Just looking around in setting today and saw if I go to Settings > Storage > Misc. It shows System Data at 8.1GB. Is this alarmingly big? I've used DiskUsage utility to look for this "chuck" of data and can't seem to find it. A friend of mine here where I work has a Tmobile G2 and he does not have this in his Misc. Mine is a Verizon version if that matters. Any ideas how to find out what this "System Data" is?
It is what it says. It is 32 gig storage but you should notice that space is less. If you are rooted you may knock that down a little removing unneeded bloat
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Bigralphn said:
It is what it says. It is 32 gig storage but you should notice that space is less. If you are rooted you may knock that down a little removing unneeded bloat
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8GB for system data? Seem large. Also my co-worker's G2 does not have anything for system data under Misc. What exactly is "System Data" counting?
Also, my uncompressed nandroid backups are only 3gig. Something amiss here.
I am unrooted and mine says 7.9. No idea what it all is.
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Same here, unrooted stock... definitely not just bloat
Mine there is no folder "system data" in misc. folder.
Mine is not root.
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I have a G2 from Verizon and have 7.4GB in the "misc" category, which is stated to be "system data", and I have a hunch that this is from the tutorial videos supplied with the phone from Verizon. These are fairly high res videos, and they are likely the cause of this huge chunk of data. I turned my phone to airplane mode and they still played just fine, so they are on the phone itself.
To see if you have these videos, open the "Help" app (I had mine hidden, so I had to go to the app drawer, hit menu, then "show/hide apps") and browse any of the topics. Nearly all of them have a 1-2 minute video explaining the features. If the size of the videos holds similar to the time lapse 1080p videos that come in the gallery and are 100-200MB each, this is almost certainly what is taking up the 7GB on my phone.
I have not yet rooted my G2, as I have only had it for a couple days, but I will try to look for a way to remove this with the file browser, but I'm guessing they will be located in a protected system folder and require rooting to remove. I doubt disabling the Help app will do anything, either.
I have the same problem with my LG G3 32GB, the system data was 7.8 GB and then I realize that this includes every song I download locally to use with Google music, the moment I move that to the SD card I free 3gb in one chunk
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I got this error message appears in the right lower corner of the screen: Low on space.
I check the storage of xoom, 29GB was used by apps. Then I check the storage used by each apps, none of them used more then 25MB storage, the total should be less than 250Mb.
could anyone help me about this issue? Thanks.
Do you have any media on the device?
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Do you have any media on the device?
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There is no media in the device.
29GB used by apps??? What apps do you have installed?
This is obviously an error on how the hardware is reporting available space to the device. Not totally sure how to fix it....
Huh, strange one. Maybe do a factory reset? Definitely a problem.
Sirchuk said:
Huh, strange one. Maybe do a factory reset? Definitely a problem.
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It seems that I have no other choices.
Wow I don't know if there are enough apps in the market to fill over 29 GB.
I I just got the same error out of nowhere. 29 gig plus use by my apps. I load up the apps and the biggest one is my gallery with 1.9 gb. There's definite problem reporting somewhere.
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Delete some of the more "low rent" apps. Probably bad programming throwing the xoom off.
I just wanted to confirm this just happened to me yesterday as well. I had just checked my storage (aprox. 1.5gb media/2gb apps) then crashed out for a quick nap. About an hour later I awoke, rolled over, grabbed my Xoom and discovered I had the same dreaded memory notification that has plagued my Incredible. Checked storage and suddenly had like 28gb in my apps! Market quit working because of this as well, couldn't update or install apps. I found no other solution other than factory reset as deleting the apps one by one did not free up the space. The last 2 apps I recall downloading were friendstream and tablet keyboard. I was thinking an errant app was downloading all sorts of stuff as I was connected to wifi or perhaps didn't know how to properly utilize the Xoom's memory as it is a little different than your standard Android device. If this is a system OS issue as it is with my Inc, this is totally unacceptable and needs to be identified and addressed by google soon.
Anyone have any other ideas on what is causing this or how to help identify where/how exactly our memory space is vanishing?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=983866
Happened to me too. Factory reset 'resolved' it, but didn't really do anything to figure out what the root cause of the issue is... I went so far as to uninstall all the large games on my Xoom and no luck.
