped for a while but the warning came back. I then started clearing out data, uninstalling apps but days later it still came back. I read about the "diskusage" app and have it installed after clearing more data. What it is telling me is of my total data (1162 MiB) 115 MiB is free, 63.3 MiB is Applications and 983 MiB is "System data". There is no way for me to tell what this system data is made up of. I installed diskusage on my wife's MyTouch 4G and found her system data was only a little over 100 MiB.

How can I clean up the system data so I get my phone back to normal?

Thanks!

I have an LG G4 with the same issue. When I call *#9900# The message says: "Connection problem or Invalid MMI code." My connection is fine. Why is this not working for me?

Hadron · Sep 5, 2017

It came from a very old post, and may well only apply to older devices. It does the same on my phone, which is older than yours and from a different manufacturer.

aname12 · Jan 15, 2019

You can also go to the more apps button, search for files and then go through all the files on your phone (turn on hidden files so it's easier to comb through them)

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