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I highlighted all file and showed that only 11gb is used.
but my phone storage is about 500mb left.
where are my space????? Please help
terrycsw0117 said:
I highlighted all file and showed that only 11gb is used.
but my phone storage is about 500mb left.
where are my space????? Please help
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if you have recovery installed do wipe cache and wipe dalvik cacke
xnostra said:
if you have recovery installed do wipe cache and wipe dalvik cacke
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check for folders called Lost.Dir
If present, just delete them.
if not, then Perform a factory reset, sometimes a phone/Card 'Leaks' Memory, I don't have the Knowledge to explain it to you, but it was a recurring problem on my Satio a few years ago.
TommUK said:
check for folders called Lost.Dir
If present, just delete them.
if not, then Perform a factory reset, sometimes a phone/Card 'Leaks' Memory, I don't have the Knowledge to explain it to you, but it was a recurring problem on my Satio a few years ago.
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i've delete Lost.Dir but the problem still exist
seems that factory reset is needed
thanks for your help!
This happened to mine too. I already transfered sd contents to pc and reformatted the sd partition and transferred back to sd card and i gained 3gb from 5gb free 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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terrycsw0117 said:
I highlighted all file and showed that only 11gb is used.
but my phone storage is about 500mb left.
where are my space????? Please help
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Yes, thats a strange SD behavior, but this happens very often here with HOX.
The only working way yet, is to backup your SD onto PC, then format your HOX SD from PC.
Reboot and if the phone does not recognize the SD then format it over phone directly.
After that put your backup back.
You should be fine then.
Good luck!
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
Hello.
I am on Jedi master 12, suddenly last night , I an message that storgae space is low, I check the internal storage it is at zero. I don't understand it just yesterday my storage space was at 2.6GB. I did not install anything since then.
I run the AVG virus nothing was seen.
Any advise
thank you in advance
tomasitoc said:
Hello.
I am on Jedi master 12, suddenly last night , I an message that storgae space is low, I check the internal storage it is at zero. I don't understand it just yesterday my storage space was at 2.6GB. I did not install anything since then.
I run the AVG virus nothing was seen.
Any advise
thank you in advance
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Have you try, setting > Applications, go to each app, clear cache?
leprophotography said:
Have you try, setting > Applications, go to each app, clear cache?
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I tried to do wipe cache, wipe dalvik, didn't work.
But I didn't install nay new apps, the last app I installed was the windows 8 launcher , but I uninstalled it last saturday.
Are you saving larger files like pictures, video, games, etc. To your internal? Maybe time to go through and do some cleaning and change camera settings to save to external sd card...move stuff from internal to external and just be aware of where you download stuff
Disk Usage is a good app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC5kaXNrdXNhZ2UiXQ..
It will graphically show you what is using the storage space.
It helped me the other day when I realized some app had made 1.5 Gb of thumbnails on my internal storage.
The Android folder takes up a lot of room. Like the person above said download disk usage or android tuner/system tuner..http://bit.ly/10ccwQw
..Also if it is your sdcard/Android folder. try JB ExtSD App Binder. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2021049
ronin178 said:
Are you saving larger files like pictures, video, games, etc. To your internal? Maybe time to go through and do some cleaning and change camera settings to save to external sd card...move stuff from internal to external and just be aware of where you download stuff
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picture are saved in my external SD card
pbelcomp said:
Disk Usage is a good app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC5kaXNrdXNhZ2UiXQ..
It will graphically show you what is using the storage space.
It helped me the other day when I realized some app had made 1.5 Gb of thumbnails on my internal storage.
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I will try this app
I found another app called: SD maid system cleaning tool.
It has good reviews but I am unsure how to use it.
Has anybody used this app?
I deleted some files last night I had around 600mb of free space, then this morning when I woke up. A warning message on the notification bar said storage system memory low. I went to the storage setting, the internal storage available space is zero!.
All my photos are saved in the external SD card, music are in the external SD card
Don't know what is happening, any ideas.
I will transfer the CWM backups into the external SD card, I will check if the problem still presists.
tomasitoc said:
I deleted some files last night I had around 600mb of free space, then this morning when I woke up. A warning message on the notification bar said storage system memory low. I went to the storage setting, the internal storage available space is zero!.
