Hello world. I've noticed that the galaxy nexus actually allows about 13 gbs of space. But that's not even what this thread is about. This is about me missing about another 3 gbs. The phone says 13 gbs is total. And says I've used only 6 (from adding up the storage list) but reports to me only having 3 gbs left when I should actually have another 6.
my understanding is the 13.3 is reported in binary, which means there's actually 15GB free in "normal" decimal calculation.
You're not "missing" any storage. Maybe you should take a screenshot and show us your storage menu.
Legend28469 said:
Hello world. I've noticed that the galaxy nexus actually allows about 13 gbs of space. But that's not even what this thread is about. This is about me missing about another 3 gbs. The phone says 13 gbs is total. And says I've used only 6 (from adding up the storage list) but reports to me only having 3 gbs left when I should actually have another 6.
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martonikaj said:
my understanding is the 13.3 is reported in binary, which means there's actually 15GB free in "normal" decimal calculation.
You're not "missing" any storage.
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and 1gb goes to app storage.
Screenshot as requested. If it helps there is actually an extra gb in the apps part because I keep modern combat 3 in titanium backup. But don't have it installed
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Just curious as to how much storage you use on your HTC One's. I consider myself a heavy App user with light music storage on my phone. Here is my setup.
I use about 12.64GB of 32GB.
I have around 100 apps at 4.15GB.
Don't carry a lot of music since I use Spotify and have unlimited data. I have one album that Spotify doesn't carry, 251MB.
I take photos and videos here and there. I'm actually recording my daily drive to work, and have captured a few videos to showcase some crappy drivers in my city. I plan on making a compilation video once i have enough material. 0.89GB
Downloads are mostly wallpapers with a few apk's thrown in, 18.88MB.
Other Storage. This is where I believe the "Formatted" and "Android" are found. First off, a 32GB (and if someone knows the exact number, post it) is more like 30GB after being formatted, and another 1GB or so for the Android and Sense software, So after that 3GB of "dead space", there are about 4.34GB worth of "other files" that accumulate from all other apps. Data, updates, cache, ect.
Available is 19.36GB. I feel like it is not a whole lot of storage left on a 32GB phone, but it actually is. I had a nandroid back up (3GB), a rom zip file (800MB), and Real Racing 3 (1.5GB) that I have deleted to free up more space. I really enjoy Real Racing 3, so i will probably install it again and end up with about 17.86GB of free memory. If I had a 16GB iPhone 5s, I would be close to running out of storage with my use.
So, this is all after I ran SD Maid Pro on my phone and deleted duplicate files as well as other files that I did not need or want.
Feel free to share anything you want to about the storage of your HTC One.
I have about 15Gb used under other.......
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I use 13.43 out of 32 GB
Mostly apps and "Other"
I also only have 1.5 gb of ram i mean i know its not ever 2gb but a half a gig? i feel robbed!!! :crying:
rddev13 said:
I use 13.43 out of 32 GB
Mostly apps and "Other"
I also only have 1.5 gb of ram i mean i know its not ever 2gb but a half a gig? i feel robed!!! :crying:
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i have a lot of music . im using 28 gig . I leave about 4 for backups and stuff .
Not too much
I use 15.4 GB, but I have a backup of a rom install, the rom itself, and about 6 gb of music.
I tend to keep a random 2 or 3 movies on my phone at a time along with all of my apps and music so I normally have anywhere from 6-8 gb left over. I try not to get below 3 gb available storage. I'm weird like that.
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I am having problems trying to install a few apps.
I keep getting error not enough space. Free up some space and try again.
Any suggestions? tried cache fixer and sweeper. Still the same.
G-Pad stock rom rooted with 64GB micro fitted
ozzyjah said:
I am having problems trying to install a few apps.
I keep getting error not enough space. Free up some space and try again.
Any suggestions? tried cache fixer and sweeper. Still the same.
G-Pad stock rom rooted with 64GB micro fitted
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Check around before posting. Just a few posts down was this question.
colwellkr said:
Check around before posting. Just a few posts down was this question.
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I have tried to move apps to external card. All I get is The device does not have a real primary external storage,
or the primary external storage is emulated.
Moving app to sd function cannot be supported by this device.
Rom Tool box says the same thing, moving to external not possible on this device.
My internal memory is approx 9GB free my external is approx 18GB free.
