My 5X shows a lot less available storage than the 32 gigs I thought I have. Is it due to overhead?
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32GB Nexus 5 only has 10GB user space
I bought a 32GB Nexus 5X, and after using for a few days, I found that the space for user is only 10GB?!? That number is not far from my Nexus 7 (2013) 16GB with Marshmellow. But the packaging says 32GB. Am I alone here? If it helps, I’ve oem unlocked the phone, but put everything stock into each partition (bootloader, boot, recovery, userdata, system, etc).
The 32GB version has ~24.8GB available to the user.
For example, my phone has 11GB of music stored locally (plus apps, etc.) and still has ~10GB free.
elzapato said:
My 5X shows a lot less available storage than the 32 gigs I thought I have. Is it due to overhead?
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This is normal, I have the exact same amount available on my 5X. This is something that happens to pretty much every storage device. It might be 32 000 MB but the actual formatted capacity will be less. There is also the difference between considering 1000 byte = 1 KB (as the storage manufacturers usually do) and 1024 byte = 1 KB (as operating systems usually do). You probably have around 30GB of space (as measured by the operating system, not the storage manufacturer), but then ~6GB is taken by the operating system, leaving you with 24.89. This is normal. You can read more here. The link is for the S3, but the reasons are the same.
chochopk said:
I bought a 32GB Nexus 5X, and after using for a few days, I found that the space for user is only 10GB?!? That number is not far from my Nexus 7 (2013) 16GB with Marshmellow. But the packaging says 32GB. Am I alone here? If it helps, I’ve oem unlocked the phone, but put everything stock into each partition (bootloader, boot, recovery, userdata, system, etc).
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Did you flash the device? If I recall correctly, there is an issue with having less space available due to issues with flashing a factory image. See this thread - it looks like a factory reset will fix this issue.
chochopk said:
I bought a 32GB Nexus 5X, and after using for a few days, I found that the space for user is only 10GB?!? That number is not far from my Nexus 7 (2013) 16GB with Marshmellow. But the packaging says 32GB. Am I alone here? If it helps, I’ve oem unlocked the phone, but put everything stock into each partition (bootloader, boot, recovery, userdata, system, etc).
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Try formatting your userdata partition. If you don't believe me that that will fix it, then lets put some money on the table... lets say... your net worth.
Thank you both for the responses. ~ 7GB seems like a lot for overhead and the partition for the OS, but I guess it is what it is.
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I seem to be losing space on my SD Card. I delete stuff but I don't see the space being freed up.
If I use WinDirStat it tells me that the SD card is using 18.8GB of space, but is only showing 1.4GB of free space. If i run a check on the card I get this:
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I don't understand where the free space is going. Any help please? I seem to be missing about 5GB of space. I'm running ARHD 3.1.0.
Thanks
After reading about others with the same problem, I copied the data off the sdcard, reformatted, copied the data back and now all the correct free space is there.
This happened to mine too. I already did what you have done and formatted the sd partition and i gained 3gb from 5gb to 8gb which was great but woke this morning to have lost another 1gb overnight. I thought i had solved it but obviously not. Hope this gets sorted soon.
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The problem is that after files deletion their space goes to the bad sectors - just run chkdsk to see this. Seems problem with internal SD driver or something like this
X-Phile said:
The problem is that after files deletion their space goes to the bad sectors - just run chkdsk to see this. Seems problem with internal SD driver or something like this
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After Chkdsk is done and errors have been found, what now?
same issue, i lost 4gb in "bad sectors". That is a lot!
edit: formatted sd card en all bad sectors were gone. Had the full 25gb available
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same issue, i lost 4gb in "bad sectors". That is a lot!
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This may be a separate issue, as I didn't have any bad sectors and after reformatting then copying the data back I haven't had a reappearance of the problem. I've been flashing more ROMs, deleting files, copying new files and so far the space is being correctly reported
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Is this a problem for people using custom roms ony?
I also encountered this problem, only format SD card can be resolved
Some people say that the cause of the problem is caused by the choice of installation location
vis-tec said:
Is this a problem for people using custom roms ony?
