[3.0.2.8] Can't change Ambiences anymore [answered]

Try this from terminal: systemctl --user restart ambienced.service

Jolla1 ? What about btrfs balance ?

@pawel it seems to actually have something to do with that - I ran btrf-balancer balance and it failed around 80%, yet I gained an additional 500MB of space and it seems to have fixed the ambiences issue at least. But how can this be the cause? I had more than 3GB free on my phone's internal storage...

Hi, Very similar problems here, also with Jolla 1 device. Additional issues, I'm not able to switch off the Location , and sadly, after trying to find solution, I have found this btrfs related fixes, however I can't turn on the remote connection, so I can't do anything with root privileges. I don't know how to continue. I'm planning to upgrade to an Xperia XA2 device, but a bit later on, not now. It would be nice, if anyone of you have a solution.

Since then I'm not able to uninstall applications, and it seems everything is related to the writing issues @CHZK just mentioned. If I check the storage in the options, 7.9GB used, 5.9GB available. But lot of applications said, the disk is full.

@u-dash After reviewing some of the answers to this post, explaining how the btrfs-balancer command works, I think I've found the root of the issue: https://together.jolla.com/question/30822/root-and-home-disks-full-and-causing-various-problems/

I did a factory reset last year, and when you do that, Jolla apparently saves a backup of your system files before the reset. They get saved to the btrfs partition(?) which you can mount and look at. This thread tells you how: https://together.jolla.com/question/14633/bug-factory-reset-no-storage-left/ The problem is that the thread is from 2014 and the method explained there does not work anymore - there is no /mnt/rec* directory after going through step 1. There is, however, a directory called @_old, which seems to serve the same purpose and is, in my case, over 1,5GB big. Deleting this would probably free up enough space to do the balancing properly, so I'll try that tonight.

@CHZK So, this @_old folder is somewhere in my filesystem, or it is only created if I make a factory reset?

@u-dash You should be able to find it by following the instructions in the second link I posted. Although I'm not sure that's really the right folder, since it's a very old post and Jolla might have changed something. It might be safer to follow the instructions in the first link under the section "Measures to free up raw space"

@CHZK Thanks. I've followed the steps in the link and finally solved my issues. Now I have enough free space, after balancing, and it seems, everything is working just fine.