Hi guys. I tried to browse for answers regarding this issue, but I couldn't find anything that worked for me,
I've gotten to a point where any time I either download a single picture from Whatsapp or take a photograph with my phone, I get the "There's not enough space in your device memory". I discovered that neither deleting apps nor manually moving them to my external SD card had any effect on this. I have tried many kinds of apps that move your apps to the SD card, but it hasn't worked. I installed an SDK on my computer in order that the phone would install apps onto the external SD card by default. This didn't make the issue go away.
This is very frustrating. I have double checked every single folder inside "sdcard0" and there are no big files taking up space. I'm running on a stock, non-rooted 4.1.2.
I recently deleted around 300 - 400 pictures from my external SD card and the following time I connected the phone to my computer, I noticed the phone's memory had like 400 mb of free space that it didn't before (and yes, I was ABSOLUTELY sure those pictures where stored in my external SD). But just a couple of days after that, the space issue got even worse than before, saying that I had no memory left at all (it would usually display the message when I had like 69 mb left, if I remember correctly). Using Cleanmaster helps like 4 out of 10 times, but thanks to it, I've noticed that the phone is creating 3 Photo thumbnails files: two which are 520 mb in size (stored in DCIM) and another one called Gallery Thumbnails which is 1.02 GB. I suppose at least one thumbnails file is created automatically after deleting it, but I don't understand why I have 3.
I found a thread made by someone with the same issue, and someone suggested to uninstall all Google Play updates, or something like that. I did that, and it didn't work.
I hope you can help me find a solution, and I hope I'm not posting this in the wrong place. Thanks in advance.
Could you show us a screenshot of your storage in settings?
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There you have all my storage information. The phone's not presenting the issue right now, and as you can see in USB storage, I have 500 mb of free space, but it's always like that: I have a lot of free space, and one or two days later I try to open a picture I just took or downloaded, and it says I have 0 mb left. I connect the phone to my PC and it shows the "phone" storage completely full.
What I don't understand is why it shows that I have 528 mb of pictures and videos in USB storage, when I'm 100% sure all that is stored in my external SD. Could it be that those 528 mb are actually a thumbnails file?
I am having the exact same problem! Running 4.1.2 firmware, this just recently started happening... I've reformatted the internal USB memory twice but the problem keeps reoccurring.
I try to get into the image gallery sometimes and it will say something like "You only have 50mb of space left, delete some files" and then it either forces me to quit or go into the file manager. But there are no pictures or video on my phone at all!
I've noticed that the DCIM folder on the internal memory was MASSIVE (600mb+ despite having no files whatsoever), so I connected it to my computer and manually deleted it and rebooted the phone, only to find that DCIM had replaced itself with a slightly smaller size (450mbs) and is continuously growing. Reformatting the USB every week or so is becoming a big hassle.
What's going on? Could the internal memory be fried? Is this a bug that can be fixed somehow? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I seem to have an issue with my internal storage in the Settings app. When I select Storage to display how much I have used it showed 277 mb used in Pictures,videos. I had about 16 pictures/videos in there, along with a bunch of "empty" places. I deleted those empty places and cleared the cache, no difference. I checked the gallery and it showed the same pictures, along with videos from a couple of games, and one game I had uninstalled, Shadowgun. There were two videos and two "empty" videos for Shadowgun. I deleted these four, and instead of going down the amount of space used for Pictures, videos actually went up to 410 mb used. One more thing on these videos, the two were the same, except that one had a path listed under details and the other one did not. All four were the same size, about 30 mb. Any ideas?
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You could try using SD Maid to help you out. Sometimes thumbnails generated by the gallery result in huge (300+ mb) sizes (SD Maid could get rid of them and additional unneeded files for you).
