Not sure where to go, will start here. I have a E970 with 16MB storage. Been running Houstonn's Carbon Rom nightlies for over a month. Went into my settings-storage and it tells me that I have 11.30GB total storage with about 2GB used by Apps, Pics, audio, downloads, cache, and misc. However, the available space shows as only 2.09GB. Am i missing something? My 16GB SD card seems to be reporting ok. I'm just wondering if the phone is mis-reporting my storage, or if I should just wipe it out and re-install carbon fresh.
Any help appreciated.....Thanks!
sysbus6 said:
Not sure where to go, will start here. I have a E970 with 16MB storage. Been running Houstonn's Carbon Rom nightlies for over a month. Went into my settings-storage and it tells me that I have 11.30GB total storage with about 2GB used by Apps, Pics, audio, downloads, cache, and misc. However, the available space shows as only 2.09GB. Am i missing something? My 16GB SD card seems to be reporting ok. I'm just wondering if the phone is mis-reporting my storage, or if I should just wipe it out and re-install carbon fresh.
Any help appreciated.....Thanks!
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Look for cwm backups hiding in data/media.
adfurgerson said:
Look for cwm backups hiding in data/media.
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Thanks......had a bunch of backups hiding in there.... Back up to about 10GB of free space.
Good call........ I love XDA; have a great day!
sysbus6 said:
Thanks......had a bunch of backups hiding in there.... Back up to about 10GB of free space.
Good call........ I love XDA; have a great day!
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Had same thing on my phone, started going folder by folder looking for anything I was brave enough to move or delete and bam there it was.
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Okay so my girlfriend has has an LG Optimus One and she has deleted lots of apps, but she has the occasional problem where when she texts , her phone says storage is full. She has an SD card, but no apps are able to be moved to it. Can someone help us to fix this problem without rooting/installing another rom onto the phone? Thanks, all help appreciated.
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Tylerbacchus said:
Okay so my girlfriend has has an LG Optimus One and she has deleted lots of apps, but she has the occasional problem where when she texts , her phone says storage is full. She has an SD card, but no apps are able to be moved to it. Can someone help us to fix this problem without rooting/installing another rom onto the phone? Thanks, all help appreciated.
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Without rooting, if no apps on the internal storage can be moved to sd, then the only option is to delete apps on the internal storage and try replace them with similar apps which can be stored on the sd.
I realized I was almost out of storage so I looked into my files but if you look at the pic I only have 3 or so gigs used but it says over all 8 gigs used out of 11.. What I am I missing? I know the OS takes up space but the is 11 to 16 gigs it takes up??
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ThatFool said:
I realized I was almost out of storage so I looked into my files but if you look at the pic I only have 3 or so gigs used but it says over all 8 gigs used out of 11.. What I am I missing? I know the OS takes up space but the is 11 to 16 gigs it takes up??
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/data and /sdcard share the 11 GB on the phone, so I'd gues you have a lot of apps or some very large ones. :good:
EDIT - Before I get corrected, /data uses all the space, and /data/media gets fused to /storage/sdcard0, and THAT gets sym-linked to /sdcard.
I had the same thing happen to me. Found out that astro filemanagers cache was over 7 gigs. Cleared the app cache and instantly had my space back. Still don't understand how it happened but was easy enough to fix.
ThatFool said:
I realized I was almost out of storage so I looked into my files but if you look at the pic I only have 3 or so gigs used but it says over all 8 gigs used out of 11.. What I am I missing? I know the OS takes up space but the is 11 to 16 gigs it takes up??
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Go thru settings>storage, and run the cache/app cleaner. If you are still having the issue and you have deleted big apps that you don't use. Delete your titanium backup files. Only do a TB right before you flash a new rom. Also if you have multiple nandroid backups, those are about 1.3gb of data each. so do the same as TB. delete backups and only make a backup right before you are about to flash a rom. Takes a lil bit longer if you are a avid flasher, but saves space this way, and always ensures that you have a fresh backup to restore to.
So I went through and got rid of some and I am still well over 6 GB. The reason I am trying to clear space was for recovery so on to my next question when backing up through TWRP do I have to back up data or can I just back up my system
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ThatFool said:
So I went through and got rid of some and I am still well over 6 GB. The reason I am trying to clear space was for recovery so on to my next question when backing up through TWRP do I have to back up data or can I just back up my system
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Get a usb-otg cable from amazon. Use it to plug in a thumb drive to your DNA. The newest versions of TWRP support usb-otg so you can backup or restore from a usb device. It saves you from taking up 2-3gb on your phone. Here is the cable I bought
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00932N46S/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have my Droid DNA 16gb.
It shows 11.44GB of total space. I'm assuming it's not counting what is taken by the OS.
It shows 4GB available.
It shows 680MB used for Apps and everything else combined.
So if 680MB is being used, where the heck did my other 6GB of storage go to?
