Out of the blue my s4 says i only have 9.62 gigs of TOTAL space, my phone is a 16 gig. I restored to stock using Odin, and it still says that. I could have sworn there was more space before, did I mess up my phone somehow? Please help, thanks...
Edit: Sorry please delete, I guess there is only 9 gigs of space to start with. I could have sworn I had more before...
Ok I was kinda right, the total space now says 16 gigs, after doing another restore with Odin. Now it says total space 16, and available space 9, which is how it should be.
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After updating to 4.3 (I flashed the factory image) my phone is displaying a total storage space of 5.67gb instead of the 12 or 13gb it was before. It seems like when flashing it didn't format all of the usable space for user data and thought my phone was the 8gb model. Any ideas of how to fix this?
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After installing cm10.2, why do I still only have 24GB total space? I thought the lighter ROM would free up some of the 32GB capacity.
Dsak13 said:
After installing cm10.2, why do I still only have 24GB total space? I thought the lighter ROM would free up some of the 32GB capacity.
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Youd have to repartition for that. Whichbi dont think its possible with locked bootloader.
You have more space on system partition
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I'm hoping this comes along eventually. I was expecting there to be a bloated /sys partition, but I had no idea it would be THAT huge :< maybe I can use it as a backup parition, as long as I mind the backup sizes.
I used to have 6GB free from my 16GB GS4. I installed Omega ROM and now it says 2GB free out of 8.94GB. Can I get them back and still use the rom?
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reef88 said:
I used to have 6GB free from my 16GB GS4. I installed Omega ROM and now it says 2GB free out of 8.94GB. Can I get them back and still use the rom?
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That's normal if you downloaded a lot of apps, or created a few nandroid backups.
If you have videos in the phone that also uses a lot of memory, pictures uses memory.
If you are like I am, I keep about 2 GB of MP3 songs on my phone, that's takes up
a lot of memory too.
Check for nandroid backups in either your clockworkmod folders if you use cwm recovery
or in your TWRP folder and sub-folders if you use TWRP recovery for backups.
Nandroid backups take up a lot of user available memory.
Our phones have a total of 16gb memory (a little less due to the formatting overhead).
Within that memory there is a pre-allocated partition of approx 6gb designed to
be used by the firmware/rom and it's associated files, images and cache.
The size of that partition cannot be changed by the user and if you flash a rom
which is 2GB in size or 1GB the total free available memory for the user will
remain the same, it will not add or subtract from the total free space to the user.
Good luck!
reef88 said:
I used to have 6GB free from my 16GB GS4. I installed Omega ROM and now it says 2GB free out of 8.94GB. Can I get them back and still use the rom?
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s4 has 9.13gb max free, you need to enter recovery and wipe a lot of things from internal memory
be carefull with your data
after rom flash, should be around 8gb 8.5gb (with gpe roms)
Did you make a backup using your recovery and stored it to your internal storage? That could take up A LOT of space!!
What's cached data?
It has taken up 1.42GB of my memory
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rkadve said:
What's cached data?
It has taken up 1.42GB of my memory
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Take a look the article for understand it better: HERE
Hello everybody, i have a i9500 phone, with crash rom installed..
Here is the question,
In the storage section,
All Storage is 8,8
Apps are 2.9 GB
Photos, videos are 125 MB
Audio is 496 KB
Downloads is 114 MB
And the others are 44 and 70
But it says usable storage is 1,09
As you see, usable storage should be at least 4-5 gb,
Why is it like this and what should I do?
Tried flashing other roms like cm11 and phoenix, but no help.
Wiping data doesn't help either.
What should I do?
Voveltaire said:
Hello everybody, i have a i9500 phone, with crash rom installed..
Here is the question,
In the storage section,
All Storage is 8,8
Apps are 2.9 GB
Photos, videos are 125 MB
Audio is 496 KB
Downloads is 114 MB
And the others are 44 and 70
But it says usable storage is 1,09
As you see, usable storage should be at least 4-5 gb,
Why is it like this and what should I do?
Tried flashing other roms like cm11 and phoenix, but no help.
