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Does the space available to me include OS space?

Under storage, it says:
"Total space: 13.24GB"
"Available: 7.63GB"
So is the total space, 13.24GB, all for me, or does that include the OS and its ROM as well?
I'm just wondering because there is absolutely no way I have ~6GB worth of things on my tablet right now, which both the storage under the OS settings and Windows Explorer confirm.

There is some hidden file taking up the 6gb. It could be a backup or temp file. If you are rooted, save all the files/aps you want in a backup such as titanium backup, and in recovery mode "format /sdcard". I had the same thing, I could figure out what is was and after formating I have 12gb free.
Use at your own risk, but it worked for me. Alternatively, use a file explorer to track down the culprit. there are also apps that tell you which files are taking up how much space.

sparkerjc said:
There is some hidden file taking up the 6gb. It could be a backup or temp file. If you are rooted, save all the files/aps you want in a backup such as titanium backup, and in recovery mode "format /sdcard". I had the same thing, I could figure out what is was and after formating I have 12gb free.
Use at your own risk, but it worked for me. Alternatively, use a file explorer to track down the culprit. there are also apps that tell you which files are taking up how much space.
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Tried it, didn't help much, but did give me this fact:
With it completely wiped, with absolutely no files in the "internal storage", Windows shows 2.27GB being used-
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Android storage settings show 1.41GB being used somewhere (13.24GB total minus the 891MB used by apps, and 10.96GB available reported):
Where is this 1.41GB? What is it used for?
Since advertisers use that 1000 bytes = 1 kilobytes, 16GB = 16,000,000,000 bytes, therefore using the correct 1024 bytes = 1 kilobytes conversion, that is 14.9 gigabytes.
So... if it's reported that the total space is 13.24GB, where it actually should be 14.9GB, where is THAT 1.66GB being used? I assume this is where the OS and formatting is used for, but what about the 1.41GB that's missing in the storage settings screenshot?

Recovery, System and boot loader?

veeman said:
Recovery, System and boot loader?
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You mean those are that gigabytes in data? I doubt it really, considering the packages to download are less than a gigabyte in total.
And I've gone through Recovery to wipe the "SD card", and the result was that as you see in post #3.

Loosing storage capacity..anyone have an explanation?

Can anyone figure where the missing 2GB or so is gone? Tried pushing files from PC but it failed and the files don't show up but the missing 2GB is about the size of the pushed files that are nowhere to be found...
P.S. tried to push the same files to my Nexus 7 2013 and have the same problem there...anyone know how I could find and delete these files without resetting my device (I've already tried the search function on ES File Explorer and the same storage discrepancy can also be observed from the storage tab in android settings).
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Can anyone figure where the missing 2GB or so is gone? Tried pushing files from PC but it failed and the files don't show up but the missing 2GB is about the size of the pushed files that are nowhere to be found...
P.S. tried to push the same files to my Nexus 7 2013 and have the same problem there...anyone know how I could find and delete these files without resetting my device (I've already tried the search function on ES File Explorer and the same storage discrepancy can also be observed from the storage tab in android settings).
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Easiest way is just to flash the factory images and reset the partition
Sent from my Nexus 4 TMO @1.836 GHz on PSX v4.1 4.3

12.92gb total, thats what its supposed to be. you dont get a full 15gb to use, some goes to the system. if thats what youre talking about.
or, you are talking about the 2.43gb in the android folder?

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12.92gb total, thats what its supposed to be. you dont get a full 15gb to use, some goes to the system. if thats what youre talking about.
or, you are talking about the 2.43gb in the android folder?
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that's not the point, the point is there isn't 4.97GB of data there. It should be 3GB at most...and pretty sure it used to be before I tried to unsuccessful push file to the devices.
BTW I was using wugfresh's toolkit when I tried to push the files if that is of importance

BrutalGreen said:
that's not the point, the point is there isn't 4.97GB of data there. It should be 3GB at most...and pretty sure it used to be before I tried to unsuccessful push file to the devices.
BTW I was using wugfresh's toolkit when I tried to push the files if that is of importance
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did you ever make a nandroid backup in your recovery?
and yea, dont use toolkits. you think they make things easier, but they dont. plus they can cause their own issues too.

