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What is 'system data'?

Can any one shed some light on what system data is on my N4s storage?
I assumed it was the os but that's partitioned and I then have the 5.8gb that's available...
Thanks!
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Most likely the OS.
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The OS takes up part of the 8gb to leave me with 5.8 though.. Anyone else?
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adaimespechip said:
The OS takes up part of the 8gb to leave me with 5.8 though.. Anyone else?
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Are you using CWM and if you do, what version are you using?
When I just got the phone, I had the same problem as you after I install a buggy version of CWM. Basically CWM made a backup to some folder that there's no way for you, CWM, or the system to tell where the heck it is.
I got rid of that by restoring my phone to stock then started using TWRP (try it, you'll like it)
Edit: Also, look at /data instead of /sdcard
/sdcard is an emulated folder, /data is more accurate since it's where stuffs are actually stored.

thats HUGE for system data. i only have 270MB used for it

Yeah I did but that was so long ago.. It could be that I guess. You suggest erasing the whole thing and restoring my apps?
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Well, I got that back in CWM 6.0.1.6, which is like a month a go. A life time for the Nexus 4. There is a way to trace these folders using ADB, but I wiped my entire phone before I read the post so I don't know if the method works.
What I did was wiping everything (including system) then restore to stock. It was a little bit overdone, I guess restore to stock would do the trick. Just remember to back up /sdcard to your computer.
Edit: I was so annoyed by that wasted 1.7MB that I basically nuked the phone lol
bassmadrigal said:
If you are rooted and have adb set up on your computer, you can find out what folders are using the most space by using the commands below, then change into that directory and run the command again.
Code:
adb
su
cd /
du -hd 1
--find the largest folder and change directory (cd) into it - if you find you no longer want to continue in the folder you are in, you can cd .. to get to the previous folder or cd / to get back to the root of the filesystem--
Code:
cd large_folder
du -hd 1
rinse
repeat
????
profit
This will allow you to find what folders are using the most space and can eventually lead you to any large files and can then let you find out if you can delete them or if you need to keep them.
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What application are you using to get that information?
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netsyd said:
What application are you using to get that information?
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DiskUsage 3.4
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mariosraptor said:
DiskUsage 3.4
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What he said - one of my must have apps..
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KyraOfFire said:
Well, I got that back in CWM 6.0.1.6, which is like a month a go. A life time for the Nexus 4. There is a way to trace these folders using ADB, but I wiped my entire phone before I read the post so I don't know if the method works.
What I did was wiping everything (including system) then restore to stock. It was a little bit overdone, I guess restore to stock would do the trick. Just remember to back up /sdcard to your computer.
Edit: I was so annoyed by that wasted 1.7MB that I basically nuked the phone lol
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Thanks! Will try when I'm back home!
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Okay no luck - Have totally reset the device and still have 1900mb of system data showing....
EDIT: Fixed - Flashed new CWM recovery and it WAS a backup i'd taken weeks ago.. deleted it and now have 200mb system data.

adaimespechip said:
Okay no luck - Have totally reset the device and still have 1900mb of system data showing....
EDIT: Fixed - Flashed new CWM recovery and it WAS a backup i'd taken weeks ago.. deleted it and now have 200mb system data.
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So is it safe to assume that the space is from backups? I posted my situation here

There didn't seem to be a clear answer here so :
System data is the space taken up by files outside of the special sdcard directory.
Android is treating the emulated SD card as being 8Gb/16Gb (- the hidden partitions) and not taking into account space taken up by files outside of the special directories.
In the Settings > Storage screen you will also notice that the free space and used space do not add up, this difference is the 'system data'.
Apps from Google and those with root access commonly write to directories outside of the sdcard.
Google Music is particularly guilty of taking up space without reporting it properly, from the Settings > Apps menu you can see how much space the music application is taking up, and clear it if desired.
Backups are also likely to be eating a large amount of that space, from CWM or TWRP or another source.
These are outside of the sdcard to prevent you from accidentally deleting them.
They can normally be move/removed from within the application that made them, or with a root file manager.
You probably want to keep some working backups, I generally store them on a cloud service or external disk with only the latest on the phone.
You will not get the 'system data' down to 0 as some space is for actual system files, you should be able to get it below 500Mb easily, or just be happy once you know where the space has gone.
I hope that helped.

