How did my S10+ memory shrink? - Samsung Galaxy S10+ Questions & Answers

I got this piece of ---- for running a linux distro and other various purposes. I didn't expect so many problems. I thought it was going to be as simple as rooting and then doing whatever I wanted. Instead I've been going through a series of nightmares that started with buying the snapdragon version first.
This time it's somehow the memory. I bought the 128GB s10+ and now it says it only has 32 GB of internal storage. I bought the phone from Amazon; I know I bought a 128 gb phone. But it says 32 GB internal storage. I'm at a loss of words at this point.
How is this possible? What has happened?
Any and all help is appreciated; thanks in advance.

Everytime i flash a patched AP-file (root or twrp), the storage of the phone is reduced to 32 Gb instead of 128 Gb.
If i flash the original files of Samfirm (without root or twrp) it shows 128 Gb, this is what the phone actually has...

I think its basic knowledge now that samsung us snapdragons can't be rooted, don't see how your lack of research makes the phone bad.
Anyways, have you tried checking the reported storage in something like aida64? Something other than the device care menu?

MaanasDwivedi said:
I think its basic knowledge now that samsung us snapdragons can't be rooted, don't see how your lack of research makes the phone bad.
Anyways, have you tried checking the reported storage in something like aida64? Something other than the device care menu?
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I have an Exynos. I wasn't referring to device care menu; I was referring to my windows file explorer reporting to me that there's only 32 GB on the phone. I've checked on a vm and through the device settings to see that they both also report 32gb total storage. I'll try the aida64 free trial tomorrow.

h8thisphone said:
I have an Exynos. I wasn't referring to device care menu; I was referring to my windows file explorer reporting to me that there's only 32 GB on the phone. I've checked on a vm and through the device settings to see that they both also report 32gb total storage. I'll try the aida64 free trial tomorrow.
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Ohh. Do you have Samsung usb drivers installed? Should try that.
https://developer.samsung.com/galaxy/others/android-usb-driver-for-windows
Use aida64 on the phone and see if it also says 32gb.
And what device settings are you talking about?

I'm having the same issue today after updating to the latest firmware. Have you found any solutions?
Nevermind a complete format using Odin fixed it.

Maybe your phone is getting old.

you have to flash your firmware through Odin and wipe data and it I'll fix the issue

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[Q] Internal Storage Size 19505

