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[HTC One X] Dmitry N:
My findings after 3 weeks of using the device.

Phase I:

1. Discovered 5 GB of files in bad sectors with chkdsk X:

2. Backed up all files to PC.

3. Used the "Erase Phone Storage" feature.

4. Run chkdsk again. No files in bad sectors :)

5. Copied back the backed up files.

6. Run chkdsk again. 1 GB in bad sectors. WTF?

7. Formatted phone storage on PC (chose "default cluster size" which resulted in 16 KB per cluster).

8. Copied backed up files back.

9. Run chkdsk again. No files in bad sectors! Oh really?

Now we will try to figure out what the origin of the weird issue was:

Phase II:

1. Copy a few large files to device from PC. No bad sectors.

2. Delete these files with a third-party file manager (I tried ES Explorer and InKa File Manager). 1 GB in bad sectors! Damn!

3. Repeat steps 7-8 of Phase I. No files in bad sectors, just as expected.

4. Try the "Make More Space" feature on device and delete a few large videos. No bad sectors! Space was really freed w/o any issues!

5. Delete a few large files from Phone Storage using PC. No bad sectors! Space freed for real.

Thoughts:

Third-party file managers seem to handle this mysterious file system incorrectly while the HTC/Android built-in tools as well as Windows OS handle same file operations well.

Fixes/workarounds:

No ideas except to stop using market file managers to delete stuff.

Anyone want to comment?
[HTC One X] Holman:
deleted 3 video with total size around 2gb each through ES explorer.

No space lost....

Free space checking after any action via android default, via ES explorer and also check this on PC
[HTC One X] matmar:
Did you reboot?
[HTC One X] Holman:
nope, do not rebooted after SD formatted.

let me check this now :)

_______

Reboot phone >> no space lost.

The type of the file system is FAT32.

Volume HTC STORAGE created 03.05.2012 17:19

Volume Serial Number is 344D-BFCF

Windows is verifying files and folders...

File and folder verification is complete.

Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

26*460*160 KB total disk space.

4*160 KB in 248 folders.

11*360*288 KB in 4*040 files.

15*095*696 KB are available.

16*384 bytes in each allocation unit.

1*653*760 total allocation units on disk.

943*481 allocation units available on disk.

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[HTC One X] matmar:
Did you format with PC or did you delete files with es file explorer?
[HTC One X] Holman:
internal SD was formatted via PC, sd mounted as Disk. with 16kb cluster, not quick format. Win 7 x64.

and now ill checked through ES explorer. (delete video).
[HTC One X] matmar:
Format with pc ok for me too

Issue is after deleting with es or flashing with CWR, i do not know why but 3Go lost...
[HTC One X] Holman:
and again we going back to custom rom? :) im on stock....
[HTC One X] matmar:
I do not think that it is due to custom rom as soon as people with stock and not unlocked HOX get the issue...
[HTC One X] Holman:
Ive read this too, that problem can appear on rooted and on stock devices.

May be problem in manufacturer? or may be some phones with badly internal storage. i really dont know. My from Taiwan.
[HTC One X] Tung_meister:
Has anyone actually reported this as an issue yet?
[HTC One X] wintermute000:
so whats the built in file manager that is safe to use?

I'm running nova and cannot see a stock file manager visible, do I HAVE to run sense, that woudl be so *@!*#*@#$

FOr actually moving files across airdroid does fine for now but it is so annoying to be scared to use good old USB mass storage. I guess if I need USB I can always use HTC sync method?
[HTC One X] CrypCee:
A possible solution for free space look at here: Another XDA Thread
[HTC One X] DJ Set:
So no solution for not rooted phones incase that might work?
[HTC One X] Nitin985:
I got 4gb system data. :( any fix yet
[HTC One X] sylau90:
just realise i got the similar issue,but it happens in a different way....in my situation,i downloaded an ebook app from google play. Then, I downloaded an ebook using the app, it has took 1 GB away from my sd card. After that,I tried to restart the device,the another 1GB gone.
[HTC One X] mahesh_9j:
This is the replay I got from HTC regarding this issue :

Dear Mahesh Kumar,

Thank you for contacting HTC.

We are dedicated in providing you the best quality service and answering your questions and concerns.

We understand how frustrating that can be and our sincere apology for all the inconvenience you are experiencing with your device.

As we understand that the memory of the phone storage is decreasing when you mount your device to your computer of your HTC One X device.

With response to the issue you are experiencing we found this issue on the HTC One X devices and we are currently investigating on this and will implement an update for you soon in order to fix it.