It also says system rom: 2.21 GB (297 MB free)
Internal and media: 11.8 GB (9.91 GB free)
I have just uninstall-ed around 20 apps, so I can now update the installed apps without problems.
Now I am going to re-install to see how far I get before it tells me "not enough space".
I have nearly triple the amount of apps on my galaxy S3 and never run out of space.
I just wanted to add. No problems with my 64GB SD card. I have 4500 music tracks on it as well as 4 movies and approx 2000 photos. All work without a hitch.
Not big enough to be a "large tablet," but too big to gracefully use.
Lucien2 said:
Not big enough to be a "large tablet," but too big to gracefully use.
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Huh?
Lucien2 said:
Not big enough to be a "large tablet," but too big to gracefully use.
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Judging by some of the recent comments this evening, I think someone has been at the saké and the fortune cookies
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Hi,
it seems that "Move to SD" moves only a small fraction of application instead of most of it. I would say it's 40-50 MB max (mostly visible with big apps) .
Can anyone confirm this.?
On my phone with 4.1, when I move to SD, there is usually only a few MB left in internal memory (besides data files, of course).
Here, most is left.
Why is that?
I have 8.4 tab pro with 8GB SDHC card.
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Chris
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I don't know why it does that, but I believe it's normal (I've seen that behavior on many other phones/tablets).
Well, I thougt that maybe it's cards fault.
As it is, it seems quite stupid.
Its different now, and it all depends on the apps/games
LoVeRice said:
Its different now, and it all depends on the apps/games
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It doesn't seem so. The same game "Plants vs Zombies 2" that has over 570 MB in Application section, after moving to SD leaves only a few MB on my HTC phone, but on Galaxy Tab Pro it's 550 MB! Only 25 MB is moved. So it's point-blank useless implementation of "Move to SD".
Hi all,
I have a Galaxy S 10.5 (16GB) that I picked up in September of 2014. I love the thing but it's showing a weird issue. Any time I hit 500MB storage remaining, Google Play Store will no longer update apps. It gives me an insufficient storage notification. I can go in and clear the cache and everything is great - until I get to 500MB remaining again. Then I have to find more space again.
I've had a 64GB SD card installed in the device since I purchased it. I store music there and move apps that support it to the memory card. I was hoping that having the SD card would make the (insufficient) 16GB of storage liveable. It hasn't and the 500MB has only made it more challenging.
Has anyone seen this before and/or have any ideas what might be going on here.
Thanks!
I think that might be the limit of free space that must be available for the System to use. Think of it like a fail-safe approach to keep the tablet running smooth while it is constantly caching, deleting/creating temporary files, and allocating memory space in the background. Without sufficient free space available, it can't do those functions.
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I think that might be the limit of free space that must be available for the System to use. Think of it like a fail-safe approach to keep the tablet running smooth while it is constantly caching, deleting/creating temporary files, and allocating memory space in the background. Without sufficient free space available, it can't do those functions.
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Thanks. That seems reasonable. It's particularly annoying because the OS occupies almost 5GB of the 16GB I'm supposed to have. I'd rather Google/Samsung throw that 500MB into the 5GB they already have rather than tease me by telling me it's available but essentially unusable.
I appreciate you sharing your thoughts.
<rant> First and foremost I completely agree that Google's handling of external memory, or their lack of wanting to handle, or let users use microSD cards is wrong. The way it handles moving program data to external cards in kitkat is horrible and lollipop honestly is not much better, but at least users were determined to be sufficiently old and intelligent enough to be "allowed" to grant programs permission to manage our external data instead of only letting oem programs that ability. </rant>
With all that said the answer to your issue is even more simple then that. All Programs take up at minium 2x the space while you are updating them. You have the apk (the update) and the actual program existing at the same time. Not to mention that the programs tend to take up more space then apk's due to compression of resources and other things. Given those 2 things instead of trusting that the user won't download a 200MB update and seeing it is only 200MB put annother 200MB of music on the device while it is downloading causing issues google puts a free space cap.
I always thought that the system memory is included in that block of space the 4-5GB that the OS and bloat live in.
There HAS to be some spaced reserved for the OS or the tablet would crash. data is constantly written to the data partition which is part of the internal storage and this space is needed to run the device.
I have run into this issue myself, but its easily resolved by moving all unecessary stuff to the sd card - downloads, music, media, apps e.t.c.