Hello
I've recently flashed [Rom]Google Edition galaxy S4 rom for i9505 [27 June] [Pure Nexus Experience] onto my S4. After following all the instructions it's working fine. Except the internal storage size is still 9.25GB with 8.18GB allocated. I would have thought that removing the stock ROM would have freed the internal storage space?
Cheers.
re: allocated space
UrbanNZ said:
Hello
I've recently flashed [Rom]Google Edition galaxy S4 rom for i9505 [27 June] [Pure Nexus Experience] onto my S4. After following all the instructions it's working fine. Except the internal storage size is still 9.25GB with 8.18GB allocated. I would have thought that removing the stock ROM would have freed the internal storage space?
Cheers.
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I think you answered your own question, "allocated" means "reserved" so in other words even if you
did not have any rom flashed/installed at all the phone would still allocate/reserve the 8.18GB space
which cannot be used for normal storage.
Good luck!
Thanks for your reply. It's a bit of a bummer though, is there no way to release the total storage size of the phones internal memory for user allocation ? Would it be something the developers could work on. But then I guess it comes back to the old saying, just get an SD Card.
UrbanNZ said:
Thanks for your reply. It's a bit of a bummer though, is there no way to release the total storage size of the phones internal memory for user allocation ? Would it be something the developers could work on. But then I guess it comes back to the old saying, just get an SD Card.
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I doubt that any of the devs could increase the user usable space on the internal sdcard.
But even if they increased it by 1GB or 2GB no one including you would be satisfied with
that for more than a few minutes anyway.
The external sdcards are really not that expensive and spending $20-30 bucks on
32GB sdcard for a device which cost over $650 is not that big of a deal.
I would think the actual GS4GE has a different pit file.
actually i thought it would free up internal storage after flashing cm10.1...
I already flashed and indeed its still the same space as TW.. puzzling..
mgear356 said:
actually i thought it would free up internal storage after flashing cm10.1...
I already flashed and indeed its still the same space as TW.. puzzling..
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People have answered this many times. The size of storage you get will not increase unless Samsung changes the partition size.
repartition
isn't possible to re-partition. I am sure samsung had a good reason to book 6 GB for OS. but stock edition will not need all this space! i would say maybe not more than 3.
so cant we repartition the reserved to achieve usuable of 13GB?
masfog said:
isn't possible to re-partition. I am sure samsung had a good reason to book 6 GB for OS. but stock edition will not need all this space! i would say maybe not more than 3.
so cant we repartition the reserved to achieve usuable of 13GB?
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Yes you can but its very risky. See below
Skipjacks said:
In order to partition that internal memory you have to wipe it. And that means everything. System, recovery, download mode, boot loader, everything.
The connection with Odin or adb at this point would be totally housed in RAM. It would need to maintain that connection in order to complete the task of adding the new partition, adding the download mode back, adding recovery, and finally the ROM itself.
If the phone lost its connection during that process or lost power or the update process got pushed out of ram for any reason the phone would be hard bricked as there would be no way to reestablish communication with it to restart the process. You couldn't power it on or boot it to anything. It would be a $600 paper weight.
Meanwhile the alternative option is to just go buy an $8 external 16gb SD card or a $20 external 32gb SD card. That carries no risk whatsoever and expands your phone's storage well beyond the original 9gb of usable space you started with.
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C.Sweat said:
Yes you can but its very risky. See below
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thanks for the info. but i dont see why i would lost power during the process or anything like that. is it the same risk as flashing a rom via odin?
Is this why I am only able to use about three gigs of my internal storage space? I see 3 or so are partitioned off for the ROM (See second attachment from within TiB), then I have 10 gigs, but 7 are full of something I can't locate - either from within my phone or through my computer (See first attachment from within ES File Explorer).
I've got to assume this is just something going on with my phone. I think everyone would be pretty upset if their 16 gig phone only gave them 3 gigs...
I wish we had something like DTa2SD for the S4! That would be great...
masfog said:
thanks for the info. but i dont see why i would lost power during the process or anything like that. is it the same risk as flashing a rom via odin?
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When everything goes well you are right, you will probably reflash the partition 1000 times without having any issues... the problem is if you were to be unlucky
No the risk is not the same as flashing a rom. If the process of flashing a rom is interrupted you just wouldn't be able to reboot your phone normally but you could always reboot in recovery or download mode to retry flashing the rom.
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Shawn7656 said:
Is this why I am only able to use about three gigs of my internal storage space? I see 3 or so are partitioned off for the ROM (See second attachment from within TiB), then I have 10 gigs, but 7 are full of something I can't locate - either from within my phone or through my computer (See first attachment from within ES File Explorer).
I've got to assume this is just something going on with my phone. I think everyone would be pretty upset if their 16 gig phone only gave them 3 gigs...
I wish we had something like DTa2SD for the S4! That would be great...
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No you should have 8/9 Gb free on your Internal SD. The space you lose are the 2.19Gb in the system partition, but you have definitely something that is occupying your Internal SD.
Well crap. Any idea how to get rid of whatever it is? I can't get my phone to go into mass transfer mode at all (even with the SG USB Mass Transfer app) so the only thing I can do is browse on my phone through file explorers and nothing can see it.

[Q] Note 3 Miscellaneous Files taking up 29GB - rooted Jelly Beans Rom

Hello,
I've done a big search to solve this issue, but none that helped. I just bought a Note 3 32GB version Verizon, and I rooted it immediately and added Jelly Beans Build 4. I've barely put anything into internal memory. I look at the Storage and it says I have 29GB used up as Miscellaneous Files. (To which I clicked on and it at most lists 50mb of miscellaneous files) I then used DiskUsage and scanned and saw that my internal SD card only has 2493 MB of storage total. There's some type of issue with it that doesn't allow me to use up all of my 32 GB of internal memory. Could it be the root or rom preventing it?
How do I fix this?
Now that I think about it deeper. I did use Safestrap to root it and I had to create my own partition. Could it be the fact that I just created the partition with the default settings (as in the amount of memory used)? Should I have raised this to 32gb? I think Default was 2.5GB.
To further try to solve this issue, is there a way to increase the amount of data allocated to this partition? Or is there a way to copy everything in this partition to a new one that I would create at 32GB? I would rather not have to restart and redownload everything again, etc.
ahchah08 said:
Now that I think about it deeper...
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Your problem seems to be that you need to read a little more - you are not in the correct forum, this is NOT the Verizon Note 3 forum!
Oh I'm sorry, I Thought this was a general Note 3 forum. And I thought this would be a general Note 3 issue, but I guess it seems to be a rooted and ROM issue.
Your search failed you. Put the rom in the stock slot and your memory readings will be correct. Otherwise, ignore them.
ahchah08 said:
Hello,
I've done a big search to solve this issue, but none that helped. I just bought a Note 3 32GB version Verizon, and I rooted it immediately and added Jelly Beans Build 4. I've barely put anything into internal memory. I look at the Storage and it says I have 29GB used up as Miscellaneous Files. (To which I clicked on and it at most lists 50mb of miscellaneous files) I then used DiskUsage and scanned and saw that my internal SD card only has 2493 MB of storage total. There's some type of issue with it that doesn't allow me to use up all of my 32 GB of internal memory. Could it be the root or rom preventing it?
How do I fix this?
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Safestrap does not show your free space correctly, it has to do with the way Safestrap creates its partitions. If you use a file browser or switch to your stock ROM you will be able to see the correct amount of space. If you want to maximize your free space and if you want everything to show correctly the only way to do it is to flash the ROM to your STOCK slot. There have been numerous posts about this and I advise you search a little more. Anyways, it isn't anything abnormal and it's perfectly fine. Not something to worry about.