All my photos are saved in the external SD card, music are in the external SD card
Don't know what is happening, any ideas.
I will transfer the CWM backups into the external SD card, I will check if the problem still presists.
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Copy all the files you want to your extsd. dcim,android,downloads ,Pictures nandroids ect or Make a copy of your whole sd to your pc.... reboot into TWRP and wipe internal sd (it wont wipe system btw)
deeznutz1977 said:
Copy all the files you want to your extsd. dcim,android,downloads ,Pictures nandroids ect or Make a copy of your whole sd to your pc.... reboot into TWRP and wipe internal sd (it wont wipe system btw)
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I am using CWM.
I think I found what the use is, I upgrade to the new CWM 6.0.3.1, now it is making a backup size of greater than 1GB.
can anybody help me/give instructions on how to go back to the CWM version before the upgrade.
How do I go back to the last CWM version?
thank you in advance
Used to be open rom manager, scroll down to older version or something like that, click on it and select what version you want..
Ok
tomasitoc said:
I am using CWM.
I think I found what the use is, I upgrade to the new CWM 6.0.3.1, now it is making a backup size of greater than 1GB.
can anybody help me/give instructions on how to go back to the CWM version before the upgrade.
How do I go back to the last CWM version?
thank you in advance
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yup, ditch cwm and use twrp much better you can store your backups on you external sd
deeznutz1977 said:
yup, ditch cwm and use twrp much better you can store your backups on you external sd
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I've been reading a lot of good feedback with TWRP. I like to try it, how I get TWRP
What is the file size of your CWM backups?
Presently the file size of my CWM backup are more than >1GB, before it was just maybe less than 100mb.
I don't what was is causing this. Has I unknowingly chnage a setting?
This is probably the reason why I am running out of space.
tomasitoc said:
I've been reading a lot of good feedback with TWRP. I like to try it, how I get TWRP
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Download goo.im from the playstore open, press menu button.. grab SU... click install OpenRecoveryScript.... yes... it goes to the goo.im website downloads than installs all on its own...... profit
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deeznutz1977 said:
Download goo.im from the playstore open, press menu button.. grab SU... click install OpenRecoveryScript.... yes... it goes to the goo.im website downloads than installs all on its own...... profit
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what is the file size of the TWRP backups ?
tomasitoc said:
what is the file size of the TWRP backups ?
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It depends since you can choose what to back up i would say anywhere firm 1.75 gig up to 4–5+
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Hi everyone,
I have only 5.96GB space available from 16GB!!
I've read that you can only use about 9.62GB but I don't even have anything close to that!!
I went to the storage option and here is what I see-
Total Space-9.62GB
Applications-327MB
Pictures,Videos-24.00KB
Audio-60.00KB
Downloads-3.16MB
Miscellaneous-43.03MB
Available space-5.96GB
Where are the other few GBs that I am missing?
Thank You
What ROM are you running? You have to give us a little more info buddy
brando56894 said:
What ROM are you running? You have to give us a little more info buddy
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Oh im sorry I wrote it in a hurry.
I am completely stock (the way the phone came) with absolutely nothing (did a factory restore a few days ago and haven't put anything on my phone).
futbolista169 said:
Oh im sorry I wrote it in a hurry.
I am completely stock (the way the phone came) with absolutely nothing (did a factory restore a few days ago and haven't put anything on my phone).
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I believe when u did your factory reset you forgot to format /system and /data. (Most likely (/data) and its probably media and other apps and files that have left their files on your phone from your previous run.
Monkz said:
I believe when u did your factory reset you forgot to format /system and /data. (Most likely (/data) and its probably media and other apps and files that have left their files on your phone from your previous run.
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I did a reset from CWM twice with everything that I saw that said reset or wipe. And I did a factory reset from the settings menu on the phone and I also formatted the phone storage from my PC. When I open my phone's storage there is nothing on it.
From phone root: /data/media/clockworkmod. See if you have any files there.
lordcheeto03 said:
From phone root: /data/media/clockworkmod. See if you have any files there.
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Yup, I had backup files I wasn't even aware of. I deleted them and now I have 8.92GB!