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no really. on russian forum this happend also with stock rom 1.29.405
And ive found that cluster size on my internal SD was 32Kb, but it should be 16kb for 32gb storage.
Formatting through windows with default cluster size will help. (now its 16kb)
Hello, I have spent all day looking for this answer without any luck so I am hoping someone can answer my question here.
I wanted to upgrade my SII to the latest Cyanogenmod I did the following:
1). Downloaded and used Odin to install StockCWM-EL26.tar (CWM v5.0.2.7)
2). Using my SD card upgraded to CWM v5.8.1.5 (newest version I could find)
3). Factory reset and wiped everything.
4). Using my SD card installed the latest version of Cyanogenmod cm-10.2-20140330-NIGHTLY-d710 (Jelly Bean v4.3.1)
Everything booted fine and worked fine however I quickly ran out of app space. I noticed that my App partition space is 2GB where my S3 phone running the same OS (factory version) has the entire phone's space available for apps (16GB). I figured to fix this issue I just needed to re-partition the phone using a PIT file but I can't find this anywhere. Am I missing something or am I just stuck with a 2GB App partition and no chance of anything larger?
Thank you very much...
Taran.
There is no "option" to change partitions for this phone. Or any device anywhere haha. Its more of a procedure. Anyways a lesson in terminology doesn't help. But yes you are "stuck" with 2 gigs. But I've installed literally hundreds of apps before having this problem. You should look at app2sd or something. No need to partition anything. Good luck ^ ^
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oh...
Thanks for the quick response Linux guy. I am sad to hear I can't re-partition the phone but at least I can quite looking around for a way to do it...
I've moved all my apps using the built in "Move to SD" function in the system app menu but still almost out of space. I'll check out App2SD.
Thanks again,
Taran
Here's something else to do. Go to settings>apps and click the menu button to sort your apps by size. I bet you have an app that's being a hog *pictures*
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If I was having space issues the first thing I'd do is delete Facebook in my case ^ ^
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Ok, time to start house cleaning and saving for a newer phone.
Thanks again.
Taran
Check the apps that use any type of avi/avatar image...Twitter, Facebook tend to Cache images and sap storage as well, each app selected will show you the cached size
Bashing away at my HTC Desire C
Thanks again for the replies. After a bit of looking around I ended up using Link2SD by Bulent Akpinar. So far that has solved all the issues I was having with space (seems to work a lot better then the built in "Phone to SD" did).
Take care...
Hi all,
Hi All, I bought the US Version 64 GB/4GB phone. How do you test/confirm the amount of ROM and RAM on your zf2? In Titanium Backup I see the following and wondering if this is a cause for concern. It shows ROM at 2.34 GB is this what others are seeing?
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bhoth said:
Hi all,
Hi All, I bought the US Version 64 GB/4GB phone. How do you test/confirm the amount of ROM and RAM on your zf2? In Titanium Backup I see the following and wondering if this is a cause for concern. It shows ROM at 2.34 GB is this what others are seeing?
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So what you are looking at is the system rom partition (closed system that can be accessed by root), your internal storage and your external storage. There is no mention of RAM there...
You need to check with some other app to find out your RAM...
ROM is your system partition, which is were you "system.img" goes, ram is around 3.7GB which is completly normal since the gpu takes ram and system runtime, and after that "user available ram" which is 1.4GB or so depends on how many apps your running etc...dont be concerned those numbers are completly normal.
ultramag69 said:
So what you are looking at is the system rom partition (closed system that can be accessed by root), your internal storage and your external storage. There is no mention of RAM there...
You need to check with some other app to find out your RAM...
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Any suggestions on an app that does that? And whats the point of having 4 GB of ROM if it's partitioned and the OS can't even access it all?
bhoth said:
Any suggestions on an app that does that? And whats the point of having 4 GB of ROM if it's partitioned and the OS can't even access it all?
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Thats a safety measure in case the manufacture needs more space in a future OTA update, and you "can" access it with root, like i said stop worrying about rom partition size, sit back and enjoy your new phone.