GPE System Partition almost no free space after 5.0.1 OTA

So it seems they messed up. The system partition after the OTA has only about 7.5MB free.. If you root and install busybox then you'll only have 216 KB yes.. KB free..
It was reported in the Conversion thread and I thought maybe somehow the system image got jacked when I pulled it so I flashed back to 4.4.4 and took the OTA. After it updated 7.5MB free..
Can someone with a real GPE (not converted) who took the 5.0.1 OTA do something quick?
Use terminal emulator and run the command df. Tell me what it reports as the parition size and free space size for /system. I'm betting it's the same with like almost no free space. I hope they fix this in another OTA and make the system partition bigger
By the way, the main point of this thread is just so people are aware that the system partition will be pretty much full after the update. I've seen a few people not be able to modify the system and not realizing it's because the partition is almost full. I didn't even realize it until someone reported it in the RUU thread and confirming for myself after multiple tests.

I'm running SkyDragon 4.2.0 without Play Games, Books and Movies and have 72mb free with busybox installed!
Says system size is 1gb.
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Yes i noticed this too
But for the time being i removed some GAPPS from system memory.

Elisha said:
I'm running SkyDragon 4.2.0 without Play Games, Books and Movies and have 72mb free with busybox installed!
Says system size is 1gb.
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fcukmayank said:
Yes i noticed this too
But for the time being i removed some GAPPS from system memory.
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That's why you have more.. because of the removed google apps.. but in cases where people convert to get OTA's it sucks for them because the OTA will fail if you remove those apps. If you don't plan on taking OTA's it doesn't really matter you can delete away.

Noticed the same when I tried enabling adaway and it told me I didn't have enough space for the hosts file. Just will have to move most GAPPS out of system then to make room.
Edit: System Partition is also showing 1006.7 Mb with 1006.5 used.

Good find. Seems they ballzed this up a fair bit!

Why is this an issue?
Any one wanting to modify the /system can just delete some Google apps to make room for anything else.

exocetdj said:
Good find. Seems they ballzed this up a fair bit!
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Seems more like a android 5 thing. Its the same on my nexus 7, system partition its full as well. Its like grafixnyc said they don't want us to mess with system anymore.

Ronaldo_9 said:
Why is this an issue?
Any one wanting to modify the /system can just delete some Google apps to make room for anything else.
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Well look at the issue I had above I didnt even have enough space to install an ad blocking hosts file to system. Also if you want to install a battery stat app that needs to be either moved there or the add-on for Gsam you won't have room without deleting some GAPPS. Won't be much of an issue for people who really don't modify or root thier phones.
Not a major issue really as data is fine, but a slight inconvenience for us nerds. On my Nexis 5 running lollipop its a 1009.3 mb but only 861 is used cause I deleted most of the GAAPS out of there. Interesting its slightly bigger than the M8's

NJGSII said:
Well look at the issue I had above I didnt even have enough space to install an ad blocking hosts file to system. Also if you want to install a battery stat app that needs to be either moved there or the add-on for Gsam you won't have room without deleting some GAPPS. Won't be much of an issue for people who really don't modify or root thier phones.
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I was able to free up 104 mb in the system buy converting 7 apps to user apps using link2sd
Cloud Print - Docs - Sheets - Slides - Hangouts - Email - and HTC Photo Edit
It should be simple enough to convert them back for an OTA update ( have to flash back stock recovery also so just one more small step)
I described the whole process here >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57297835&postcount=1888

I already did the same.

