Device Memory issue..

I was backing up my original rom in CWM in galaxy grand and after some time it gives error. Then i restarted my phone. And check my system storage got full. I checked any miscellaneous file in my phone memory but there was nothing. so please help me out. And also tell me how to make backup of current rom using CWM

[Q] Internal memory broken?

Hi everyone,

I've got a Galaxy Nexus in use since approx. 2 years and update it to the latest CM from time to time. I also flashed Ziyan's beta build (08/06),
but honestly, I dont't think that’s the crux of the matter.

Let me begin with the error pattern:
One day, my Nexus was not in use and only lay on the table, it crashed an rebooted. That happened occasionally, so it seemed like nothing to worry.
Unfortunately the system kept on crashing on every attempt to boot after this or crashed shortly after finishing boot.
This repeated over several hours.

Once in a while, the system managed to stay alive for a few minutes and I was able to browse the settings for example. Doing so, I noticed that it responded normally for about 5 seconds and then froze for 5 seconds alternatingly.
I then tried to flash a backup or rather the latest rom again.

Then it became awkward:
In the beginning I was unable to aquire writing permissions (rw) and only had reading permissions (ro) on my /sdcard. Even adb remount didn't change this.
An attempt to fix permissions in TWRP recovery broke with an error.
I couldn't even access the sideload due to missing write permissions.
Surprisingly, I was able to adb push the rom to /cache partition since I still had rw permissions on /cache and /system and therefore successfully flashed the rom subsequently.
When I checked my permissions again, I regained rw permissions on all partitions.

Trying to reboot my system, it kept on crashing like before, which led me to format the internal memory completely.
According to TWRP the whole memory was deleted completely and I adb pushed an older rom (CM 11) and flashed it.
To my astonishment, I found my phone boot the old rom again, all data was restored and it still crashed like nothing happened to the memory.

I then tried to delete all files manually and flashed the stock rom, even unrooted, all with the same outcome.
After every attempt to change something, Ziyans rom remained on the phone, also the /sdcard data was still there.
What I found noteworthy was the recovery telling me, all the operations completed succesfully everytime and until I restarted the phone, it indeed showed no files remaining after formatting (though, I couldn't change the filesystem).

To put it all in a nutshell:
Memory delete, format or overwrite doesn't work any longer

I am totally out of options and would appreciate suggestions =)

Greetings,
Kosmo$

Data recovery from internal memory is it possible ?????

Moto g 1st gen totally broken not powering on and usb debugging is off during accident, There is no way to power on the phone its damaged badly and i checked it to local repair shops they said its impossible to repair the phone.

Is there any way to recover the data from internal memory?

Confusion about what is in memory -> Greenify vs. Recents

Ok. I'm trying to improve performance, and evaluating memory and tools.

I have installed Greenify and set everything that is not necessary to be 'Greenified'.

So I can use Recents button, and clear all. Then load Greenify, so I have this in memory according to the Active Applications from recents:



Then checking Greenify, it will list some apps as "Will hibernate a few minutes after phone is off'. That implies to me that those apps are in memory, but then, they don't show up in recents:



And, I can shut the phone of for 5 mintues, and Greenify looks the same.

So are they in memory or not? Is Grennify not working correctly?

I wonder sometimes about these cleaning and memory management/app management apps whether they are really doing anything or not.

Maybe the confusion is a difference between being 'in memory' vs. 'active'.

Can anyone clear the fog?

Memory Card in S4 doesn't like Camera Shot Videos?

I have a Galaxy S4 with 64 GB Sandisk micro SD card. Recently while trying to move a few apps to sd card, the phone rebooted. After the the memory card went bad. I was able to read all my data from it but cant format or delete anything from it. Tried even on my laptop, files can be deleted but after you remove and reinsert they magically come back and anything new copied to the card is gone. I backed all my data from the card and sent it to Sandisk for replacement. Today I got a brand new sealed card from Sandisk as replacement. I started moving all my data back to the card from my laptop's card reader. All my music and videos copied just fine and all other docs, images etc copied fine as well. But when it started copying Camera Videos in the DCIM folder it hanged. I restarted the laptop and tried again, it copies everything from anywhere fine but again at the camera videos the transfer rate drops to 0 b/s and it hangs. Same thing happens when the memory card is in the phone and I connect it via usb cable. Finally I tried copying all the camera videos 1 at a time and this time it went fine with hangs a few times. But finally all videos are on the card and readable. Can anyone tell me whats wrong and where ???? :confused:

Memory Leak on Stock 5.0.2 rom?

