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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Something is not right:
I have used up 2.99GB for apps + movies, just 3.5MB for pictures, 20KB anf 64MB for Downloads - and yet I only have just 900MB storage space remaining???
Where are the approx. 10 other GB I should have available as storage space... Any idead/suggestions, anyone ??
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Did it show that you had 13.x GB free when you first got it? I've read of a few instances where the other people who had this problem had to do something like a factory reset before it properly allocated the free space.
Give it a factory reset/wipe, I was missing some 3GB out of nowhere that I could see.
Thanks, guys... I'll give that a try!
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Dumb me...
Apparently, Clockworkmod backups do not show in the JB Settings>Storage view.
Found out about my "rather excessive backup habit" after downloading the excellent "DiskUsage" app from the Play Store... Deleted some of my backups and did a "Factory Reset" via Settings menu.
Et voilà, 10+ GB available again...
Thanks androidarmin,
I was having a hard time figuring out why I couldnt get rid of the 13GB of data that was on my tab.
I tried the factory reset and clearing cache and all that....but all of the old data was still on there.....games and apps.
I wanted to start fresh!
DiskUsage worked awesomely!
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I was having a hard time figuring out why I couldnt get rid of the 13GB of data that was on my tab.
I tried the factory reset and clearing cache and all that....but all of the old data was still on there.....games and apps.
I wanted to start fresh!
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I too had this problem and tried factory reset but to no avail. I suspect the only way is to wipe everything from recovery (i.e. including internal storage)
my phone is 16gb version which means it should has 14.4gb total storage...
Has any facing the same problem?
Hi.
Here's a good read on the subject:
[HOW-TO] Fix internal storage if 16GB now shows 8GB
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2033692
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Encountered that one, before going into lot of steps in the thread mentioned by @TToivanen, just try to format the internal sdcard using CWM, works for me(just make sure to backup your data first).
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!
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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
I rooted my S4 16 GB and installed CM 13. After installation it show's 9gb of free space. I wiped everything and still showing occupied 7gb of space. What's the right way to wipe and how I get at least 11+GB.
probably you have to wipe your internal storage to have 11gb
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probably you have to wipe your internal storage to have 11gb
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Don't you think you posted in the wrong place?
a602820922 said:
probably you have to wipe your internal storage to have 11gb
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The storage is not one contiguous lump, if you have 16gb it is chopped up into a lot of slices Cache 2gb, system 1gb, tmpfs 900mb, and it goes on.
The /data partition is limited to 9.1gb.
to mess around with these partitions is very dangerous but i have seen it down on other devices, mostly old htc devices.
You can't increase the storage size.
Only the GT-I9500 has the possibility of increasing the actual internal storage space available to the user to 11GB.