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[Q] Why does my 16 GB model think it only has 8 GB?

So I was messing around rooting, unlocking the bootloader, and whatnot with my Nexus 4 16 GB, and bricked it somewhere along the way.
I followed this guide to return to stock and everything started working perfectly again.
Except, the storage is now only showing 5.67 GB total which may indicate that it's the 8 GB model. But I'm absolutely certain that I've the 16 GB one as it's showing just fine before I bricked it.
What should I do to get my $50 worth of space back?

elkhouri said:
So I was messing around rooting, unlocking the bootloader, and whatnot with my Nexus 4 16 GB, and bricked it somewhere along the way.
I followed this guide to return to stock and everything started working perfectly again.
Except, the storage is now only showing 5.67 GB total which may indicate that it's the 8 GB model. But I'm absolutely certain that I've the 16 GB one as it's showing just fine before I bricked it.
What should I do to get my $50 worth of space back?
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I ran into the same issue last week.
adb -w might be enough.
You can try fastboot -w update image-occam-jop40d.zip
Here's my link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028405 with more linky goodness inside. Thank El Daddy.

this is a known software bug; try flashing the stock rom via Googles script in the rom package instead that might fix it; also make sure you downloaded the rom package direct from google.
just extract the "occam-jop40c-factory-cd3dc140.tgz" into the platform-tools directory of the android SDK then run the flashall.bat script google provided it should fix the problem as it uses the -w update.
im not sure why people bother flashing everything manually takes too long, and if your not expirenced at flashing its more prone to cause issues from user error google gave us scripts for a reason

Sorry for not realizing a thread with the exact same issue already exists.
And thanks! I shall go try that right now.

elkhouri said:
Sorry for not realizing a thread with the exact same issue already exists.
And thanks! I shall go try that right now.
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Just follow what it says in the link El Daddy provided. If you have a lot of data you don't want to lose adb back up and restore is painless, just a little slow.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

I made a thread about this last week. It's been buried though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35119185
Thanks for the link CMNein!
Sent from my Nexus 4

Alright, followed the steps here. Wiped/erased data, cache, everything, then updated using the image-occam-jop40d.zip that I got from Google devs.
Now it won't boot up past the X. Any suggestions? Help much appreciated.

elkhouri said:
Alright, followed the steps here. Wiped/erased data, cache, everything, then updated using the image-occam-jop40d.zip that I got from Google devs.
Now it won't boot up past the X. Any suggestions? Help much appreciated.
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Reboot into stock recovery. Press volume up and power to open the menu.
Factory reset and wipe cache from there.
Sent from my Nexus 4

El Daddy said:
Reboot into stock recovery. Press volume up and power to open the menu.
Factory reset and wipe cache from there.
Sent from my Nexus 4
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Thank you very much. Problem solved, and everything back to normal.
This has truly been the most helpful community.

Missing Storage Space

Ok so who stole my internal storage space, I know it wasn't the backups as they aren't any in /mnt/shell/emulated/?
I'm very confused

ScuzUK said:
Ok so who stole my internal storage space, I know it wasn't the backups as they aren't any in /mnt/shell/emulated/?
I'm very confused
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Ok - so its not just me. I updated to 4.4 yesterday and this morning noticed I was missing a lot of space.
I did a manual update then installed Team Win recovery - now only have 5.67 out of 16 gigs space.
No idea what the issue is but if anyone can help......

backups are on /data/media/clockworkmod
for twrp is the space avalaible only 6gigs or u have 6gigs left of 13 gigs?

opssemnik said:
backups are on /data/media/clockworkmod
for twrp is the space avalaible only 6gigs or u have 6gigs left of 13 gigs?
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I'm not sure where in TWRP to see the amount of space - best I can find is under backups it tells me I have 2001 mb free, same as in the phone settings.
Under the mount menu I do see that only unmount data and unmount cache are x'd. Mount system and Mount SD card are unchecked. And it's set to use internal storage.
And just in case it helps:

mattarse said:
Ok - so its not just me. I updated to 4.4 yesterday and this morning noticed I was missing a lot of space.
I did a manual update then installed Team Win recovery - now only have 5.67 out of 16 gigs space.
No idea what the issue is but if anyone can help......
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My friend you are right you are not the only one and I assume you updated using the images right? Ok well if you look on every page of this section of our lovely forum you will see multiple threads with the same issue. Simple man you need stock recovery and you would have to do a factory reset to get your storage back but from stock and not custom recovery... For more info simply scroll through these pages or use Google
Edit: My bad by manual update did you mean images? Or did you use which I think all should use the numerous zip files out there

playya said:
My friend you are right you are not the only one and I assume you updated using the images right? Ok well if you look on every page of this section of our lovely forum you will see multiple threads with the same issue. Simple man you need stock recovery and you would have to do a factory reset to get your storage back but from stock and not custom recovery... For more info simply scroll through these pages or use Google
Edit: My bad by manual update did you mean images? Or did you use which I think all should use the numerous zip files out there
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I used the images downloaded from here -
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/occam-krt16o-factory-75ccae7a.tgz
Installed using fastboot - went back to a completely blank, stock phone.
So if I redo it with stick recovery - am I going to lose it again if I install twrp again? All past post I find are a little vague as to the cause and effect.

