A number of my apps won't update at the moment because the phone is advising that the memory is full. However, when I go into the storage settings it advises that there's 1.08gb free on the phone an 0.99gb free on the SD card. The odd thing is that at the top under App Storage it advises that 2.78gb of 2.91gb is used, with 'other' taking up 1.83gb and apps only 0.95gb.
Despite much research on the Internet and playing around I can't identify what this other 1.83gb actually relates to and the phone won't let you tap on this part (as you can do with the apps). Viewing the internal and SD storage via the computer advise the same free space as above. I have tried clearing out the caches and using the Make more space without any luck.
It appears that there is some type of temporary file but I just can't find what it is.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Many thanks.
Odbod22 said:
A number of my apps won't update at the moment because the phone is advising that the memory is full. However, when I go into the storage settings it advises that there's 1.08gb free on the phone an 0.99gb free on the SD card. The odd thing is that at the top under App Storage it advises that 2.78gb of 2.91gb is used, with 'other' taking up 1.83gb and apps only 0.95gb.
Despite much research on the Internet and playing around I can't identify what this other 1.83gb actually relates to and the phone won't let you tap on this part (as you can do with the apps). Viewing the internal and SD storage via the computer advise the same free space as above. I have tried clearing out the caches and using the Make more space without any luck.
It appears that there is some type of temporary file but I just can't find what it is.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Many thanks.
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that "other" is apps that comes preinstalled, you can't do anything about it unless you are rooted,,& as per your full memory problem, there might be several things causing it, one is if you have used lucky patcher to patch some apps you won't be able to update them unless you remove the odex file created by it..or maybe your memory is actually full, in that case you must transfer some apps to sdcard...
Hello I have a new Huawei Inspira (H867g) The storage listed on the website i bought it from said it had more storage than the phone says..
So DiskUsage says my apps take up 392mb of space all together. This includes the apps i have downloaded and the factory apps such as calendar, bluetooth services, androidhwext, com.qualcomm.privinit and all kinds of tiny things like that.
And Disk Usage says System data uses 123mb
So I go to Settings in my phone, tap on Storage, and it says
Internal Storage:
Total Space: 2.71gb
Available: 1.76gb, 115mb for applications only.
Why only 115mb for applications while there is 1.76gb available???
Is there ANY way to make that 1.76 available for Applications??
Also, When I get down to about 80mb free space left for apps, it says insufficient space available even when downloading apps as small as 5mbs or so.
It is all quite frustrating and stupid...
If there isn't a way to fix these issues and get much space, is there a way to make the MicroSD card perform as internal storage so I can have more storage and download more apps? I saw a video for that on youtube, for android tablets only (rooted) I believe..
I would appreciate ANY info and advice thank you.
Hello I have a new Huawei Inspira (H867g) The storage listed on the website i bought it from said it had more storage than the phone says..
So DiskUsage says my apps take up 392mb of space all together. This includes the apps i have downloaded and the factory apps such as calendar, bluetooth services, androidhwext, com.qualcomm.privinit and all kinds of tiny things like that.
And Disk Usage says System data uses 123mb
So I go to Settings in my phone, tap on Storage, and it says
Internal Storage:
Total Space: 2.71gb
Available: 1.76gb, 115mb for applications only.
Why only 115mb for applications while there is 1.76gb available???
Is there ANY way to make that 1.76 available for Applications??
Also, When I get down to about 80mb free space left for apps, it says insufficient space available even when downloading apps as small as 5mbs or so.
It is all quite frustrating and stupid...
If there isn't a way to fix these issues and get much space, is there a way to make the MicroSD card perform as internal storage so I can have more storage and download more apps? I saw a video for that on youtube, for android tablets only (rooted) I believe..
I would appreciate ANY info and advice thank you
I've seen many posts about low internal storage space, but none of the solutions that I have seen seem to work. I've attached two screenshots to try to show the issue.
Basically, even on a fresh install of a ROM, it shows roughly 2gb of free space internally. After what few apps that I use, it shows around 1GB free. I've checked and can't seem to find any CWM backups or anything taking up the extra space. I coudl be looking in the wrong area, but everywhere I have tried turns up nothing. When I use "Disk Usage" it shows that "System Data" is using up about 7GB out of ~9.9GB of internal storage.
Where is the other 6GB that should be showing up in Disk Usage? It shows up under Storage in the Android settings menu, but then it shows a bunch of files in Miscellaneous that I can only assume are the system data files previously mentioned.
It almost seems like the phone is split into two partitions (which from what I understand, is true) but instead of writing the ROM to the system partition, it is instead installing the ROM and running it from what would have been the 9GB or so of usable space that's supposed to be available to users.
Am I missing something obvious here? What could be causing this? As you can see from teh screenshots, the apps, music, pics, etc are hardly taking up any space at all, yet there is very little space available.
