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Free space warning. Does not add up

Hello all. I have recently started receiving low storage warnings even though bit appears I have plenty of space with both internal and external memory.
Can anyone advise?
Thanks
Drew
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I don't know what is going on, but that image shows you only have 401 MB available.
Something is chewing up your storage space or at least making your phone think it is almost gone.
Do you have a bunch of nandroid backup's saved to your internal drive or something?
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Yeah, I'm thinking you have either a lot of zips or you have nandroids on there that are taking up space. Check out
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
It will give you a visual display of the folders that are using the most space and what files are the culprits.
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d3athsd00r said:
Yeah, I'm thinking you have either a lot of zips or you have nandroids on there that are taking up space. Check out
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
It will give you a visual display of the folders that are using the most space and what files are the culprits.
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Thank you both your recommendations I used the supplied app and solid explorer and I was able to find several gigs of picasa 3d gallery cache files and similar situations with ROM Manager "blobs" seems to be resolved now.
Wonder why it occurred in the first place..odd
Thanks
Drew
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d3athsd00r said:
Yeah, I'm thinking you have either a lot of zips or you have nandroids on there that are taking up space. Check out
URL
It will give you a visual display of the folders that are using the most space and what files are the culprits.
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I agree that it likely has something to do with those backups. I downloaded the app but can't seem to figure out where space is being taken up. I transfer all my backups to my external sd, but don't know what the hell is taking my space up.

drewdatrip said:
Thank you both your recommendations I used the supplied app and solid explorer and I was able to find several gigs of picasa 3d gallery cache files and similar situations with ROM Manager "blobs" seems to be resolved now.
Wonder why it occurred in the first place..odd
Thanks
Drew
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Those 'blobs' are where CWM stores its backup files from what i've read, personally i use TWRP so i can't confirm this.

dntesinfrno said:
Those 'blobs' are where CWM stores its backup files from what i've read, personally i use TWRP so i can't confirm this.
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+1 twrp. Im a former cwm touch user absolutely hated the .92gb backups from cwm. Now I can have multiple backups on hand without sacrificing storage space.
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I had the same problem, I re flashed cm10 4 times and still only had about 500mb of available space on my internal
turns out when you select "wipe/factory reset" on CWM Recovery it doesn't actually delete everything..
DiskUsage was the perfect tool for the job, there was 6 gigs of leftover gameloft stuff on the phone, removed the files and now im a happy camper with plenty of free space!

missing memory

hey guys i dont know why but my available memory space does not add up correctly i should have almost 9gb of storage available yet it says i have so little as you can see in pic...im running rooted stock deodexed rom...any ideas on why the memory doesnt add up and why im not getting actual space needed
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your CWM backups. they dont count on that screen.
this has been answered several times.

ok thank you sorry could not find anything...make sense seeing how i have 3 backups...completely pointless will delete 2 nandroid backups
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Link2SD problem

What does the following error in link2SD mean?
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I have enough space on my partition so I don't understand the problem
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not sure but i am having problems also with 64gb sd so i would probably think it's the same with too big partition, it's advised to be less than 1GB
hopefully it sorts out the problem after testing

Sorry this maybe off topic but undisputed guy what rom you using? And how did you remove am/pm from status bar
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I'm using Gin2JB. I think AM/PM goes once you change it to 24 hour time format
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tezlewis1988 said:
not sure but i am having problems also with 64gb sd so i would probably think it's the same with too big partition, it's advised to be less than 1GB
hopefully it sorts out the problem after testing
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The strange thing is that I had it working fine but then I wiped my partition (not before moving the apps2SD) because it was full and now it doesn't work
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UndisputedGuy said:
I'm using Gin2JB. I think AM/PM goes once you change it to 24 hour time format
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How I that that rom for gaming against nxt le because I use nxt le with a visualization mod wich makes it look alot better is gin2jb just gb themed to look nicer?
And haha how stupid of me not to realise that lol thanks mate
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Gin2JB is just gingerbread themed to look like Jellybean. It works well and gaming is smooth although I do experience bad lag on some games such as the amazing Spider-Man. Not sure how it compares to NXT as I've not used it.
Regarding link2SD, I got everything linked eventually by persisting but then saw that my 1.5GB partition was somehow full which I didn't understand. I don't get how apps could take up over 1.5GB so I decided to move everything back onto the SD card and try linking them again. Don't really know what I was thinking. This led to the phone displaying and having less than 1mb internal storage which meant I could barely do anything. I moved 2apps to the SD card from settings to free up some memory but I don't know why it did that as I already moved them to SD using link2SD.
Anyways, my problem currently is why my whole 1.5GB is being filled up? Why is it taking that much storage?
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Less than 1GB partion? Oh Dear.. My partion's 2.5GB and its fine. Im running a 32gb SD though and my phone decided to move all of my apps back to internal storage.. Sigh. And I dont think its booting up anymore. >.<

AzNTypeR said:
Less than 1GB partion? Oh Dear.. My partion's 2.5GB and its fine. Im running a 32gb SD though and my phone decided to move all of my apps back to internal storage.. Sigh. And I dont think its booting up anymore. >.<
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I had a 2GB partition on my 32GB SD but this 64GB card is causing problems without a partition.