Thank you for your time and patience.

If you have any further questions or comments, please feel free to email us or call us at our contact center 1800-266-3566, Mon to Sun – 9.00 am to 8.00 pm.

Thank you for your continued patronage.

Let me know if I have successfully answered your question, please click here to complete this.

To send a reply to this message, please click here.

Sincerely,

Sushil

HTC
[HTC One X] Chukky1995:
so it seems all we can do is just wait for the update than..

I just found out about this topic an hour ago and it was very helpful to me thank you guys.. i like my htc one x no problems at all just this stupid storage issue that is driving me crazy.
[HTC One X] Holman:
Thanks mahesh_9j for this info :) we all wait this.

and lets hope that update will comes soon.
[HTC One X] mahesh_9j:
yes buddy..lets wait for an OTA :)
[HTC One X] ckhl1975:
Help

When would HTC come up with the patch? I find it quite annoying to have to copied out mt SDCARD content and formatting it to recover my lost space.:(
[HTC One X] ewok666:
That question? Really?!?!?

We should be more than happy they're aware of it and working on it because the usual response is "Nope, not heard of it, try a reset, are you rooted, we'll get back to you........."

To answer your question: No one knows but the next patch may or may not fix THIS specific problem and, while it's a pain, it could be worse ;-)
[HTC One X] dezborders:
Airplane mode?

Hi all

I used to put my (previous) HTC handset into airplane mode before mounting USB Mass Memory because apps would FC if I didn't. I stopped doing this on my previous DHD as it didn't seem to be an issue.

Like most of you I am missing 5+ GB so am currently copying back the contents after a format via PC.

As a test I will now put my handset into airplane mode before mounting USB MS in future just to rule this out... Would be an annoyance but at least would be a workaround until HTC have a long term fix. Fingers crossed. :)
[HTC One X] XDAgeek:
After doing the copy off/format/copyon of data 2 days ago I had 1GB of wasted space.

Notably, now I have 2GB and the phone has not been connected to a PC at all.
[HTC One X] dezborders:
I have rebooted several times and ran numerous apps since format and copy back and my free space is static. :)

Have you run any apps ( file manager etc) that manipulate files and folders since you formatted?
[HTC One X] irishj:
Mine was like that too, after formatting and copying all the SDcard content back again..looked good, no system data partition...but it came back after two or three days...and I wasn't using it to copy data from PC to phone.

Waiting on fix from HTC
[HTC One X] asif.mmk:
How did u format it?
[HTC One X] Braindamage1989:
I have made a tool for this. Already posted this in another topic, but I will put it here to.

http://www.multiupload.nl/J4W22XHCQY

It copies ALL the content of the internal memory and puts it in a (temp) folder.

Formats the internal memory and restores the files

Just hook it up in disc drive mode.

And then run the script.

Give the path of the internal memory (example: E: WITHOUT SLASH!!!).

Give the path to the (temp) folder (will create if it doesn't exists. Example: C:\backup\ WITH SLASH!!).

After that you need press a key to continue format.

And at the end you have the choice to keep the backup.
[HTC One X] leaston:
Interesting and worrying thread!

Here's mine:

26,470,048 KB total disk space.

9,440 KB in 284 folders.

2,167,008 KB in 5,063 files.

6,291,456 KB in bad sectors. :eek:

18,002,112 KB are available.

32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.

827,189 total allocation units on disk.

562,566 allocation units available on disk.

I use ES and other file managers all the time, which is worrying. However, it does sound like HTC will provide a fix. In the meantime, I'm tempted to go ahead with the copy/format option.
[HTC One X] Radiognome:
I have posted this somewhere else here, but here goes.

This is a problem, I'm running software 1.29 and have only used 6.2gb of storage, but today when using the video camera, the phone said that I has run out of storage.
[HTC One X] dezborders:
Well the solution for now is to copy your 6.2 gb of data to your pc then format the phone memory (via pc) and copy your 6.2 gb back ... Works for all of us.

P.S. make sure you have your pc configured to show hidden and system files!
[HTC One X] Reckless187:
I done the Copy - format - Copy back thing and my phone was still showing about 1.2gb wastage. Its since gonna up by another 1gb since and I haven't even connected it to a PC since!
[HTC One X] ArmedandDangerous:
I just experienced this when copying some files over...about 7GB of space gone. Copying files to reformat is soo slowwwww -_-
[HTC One X] meeheewee:
Hi!

