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.
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Disclaimer - I've tried running a few searches and haven't found the answer to the question so I apologize if it's stupid.
When looking at the Storage information under settings, it shows that my internal storage is partitioned into regular Internal Storage of 748 MB and Internal storage: /mnt/emmc of 6.46 GB. This is causing space issues for when I try to install some apps and I don't recall this originally being the case. Is there a way to combine those two partitions? If so, please point me into the right directon.
I'm rooted and running the latest CM7 nightlies build.
Thanks
OK... nevermind. I'm an idiot. Just ran a google search and discovered that it's not a bug, it's a feature.
Juat the way the phone is setup. My friends htc aria showed the same.
Hello,
I've done a big search to solve this issue, but none that helped. I just bought a Note 3 32GB version Verizon, and I rooted it immediately and added Jelly Beans Build 4. I've barely put anything into internal memory. I look at the Storage and it says I have 29GB used up as Miscellaneous Files. (To which I clicked on and it at most lists 50mb of miscellaneous files) I then used DiskUsage and scanned and saw that my internal SD card only has 2493 MB of storage total. There's some type of issue with it that doesn't allow me to use up all of my 32 GB of internal memory. Could it be the root or rom preventing it?
How do I fix this?
Now that I think about it deeper. I did use Safestrap to root it and I had to create my own partition. Could it be the fact that I just created the partition with the default settings (as in the amount of memory used)? Should I have raised this to 32gb? I think Default was 2.5GB.
To further try to solve this issue, is there a way to increase the amount of data allocated to this partition? Or is there a way to copy everything in this partition to a new one that I would create at 32GB? I would rather not have to restart and redownload everything again, etc.
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Now that I think about it deeper...
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Your problem seems to be that you need to read a little more - you are not in the correct forum, this is NOT the Verizon Note 3 forum!
Oh I'm sorry, I Thought this was a general Note 3 forum. And I thought this would be a general Note 3 issue, but I guess it seems to be a rooted and ROM issue.
Your search failed you. Put the rom in the stock slot and your memory readings will be correct. Otherwise, ignore them.
ahchah08 said:
Hello,
I've done a big search to solve this issue, but none that helped. I just bought a Note 3 32GB version Verizon, and I rooted it immediately and added Jelly Beans Build 4. I've barely put anything into internal memory. I look at the Storage and it says I have 29GB used up as Miscellaneous Files. (To which I clicked on and it at most lists 50mb of miscellaneous files) I then used DiskUsage and scanned and saw that my internal SD card only has 2493 MB of storage total. There's some type of issue with it that doesn't allow me to use up all of my 32 GB of internal memory. Could it be the root or rom preventing it?
How do I fix this?
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Safestrap does not show your free space correctly, it has to do with the way Safestrap creates its partitions. If you use a file browser or switch to your stock ROM you will be able to see the correct amount of space. If you want to maximize your free space and if you want everything to show correctly the only way to do it is to flash the ROM to your STOCK slot. There have been numerous posts about this and I advise you search a little more. Anyways, it isn't anything abnormal and it's perfectly fine. Not something to worry about.
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!
hay people,
so, today my friend gaved me his phone and asked me to install him facebook application on the phone, because he faild to install it.
so, i thought what an easy task, but it turns out i can not make it work at all.
so, he has samsung galaxy s4 (model: GT-I9500).
he has sd card which is 16 gb large, and his phone has 16 gb of installed storage. (at least phone specifications say so).
i tried to install facebook but i got the error.
the problem is that it says that there is no enouff storage available, and google play fails to download application.
so i went to the settings and some wery odd numbers i found.
so, it turns out that storage section of settings shows that there are three different storages.
first one is sd card.
for sd card it shows that it has 16.53 gb capacity, and that 13.97 gb is free.
second one is internal storage:
it shows that internal storage has 16gb capacity, from whitch (believe it or not) 15.91 gb is free.
furtermore, what is also strange is that it shows that there is third storage called "phone storage", and it shows that this storage has capacity of only 17.84 mb, and that 17.75 mb is free. but mb not gb.
what is even stranger, if i go to applications section of settings to see installed apps it shows that available space for apps is 170 mb from witch about 40mb is free.
i mean wtf, how is that possible?
phone has 16 gb of internal storage, and almost all is empty, there are no installed applications except for built in ones, and still it looks like it lacks free space.
it almost looks like it looks at this "phone storage" for available space to install.
what is that "phone storage" at all?
why is only 17mb large?
and how to make android detect that there is 15.93 gb of internal storage available?
instead android shows that low space icon in status bar and every 5 minuts displays popup saying "internal storage is full".
please help to solve this.
why those 15.93 gb are not available for applications?
also, phone has an option to choose where to install applications.
and no matter what i choose (sd card or internal storage) it says there is no enough storage available.
please help.
i really want to fix his phone, because if i do not, you know, he would think that i do not know how to install facebook app.
any help?
how to solve this?
is this normal?
is there any system reserved memory or something?
if this is normal, than can someone explain why, what is all that free memory used for?
for far as i concern, i am down with ideas only to reset phone. but, i am hoping there is some better solutions.
for anyone who reply, thanx!
He has a significant issue with storage. The internal storage should have about 6GB used by the system with about 9GB free. There should not be a "phone storage" drive. The device may need to be repartitioned to correct this, using a PIT file, the correct firmware for your device, and Odin.
I have an old AC8277 Head Unit I got from Panlelo with 1 GB of Ram and 16 GB of storage. It is running Android 5.1. It will periodically tell me I am running out of storage space, even though the storage stats show several GB free. I used the Disk Usage app and it seems to show 2 partitions from there:
Storage Card
/vendor
As soon as my "Storage Card" partition goes above 1 GB, it seems to throw the Storage Space Running Out error.
There was a 3rd party Navigation app on the device I wasn't using and tried deleting that 4 GB folder to see if that would help, but the error remained. Only after I uninstalled a few applications that were in the "Storage Card" did the error go away and the used storage there was less than 1 GB.
I previously tried a factory reset per the vendors advice but the problem came back after some time.
What would be the easiest way to fix this issue outside of deleting apps? Ideally I'd like to be able to keep over 1 GB of apps on this device and I can't understand why this limit is in place.