It's kinda annoying that it plagues me on stock sony lollipop rom. I have a VPN running on the background it just suddenly close after a while by itself. This also happens on S5-G900f. But when I am on kitkat. I had no issues. Anyone has a workaround for this? as we wait for 5.1

Memory Card size that the LG G STYLO can take

I would like to know what the memory card that the LG G STYLO can take... I currently have a 32gig but its not enough.

Sent from my LGMS631 using Tapatalk

recover photos from internal memory

My internal memory became full and once i switched off and then on the phone, it just shows yu screen followed by only the "cyanogen" screen. When contacted the customer care they said i need to do a hard reset and that i would lose all my data. Is there any means to recover my photos from internal memory? Kindly let me know how to recover the data. Thanks!!

Does custom recoveries backup the apps from internal and external memory??

I just rooted my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 SM-N9005 and installed cwm recovery, now I am planning to flash custom rom, I was just wondering if I can back up my apps from phone's memory and memory card using cwm recovery?
Pleae help. Thank you.

Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Free mobile app

External Memory Fix

Hi friends,

Using Galaxy S5 G900H Variant with Lollipop. Please help me here. How can make my SD card as the default storage. Everything from the downloaded files to whatsapp folder.. is being used by internal storage. Please help me make my external as the default storage.

64 GB memory card support?

I know Moto G3 officially supports only 32 GB memory card, but I have read that 64/128 GB cards also work with it. Anyone here using 64/128 GB card?

Lost 32GB internal memory on updates

Hi,
On doing the stock update to KitKat and also with a with custom Lollipop rom, my internal memory was reduced from 32GB to 16GB (with 10.11GB usable).

Can someone provide details of procedure to recover this memory.

memory leak fix for 5.1.1?

Hello all

i have been reading alot about the memory leak issue on the s6 edge that i made some reasearches and ended up in something related to modifying a build.prop file and rebooting.

however...it seems this particular fix is handled only for version 5.0 of android...i tried modifying build.prop on 5.1.1 and saw weird lines!!

can someone plz help me in finding a modified build.prop file for 5.1.1...or guide me to a thread and ill modify it myself? i searched for an hour almost but all in vain...

my s6 edge variation is G925F.

cheers!

Internal memory wiped out

So my phone was connected to the computer and i wanted to delete a couple of empty folders but midway the internal memory folder stopped responding. I restarted the phone again and the whole memory is formatted. Any way to recover the data?

help internal to external memory swap

any way to force change the system to recognise external sd card as internal and vice versa???? i dont want to use lind2sd doesnt work orfoldermount which works but is too demanding when you give this to a child who downloads everything.
the vold file is here
## Vold 2.0 Generic fstab
## - San Mehat (san@android.com)
##

#######################
## Regular device mount
##
## Format: dev_mount <label> <mount_point> <part> <sysfs_path1...>
## label - Label for the volume
## mount_point - Where the volume will be mounted
## part - Partition # (1 based), or 'auto' for first usable partition.
## <sysfs_path> - List of sysfs paths to source devices
######################

## Example of a standard sdcard mount for the emulator / Dream
# Mounts the first usable partition of the specified device

#dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/sdhci-pxav3.0/mmc_host/mmc1

dev_mount external_sdcard /mnt/external_sdcard auto /devices/platform/sdhci-pxav3.0/mmc_host/mmc1
dev_mount internal_sdcard /mnt/sdcard 15 /devices/platform/sdhci-pxav3.2/mmc_host/mmc0

## Example of a dual card setup
# dev_mount left_sdcard /sdcard1 auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0 /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.2/mmc_host/mmc1
# dev_mount right_sdcard /sdcard2 auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.1 /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host/mmc1

## Example of specifying a specific partition for mounts
# dev_mount sdcard /sdcard 2 /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0 /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.2/mmc_host/mmc1

optimal OS memory space

what would be the least amount of memory space for the sensation to operate without too much lag?
Temporarily reviving my Sens 4G while my M7 goes in for repair.
I've moved a few apps to the SD to make space andI'm now at 304 MB free (26%) after cache clean.
ViperS 1.6.3 with settings to default. 60 or so "user" apps.

