Missing space?
Currently on omega v41 (lollipop)
Under system settings, storage, it shows me:
Used space: 6.35gb
When I click on that though, it shows me:
Apps: 1.81gb
Pictures/videos: 409mb
Audio:60kb
Downloads: 61mb
By my counting that's about 4gb of space missing... any idea?
download disk usage from play and it will tell you. great little app. I just recovered 7.5 gb of useless junk from my phone memory.
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Hi Guys,
I have a Defy Plus with DFP-231 Asian Retail version ROM. I had some memory cleaning widget which shows that my applications could use a total of 350 MB memory.....
I thought that the D+ came with 2 GB internal memory so I could load upto ~2GB of games(apps) running. ...:crying:
With all this confusion...
My Question is : What is the Difference between The RAM and ROM and Why is my widget showing only 350 MB usable for apps???
Kindly correct me If I'm wrong in my assumptions.
Cheers,
Vic
do not confuse ram with rom. rom is the storage which stores installed apps and system files, its like the hdd in a pc, and it keeps its content when powered down.
ram is a temporary storage from where apps run, and it clears after a power-down. (memory in a pc)
the defy has 2gb built-in storage (rom), from which 1.2 is usable for apps, and it has 512MB ram (around 470-480 usable).
you probably have a lot of apps installed, thats why the widget shows only 350mb remaining.
Thank you for clearing this
zakoo2 said:
do not confuse ram with rom. rom is the storage which stores installed apps and system files, its like the hdd in a pc, and it keeps its content when powered down.
ram is a temporary storage from where apps run, and it clears after a power-down. (memory in a pc)
the defy has 2gb built-in storage (rom), from which 1.2 is usable for apps, and it has 512MB ram (around 470-480 usable).
you probably have a lot of apps installed, thats why the widget shows only 350mb remaining.
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Hi, :laugh:
Thank you very much for clearing this.. So does that mean when I install apps to my phone instead of SD card they get installed in RAM and not ROM????
Cheers,
Vic
vicky_ said:
Hi, :laugh:
Thank you very much for clearing this.. So does that mean when I install apps to my phone instead of SD card they get installed in RAM and not ROM????
Cheers,
Vic
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umm, no. they get installed in rOm, thats the permanent storage, ram is temporary. although there are solutions to install apps to sdcard. (app2sd, data2sd)
vicky_ said:
Hi Guys,
I have a Defy Plus with DFP-231 Asian Retail version ROM. I had some memory cleaning widget which shows that my applications could use a total of 350 MB memory.....
I thought that the D+ came with 2 GB internal memory so I could load upto ~2GB of games(apps) running. ...:crying:
With all this confusion...
My Question is : What is the Difference between The RAM and ROM and Why is my widget showing only 350 MB usable for apps???
Kindly correct me If I'm wrong in my assumptions.
Cheers,
Vic
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Usable for Apps means memory that can be used to store apps permanently.. It is the available ROM on your device. As stated before the 2GB memory is shared by OS & Apps.
RAM (512 MB on defy+) is temporary and is cleared on reboot and other activities.
I have bought Lenovo k4 note n have recently upgraded to marshmallow. So I ve 16 GB of internal memory out of which the Android 6.0 inbuilt memory app inside storage and USB setting, says 5.37 GB is OS occupied. 9.46 GB out of 10.63 GB is used. Further break down are as follows:
Apps 5.29 GB
Images 105 MB
Videos 8 KB
Audio 588 KB
Other 488 MB
Cached Data 183 MB
Which totals to 6.066 GB. So now subtracting 9.46 with 6.066 GB I get 3.394 GB which I can't understand where it went.
Still after going inside file manager n clicking the view hidden files these are what I get:
Android 2.17 GB
Download 278.01 MB
Shareit 200 MB
WhatsApp 136 MB
Pictures 74 MB
Books 52 MB
DCIM 29 MB
Which comes to around 3 something GB and still 3 GB are missing.. so.. around 6 GB of files are not showing.. I am unable to find the files that are taking up space. Can anyone help please.