Note 4 Marshmallow - Adaptive Storage?

So I followed the availble tutorial, which is written by an S7 owner called "MoDaCo".
https://bgr.com/2016/03/11/galaxy-s7-edge-tips-microsd-adoptable-storage/
- I had a normal "179:32" or something like that IDs.
- The command in the tutorial:
Code:
sm partition disk:179:160 private
did not work.
- I had to use:
Code:
sm partition disk:179,160 private
After this I had a unified storage, but I had "128gb" of storage.
I did not try to fill up my phone then, but I tried to use Spotify and it said "cannot find storage device".
So my question is: Is it possible to fix this somehow?
I have a Class 10/UHS-1 card, Kingston, 32gb.
It should be fast enough.
h8Aramex said:
So I followed the availble tutorial, which is written by an S7 owner called "MoDaCo".
https://bgr.com/2016/03/11/galaxy-s7-edge-tips-microsd-adoptable-storage/
- I had a normal "179:32" or something like that IDs.
- The command in the tutorial:
Code:
sm partition disk:179:160 private
did not work.
- I had to use:
Code:
sm partition disk:179,160 private
After this I had a unified storage, but I had "128gb" of storage.
I did not try to fill up my phone then, but I tried to use Spotify and it said "cannot find storage device".
So my question is: Is it possible to fix this somehow?
I have a Class 10/UHS-1 card, Kingston, 32gb.
It should be fast enough.
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This trick is known to not to work with several apps like spotify, but other than that it works fine.
ps i the haven't tasted marshmallow yet.
Oh wow. Spotify would have been like the most important app, because it always places the data folder to the wrong location.
Anyhow, if apps need to be updated to use this new merged storage, then people will have to wait like two more years until every app gets fixed.
I watched the video with s7, the procedure did not yet, although it seems simple. But I do not understand why you include storage 128g if you have an SD of 32 g. Any number should be changed?
Your note 4 is 32 g storage? or you have more space?
cogelindo said:
I watched the video with s7, the procedure did not yet, although it seems simple. But I do not understand why you include storage 128g if you have an SD of 32 g. Any number should be changed?
Your note 4 is 32 g storage? or you have more space?
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It shows 128gb storage on top as overall.
First the new setup was all messed up.
Tapped SD, pressed "Move Data".
Then - the top was still showing 128gb, but tapping the SD showed me the correct numbers.
h8Aramex said:
It shows 128gb storage on top as overall.
First the new setup was all messed up.
Tapped SD, pressed "Move Data".
Then - the top was still showing 128gb, but tapping the SD showed me the correct numbers.
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maybe you should give a tour of the thread of Sprint note, I read there that someone had no problems, but can not remember that forum. I appreciate your initiative.
cogelindo said:
maybe you should give a tour of the thread of Sprint note, I read there that someone had no problems, but can not remember that forum. I appreciate your initiative.
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Tried to find the said Sprint thread, but no luck.
Could you link it to me?
I am willing to test any tutorials, since I already formatted my SD card, and I have a second device that I can use while I fix up my Note.
h8Aramex said:
Tried to find the said Sprint thread, but no luck.
Could you link it to me?
I am willing to test any tutorials, since I already formatted my SD card, and I have a second device that I can use while I fix up my Note.
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Found this for now : http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/general/mm-update-best-solid-update-t3345591/page5

