Hello everyone.. I' m looking for some answers.. Hope someone can help me. It occoured that after having rooted and twrp i erased the storage partition before trying to flash a new rom. Now i have only 53 gb of storage space even after formatting various time.. Is it normal? I actually don't remember if the first time i rooted the phone was the same amount, but i think that 11 gb for twrp+recovery+rom are a lot.. Thank you in advance for everyone could help
en_be said:
Hello everyone.. I' m looking for some answers.. Hope someone can help me. It occoured that after having rooted and twrp i erased the storage partition before trying to flash a new rom. Now i have only 53 gb of storage space even after formatting various time.. Is it normal? I actually don't remember if the first time i rooted the phone was the same amount, but i think that 11 gb for twrp+recovery+rom are a lot.. Thank you in advance for everyone could help
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I had 53Gb free immediately after switching my phone on ie without any ROM-ing etc. After installing a custom ROM it's still the same.
Does everyone else see the same thing?
This is normal, and is what mine shows as well (52.67 GB). Typically, the advertised 64 GB of the device is probably only 59.6 GB of storage right off the bat. This is usually because to manufacterers 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes and to the OS 1 GB = 1,073,741,824. Then the system ROM and related partitions take up space, and whatever's left is user-accessible, in this case, about 53 GB.
Thank you all very much for the answers.
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Install nightly Hello friends of the day 27 / 8 22:10 (to prove the record of calls, since that is what I miss from my old nokia) so clean as I always do that is going to 2.2 and I step nordic and out of memory. I have been 127.77 and 65.8 total available and not let me move the app to sd (says no is not enough space) and not really understand why I had installed the day 11/08 nightly and taxes well
Let me clarify: I have tested several ways nandroid. 2.1 2.2 sbf sbf nyghtly cyano rc0/rc1 11 / 8. not really understand what happens on the phone tells me about ... Info Mem 234mb/477mb as when he was good, but I read the values expressed above and tells me insufficient memory when trying to move to sd. if anyone has any idea and can help I would appreciate
not because I read the 2 gig of memory actually my problems began after installing 2.3.3 / 4.5.1-134 UK Rom For regrezar Defy and I had a 2.1 to reinstall and re-root.
I'm sorry I hope you will understand just said a few words are in English but I would like to solve this problem.
from already thank you very much for your answers
Hi, So I got a new HTC One x yesterday (32 GB.
When I go to the storage menu, I can see that 4.98 GB out of 6.76 GB of the total App storage has been used.
For the used space it says:
Apps 289 MB
Other 4.70 GB
Available 1.78 GB
My question is, what is under the space for Other (4.70 GB!). It seems a lot and I can not find a way to check whats there.
The phone storage is fine with 1,25 GB used from 25,24 GB.
Thank you.
The ROM takes some space I think.
Wow, I did not realize that the ROM is that large - almost 5 GB. :crying: Thanks.
TToivanen said:
The ROM takes some space I think.
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haitnz said:
Wow, I did not realize that the ROM is that large - almost 5 GB. :crying: Thanks.
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Yeah that's shocking never noticed that till now, I though the rom would only be around 1gb.
Sent from venom injected one x
Ok, so I guess this 8 GB is not so much and soon I will have to start installing apps to the 32 GB phone memory.
I guess the full rOM data shoudl stay there, at least until I root the phone?
Even with a custom ROM installed it comes up with "misc" taking up 3.88gb, when the rom was only ~ 180mb. Strange!
Thats even more strange! Perhaps its just a hoax to hide the fact that there is actually less memory in the phone . Well that's a joke ... probably, hopefully ....
I am sure there must be folks around here, who can and would be interested to get to the bottom of this and also find out if it is possible and reasonable to somehow free more space from under the "mysteriously" occupied "misc" line.
I tried to access the data directories in the phone own memory using simple browsing tools (ES File explorer) but with the factory ROM and without root, I could not make much sense of this.
Is there anybody, who has further input to this? Thanks in advance.
Same problem
I have the same issue. Just did a full wipe then installed latest ViperX rom and get the same result: 4.73GB of 'Other' storage, and cant work out what its used for
Is this normal?
Finally find this section...
Recently got an HOX (very cheap,) so decided to gave the HTC another chance. Had before issues with One S and few other devices.
Back to topic. Installed all my favorite apps and then, browsing phone came to Storage and saw this "Other" with 4.69GB taken out from Total.
First I thought some of my stuff, but realised that phone is brand new and nothing else installed except apps.
Also when turned it on , it was on 4.0.3 and within 24 hours got several updates (vary btwn 8MB to 369MB) until it stopped on 4.1.1 (JB-WOW).
I haven't look at Other when first booted up, so can't say it was same size or not.
Now I see you guys have same "issue" so I am ok for now...
But if this space is for OS, I hope the Android 5.x will fit in to reserved 6.61GB ?
Oh, and one more thing; the Storage is 26.58GB (phone is clean yet as nothing installed).
