yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] grabb0r:
Thanks for the quick and thorough reply... I prefer to handle my "privacy cleaning" manually anyway, so it's good to know SD Maid ignores that stuff. That's actually one of my big gripes about so called system cleaning tools which more often than not just recklessly wipe cache/data instead of actually getting rid of orphaned files.

EDIT: Just installeded and used SD Maid... and you have succeeded where many other programs have failed. Literally cut down my boot time by half, freed up 1/4 of my total memory, and made my system snappier - even my keyboard lag has all but disappeared. The functionality on this thing is amazing btw... serves as a replacement for four other apps I had, so it has freed even more space than it was designed to! Everything is great about this, from the gfx and UI to the control and information details. One of the most polished pieces of software I have seen in quite some time... you can't be praised enough.

I would like to make a suggestion for app control, though; after performing a kill operation (or autostart toggle) the individual app should be re-cheked for status. I noticed that for some apps the operation doesn't "stick," but until I refresh the entire list it doesn't show this.
[Android Apps and Games] atomomega:
Hi [MENTION=608746]Dark3n[/MENTION] for some reason SD Maid is not able to delete system apps from my TF300T, this is the only device where I have the problem and it just happened after clean flashing a new version of the ROM I use. I am able to grant SU access to SD Maid and it "apparently" deletes the app, nothing extraordinary happens like a crash or a reboot. It just completes the task but the app is still there. This doesn't happen with user apps, and I was able to delete system apps with Link2SD, so I'm not really sure what could be the root of this behavior.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
[MENTION=6419996]grabb0r[/MENTION] Please create a ticket for this with a description of how to reproduce it: sdmaid.darken.eu/issues

[MENTION=5453627]atomomega[/MENTION] Please record a logcat of this happening. Does it happen everytime? Are you possibly only uninstalling the updates?
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
Lots of coding these days, mostly on v4 with some breaks to fix stuff in v3 and then merge that into v4 :).

So here is v3.1.3.8(375).

On Android 5.0+ if you were granting SD Maid secondary storage access (external sdcard), the activity could be killed when the system file picker showed up. This can happen if the device is on low memory, due to task killer shenenigans or if the user played with developer settings. If you then returned to SD Maid the just selected permissions would not be saved.

Reproducable on v3.1.3.7 if you enable "don't keep activies" in dev settings.

Apparently Android 5.1 broke detection of running apps and no one but Martin H. noticed it (ty). I've fixed the detection for 5.1 and in the process replaced the whole code. Previously we were relying on Android API calls, now we are parsing /proc directly and in case that fails will try to fallback to API calls, though on 5.1 accuracy of the fallback method is doubtful.

Kinda suprising no one noticed this before...

http://sdmaid.darken.eu/download

http://sdmaid.darken.eu/changelogbeta﻿
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
v3.1.3.9(376) fixes an edge case where duplicate mount points would lead to SD Maid skipping the primary storage in most operations.

http://sdmaid.darken.eu/download

http://sdmaid.darken.eu/changelogbeta﻿
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
I'm currently redesigning the creation of custom filters and may alter the architecture for v4.

Is there any filter criteria should be added to make something possible that currently isn't?
[Android Apps and Games] RovG:
Hi [MENTION=608746]Dark3n[/MENTION]. The ability to delete all files or files of a particular extension within a folder would be good to have.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
[MENTION=4177034]RovG[/MENTION] That's already possible.

You can define a base path i.e. "/sdcard/cakes/ and a possible file name ending ".png".
[Android Apps and Games] RovG:
O.k. let me clarify with an example use case. Delete all files in Facebook's video-cache folder without deleting the folder.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
Just specifying the basepath of the video-cache folder with a trailing "/" should work.
[Android Apps and Games] RovG:
Something of a wish... The ability to truncate a file to zero bytes. E.g Xposed's framework log file. If you delete it and go into xposed you will see an error and, if then within xposed you clear the log file it just recreates an empty log file. This would be handy for any other apps that always expect its files to exist.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
Couldn't you just delete the file and create a new one through SD Maid?

Or is this something that is done so often that a shortcut is warranted?

edit: Oh i missunderstood, you want this as automated function, not as Explorer context option.