Flashed A2017 with A2017G Stock Firmware, Displaying wrong memory

Hi All,
I purchased the Axon 7 (A2017, Chinese Model, 4GB RAM, 128GB Storage) more than a year ago, with the intention of using it for Google Daydream. As most of you are aware, the Chinese model no longer supports Daydream, which got me researching on how to enable Daydream (seeing how I purchased the headset without doing my research). One option I found is to flash the European / US firmware onto the Chinese phone.
Yesterday, I bit the bullet and flashed it. I took the Chinese modem file and replaced that in the European Firmware before flashing, and everything works fine - all functions are ok, including that of Daydream and connectivity. However, when I checked my storage, it showed that I only have 64GB maximum. When I checked Storage, it showed 61GB unaccounted for under "Others". Please see the screenshot attached.
Is there any way to amend the stock firmware for the memory to be properly accounted for?
Thank you all in advance.
Regards,
M
limenweim said:
Hi All,
I purchased the Axon 7 (A2017, Chinese Model, 4GB RAM, 128GB Storage) more than a year ago, with the intention of using it for Google Daydream. As most of you are aware, the Chinese model no longer supports Daydream, which got me researching on how to enable Daydream (seeing how I purchased the headset without doing my research). One option I found is to flash the European / US firmware onto the Chinese phone.
Yesterday, I bit the bullet and flashed it. I took the Chinese modem file and replaced that in the European Firmware before flashing, and everything works fine - all functions are ok, including that of Daydream and connectivity. However, when I checked my storage, it showed that I only have 64GB maximum. When I checked Storage, it showed 61GB unaccounted for under "Others". Please see the screenshot attached.
Is there any way to amend the stock firmware for the memory to be properly accounted for?
Thank you all in advance.
Regards,
M
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I think that's only the indicator, shouldn't be a big deal. Try to download DiskInfo from the Play store and check your data partition
Thank you for your reply.
I downloaded Diskinfo, and this is the screenshot.
The user storage space is definitely off, as I definitely did not use that much - I have only just flashed the ROM. Is there any way I can repartition it?
Thanks!
limenweim said:
Thank you for your reply.
I downloaded Diskinfo, and this is the screenshot.
The user storage space is definitely off, as I definitely did not use that much - I have only just flashed the ROM. Is there any way I can repartition it?
Thanks!
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I guess you can try to format from TWRP - try Wipe - Format data (Maybe it's under Advanced wipe, i can't remember). Otherwise you could try to use Advanced Wipe - Change filesystem, and format data/internal to ext4 from there