Wiping data doesn't help either.
What should I do?
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U can go check in settings -> more -> storage -> misc and see there can b thumbnail files with 100s mb of size u can delete that. Its not going to harm your real photos. Plus if u hv a backup there like Titanium or nandroid u can delete that too to increase space
If none works
Thn there is always external SD
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Yea that's weird. I9505 here with the same exact problem, Echoe rom.
It says 9 GB available, 5 GB used, 800 MB free. :S
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TheBeast said:
Yea that's weird. I9505 here with the same exact problem, Echoe rom.
It says 9 GB available, 5 GB used, 800 MB free. :S
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I have same problem. I calculate and all files 4 GB Capacity 8.9 GB it means around 5 GB free space. But it shows 200 MB free space. I could not understand why.
Voveltaire said:
Hello everybody, i have a i9500 phone, with crash rom installed..
Here is the question,
In the storage section,
All Storage is 8,8
Apps are 2.9 GB
Photos, videos are 125 MB
Audio is 496 KB
Downloads is 114 MB
And the others are 44 and 70
But it says usable storage is 1,09
As you see, usable storage should be at least 4-5 gb,
Why is it like this and what should I do?
Tried flashing other roms like cm11 and phoenix, but no help.
Wiping data doesn't help either.
What should I do?
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EIAIZ said:
I have same problem. I calculate and all files 4 GB Capacity 8.9 GB it means around 5 GB free space. But it shows 200 MB free space. I could not understand why.
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Did you guys solve this?
Anyone know how to fix this?
I was on custom rom, I had this problem. Now i'm back to stock but still 2 GB missing.
Solution
Alright finally fixed it. With ES file explorer I went to mnt > shell > 0 > Android > obb. Apparently, there were 2 game files that should've been deleted but for some reason they were there.
So yeah whatever it is, it can be found with root file explorers and can be deleted, you just gotta search.
Worth noting: if you've ever made a backup via recovery (cwm), it will eat up a good 3-4gb.
Rakcoon said:
Worth noting: if you've ever made a backup via recovery (cwm), it will eat up a good 3-4gb.
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Yes but it would be seen in the storage info under miscellaneous category. The problem here was that some of the memory was missing without any info as to what's using it.
TheBeast said:
Yes but it would be seen in the storage info under miscellaneous category. The problem here was that some of the memory was missing without any info as to what's using it.
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No, it doesn't show up on misc. Titanium backup will be listed, but not if you backed up using recovery. The back up I'm referring to is of the phone in its entirety which can be between 3-6gb.
i am using TWRP recovery for the first time ever, (only exp is with CWM) with my G2 i did a factory ROM back up , ( build 12b, verizon) and its chewed up 8.3 gb, and i cannot use ROM manager to upload it to my computer.. Is this a glitch, normal, or do i need to adjust a setting? my experience with CWM, i am used to seeing 800mb - 1.5 gb. so im kinda of confused lol. if you got anything that can help me, i would appreciate it. thanks
really hoping someone knows something before i format data
Yeah, man, I think that's normal...32GB total internal memory, stock rom only leaves 24 free. 8GB sounds about right.
My backups with twrp are around 3.5Gb...
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hardball 45 said:
Yeah, man, I think that's normal...32GB total internal memory, stock rom only leaves 24 free. 8GB sounds about right.
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I'm not sure if even half of that 8 gb is in use.
But why don't you just check what's taking so much space?
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Makrilli said:
I'm not sure if even half of that 8 gb is in use.
But why don't you just check what's taking so much space?
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well right now:
boot (16mb)
recovery (16mb)
system (2468 mb)
data (6247mb) < i think this includes a 7.4 gb restore point>
cache (22mb)
then it says I have 9.5 gb avail. doesn't seem to add I up I don't think. isn't this a total storage snap shot of my entire system? but at any rate, when I use CWM my saves tend to be under 1.5 gb.
cache (22mb)
Do you use Google Play Music? If so, I believe that data is stored in the data partition. For me, Google Play Music takes up 5GB on my phone.