Anyone has any idea?
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16GB doesn't mean you actually get 16GB of storage there are always a couple taken up by the OS that you can't access. There's a reason for it that I just cant jog my memory to remember right now. It's the same with any type of storage, a 500 GB pc hard drive drive isn't 500 GB there's a small amount reserved that you can't access, there's a name for it I just can't remember what it is (boot partition?). Not sure if you can recover them using a custom ROM like CM or not as I am happy with stock android.
Well its called a boot partition on anything with an OS yes but an external hard drive and its space is down to the actual number of GBs. So 1gb is actually 1024 MBs so 2GB is actually 2048 MBs and so on.
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kzoodroid said:
16GB doesn't mean you actually get 16GB of storage there are always a couple taken up by the OS that you can't access. There's a reason for it that I just cant jog my memory to remember right now. It's the same with any type of storage, a 500 GB pc hard drive drive isn't 500 GB there's a small amount reserved that you can't access, there's a name for it I just can't remember what it is (boot partition?). Not sure if you can recover them using a custom ROM like CM or not as I am happy with stock android.
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Thanks for a reply but I don't think that's it in this case. I have the 8GB version and that should give me 5.7 usable. Look in the right top corner of my screenshot.
I've recovered about 400MB before that by moving a TWRP backup which somehow got placed in a word location. Can anyone install this app and tell me if they have a similar square of unrecognized space?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jzap.memorymap
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ok this question may have been asked and resolved already but not to my knowledge, i own an 16 gig thrive, how ever when i plug it up to my cpu to transfer files its rds asonly having 9gigs and some chance of free space, when i checked in storage settings it read as having 14 gigs of free space....am i missing somthing? lol
virgo wattson said:
ok this question may have been asked and resolved already but not to my knowledge, i own an 16 gig thrive, how ever when i plug it up to my cpu to transfer files its rds asonly having 9gigs and some chance of free space, when i checked in storage settings it read as having 14 gigs of free space....am i missing somthing? lol
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You do in deed have 14GB of space (the system uses the other 2GB), but additional space is allocated for other uses, so that is why you only show 9GB available in Windows. When you are on the devices settings, look at what the memory is being allocated for.
Confirm 14gb
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My 32 only has 27 but that is normal for any device look at what you cell phone is suppose to have and really does have!!!
Okay I tried to search the forum but it was giving me "token expired" errors even though I tried searching multiple times and even after reloading. So I'm sorry if this is a repost or has already been asked!
Anyway the Nexus 7 gives has 13gb of 16gb free for use. Is there anyway this can be further increased?
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Okay I tried to search the forum but it was giving me "token expired" errors even though I tried searching multiple times and even after reloading. So I'm sorry if this is a repost or has already been asked!
Anyway the Nexus 7 gives has 13gb of 16gb free for use. Is there anyway this can be further increased?
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no. the reason for this is android takes up a bit of that space.
Nope no way. Its partitioned for the operating system. Just like we have 1GB of ram but only 900mbs is usable.
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Gremlins ate it.
Hungry little buggers....
Enjoy it while it lasts... I'm at 3 gb of 16 free... almost time for the external flash drive set up.
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Okay I tried to search the forum but it was giving me "token expired" errors even though I tried searching multiple times and even after reloading. So I'm sorry if this is a repost or has already been asked!
Anyway the Nexus 7 gives has 13gb of 16gb free for use. Is there anyway this can be further increased?
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Possibly with LVM if you have the time and knowledge
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check out the storage space used on a new desktop or laptop pc as soon as you bought it.. You will see some of it taken up .. by windows there is also a Recovery partition (often hidden from user ) as well as a cache partition boot partition and partition tables also take up space on the storage disk.
This device was designed to use cloud base storage .I for one think its a great idea.. But i would love for some of the games to be able to play across OTG ...
Thank you for all your replies. I guess I'll be relying on OTG for my games and movies then. Already ordered the cable bought the app
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the Nexus 7 gives has 13gb of 16gb free for use. Is there anyway this can be further increased?
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Uninstall the OS.
