I have a problem. I have an 8GB Nexus 4. I have 1.2GB free but that's not right. I tallied up the usage and a whopping 4.3GB is unaccounted for. This is frustrating because I used to have one large game installed and I still had 3GB of space left. Now I don't have any large games installed and I have 1.2GB of free space. What could the problem be?
tceffErorriM said:
I have a problem. I have an 8GB Nexus 4. I have 1.2GB free but that's not right. I tallied up the usage and a whopping 4.3GB is unaccounted for. This is frustrating because I used to have one large game installed and I still had 3GB of space left. Now I don't have any large games installed and I have 1.2GB of free space. What could the problem be?
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use this app to see where your storage went https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&hl=en
I found out there was a game file weighing in at 1.3GB. Not sure if there's anything else to delete past that. Thanks for the link!
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Hello
I have a question.
I looked at my storage space today (in settings) and it shows as 16gb used and 11gb free. But i dont have apps that large.
So my question is. Is this an error or when its not what uses so much storage space?
I looked trough my apps and none uses enough storage to fill this much space.
What did i overlook?
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Do you have the 32GB or 16GB model? Also, which section are you looking at?
I have the 16 GB model, so my "Internal Storage" section reads 12.51GB total space. The graph breaks it down as 4.55GB of media files and 0.49GB (500MB) for applications, with 7.47GB remaining free space.
Unfortunately, you have not provided near enough information for us to assist effectively. More detail please.
Google map takes 256 mb itself and can grow with cache .
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Its the 32 gb model
The 16 gb used are just applications. 700MB for media and 11 gb free.
So the space adds up correctly to the 32 gb version
But i have only like 35 apps installed. Most of them i have on my phone too
I looked under applications and none of the downloaded apps (even with data and cache) are big enough by themself or summed together to fill 16gb. Did not look trough all app that came preinstalled though.
So i am wondering where the storage space goes.
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I just checked my available storage and it says I have less than what I should have available. Is this a glitch or am I over looking something?
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That missing space is reserved for the system. Ram is advertised as 2gb but is 1.8gb. Same goes with if you're to buy a hard drive.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the total space already excluding the reserved space?
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Good Guy Mark said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the total space already excluding the reserved space?
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The way you word is kind of confusing.
You buy 16GB
16GB - Whatevers reserved for Android = comes out to be 12.96GB
It's the same thing if you were to buy CPU RAM, Internal & External Hard Drives, microSD, SD, USB drives etc.
Yea but look at my remaining space it's not supposed to be that small according to the graph and what space is being occupied by everything else on the list
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Do you have a bunch nandroid backups?
You could use DiskUsage to figure out whats eating your space. Nicely shows you graphically your entire "SD card". If the System Data section in DiskUsage is huge, then like jr67 said, maybe backups.
kevinliu2336 said:
You could use DiskUsage to figure out whats eating your space. Nicely shows you graphically your entire "SD card". If the System Data section in DiskUsage is huge, then like jr67 said, maybe backups.
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Would that be the cause of this?
I am trying to free up some space on my internal storage. When looking at the memory used out of total available it looks like there is almost 4 gigs unaccounted for. The memory used for Android OS is accounted for already. Not sure if I am missing something simple.
Thanks!
Hey guys I was looking at my storage space today and i noticed I only have 111GB useable. I know that several GB are consumed by the system image and that the whole 128GB is not available, but 17GB used by the system image seems excessive.
you usually get 119GB after format, 128 x 7%, 119GB remains then OS partition and then more since its 64bit.
My 64gb has 54gb free
They define GB by 1000 where it's really 1024 so formatted capacity is less,
http://www.ussscctv.com/harddrivesizecapacitiescalculator.aspx
Mine had 111 GB free straight out of the box.
Mister-B said:
Mine had 111 GB free straight out of the box.
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Same here!
The larger the amount of storage, the larger the system partition. Dunno why, but it has been this way as long as I can remember.
Ok cool. Thanks for the replys
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How do i liberate that space? i tried wipe everything with twrp and still couldnt liberate space, how can i do it?
devianzel said:
How do i liberate that space? i tried wipe everything with twrp and still couldnt liberate space, how can i do it?
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(To oversimplify it) Of that 8gb, X amount is reserved for the android OS and cache, Y amount is reserved for apps and such with 4.7gb being the usable remainder. There isn't a massive amount you can do to change that really, custom ROMs can free up some but not huge amounts.
On top of that j3 emulates it's internal sd from the leftover space in data. So if your not wiping that you could be missing out
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(To oversimplify it) Of that 8gb, X amount is reserved for the android OS and cache, Y amount is reserved for apps and such with 4.7gb being the usable remainder. There isn't a massive amount you can do to change that really, custom ROMs can free up some but not huge amounts.
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I've found LOS seriously affected space for me
Darth_revan_returns said:
I've found LOS seriously affected space for me
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Really? Since using my M-SD card as internal I've had zero issues with storage. I have 4/5 space hogging games installed alongside a gig or two of smaller ones, 4/5 GB of music and books and whatever hadn't copied to One Drive lately sat on the phone with a 16gb card and I still don't see any sluggishness yet.
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Really? Since using my M-SD card as internal I've had zero issues with storage. I have 4/5 space hogging games installed alongside a gig or two of smaller ones, 4/5 GB of music and books and whatever hadn't copied to One Drive lately sat on the phone with a 16gb card and I still don't see any sluggishness yet.
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Mine is really slow so I can't use it as internal for now.. but I have 3 huge games on the rom whereas with tw I couldn't put more than 1 big app even Snapchat have me issues. I've found I haven't needed to change it to internal haha
Darth_revan_returns said:
Mine is really slow so I can't use it as internal for now.. but I have 3 huge games on the rom whereas with tw I couldn't put more than 1 big app even Snapchat have me issues. I've found I haven't needed to change it to internal haha
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If you're UK based go to Wilkos, you can pick up a 16gb class 10 for about £8.
Wulfie217 said:
If you're UK based go to Wilkos, you can pick up a 16gb class 10 for about £8.
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Africa?????