Nice catch. Just noticed this using AdAway as well. I'll symlink the hosts file to data for now.

So does anyone have a list of apps to delete in order to get some of that space back. I am sure there are things (live wallpapers for me) that many don't use which could be deleted. I just don't want break functionality by randomly deleting stuff.
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thelangosta said:
So does anyone have a list of apps to delete in order to get some of that space back. I am sure there are things (live wallpapers for me) that many don't use which could be deleted. I just don't want break functionality by randomly deleting stuff.
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All the gapps like G+ etc.. Other apps try freezing them first in Tibu and if it doesnt break anything then you know you can delete it (I would keep copies of all the apks you delete though just in case)

graffixnyc said:
All the gapps like G+ etc.. Other apps try freezing them first in Tibu and if it doesnt break anything then you know you can delete it (I would keep copies of all the apks you delete though just in case)
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Thanks I'll try some this evening and try to report back. I see things like "android work assistant" that are small but add up.
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thelangosta said:
So does anyone have a list of apps to delete in order to get some of that space back. I am sure there are things (live wallpapers for me) that many don't use which could be deleted. I just don't want break functionality by randomly deleting stuff.
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See my post one page back .. I just converted 7 apps to user apps and free up 104mb

How will this affect the performance of custom ROMs?
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This was helpful. The /system partition was stopping me from getting all the features in ElementalX 3.00 working properly. I deleted Play Videos, Magazines and Games, reinstalled the kernel and all is right.

I'm about to convert my M8 to GPE 5.0.1. Can someone please explain what are the outcomes of this "bug"?
I don't want to have any problems after converting.
Thanks.

Was this a mistake or a deliberate repartitioning on their side to prevent modifications to the system? Xposed, rooting, busybox, etc etc. If there aren't space for it then it "can't" be done, yea?
Wouldn't surprise me if they did this on purpose, it's Google after all. The same company that deliberately removed SD card slots, prevented writing to SD cards(As a made up security flaw) just to push people into buying into their Cloud/Drive $$$$$$$$$.

Nexus 6P showing 24.1gb of usable storage when it shipped bigger

My device used to show 128gb of internal storage - with 111gb usable. But after I flashed to Android N Preview 4 with a modified boot.IMG for a decrypted storage so I could have TWRP working. It showed I only had 24.1gb usable. I already tried a factory reset, and flashing back to 6.0.1 (mtc19v), PureNexus, and other ROMs. I'm wondering how I can fix this?
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My issue has been fixed by formatting userdata via fast boot and I'm now decrypted on Android N beta preview 4 rooted with working twrp!
Special thanks to
@SlimSnoopOS
@Sass86oh
For helping me fix it :angel:

TnT_ said:
My device used to show 128gb of internal storage - with 111gb usable. But after I flashed to Android N Preview 4 with a modified boot.IMG for a decrypted storage so I could have TWRP working. It showed I only had 24.1gb usable. I already tried a factory reset, and flashing back to 6.0.1 (mtc19v), PureNexus, and other ROMs. I'm wondering how I can fix this?
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Looks like you flashed the userdata.img. Type this in fastboot: fastboot format userdata
This will wipe everything from your phone. It will resize back to 128 GB.
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Trying this right now, will edit this with results.
// edit 1
Windows update blocked me, hopefully its not windows 10

You most likely flashed the "Userdata.img" thats included in stock Android firmaware archives. Unless you have a 32GB device, the userdata IMG does not account for storage over 32GB and if you flash it on the 64 or 128GB version, it will partiton the internal storage and only allow for you to access 32GB. I made that same mistake myself when I first got my phone. The userdata img is meant to zap the internal storage and delete all userdata on the device. Instead, just use the command "fastboot format userdata"... It will perform the same function without any loss to your overall storage space. From now on, when you flash the stock firmware make sure you steer clear of that file and instead use the command. MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP ALL OF YOUR PERSONAL FILES FIRST!! That command wipes every partition on the device!! So make sure you've saved whatever you cant afford to lose before using it. Formatting the user data is not always required when flashing roms on your device. Actually its hardly ever a requirement. Usually its used when you want to bring your phone back to the factory settings. The built in SD partition on most Android devices is isolated space. This allows you keep all of your importatnt files safe in the event that your system partition becomes corrourpt forcing you to reflash your old rom or a new one. If you need any help at all please feel free to send me a message. Hope this helps!

