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Nexus 4 internal memory issue

Since I rooted my phone and installed some custom ROMS. I've noticed that I've only been able to access about 4gigs of my internal memory on my 16gb Nexus 4. I deleted all the files from my phone to see if a phantom file was holding my space hostage. But nothing I've found works. I'm still checking around to see if there's anything I can do without destroying my phone. I'm currently running Paranoid droid 2.99 Jan 03.

Any backups in data/media/?

negroplasty said:
Any backups in data/media/?
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No backups at all. I copied off all of my backups and deleted all the files and folders from my root.
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It only is showing 4gbsnof space available.
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i would unroot and back to stock then call google and tell them to send you new one

You already tried formating everything using recovery and reinstalling an already made backup(system only) stored in your pc using the toolkit?

No but I will later
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I have this EXACT SAME problem... Flashing to stock makes no difference basically looks like the 16gb has been formatted to an 8gb phone with the memory being 5.6gb space... I basically have Learned to live with it now such a shame but not surprised others have come across this problem
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joshndroid said:
I have this EXACT SAME problem... Flashing to stock makes no difference basically looks like the 16gb has been formatted to an 8gb phone with the memory being 5.6gb space... I basically have Learned to live with it now such a shame but not surprised others have come across this problem
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Yes many people have had your problem. I even wrote a how-to to fix it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2033692
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I'll check this out and let you know how it worked for me. Thanks.

Thanks El Daddy your guide worked perfectly. I'm back to normal and will proceed from here. Anybody else with a internal memory issue please follow El Daddy's link to correct your issue. All you need to know is basically having an understanding of fastboot.

Nexus 4 16GB Actual Storage size

My internal storage reads a 12.3 GB size, now is that including the size of the OS or not? Because after formatting my SD i have a little under 7GB available. So is the missing 5GB or so for OS? Meaning the true size of the SD is 12.3GB? That seems awfully low, even after realizing the promised storage size is always optimistic from the producer. Anyone got the answer?
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olsywolsy said:
My internal storage reads a 12.3 GB size, now is that including the size of the OS or not? Because after formatting my SD i have a little under 7GB available. So is the missing 5GB or so for OS? Meaning the true size of the SD is 12.3GB? That seems awfully low, even after realizing the promised storage size is always optimistic from the producer. Anyone got the answer?
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That sounds about right... My 211k Nexus 4 16 GB shows 12.92 GB of free space running CM10.1 nighlies, franco.kernel, .27 radio, and CWM recovery

Should look like so..
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Do without apps/pics/bids etc you should still have around 12.8 available space to be used.
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Here's mine, which in my eyes doesn't quite add up
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olsywolsy said:
Here's mine, which in my eyes doesn't quite add up
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How did you format your SD? Do you have any ROM backups?

right I just ran SD MAID and it says 9.2GB is used in folders /storage/emulated/0 and /storage/emulated/legacy - both are exact duplicates of the same ****! After googling it people seem to have the same issue! Know which one is safe to delete? I'm running AOKP milestone 1 if that helps
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olsywolsy said:
right I just ran SD MAID and it says 9.2GB is used in folders /storage/emulated/0 and /storage/emulated/legacy - both are exact duplicates of the same ****! After googling it people seem to have the same issue! Know which one is safe to delete? I'm running AOKP milestone 1 if that helps
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Both /storage/emulated/legacy and /storage/emulated/0 points to the same location so you are seeing the same files in both locations. SD Maid seems buggy if it cannot detect symlinks properly (maybe there is an option for that app so it doesn't follow symlinks).

Okay, heres a screenshot of SD MAID. I have folders sdcard/ - storage/emulated/legacy - storage/emulated/0 and storage/sdcard0 all containing the same stuff and the memory I'm missing is exactly that of which I'm already using up so it must be duplicating everything elsewhere, but in which directory?
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olsywolsy said:
Okay, heres a screenshot of SD MAID. I have folders sdcard/ - storage/emulated/legacy - storage/emulated/0 and storage/sdcard0 all containing the same stuff and the memory I'm missing is exactly that of which I'm already using up so it must be duplicating everything elsewhere, but in which directory?
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Be careful deleting either. I had a similar issue after using an old version of Astro File Manager. I think they may be "Hard Links", not "Symbolic Links". I ended up backing up my SD data, and did a Factory Reset, which formats the SD partition. All is well now.