Just plugged my Xoom in this morning, first time in a couple of days and my storage is full. I've calculated all the apps I've got installed based on the 'Manage Applications' reported storage usage and with all the apps I've got installed I'm at about 1.5gb, yet when I go to 'Storage' in Settings it reports I've got 11gb of apps installed. My normal storage usage hasn't changed, I've used about 16gb with music and roms and such, but somehow magically I'm using 11gb of storage for apps that it can't actually find... What do I do? Any suggestions? Never had anything like this happen on my Droid so I'm pretty lost.
edit: It's also keeping me from installing anything at all or even updating apps... Pretty annoying.
Just a guess but did you take application storage onto account PR just the application itself. 10 Gig seems excessive for application storage but some games have large files.
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Just a guess but did you take application storage onto account PR just the application itself. 10 Gig seems excessive for application storage but some games have large files.
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The game data for all my games seems in line with the games I'm playing. In the 'Manage Applications' menu, it shows aggregate total, including application storage.
I just uninstalled all the big apps, still nothing. Astro didn't help me figure anything out either, I've got absolutely no idea what's using 11gb of storage now, I certainly have less than 1gb installed and I've only got 2gb free.
Wound up backing everything up and resetting it to defaults... Have no idea what happened but I'll be pretty annoyed if it happens again.
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Wound up backing everything up and resetting it to defaults... Have no idea what happened but I'll be pretty annoyed if it happens again.
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That sucks!
How did you go about doing your backup (and restore)? Are you rooted?
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Just plugged my Xoom in this morning, first time in a couple of days and my storage is full. I've calculated all the apps I've got installed based on the 'Manage Applications' reported storage usage and with all the apps I've got installed I'm at about 1.5gb, yet when I go to 'Storage' in Settings it reports I've got 11gb of apps installed. My normal storage usage hasn't changed, I've used about 16gb with music and roms and such, but somehow magically I'm using 11gb of storage for apps that it can't actually find... What do I do? Any suggestions? Never had anything like this happen on my Droid so I'm pretty lost.
edit: It's also keeping me from installing anything at all or even updating apps... Pretty annoying.
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From the market, download an app called DiskUsage. It provides a visual breakdown of all of the data on your device. It should be fairly easy using this app to identify why and where all of this used data is coming from. Hope it helps.
Can someone help me figure out what's up with my storage space on my N7? I'm getting a notification saying "Storage space running out". According to this screenshot, I should have about 8.1 GB used. With 13.24 total that should leave me with about 5 GB free. Now I understand there are some other things that take up space, but how can that be over 4.5 GB's worth? Anyone have any ideas on what might be taking up all that space, and if there's anything I can do about it? I have a bunch of pinned documents on my Google drive, but they should be more than a few MB. I don't want to do a full reset and have to re-root and re-add all my apps and documents and media. I've tried rebooting a couple of times with no change. I can add any additional information that would be helpful.
I have the same problem, made a thread and no suggestions. Is this a hardware issue? I don't see any similar issues except for Nexus 7's.
Empty your Chrome cache
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I fixed it by formatting the internal sdcard through TWRP.
Thank for your solution, it works for me
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Empty your Chrome cache
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For future reference, the flash usage reported in that image that you posted is not all inclusive, it only reports storage used by apps/music/videos/downloads, as it says. The reported free space should be correct though, but if you add up the usage that it shows it won't necessarily make sense with the free space that it reports because other things use storage that it is not reporting.
Hi,
Not a biggie, more a frustration that I don't understand.
Is this correct with regard Internal Memory.
Am I missing something
I can't see how I am using over 12gb of memory, I don't have video, music etc on the phone that I know of, Titanium is around 1 Gb which seems normal. CWM backup is around 500MB.
1. Is there a way to see what is using my memory?
2. What can I safely delete to free up memory if needed?
Many thanks as always.
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Hi,
Not a biggie, more a frustration that I don't understand.
Is this correct with regard Internal Memory.
Am I missing something
I can't see how I am using over 12gb of memory, I don't have video, music etc on the phone that I know of, Titanium is around 1 Gb which seems normal. CWM backup is around 500MB.
1. Is there a way to see what is using my memory?
2. What can I safely delete to free up memory if needed?
Many thanks as always.
