Free space reporting incorrect amount - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My 16Gb nexus is reporting only 700mb. The other occupied storage only comes to around 4gb.. So where's the other 7GB?
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Do you have any backups that you made via CWM or TWRP? Those don't show up there IIRC.

I do yes. That could be it. But wouldn't it show under "Other"?

No. I have about 3-4 system backups but none of them show up. They never have, so I guess that's normal.

stefandunn said:
My 16Gb nexus is reporting only 700mb. The other occupied storage only comes to around 4gb.. So where's the other 7GB?
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I have had similar, usually reboot fixed the issue, if not, use DiskUsage App to see where the space is
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IRX120 said:
I have had similar, usually reboot fixed the issue, if not, use DiskUsage App to see where the space is
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I never trust the stock usage thing anyways. I use the one in Titanium Backup because it's always way more accurate. The stock one is off by over 100mb sometimes...

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low speed of SD card on stock ICS

Almost everything is perfect on stock ICS, except the very low speed of SD card, it is about 1MB/s, while the original is 3~4MB/s. what a big difference!
i suffers when transfering big files like movie,game,etc.
It is unbelievable google release the ICS OTA on nexus s with the big bug.
Hope google update it soon, btw, Cound anyboady tell me how to send feedback to google team about the nexus experience? i found no option in my phone.
Try the SD speed increase app and see if that helps.
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You say stock but are you rooted with clockwork recovery? Can boot into cwr and mount storage i found it quicker when transferring large files
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marfillaster said:
I do this too. Avg. 2.6 Mbps
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wow I never even thought of this
thanks!
demo23019 said:
You say stock but are you rooted with clockwork recovery? Can boot into cwr and mount storage i found it quicker when transferring large files
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So every time i want to transfer something, i need to reboot my phone into cwm? it is also unbelievable.
I'm sure someone will fix but yea its slow slow
i just checked mine I avr 1.26mb sec from IC and from CWR i avr 5mb
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Did you encrypt storage? I did it and my file transfers crawled, finally did a factory reset. Did not encrypt storage this time.
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What's the ROM size?

From the specs, it says 4GB ROM + 768MB RAM. But why am I getting 2G ROM + 600 RAM instead? I don't have a bad emmc. I bought mine a year and a half ago and this has always been a question I would like to see an answer.
I have 621MB RAM which is about standard on this device. That's just the way it works out. Ever checked the actual storage of a flash drive compared to what it says on the package?
Also, it's good to verify specs on multiple sites.
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=2993
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estallings15 said:
I have 621MB RAM which is about standard on this device. That's just the way it works out. Ever checked the actual storage of a flash drive compared to what it says on the package?
Also, it's good to verify specs on multiple sites.
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=2993
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Thanks. If I remember it correctly, the tmo website said it has 4GB ROM. And I also checked the gsmarena and it says it has 4GB too. However I've got 1.13GB for the app partition and about 800 for cache and system. That adds to 2GB total which is half of the stated ROM size. It's not a big deal but I would like to figure it out weather it actually only has 2GB or it's hidden.
There are several partitions for boot, recovery, bootloader, etc. Perhaps when all are added together they come close to 4gb?
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estallings15 said:
There are several partitions for boot, recovery, bootloader, etc. Perhaps when all are added together they come close to 4gb?
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Unfortunately no. I used storage analyser and disc usage apps to check my partitions and I added them up. It's close to 2GB.
ibuddler said:
Unfortunately no. I used storage analyser and disc usage apps to check my partitions and I added them up. It's close to 2GB.
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I just ran Storage Analyzer. It's not accessing all the partitions.
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[Q] out of space?

