hey guys
iam using my galaxy s4 for about 3 years now but i encounter a new problem for about a year ago... after rooting my device i started to use titanum backup and foldermount apps to improve my backup and my empty storage to bownload more apps... but after unlinking some apps from foldermount and deleting apps i started to notice that my ext sdcard is losing oculied space by the moved app but my internal storage is still the same... i unlinked all the apps and deleted them and i still lost aproxi about 5 to 6 gb of my internal storage.... i made a factory reset and deleted all the cashe and things starts to go normal... but after a while i started to download games and this time wihout foldermount app i still got the same problem... i used ex file explorer to determine how much space i got but i got 2.3 gb used on android folder...but the app and the system showed that iam using 6.2 gb..... i store nothing in my internal storage ... i linked titanum backup to ise my ext sdcard and offline youtube videos also ... please help because i realy dont inderstand whats going on.....
aorry for the long post and thanks ...
Are you using a custom recovery? If so, which one?
A factory reset will definitely resolve the problem, if nothing else works.
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Has anybody else run into issue with running out of space ???
I just reset my razr M last week to factory because i kept having issue with memory running out. i reset it last week and only reinstalled what i had to deleted a bunch of crap as well as rooting it since i was taking it back to factoory and losing all my setup i figured id root it so i could reset again and not lose stuff but now today it says im out of memory again and clearing cache of a few apps (which is how i was fixing it before reset ) doesnt seem to be working the cache isnt full on anything and i cleared the ones that did have anything built up.....
Any ideas ?? it worked a week without problems and i have plenty of space on SD card if only i could move apps to sd card ???
Any help would be great
Rpatton said:
Has anybody else run into issue with running out of space ???
I just reset my razr M last week to factory because i kept having issue with memory running out. i reset it last week and only reinstalled what i had to deleted a bunch of crap as well as rooting it since i was taking it back to factoory and losing all my setup i figured id root it so i could reset again and not lose stuff but now today it says im out of memory again and clearing cache of a few apps (which is how i was fixing it before reset ) doesnt seem to be working the cache isnt full on anything and i cleared the ones that did have anything built up.....
Any ideas ?? it worked a week without problems and i have plenty of space on SD card if only i could move apps to sd card ???
Any help would be great
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Do a safe boot. Power up & hold the vol down key, once you see the first splash logo, all the way home.
But I think you need a RSD lite restore. LOOK around with a real browser. I posted a House of Moto link in the general forum. There is one "stock restore" in my stickys
FDR doesn't always clear all the data. Do like Avi said and do a complete restore. Also, the phone doesn't have a lot of memory, so get rid of any apps that you don't use. There's no point in having hundreds of apps if you never use them. I DL less than 20 apps on both my phones and most of them are for root functions and a few "useability" apps.
If you have any big games (like Gameloft and EA games for example), they sometimes use gigs and gigs of space so you don't even need very many apps to fill up your /data partition.
What I do is move the gigs of data off the /data partition and to physical sdcard using the Directory Bind app. You will need to be rooted to use the app.
Hello,
Yesterday, I flashed 4.4.2 stock rom on my S4 i9500 through Odin. I was also successful in rooting it. then after installing titanium backup I uninstalled all the knox applications. now there were no knox warnings poping up all rooted apps were working good. Then I installed most essential root app in my phone called "foldermount". You know being a s4 owner how easy it makes your life when you can transfer all big games to the sd card and no internal memory full issue.
Now the bad part of story starts.When I opened the Foldermount it showed me an error message that To fix the error click okay and reboot the device. After rebooting all apps of phone like gallery, camera, Shealth, filemanager,music etc. Either stopped working or started showing the message that you dont have any internal memory or external sdcard on your device. In settings>storage, there it also said that 0 mb internal memory 0mb external memory. I also tried connecting my s4 to pc with usb storage option. It showed there too that internal/sdcard has total 0 memory.
So basically foldermount had screwed my phones memory. I think it had messed up the partition table of my phone. After that I reflashed my 4.4.2 and tried installing latest version of fouldermount and the whole thing happened again.
Now I have again reflashed the 4.4.2 rom. I think in 4.4.2 samsung has changed some stuff and foldermount is no longer compatible. Now I have also come to know that You cant downgrade from 4.4.2 to 4.3. :/
Please someone tell me alternative to Foldermount which is working on 4.4.2.
I would also like to know why foldermount no longer works on 4.4.2? is it only samsung's 4.4.2 rom or it also doesnt work on other 4.4.2 based roms.