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Trying this right now, will edit this with results.
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Windows update blocked me, hopefully its not windows 10
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You do know that will wipe the phone but will work I've had that lol

jaythenut said:
You do know that will wipe the phone but will work I've had that lol
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Yes, I was and am aware.

TnT_ said:
Yes, I was and am aware.
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Were you able to restore your storage?
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Were you able to restore your storage?
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I backed up all my files to my PC before I did the process in the first place - 36.8gb. Using BitTorrent sync. I was able to restore using that, therefore there was no loss.

OTA update download location...

Where are the OTA updates stored?
I downloaded an update, but didn't install it...
I want to use Chainfire's FlashFire so I don't have to revert to stock recovery just for this update...
If you know, then please share the info with me...
Thank you...
If it matters...
It's the MPJ24.139-49 update for improved cell quality...
I have a US XT1625 Athene single-sim...

It should be located in /cache folder on the internal root directory.
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Tel864 said:
It should be located in /cache folder on the internal root directory.
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Thank you...
I found a file called Blur_Version.24.31.48.athene.retail.en.US.zip
Is that it?

NoobNeutralizer said:
Thank you...
I found a file called Blur_Version.24.31.48.athene.retail.en.US.zip
Is that it?
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Yes, that should be it.
EDIT: I guess I should have been clearer, sorry. You will need root to copy the file to your external card and then you can copy the zip to your pc for uploading.

Tel864 said:
Yes, that should be it.
EDIT: I guess I should have been clearer, sorry. You will need root to copy the file to your external card and then you can copy the zip to your pc for uploading.
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I'm unlocked and rooted with Solid Explorer as my file browser...
I've already copied it to the root of the SD card and the root of my external SD...
Will FlashFire be able to handle it?

NoobNeutralizer said:
I'm unlocked and rooted with Solid Explorer as my file browser...
I've already copied it to the root of the SD card and the root of my external SD...
Will FlashFire be able to handle it?
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I haven't used Flashfire since my G2 but it worked on factory roms and OTA'S then so it should now. If you have TWRP, then you have to untick recovery if you want to keep TWRP. I'm not really up on Flashfire and don't even look at their Google + community any longer. Someone over in XDA'S Flashfire forum should be able to answer better though.

Tel864 said:
I haven't used Flashfire since my G2 but it worked on factory roms and OTA'S then so it should now. If you have TWRP, then you have to untick recovery if you want to keep TWRP. I'm not really up on Flashfire and don't even look at their Google + community any longer. Someone over in XDA'S Flashfire forum should be able to answer better though.
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Alright...
Thank you for all your help...
<3

NoobNeutralizer said:
Alright...
Thank you for all your help...
<3
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Does it was successful

Prabhat00 said:
Does it was successful
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Haven't tried yet...
Going to do it tonight...

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Haven't tried yet...
Going to do it tonight...
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I'll wait for your results. Please update with the steps. thank you in advance.
I flashed TWRP recovery as soon as I had my moto g4 a couple of months ago. Today I found there's an update. So I tried to download and install. It was failed after a couple of reboots. Every time it'll boot into TWRP recovery. Then I didn't know what to do. So I have to choose restart. After two times, it booted into the system and said something like "update failed, the system was not changed".
Now I download the update again. and wait for a practical method to get the OTA installed without affecting the existing data and TWRP recovery. Really don't want to flash and start from scratch again.
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It should be located in /cache folder on the internal root directory.
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do you know where it should be for XT1622?
moto g4 said download finished. but cannot find it in /cache or anywhere else.

