S3 Internal memory filling up mysteriously. - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
Having an issue with my S3 where the internal memory is filling up with some unknown thing. Every morning I was waking up to "insufficient storage" notifications and no matter what i would deleted it would just fill up again. I factory reset it two days ago to see if it would stop the problem and it's already half full of nothing. I've looked around a few places but can't seem to find an answer. Phone is unrooted with stock everything. I've attached some images so you can see what I'm talking about. Storage Analyser does not recognise whatever is taking up the space but the system does.
[System Storage Screen] dropbox.com/sc/kpbd0zbl1hzcmgq/q0dvMD4Gm5
[Storage Analyser] dropbox.com/sc/icc155dhgdtr8qs/ACFl-6FU5Y
[System Info] dropbox.com/sc/lj372v0y0d1oosl/GAgZt3i6zA
Any help or ideas would be appreciated.

UPDATE
I figured this out. I rooted the phone and realised that my phone had almost 3gb of error logs in data/logs/ --- That's 3 gigs in 2 days by the way. Gonna try and figure out how to stop it doing that next and I'll report here then. Until then I'll just have to delete regularly.

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[Q] Cannot free Internal storage-diff free storage info in storage & app menu

Hi,
I have a weird problem with my S2 running samsung stock ICS 4.0.3. i have been using sgs2 for over a year now and whenever my free internal storage goes below 250MB i move the apps to SD card. But now No. of apps in SDcard has hit the Android limit so i simply delete the Apps. But off late that is not freeing up my internal memory. Soon after deleting apps it shows internal memory freed but by next day or it again fills up. This is when i check my storage at Settings-> storage (shows ~220MB). when i check my with settings -Applications it stays free and now its showing 600MB free. This was not the case earlier. Both the values above remained more or less same. So i have deleted ~300MB worth of applications without freeing up my storage
I have been searching vigorously but found no solutions. I have read about Wifi logs issue but it should have started soon after ICS upgrade. In fact till very recently it was fine coz i had to delete lot of Appa due to Android SD card bug. my free space went upto ~400Mb. Not now suddenly. In fact i changed nothing in my sgs2 to cause this. I noticed this issue when i installed and then uninstalled SYBIL. Would deleting Dalvik cache help? if yes then how to do it?
What else should i do? Is there a way to resolve this of find a workaround without Rooting. I love to root my phone and enjoy the freedom it offers but i have absolutely no time to do that.
Please help
Helppp... something .... anything ... am i the only unfortunate one with this issue??
or if you know a an expert in XDA who i can PM .. please forward me his handle.
solved
shekharpati said:
Helppp... something .... anything ... am i the only unfortunate one with this issue??
or if you know a an expert in XDA who i can PM .. please forward me his handle.
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finally found a solution in a thread in xda "A simple way to free up storage space is by deleting all the log files in the device memory. Just dial *#9900# on your phone and select option 2 “Delete dumpstate/logcat” in the prompted menu. It's not necessary to root your phone either. I restored 1.4 gig of space after doing this."

[Q] Weird internal memory readings

Hi folks/ I'm a new member to these forums hoping someone may be able to give me some advice regarding an S3 that was dropped in water a few days ago. The immersion in the water was minimal - the water damage indicator behind the battery is still ok (purple crosses on a white background).
A day or so after the accident a message appeared on the phone saying it was running out of storage space. I did the usual removing of photo's, videos & unwanted apps and this got rid of the message but on for a day. When I checked the memory details it said that almost 11GB was in use!
I reverted the phone back to it's factory setting which cleared the problem for a few days. Then the messgae reappeared.
This morning I reinstalled the latest frimware via Odin (I9300XXELL4) and I also installed SD Maid.
I appreciate SD Maid is mainly for rooted devices however the info I could get from it told me that the folders '/data' and '/storage/sdcard0' are both showing 3.71GB/11.25GB.
Is this right? More than a quarter of the internal memory used after a fresh install of the firmware??
I've connected the phone to Kies to try and pinpoint where the memory is being used but that tells me that 3.6GB/11.15GB is being used but the biggest folder is the Android one with only 148MB??
I would appreciate any help or advice you guys can give me regarding this. To my untrained eyes 3GB+ seems a heck of a lot of memory being used after a fresh install??
Many thanks
I9300
AP: I9300XXELL4
CP: I9300NELK2
CSC: I9300H3GELL1
Further to above, which I posted yesterday, I have just checked the S3 and the 'Not enough storage' message has appeared again. SD Maid now says 11.34GB/11.35GB has been used. No apps or photos or anything else has been added. The phone has just been used for browsing & Facebook. Something somewhere is causing wrong readings to show. Looks like it's stumped the XDA Developers lol
Endlessdeep said:
Hi folks/ I'm a new member to these forums hoping someone may be able to give me some advice regarding an S3 that was dropped in water a few days ago. The immersion in the water was minimal - the water damage indicator behind the battery is still ok (purple crosses on a white background).
A day or so after the accident a message appeared on the phone saying it was running out of storage space. I did the usual removing of photo's, videos & unwanted apps and this got rid of the message but on for a day. When I checked the memory details it said that almost 11GB was in use!
I reverted the phone back to it's factory setting which cleared the problem for a few days. Then the messgae reappeared.
This morning I reinstalled the latest frimware via Odin (I9300XXELL4) and I also installed SD Maid.
I appreciate SD Maid is mainly for rooted devices however the info I could get from it told me that the folders '/data' and '/storage/sdcard0' are both showing 3.71GB/11.25GB.
Is this right? More than a quarter of the internal memory used after a fresh install of the firmware??
I've connected the phone to Kies to try and pinpoint where the memory is being used but that tells me that 3.6GB/11.15GB is being used but the biggest folder is the Android one with only 148MB??
I would appreciate any help or advice you guys can give me regarding this. To my untrained eyes 3GB+ seems a heck of a lot of memory being used after a fresh install??
Many thanks
I9300
AP: I9300XXELL4
CP: I9300NELK2
CSC: I9300H3GELL1
Further to above, which I posted yesterday, I have just checked the S3 and the 'Not enough storage' message has appeared again. SD Maid now says 11.34GB/11.35GB has been used. No apps or photos or anything else has been added. The phone has just been used for browsing & Facebook. Something somewhere is causing wrong readings to show. Looks like it's stumped the XDA Developers lol
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Details have changed (for the worse) please see the note i've added at the bottom of the original post
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[Q] Long-Term memory handling problem, please help!