Thanks!
diper07 said:
Hello,
Yesterday, I flashed 4.4.2 stock rom on my S4 i9500 through Odin. I was also successful in rooting it. then after installing titanium backup I uninstalled all the knox applications. now there were no knox warnings poping up all rooted apps were working good. Then I installed most essential root app in my phone called "foldermount". You know being a s4 owner how easy it makes your life when you can transfer all big games to the sd card and no internal memory full issue.
Now the bad part of story starts.When I opened the Foldermount it showed me an error message that To fix the error click okay and reboot the device. After rebooting all apps of phone like gallery, camera, Shealth, filemanager,music etc. Either stopped working or started showing the message that you dont have any internal memory or external sdcard on your device. In settings>storage, there it also said that 0 mb internal memory 0mb external memory. I also tried connecting my s4 to pc with usb storage option. It showed there too that internal/sdcard has total 0 memory.
So basically foldermount had screwed my phones memory. I think it had messed up the partition table of my phone. After that I reflashed my 4.4.2 and tried installing latest version of fouldermount and the whole thing happened again.
Now I have again reflashed the 4.4.2 rom. I think in 4.4.2 samsung has changed some stuff and foldermount is no longer compatible. Now I have also come to know that You cant downgrade from 4.4.2 to 4.3. :/
Please someone tell me alternative to Foldermount which is working on 4.4.2.
I would also like to know why foldermount no longer works on 4.4.2? is it only samsung's 4.4.2 rom or it also doesnt work on other 4.4.2 based roms.
Thanks!
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4.4.2 has sd card write problem. There is a fix for this problem on the forum n then use Foldermount or may be foldermount isnt compatible with 4.4.2. They ll release a compatibility update for it. I havent rooted yet n 8.41 gb is enough as internal!
diper07 said:
Hello,
Yesterday, I flashed 4.4.2 stock rom on my S4 i9500 through Odin. I was also successful in rooting it. then after installing titanium backup I uninstalled all the knox applications. now there were no knox warnings poping up all rooted apps were working good. Then I installed most essential root app in my phone called "foldermount". You know being a s4 owner how easy it makes your life when you can transfer all big games to the sd card and no internal memory full issue.
Now the bad part of story starts.When I opened the Foldermount it showed me an error message that To fix the error click okay and reboot the device. After rebooting all apps of phone like gallery, camera, Shealth, filemanager,music etc. Either stopped working or started showing the message that you dont have any internal memory or external sdcard on your device. In settings>storage, there it also said that 0 mb internal memory 0mb external memory. I also tried connecting my s4 to pc with usb storage option. It showed there too that internal/sdcard has total 0 memory.
So basically foldermount had screwed my phones memory. I think it had messed up the partition table of my phone. After that I reflashed my 4.4.2 and tried installing latest version of fouldermount and the whole thing happened again.
Now I have again reflashed the 4.4.2 rom. I think in 4.4.2 samsung has changed some stuff and foldermount is no longer compatible. Now I have also come to know that You cant downgrade from 4.4.2 to 4.3. :/
Please someone tell me alternative to Foldermount which is working on 4.4.2.
I would also like to know why foldermount no longer works on 4.4.2? is it only samsung's 4.4.2 rom or it also doesnt work on other 4.4.2 based roms.
Thanks!
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There is a easy fix for kk4.4 sd write protection issue by adding a simple line into a system file. Just search for it in the forum.
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Thank you guys for replying.
I just checked the changelog of Foldermount and found this
v2.6.4
-Updated Portuguese (new translator: extream87), Polish, Latvian, German and Finnish locales. Thank you volunteers!
-All patching menus are scrollable. This should help some users that are not able to see the bottom buttons correctly in these dialogs.
-Fix a rare case where some S4/Note 3 users that update from 4.3 to 4.4 and patch the system using FolderMount leads to the disappearance of the internal/external sdcards.
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I think now foldermount will work fine on S4/Note 3. If it still doesnt work then I will try fixing "write_external_storage" thing.
damn...