It's a known issue that it can sometimes think you have 8GB as opposed to 16GB and the only way to fix it is to flash the factory image...there is a thread on here somewhere about it

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It's a known issue that it can sometimes think you have 8GB as opposed to 16GB and the only way to fix it is to flash the factory image...there is a thread on here somewhere about it
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I would recommend doing this!
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Okay I'll give this a go and report back. Factory reset via setting>backup & reset >factory data reset, right?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2033692
This thread? I shall give it a go. Do I need to flash back to the stock ROM to do this or can I simply flash my recovery back to stock do the factory reset and then flash CM recovery again?
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olsywolsy said:
Okay I'll give this a go and report back. Factory reset via setting>backup & reset >factory data reset, right?
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I think were talking about 2 different issues. You phone knows it has 16GB, it's just the files are taking twice the space.
Yes, setting>backup & reset >factory data reset was what worked for me.
The other issue was when flashing custom ROM's, on a 16GB model, your phone became a 8GB model.

So you don't believe I have this issue of a 16Gb model believing its an 8Gb model? But instead just because my filed are duplicated?
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Holy ****, found the culprit. I had 3 nandroid backups taking up 5.6 GB. Never realised they were located outside of the sdcard. I have 8.somethingGB free now. Apologies for wasting time! Thanks anyway
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They are on the SD card, just not normally visible in Windows. If you go to /data/media/clockworkmod in your favourite root explorer (e.g. ES) you'll find them there (or you can delete them through your custom recovery)

Yes I meant not visible as opposed to not actually being present on the sdcard
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After factory reset I show a total available space of 12.92gb and with nothing loaded on the device it says 10.21gb available. Is this normal? I was under the impression that if the internal storage was wiped I should have pretty much all of the 12.92gb available for use due to the other 3 gb 13-16 being used for the actual system. What am I missing?
Thanks

mf3 miscellaneous files storage 8.18gb?

why is my miscellaneous portion of storage showing as 8 gb? if I click it, it says "7.97gb system memory" and underneath shows folders like zedge and kindle. my largest folder shown after I click on miscellaneous is zedge which is 135 mb. I'm unrooted and on mf3. (galaxy s4 i337) my gut feeling is that the 7.97 gb is the space that is taken up by default due to bloatware and preloaded apps. please help me explain why 7.97 gb of my phone's space is "system memory". thank you.
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You guessed right...we have a huge system partition...nothing you can do about it...we need a dev to redo our partition layouts...but before we can do that we need a bootloader unlock...a real unlock, not an exploit like loki as rhat just allows flashing kernels and recoveries
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Only 6 for me

On Cyannogenmod it is much less, only 1.3GB for me. Is that expected?
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well thanks everyone. I really don't mind the space taken. rather I just wanted to just know what was taking up the space. thanks again
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Help! :( Internal storage shows 6GB instead of 16GB

Hi guys,
Since the 4.3 update, I have only 6GB of internal space on my Nexus 7 device, even though I have the 16GB version
Do you guys now what can be the source of this problem and how can I solve it?
Thanks!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2382756

Total space 6gb, tells me the partition size is wrong. What would cause that, I dunno. I'd have to guess you played with more than just updating to 4.3. Anymore more to tell us?

Mine did this. I ended up formatting everything and flashing a new ROM.
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spitfire2425 said:
Mine did this. I ended up formatting everything and flashing a new ROM.
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How did you keep everything you needed?
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RodMyers said:
How did you keep everything you needed?
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Backup to PC?
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lars1216 said:
Backup to PC?
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Using adp?
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RodMyers said:
Using adp?
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No backup all stuff first than completely reset and flash a new rom. (backing up just like you normally would via MTP)
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I had to pull everything I wanted to keep then formatted every partition clockwork had to offer, flashed a ROM through adb sideload then moved it all back.
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budapestkave said:
Hi guys,
Since the 4.3 update, I have only 6GB of internal space on my Nexus 7 device, even though I have the 16GB version
Do you guys now what can be the source of this problem and how can I solve it?
Thanks!
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it looks like you bought a 8gb version

szabadgy said:
it looks like you bought a 8gb version
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Well, I'm sure op knows if it's an 8 or 16gb tablet lol. Mine is a 32gb tablet, and had been for over a year. When I upgraded to 4.4.4, mine did the same thing, it showed 6gb free, usable space. I formatted & reflashed everything but it didn't help.
What did help was locking & unlocking the bootloader. I also updated the bootloader but that wasn't necessary. For some reason, re-locking & then unlocking the bootloader reset the available computed space. I'd recommend anyone facing a similar problem on a nexus 7 after an update try the same thing, because for some unknown reason, the device defaults to thinking & reporting it's an 8gb tablet when it's really not.

Space taken up

So apparently I have the 8 gig model and I've cleared a lot of my sdcard off to where I have 2.38 GB used and 3.29 GB free. So where is the rest of my space? I've went through every folder on my internal SD card. Is 3gb being used by the system? If so is there a way to change it? I'm running carbon 4.3 bout to switch to slim
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The rest is used up by system. I have the 16gb and had 12 free out the box.
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