32GB Nexus 7 Storage Space on Arrival
Guys,
I fully realise that on arrival (new) that the N7 will have a certain amount of storage used for the OS, Installed App's etc. Roughly how much should this be? I received my 32GB N7 yesterday and on looking at available storage it was 27.63 GB so effectively 4.5GB used. Is this normal as it seems a lot for the ROM and few apps!
AW: 13gb of 16gb free.
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Guys,
I fully realise that on arrival (new) that the N7 will have a certain amount of storage used for the OS, Installed App's etc. Roughly how much should this be? I received my 32GB N7 yesterday and on looking at available storage it was 27.63 GB so effectively 4.5GB used. Is this normal as it seems a lot for the ROM and few apps!
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You lucky one.. I only got 27.56 free.. Yes it's normal ^^
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taff2408 said:
Guys,
I fully realise that on arrival (new) that the N7 will have a certain amount of storage used for the OS, Installed App's etc. Roughly how much should this be? I received my 32GB N7 yesterday and on looking at available storage it was 27.63 GB so effectively 4.5GB used. Is this normal as it seems a lot for the ROM and few apps!
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Quick primer in storage...
Manufacturers and operating systems use two different, but both technically correct, methods of calculating storage capacity. 32GB translates to roughly 29.8GB a far as the software is concerned. As such, you've overestimated the storage used by the system files by over 2GB.
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taff2408 said:
Guys,
I fully realise that on arrival (new) that the N7 will have a certain amount of storage used for the OS, Installed App's etc. Roughly how much should this be? I received my 32GB N7 yesterday and on looking at available storage it was 27.63 GB so effectively 4.5GB used. Is this normal as it seems a lot for the ROM and few apps!
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32gb is actually about 29.5 so that seems normal.
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16 Gig USB flash drive gives u 14 Gig of free space ....
So formatting also takes some space .
XDA-99 said:
16 Gig USB flash drive gives u 14 Gig of free space ....
So formatting also takes some space .
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It is simply due to the fact that there are two different methods of measuring storage capacity. Hard drive manufacturers report a gigabyte as one billion bytes. Software, on the other hand, uses a binary system to measure capacity and reports 1,073,741,824 bytes as one gigabyte. As such, a completely empty 16GB drive is going to only show as roughly 14.8GB.
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Its the same on every electronic as previous poster explained. My 32GB iPod touch has somewhere around 28GB available, 32GB Zune HD has around 28GB, 32GB micro SD card has some 28-29GB available, and we won't even mention how much is "missing" from my laptops 500GB HDD.
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So I won a Nexus 4 8GB at a raffle at work yesterday. I currently have a Note 2 and an Optimus G but I'm going to keep the Nexus 4. Anyway right out of the box before doing anything I noticed it said I had 4 GB of 5.66 Total GB free. Why do I only have 5.66 total GB of internal space? And why do I only have 4 GB free right out of the box? Also I rooted, made a nandroid back up, installed a few apps and flashed the Xylon rom, now I onlay have 2.5 GB!!!! This is just rediculous. Does anyone know how I can free up some space? I don't store music or other large files but I NEED to be able to store a few nandroid back ups and a few roms.
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So I won a Nexus 4 8GB at a raffle at work yesterday. I currently have a Note 2 and an Optimus G but I'm going to keep the Nexus 4. Anyway right out of the box before doing anything I noticed it said I had 4 GB of 5.66 Total GB free. Why do I only have 5.66 total GB of internal space? And why do I only have 4 GB free right out of the box? Also I rooted, made a nandroid back up, installed a few apps and flashed the Xylon rom, now I onlay have 2.5 GB!!!! This is just rediculous. Does anyone know how I can free up some space? I don't store music or other large files but I NEED to be able to store a few nandroid back ups and a few roms.
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Just factory reset and start over. Then manage your stuff.
A couple gb is the android system, etc., your basic behind the curtain stuff. The phone came with a bunch of the Google and other apps installed, killing another gb or so.
And then you wasted a ton of space on unnecessary fluff.