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Have you checked the partitioning? I don't know how or why it would be altered, but there seems to be a discrepancy between the visual bar graph (which shows mostly gray = free space) and the actual space it reports to be available.
Try these:
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Try these:
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Thanks for the quick replies,
My second picture was taken when I run Clean Master and shows that I only have 6% free.
I have run and posted the SD Maid, which shows I have only 700MB left.
The graph on my first pic 'the grey bit' shows loads of space. And adding up segments it totals about 4GB .so in theory I should have loads left.
The only issue is that I get low memory warnings when I creeps over 95% and I can't see what is using up the memory to clean/clear it.
Stumped
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Thanks for the quick replies,
My second picture was taken when I run Clean Master and shows that I only have 6% free.
I have run and posted the SD Maid, which shows I have only 700MB left.
The graph on my first pic 'the grey bit' shows loads of space. And adding up segments it totals about 4GB .so in theory I should have loads left.
The only issue is that I get low memory warnings when I creeps over 95% and I can't see what is using up the memory to clean/clear it.
Stumped
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Perhaps you can do a factory reset and see if the problem persists. Backup your important data first.
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Perhaps you can do a factory reset and see if the problem persists. Backup your important data first.
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As much as I have been avoiding this I have wiped and factory reset and I am back to 10GB in use and 2ish available.
Still not convinced and still confused as to what is causing it.
Factory reset only deleted internal data. Try also wiping data from recovery. Backup your stuff first.
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Factory reset only deleted internal data. Try also wiping data from recovery. Backup your stuff first.
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I did wipe all and dalvic and that is what went down to 10GB.
I have a rooted S5 w/ 16GB of internal storage, but I'm rarely able to update/download new apps. I have to scrounge for apps to delete for a half hour just to get it to let me download a new app or update an app. I have moved just about all the apps I can to the SD card (32GB, less than half used).
In the storage screen it says I have used 14.88GB in apps, and <20MB in everything else with "Free space" around 400-500MB. I usually have to get it to mid 500s before it will let me do anything on it. To make matters worse, somehow the apps I uninstall keep reinstalling themselves.
My problem seems to be this big "Applications" thing - which isn't right. I have some large apps, but they keep all their data on the SD card (like podcasts with PocketCasts). On my applications manager, from top down in size - facebook @ 190MB, google play services at 156MB, google app at 134MB... dropping off fairly quickly after that, so no way its 15GB worth.
What am I missing? Do others constantly have this problem? It is getting ridiculous! No reason that I can see that there should be a big bunch of stuff that is counted as used when it isn't.
Some things I've tried:
I heard about something the dumpstate/logcat, I cleared it but nothing got better
I used adb to set the default install location to the external SD card (I forget the exact command), as far as I can tell it is still trying to install in the internal SD card.
Any suggestions or more information needed?
EDIT:
More information thanks to DiskUsage (forgot I can download APKs - which install fine). It shows my internal SD card breakdown as 10796MB overall, 2612MB app data, 7815MB "System data", and 340MB free space (plus some other misc. that makes up the difference). I don't have a great understanding of how this is partitioned, but I'd imagine the ~16GB has 5GB off limits for ROM stuff? Then what is taking up nearly 8GB as "System data"? Is this normal?
EDIT 2:
Looks like it was creating duplicates in data/app (on a lot of phones I think this is data/app-lib). I used root explorer to purge the duplicates, and now have nearly 3GB free instead of a couple hundred MB!
I have the same problems but I use DiskUsage from the Play Store. Most of the time it's my cache for the download manager has several gigs of wasted space. Clearing cache fixes it for me.
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I have the same problems but I use DiskUsage from the Play Store. Most of the time it's my cache for the download manager has several gigs of wasted space. Clearing cache fixes it for me.
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I'll check that out the next time I am able to install an app but I should mention I also tap the "cached data" in the storage manager thing (in settings). Usually doesn't work I also use CleanMaster, which seems like it works, some times.
EDIT: Just checked it out, that's awesome! I have been looking for this kind of app, I use WinDirStat on windows that does something similar.
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EDIT: Just checked it out, that's awesome! I have been looking for this kind of app, I use WinDirStat on windows that does something similar.
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I use WinDirStat also. I really like the visual presentation of both.
Here ya go. You can try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=66304384
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