Hi,
I keep getting the low disk space notification. I was having 16 mb free space and wanted to download a racing game from Market which is 20 mb. I uninstalled some apps and made 20.5 mb free space. I downloaded the game finally. My idea was to move it to sd card after installation and still have 20 mb of free space. when the installation started, it gave the low free space error again and restarted. After restart , I checked the game was not installed. No shortcut in the apps list. But the 20 mb of space is gone only 150kb of free space is left and the phone start to work slower. I checked with Astro but haven't been able to pin down it's location. I want to find the files and delete them to gain free space. Can anyone help me about this situation. And why I have so less space even I did not install apps. I am using Android 2.2.1 / DL DesireZ v3.4 final
when you downloaded it, the install file used up the last 20 meg, so there is no room for it to install when you run it.
cache folders, temp folders, incoming bluletooth folders, opera cache, opera download,look them up, empty them, check your installed program list, there are bound to be some things installed you dont actually use, get rid of them.
Thank you very much for the info. You are right , I found the installation file in the Cache folder , 20 mb and delete everything in the folder. Now I have 29.55 mb of free space. I installed App 2 SD from market to install the apps directly to sd.
Why don't you just partition your SD Card and use A2SD or DATA2SD?
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I did not know. ı am very new to Android. Has been just a week. Before I used Blackberry and Windows 7. I think Android is better.
i have a problem like that , the thing is that my apps need to update so i did it but now there are like 5 apps that in the market says installing but they're already installed and actually i can use them with no problem and also i have the low space warning but i have like 16mb free...a little help please!?
thx
I have the following problem:
Every time I install a rom (in this case, Omega ROM) device ever tells me is less available memory for installing applications (Settings / More / Application Manager) to the indicated I remember about 8 gb free, I currently I have said that only 5'5 gb free. 3'7 gb in use ... It is false. The application takes more size is Plants Vs Zombies (80MB) so do not know how to solve this problem ....
Formatting? ALL partitions? FULL WIPE? I have TWPR.
Thanks and sorry for my Inglés, I'm spanish follower of the XDA forums
SOLVED:
I formatted everything on this device (TWPR) and reinstall all of beginin'! And now, 8'9 GB free space showed! and only 400 mb in use!
I was setting up and noticed an issue with my S4's internal memory. It is stating the standard 8.82 gigs of space, but only shows 2.77 gigs available. Total in use is is as follows:
Apps: 1.25 GB
Pics : 359 MB
Audio: 435 MB
Downloads: 30 MB
Misc: 315 MB
Available: 2.77 GB
The available bar is a huge bar at the top, so the bar is showing that it should have closer to 5 gigs than 3, but the phone itself is only recognizing 2.77 available. I attached a screenshot of what I am seeing, it's got me confused. I tried googling and looking through here, but there's about 1,000,000 links about the whole "I only have 8.82 gigs on my 16 GB device" which makes trying to find a different memory issue hard.
Any ideas on what could be causing this and a possible fix action?
SirBayard said:
I was setting up and noticed an issue with my S4's internal memory. It is stating the standard 8.82 gigs of space, but only shows 2.77 gigs available. Total in use is is as follows:
Apps: 1.25 GB
Pics : 359 MB
Audio: 435 MB
Downloads: 30 MB
Misc: 315 MB
Available: 2.77 GB
The available bar is a huge bar at the top, so the bar is showing that it should have closer to 5 gigs than 3, but the phone itself is only recognizing 2.77 available. I attached a screenshot of what I am seeing, it's got me confused. I tried googling and looking through here, but there's about 1,000,000 links about the whole "I only have 8.82 gigs on my 16 GB device" which makes trying to find a different memory issue hard.
Any ideas on what could be causing this and a possible fix action?
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mine shows:
total:9,15GB
Apps: 1,41GB
Pics,Vids:0,92GB
Audio:168kb
Downloads: 6,52MB
Misc: 130MB
Avail: 7,19GB
what ROM do you have?
SirBayard said:
I was setting up and noticed an issue with my S4's internal memory. It is stating the standard 8.82 gigs of space, but only shows 2.77 gigs available. Total in use is is as follows:
Apps: 1.25 GB
Pics : 359 MB
Audio: 435 MB
Downloads: 30 MB
Misc: 315 MB
Available: 2.77 GB
The available bar is a huge bar at the top, so the bar is showing that it should have closer to 5 gigs than 3, but the phone itself is only recognizing 2.77 available. I attached a screenshot of what I am seeing, it's got me confused. I tried googling and looking through here, but there's about 1,000,000 links about the whole "I only have 8.82 gigs on my 16 GB device" which makes trying to find a different memory issue hard.
Any ideas on what could be causing this and a possible fix action?