S4 i9505 cm 12.1 memory problem

When I boot my phone I have above 1000mb of ram, then some apps start running and etc, it drops to like 700mb and stays for some time but sometimes it drops to 200mb or less for no reason and my phone starts overheating and only a reboot helps, battery goes down very fast but nothing is using it too much

[6039y] **GUIDE** Repartitioning of the internal memory

Here it is as I promised.
This phone (the model with one sim card) is sold as a device with 8GB internal memory. In fact the memory chip inside is 16GB, so we can increase the available internal space.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND IF SOMETHING IS NOT CLEAR DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK.
*** The data on your device will be untouched after this operation. But again please read carefully! ***
*** A good practice is always to make a backup of everything which will be changed. I do it and I've made a backup of the entire internal memory of the device before the start of the operation which is described below. ***

1. You can go to this thread and to say Thanks! @meghd00t as his static build of gdisk is used in the recovery below.
2. What is needed:
- A different TWRP Recovery with gdisk inside. It can be downloaded from here twrp-2.8.7.0-idol3-6039y-with-gdisk.img - md5sum: 66b3f82a3e2e1afe14627b3b900a9319
- (Optional) An SD card for backup of the original GPT partition layout.
- Patience and careful reading.
3. How to do it (the output used below is from the terminal window from which I've done this operation on my device):
- reboot to bootloader:

Code:

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adb reboot-bootloader

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- start the recovery

Code:

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fastboot -i 0x1bbb boot twrp-2.8.7.0-idol3-6039y-gdisk.img

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- go to the device

Code:

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adb shell

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- unmount all partitions of the internal memory

Code:

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~ # umount /cache
 ~ # umount /sdcard
 ~ # umount /and-sec

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- ensure that there are no mounted partitions from mmcblk0. The output from the mount command should looks like this:

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~ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,size=713016k,nr_inodes=157853,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,seclabel,relatime)
selinuxfs on /sys/fs/selinux type selinuxfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,seclabel,relatime,size=713016k,nr_inodes=157853)
adb on /dev/usb-ffs/adb type functionfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 on /external_sd type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

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- start gdisk

Code:

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~ # gdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0

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all partitions can be listed by pressing 'p' but we are interested by the last two:

Code:

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  37        5000400        15269853  4.9 GiB    FFFF  userdata
  38        15269854        30535646  7.3 GiB    0700  userdatabak

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and their information which will be shown by pressing 'i' and entering the partition number:

Code:

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Command (? for help): i
Partition number (1-38): 37
Partition GUID code: 1B81E7E6-F50D-419B-A739-2AEEF8DA3335 (Unknown)
Partition unique GUID: BDD7FA27-93D4-40BC-B266-313E074E0E87
First sector: 5000400 (at 2.4 GiB)
Last sector: 15269853 (at 7.3 GiB)
Partition size: 10269454 sectors (4.9 GiB)
Attribute flags: 0000000000000000
Partition name: 'userdata'

Command (? for help): i
Partition number (1-38): 38
Partition GUID code: EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 (Microsoft basic data)
Partition unique GUID: BD12CF41-10E7-BBF7-D096-5553B89882E7
First sector: 15269854 (at 7.3 GiB)
Last sector: 30535646 (at 14.6 GiB)
Partition size: 15265793 sectors (7.3 GiB)
Attribute flags: 0000000000000000
Partition name: 'userdatabak'

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The information which is needed from the above output is Partition GUID code, First sector, Last sector and Partition name. You can write these somewhere (if your values are different from the above) from where can be pasted easily later (alternatively you can use the scrollback function of the terminal :) ).