This problem has got to the point of forcing me to register on XDA forums. I have a Samsung G II running android 4.1.2 (jelly-bean of course) and over the past week the memory (storage) handling has gotten really bad. It's as if the OS has given up on storing items now. Problems include-
After taking, receiving or downloading a photo (generally over whatsapp but it occurs to other apps like wallbase) The photo will be stored on my phone for the day until i turn off my phone, now after turning it back on however the photos are gone just leaving a blank space which displays "unable to load" in the gallery.
Next issues is that my apps i now install get installed in the next dimension because they don't appear to be on my phone even when i do a file search or plug in the device into my computer. But here is where it gets crazy they are on my phone and do take space up, but it's no where to be found.
The OS now presumes i have an SD card even though i don't have one plugged in. Because of this! big games and Apps now now try to use this fake SD that doesn't exist and this causes them to give me errors along the lines of "Sd is full or inaccessible". Pffft
Please someone help me, this issue is annoying me so badly and is rendering my phone useless if it can't store data.
I appologize you were forced to register here @ this great forum and though you still might find your answer here,ironic,anyway.Have you tried wiping cache,dalvik and fixing permissions,are you even rooted?I did'nt see you mention that,so i have no idea,also,you might want to back up what you want to keep and format and partition your sd card,not sure how big your sd crad is either,so you might need a bigger sd card for all your stuff.I myself use a 32GB Sandisk,class 10 and it works great,never ran out of space or had any speed issues on my OG EVO.
Diablo67 said:
I appologize you were forced to register here @ this great forum and though you still might find your answer here,ironic,anyway.Have you tried wiping cache,dalvik and fixing permissions,are you even rooted?I did'nt see you mention that,so i have no idea,also,you might want to back up what you want to keep and format and partition your sd card,not sure how big your sd crad is either,so you might need a bigger sd card for all your stuff.I myself use a 32GB Sandisk,class 10 and it works great,never ran out of space or had any speed issues on my OG EVO.
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Rooted? yes. I've deleted all the caches under the sun and still no results. And i have over 4Gb of free internal storage according to my phone. I have my data backed up but i'd rather have a direction to go before starting anything. :crying:
I'm not seeing anything for your phone except this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192122

[Q] Mysterious internal storage usage

Hello all,
I have a very peculiar and troublesome problem on my hands. One of my family members has a Galaxy S II (international) running CM10.1, and the internal storage for apps and such is running very low, but I can't figure out why. She has only a handful of apps on the device, and even the internal SD card is more than half empty. The device is giving a "Storage space is running out" notification. I tried reinstalling CM10, but I left the data partition intact, so maybe I have to wipe it out to fix it. I'd prefer not to do that if at all possible, as we're on vacation right now. Any ideas?
Thanks!
I have the exact same problem.
i have 12 gig's of internal storage. 1gig used (if i add up the used files). and 899mb free.... ??
it doesnt add up.
i installed CM10.1.3 and cant figure out where all the data is.
cleared all cash and removed unused apps. it gives me a couple more MB's but no gigs extra....
i have a feeling i didnt clear the phone well enough before installing CM10.1.3
how do i get the missing ghost files back. and remove them?

[Q] Out of space

Hi everyone! So, I've been having a bit of an issue with my Galaxy S3 lately (and by lately, I mean it's been bothering me for the past few months, but until today I've been able to use my phone )
My phone is giving me an out of space message, and no matter what I do, I can't seem to fix it. When it first started coming up, it was a bit annoying, but today, my phone seems to have run out of so much space, it can't receive messages, take screenshots (even though it should be stored onto my SD card), or even use the Facebook app without it erroring.
I can't upload a screenshot to here (since my phone won't even let me take the screenshot ), but when I go to the storage settings, my phone says I don't have enough internal memory. It says I have 11.25GB total, and I'm using 1.85GB for applications, 5.27MB for pictures and videos, 34.30MB for audio, 14.14MB for downloads and 236MB for misc files. Somehow that means my 11.25GB space is all used up, so I might have to go back to school for maths, because something doesn't add up . It also says I have 4.30GB free space on my SD card, but that's not causing the problem (I hope)
I've searched for other problems like this, and all of them are for rooted phones, which doesn't help me because my S3 isn't rooted. Also, all of the problems I saw were when people tried installing an app and got the "out of space" error on Google Play store, and they had to delete the app's .odex file, which unfortunately doesn't help me
I appreciate any help anyone has ! Really hoping to be able to use my phone again

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