It worked fine...
Just make sure you uncheck "Restore boot and recovery images"...
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Was wondering about that OTA update that I'm constantly getting bugged about. Didn't realize you could just download it and not go ahead with the update so I've started downloading it.
Didn't know about FlashFire so I'll go looking for it, thanks for sharing your settings. Do you even need to copy the update to the external SD card ? It seems Flashfire lets you navigate on the internal storage ?
@ libralibra - you can do a full TWRP backup of your current setup and restore in case something goes wrong.

OK, update done and root preserved, unfortunately it's still bugging me about the update, how can we get rid of that? Deleting the whole /data/data/com.motorola.ccc.ota/ folder?

webvan said:
OK, update done and root preserved, unfortunately it's still bugging me about the update, how can we get rid of that? Deleting the whole /data/data/com.motorola.ccc.ota/ folder?
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You can also go to Go to: Settings> App> Show System> ConfigUpdater, Force Stop, and turn off notificatons or disable it if you never want to receive notifications.

Thanks, that did the trick.

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@ libralibra - you can do a full TWRP backup of your current setup and restore in case something goes wrong.
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Thanks for your suggestion. 6gb is too big to be backuped. I'll need the root as well. Will root erase all my data?
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It worked fine...
Just make sure you uncheck "Restore boot and recovery images"...
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Thank you. It seems that I should try flashfire a.s.a. I rooted it.

Update process performed, no problems. However, I would like to verify that the system has been acually updated. Flasfire didn't show any confirmation.
Is there a place where I can check that the system is updated?

Hey guys any idea when will we get Android N

Settings,about phone, security patch level should show some date late than 1 may 2016.

It's strange. After updating with Flashfire it keeps showing patch level 1 may 2016 and compile MPJ24.139-23.4
The flashed file (the one in /data/data/com.motorola.ccc.ota/app_download) is Blur_Version.24.24.4.athene.retail.en.US.zip
Do you have the same?

High Storage Capacity Usage after 7.1.1

***I tried searching for an existing thread but couldn't find one so if there is one that somehow didn't see please redirect me.
After updating to 7.1.1 using the image file from google (w/full factory reset and i'm not rooted either is that's important) my storage is showing that the System is using 92.3GB of my 128GB. How is that even possible!?
Anyone else run into this?

Crazypinoy9 said:
***I tried searching for an existing thread but couldn't find one so if there is one that somehow didn't see please redirect me.
After updating to 7.1.1 using the image file from google (w/full factory reset and i'm not rooted either is that's important) my storage is showing that the System is using 92.3GB of my 128GB. How is that even possible!?
Anyone else run into this?
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Wipe your cache In storage and delete heavy apps

boxguy1 said:
Wipe your cache In storage and delete heavy apps
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I appreciate the reply but I don't think you're fully understanding my issue that I've stated. The issue is that the System itself is showing as taking up 92.3GB of storage. Plus, wiping my cache would be a fraction of that amount and would be negligible.
Like I stated already, this is specifically the System being populated and is only happening after updating to 7.1.1 with a completely fresh install. All i did was install my apps afterwards....
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My apps are taking up exactly 5.37GB of storage. Here's a storage analysis from ES File Explorer of my app usage:

Crazypinoy9 said:
I appreciate the reply but I don't think you're fully understanding my issue that I've stated. The issue is that the System itself is showing as taking up 92.3GB of storage. Plus, wiping my cache would be a fraction of that amount and would be negligible.
Like I stated already, this is specifically the System being populated and is only happening after updating to 7.1.1 with a completely fresh install. All i did was install my apps afterwards....

