If I go into the Storage option under settings I see that my internal storage has 577mb free with 1.7gb in use. If I go into apps and show all (vs downloaded) after a minute or so the total down the bottom, which started out matching the other numbers, changes to 870mb free and 1.4gb used. Any clue how that discrepancy happens? I keep getting low space warnings about the 577mb free and trying to figure out what's up because when I add up my app usage, it is nowhere near 1.7gb. Thoughts?
The answers for this will vary depending on what ROM you are on and if you are on pure stock as well
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TI Backup is showing I have 456 apps installed which includes everything that came with the phone. I hear there is no limit (my old windows 6.5 phone was limited to 50 apps...after that all of the apps disappeared from the deinstall menu and you had to manually delete something to see them all again). Everything is installed to the internal card, nothing installed on the external SD card. I still have almost 9 gigs of free space so it is conceivable that 1500 apps is possible, though the phone may start to slow down at some point. With TI backup eating space along with the phone's built in android backup turned on I don't know how much of the free space will be eaten up.
So anyone over the 450 number?
There is a smaller area of the SD card put aside for apps..
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I was on 448 but just downloaded another 3 to break 450. TiBu reporting 451 now. LOL
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I don't see why you can't have as many apps as will fit on the internal storage...
marko! said:
There is a smaller area of the SD card put aside for apps..
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Is there a way to increase the size?
Tibu says I only have 204....best start downloading so app's....lol
space for apps
If there is a finite amout of space available for apps then there is definitely an upper limit to how many apps can be installed. i may be close to the limit since i tried installing a large app from amazon and received a message saying there was insufficient space. After I deinstalled Angry Birds Rio the nessage went away and the app installed. So to increase the amount of available space for apps you either have to increase the amount of allocated space for apps (whereever that directory is), delete other optional files like pics and music, or perhaps reformat.....I remember seeing soem sort of reformat option somewhere...maybe this post belongs in the dev forum since they are savvy with the system.
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If there is a finite amout of space available for apps then there is definitely an upper limit to how many apps can be installed. i may be close to the limit since i tried installing a large app from amazon and received a message saying there was insufficient space. After I deinstalled Angry Birds Rio the nessage went away and the app installed. So to increase the amount of available space for apps you either have to increase the amount of allocated space for apps (whereever that directory is), delete other optional files like pics and music, or perhaps reformat.....I remember seeing soem sort of reformat option somewhere...maybe this post belongs in the dev forum since they are savvy with the system.
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Sounds like you need Apps2sd.
Yes. I just got apps to SD. I didn't know any apps were on the SD card, I am still curious exactly.how much space is available on the phone. I'll have to copy over the apps to my 2nd SD card.
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My internal storage keeps filling up completely and I can't seem to get to the bottom of it. I first noticed the problem about a month ago...so I deleted all my big games, which left me with about 1.8GB of space on internal storage. Since then, I have only installed a couple of small apps and my internal storage in completely full again.... showing 0mb available.
There are no pictures, videos or music files of any kind currently stored on my phone.
Thanks!
Nothing? Google is getting me nowhere... fast I'll keep digging for now.
Download the app "Disk Usage" and run it for whichever storage (internal or external) and it will list everything installed in a graphical version.
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Thank you for that. I was easily able to get to the bottom of this using that app. Here are the big offenders on my phone:
\sdcard\Android\Data\com.amazon.venezia\cache = deleted all the files in this directory and it freed up 3.7GB.
Uninstalled google currents and deleted the entire directory \sdcard\Android\Data\com.google.android.apps.currents = free up over 3GB.
I now have over 6GB of free space on my phone after making those two changes. CRAZY!!!!
Also keep an eye on the following folders and make sure you clean them from time to time.
LazyList
LOST.DIR
temp
Also the Download folder grows very quickly if you download many things from the Browser or email.
I have managed to free several gigabytes this way.
Cheers!
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Oh wow I wish I had know about this earlier! I just cleared up 5GB of junk I didn't need anymore.
I can't install app on my sony xperia , it say i need more space but my internal memory still have about 20gb free, can someone help me solve this
I think you are confusing 2 things.
The 20GB you are talking about can only be used for storing music, photos, ...
As far as i know, you only have about 1.5 to 1.6GB available for installing apps.
If you are running ICS, you can check this by going to settings => apps => select the 'downloaded' tab at the top. At the bottom of your screen it then says how much of the memory you have already used and how much is left.
Hope this helps.
so is there anyway i can use that 20gb to install apps and games
Yes
Move the apps to the internal storage memory(20gb one)
You can find it in settings>Apps>select the app you want to move and move it to internal storage.
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I know it varies across the board on how much freespace we have in our System folder.
I was just interested in seeing how much MB others have trimmed down in their System folder..
Mine says 1.00gb used 722 mb free
Heck over 240 mb of freed space was just from the tutorial videos in media/ videos..anyway thought the topic would be good...
Heres a screenshot of my gb used and mb free
http://db.tt/y5Orl8c7
Here is all my apps in a screenshot and if you see some more I can trim just let me know..thanks
http://db.tt/LBoRBZeF
Its running smoother with the bloatware gone..does your rom have these apk in link below..dont know why but a buddy of mine showed his at stock didnt have it..sort of crazy..
http://db.tt/FhyKFNdb
My root explorer isn't showing disk space in the info bar for some reason, but my used space is around 1010 MB.
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I have a Samsung I9100G and my App storage is 1.97GB.Something like 1.1GB is consumed by android system which is not showing and the rest is my apps but its not enough for me this phone has 13GB Total space in it and i want it all in one place my apps and my downloads - musics etc. i looked around trying to find how to do that but all i have found was to format SD Card.But thats not what i want my space is showing like this
Device Memory: 1.97GB
USB Storage: 11.00GB
it shows my space as usb storage i wanna change that to device memory so that i don't have any problems
My phone is rooted and i'm using 4.1.2
Don't tell me to open space with link2sd or something like that my apps are already on sd card and my storage is still filled up.
Have you tried the app DiskUsage from the playstore? It gives a great visual of what exactly is taking up your space. Could help you work it exactly what us consuming your space.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
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Yes im using it and i know whats consuming my space but thats not what i want to know o wanna make that 11GB usb storage my device memory
Well you can look into repartitioning your internal storage through an Odin flash but I STRONGLY recommend that you don't. It's one of the quickest ways to turn you i9100G into a brick.
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