Thanks
lordcheeto03 said:
From phone root: /data/media/clockworkmod. See if you have any files there.
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How would you know what would be safe to delete from that? I seem to have 2 backups there holding quite a bit of space, or would it be best to transfer to my sd card?
gear79 said:
How would you know what would be safe to delete from that? I seem to have 2 backups there holding quite a bit of space, or would it be best to transfer to my sd card?
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Well, /data/media/clockworkmod are nandroid backups you've made in recovery.. So, if you have newer versions stored on your SD card there would be no need to keep them; otherwise, definitely move them to your SD card.
We need this stickied, how many times has this been asked now? Haha
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Enough to where I've answered it with sincere, sarcastic, and indifferent tones; I know that much
gear79 said:
How would you know what would be safe to delete from that? I seem to have 2 backups there holding quite a bit of space, or would it be best to transfer to my sd card?
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I tried to do that but it kept saying "operation failed" and I had a few backups on my PC so I just deleted them. When you do a back up, do a ext sd card back up and it will put it on your sd card.
futbolista169 said:
I tried to do that but it kept saying "operation failed" and I had a few backups on my PC so I just deleted them. When you do a back up, do a ext sd card back up and it will put it on your sd card.
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Mine worked, I used root explorer (the paid version) and it gave me the option to transfer, took 5 minutes to move each file, roughly 3.6gb each, now my internal storage went from 1.4gb to 7.63 :good: and I am also having success with apps2sd, but on the international rom that supports it.
gear79 said:
Mine worked, I used root explorer (the paid version) and it gave me the option to transfer, took 5 minutes to move each file, roughly 3.6gb each, now my internal storage went from 1.4gb to 7.63 :good: and I am also having success with apps2sd, but on the international rom that supports it.
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mine was the free version so that might be the reason.
lorddart said:
We need this stickied, how many times has this been asked now? Haha
Sent from my SGH-M919 using xda premium
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Done.
I just added the answer to the 2nd post of this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2324421
Right above the red paragraph.
Hello guys,
This might seem like an idiot question but I totally confused here
My internal note 2 memory says 3.19GB free of 10.4GB. I am trying to clean my space so I plugged the note 2 to my pc on WIndows 8.1.
I selected all the files and folders in the memory and checked their size which summed up to only 3.24GB! I am really trying to find out whats taking so much space. Should I connect my Note II to Linux and check or how do I find out the total contents of thiis internal memory??
Please help me!
Thanks
It should be caused by using warez??
A lot of apps do a mess. I recomend wipe internal storage
verny94;53779743 said:
It should be caused by using warez??
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Hello,
Thanks about your quick reply! :highfive:
Well it may be but not in my case as almost all apps I use are either free or purchased properly.
verny94 said:
A lot of apps do a mess. I recomend wipe internal storage
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As about this,
This is exactly what I would be keeping as my last option. Essentially wiping internal memory is almost equal to factory reset, something I don't want to do unless I don't have any other choice..
Any way of of checking whats taking the memory without formatting would be great
Thanks
ashhem said:
Hello guys,
This might seem like an idiot question but I totally confused here
My internal note 2 memory says 3.19GB free of 10.4GB. I am trying to clean my space so I plugged the note 2 to my pc on WIndows 8.1.
I selected all the files and folders in the memory and checked their size which summed up to only 3.24GB! I am really trying to find out whats taking so much space. Should I connect my Note II to Linux and check or how do I find out the total contents of thiis internal memory??
Please help me!
Thanks
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In Titanium Backup app you find the exact memory stats devided in system and internal. To optimize internal mem push as many apps to ext sd as you can.
Besides: From Windows/PC you normally can't see hidden or system files.
For further information (eg more space in system) feel free to ask.
Androidwizzard said:
In Titanium Backup app you find the exact memory stats devided in system and internal. To optimize internal mem push as many apps to ext sd as you can.
Besides: From Windows/PC you normally can't see hidden or system files.
For further information (eg more space in system) feel free to ask.
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Hello,
Thanks for your insight. I am aware of the Windows dilemma hence was trying to get through using Linux but I could not :crying:
However I am already using the Titanium Backup app.. I have pushed almost all possible apps to external memory however I came across a problem where the majority data and memory are still being taken up on the internal memory by that app. Clearing Google Camera, Chaton and Camera Awesome's data, I almost got a GB in internal memory!
