Lack of storage space prevents startup

[shami_v]

Hi all, my FP3 is shutting down immediately upon restart, because there is no storage space anymore. This makes it impossible for me to free up space.

I think my problem is very similar to this problem. That user decided to simply do a factory restart. I could do that, but I would lose all my Signal data (because I, yes stupidly, didn’t make a proper backup of that for some time).

I’m now reaching out to you, to check one last time if there is no other way out.

Some extra info:

I am running e/OS

The problem also happens when I start in safe mode.

I can get into the phone through adb shell (e/OS allows me to enable that from the recovery mode), but it does not give me any possibilities to remove packages (pm is not available in /system/bin) nor does it give me access to files (sdcard, storage and data are all empty folders).

[Jens1]

(pm is not available in /system/bin)

Do you mean rm?
Is the command busybox available?

[shami_v]

Sorry for not getting back to this.

I did mean pm (it’s a command in the adb shell). But nothing worked.

In the end I simply did a factory restart and accepted the loss of data in the messaging apps.