Every form I have read on this issue, people have said they have at most 7gb used up by "other" mine on my HTC one is 23.3GB but I can't where that is I have the VIPERONE rom. Any help is welcome
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Every form I have read on this issue, people have said they have at most 7gb used up by "other" mine on my HTC one is 23.3GB but I can't where that is I have the VIPERONE rom. Any help is welcome
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Wrong phone...wrong forum...old thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2115
i have been flashing diffrent roms trying to see which one im going to use for my daily driver.. and i just notice I lost a lot of space for installing apps . my phone storage is down to 11 gigs with nothing installed. I use to have around 20 gigs after a fresh flash. Can anybody tell me what im doing wrong?
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i have been flashing diffrent roms trying to see which one im going to use for my daily driver.. and i just notice I lost a lot of space for installing apps . my phone storage is down to 11 gigs with nothing installed. I use to have around 20 gigs after a fresh flash. Can anybody tell me what im doing wrong?
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Are you storing all of the rom zips on your internal? If so move them to your sd. And you should do your backups to your sd too. Hope that helps
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Are you storing all of the rom zips on your internal? If so move them to your sd. And you should do your backups to your sd too. Hope that helps
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Thanks. But I got it. I had to format in the recovery its all good.
Dbcooper3 said:
i have been flashing diffrent roms trying to see which one im going to use for my daily driver.. and i just notice I lost a lot of space for installing apps . my phone storage is down to 11 gigs with nothing installed. I use to have around 20 gigs after a fresh flash. Can anybody tell me what im doing wrong?
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Depending on what rom... if your flashing something like the E989, E986 , E988 you SHOULD only have about 11gb of storage.... as those roms thinks that you only have that much as those phones are only 16gb
Has anybody notice that the internal storage is not 16G. I have only 10G available even after doing a complete wipe and format. Plus when installing a small ROM like PacROM there is still only 10 or maybe 9.75G, not the 16G as advertised.:crying:
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Has anybody notice that the internal storage is not 16G. I have only 10G available even after doing a complete wipe and format. Plus when installing a small ROM like PacROM there is still only 10 or maybe 9.75G, not the 16G as advertised.:crying:
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In answer, once a rom gets installed, a certain amount of space is allocated to cache, dalvak, etc. It's common to lose several GB of internal memory. Also remember, there are probably some folders on internal memory also taking space. So this can be normal depending on device. One thing you can try, is to do a wipe on all internal memory, then install the rom.
Also, questions belong in Q & A Forum (I moved it). General is for tips, tricks, general information.
Cheers
MD
Moscow Desire said:
In answer, once a rom gets installed, a certain amount of space is allocated to cache, dalvak, etc. It's common to lose several GB of internal memory. Also remember, there are probably some folders on internal memory also taking space. So this can be normal depending on device. One thing you can try, is to do a wipe on all internal memory, then install the rom.
Also, questions belong in Q & A Forum (I moved it). General is for tips, tricks, general information.
Cheers
MD
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Any thoughts on how to get memory back?
I was on civs ROM but I am going to try cm for a while
I have less than 2 GB of memory that I have used
And I only have 1.59 GB available out of the 9.87 GB that I have all up??
Will trim in 4.3 help for this?
Cheers
jocko6872 said:
Any thoughts on how to get memory back?
I was on civs ROM but I am going to try cm for a while
I have less than 2 GB of memory that I have used
And I only have 1.59 GB available out of the 9.87 GB that I have all up??
Will trim in 4.3 help for this?
Cheers
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Hey Mate, looking at your display, I would say for starters CM is reporting your storage wrong. I mean look at the chart. 1.5gb for data, which is ok. But look at the grey area in comparison.(only 1.9 free???) I would flash a factory type (rooted or custom) and see if it reports differently. If it does, then CM isn't calculating it correctly.
To be honest, I don't mess with the new CM builds anymore. Way too strange in some aspects, at least for my 2 devices (tablets)
MD
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Hey Mate, looking at your display, I would say for starters CM is reporting your storage wrong. I mean look at the chart. 1.5gb for data, which is ok. But look at the grey area in comparison.(only 1.9 free???) I would flash a factory type (rooted or custom) and see if it reports differently. If it does, then CM isn't calculating it correctly.
To be honest, I don't mess with the new CM builds anymore. Way too strange in some aspects, at least for my 2 devices (tablets)
MD
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Thanks for the reply
it was reporting the same in civz 3.6 which is why I tried CM
I thought trim in 4.3 might help (I don't know if this is the memory type that trim helps recover?)
When you say flash a stock type ROM
Do you think flashing it with Odin instead of CWM would be worth trying?
Cheers
EDIT - fixed what i did was restore the first backup i made the day i rooted
it was stock 4.1
when i looked in storage under settings there was a miscellaneous files of 5gb that was not showing with either 4.2.2 or cm 4.3
it was a cwm backup that was not being read by the file manager
i deleted all of the files then flashed cm and now i have 8.42 gb
thanks MD
cheers
Jocko
Moscow Desire said:
In answer, once a rom gets installed, a certain amount of space is allocated to cache, dalvak, etc. It's common to lose several GB of internal memory. Also remember, there are probably some folders on internal memory also taking space. So this can be normal depending on device. One thing you can try, is to do a wipe on all internal memory, then install the rom.