Speaking of this I have run into a very weird problem. :silly:
after rooting, I force transferred many apps to external memory. Since this Every time I restart my Note II its forgets my default launcher
Any idea what screwed this up?
Regards
ashhem said:
Hello,
Thanks for your insight. I am aware of the Windows dilemma hence was trying to get through using Linux but I could not :crying:
However I am already using the Titanium Backup app.. I have pushed almost all possible apps to external memory however I came across a problem where the majority data and memory are still being taken up on the internal memory by that app. Clearing Google Camera, Chaton and Camera Awesome's data, I almost got a GB in internal memory!
Speaking of this I have run into a very weird problem. :silly:
after rooting, I force transferred many apps to external memory. Since this Every time I restart my Note II its forgets my default launcher
Any idea what screwed this up?
Regards
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You can't move or force all apps to ext sd, especially system or system related apps, so I recommend to reinstall your rom and try to move step by step, so you can revert back by only changing one app back to int. I remember an app which forces apps to ext and also with that app it is recommended to change quite a descent amount of apps.
Androidwizzard said:
You can't move or force all apps to ext sd, especially system or system related apps, so I recommend to reinstall your rom and try to move step by step, so you can revert back by only changing one app back to int. I remember an app which forces apps to ext and also with that app it is recommended to change quite a descent amount of apps.
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I havent moved a single system app.. Thats why the problem is so weird!
ashhem said:
I havent moved a single system app.. Thats why the problem is so weird!
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Are you sure? Even in folder priv-app you find system apps and some are not clearly assignable.
Androidwizzard said:
Are you sure? Even in folder priv-app you find system apps and some are not clearly assignable.
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Yes Sir!
100% sure
ashhem said:
Yes Sir!
100% sure
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Weird ....... nevertheless I see the only option to reflash rom, sad thing
Androidwizzard said:
Weird ....... nevertheless I see the only option to reflash rom, sad thing
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Sure!
Will try
Another option to get rid of useless stuff APP
ashhem said:
Hello guys,
This might seem like an idiot question but I totally confused here
My internal note 2 memory says 3.19GB free of 10.4GB. I am trying to clean my space so I plugged the note 2 to my pc on WIndows 8.1.
I selected all the files and folders in the memory and checked their size which summed up to only 3.24GB! I am really trying to find out whats taking so much space. Should I connect my Note II to Linux and check or how do I find out the total contents of thiis internal memory??
Please help me!
Thanks
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Your problem can be related to apps that uses root access - this type of apps leaves a lot of trash even after uninstalling, so I recommend you to use only those apps, that are really needed.
Mine phone memory got piled up like yours...Titanium Backup helped me. Pushed lots of app to ext SD....
Hi there
I have a serious problem with my S4 Mini Duos GT-I9192. The problem is that the free internal memory space is wrong. At the moment it's showing about 1GB free space, but I confirmed my installed apps and it's impossible I have 5GB of installed apps. In fact I have about 2.5GB of installed apps, then I shoud have about 3GB of free space.
I made a test, plugged the device in the computer and it shows I really have 1GB free in internal memory, after that I selected all folders into it and get properties, and it shows 2.4GB size. (you can see in attached images)
My question: If the internal memory has 5.39GB and my all files has 2.4GB used space, I should have 2.99GB free space, not just 1GB free!!! Where is this lost space??? I need it, because I want install apps and games, and at now I cant!!
My andriod version is 4.4.2 kitkat (not rooted), manually updated from sammobile, but the problem was the same before update. The original version was 4.2 Jelly Bean.
Best regards for all.
You should look for hidden folders with a dot before the name. I think you probably got a big .thumbnails folder. That's a common problem, try searching on google for solutions.
marchrius said:
You should look for hidden folders with a dot before the name. I think you probably got a big .thumbnails folder. That's a common problem, try searching on google for solutions.
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Hi guy, that's not the problem. I selected all folders, included with dot before name, hidden folders... Also had googled, but no answer...
renatotozzi said:
Hi guy, that's not the problem. I selected all folders, included with dot before name, hidden folders... Also had googled, but no answer...