I'm also having problems with internal storage, I'm getting low space warnings with almost nothing installed. I reloaded from stock image and after reinstalling my apps it said I was only using 1gb, my tablet is used as a car stereo so no photos are taken and all media is on the sd card but now 3 days later it says I am using 4gb of internal storage without adding any new apps or adding anything to the tablet also I am noticing my tablet lag horribly sometimes when coming out of sleep. any help would be appreciated
b22ri22an said:
I'm also having problems with internal storage, I'm getting low space warnings with almost nothing installed. I reloaded from stock image and after reinstalling my apps it said I was only using 1gb, my tablet is used as a car stereo so no photos are taken and all media is on the sd card but now 3 days later it says I am using 4gb of internal storage without adding any new apps or adding anything to the tablet also I am noticing my tablet lag horribly sometimes when coming out of sleep. any help would be appreciated
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Since you have it in your car, I'm guessing your using GPS nav?
There seems to be a bug with the GPS caching. Check the data/GPS folder for a ton of dated txt files (something like gl-2012-07-01-9573859.txt). And delete them. That folder can grow to a few gb of space of not cleared.
You will have to be rooted to see and mod the GPS folder. Your only other option if you not rooted is to factory reset.
Romman0 said:
Since you have it in your car, I'm guessing your using GPS nav?
There seems to be a bug with the GPS caching. Check the data/GPS folder for a ton of dated txt files (something like gl-2012-07-01-9573859.txt). And delete them. That folder can grow to a few gb of space of not cleared.
You will have to be rooted to see and mod the GPS folder. Your only other option if you not rooted is to factory reset.
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Its good to know whats causing it I will probably stray away from using the gps as much.
I'm not rooted and probably wont root as I am only weeks away from swapping out the acer a100 for a nexus 7. I already have a buyer lined up for my a100 and don't want to risk anything before the sale
Internal storage
I had this issue one of the culprits: gogle play, clear that cache it also stores mp4.
I have been having approximately 12 million problems with my SD card and high battery use lately. Today it told me that the SD card needed to be formatted. I turned the phone on and off to no avail. In the end I removed the SD card and checked the storage stats. The below screenshot is what I saw.
Why would be it be saying this? Is the file system corrupt? Do i need to do a system restore? Sorry if I sound upset, I bought this phone with the impression that JB was the most polished version of Android. Instead, I have random gaps in folders (see my other thread), an extremely low battery life and malfunctioning SD cards.
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lol, could be, have u try clear all cache?
Yup, tried that. Cleared some space but "pictures, videos" are now apparently 59.32gb...
I wonder if the scanner scans internet folders and considers them part off your file system? Do you have any network drives mounted?
swyped all these spelling errors from my galaxy note 2
Do you have any Social Media accounts installed? I think it takes images from those accounts into consideration as well...
Ive had the phone for about a month and my internal storage seems to have disappeared. So it has a 16gb Hard drive in the phone and I have a 16gb SD in the phone as well. When I go into settings, storage and look at the storage its says Ive used 14gb of 16gb, which seems weird because I dont have much installed on the phone. I have continually uninstalled apps to keep my room available but it seems I have less and less apps on it and less and less storage. I then plug the phone in to my PC and also use clean master to see what my storage is and they both say I have 1.7gb remaining out of 10gb.
So my question is where has the 6gb's gone?
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Phone says ive used 14gb/16gb but my pc and clean master app say Ive used around 8gb/10gb
Try using app called diskusage, it should help you a bit.
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Hello,
today, when trying to update my apps, I was told by Google Play that my phone's internal storage was completely full and it was thus impossible to install any updates.
Seeing as everything had worked perfectly fine a few days prior and I hadn't done anything exceptional that would merit multiple gigabytes of storage space to be used, I was completely baffled by this.
I opened ES Explorer and made it analyse my internal SD card, and it came up with two huge thumbnail files in my "Pictures" folder, each being around 2GB in size. I deleted them and thought my problem to be fixed. Nope. Still the exact same error message, even after rebooting. Another analysis of my storage came up with (and I'm sorry for not posting a picture, but it wouldn't let me due to spam-prevention measures) the following:
Near the bottom of the screen, it says in red "Used/Occupied: 10,18 GB", but the top-most window, listing all folders, shows that ES was only able to come up with around 6.3GB of data. Somehow, there are almost 4GB missing!