Yes that's a cool idea! Please make a ticket http://sdmaid.darken.eu/issues
[Android Apps and Games] RovG:
Yes, automated to work with the Scheduled option.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
The latest stable version is now v3.1.3.9.
[Android Apps and Games] LEENO:
Any chance to get autostart apps plugin in tasker?

Taptalked
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
Possibly, what exactly would you do with it.

Please elaborate your use case.
[Android Apps and Games] LEENO:
sorry, i try to explain better, sorry for "bed" language :)

SdMaid give possibility to enable/disable autostarts for apps, by going in application control menu.

With SdMaid Tasker plugin i should create for example the following Tasker profile:

When screen off disable Autostarts for selected apps "Chrome; Maps etc"

Then i can create one click shortcut for each app as following:

One click Tasker Chrome shortcut:

1) Enable Chrome autostart; by sdMaid tasker plugin

2) Launch Chrome app; by Tasker function

3) every function you need from tasker

For me this can be better than Greenify
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
You do know though that "Autostart" refers to applications reacting to your device finishing the boot sequence. Just toggeling the entries right before launching the app would only help if the app otherwise malfunctions.

I'm actually going to rename this to "On Boot", because it's confusing.

The whole tool will be renamed anyways, to something like "Component Toggler", with v4 you will be able to toggle more than just "On Boot" components of apps. (Name suggestions, anyone?)

Making all of AppControl functions available through Tasker would be an idea, because if the plugin is written, it's just a couple of extra LOC to add other things. Hm, not a huge prioty, but a paid Tasker AppControl plugin sounds kinda nice.
[Android Apps and Games] LEENO:
The name of other components may be "receivers". They can launch apps by system events. Disabling receivers prevent apps from autolaunch

Waiting for v4 and paid tasker plugin ?

Taptalked
[Android Apps and Games] Vagelis1608:
It would be nice if we could also trigger cleaning via Tasker.

As someone who uses Tasker a lot (and has purchased SD Maid Pro :) ) I could really use this functionality. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
I'm probably not going to add support for all types of receivers:

https://gist.github.com/d4rken/d5922da27ec69c38b39a

We will keep ON_BOOT, and i personally want HEADSET_PLUG, so that's two, what else?
[Android Apps and Games] Thanatos12:
Thank You Very Much :) Perfect Apps
[Android Apps and Games] Amit27184:
Really a Lyf Saviour app...Thanx
[Android Apps and Games] waterdaan:
Request /question

In the AppCleaner part

Would it be possible to delete "Cache"

folder

in stead of every file individually?

Sorry if this has asked before, haven't read the pages nor did a search.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
"Sorry but I'm lazy?"

It's possible, but the gained speed is currently not worth the lost functionality.

I know how to have the best of both worlds, but implementing it is currently of very low priority.
[Android Apps and Games] s629c:
My sd card was being extremely slow earlier. Downloaded this and now its a lot faster
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
v3.1.4.0 is a small maintenance update that backports a few fixes from SD Maid v4. It updates the databases and brings the last set of translations from the old platform. It also contains changes such that i can keep the same database format between v3 and v4.

http://sdmaid.darken.eu/download

http://sdmaid.darken.eu/changelogbeta﻿
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
v3.1.4.0 is considered stable and has now completed production rollout.
[Android Apps and Games] -CALIBAN666-:
german is 100% translated again.
[Android Apps and Games] fix1147@gmail.com:
question: can i include some folders into Trash cleaner option?
[Android Apps and Games] bgdrls:
I install 3.1.4.1 SDmaid, and after "CorpseFinder" search, app mark 3gb of my pics, clips, etc (in storage/emulated) as corpses?!
[Android Apps and Games] Dellodylio:
Maybe check this another time after reboot phone?
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
You can create custom system cleaner filters in SD Maid Pro.

Beta v3.1.4.1 had a huge bug i didn't catch. I've replaced it 2 hours later by v3.1.4.2 which fixes this.

The latest beta is now v3.1.4.2.

http://sdmaid.darken.eu/download

http://sdmaid.darken.eu/changelogbeta﻿

No one should keep using the old version but sadly piracy spread it anyways.

TL;DR I made a mistake.
[Android Apps and Games] Celestial Fury:
MS translation 100% translated and approved.

