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
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What is the typical free space that I should find available in my Note 3 (32gb)? Is 25gb only normal?
It's rooted and running safestrap but otherwise is stock.
ES file explorer SD card analyst says that I have 25gb stock space available and that I'm using 8 gb for a remainder of 17gb. Is this typical? That seems like a large amount to reserve for what I assume is the system. Using the 'Drives' app I show that system is using only 2.1gb with 555 mb free. It also shows that my internal storage has two large "files" that are maybe backup partitions called "win001" and "win000".
How does moving apps between "internal app storage" and "sd card" work o 4.4.2?
Hi!
I have a rooted A3500F and cannot figure out which partitions and directories are involved in the aforementioned operation. What the system is showing is very confusing, e.g. with Google Earth:
1) installed in "internal app":
settings: storage available = 2.55 GB, apps (data & media )= 8.31 GB, system = 2.92 GB
app info: total = 206 MB, app =~ 26 MB, data = 180 MB
2) installed in "sd card":
settings: storage available = 2.59 GB, apps (data & media )= 8.32 GB, system = 2.92 GB
app info: total = 223 MB, app =~ 43 MB, data = 180 MB
So system and "app data " do not change. But the rest in the "app info" does not add up!
First it total + app = 232 MB whereas on sd it amounts to 266. Where the extra 34 MB comes from? Thin air?
This is very confusing and the system developers did really poor job in breaking down these amounts for users...
I was able to figure out that sdcard = /data/media/0 = /storage/emulated/0 = /mnt/sdcard and possibly "internal app" is somewhere on /data/media/? /data/app? /data/cache? /data/system?
I wonder what kind of hard limit this "moving" operation is overcoming if everything seems to occur on the "/data" partition and the "/system" does not change? Why is it available in the "app" setting? I use AIO tool to make such move in batch but I'm not sure of the benefits?
Also the "Apps" setting shows 2.9 GB free for the "Downloaded" section and 2.6 GB free for the "SD card" - where do these numbers come from? (it shows in both cases 10GB used and I know that /system takes up 3GB)
It's also weird on my Xperia C1505, e.g. app info storage about AOI Toolbox shows: total 4.4 MB, app on phone 6.17 MB and data on phone 4.4 MB. How could it be that "total" <> "app + data" ?! What then the "total" means?
Apps:
Downloaded / "Phone memory": 643 MB used 96 MB free (total of 740 results from what?)
Internal storage: 592 MB used 1.4 GB free
Running / RAM: 363 MB used 46 MB free (where did 100 MB of RAM go?)
All / "Phone memory": 643 MB used 96 MB free
How are these numbers related to the specs: 0.5 GB RAM, 4 GB internal ?
This is very confusing!
Is this all somehow related to the cache for running apps?
I tried searching for answers on various forums but did not find a good explanation, where it would be simply, unquestionably stated between exactly which directories or partitions this "move" is done.
I would greatly appreciate your help with this problem.
Cheers!
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.?
Moto X Pure 16 GB android 6. If I look at storage in settings or in ES file explorer I see numbers that don't add up. Android OS 6.5 GB leaving me with 9.5 GB of which 8.7 is used. When I add up the individual usage amounts, they total about 7 GB not 8.7. I have a 32 GB sd card as external storage. The numbers there appear to be correct. So where is the 1.7 GB that is not accounted for? I looked for any large files like downloads or backups but there were none. I have 74 apps installed and about 700 mb of music and pictures which doesn't seems excessive to me..
It seems as though 16 GB is only good for the most basic of users.
Recovery partition, cache and probably other things such as the bootloader need to be accounted for too.
OK
I would have thought that the recovery partition would have been taken care of with the total space and the bootloader would have been included in the OS total. It would just have been nice if everything would be displayed what taping on Storage.
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