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Any suggestions on an app that does that? And whats the point of having 4 GB of ROM if it's partitioned and the OS can't even access it all?
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With a 64GB Internal Storage, it wont make much difference
As for the app, look on the play store for a "Hardware Checker"
Ok i think next post might be a bit confusing but i will try to explain the best i can.
So i am a "proud" owner of a LG G3 with 2gb and 16gb of internal storage, running android 6.0 stock V30n, i am using currently a external sd card Samsung Evo 16GB XC1 U1. I was feeling my phone sluggish and downloaded A1 SD Bench.
Which gave me the next results
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normal + samsung evo
The internal memory read speed (176,73) seems ok, but the write speed (13.04) awefully bad.
The SD gave the speeds i was expecting (35.32 / 9.41)
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I took of the samsung sd and replaced with a sandisk extreme pro 64gb V30 XC1 U3
and i had the following results
normal + sandisk pro
Here the IM(internal memory) was worse (78.98) and the write speed even worse (7,70)... and the sd card with awesome values (82.60 / 61.38)
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So i decided to make a factory reset and retried the same tests (still with the sandisk sd
with the following results
factory reset +sandisk pro
here the sd card behaved brilliantly(83.38 / 59,80) and the internal memroy also had quite of a boost (180.09 / 33.11)
note. ram slowed down almost 700mbps per second(?!)
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finally i just made the same tests but again with the samsung sd card
factory reset + samsung evo
ram ok, IM speed as well seems good but around 10% better and SD card also with reasonable values.
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my thoughts after this.
1 - should the IM speeds change that much after the normal run but swapping the sd cards? (176,73/13.04 -> 78.98/7.70)
2 - after the factory reset the ram and internal memory speeds were also higher when i had the samsung sd card inserted? why is this?
3 - shouldn't the internal memory be faster than the sd card in any case?
Sorry about the long and confusing post but i would like to be sure if its normal or not so i can send it to RMA.
Cheers!
Hello.
I don't understand the current figures I read when I am checking the content of my 9 Pro storage, in the Storage menu, with the official File Manager and with others from the Play Store.
Currently, I know that except the few apps I installed on my phone, 95% of the used storage is coming from my pictures/videos as I copied the ones from my previous phones in the DCIM folder.
On the following screenshot, Storage menu says I am using 72.5gb, including 28gb from my pictures and videos.
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Curiously, System storage is only using 1.1gb...
And even more curious, when I go to Other apps > Show System, I can see the "Media Storages" app also using 28gb of data (exactly the same size as the pictures/videos at the root of the Storage menu)
Thus, I have the feeling my "media" are using twice the size they should (I really have nothing else on my phone that the 28gb of pictures/videos), and I highly doubt that Android file system and app data are using 44.5gb (you can see on the second screenshot how much storage is using the apps on my phone)
Anybody here knows how OnePlus phone storage is working ?
What is this "Media Storage" and why is it using that much data at the moment?
Why the indicated System storage is only 1.1gb?
For information, I am currently using L2120 model with OOS 11.2.6.6 LE15 DA, but I got the same figures on the previous update.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Anybody?
I had replied in a previous thread, I have the same problem.
Obscene amount of storage being used by Media Storage, can't clear.
This seems very abnormal to me. Over 70GB is being used by Media Storage. I am unable to to clear this or manage it in any way, it just seems to be wrecking my storage. Any ideas what could be causing this or how to fix it?
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The only thing I noticed looking by MiXplorer is that "Media Storage" is the owner of sdcard, I don't know if this is normal.
MadDoctor11 said:
I had replied in a previous thread, I have the same problem.
Obscene amount of storage being used by Media Storage, can't clear.
This seems very abnormal to me. Over 70GB is being used by Media Storage. I am unable to to clear this or manage it in any way, it just seems to be wrecking my storage. Any ideas what could be causing this or how to fix it?
forum.xda-developers.com
The only thing I noticed looking by MiXplorer is that "Media Storage" is the owner of sdcard, I don't know if this is normal.
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Yes indeed, it is exactly the same problem.