Does this affect only stock ROM users and therefore can be "fixed" by flashing a custom ROM or is this an issue with cutom ROMs too?
[HTC One X] dawnfighter:
i just notice that its not necessarily cause by connecting via cable to pc.. "restart" the phone can also take your space. im not sure is it random restart or every single restart will cause this. here what happen to me

-before this my 4gb space gone in "system data"

-i avoid connecting to pc via cable since i looked in this thread

-today i restart my phone due to phone get heat at 43c and not decrease even though it's idle. it maybe cause by some service get hanged..

-after restart saw the system data increase by 1gb (to 5gb now)

-i connect to SSHdroid and try to check for "system data" but not found

-however found some folder which own by root user which not allow me to see or to check its directory size. the date timestamp is exactly the time i restarted my phone.

-here is how it's looked

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e94pvrnk064xx7d/file.jpg

can some one who had root their phone to check this folder? if anyone know, what is this folder used for? also for those who had lost their space in "system data" confirm that restart the phone might cause this issue as well?
[HTC One X] patchrules2000:
Hey guys. I could be wrong but it seems to me that it is an awfully big coincidence that the file size jumps in 1gb increments. It looks like it could be the ram (which is 1gb in size) is being dumped to mass storage when USB connection or any app hangs and for some reason the dump is remaining on the memory instead of being purged once the problem is fixed or phone is rebooted as it should. If this truely is the case then it should hopefully be a simple software fix to make sure that any memory dump is purged once it is no longer needed.

just my 2 cents worth :)
[HTC One X] Zipperface:
So if i want to copy then reformat using pc, i just use windows default to do the formatting yes?
[HTC One X] Braindamage1989:
Yes, you can format it with Windows default formatter.
[HTC One X] Supaiku:
My .android_secure folder is taking up no space according to two Mass Storage visualizer apps (one at least uses root to view)... I don't have any apps installed on the SD card, so that's the way it should be...
[HTC One X] Zipperface:
Thanks for the reply :D
[HTC One X] irishj:
I'm on a custom rom and i'm affected too.

---------- Post added at 07:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:17 PM ----------

Did you format the SDcard via the phone or windows ? Use windows or 1GB will be taken when formatting with the phone. Mine also went up by 1GB after the whole process, don't know why...but it's still there and hasn't changed in size since.
[HTC One X] dezborders:
I haven't lost a single block since reformatting SD on Monday.

I always put HOX into airplane mode before using USB drive mode, ans I also use ES file explorer etc.
[HTC One X] whosthat:
Just noticed this bug on mine only had 7 gigs space left wtf copied the SD over to my pc formated it and then copied it bk now I have 20 gigs free
[HTC One X] Techimplant:
Guys m facing the same issue here..so has anyone mailed HTC regarding this issue?..

N is formatting the USB storage alone enough or will I have to do a complete factory reset?

Sent from my Stunning White HTC One X
[HTC One X] tadas_max:
I am in the open conversation with htc tech support. Been emailing for the last 2 days. First they said Android itself takes that space :D which is stupid aš we all know it, then they say factory reset the phone, which doesnt help. So know į think they gonna send this issue to the development department. Seems like they wanna solve everything by factory resets :D i'll see what they say tomorrow.
[HTC One X] jerrylzy:
I have 7G disappeared
[HTC One X] TremF:
I noticed yesterday that after updating Dark Meadow and my phone going funny and seemingly downloading twice I had lost 1GB of space and dropped to my last 200mb. I hooked up to my pc and checked the size of all the files and folders and it turned out I had lost 3GB of space!

I did the transfer data and format and have also restarted the phone twice and now I have my 3GB back but the phone is taking ages to do anything?

Looking at SystemPanel all four cores are working, my memory usage looks about the same as previously and the loaded applications and processes looks fine so what could be causing this severe slowdown?

I formatted to Fat32 and 16kb clusters as recommended. :(
[HTC One X] mmx6688:
Even I have always recommend to format SD by PC. But for your case I suggest you format it from your phone. Try it.
[HTC One X] Techimplant:
WTF...HTC now we want 2 things..an ICS kernel n this issue fixed :rolleyes:

Sent from my Stunning White HTC One X
[HTC One X] TremF:
I moved some of my games to internal storage . I still have the space I reclaimed from the format and the phone seems to have sped up again. It's not like I was short of memory so I don't know why it was slow as I hadn't changed anything from before the transfer/format.
[HTC One X] wintermute000:
I had very similar issues and ended up returning my unit. The new one has yet to do this so im pretty sure it was faulty hardware ie no slowdown though space disappearing like everyone else
[HTC One X] georgik_222:
waiting for the update to resolve this problem :(
[HTC One X] mox123:
POSSIBLE FIX! try putting phone into airplane mode, then try connecting to pc and transfer files, see if that works!
[HTC One X] DanteGR:
Mine did that too when i moved all content back and forth to the phone and formatted the internal storage.