Also, questions belong in Q & A Forum (I moved it). General is for tips, tricks, general information.
Cheers
MD
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When I do a fresh install I do wipe everything, Dev,Internal SD. I do it twice just to be sure. This is pretty odd. When I did these steps with my Galaxy Tab Plus I would get a full internal HD space. This just makes me wonder if there was really 16Gb for internal storage.
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Thanks for the reply
it was reporting the same in civz 3.6 which is why I tried CM
I thought trim in 4.3 might help (I don't know if this is the memory type that trim helps recover?)
When you say flash a stock type ROM
Do you think flashing it with Odin instead of CWM would be worth trying?
Cheers
EDIT - fixed what i did was restore the first backup i made the day i rooted
it was stock 4.1
when i looked in storage under settings there was a miscellaneous files of 5gb that was not showing with either 4.2.2 or cm 4.3
it was a cwm backup that was not being read by the file manager
i deleted all of the files then flashed cm and now i have 8.42 gb
thanks MD
cheers
Jocko
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No problem. I'm not real familiar with Sammy devices, although I am about to get an SGS III in a week or so. Funny it couldn't read the backup files though. Must be a peculiar thing with your version of CWM or TWRP. Seems they all store backups in different named files.
Glad you got it fixed though.
As for my experience, every time I ran a recent CM build (a501 and a701), it created directories and multiple sub directories called "0", and replicated back-ups and such. Ate my internal memory to a point where I just did a complete format on my internal and went back to a stock based rom. My own cooked rom's
Cheers
MD
Hi There.
I've had my phone for quite some time now and I love it. The problem is, is the internal memory. I have the 16GB model which is fine because I also use a 32GB Sandisk micro SD card. I have a custom ROM installed.
CARBON-JB-NIGHTLY-20131117-1645
The Carbon Nightly ROM - Build Date - Sunday November 17th 2013.
It's a couple months out of date now and I'm thinking about upgrading it to the newest build or possibly even switch ROMs to something that is better if you can suggest anything. The main issue I have is that I don't know if I should upgrade my ROM because of the internal storage space.
Total storage Space: 10.46GB
With everything else on my phone (Nothing apart from apps, everything else belongs on the SD card) I still only have 2GB space left which doesn't leave me a lot of room for upgrading or even taking pictures. For some reason, my camera won't let me change my storage device so it forces it to save it to the internal memory which I constantly have to keep moving it to my SD card to stop it from being full. I don't really have much space for installing new apps either so at the moment, everything is wrong with this phone and It's starting to frustrate me a little.
I believe that the missing 6GB (just under of course) is missing because of previous ROM installations that I don't use anymore? I've factory reset it, cleared cache and everything else for that matter. It's just what it is saying is what i'm getting unfortunately.
I want to upgrade to something better or just the newer build of this ROM but at the moment, this version really annoys me. The simple fact of not being able to save pictures I take on my camera directly to my SD card frustrates me beyond belief. If someone could help me out, suggest a new ROM, tell me how I can upgrade my ROM and get lots more of my internal memory back, or if you're able to skype me through the process, you'd be taking a ton of weight off my chest as I'm still stuck with this working brick (as I like to call it) for the next 6-7 months before my contract renews.
Many Thanks!
16 GB is marketing. Samsung gives you about 12,5 GB.
Wipe your internal SD
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16 GB is marketing. Samsung gives you about 12,5 GB.
Wipe your internal SD
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Hmm strange but before I installed my ROM, I had like 15GB free space total?
Would you suggest I update my ROM or go to a new one or what? Not really sure what I should do with it...
I think that 15 GB is not real about 13 GB is OK
What recovery do you use? Factory reset after instal you ROM?
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I think that 15 GB is not real about 13 GB is OK
What recovery do you use? Factory reset after instal you ROM?
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It was just a random guess!
Clockwork Mod Recovery
You cannot use CWM and TWRP simultaneously
Wipe data/factory reset was done?
verny94 said:
You cannot use CWM and TWRP simultaneously
Wipe data/factory reset was done?
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I'm noob at this is all honesty with you!
Yeah It was. I'm actually installing cyanogenmod 11. I'm just nervous about what I do since I'm just going to take a wild shot at it :/.. I'm just going to clear the dalvik cache and cache, then factory reset it then install the new cyanogenmod with the new gapps, then clear the cache again. Turn back on and restore my apps from titanium backup.
Hope that's what is right...
First time In six months I've come close to getting results!
Looking at backups, I backed up my ROM couple months ago but for some reason It backed up to device and not SD card, or simply could've just been me being on the dumb side that day! either way. 8GB/10GB on internal Storage !