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.
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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
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!
This is interesting. Not sure if it'is normal but after restoring my phone so I could access the full memory I played with G3 ROM and decided to go back to stock flashing the same 32GB ROM I have previously used to restore my phone. After I flashed the *.kdz file using LG Flash Tool and rebooted the phone I was back to the 10Gb of storage available. I obviously managed to restore it back to the full 24.80 GB now but I am not quite sure why this is happening. I am using European German) ROM.
Has anyone else experienced this? If so do you know whether this is normal and if there is a fix to permanently restore full memory? Or does it have something to do with the ROM itself?
After successfully flashing the .kdz, do you do a factory reset? That should solve most of the issues. I doubt your partitions are messed up, but that could also be the cause.
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.
I tried searching for awhile and couldn't find anything too related to the exact question. Seems like with every update coming out storage shows the system taking up 1gb more than previous. Its as if it doesn't delete previous android versions. Its gone from 2.5gb few updates ago to now 5.6gb but the android updates are no more than 1gb. Its about when I started to notice this, 3 big updates ago all being around 1gb each.
My phone is completely stock, would a full stock flash delete everything and start the phone over? Also reading the general topic a few different methods mostly for unlocked bootloader., which one is the best for a locked bootloader? I was wanting to do this anyway because I have other unrelated issues with the phone such as gboard constantly crashing and photos not storing properly/overlapping eachother in memory that seems to happen with every update no matter what.
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I tried searching for awhile and couldn't find anything too related to the exact question. Seems like with every update coming out storage shows the system taking up 1gb more than previous. Its as if it doesn't delete previous android versions. Its gone from 2.5gb few updates ago to now 5.6gb but the android updates are no more than 1gb. Its about when I started to notice this, 3 big updates ago all being around 1gb each.
My phone is completely stock, would a full stock flash delete everything and start the phone over? Also reading the general topic a few different methods mostly for unlocked bootloader., which one is the best for a locked bootloader? I was wanting to do this anyway because I have other unrelated issues with the phone such as gboard constantly crashing and photos not storing properly/overlapping eachother in memory that seems to happen with every update no matter what.
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Before doing anything rash, you should probably start by clearing cached data @ Settings.>>Storage>>Cached Data. Also booting the phone to stock recovery and wiping the cache partition may help with any apps that are wigging out. Lastly, you really cannot "flash" anything with a locked bootloader. You can, and may later decide to wipe/factory reset from stock recovery. That would wipe your data and return your phone to the blank Android version you had installed last (7.1.2?) and yes, it would wipe/reclaim space, but you can do that manually without a factory reset. Before you go down that road make sure you enable the Google backup of your account so all your app/app data is saved. If you have photos, let Photos sync fully before the reset so your photos will be backed up to the Cloud. Also note that if you decide to unlock the bootloader (good choice) it will automatically perform a full wipe/factory reset. There is a sticky in General on how to do this.
v12xke said:
Before doing anything rash, you should probably start by clearing cached data @ Settings.>>Storage>>Cached Data. Also booting the phone to stock recovery and wiping the cache partition may help with any apps that are wigging out. Lastly, you really cannot "flash" anything with a locked bootloader. You can, and may later decide to wipe/factory reset from stock recovery. That would wipe your data and return your phone to the blank Android version you had installed last (7.1.2?) and yes, it would wipe/reclaim space, but you can do that manually without a factory reset. Before you go down that road make sure you enable the Google backup of your account so all your app/app data is saved. If you have photos, let Photos sync fully before the reset so your photos will be backed up to the Cloud. Also note that if you decide to unlock the bootloader (good choice) it will automatically perform a full wipe/factory reset. There is a sticky in General on how to do this.
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Thanks for the input, but thats something I've been trying after every update already.
I found another site with clearer setup and instructions to do a stock flash with a factory rom and not OTA. Only reason why I had an issue with not wanting to unlock the bootloader was because im on windows 10 creators and it uses powershell now. So I had to figure out how to use fastboot/adb with powershell since cmdprompt wasn't the same. Doing a flash of a factory rom indeed fixed my gboard/photo storing overlapping issue that every ota update and factory reset through bootloader wouldn't solve.
Although my original question still remains, the system data in my storage is still 4.5gb with 7.1.2, better than the 5.5gb it was but I'm pretty sure its not supposed to be that big, any ideas why every update keeps taking up more space on the phone? The rom was even 1gb being flashed on the phone and I swear I remember the amount of space it took up when I first got the phone was around 2gb.
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Thanks for the input, but thats something I've been trying after every update already.
I found another site with clearer setup and instructions to do a stock flash with a factory rom and not OTA. Only reason why I had an issue with not wanting to unlock the bootloader was because im on windows 10 creators and it uses powershell now. So I had to figure out how to use fastboot/adb with powershell since cmdprompt wasn't the same. Doing a flash of a factory rom indeed fixed my gboard/photo storing overlapping issue that every ota update and factory reset through bootloader wouldn't solve.
Although my original question still remains, the system data in my storage is still 4.5gb with 7.1.2, better than the 5.5gb it was but I'm pretty sure its not supposed to be that big, any ideas why every update keeps taking up more space on the phone? The rom was even 1gb being flashed on the phone and I swear I remember the amount of space it took up when I first got the phone was around 2gb.
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I always flash a full images- not OTA... but I've always been unlocked on all my Nexus devices going back to the Galaxy. You cannot flash a full image without unlocking the bootloader but yet you say your bootloader is locked? For comparison, my untouched System is using 4.57 GB. I am running stock 7.1.2 ROM, rooted and EX Kernel.
PS...there is a toggle switch in Windows 10 settings to select command shell or powershell. It's as easy as a toggle to restore the command shell (or switch back).