mattarse said:
I used the images downloaded from here -
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/occam-krt16o-factory-75ccae7a.tgz
Installed using fastboot - went back to a completely blank, stock phone.
So if I redo it with stick recovery - am I going to lose it again if I install twrp again? All past post I find are a little vague as to the cause and effect.
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my friend have you searched for your issue after I mentioned it. There are tutorials on what to do. You have to go back to stock recovery and then do a data/factory wipe... Sorry no you will not lose anything after reinstalling TWRP, its not TWRP that caused your issue

playya said:
my friend have you searched for your issue after I mentioned it. There are tutorials on what to do. You have to go back to stock recovery and then do a data/factory wipe... Sorry no you will not lose anything after reinstalling TWRP, its not TWRP that caused your issue
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I searched and found the fix - but couldn't find a specific answer as to whether TWRP was causing the issue or not.
The space is back now though - thanks - about to add twrp again and root it once more.

mattarse said:
I searched and found the fix - but couldn't find a specific answer as to whether TWRP was causing the issue or not.
The space is back now though - thanks - about to add twrp again and root it once more.
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Glad you are back up and running
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

[Q] Nexus internal memory broken?

Hi folks,
I have just flashed stock boot.img 4.4.2. and now I see that my internal storage shrunk from 28gb to 6 gb max..
So, where are my 22gb?
Edit: Help.. I just cant get it back.. In the screenshot it says: 6gb available out of 29gb.. with a full wipe and clean install!
Please, help! I have tried wugs toolkit, but flashing stock and going back to all normal doesn't work, because it always fails..

duvee said:
Hi folks,
I have just flashed stock boot.img 4.4.2. and now I see that my internal storage shrunk from 28gb to 6 gb max..
So, where are my 22gb?
I must admit, I didnt flashed it like always, but everything looked fine because it booted..
I know this has something to do with partitions, but I dont have knowledge about that. I used a wipescript.
Cheers,
Duvee
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I thought I read somewhere, I could be wrong, that after a stock flash you need to do a factory reset within the device to really be a "stock" flash...
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Never heard of that step?.. Can somebody confirm this is needed to get the normal internal storage?
I have a 32gb model, and at 'storage' there was always a total of 28+gb . Now I know you loose some gb due to the fact it is needed for android to run. But I cant believe my internal storage really shrunk from 28+ to 6gb.
Is it reversable?

Yea its reversible your nexus thinks its the 8 GB version try factory reset , wipe cache and wipe dalvic cache and if the all fails reflash the ROM basicly you need to get your nexus to reevaluate its storage
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Sounds logical.. Thnx will try that!

See op for edit.. Please help, somebody..

OK try this one make sure you wipe everything (not the bootloader) as per the instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796
[GUIDE] Flashing a Factory Image with fastboot / return to stock
Programming is a race between engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

hehe, i appreciate the help!
but I manage to fix it..
I was lucky I had a really old version of Wugs toolkit on my laptop.. Happy I did not remove that one. Because going back to stock worked really good on that version.
Now I installed stock by flashing boot, system, etc one by one and it all worked out well.
finally problem solved

[Q] Nexus 10 32gb Storage issue

Alright, I got a Nexus 10 32gb. I could not root the device after an OTA update. The device just wouldn't root, so I re flashed the factory image. Now my 32gb Nexus 10 is now seen as a 16gb. I've been using it as is for the last few weeks. Afraid to re flash it and cut my storage in half again .
So anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Will re flashing through fastboot fix this problem?
Thank you,

Hi,
Same happened to me, all I did to fix was a factory reset from settings (you'll lose everything and need to root again).
~Lord

XxLordxX said:
Hi,
Same happened to me, all I did to fix was a factory reset from settings (you'll lose everything and need to root again).
~Lord
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Yep, that worked. Thank you. got all 32gb back (Well 26.92gb to be exact)

Nexus 1 1st Gen. Storage is showing 6GB after upgarde

I am sorry if this question has been asked before . I have nexus 7 1st gen 32GB. I updated to ver 5 and now it is showing 5949 GB. Have done factory reset several time, Data, cache wipe but no luck.
The partition shown with PC is same and any ROM or file placed here cannot be flashed. I have restored to factory and re-rooted it but same result.
Thanks in advance.

Uetian said:
I am sorry if this question has been asked before . I have nexus 7 1st gen 32GB. I updated to ver 5 and now it is showing 5949 GB. Have done factory reset several time, Data, cache wipe but no luck.
The partition shown with PC is same and any ROM or file placed here cannot be flashed. I have restored to factory and re-rooted it but same result.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi, Uetian...
I've not experienced this problem myself, but I've read that it does seem to be a relatively common problem...
See this...
[SOLVED] Nexus 7 32GB down to 6GB internal memory
...and this...
Lost A LOT of storage after installing a new ROM
...and specifically this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39535589&postcount=4
Rgrds,
Ged.

Thanks for quick reply but looks like the simple methods don't work and for other commands I guess I need to be developer.