Sorry for the delay. :) I got the email but it came at a really busy time.
[Android Apps and Games] Flamkg:
How your application is different from peers?
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
[MENTION=7066203]Flamkg[/MENTION] Well I'm glad you asked :).

- Thorough, the most thorough app for this purpose, especially if you are rooted.

- Lots of options for power users.

- No bull**** features (no boosting anything, no cooling your device, no "RAM cleaning" etc.). I'm not playing any placebo cards to make people "feel good". We've got enough of those apps.

- No psychological pressure or cues. You don't NEED to do or run anything. This isn't essential as water & food for your device, rather like medcine,vitamin pills, take when needed and or in moderation.

Looking at the whole package, i don't think there really are "peers", there are some other apps that are good at specific things that SD Maid also does.

Maybe if we set up an index on "ease of use"/"effect" we could have some peers.

Not sure how objectively i could judge this though.

Maybe read some ratings and ask other users.
[Android Apps and Games] Flamkg:
Thank you so deployed answered! I will keep in mind
[Android Apps and Games] ~kyle:
Wow! Unfortunately I ran SD Maid after updating to beta v.3.1.4.1. I didn't realize what happened till the next day but I deleted several GBs of pics and data, most of which were pics and videos of my 9 month old son from birth till now. I was able to recover a small amount of them but unfortunately most are gone. Oh well, it's my fault for not having them backed up.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
I'm sorry to hear that.

If you are rooted, apps like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.undelete&hl=de work well for recovery.
[Android Apps and Games] ~kyle:
Thanks Dark3n, it's okay...like I said I should've had them backed up.

That's the exact app I used to recover what I could from internal memory. It would've worked better if I had caught it sooner, but by the next day I had already overwritten a lot of files. I was able to use Recuva to get recover almost everything from my external SD card.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
SD Maid v4s new icon and mascot by http://cookicons.co/

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[Android Apps and Games] butla:
[MENTION=608746]Dark3n[/MENTION] In the past I had been getting the occasional Bootloop when rebooting, being a Flashaholic I always put it down to a glitch somewhere and it never really bothered me because I am running quite a few mods on my N915G Note Edge. After running SD Maid I get consistent proper reboots all the time every time. Nice work and Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] carlese:
[MENTION=608746]Dark3n[/MENTION] I always have problems using my own SystemCleanerFiltersV3 file.. When I copy it in the folder, I set permissions but sd maid doesn't read it.. The file is ok, always used that one before, but as soon as I change something it doesn't work anymore (syntax is correct).. Can you please advise? Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] ew:
Is there a way to see what files are deleted during a SD Maid operation? I am encountering an issue where one of my partitions is getting filled up. A run of SD Maid clears up the issue, but I want to track down the source of the issue.

Do I want to do a debug run (in the advanced settings)? If so, is there anything I need to reset after doing that?

SD Maid is a lifesaver! Thanks for this great app (and thanks in advance for the help).
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
I would keep an eye on the logcat when loading the app and or filter list filters, but I have no concrete idea.

This isn't really supported though and as this will be officially within v4, I'm not looking to spend time on this now :).

You can long press most entries for details to see what SD Maid wants to delete.

If you make a debug run, SD Maid will go into verbose mode (for this app launch) and write everything that is happening into a log.

This will include file deletions down to the actual "rm" command being executed.
[Android Apps and Games] skidaway:
I don't think Dark3n will mind me mentioning this, but you can get a visual of your disk usage with a program like this one:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
[Android Apps and Games] ew:
Thanks for the help - I actually have that app - it is a good one. But I am looking to see specifically which files were (safely) deleted by SD Maid in the hope that I can identify the source
[Android Apps and Games] wimstefan:
Is it possible to set multiple schedules for different tasks? I was searching the help and this thread but I couldn't find the answer.
[Android Apps and Games] carlese:
A backup feature would be da bomb :D
[Android Apps and Games] Dzepar:
1 pic, 1000 words. :D

Is this what you looking for? :)
[Android Apps and Games] ew:
Thank you, that would be great, but the overview looks different for me. I have pro and the latest version. ,
[Android Apps and Games] Dzepar:
@ew

Press side panel, System Cleaner, refresh wait till it collect the garbage, you'll see files that are going to be deleted. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] ew:
I see now. Thank you very much.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
v3.1.4.3 (380) is now considered stable and the latest production version.

http://sdmaid.darken.eu/download

http://sdmaid.darken.eu/changelog
[Android Apps and Games] Technical:
An "About" option in the menu showing the installed version would be fine.