Actually, I guess this was my screwup. I thought that I had deleted all of my CWM backups. Turns out I seemed to have missed one that had about 6+GB of files in it. No idea how I missed it the first few times through. But unfortunately, I can't delete posts here at xda. At least I got my space back though!
I have 256gb on my phone.
Each time I download a file it doubles the overall size on the phone because it is in the downloads folder and also allocated to 'media storage'.
How can I free up this space? It's definitely doubling the same files, I've tested deleting a game's ROM and seen the media storage also go down straight away.
Does this mean I actually have 128gb and not 256gb then?
I have the same problem in my 9RT, 128 Gb. After the extended search I have done on the internet, I have no good news for you.... The conclusion I have come to is that -
1) No, you do have a 256GB storage, but effectively this Media Storage bug is bringing it down.
2) Chinese Mobile makers ignoring this issue since last year and it seems there is no way they are going to solve this. Also, many of the mobile owners with 256GB never use that much space, so may be they will not even notice the difference ever.
3) Some experienced/old user say that it is a sort of 'virtual' problem, that the Phone is mistakenly calculating the space twice and it is just a number. But, it is not. I have firsthand experience that when the space reaches its top limit ( in my case it went up to around 110-115 GB with over 50GB 'Media Storage", Play Store will not let you install any big size app/games
4) The only solution is to ditch android and go for an iPhone which my broke ass can't do now..... I first noticed this in Android 11 and now even with Android 12 the Bug continues. I have no hope that One Plus (in effect, Oppo, Realme etc etc) will ever solve it even with Android 13...
Sorry for the bad news, but I am really down now and have no hope of it ever getting solved! Do let me know please, if you ever get any reply from Realme Support though!
markryan44 said:
I have 256gb on my phone.
Each time I download a file it doubles the overall size on the phone because it is in the downloads folder and also allocated to 'media storage'.
How can I free up this space? It's definitely doubling the same files, I've tested deleting a game's ROM and seen the media storage also go down straight away.
Does this mean I actually have 128gb and not 256gb then?
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Media storage counts up whatever stuff you put in the /storage/emulated/0, that is not associated with any category like DCIM/Download/Music etc.
Your screenshot shows 78GB in media storage, and the custom "Game rom" folder is around that. You didn't say what the game rom files are. My guess is that installing these games allocates game files in other directory while source file remains intact so it appears that there is double space used. Game installers often have APK and OBB, where the OBB is the data file for the game, and APK is the game launcher installer.
You should use some app like DiskUsage/SDMaid etc. that shows a breakdown of file structure and what occupies space.
Hey thanks for your reply, to clarify I use dolphin and aethersx to emulate GameCube and PS2 games. Should I put those iso files into another folder to fix the issue maybe?
markryan44 said:
Hey thanks for your reply, to clarify I use dolphin and aethersx to emulate GameCube and PS2 games. Should I put those iso files into another folder to fix the issue maybe?
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These emulators read right off the ROM iso files. In any case, I dont think there is an issue. Go to "About Device" -> Storage. I am pretty sure you will see the ROMs counted up under "Other" category.
But again, you said that
markryan44 said:
Each time I download a file it doubles the overall size on the phone because it is in the downloads folder and also allocated to 'media storage'.
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I think your statement is wrong, because the Download folder is 4GB.
My other section takes up just 19gb but my ROMS folder is almost 80gb. Just to test if the media storage was referring to my ROMS I deleted a random game (Mario kart) and found the extract size was then missing in media storage straight after. So is there another folder perhaps I should be putting these files into? Maybe /android/data perhaps? Would make any changes?
Quake94 said:
These emulators read right off the ROM iso files. In any case, I dont think there is an issue. Go to "About Device" -> Storage. I am pretty sure you will see the ROMs counted up under "Other" category.
But again, you said that
I think your statement is wrong, because the Download folder is 4GB.
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Media storage isn't a location, it is a system service that returns size of all user data including the game ROMS.
It does not duplicate the data.
Do the below and send screenshot. The external storage analyzer apps may be miscalculating the actual space used by counting up the "Media storage" as an app.
Quake94 said:
Go to "About Device" -> Storage.
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On my phone the storage counts up correctly.
Quake94 said:
Media storage isn't a location, it is a system service that returns size of all user data including the game ROMS.
It does not duplicate the data.
Do the below and send screenshot. The external storage analyzer apps may be miscalculating the actual space used by counting up the "Media storage" as an app.
On my phone the storage counts up correctly.
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Numbers seem to check out. In the first post the App count is 78gb in Media Storage (Game ROMs folder and others) and close to 40gb in other games + Spotify, that's already 120gb, plus whatever other apps you have.
In this screenshot it shows 133gb in apps.