[Q] Flashing a new rom should free up memory? - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have a UK Galaxy S4, I have flashed it with the new Cyanogen nightlie - but wiping data and factory reset doesnt free up any of that used 8gb memory - am i being thick in thinking that flashing a new rom would clear it more than the stock rom?

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[Q] Internal storage low

Hello
I have a problem. I installed so many custom rom on my phone without any problem but now I got a second Defy flashed 3.4.2_177-005_NORDIC rooted with SuperOneClickv2.3.3 installed 2nd init and then WIUI v2.5.27. I did factory wipe cashe wipe and install the rom.
The problem I have the phone have only 127MB total of internal memory after the install. Anyone know how to fix this?
Thank you.
Well as nobody helped I got it finally working. I didnt see nowhere in any guide to do factory reset before updating stock firmware and somehow it got scrued up.

Rooted storage problem

I've been just plain unlocked and rooted for the past couple days, and decided to put my first ROM on my N7 today. I downloaded Glazed Jellybean, and since I was coming from a stock rom, it said to do the wipe/factory reset, which I did. At this point, I had about 4 GB space used, 1.5 gb free. I flashed the rom and it installed, but when I went to check my storage, I still had that 4 GB used, yet of course all of the apps were gone from the ROM install. Does anyone know how to get that storage back? Thanks

[Q] CM10 trouble

Hi, I've just flashed CM10 on my brand new nexus 4, since 15mn I only have CM logo, nothing else, Please help, what can I do ?
I do not have the gapps on the internal memory of the phone.
Did you do a full wipe before flashing?

[Q] Freezing

I have rooted my phone and its been months now. Have used different roms like gummy, Nameless, Mahdi etc. Recently I had Nameless rom and 3 days back, my phone started freezing when the screen timed out and also froze when there was no sound. I updated the rom but still faced the same problem. Changed to Mahdi but same problem again. Finally I went back to gummy and I face same problem here too. I have done everything except unrooting and going back to Samsung rom.
Pls help me. I cannot understand what is wrong with my phone.
Sid014 said:
I have rooted my phone and its been months now. Have used different roms like gummy, Nameless, Mahdi etc. Recently I had Nameless rom and 3 days back, my phone started freezing when the screen timed out and also froze when there was no sound. I updated the rom but still faced the same problem. Changed to Mahdi but same problem again. Finally I went back to gummy and I face same problem here too. I have done everything except unrooting and going back to Samsung rom.
Pls help me. I cannot understand what is wrong with my phone.
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Hi,
Most of this problems come from flashing , did you full wipe / clear dalvik and cache before installing rom?
MAX 404 said:
Hi,
Most of this problems come from flashing , did you full wipe / clear dalvik and cache before installing rom?
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yes when i updated my nameless rom to a newer version, i did a full wipe cache and dalvik. this problem started when i upgraded to nameless from gummy. it was working fine but 2-3 days back this thing started.
Sid014 said:
yes when i updated my nameless rom to a newer version, i did a full wipe cache and dalvik. this problem started when i upgraded to nameless from gummy. it was working fine but 2-3 days back this thing started.
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Hi ,
Did work fine for 2-3 days? maybe something you installed or restore from you back up.
I would flash rom again No wipe and see how it works , if is working fine i will restore only apps ( not system data) one by one and see if you find the culprit
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MAX 404 said:
Hi ,
Did work fine for 2-3 days? maybe something you installed or restore from you back up.
I would flash rom again No wipe and see how it works , if is working fine i will restore only apps ( not system data) one by one and see if you find the culprit
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4 days back I installed Nameless updated version and flashed it by wiping data cache and dalvik. I m guessing this problem started after installing the Nameless version. But now I'm off Nameless. I'm back to gummy and I just found that my sounds r not working well and I can't speak or hear when I receive or make a call. Should I just unroot my phone and get the stock firmware? Doing this will it get the phone back to normal?
Sid014 said:
4 days back I installed Nameless updated version and flashed it by wiping data cache and dalvik. I m guessing this problem started after installing the Nameless version. But now I'm off Nameless. I'm back to gummy and I just found that my sounds r not working well and I can't speak or hear when I receive or make a call. Should I just unroot my phone and get the stock firmware? Doing this will it get the phone back to normal?
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Flashing stock is an option but before that
I have Philz touch
Make a nandroid back up and copy it with the rom you want to use in your external SD , copy all your music , data , pictures from the internal SD to the external SD
Wipe data / factory reset
Wipe Cache
Wipe Dalvick
Mounts and Storage / format /data and /data /media (/sdcard) to clean any possible leftover file from any other rom
Now flash your rom from Sdcard1
If does not work go back to stock a re start all over...
MAX 404 said:
Flashing stock is an option but before that
I have Philz touch
Make a nandroid back up and copy it with the rom you want to use in your external SD , copy all your music , data , pictures from the internal SD to the external SD
Wipe data / factory reset
Wipe Cache
Wipe Dalvick
Mounts and Storage / format /data and /data /media (/sdcard) to clean any possible leftover file from any other rom
Now flash your rom from Sdcard1
If does not work go back to stock a re start all over...
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Thank you so much for the help. I will try doing this, if it works well n good or else I will unroot n start over. It was great talking to u.
Thanks a ton.

[Q] The phone thinks my 32GB G2 is 16 GB. How to solve?

This is interesting. Not sure if it'is normal but after restoring my phone so I could access the full memory I played with G3 ROM and decided to go back to stock flashing the same 32GB ROM I have previously used to restore my phone. After I flashed the *.kdz file using LG Flash Tool and rebooted the phone I was back to the 10Gb of storage available. I obviously managed to restore it back to the full 24.80 GB now but I am not quite sure why this is happening. I am using European German) ROM.
Has anyone else experienced this? If so do you know whether this is normal and if there is a fix to permanently restore full memory? Or does it have something to do with the ROM itself?
After successfully flashing the .kdz, do you do a factory reset? That should solve most of the issues. I doubt your partitions are messed up, but that could also be the cause.

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