I recently let the ota update of mf3 on my galaxy s4 I then proceeded to root it only to get the wifi tether Apk but was unable to do so. I ultimately I noticed the device only shows roughly 800mbs of storage available with only 8 gbs used including the 6.38gb system memory I have a 64gb micro sd with Everything on it instead of on my devices storage in the graph under storage in settings free space is half of the graph although in its own category it only shows 800mbs free
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Hello
I have a question.
I looked at my storage space today (in settings) and it shows as 16gb used and 11gb free. But i dont have apps that large.
So my question is. Is this an error or when its not what uses so much storage space?
I looked trough my apps and none uses enough storage to fill this much space.
What did i overlook?
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Do you have the 32GB or 16GB model? Also, which section are you looking at?
I have the 16 GB model, so my "Internal Storage" section reads 12.51GB total space. The graph breaks it down as 4.55GB of media files and 0.49GB (500MB) for applications, with 7.47GB remaining free space.
Unfortunately, you have not provided near enough information for us to assist effectively. More detail please.
Google map takes 256 mb itself and can grow with cache .
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Its the 32 gb model
The 16 gb used are just applications. 700MB for media and 11 gb free.
So the space adds up correctly to the 32 gb version
But i have only like 35 apps installed. Most of them i have on my phone too
I looked under applications and none of the downloaded apps (even with data and cache) are big enough by themself or summed together to fill 16gb. Did not look trough all app that came preinstalled though.
So i am wondering where the storage space goes.
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I just checked my available storage and it says I have less than what I should have available. Is this a glitch or am I over looking something?
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That missing space is reserved for the system. Ram is advertised as 2gb but is 1.8gb. Same goes with if you're to buy a hard drive.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the total space already excluding the reserved space?
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Good Guy Mark said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the total space already excluding the reserved space?
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The way you word is kind of confusing.
You buy 16GB
16GB - Whatevers reserved for Android = comes out to be 12.96GB
It's the same thing if you were to buy CPU RAM, Internal & External Hard Drives, microSD, SD, USB drives etc.
Yea but look at my remaining space it's not supposed to be that small according to the graph and what space is being occupied by everything else on the list
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Do you have a bunch nandroid backups?
You could use DiskUsage to figure out whats eating your space. Nicely shows you graphically your entire "SD card". If the System Data section in DiskUsage is huge, then like jr67 said, maybe backups.
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You could use DiskUsage to figure out whats eating your space. Nicely shows you graphically your entire "SD card". If the System Data section in DiskUsage is huge, then like jr67 said, maybe backups.
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Would that be the cause of this?
When I had a Samsung 10.1 tablet I was able to modify vfstab via init.d to allow me to swap internal memory with the sdcard. This allowed me to realise more available memory than the default 16Gb, albeit with a slight but acceptable performance hit. Try as I might I cannot achieve the same time on my S5.
Can I ask if anyone has looked into this or at best achieved a memory to SD card swap?
Thx
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Also looking to swap internal to external SD... Anyone tried it?
[Q] Is there a method to increase internal storage (PIT file etc.)?
Hi,
I'm going to buy a Note 4 SM-910F, and I have some concerns about internal storage that runs low with many apps installed, even on relatively new phones like Galaxy S5 (16 GB internal storage). I know that Note 4 has at least 32 GB, but have any of you had a problem with insufficient storage, with let's say 100-150 apps installed? If so, is there a way to increase internal storage, like we could with the old Galaxy S2, for example flashing PIT file to repartition? Or we are just left with installing apps on SD card which will slow down their launch time?
Cheers.
I'm assuming that all Note 4 variants have 32GB internal storage. I have 167 apps installed on my phone, plus all the bloatware from ATT and Samsung.i can easily installanotger 150+ apps. I used to have an S2 and from what I remember, it had a partition set aside for app storage, which was relatively easy to fill up, but once you did, you'd still have room for files like music, etc.
Later Android versions changed how data was partitioned so that your personal files and app storage are now shared. So the Note 4 has plenty of app room, plus there is a built in feature that can transfer apps to external SD... if you ever need to.
Simply put, you have to be concerned about.
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Didn't know about the changes in newer Android versions. Thank you for your comprehensive answer
After I upgraded my T-Mobile S7 Edge to Nougat, I had about 6Gb or so free of space. I've installed a few apps but even after there was about 4 Gb or so leftover. Slowly though that has whittled down to about 900Mb and it was about 1.8Gb last week. I regularly clear my cache so that's not the issue. I just have no idea of what is reducing the storage space.
I've tried using DiskUsage to see where all the storage has gone but nothing stands out as using a lot of space and not especially Gb's worth of storage.
Any thoughts on what could be gobbling up my phone storage?
Thanks,
Mark