I have difficulty to discover what version I am using...
[Android Apps and Games] dukelc:
You mean this?
[Android Apps and Games] ew:
Is there a way to initiate an SD Maid action via tasker?
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
Currently not.

As SD Maid has access to your stuff, just accepting external intents would be a huge risk.

Sometime down the road i plan to make an external plugin for this.

Something like a paid app you can download which acts as "trusted" forwarder of tasks from external app such as Tasker to SD Maid itself.

SD Maid v4 will at least have the necessary internal structure to support such external tasks.
[Android Apps and Games] FrogReborn:
I have used this for one year.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] S33k3R86bg:
For me ccleaner and watchdog, are the best there is for cleaning junk files! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Technical:
And did you use SD Maid?

Its capabilities are far ahead the others... :)
[Android Apps and Games] Krunk_Kracker:
So then go to their threads and tell them how great they are...
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
It is hard to imagine that such a conclusion included comparative testing between the 3 but to each their own preference. Having myself done comparisons between CC and SD Maid I think that although CC is good on PCs it is weaker on Android and SD maid goes deeper and may be easier to use.

In any event, if you dont like the cooking then dont pull up to the table just to say you dont like this food. Lots of folks chow down here and love this grub :).
[Android Apps and Games] pato2015:
nice app by the way..just installed just now...im wondering where can i see settings for dissabling auto starts.....i have an app called auto starts from playstore...it has specifics under its app..you can see tons of specifics to which i can disable...now my questions is does sd maid has this kind of functions too?.... ty

example in sd maid i cant see any auto toggle on playstore app itself which i can see on auto starts....
[Android Apps and Games] Dzepar:
If you asking about thise \/\/\/

There's App Control in side menu, refresh, press on app, than Auto Star, you'll get Screenshot menu. :)
[Android Apps and Games] pato2015:
yes thats it,,,you can see ,,,theres only 2 items to choose from as seen on your photo unlike,, but in auto starts app i can see more items to choose from,,, ty
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
SD Maid v3 only shows ON_BOOT broadcast receiver.

SD Maid v4 will show ON_BOOT and currently HEADSET events.

What broadcastreceiver are you looking for?
[Android Apps and Games] pato2015:
got it..tnx i uninstalled auto starts app ... too much setting and got my files corrupted. :)..did hard reset and installed sd maid for good..ty
[Android Apps and Games] buralien:
Lately I am facing the following problem which I'm not able to figure out. I'm running CM 12.1 (Android 5.1) on a Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. My phone reports low space on the internal storage located under "/storage/emulated/0" with capacity just over 11GB and around 400MB free (giving me 10.5 GB used). Same low amount of free space is reported by SD Maid on the Overview screen (see pic 1).

However when I look for large files and other places to free some storage, it apears that only ~2 GB of storage is actually used (see pic 2).

Any ideas where the remaining over 8 GB of used space is?

Thanks in advance for any tips.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
Looks like your phone has an emulated sdcard. Meaning it shares it's underlying storage device. The remaining 8GB are used up under /data.
[Android Apps and Games] gsw5700:
After using sdmaid, i can still normally remove 400-600 MB

of junk by using power clean. Is it possible to get sdmaid to

clean this extra junk?
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
Sure, I'll get right to it. Next patch will remove 600MB more, lets double it, I'll do 1.2GB, sorry for holding back... /s

Define "extra junk". Show us what SD Maid missed and "Power Clean" still found.

Share some details, if you would be so kind.
[Android Apps and Games] Technical:
Is that bla-bla-bla of considering RAM as being junk removal? I can't believe serious app do that...

Is SD Maid removing empty folders? Sometimes I can find them using All-in-One Toolbox cleaner feature.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
The barber did not cut my hair short enough so I cut off my head!
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
The system cleaner does, but nested empty folders are not considered empty, so it can take a few passes.
[Android Apps and Games] dipseeet:
Übersicht listet Primären Speicherort nicht auf

Hey.

Seit kurzem wird mir in der Übersicht nicht mehr mein Primärer Speicherort angezeigt.