- if you have an SD card make a backup of the partitions layout (in case that something goes wrong):

Code:

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Command (? for help): b
Enter backup filename to save: /external_sd/gpt_partitions_table.backup
The operation has completed successfully.

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- delete partitions 37 and 38:

Code:

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Command (? for help): d
Partition number (1-38): 38

Command (? for help): d
Partition number (1-37): 37

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- create a new partition 37, bigger in size with the same (as before) Partition GUID code, and the same (as before) start sector:

Code:

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Command (? for help): n
Partition number (37-40, default 37): 37
First sector (34-30535646, default = 5000400) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 5000400
Last sector (5000400-30535646, default = 30535646) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 30535546
Current type is 'Linux filesystem'
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): 1B81E7E6-F50D-419B-A739-2AEEF8DA3335
Changed type of partition to 'Unknown'

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The difference here is in the last sector of the partition 30535546.

- create a new partition 38 with same Partition GUID code, but with different First sector:

Code:

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Command (? for help): n
Partition number (38-40, default 38): 38
First sector (34-30535646, default = 34) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 30535547
Information: Moved requested sector from 30535547 to 30535548 in
order to align on 2-sector boundaries.
Use 'l' on the experts' menu to adjust alignment
Last sector (30535548-30535646, default = 30535646) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 30535646
Current type is 'Linux filesystem'
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
Changed type of partition to 'Microsoft basic data'

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Please note that here in the output after 'n' the default first sector is 34, so you explicitly must enter the value!!! As can be seen I've entered the next available sector (after partition 37) 305355547 but it has been corrected automatically to 30535548. So you can use directly 30535548 as a start sector. The last sector is at the end of the memory 30535646.

- write the names of the new partitions:

Code:

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Command (? for help): c
Partition number (1-38): 37
Enter name: userdata

Command (? for help): c
Partition number (1-38): 38
Enter name: userdatabak

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- if you list the partitions again (with 'p') the end of the table should looks like this:

Code:

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  37        5000400        30535546  12.2 GiB    FFFF  userdata
  38        30535548        30535646  49.5 KiB    0700  userdatabak

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- now it is safe to write the changes by pressing 'w':

Code:

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Command (? for help): w

Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING
PARTITIONS!!

Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): Y
OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/block/mmcblk0.
The operation has completed successfully.

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- resize the file system:

Code:

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~ # resize2fs -p /dev/block/mmcblk0p37
resize2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
Please run 'e2fsck -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p37' first.

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... hmm ... let's run it:

Code:

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~ # e2fsck -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p37
e2fsck 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/block/mmcblk0p37: 12519/321280 files (5.8% non-contiguous), 678615/1283425 blocks
~ # resize2fs -p /dev/block/mmcblk0p37
resize2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
Please run 'e2fsck -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p37' first.

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... well the resize2fs have some checks and refuses to resize the file system therefore we must force the execution:

Code:

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~ # resize2fs -fp /dev/block/mmcblk0p37
resize2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
Resizing the filesystem on /dev/block/mmcblk0p37 to 3191893 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/block/mmcblk0p37 is now 3191893 blocks long.

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The device now can be rebooted and its internal memory will be almost 12GB which compared to its previous size is a very nice upgrade. Screenshots before and after the repartitioning can be seen here.

Free memory and avoid killing some specific apps

Hello,

I was curious to know if as on MIUI rom you where able to kill all apps except some which you lock ?

Looked a bit everywhere in Lollipop but i haven't found it.

The same for clearing the memory.

Any help is highly appreciated.

[6039] Hidden/unused internal memory

During the research in order to build the TWRP recovery for this device I have noticed a very interesting fact. Although the phone is sold as a device with 8 GB internal memory, the memory chip used inside seems to be two times bigger. There is an unused (non-formatted) partition "mmcblk0p38" labeled as userdatabak and its size is 7816 MB. There is no data there, it is a completely blank partition. It will be interesting if the mmcblk0p37 (userdata) partition can be resized in order the reported internal memory of the device to be increased. I intend to experiment with this soon and will post an update here if I have some success. If anyone is interested and is willing to share ideas regarding the resizing I will be glad to see them.