It came back to normal though after 1 day.

So it's going to be ok don't worry :)

I admit i was scared to death though when it became sooooo slow :D
[HTC One X] dezborders:
I have been using airplane mode for a couple of weeks ... No bad blocks appeared.

Yesterday I performed a full wipe in CWM Recovery before flashing a new ROM and immediately after booting the ROM for first time I noticed 1GB had gone and confirmed this with windows chkdsk

My personal experience is that (with 1.29 firmware) using airplane mode with USB drive mode you never lose space.

I also believe CWM Recovery can cause space to disappear occasionally when flashing with full wipe
[HTC One X] roryjoe:
I'm so glad I stumbled across this thread... I was sure I had less storage free than I should have. Size on disk - 17.4GB, and it's actually taking up 22.4GB.

Will be annoying having to remember to do the Airplane Mode trick every time... but I guess it's better than constantly having to copy all back to the PC then copy it back to the Phone.
[HTC One X] chaps:
Not sure connecting to a PC is the problem. I haven't connected to a computer for a week or so and have still lost 3gb. Again.
[HTC One X] androiduser999:
Not PC connection

I agree with the previous poster that this is not (only) happening when connecting to PC by USB. My HOX loses around 1GB memory space each time the phone/Sense is restarted. It does not happen when you turn the phone off though. Anyone else experienced the same thing?

---------- Post added at 11:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:21 AM ----------

Hello - not particularly wanting to prove my earlier statement, but in updating to UK 1.29 OTA just now (yay!) I just lost another 1GB storage space in rebooting Sense (boo!)...
[HTC One X] esrud:
Installed new rom were going to reformat

I just installed new rom ARHD 6.0.0 and were going to reformat my sdcard, I alway get asked by windows (Windows7) if I want to scan card for errors, this time I though ok. Scan came back without errors but I regained about 7GB of lost space.

I don't know if ARHD 6 comes with HTC fix or not, I must admin i didn't check free space before plugging in to do reformat.

Now I have 25Gb of space, 15Gb free and 10Gb used, no lost space anymore.
[HTC One X] Huey85:
omg I just formatted my Internal storage via my laptop and trying to copy back my files which is taking foreveerrrrr (8GB @ 230KB/s ?!)
[HTC One X] graemeg:
Hi

mine says 25.24gb - 24.24gb FREE

Yet, i have nothing on there.

Is this because the missing 1 gig is used for something or have i lost 1gb???

I have used sd analyst in es explorer and indeed storage analyser, i have also used windows chkdisk.

All 3 programs report the same and do not report any problems or errors, so where do i find my missing 1gb??,

just to add, if its missing, will a normal factory reset get it bk, or will i have to reflash a rom to regain my precious 1gb???
[HTC One X] wintermute000:
apparently 1.29.401.11 fixes this! check the threads

its the SECOND 1.29
[HTC One X] Huey85:
is anyone else experiencing extremely slow transfer speeds via USB? I'm getting 66KB/s at the moment trying to copy back all my files that I backed up prior to formatting the SD partition
[HTC One X] patchrules2000:
Nope. I get 8 to 10 MB/S on average
[HTC One X] BenPope:
I overheard something about alignment whilst formatting, I guess thus could have some effect. I would just try formatting it from the phone. Check you have sane allocation size, too.
[HTC One X] ramis7:
only one time format your phone storage by pc then you will get 25.4GB back then one or two time restart your phone by power button. it worked well for me. now nothing sd storage lose any more.:)
[HTC One X] boomdiddly:
I hope it does, will have to have a look when I get back home, I currently have 13.3Gb missing from my storage lol
[HTC One X] matador_kuw:
pretty sure its a software issue

i had this and formatted my phone through pc and now every thing seems ok with normal use and no fly mode also choosed allocation size 32 not 16

C:\Users\pc owner>chkdsk i:

The type of the file system is FAT32.

Volume HTC STORAGE created 9/1/2072 4:44 AM

Volume Serial Number is 850A-D380

Windows is verifying files and folders...