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Did u play heavy games in the past? If you uninstall those games, occasionally their cache/data remain on your device. Go to internal sdcard > Android > Obb and look for any folders that correspond to the apps u used previously. Delete them and see if that solves your problem. I had this problem once in the past when I uninstalled gta3, the com.rockstargames.XXXX folder remained in the obb folder. I had to manually delete that to free up space.
If that does not work, backup everything u got on your internal sd card onto microsd card/usb drive and wipe internal storage via TWRP recovery.
Try what I suggested. hopefully it works. good luck.
Do what he said. you can wipe internal storage from your pc too
sasank360 said:
Did u play heavy games in the past? If you uninstall those games, occasionally their cache/data remain on your device. Go to internal sdcard > Android > Obb and look for any folders that correspond to the apps u used previously. Delete them and see if that solves your problem. I had this problem once in the past when I uninstalled gta3, the com.rockstargames.XXXX folder remained in the obb folder. I had to manually delete that to free up space.
If that does not work, backup everything u got on your internal sd card onto microsd card/usb drive and wipe internal storage via TWRP recovery.
Try what I suggested. hopefully it works. good luck.
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Nope, I don't have old data/obb games in device. As you can see in attached screen capture, I selected all existing folders in my device and get properties, it shows I have 2.5 GB used, the refered space is really lost, maybe in some partition which windows does not recognize...
marchrius said:
Do what he said. you can wipe internal storage from your pc too
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But wipe what? wipe not used files? I can't do this because all files used, I don't have unused files there. Or this wipe process is something which can find the lost space in device?
renatotozzi said:
But wipe what? wipe not used files? I can't do this because all files used, I don't have unused files there. Or this wipe process is something which can find the lost space in device?
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No what we meant is : You first copy everything from your internal storage to external sd card or usb drive. Then go to TWRP recovery and choose wipe>Advanced Wipe and select internal storage. Then swipe and your internal storage will be cleaned up off everything. Now you can transfer the backup files from that usb drive or ext sd card back to internal storage.Do not format internal storage via windows pc.
Do that only with TWRP recovery. Good luck.
Have you considered that the internal memory is shared?
Infact the internal sdcard is the folder /data/media.
The S4 mini has the /data partition of 5.4 GB.
So if you have 1 Gb free and 2.4 occupied into internal sdcard (/data/media), maybe you have 2 GB occupied into /data? In particular into /data/app e app-asec? (these folders contain the apks of app installed from play store).
sasank360 said:
No what we meant is : You first copy everything from your internal storage to external sd card or usb drive. Then go to TWRP recovery and choose wipe>Advanced Wipe and select internal storage. Then swipe and your internal storage will be cleaned up off everything. Now you can transfer the backup files from that usb drive or ext sd card back to internal storage.Do not format internal storage via windows pc.
Do that only with TWRP recovery. Good luck.
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Ok guy, I understood your tip. I'll try to do that. Just another question: Doing this process I will lose all my personal settings, installed apps, accounts? Or all will be as before after do that?
renatotozzi said:
Ok guy, I understood your tip. I'll try to do that. Just another question: Doing this process I will lose all my personal settings, installed apps, accounts? Or all will be as before after do that?
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Sorry for late reply. You wont lose installed apps but you will lose those photos, videos and any downloads or documents you have on internal storage. That's the reason I said backup/Copy everything on your internal storage to usb drive/external sd card and then format. Later you can move them back to internal storage and reboot.
sasank360 said:
Sorry for late reply. You wont lose installed apps but you will lose those photos, videos and any downloads or documents you have on internal storage. That's the reason I said backup/Copy everything on your internal storage to usb drive/external sd card and then format. Later you can move them back to internal storage and reboot.
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Ok, guy, thanks for tip, I'll try this
I've got this problem today. Only 800 MB free in internal SD, but when selected all files/folders they only had 1,2 GB!! Where the hell was the remaining GB?
I've entered the recovery and found a backup in the internal SD. Deleted it and recovered the free space!
2 days ago, I've made a backup to the external SD (waiting for the M10 release!), and it really is there, but I don't know how, the backup was made to the internal SD too!
See if you don't have any backup in the internal SD, but you have to go by the recovery.