I wasn't sure if hidden files were being taken into consideration as well, so I skimmed through most hidden folders myself, trying to come across something, but according to my findings, everything should be working perfectly fine.
Has anybody had this problem before, and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks in advance!
haiyyu said:
Hello,
today, when trying to update my apps, I was told by Google Play that my phone's internal storage was completely full and it was thus impossible to install any updates.
Seeing as everything had worked perfectly fine a few days prior and I hadn't done anything exceptional that would merit multiple gigabytes of storage space to be used, I was completely baffled by this.
I opened ES Explorer and made it analyse my internal SD card, and it came up with two huge thumbnail files in my "Pictures" folder, each being around 2GB in size. I deleted them and thought my problem to be fixed. Nope. Still the exact same error message, even after rebooting. Another analysis of my storage came up with (and I'm sorry for not posting a picture, but it wouldn't let me due to spam-prevention measures) the following:
Near the bottom of the screen, it says in red "Used/Occupied: 10,18 GB", but the top-most window, listing all folders, shows that ES was only able to come up with around 6.3GB of data. Somehow, there are almost 4GB missing!
I wasn't sure if hidden files were being taken into consideration as well, so I skimmed through most hidden folders myself, trying to come across something, but according to my findings, everything should be working perfectly fine.
Has anybody had this problem before, and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks in advance!
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I've had this problem happen to me once on a previous Android phone. I ended up performing a factory reset and it worked fine after that.
Hey guys,
The storage manager shows me that I use 100 gb from 128
And 60 gb is used by "other apps".
No matter what storage analyser I tried, I can't find where is that 60gb
It doesn't appear in nowhere.
The things is see sums to 40gb +-
Thanks
Gonna bump this because I'd really like to know what it is as well. I have a xiaomi device, and 12gb out of 128 is used by "Other apps". My internal storage is only 7gb in total, system is around 14gb, and apps are 12gb, so this should only total to 33gb out of 128, but 46gb is used out of 128. Really confused.
Roy_Alter said:
Hey guys,
The storage manager shows me that I use 100 gb from 128
And 60 gb is used by "other apps".
No matter what storage analyser I tried, I can't find where is that 60gb
It doesn't appear in nowhere.
The things is see sums to 40gb +-
Thanks
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It's kind of right in front of you.
If you have a NAS drive or a Computer with larger hard drive.
It's time to do some Spring Cleaning.
See all those Images and Videos you have there.... cut and paste them to your PC via regular USB transfer.
that means everything under the Camera folder.
Next major candidate, if you are using WhatsApp and WeChat, do the same thing, but for its own folder.
Then repeat again for any other social media App you have.
AllGamer said:
It's kind of right in front of you.
If you have a NAS drive or a Computer with larger hard drive.
It's time to do some Spring Cleaning.
See all those Images and Videos you have there.... cut and paste them to your PC via regular USB transfer.
that means everything under the Camera folder.
Next major candidate, if you are using WhatsApp and WeChat, do the same thing, but for its own folder.
Then repeat again for any other social media App you have.
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Tried this, still shows 11/12gb. Already checked my whatsapp files size, it's included in the whatsapp data section on its info page. All photos and media are shown seperately.
I don't know if this helps or not but about 2 years ago, was working with a coworker and they had a cheap phone with little internal storage, and he couldn't figure out where all of his space went. Come to find out, Chrome was taking up 2+GB! Check app cache for apps you rarely use and clear those, then go from there.
TheKnux said:
I don't know if this helps or not but about 2 years ago, was working with a coworker and they had a cheap phone with little internal storage, and he couldn't figure out where all of his space went. Come to find out, Chrome was taking up 2+GB! Check app cache for apps you rarely use and clear those, then go from there.
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i doubt app cache can amount to 10gb, especially when i dont have many apps installed on MY device. Either way, I use the cleanup tool, which does clear cache, and still see no difference.