File and folder verification is complete.

Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

26,470,048 KB total disk space.

32 KB in 1 hidden files.

2,176 KB in 68 folders.

1,933,504 KB in 45 files.

24,534,304 KB are available.

32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.

827,189 total allocation units on disk.

766,697 allocation units available on disk.
[HTC One X] foxxx46:
lucky guys... i'm missing 20gb of space :(
[HTC One X] treebill:
its a software bug, there a number of topics about it, there is an app can't mind the name but it lets you see the tree of your sd and the culprit is "system" thats saved on your sd.
[HTC One X] knobbyhtccruise:
Bookmarked !
[HTC One X] knobbyhtccruise:
my sd only shows as 10 gig ! not 10 gig free, just 10 gig

formatted in phone and in pc and with elevated cmd prompt ...

I'm growing to hate this phone
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Lucky me :) never had such a problem !

Verstuurd van mijn HTC One X
[HTC One X] knobbyhtccruise:
Go on , rub it in ! :)
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Rub....Rub......RUB :D

Verstuurd van mijn HTC One X
[HTC One X] darckreign1984:
not working

i have arhd 12, and cwm

i can use only mass storage from recovery

and i must full format my storage to copy file on it, big file i mean. i dont know way.

if i try to copy something its say device stoped, or calculating time remaining ... its freezing
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
How big is the file, fat32 does not support big files.

Verstuurd van mijn HTC One X
[HTC One X] romy134:
Does this problem occur on the AT&T version of the phone as well?
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Try asking in the at&t forum ;)

Verstuurd van mijn HTC One X
[HTC One X] matador_kuw:
its a minor software bug had it before but not any more any way when installing a new rom try using mini tool partition wizard after that install your rom think wont see it a long time after just like me :)
[HTC One X] darckreign1984:
my problem

this big file for example its a arhd 15. rom file
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Hmm that should work fine.....i was talking more in the range 2 - 4 gigs
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jean2012:
Maybe you have seen so much topics about gooapple v5 3g, BUT, please don't miss this, it is not an old topic about gooapple v5 3g.

i see it on this website:

http://www.androidforcheap.com/10-g...23-os-30mp-wifi-gps-cell-phone-8gb-p-307.html

it shows MTK6575 chip, that is to say, the iphone clone has the MTK6575 chip, named Godphone 4S, with Retina display, 640*960 resolution.

till now, i don't see much more info about this phone, hope some one who knows about this phone come to here to introduce this phone. thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayner123:
http://www.lovebargaining.com/Wholesale/godphone-is-1-sid-1.html

Dont forget to hit that thanks button!!;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamrico00:
Hey, im really interested in these kinds of phones, the MTK6575 phones.

DOES ANYONE KNOW OF ONE THAT SUPPORTS EITHER:

3g: 850/1900

OR

3G: 1700/2100

?

Thanks,
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linsaypink:
Recentlt, the Android 4.0 OS MTK6575 is so popular~
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] hansg01:
Thanks UnknownzD for making a raise development graph for our device. Please keep it going

The posts by UnknownzD about the kernel and now ardadart's 1.7b has confused me a little so which one can i try? I mean what will be safe?

I m on titanium S v2.1 rom with ardadart's kernel v1.5
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] mj.vikram:
if you are using Titanium ROM use Unknown kernel because its designed for XWLA ROM.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] sagarwadhwa1:
Ardatdat had released 1.7b2 (kernel with voodoo sound based on XWLA4),try that one...

I am using it and works great...

Download Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?by26ah33aw2cdv9
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] caritrasto:
I'm using ultimate kernel and I prefer it. It's more smooth than ardatdat in my opinion... :D

two kernels (ardatdat & ultimate) are greats!!!!

Thanks to developers for all your hard work!!
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] vivekkalady:
CWM Touch Recovery For Optimus One​

Hi,

This is the touch Recovery version of CWM v5.0 for Optimus One p500.This is a test version of the touch Recovery.I have successfully build Touch Recovery for Optimus Me p350.So I thought about building one for Optimus One also :D

I dont have this device so my only hope for testing this is you guys.

This is a test Version.the attached zip file can be applied through your current recovery.This is a flashable zip file.

Report bugs if you found anything :) Also post the photo of the recovery here

Download

thanks to Napstar for giving the source for touch recovery
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] acax456:
sound greats. Try to make amonra 3.0.6 it's better than cwm
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] RockR172:
Downloading, will test it and report soon...
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] neko95:
> agree