Now I have rooted my device with Twrp n SuperSU and and now I still have the same problem of large data files. Is it normal or can I get more space. The user data which I wasn't able to see is accessible now. Can I delete those data to free up space. And how do I get to look files taking up space which actually adds up to the space I have. The first pic I uploaded provides information of my phone's storage handled my marshmallow s219. You can see that 5.24 GB is OS occupied compared to unrooted 5.37 GB. The second image points to the fact that only around 3.2 GB of space is shown out of supposed 6.25 GB. The third image tells the accessible part of my phone data which is very low (around 700 MB). And the third is the inaccessible files which I have come to see through the blessing of rooting the phone. So I think my phone shouldn't use up that much data as I don't be very large app. Largest is Facebook. Can someone help me to optimise my phone. Thanking you guys in advance.?
Hi,
My Redmi 2 is supposed to have 8 GB internal storage.
In Settings > Storage, it reports only 5.75 GB total, 790 MB Available. Funnily, Apps take up 6.32 GB.
Using Wifi file transfer browser interface, it reports space available 0.69/5.31 GB.
I connect it to an Ubuntu machine via USB, and manage to mount the internal storage. Checking the properties give 633 MB free space, and only 1.7 GB of contents.
Where did my internal storage go ???
Using disk analyzer, the largest percentage is taken up by Tencent folder (43%), followed by DCIM (25%) and JOOX (17%). The rest are single figure percentages.
Inside Tencent, the folder taking up 93% space is sfs. Inside this are folders avatar and sns, and a coupleof files ***.00002 (total 530 MB). If I tried zipping the avatar and sns folders, the zipped files are only 25 MB in total.
Using Wechat (which owns the Tencent folder) to check its storage, it reported using 672 MB, but 4GB by "Others" and 705 MB "Left".
What is this Others???
Using Settings >> Installed Apps, it reports Wechat using only a modest 309 MB. Chrome uses 328 MB. Youtube uses 2.94GB but most of this is in the SD card.
Anyways, install apps seems to take up 5.84 GB. But 2.9 GB of these should be the Youtube data in the SD card. So the other installed apps take up about 3 GB.
Using Cleaner >> Deep Clean, there are only 10 Big Files (files bigger than 10 MB) totalling 1.1 GB. 555 MB for those ****.00002 files mentioned above.
Seems like at least 2GB is missing ??? Already a few times I had trouble installing apps because of lack of storage, after some clean up it was ok, but I think it's gonna run out again soon.
wkogane said:
Hi,
My Redmi 2 is supposed to have 8 GB internal storage.
In Settings > Storage, it reports only 5.75 GB total, 790 MB Available. Funnily, Apps take up 6.32 GB.
Using Wifi file transfer browser interface, it reports space available 0.69/5.31 GB.
I connect it to an Ubuntu machine via USB, and manage to mount the internal storage. Checking the properties give 633 MB free space, and only 1.7 GB of contents.
Where did my internal storage go ???
Using disk analyzer, the largest percentage is taken up by Tencent folder (43%), followed by DCIM (25%) and JOOX (17%). The rest are single figure percentages.
Inside Tencent, the folder taking up 93% space is sfs. Inside this are folders avatar and sns, and a coupleof files ***.00002 (total 530 MB). If I tried zipping the avatar and sns folders, the zipped files are only 25 MB in total.
Using Wechat (which owns the Tencent folder) to check its storage, it reported using 672 MB, but 4GB by "Others" and 705 MB "Left".
What is this Others???
Using Settings >> Installed Apps, it reports Wechat using only a modest 309 MB. Chrome uses 328 MB. Youtube uses 2.94GB but most of this is in the SD card.
Anyways, install apps seems to take up 5.84 GB. But 2.9 GB of these should be the Youtube data in the SD card. So the other installed apps take up about 3 GB.
Using Cleaner >> Deep Clean, there are only 10 Big Files (files bigger than 10 MB) totalling 1.1 GB. 555 MB for those ****.00002 files mentioned above.