Is it normal for a 1.5GB partition to be filled up using only link2sd?
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Well, My partitions 2.5GB with only 0.9GB space left. So I think ive used 1.6GB alone. >.< I only have 404 apps altogether according to Link2SD (Including System Crap)

Thanks for the reply. Looks like i need to make my partition bigger then.
On a slightly related note, why isn't TB restoring my missing apps with data? It either fails or says the batch restore is finished yet i have nothing. I just need tetris and bruce lee as they can't be had from the play store
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Available Space on New Note 2

Hi,
My New N7100 shows the Total Space as 10.36GB and Available space is 9.92GB !! From what i've read before I should have around 10.36GB as available space, is my phone normal???

Go to storage and see what is using space.
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I guess you didn't get my question correctly....I did that already...i'm talking about the actual phone space out of the box

Im having 10.36 as Total and 10.36 as available.
That should be the correct specs on your phone.
Look again if there are some folders or stuff eating up the ~1 gb. Dropbox or something.

zeeshanonlyme said:
Im having 10.36 as Total and 10.36 as available.
That should be the correct specs on your phone.
Look again if there are some folders or stuff eating up the ~1 gb. Dropbox or something.
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Hmmmm.....i'll do that and report back, thanks.

Did you login with your Google play/Gmail account during the initial startup wizard? If you had previously installed apps from Google store it might automatically start installing them and that could be the reason you didn't get the total storage.
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I have less then7 gb available space! No photos, no musics files stored
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Go to storage in settings and take a screen shot of what is using how much space.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Go to storage in settings and take a screen shot of what is using how much space.
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Here it is..
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Miscellaneous files...
Probably a nandroid backup...
I don't know but maybe N7105T has a bit less space. It's a 200 mb difference.
Imao not a very major issue.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Miscellaneous files...
Probably a nandroid backup...
I don't know but maybe N7105T has a bit less space. It's a 200 mb difference.
Imao not a very major issue.
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Or games data. My Note II came with some demo games. You can click on the miscaleanous line and see wich thing consume the space.

Demos would be marked as apps...
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yes just tap the misc files line to see the files. my note 2 had 9.92 as the out of box storage. there will be little variance in the storage depending on the region it has been released in.

Here it is guys..
This is stock vodafone Australia rom. 7105 lte model without lte option, (voda aus:thumbdown: ) I haven't rooted yet. Thinking to flash new one.
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[Q] internel sd memory

Hey guys just a question I have just connected to my pc and ive just noticed after all tis time of having it lol that the internel sd memory is at 10.36gb is this right as I thought with and internel sd of 16gb we would have pritty much most of it
Thanks

brockyneo said:
Hey guys just a question I have just connected to my pc and ive just noticed after all tis time of having it lol that the internel sd memory is at 10.36gb is this right as I thought with and internel sd of 16gb we would have pritty much most of it
Thanks
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Yes this is normal.

retrorom said:
Yes this is normal, 2GB are for RAM, some for the OS etc. and the rest is free memory.
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Wth does ram have to do with nand memory?
To OP. That is correct amount but not cause of RAM. The 16gb memory is partitioned for system, cache data etc.
And the one left is your sdcard.
You can always an external sdcard for music, photos and movies.
But game data and some other data like from gps apps must install in internal.
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mariosraptor said:
Wth does ram have to do with nand memory?
To OP. That is correct amount but not cause of RAM. The 16gb memory is partitioned for system, cache data etc.
And the one left is your sdcard.
You can always an external sdcard for music, photos and movies.
But game data and some other data like from gps apps must install in internal.
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I just read something about nand memory being used as ram extension. I have no idea if that is the case here or not. http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/The_adoption_of_NAND_Flash_as_a_Seamless_Extension_of_RAM_Memory
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If I understand that correctly it means that after ram is filled it will use nand space as virtual ram. I think that would decrease read speeds as nand is significantly slower than ram.
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mariosraptor said:
If I understand that correctly it means that after ram is filled it will use nand space as virtual ram. I think that would decrease read speeds as nand is significantly slower than ram.
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Yes that is what I understood from the article too, so we have dedicated 2gb of ram that has nothing to do with the 16 gb of storage, right? I wasnt entirely sure
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retrorom said:
Yes that is what I understood from the article too, so we have dedicated 2gb of ram that has nothing to do with the 16 gb of storage, right? I wasnt entirely sure
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Yes. Ram is autonomous memory. Nothing to do with the internal 16gb nand flash memory.
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Thanks for your answers and great news thought I had screwed up some of my gb somehow lol
Thabks again for the help