All it takes is a bit of housekeeping every now and then. Download an app called All-in-One toolkit from play, it will find loads of junk files which you can safely delete to free a fair amount of space.
However I agree it was rather stingy of Samsung not to include 32gGb of internal storage which should be the minium for a so called flagship device.
Yeah, this issue of less than usable sdcard is also worrying me.
I had a Galaxy tab 8.9 (which came to the market in 2011) before this. It had 16gb and no SDcard. Storage was a pain.
AFAIR, also there is no Gmail syncing when below the limit. Imagine the frustration not getting your emails and trying to find something to delete.
I was hoping the SD card in the tab S would be more usable, but alas. At least Lollipop is slightly better, but only if the apps wanna use it. I get frustrated when dictionary app Merriam Webster for example stores its 100 megabytes data file in internal memory. Same with TED app videos.
And of course, current Rom and OS used almost double the storage for system as the tablet from 2011. Android 4.0.4. Apps have become bigger too.
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At least Lollipop is slightly better, but only if the apps wanna use it. I get frustrated when dictionary app Merriam Webster for example stores its 100 megabytes data file in internal memory. Same with TED app videos.
And of course, current Rom and OS used almost double the storage for system as the tablet from 2011. Android 4.0.4. Apps have become bigger too.
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Precisely! The Samsung text-to-speech engine takes up at least 300MB of storage. Facebook consumes about 200MB. The Kindle app (sort of understandable since I have a lot of books) uses almost 200MB. Very little of any of that can be saved to my 60% empty SD card. Add in Newsstand and other similar apps and space is eaten up very quickly. Super annoying...
I'm now discovering this problem and it is really annoying. Is rooting the only way of getting round this? I don't want to do this but I don't think I have an option. I only have 500MB left on internal but 40GB on my 64GB micro sd.
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I'm now discovering this problem and it is really annoying.
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I'm not even sure that rooting would change much about this. With rooting you can remove some of the limitations in KK and Lp about writing to the external sd card...
But this will not get applications to spontaneously use the external sd card instead of the internal SD card, for their data.
I know there used to be tricks like a2sd, link2sd, and other variations... which were widespread 3-5 years ago. To make the device believe, through symlinks and crafted mounts, that an ext3 partition on the sdcard was a part of internal data. It was often cause for instability if executed less than perfectly.
I had this on my HTC Desire, a "flagship" phone from 5 years ago, with top of the line hardware: cpu , mem, screen, but with only 250mb for internal data.
I have not searched for it specifically but so far I've not seen anybody talking about those tricks for this device.
Disk Usage
This is a free app that shows you exactly where your storage space has gone. None of this nebulous "miscellaneous" nonsense. I was able to recover about my existing free space in extra space from stuff I didn't realize was still in my storage. While this is not a solution to not being able to store all your apps on an external card it might just help a few ppl get that extra space they need.
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Disk Usage
This is a free app that shows you exactly where your storage space has gone. None of this nebulous "miscellaneous" nonsense. I was able to recover about my existing free space in extra space from stuff I didn't realize was still in my storage. While this is not a solution to not being able to store all your apps on an external card it might just help a few ppl get that extra space they need.
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Thanks for that. Have downloaded that and had a look and I have nearly 5GB of OBB files! I think this is where my issue is, and I think the only way I can resolve this for myself is to root and use an app that transfers OBB files to SD.
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Thanks for that. Have downloaded that and had a look and I have nearly 5GB of OBB files! I think this is where my issue is, and I think the only way I can resolve this for myself is to root and use an app that transfers OBB files to SD.
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I hope that works out for you. I gave up on the idea of moving obb files that didn't want to move (way too much hassle for something that does not always work right) and instead decided to have less massive obb apps (games) installed at one time. I can only do one thing at a time anyways.
Recently I installed CM13.1 on my Zenfone 2. Since then something has taken up around 20GB of space, so I only have around 5GB of space to use. I keep looking for things to delete in my file manager, but their simply is nothing taking up that much space. In the storage settings page it shows 4GB of apps, 1.2 GB of photos, and everything else adds up to less than half a Gig. I do remember creating a backup of my old OS, (I think through TWRP, although I can't remember for sure.) Does anyone know what could be taking up that space? Or how I could find it and delete it?
Windirstat, for Windows ..mount phone as drive n scan.Or,
DiskUsage app from store
Thanks for the App suggestion. Turns out I had 22Gigs of modem crash logs that kept growing pretty quickly!