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ImHavenHart said:
So I won a Nexus 4 8GB at a raffle at work yesterday. I currently have a Note 2 and an Optimus G but I'm going to keep the Nexus 4. Anyway right out of the box before doing anything I noticed it said I had 4 GB of 5.66 Total GB free. Why do I only have 5.66 total GB of internal space? And why do I only have 4 GB free right out of the box? Also I rooted, made a nandroid back up, installed a few apps and flashed the Xylon rom, now I onlay have 2.5 GB!!!! This is just rediculous. Does anyone know how I can free up some space? I don't store music or other large files but I NEED to be able to store a few nandroid back ups and a few roms.
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5.66 GB is all that you get with an 8 GB device as the rest is used by the OS for system apps and such. The 16 GB only has 12.9 available.
You should have 5.7 or so free out of the gate. Something is eating up near 2gb of space. Factory reset.
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You should have 5.7 or so free out of the gate. Something is eating up near 2gb of space. Factory reset.
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Actually that's would only be 100 MB of space and not 2 GB. 5.7 - 5.6 = 0.1 GB = 100 MB. And in his case 5.7 - 5.66 = 0.04 or 40 MB. Whcih is nothing.
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Actually that's would only be 100 MB of space and not 2 GB. 5.7 - 5.6 = 0.1 GB = 100 MB. And in his case 5.7 - 5.66 = 0.04 or 40 MB. Whcih is nothing.
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What are you on about, read the OP. Your maths is right (sort of, its actually 40.96MB) but you are working with the wrong figures.
You seen to have missed the fact that the OP has only 4GB free, ie he has around 1.5GB eaten up.
more importantly OP where do you work that gives away free nexus' lol
Just keep 1 nandroid on the phone just in case...download rom zips when you need them and then delete them...space saved.
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What are you on about, read the OP. Your maths is right (sort of, its actually 40.96MB) but you are working with the wrong figures.
You seen to have missed the fact that the OP has only 4GB free, ie he has around 1.5GB eaten up.
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"She." And exactly!!! I opened the box and only had 4 GB free. So there's still a gig and 1/2 missing. I'm puzzled.
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Just keep 1 nandroid on the phone just in case...download rom zips when you need them and then delete them...space saved.
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Right now I have 1 nandroid backup and no zips. Still have only 2 GB, it's just pretty redic if u ask me but thank god I got the phone for free.
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Right now I have 1 nandroid backup and no zips. Still have only 2 GB, it's just pretty redic if u ask me but thank god I got the phone for free.
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Factory reset it...
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Right now I have 1 nandroid backup and no zips. Still have only 2 GB, it's just pretty redic if u ask me but thank god I got the phone for free.
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My nandroids are on my computer
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Check what's listed under Settings - Storage, you can see how the space is being used.
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Download "DiskUsage" from the play store.
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"She." And exactly!!! I opened the box and only had 4 GB free. So there's still a gig and 1/2 missing. I'm puzzled.
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Sorry 'she'. So it should be easy to find what has used the space using apps or other more 'technical' means. However as its a new phone I would be inclined to factory reset it or even better just download factory image and reflash.
If you have missing space on a new phone then I would wonder what else is wrong.
Maybe the phone was a 'return'.
Anyone else connect their phone to a PC and have the internal storage say 9.51GB and not 16GB? Does the phone use up over 6GB for the OS and stock apps? What gives?
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Anyone else connect their phone to a PC and have the internal storage say 9.51GB and not 16GB? Does the phone use up over 6GB for the OS and stock apps? What gives?
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I show 9.62 available on mine. It is kind of odd, but they did add a TON of bloatware. Once we get root and can remove those apps, we should be able to recapture quite a bit back.
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Anyone else connect their phone to a PC and have the internal storage say 9.51GB and not 16GB? Does the phone use up over 6GB for the OS and stock apps? What gives?
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Could be like the HOX and have around 10 for whatever storage and 6 dedicated for app storage and software/rom
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Yeah...seems pretty typical for a phone. ..they arent lieing as they never said 16gb useable...
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Yeah mine shows 9.62 total space and 8.48 available after installing my apps from previous phone, kinda sucks but at least there is an SD slot.
I was curious so I checked my old Sprint GNEX 32GB, it also has a chunk missing, about 7.5GB missing, so it is similar.
It would be nice if they listed the missing space as Reserved or System etc. instead of not showing it.