Seems like at least 2GB is missing ??? Already a few times I had trouble installing apps because of lack of storage, after some clean up it was ok, but I think it's gonna run out again soon.
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1. Settings>Storage reports only 5.75 gb total because it is the space available for the user. Rest 2.25 gb are different partitions comprising of mainly system and cache partition.
2. Ubuntu machine shows only 1.7gb of content and 633 mb free space because the rest is occupied by installed apps and it didn't show up in the Ubuntu machine.
3. So now if we do the mathematics, nothing is strange-
3gb (installed apps) + 1.7 gb contents + 0.7gb (free)+ rest(cache, etc)=5.75gb
Is there anyone who can tell me how to fix my internal storage problem? I am currently on crdroid 8.1 ROM but it just showing me 9.5 GB of current internal storage in every file manager but it shows 13.55 GB of internal storage in settings. I am not able to find the missing 3 GB. Someone please help me!
Ps - sorry for bad English.
Really I just filled 7 GB and 2gb free total 9 GB but why file manager just showing 11 GB of internal storage? And what the heck is settings showing?
AgentVoid said:
Is there anyone who can tell me how to fix my internal storage problem? I am currently on crdroid 8.1 ROM but it just showing me 9.5 GB of current internal storage in every file manager but it shows 13.55 GB of internal storage in settings. I am not able to find the missing 3 GB. Someone please help me!
Ps - sorry for bad English.
Really I just filled 7 GB and 2gb free total 9 GB but why file manager just showing 11 GB of internal storage? And what the heck is settings showing?
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Likely not a "bug". Device has 16GB of addressable (writeable) storage but not all of that is available for your use. Typically 10-11GB is set aside for user data including apps; rest is reserved for the rom and other system files, bootloader, kernel, modems, etc.
Davey126 said:
Likely not a "bug". Device has 16GB of addressable (writeable) storage but not all of that is available for your use. Typically 10-11GB is set aside for user data including apps; rest is reserved for the rom and other system files, bootloader, kernel, modems, etc.
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Thnx bro but I have a question... Why its showing me 13.55 GB total in settings<storage?
AgentVoid said:
Thnx bro but I have a question... Why its showing me 13.55 GB total in settings<storage?
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Likely reflects the total space used in the system + data partitions.
I've got an almost fresh and empty J3 (2016) with stock Android 5.1.1
One of my friends has been complaining about low internal memory warnings.
So I installed TWRP and got it rooted.
It shows the following:
System memory - 7,02 GB
Used space - 664 MB
Available space - 310 MB
And when I do a TWRP backup, it says - ok, system partition is approx 1.4 GB, data 800 MB. In total, full system backup is slightly more than 2 GB.
Where did the rest 6 GB of internal memory go?
Mind you, there is *no* pictures, no video, no apps, nothing.
Wiped cache/dalvik.
But 5 or 6 gigs are still missing. Whats wrong with this picture?
Maybe there's a hidden partition? Can you give me a hint how to visualize ALL internal memory, all available partitions? And possibly kill and resize the useless ones.
I'd greatly appreciate it!
MiMuerto said:
I've got an almost fresh and empty J3 (2016) with stock Android 5.1.1
One of my friends has been complaining about low internal memory warnings.
So I installed TWRP and got it rooted.
It shows the following:
System memory - 7,02 GB
Used space - 664 MB
Available space - 310 MB
And when I do a TWRP backup, it says - ok, system partition is approx 1.4 GB, data 800 MB. In total, full system backup is slightly more than 2 GB.
Where did the rest 6 GB of internal memory go?
Mind you, there is *no* pictures, no video, no apps, nothing.
Wiped cache/dalvik.
But 5 or 6 gigs are still missing. Whats wrong with this picture?
Maybe there's a hidden partition? Can you give me a hint how to visualize ALL internal memory, all available partitions? And possibly kill and resize the useless ones.
I'd greatly appreciate it!
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friend, delete all the parts by twrp and install the stock by odin again that solves