I upgraded to Lollipop on my 32 gig Nexus 7 it shows that I have 4.6 gig free. What happened to all my gigs and how do I get them back?
mojimmy said:
I upgraded to Lollipop on my 32 gig Nexus 7 it shows that I have 4.6 gig free. What happened to all my gigs and how do I get them back?
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Been seeing this posted a lot recently, seems the answer is to do a factory reset.
Yeah it seems everyone does factory reset to solve this, and that's fine if you don't care about keeping your data, but I'd first try just using fastboot to flash system.img from the stock lollipop 5.0 firmware. (I sideloaded the OTA and didn't have this issue.)
The issue is that user data is flashed instead of erased when you loaded the factory image. A factory reset reformats it and restores the correct partition size.
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I've been just plain unlocked and rooted for the past couple days, and decided to put my first ROM on my N7 today. I downloaded Glazed Jellybean, and since I was coming from a stock rom, it said to do the wipe/factory reset, which I did. At this point, I had about 4 GB space used, 1.5 gb free. I flashed the rom and it installed, but when I went to check my storage, I still had that 4 GB used, yet of course all of the apps were gone from the ROM install. Does anyone know how to get that storage back? Thanks
Not sure how this happened, but I had ~27GB free until the OTA update to 4.2.2. Clockworkmod correctly detected that SU and it were trying to be replaced, so I still have root. But now I have only 6GB free! Sounds like it might be an issue with what image was applied, but I had no choice in the matter.
Any way to get my space back without flashing a stock image?
Apparently not. Had to download factory image. But at least I have 27GB free again.
Be careful with the OTA upgrade!
i did my upgrade via factory image but got the same issue! now i dont know what to do :/
EDIT: reflashed system image in toolkit and all good. shame i had to lose my data!
This happens even when flashing roms customs.
I identified this problem at the beginning that I had the Nexus 7. It can occur on 8, 16 and 32GB.
I have not found the reason, but must complete a minimum internal storage. If you flash the empty shelf or very stingy, this problem can occur.
I suggest you fill in the data storage, movies, music, etc. and try once again a complete restauration using a toolkit.
It can also work without completing the internal storage but it will then try several.
Why a toolkit? because with fastboot, I never succeeded to get my total storage.
This problem has existed since 4.1.1.
You have been warned for your next flash.
I have basic Android programming skills. Would an application that automatically filled "most" of the disk prior to upgrade, then deleted it post-upgrade, be of any value?
We'd have to define "most" since there's probably some overhead needed to do the upgrade, but my guess if is you take a bit more than the size of the next lowest model (e.g. 9GB of the 16GB model) it's enough to trigger the behavior you say.
I flashed to Jellybean 4.3 Factory image from 4.2.2 on my 16 GB Nexus4. After flashing the device shows available space as 5gb only. I have done it twice and its the same result.
Baseband Version is M6915A-CEFWMAZM-2.2.1700.84.
Build number is JWR66V.
I think its some problem of the build number or the baseband version.
Please Help.
sank912 said:
I flashed to Jellybean 4.3 Factory image from 4.2.2 on my 16 GB Nexus4. After flashing the device shows available space as 5gb only. I have done it twice and its the same result.
Baseband Version is M6915A-CEFWMAZM-2.2.1700.84.
Build number is JWR66V.
I think its some problem of the build number or the baseband version.
Please Help.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.levelokment.storageanalyser
Install this and see what it says is taking up so much space.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2033692
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The problem is solved. I booted into recovery mode and did a factory reset and cleared cache. Then rebooted as normal.
hey, i'll be brief...
today (maybe yesterday for you.. nevermind) i was rooting my nexus 4 after bootloader unlocking... during the procedure my computer has freezed, so i rebooted it and after few minutes i tried again and this time i have correctly rooted my phone... then i flashed a custom rom and finally few hours ago i went into fastboot mode, erased all the imgs (userdata, boot, system, etc... don't ask me why i've done that, i'm very stupid...) and flashed the 4.3 factory image on the google site... and just now i've realized that my internal storage has switched from 12,95 GB to 5,6 GB...... I purchased the 16 gb version, but now i litterally have a 8 gb one... so tell me, is it a software problem? is it easily solvable or I have to ship the phone in warranty? please, answer me asap, i'm hopeless at the moment!!!
p.s. 5,9 GB is the TOTAL ammount that the os takes over, not the available..
I've had the same experience once,
Go to official android page, download the JDQ39 version and reflash it. Then optional for the cwm installation and others.
I had it a couple of times, so chillax.
yeah, i was already trying it... my router is very low-power now, so it is taking a lot.. omg this reassure me! ahahahahhaa i was going out of mind, thanks bro!
So, I flashed back to stock to take the OTA using NRT, the process went off without a hitch. I realized once I got most of my stuff setup that I only have 6gb instead of the 13 or so I had previously. to be clear, I have the 16 gb tablet but now its showing 6 gb total. I wanted to see if anyone knows how to resize or re partition my device. Or if there's a way to roll back, I went back to my old custom rom and it still doesn't show the full space.
This has happened to me several times while flashing factory images. The only fix I know of is to do a factory data reset.