Yup guys 16GB total internal. The ROM and software has to sit somewhere on there. And AT&T has added so much crap to it I'm not surprised. But thats what the SD card slot is for yeah?
The stock apps seem to use up at least 1GB, plus any data they have.
Unsure about the system, but even the system for CyanogenMod 10.1 seemed to be around 600-800MB with all cache/data included. With TouchWIZ on these phones and all the extra bloat, it wouldn't surprise me if there were at least another gig in there.
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The stock apps seem to use up at least 1GB, plus any data they have.
Unsure about the system, but even the system for CyanogenMod 10.1 seemed to be around 600-800MB with all cache/data included. With TouchWIZ on these phones and all the extra bloat, it wouldn't surprise me if there were at least another gig in there.
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Exactly. I heard the ROM file for the S4 was like 1.2 gigs or something like that. That's without cache and whatever else it needs to do.
I remember when I had the S3 the ROM file was like 800 megs for TW. And for AOSP it was like 250.
Even with a debloated rom its gonna be the same as the system partition is already set regardless of whats on it...just so you guys know of course it is posssiboe for a dev to tweak partition amounts...but they typically dont unless necessary
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Hi. I have SGN 10.1 2014 standard wifi version with 16gb memory. I expanded it by ext sd 32gb card. When I check internal memory device shows me 5gb free out of 16. Detailed search shows that Android folder takes 2,3 gb other folders 0,6 gb....... I moved almost all apps to external sd. So where in the hell is 8gb of internal sd memory. Could someonn explain it to me....but please in simple way.
You cant move large games to external memory and also make sure any files youdo have i.e. movies or other downloads have actually been placed to your EXTSD.
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Well thats not really true. If you are rooted you can use folder mount which will do the job nicely. If not rooted then no you cannot move large files.
actually I have not so many apps installed at all and only one game (pinball)
Something is strange with this memory
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You cant move large games to external memory and also make sure any files youdo have i.e. movies or other downloads have actually been placed to your EXTSD.
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Please post the storage section in your settings.
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I know this one same thing happened to me. Download storage analyzer and you can see the real numbers don't know why but it doesn't show the right numbers.
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I know this one same thing happened to me. Download storage analyzer and you can see the real numbers don't know why but it doesn't show the right numbers.
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Mine has always been accurate and never had to download any extra apps.
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Try running Disk Usage (free in the Play Store) which will give you a detailed breakdown of what is stored where. I've found it very useful for tracking down what is taking up all the space.
Inernal memory is partitioned
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Could someonn explain it to me....but please in simple way.
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The issue is that the internal memory is partitioned and twhat is here called sd-card only get a part of it. The biggest other part is the system partition where Android and all the internal apps are stored. Therefore you only have this small amount of free memory.
Solution: None. Okay, you can root your device and then with some tricks integrate the external sd-card into your internal one but this is all not perfect and needs always a very fast sd-card.
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Hi. I have SGN 10.1 2014 standard wifi version with 16gb memory. I expanded it by ext sd 32gb card. When I check internal memory device shows me 5gb free out of 16. Detailed search shows that Android folder takes 2,3 gb other folders 0,6 gb....... I moved almost all apps to external sd. So where in the hell is 8gb of internal sd memory. Could someonn explain it to me....but please in simple way.
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I returned mine for a 32 model. If you can i would recommend doing so.
Woody
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mjasinsk said:
actually I have not so many apps installed at all and only one game (pinball)
Something is strange with this memory
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Do you have a lot of music on Google play? and did you happen to download them to your tablet?How about a movie they take up tons of space. You should run Disk Usage mentioned in post #8.
I have a 32 gb SM-P600, learned my lesson with my 16gb GT-N8013. I had to root and install folder mount on the GT-N8013 to get by.
Ok thx. Disk usage helpd me to clean up some folders. Some magazines took hundreds of megabytes of memory. Right now i have 8gb of free mem
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Do you have a lot of music on Google play? and did you happen to download them to your tablet?How about a movie they take up tons of space. You should run Disk Usage mentioned in post #8.
I have a 32 gb SM-P600, learned my lesson with my 16gb GT-N8013. I had to root and install folder mount on the GT-N8013 to get by.
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