Setting up a SD card as internal storage on a Samsung Tab A SM-T580

I want to use a SD card as internal storage on my SM-T580 tablet. I have tried using the ADB Shell commands to set up a 32 GB SD card as 50% internal and 50% external, but I can’t seem to get it to work. I also tried an automated procedure forum here: (https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/auto-formatting-sdcard-to-internal-t3583875). This automated procedure seems to be working for others, but not me on my device. I also tried the manual procedure and automated procedure on my Samsung Galaxy S7 (SM-G930V), with no luck either.
Has anyone done this successfully on a Samsung SM-T580 tablet (Android 7 Nougat) and /or a Samsung Galaxy S7 (SM-G930V) (Android 8 Oreo)? Thanks for any help.
migoblu said:
I want to use a SD card as internal storage on my SM-T580 tablet. I have tried using the ADB Shell commands to set up a 32 GB SD card as 50% internal and 50% external, but I can’t seem to get it to work. I also tried an automated procedure forum here: (https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/auto-formatting-sdcard-to-internal-t3583875). This automated procedure seems to be working for others, but not me on my device. I also tried the manual procedure and automated procedure on my Samsung Galaxy S7 (SM-G930V), with no luck either.
Has anyone done this successfully on a Samsung SM-T580 tablet (Android 7 Nougat) and /or a Samsung Galaxy S7 (SM-G930V) (Android 8 Oreo)? Thanks for any help.
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If I am not mistaken that feature has been removed by Samsung on the stock firmware for the T580. If I remember when I google it I found something talking about rooting your tablet and instaling a custom boot imge. They way I got it to work was just by installing a custom rom like Lineage OS.
Take a look at this: (looks like it is only for MM)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-a/how-to/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-sm-t580-t3659774
Hope this helps.
Thanks, srgrusso. I guess Samsung wants us to buy newer higher capacity devices. I discovered on my Galaxy S7 that triggering Developer Options allowed me to transfer most of the apps to the SD card. So, I think that will suffice for the present, and when I pay off both the SM-T580 and SM-G930V then I will root them. Thanks for the link. Will just rooting the devices allow me to gain the ability to use a SD card as internal storage, or will I also have to install a custom ROM?
migoblu said:
Thanks, srgrusso. I guess Samsung wants us to buy newer higher capacity devices. I discovered on my Galaxy S7 that triggering Developer Options allowed me to transfer most of the apps to the SD card. So, I think that will suffice for the present, and when I pay off both the SM-T580 and SM-G930V then I will root them. Thanks for the link. Will just rooting the devices allow me to gain the ability to use a SD card as internal storage, or will I also have to install a custom ROM?
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I never did understand why Samsung makes us pay such high prices for average devices full of bloat with next to nothing for storage space. I would recommend a custom ROM unless you like the stock firmware. After I installed my custom ROM I found that I didn't really need the adoptable storage because I gained a couple of gigs of space back do to the fact that I lost all the bloat and bs of the stock firmware. The stock firmware is ridiculously huge and a space hog. I don't know for sure but I think you would still have to patch the stock firmware. I also seen people mention an app called App2SD I don't know much about it though. Here is a link to the XDA thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/apps2sd-partition-sd-card-link-apps-to-t3122919. There are a couple of drawbacks of adoptable storage. One is speed. You nead to make sure you have a fast sd card. Another is that most sd cards will burn out quickly being used as adoptable storage. Here is a good article about that https://www.androidcentral.com/adoptable-storage.
srgrusso said:
I never did understand why Samsung makes us pay such high prices for average devices full of bloat with next to nothing for storage space. I would recommend a custom ROM unless you like the stock firmware. After I installed my custom ROM I found that I didn't really need the adoptable storage because I gained a couple of gigs of space back do to the fact that I lost all the bloat and bs of the stock firmware. The stock firmware is ridiculously huge and a space hog. I don't know for sure but I think you would still have to patch the stock firmware. I also seen people mention an app called App2SD I don't know much about it though. Here is a link to the XDA thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/apps2sd-partition-sd-card-link-apps-to-t3122919. There are a couple of drawbacks of adoptable storage. One is speed. You nead to make sure you have a fast sd card. Another is that most sd cards will burn out quickly being used as adoptable storage. Here is a good article about that https://www.androidcentral.com/adoptable-storage.
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Thanks for the info and the links. I found some instructions that allow me to transfer some apps to the SD card in my Samsung Galaxy S7 (SM-G930V). The instructions are to enable Developer Options, by tapping on the Build Number 7 times, when Developer is enabled, then go to Developer Options, and enable "force allow apps on external ". This has allowed me to gain about 5 GB of internal storage. I think that this will help me until I root the phone and install a custom ROM. Thanks for all your advice and help.
migoblu said:
Thanks, srgrusso. I guess Samsung wants us to buy newer higher capacity devices.
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Absolutely nothing to do with that and neither does that statement make sense.
Samsung STILL release low capacity budget devices. It wouldn't make sense to release them if they didn't want people to buy them.
Samsung are simply trying to cater for all corners of the market, from budget to Flagships.
Samsung had good reason to remove adoptable storage and in part agree with the decision. However I don't believe it should have been removed entirely, the choice should have been the consumers with a clear stern warning if it used.
The reason?
Basically performance.
Adoptable storage relies on much slower memory.
Samsungs internal NAND memory is way faster read and certainly write than any SD CARD/ flash media.
Even Samsung budget devices use high performance NAND memory.
From Samsungs point of view it would be pointless releasing a device, especially a flagship, with high performance specs and then bottle neck it with relatively slow memory.
All that would happen is that all over the web and forums there'd be people whinging and whining about the performance of their device and how slow it is. Particularly the gaming community and those with higher spec devices.
There'd be countless calls to Samsung support by people questioning the performance of their devices.
It boils down to the fact that many people do not understand what adoptable storage is and how it works.
I created the adoptable storage patch because I believe people should be given the choice. However I don't recommend using it.
I certainly don't, I just manage my storage better.
There's no point in whinging about how much storage capacity the device has.
It's all there in the specs before anyone buys the device.
Yes I agree there is far too much bloat in some of Samsungs roms and this wastes capacity.
However Samsung are learning and Tbh they've slimmed down TouchWiz alot in recent OS releases.
I did it on my Redmi Note 8T 32GB. Just flash the ZIP file which I attached here in Recovery and then you will be able to format SD card as Internal Storage.
*** If it is not working, you must need to FORMAT DATA to delete the encryption, so before of that - make a backup of all your files ***
I tested it on Android 13 and it is working perfectly.
Then you can use for example an app: APP2SD (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.co.pricealert.apps2sd) from Google Play to move apps to adopted storage (SD CARD)

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