Is there an app that can be more accurate than the built in storage app?
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I have my Droid DNA 16gb.
It shows 11.44GB of total space. I'm assuming it's not counting what is taken by the OS.
It shows 4GB available.
It shows 680MB used for Apps and everything else combined.
So if 680MB is being used, where the heck did my other 6GB of storage go to?
Is there an app that can be more accurate than the built in storage app?
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You sure its not showing anything else? Sounds like you may have a ROM backup or something...
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You sure its not showing anything else? Sounds like you may have a ROM backup or something...
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I thought that too, but I've used ASTRO File Viewer to dig through every folder I can think of, and they're all pretty much empty.
callmechewy said:
I thought that too, but I've used ASTRO File Viewer to dig through every folder I can think of, and they're all pretty much empty.
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no twrp backups?
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no twrp backups?
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Never used it, just CWM. I just installed this rom (CM10.1) on my DNA, and did a factory reset before I did.
One thing I noticed though, is that even though my files are gone I could still see some of them when I ran DiskUsage. I deleted them, even though they showed as 0bytes.
Right now DiskUsage is showing that I have an 12GB storage card. 7GB is used for "System data" and 4GB is free.
I'm so confused. This is a 16GB phone, but none of the math is adding up.
any music? games that required further content download after downloading from the play store? other then that you should have something like 13 gbs free with cm10.1 installed well atleast i did.
Open adb shell. su. cd /data. find . -size +1000000
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Maybe try data/media folder and delete everything except the 0/ folder
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Hello i´m from germany so my english isn´t so good and i hope you understand my problem. Since a few days i can´t update apps because i become a error report which says no more space but i have 2 GB internal memory free?. 2 or 3 days later i can´t install new apps too. I have the stock rom 4.2.2 with root, TWRP and Hacker Kernel. I hope you can help me.. I also tried to install a custom rom but i don´t find a rom that is better then stock and at custom rom my wifi can´t be enabled.
Help...
Nobody have an idea?
Google Play is only supposed to prevent you from downloading apps when you have 200MB of internal storage or fewer. However, I've seen this same problem at other random numbers like 400MB. Unfortunately, I've never seen the problem as high as 1.4 GB.
Although you aren't supposed to have this problem, you can definitely try freeing up space and seeing if the problem persists. If you have 3GB of free internal space and you still cannot download apps, there is a problem with Play. If the problem goes away, I would recommend buying an SD card where you can keep most of your data, and you will still be able to update your apps.
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I have already a sd card with 64 gb and at the galaxy s4 you cant move apps to sd. I use folder mount for the data of big games and my navi. I already tried to unistall apps. Time by time a app will install or update and i dont know why..
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I have already a sd card with 64 gb and at the galaxy s4 you cant move apps to sd. I use folder mount for the data of big games and my navi. I already tried to unistall apps. Time by time a app will install or update and i dont know why..
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In your screenshot, it looks like 4.7GB is being taken up by media. If that is your internal SD, try moving the media to your 64GB SD. See if updates work then.
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In your screenshot, it looks like 4.7GB is being taken up by media. If that is your internal SD, try moving the media to your 64GB SD. See if updates work then.
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i cant move the android folder and the whatsapp folder
chilllla said:
i cant move the android folder and the whatsapp folder
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The only way to solve the problem you are having would be to isolate it. If you clear up some memory and apps start updating, you know that your phone has a limit of 2GB. In that case, always keep over 2GB free and try to move more data to SD. (I still don't understand how Whatsapp takes so much memory) If apps don't update after you clear the space, you know that Google Play isn't working the way its supposed to, and should probably contact support on their end.
Sorry I wasn't of too much help for you. Good luck!
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I noticed that if I add up the size of the files in my device memory, it comes out to be over 16GBs, but I still have more than 1GB of available space. I have attached screenshots of this. Does anyone know how this could be? When i install a large app, the app space goes up but the available space does not go down. I'm on MK2, rooted and running Hyperdrive RLS 14 via SafeStrap.
I don't know if this is the problem but I know my phone will show memory usage for things I have downloaded but already deleted.
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Triscuit said:
I don't know if this is the problem but I know my phone will show memory usage for things I have downloaded but already deleted.
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I don't think that is the case for me since I know I have downloaded more data than is showing under the Downloads section. But thanks for the response. I usually move the downloads to my external SD card after the download is completed. Speaking of which, I wish there was a way to download directly to the ext SD card.
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I noticed that if I add up the size of the files in my device memory, it comes out to be over 16GBs, but I still have more than 1GB of available space. I have attached screenshots of this. Does anyone know how this could be? When i install a large app, the app space goes up but the available space does not go down. I'm on MK2, rooted and running Hyperdrive RLS 14 via SafeStrap.
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Often you have files which are linked from one folder to another, so adding things up won't work.
I use the "DiskUsage" app to display what's consuming space.