Warum?

Vorher lief alles perfekt. Sie funktioniert auch (also mein primärer Speicherort).

Info: habe ein Samsung i9505 und darin ist der Primäre Speicherort ja nicht unter storage/sdcard0 sondern unter storage/emulated/...

Hat es vllt. damit was zu tun?

(ist deutsch ok oder lieber auf english?)
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
Don't take my sarcasm the wrong way, if you provide more details on this I'm willing to look into it [MENTION=3590043]gsw5700[/MENTION]

[MENTION=4682374]dipseeet[/MENTION] As this is an english forum, english please.

If you use the "debug run" function in SD Maids advanced settings and load the overview section, a log file will be created on your sdcard that should tell us what's going on.
[Android Apps and Games] gsw5700:
Hi, i ran a full quick access run of sdmaid, so corpse, system, app, database, it ran and i cleaned everything.

I then ran power clean, and this found 617MB of junk files!

I cant find the logfile anywhere? Used SDM to search for last modified but it also couldn't find the logfile. Regardless, SDM cleaned everything without error but is failing to find 617MB that power clean found.

Let me know if you need anything else.
[Android Apps and Games] Technical:
Running SDMaid, closing it and running right away All-In-One results and more files to be cleaned.

Also using Power Clean gives me some other ones.

Of course, forget the "bla-bla-bla" about tons of Mb of RAM :p
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
[MENTION=3590043]gsw5700[/MENTION] The log file won't help us much because we know what SD Maid found, we need to see what the other the other app found.

I mean we need to see actual file pathes.

Also note that on the screenshots it includes things like "Obsolete APKs", which is not part of the AppCleaner.

[MENTION=1011179]Technical[/MENTION] Same here, we need to see actual file pathes. Also if the last screenshots shows empty folders, I'm sure SD Maid would have picked them up if you run it again. Did you understand my post about nested folders?
[Android Apps and Games] salex111:
With SD Maid I recommend to use Ccleaner, it's better than Power Clean.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
[MENTION=4682374]dipseeet[/MENTION] Which Android Version is the S5 on? This looks like an issue with the changed storage setup on Android 6.0, for which SD Maid should be able to account.
[Android Apps and Games] bford152:
Hey man, I was going to email you through the app, but I noticed this info and it made me think about searching here..

[SD Maid][PRO]Question/Suggestion/Request

.=== Device info ===

htc/brightstarus_wwe/htc_m8:6.0/MRA58K/662736.4:user/release-keys/en_US

SD Maid: 3.1.4.3[380]

Unlocker: 3.1.0.4[310]

Root: true

Storage0: /storage/emulated/0

Quick question, can I mute some apps using the scheduled scan? When I'm using my phone to cast slingtv to my chromecast, slintv becomes unresponsive. I'm assuming bc it's like TV and I have a rewind feature that uses the cache?? BTW, awesome work! Thank you so much!

---------- Post added at 02:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:28 AM ----------

My girlfriends just updated, totally stock AT&T, to 5.1.1 in the middle of November
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
I'm don't understand your question. :(
[Android Apps and Games] dipseeet:
S4 i9505

kitkat 4.4.4
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
There should be absolutely no problem with this. The storage setup only gets weird on 5.0+ especially 6.0+.

Did you make any modifications? Link2SD, Swap sdcards, extra mounts?

Wait... Do you have multiple users setup on the device?
[Android Apps and Games] dipseeet:
no multiple users.

only modifications like xposed.

extra mounts: what do u mean with that?!

maybe i do a new flash of the rom. i use the AOSB rom.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark3n:
From the log it looks like you have a storage setup similar to Android 6.0, but you said you only have Android 4.4.

So while SD Maid has some extra logic to deal with this storage setup, this logic does not kick in on Android 4.4.

I'm not looking to "fix" this in SD Maid v3, something along "never touch a running system", because it is working well for millions of people atm, and I'm so close to v4 beta being ready and there I completely rewrote the storage system which will also be able to deal with this kind of setup on Android 4.4 (I hope :o).

I would say, keep your device like this. I would love to have it as testcase.

Subscribe here or here and when v4 drops, let me know if this fixes it for your case.

(Been coding non stop the last 10 days, v4 beta will start sometime this week.)