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Try to clear the cache of all your apps specially the browsers.
I'm still running the stock firmware (XXUAMDK), rooted. I wiped the cache and am sitting at 2.79 instead of 2.77. My girlfriend's S4 is setup the same way as mine, same firmware and rooted the same way, and is showing 8 gigs available.
SirBayard said:
I'm still running the stock firmware (XXUAMDK), rooted. I wiped the cache and am sitting at 2.79 instead of 2.77. My girlfriend's S4 is setup the same way as mine, same firmware and rooted the same way, and is showing 8 gigs available.
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Reflash stock rom again or do factory reset
I have the same problem, I have rooted then flashed CM unto my S4 but reverted to stock since i liked the sensors
No however i lost storage capacity. I have a grand total of 9.15 GB i can access... I have 504 MB in programs; 76 KB in the rest and a wooping 4.81 GB free... this is after i used KIES to flas stock and i have also tried factory reset and a formation in CWM recovery.
qazmed said:
Reflash stock rom again or do factory reset
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I was afraid that might be the solution. girlfriend's getting upset at me tinkering with my gadgets all the time, haha. Did a factory rest, no luck. Will attempt a reflash of the stock ROM tonight and report back. if it doesn't work I might try a custom ROM just to test and try and get more data.
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I reflashed the stock firmware and had no luck, so I went into the extremes, booted into CWM and went to Mounts and Storage and just started formatting everything, starting with the storage card. Now showing the proper storage space. While searching for how to format my Internal storage to see if it would help, I also stumbled upon this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274218
Specifically:
Because the Settings > Storage > sdcard shows the space free and used for /data as "sdcard" but only looks in /data/app, /data/data and /data/media/0 to get the breakdown of what is using the space, you will find that anything just in /data/media will show aup s used space, but the breakdown of apps, pictures, media etc will not show these files so it appears that they do not add up.
Example...
You have:
1 GB apps
1 GB Pictures and Video
4 GB Nandroid (Misc) - but this is in wrong place /data/media
Used space will show 6 GB
But breakdown will show
1 GB apps
1 GB Pictures and Video
0 GB Misc
So it looks like you lost 4 GB. It's a good idea to check /data/media every now and again to ensure nothing goes there by accident.
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Which seems to also relate to the exact issue I was having, so I guess just using the search terms I was using wasn't working. I had already formatted my card before I checked to see if it was an issue with my nandroid backups being stored in the wrong place, though, so can't confirm for sure that was the issue, but it seems to describe it perfectly.
Thanks for the ideas and the assists in the matter, though, and hopefully if someone else comes to the S4 forums specifically with this problem it can help.
Hello everyone,
I put my questions in bold so they're easier to find and address, I'm not trying to shout.
So, I'm getting ready to create a rom slot using Safestrap but when trying to free up memory for a new slot, I'm having trouble understanding where some of my memory went.
I opened up the application manager to view the usage and it shows I have 5.42 GB of space available (see Phone Memory attachment).
This seems to be consistent as when viewing the available memory in windows, it shows I have 5.41 GB of 9.61 GB free (see PC Memory Analysis attachment).
So the first question is where did 6.39 GB of my 16 GB device go to get down to only 9.61 GB left (I can only assume Android's OS)?
I went into explorer to find out what's taking up all the space and what I can remove but when I set my computer to read all hidden files, selected all the folders and then click properties, it can only seem to find 1.5GB of data on there rather than the 4.2 GB (9.61GB total - 5.41GB left over - 1.5 GB found on the folder) it says I'm using (see Explorer Analysis).
Any idea what happened to this 2.7 GB or so of data?
Also, does anyone know the minimum space I should reserve on the internal memory for the phone to operate or is that already considered in the 7 GB or so of Android data? I know when you run out of disk space on the OS partition of a hard drive, you see a significant speed decrease and I want to make sure I don't do the same on my phone. If I can fully fill up the disk space without any performance decrease, that works too.
Thanks, everyone!
Hello! I recently downloaded and flashed my tablet Lenovo A3000-H with soft from this link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-kitkat-4-4-2-v3-0-0-lenovo-a3000-h-stable-version. 3414278 / Everything plays, no problem, but with one "but". The memory is arranged like this:
- Phone memory - 6 MB (!!! Who saw it? !!!!)
- SD card - here I have 64 GB, normal
- System root directory (/) - 2.7 GB
And you see, 6MB - what's that supposed to be ?! I wish it were something like this:
- Phone memory - from 1.5 GB to 1.7 GB
- SD card - no change
- System root directory (/) - somewhere like 1 GB, max 1.5 GB
Can it be done (with root, of course )? PLEASE FOR HELP !!! : D
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