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.
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When I go to download an item I an told I don't have enough space I have a 32gb micro SD and still have at least 19gb free I am running shostock2 v1.0 (will be upgraded by the end of the day to g1.1) is there a way to combine internal SD with external SD?
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When I go to download an item I an told I don't have enough space I have a 32gb micro SD and still have at least 19gb free I am running shostock2 v1.0 (will be upgraded by the end of the day to g1.1) is there a way to combine internal SD with external SD?
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Definitely no way to combine the 2 as far as i know. (that's what wp7 does and locks the ext sd up).
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What are you downloading? When downloading an app I think it requires the space to be available in the "device memory", that partition is where apps install be default and is about 2 GB. If you are downloading a single file over 19 GB, then you would have to move the files from your SD card to your phone memory to make the space available in a single place.
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If you're downloading a file from your browser, you can set the default download location to your SD card instead of your phone memory.
If you're downloading an app and you're out of space, yeah your only option is to move some apps to the SD.
I don't use any phone memory I have 1 of 2gb free in phone memory but my phone says I have 10gb internal but I have used it all then I click "external_SD" I have 20gb open in that area
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As explained above: you need to have enough room in the phone's internal memory. Go to settings/applications and move some existing apps to the external SD. I had to do this recently when trying to install Modern Combat 3.
I have room on internal memory for the phone it tlself the phone took my 32gb men card and split it into internal and external is there a way I can make it all one instead of two? I download tons of music and roms so I deal with the SD more than the device itself
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bassheadz said:
I have room on internal memory for the phone it tlself the phone took my 32gb men card and split it into internal and external is there a way I can make it all one instead of two? I download tons of music and roms so I deal with the SD more than the device itself
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hrm?
the OS doesnt take your external sd and split it between internal and external
you have external
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you have internal
different sd cards altogether
bassheadz said:
I have room on internal memory for the phone it tlself the phone took my 32gb men card and split it into internal and external is there a way I can make it all one instead of two? I download tons of music and roms so I deal with the SD more than the device itself
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You're not understanding us.
First of all, what is it exactly that you are trying to download?
Ima post a screenshot of it but I was trying to download the new shostock update I had to delete stuff off my memery to do it
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bassheadz said:
Ima post a screenshot of it but I was trying to download the new shostock update I had to delete stuff off my memery to do it
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Ok, all you need to do is set the default download location to your external SD instead of the internal. In gingerbread it's pretty easy to find in the browser settings...I have to assume that's where it is in ICS too.
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mattdm said:
Ok, all you need to do is set the default download location to your external SD instead of the internal. In gingerbread it's pretty easy to find in the browser settings...I have to assume that's where it is in ICS too.
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Thank you I found it I appreciate the help I still think its pointless for the memory card to be split like that lol but thanks for all the help
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bassheadz said:
Thank you I found it I appreciate the help I still think its pointless for the memory card to be split like that lol but thanks for all the help
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Listen: the memory card IS NOT split. You have an external SD card. That's the one you can take out and hold in your hand. You also have another one of those that you can't take out; it's built into the phone. That's the internal SD card. Two different cards, not one split into two.
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Listen: the memory card IS NOT split. You have an external SD card. That's the one you can take out and hold in your hand. You also have another one of those that you can't take out; it's built into the phone. That's the internal SD card. Two different cards, not one split into two.
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i dont think he's getting it
I get it does the galaxy s2 have 16gb internal memory? And what is the device memory then?
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bassheadz said:
I get it does the galaxy s2 have 16gb internal memory? And what is the device memory then?
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just like EVERY other phone out there, its advertised as 16gb
thats 16gb TOTAL storage.
it gets divided up into PARTITIONS just like EVERY OTHER phone
system
'internal' which is where APPLICATIONS get installed
/mnt/sdcard which is 12+/- GB of USER ACCESSIBLE SPACE *this is where stuff gets DOWNLOADED when you are downloading from the interwebz
/mnt/sdcard/external_sd (/mnt/emmc in AOSP roms) THIS IS THE EXTERNAL sd card...the REMOVABLE one
why do you keep thinking you are getting screwed out of space? or that anything is any different than other phones?
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just like EVERY other phone out there, its advertised as 16gb
thats 16gb TOTAL storage.
it gets divided up into PARTITIONS just like EVERY OTHER phone
system
'internal' which is where APPLICATIONS get installed
/mnt/sdcard which is 12+/- GB of USER ACCESSIBLE SPACE *this is where stuff gets DOWNLOADED when you are downloading from the interwebz
/mnt/sdcard/external_sd (/mnt/emmc in AOSP roms) THIS IS THE EXTERNAL sd card...the REMOVABLE one
why do you keep thinking you are getting screwed out of space? or that anything is any different than other phones?
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You explained that so much Better and I was thinking the phone made my memory card do that I guess it was one of those I couldn't se the big picture moments and confused myself on it thank you so I just gotta redirect my downloads?
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My s3 is showing out of memory now. I have a 32gbp card with lots of green space and also my internal memory still 400mb remaining. I thought the apps got installed in the phone memory. Am I wrong? Is this 400mb limit?? Pls help . I'm on stock os, non rooted.
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coolnand said:
My s3 is showing out of memory now. I have a 32gbp card with lots of green space and also my internal memory still 400mb remaining. I thought the apps got installed in the phone memory. Am I wrong? Is this 400mb limit?? Pls help . I'm on stock os, non rooted.
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Your not wrong, thats why your out of storage space. All your apps are stored on your phone and not on your external 32GB card.
400MBs is all the space you have left on your phone. Try moving some music and pictures onto your 32Gb SDcard.
I know it's low. But when 400mb is available, atleast an app of 5mb or 2mb should get installed na???
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Your phone still require some memory to perform other stuff like cache. Try to move your media files to ext sdcard.
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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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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.
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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.
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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 bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Picture, videos, music and transfer some apps.
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Picture, videos, music and transfer some apps.
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Yet none of those things actually download to my SD card. My SD card has like 9 gigs free space and internal only has 500mb left .
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Go into your camera settings and tell it to save to SD card and free up some of your phones space
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420haxr said:
Yet none of those things actually download to my SD card. My SD card has like 9 gigs free space and internal only has 500mb left .
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Copy the folders from internal card to extsd...
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Copy the folders from internal card to extsd...
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The specific media folders..then delete the contents on internal memory....
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Or use something like ES File Explorer File Manager from the Play Store or am alternative browser like Dolphin. ES has a downloader that is one of the choices when downloading a file from the web. In the ES settings you can set its default download location to the external card. Dolphin lets you pick the download location at each download. The TouchWiz camera and some others let you specify where to store photos.
Also, Titanium backup and other backup apps let you back up to the external card.
And most important of all, especially if you are crack flashing TouchWiz ROMs, keep your TWRP or CWM backups on the external card. They can be 2 GB+ each if you don't use compression, and not much better if you do. I have a 16 GB Nexus 7 and its a constant battle with backup space. I usually keep one solid reference backup and my latest only. I would love to be able to throw a 64GB card in it.
420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Also you can use Folder Mount app to move pretty much whatever you want to you're external SD card
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420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Best thing for you to do is educate yourself. ...As the extsd card is invaluable and something many other phone manufacturers don't even offer any more..
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