My wife just got an M as a replacement for her old Rezound. She has had it for about three weeks and the phone is already telling her she is out of internal storage. However, when I look at her storage it appears that only her "Backup ASSISTANCE Plus" is full. It's unfortunately causing her phone to be worthless. Does anyone know how to fix this? Her phone is completely stock. Thanks in advance.
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txkorm said:
My wife just got an M as a replacement for her old Rezound. She has had it for about three weeks and the phone is already telling her she is out of internal storage. However, when I look at her storage it appears that only her "Backup ASSISTANCE Plus" is full. It's unfortunately causing her phone to be worthless. Does anyone know how to fix this? Her phone is completely stock. Thanks in advance.
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couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
jco23 said:
couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
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Might also want to disable Backup Assistant in the Application Settings.
Also, clear the cache and make sure that no leftover OTA updates are stored.
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jco23 said:
couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
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Thanks for the feedback. I tried to disable it but it wouldn't let me. I'll take another look tonight. I don't want to do a hard reset unless I have to but if I can't disable it, I'll have no other choice.
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Conclusion. This phone sucks if you can't put apps on the SD. 8gb internal hard drive is really only 4 gigs.
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txkorm said:
Conclusion. This phone sucks if you can't put apps on the SD. 8gb internal hard drive is really only 4 gigs.
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If you root, you can easily store apps on external. Also, internal is partitioned into 4gb halves. One for the the ROM and the other for media/etc. Personally, I don't understand how people fill that up so quickly. I use very few apps and all my media gets stored to my external SD. I'm still sitting at about 3.5GB available on my storage side.
RikRong said:
If you root, you can easily store apps on external. Also, internal is partitioned into 4gb halves. One for the the ROM and the other for media/etc. Personally, I don't understand how people fill that up so quickly. I use very few apps and all my media gets stored to my external SD. I'm still sitting at about 3.5GB available on my storage side.
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I understand it's portioned but I've never seen a phone require half of its internal storage. As for media, it's all going to her card. I guess if you use few apps your ok, but that's not the case with a 5 year. You shouldn't have to root for a phone to be functional with a relatively low amount of apps in use.
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Her phone....
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txkorm said:
Her phone....
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I've got just over 100 apps. Also, a little more than 1 gig of my internal space is dedicated to music.
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jco23 said:
I've got just over 100 apps. Also, a little more than 1 gig of my internal space is dedicated to music.
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How are you not having the same issue? Very interesting.
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Do you know if the phone was previously rooted? I know that nandroid backups get saved to internal storage if you don't specify and they will eat up the storage space quickly.
calbrs said:
Do you know if the phone was previously rooted? I know that nandroid backups get saved to internal storage if you don't specify and they will eat up the storage space quickly.
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It came straight from Verizon as a replacement phone so all I know is that it's a refurbished phone. I cleaned up the backup assistance so hopefully that will help. I have a theory that triggered the warning and loss of functionality. We'll see. If it pops back up, it's going back to Verizon.
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txkorm said:
How are you not having the same issue? Very interesting.
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gaining root access allowed me to clear out all of the Verizon bloatware.
jco23 said:
gaining root access allowed me to clear out all of the Verizon bloatware.
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Makes sense since this phone is loaded with it. This is our first Motorola smartphone. Is that a Motorola issue with excess bloat? I know all phones have it but this seems like a lot considering the limited amount of internal memory.
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txkorm said:
Makes sense since this phone is loaded with it. This is our first Motorola smartphone. Is that a Motorola issue with excess bloat? I know all phones have it but this seems like a lot considering the limited amount of internal memory.
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bloat is an issue with all Verizon android phones (the bloat helps bring down the costs on the device).
one of the drawbacks to this device is the lack of internal memory. however, the bigger drawback is in the OS that prevents folks from moving apps to their SD Card.
but once I rooted, and installed a "clean ROM", I got a lot more space.
with your wife's phone, I suspect she has the latest OTA baseband (check the phone settings, if the baseband is prior to May 2013, then you are in luck - DO NOT ACCEPT the UPDATE). if the baseband reads May 2013, then your only option is to gain root access and freeze/delete the bloatware.
if space is an issue, I highly recommend to go this route. otherwise, start trimming some of the apps she never uses.

[Q] Bad storage reading

Hi all,
I've got a nexus 4 here, running paranoid android 3.9, and my storage is just not right, When I calculate the taken up space by stuff like music, apps, others I should have a bit over 3gb of free space. And my phone says I've got 1gb. Any idea of what might be the problem?
I'll post a snapshot tomorrow when I get to the computer, for some reason it doesn't wanna post it from a phone.
Thanks!
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domiq123 said:
Hi all,
I've got a nexus 4 here, running paranoid android 3.9, and my storage is just not right, When I calculate the taken up space by stuff like music, apps, others I should have a bit over 3gb of free space. And my phone says I've got 1gb. Any idea of what might be the problem?
I'll post a snapshot tomorrow when I get to the computer, for some reason it doesn't wanna post it from a phone.
Thanks!
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Use the app Disk Usage: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
When you use it, make sure you click /data not just sdcard because /data directory is more accurate for checking storage
Thanks,
CWM backups take a bit more space then the ones on my old phone, where they would be around 500mb and on my nexus is around 2gb
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(help needded) can't find my 8gb space

Hello everyone
Sorry for my last post. I didn't attach pic in that. Here it is. My model has 8gb space. Apps and files take only 4gb. And alloted space is 4.7gb for this. As a result I get storage space minimum notification constantly. So can anyone tell me where the remaining space is and is it possible to shift some space to storage
Thank you
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kaskoraja said:
Hello everyone
Sorry for my last post. I didn't attach pic in that. Here it is. My model has 8gb space. Apps and files take only 4gb. And alloted space is 4.7gb for this. As a result I get storage space minimum notification constantly. So can anyone tell me where the remaining space is and is it possible to shift some space to storage
Thank you
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There is 8gb there, but it's partitioned into about 4gb each. One for the OS and the other for media. So, you'll only be able to utilize 4gb for app storage.
Thanks for the reply. Is there any way to reduce the space alloted to OS?
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kaskoraja said:
Thanks for the reply. Is there any way to reduce the space alloted to OS?
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wipe stock rom and install one that specializes in space saving? or get an sd card
Also besides the point but are you running softkeyZ? i notice your back button is a tad bigger than home and task i had the same issue when ii had it...
Even after update
Cyko.Tech67 said:
wipe stock rom and install one that specializes in space saving? or get an sd card
Also besides the point but are you running softkeyZ? i notice your back button is a tad bigger than home and task i had the same issue when ii had it...
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Even after update the new rom will be alloted in the same space right?
Have you looked into this...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2229848 I haven't tried it as I've never had and issue with storage space....
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Have you cleaned your app cache? I was getting low and was amazed how much space I gained. You can do it app by app or download something like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gannicus.android.cacheclearer
kaskoraja said:
Even after update the new rom will be alloted in the same space right?
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no it shouldnt...

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