My apps are taking up exactly 5.37GB of storage. Here's a storage analysis from ES File Explorer of my app usage:
My apps are taking up exactly 5.37GB of storage. Here's a storage analysis from ES File Explorer of my app usage:

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Have you tried wiping everything in TWRP and formating then going. Back to stock with NRT toolkit

boxguy1 said:
Have you tried wiping everything in TWRP and formating then going. Back to stock with NRT toolkit
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For now I'm saving that as my next step if I can't get any other suggestions today.
***side note, I'm currently doing a full nandroid backup (including apps/data) and it's telling me that it's backing up 8.47GB

Do you have a ton of nandroid backups? That's a ton of space.
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Do you have a ton of nandroid backups? That's a ton of space.
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Nope. Like I said, this is showing up after a fresh install of 7.1.1. I was just doing a nandroid backup preparing to do a full format.
I ended up doing a full wipe, still shows up as 92.31 GB of system storage usage. Then I just got done doing another fresh install of 7.1.1 from a brand new image download from Google. Still the same. After doing another full wipe after doing another fresh install it's still showing the same. I've done full wipes using the TWRP and I've tried a full wipe using the stock reset function with the stock recovery. No go...
Nothing seems to work...

Crazypinoy9 said:
. . .Then I just got done doing another fresh install of 7.1.1 from a brand new image download from Google. . .
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Does this mean you flashed a factory image? If not, read up on this thread;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928/page524
Do not use a toolkit. Learn to do it manually first. Use fastboot and manually flash all of the factory image files. If the problem persists after a factory image flash, you could contact Google or Huawei and report the issue and see if they will replace it for you.

Have had this happen to me in the past. You will need to wipe your storage and start with a clean flash with whichever, ROM or factory image.
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Before that you could root your device to get full access to the file system to find where's your space is going. Also a simple df -H in android terminal will tell you the real remaining space on /data without even rooting. If there's an inconstancy raise a google problem report.

When you said "full factory reset" you mean you used the flash-all.bat from factory image?
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HI all, to answer some of your questions:
1. Yes, i manually flash all images, not through a rootkit
2. Yes, I used flash-all.bat
3. Yes, I am rooted and have checked to make sure of the exact amount of storage the entire system is actually using.
a. found out that the system itself was occupying just over 3GB
b. while doing a full nandroid backup (including data) it stated that it was backing up roughly 8-9GB
Here's the very weird part of this that I stumbled on last night. I ran the whole process again from formatting (including storage) and manually flashing images. Once it was done I ran through the google setup process with a "fresh" install (vs restoring from cloud backup). Upon checking the system storage usage it was perfectly normal. 4GB out of 128GB. Here's the twist. I proceeded to do a factory reset, and through the initial google setup process, this time I used a restore from my google cloud backup. After the process was completed, and setup was done. The system storage was showing 92.31GB of usage. ?????????
In order to test out what was happening I pulled out my Huawei P9 and formatted it, did initial google setup including restoring from the same account backup. When it was done I checked the system storage and whaddya know...it's normal at around 4GB. Just for ****z and gigglez I tried the same on my older S6 Edge. Same thing. System Storage usage was normal after using the restore function from the cloud backup.
Why would my backup through Google cause that? and why would it only affect my Nexus 6P?

Crazypinoy9 said:
For now I'm saving that as my next step if I can't get any other suggestions today.
***side note, I'm currently doing a full nandroid backup (including apps/data) and it's telling me that it's backing up 8.47GB
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Okay good luck

Crazypinoy9 said:
3. Yes, I am rooted and have checked to make sure of the exact amount of storage the entire system is actually using.
a. found out that the system itself was occupying just over 3GB
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So df -H /data reports the same usage?
/system is by design like 3GB (and nearly full) so the "system" in settings must also account for other things than /system. Only /data has that amount of data.
Once you've confirmed that /data is indeed so much used, download an app like Disk Usage to spot what's eating your space?

I think your issue is flashing the userdata partition.
Instead of doing the flash-all.bat, manually flash each file separately.
Skip flashing the userdata portion - only format userdata - and then when all are done, format cache and reboot.