After using the forums for a long time without registering, just did to point out I had the same problems. Read a lot before flashing 4.2.2, all went well until installing Foldermount... wish I read this one before installing it. SD Card looks empty on phone, but fine on computer, Play Store, S Health, Story Album kept crashing. Ended up doing a factory reset I didn't need, and flashing it all over again.
hi guys,
My stepson has a galaxy s4 i9500
he plays alot with it and has installed several roms after rooting the phone.
at some point he realized that after burning a new rom ha has almost no storage left on the phone itself. we tried to check the data visible during a usb connection but the total size doesn't even come near te 16GB. now he has no games or heavy apps installed and after running cleanmaster app he has 18mb free left. what can we do?
thanks alot
Michael
hokerme said:
hi guys,
My stepson has a galaxy s4 i9500
he plays alot with it and has installed several roms after rooting the phone.
at some point he realized that after burning a new rom ha has almost no storage left on the phone itself. we tried to check the data visible during a usb connection but the total size doesn't even come near te 16GB. now he has no games or heavy apps installed and after running cleanmaster app he has 18mb free left. what can we do?
thanks alot
Michael
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It's all your downloads and other stuff like that.
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thanks but this is not the case
LiL_Assassin said:
It's all your downloads and other stuff like that.
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As i said before we have just installed a new rom so there are almost no downloads at all.
i must say that im an IT specialist so i am familiar with storage folders downloads an temp files. obviously the problem is a bit mor sofisticated then that but thanks anyways
It doesn't work like that. 16gb is not one partition. It are multiple partitions. The rom itself (TW based) eat up a lot of storage. Together with a few apps it can become full easily. But maybe it's also possible that he didn't wipe properly before flashing a new rom and old files are still left.
So do a full wipe from the custom recovery and flash the rom again.
Installing a custom rom will not wipe the internal storage (unless you/he chose to do it when doing the standard wiping procedure).
So, even if he installed several roms, files usually still remain on the internal storage. Backups, rom zips, game data, etc.
Try this: Backup everything that is on the internal storage onto your pc and do a factory reset. See if it fixes anything. A factory reset wipes everything, including the internal storage.
You should also note that, even though Samsung advertised the phone as 16GB, it's actually only 9GB of usable space.
The rom partition takes about 2-3 GB. So that's a total of 12GB. Not 16, like Samsung says..
Hello,
I have a problem with internal memory in my phone
I moved all my stuff to SD card , photos files etc
also i moved all the Movable apps to the sd
But some apps can't be moves i don't know why "see attaches pic"
I tried Clean master , ES files and some apps but didn't help
Please help me
I attached some photos shows the files and the "can't be moved" apps
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You don't have a problem with the internal memory. You're simply encountering a normal occurrence, as not every app supports moving its data to the MicroSD card. Since your list of apps doesn't support being moved to the MicroSD the only way to clear storage is to uninstall the apps. You may of course try apps to SD card options, but I'm not sure how well they will work on Android 5.x.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
You don't have a problem with the internal memory. You're simply encountering a normal occurrence, as not every app supports moving its data to the MicroSD card. Since your list of apps doesn't support being moved to the MicroSD the only way to clear storage is to uninstall the apps. You may of course try apps to SD card options, but I'm not sure how well they will work on Android 5.x.
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thanks bro
even there's no way to force move this apps ?
i can't even make any update to my apps via store :crying:
To move the app data from internal storage would be to break the app itself. You don't want that.
Humor me here. Are you rooted, and are you using a custom recovery? If you are, which recovery?
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
To move the app data from internal storage would be to break the app itself. You don't want that.
Humor me here. Are you rooted, and are you using a custom recovery? If you are, which recovery?
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at the first place i want to restore my space back
yeah , my phone is rooted and am using omega v28 5.0.1 rom
with custom recovery , TWRP 2.8.7.0 touch recovery
I just wanted to make sure you weren't using Clockworkmod or Philz, as those are notorious for eating internal storage. If you want to restore the lost space, you have to uninstall the apps. It's either that or you learn to live with it until Android 6.0 custom ROMs are made available for your device. Android 6.0 allows you to merge internal and external storage so that Android sees the two as a single volume, and that definitely would eliminate your problem.
Oh dear oh dear
ok thanks bro any way , i will try to live with it
Until it happen
Is there anyway to make Google play download / update to the sd card not the internal ??
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Check your other thread on the topic. An answer was posted there.
About a year ago I moved from KK to LP using the directions in one of the XDA forums, and have G900VVRU2BPB1 on my rooted Verizon phone. It has been working great. But recently, I have been having issues with the internal memory saying it is full, and indeed, using ES Explorer it shows my internal memory at 10.1 out of 10.52GB, even after I removed all unused programs and moved all photo, movie and music files off the internal memory to the SD card. The only thing I can think of doing now is a factory data reset, hoping to recover some space.
If I do this, do I have to worry about losing root, or will it just clean up files and caches as expected?
Does anyone have any other ideas? Should I move to MM?
Thanks in advance.
Frank in Michigan