[Q] Low storage issue

Hello,
I am currently running cm-11-20140324-NIGHTLY-vs980 on my Verizon LG G2 and have run into low storage issues. I have posted a screenshot showing this below. I should have used 16.81GB out of ~24GB, with ~7.2GB left over. However, somehow I am missing storage space and only have 2.7GB available.
When I installed cyanogenmod, I don't remember creating a partition and cannot figure out how I would determine this.
I am using clockworkmod 6.0.4.7 if that helps.
How can I hunt down that missing storage space?
Thank you!
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It's in miscellaneous storage
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If you add all of it up, the used space should leave me with ~7GB. However I have ~2GB left so that leaves 5GB unaccounted for that are not in misc.
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neverused said:
If you add all of it up, the used space should leave me with ~7GB. However I have ~2GB left so that leaves 5GB unaccounted for that are not in misc.
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Same for me on my d802 from 32 i have 24.5 and this is ok.
But i have as used space 16.5gb and it tell me that i have 4gb free, so...
24.5-16.5 should be something like 8gb... :/ also file managers tell me that i have used 16.5gb as total, i cant understand where i lost the space, missing about 4gb, wiping cache didnt solve the problem.
I am on cm12.1 based on temasek
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It's in miscellaneous storage
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Ok finally solved
Idk why wiping didnt delete this file.
Thanks to Disk Analizer i found that Internal Storage has 16gb but Media show 20.
Damn files were here /data/media/obb/ probably old obb file of games.
My obb now are stored in /data/media/0/android/obb.
The files in previuos folder arent used too. I still dont understand why they were not deleted.
However solved, i hope this can help sameone without wiping all partitions or use kdz

Internal memory

Hey guys,
My brother bought a LG G2 six months ago (the 16 GB version) and it's a great phone, but has one problem... internal memory. The phone only has 16 gb, and the OS takes up to 9Gb, and he doesn't have space to install some apps.
What can he do to solve this problem? Install Custom ROM? Cleaning the device with some kind of software? I've already used SD Maid to clean some stuff, but the problem is still there, the OS still eats lots of space.
Thanks!

Go to System settings > General > Storage then screenshot and post here.
There's literally no way that just OS (if stock) takes 9 GB. Must be some preloaded bloat apps.
Sent from my LG-D802

Here it is. It's in portuguese, but I think it's easy to understand. As you can see, it only shows 10 Gb available. So... Where are the remaining 6gb? (I know I've said it was 9gb, but it only 6).
Thanks.
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Given that scrot, everything is fine. 10.6 GB is available on 16 GB model (rest is system reserved as OS and system apps needs to go somewhere; it's like hard drive on your PC - OS will take some space).
However, there's 4.7 GB of applications so delete something if it's not needed. In case these are HD games, heh, there's a problem. Go to apps, sort 'em by size and examine those biggest ones if games are not in question.
Also clear some cached data (turquoise colour on that screenshot, right under downloads). It's approximately 500 MBs.
Sent from my LG-D802

mwedo said:
Given that scrot, everything is fine. 10.6 GB is available on 16 GB model (rest is system reserved as OS and system apps needs to go somewhere; it's like hard drive on your PC - OS will take some space).
However, there's 4.7 GB of applications so delete something if it's not needed. In case these are HD games, heh, there's a problem. Go to apps, sort 'em by size and examine those biggest ones if games are not in question.
Also clear some cached data (turquoise colour on that screenshot, right under downloads). It's approximately 500 MBs.
Sent from my LG-D802
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Hmm ok, there's no solution for that... Thanks a lot!

[Q] Note 3 (32gb) -> Repartition \Sytem partition : How ?

Hi Guys, I have problems with my \system partition, it's almost filled for 90% and I moved almost everything out of that partition by converting it to user apps...
My current Note 3 (32gb) config is:
/System : 2,21
/Data : 26,36
I want to use 1 gb from my /data partition to be part of my System partition so that I have 3,21gb and my data partition 25,36
I found these two articles for other samsung phones:
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/79112/resize-system-partition-of-galaxy-s-2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2765846
But I was wondering if there is some other way for the Note 3 ?

Help?
No ideas?

sebastienbo said:
No ideas?
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Wrong forum. Q&A - here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/help
On a side note...
DON'T GODDAMN PLAY WITH PARTITIONS ON A DEVICE YOU PAID 600$ FOR.
Do like normal people - a factory reset, a new ROM, easy squeazy peazy smooth fast stable phone.

Partitionning is not magic or sorcery
I do it all the time with devices of 2000+ euro
It's just that with android it's a bit new to me, but everybody that has used a pit file to flash their custom rom also has partitioned, so it's not really a biggie and it is done frequently.
In my case I have 650 apps and nothing is on the system partition but for some reason I still get up to 2gb of the system partition...
I therefore suspect that each app has maybe some cache or configuration that is anyway stored on the \system partition, or maybe it's the photo app , i know that the thumbnail cache can also grow enormously

Partitionning is not magic or sorcery
Maybe not but flashing PIT files is probably the easiest way to end up with a brick ,

Have a look at Philz Recover .

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You could start by removing all the languages and csc's you don't need, also all tts files, etc.. i could easily have 900mb+ free in my system partition if i removed some more stuff i didn't need. For example i added the Samsung UK high quality tts voice files into my system partition, it was around 120mb.

Messing with your device's partition table is entirely unnecessary, and just asking for a brick. But hey, if you want to go for it, more power to you. Just don't come crying back here when you're left with a paperweight.