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[Q] Losing internal phone storage space on EVO

Has anyone on EVO come across this problem. I keep getting low disk space on my EVO. I uninstall apps to get more internal space, but then it drops again. On Friday I had approx 48mb of internal storage, then by 4:00pm I had 323 kb. I uninstalled a bunch of apps and now I am back at around 48mb.
I went into sd and storage to monitor my space. I also went into menu settings/ applications to see what was taking up the space. By chance I noticed that my Mail icon in the morning was at about 75mb and when I checked it that afternoon it was at 111mb. I called sprint tech support and we deleted/ then added my email accounts again to see if that would clear up space. We also set the max amount of space for msgs to 25 kb. text only. This seems to be working, but still under my mail settings under applications, the MAIL still shows using up about 95mb of storage.
Sprint tech support states that that is really high, but for some reason it is not something that can be erased. Of course I can always do a wipe, but that is always as a last resort. Just trying to gain back some of that precious internal storage.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

In the few years I spent supporting mobile phones for companies low internal storage space was almost always caused by pictures, mp3s, and movies.
So how much of that do you have on your phone?

deathsled said:
In the few years I spent supporting mobile phones for companies low internal storage space was almost always caused by pictures, mp3s, and movies.
So how much of that do you have on your phone?
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The EVO saves that kind of media to the SD card.
OP, what ROM are you running?

I know that apps like streamfurious will cache its content and store it to the phones memory. It can Max you out in a matter of hours. Do you use streaming apps?

phatmanxxl said:
I know that apps like streamfurious will cache its content and store it to the phones memory. It can Max you out in a matter of hours. Do you use streaming apps?
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A misbehaving app is probably the culprit. I'd really recommend Cachemate in the market. There's a chance that one run of that may solve your problem.
Also, if OP is running CyanogenMod w/ Turbo that'll occupy a good amount of internal memory as well.

I use Xiia Live llite. Usually in the evening. . I'll check that out and see if it shows how much is cached.
Thanks

I'll check it out. thanks. Ok it cleared about 3mb.
My mail icon still shows 99 mb of data. If you go menu, settings,applications, manage applications, It brings up everything that you have installed. You can list them by size. The Mail icon HTC, is the one taking up all the space. is there any way to eliminate it? I am running rooted 2.1. I will probably OTA to 2.2 tonight and unrevoke 3.21. Don't know if this will help.
Thanks

I'm running into low storage also.... I have alot of apps but have moved most to sd card that I can... Anymore tips to get storage back?

app storage size bugs/issue on my GN

Hey everyone. I have been using my GSM GN for about a month now.
Lately i have noticed something odd about about a few app file size. I havent seen it mentioned anywhere so im not sure if its something wrong with my phone or its a more common issue.
issue number 1 : In setting, when i choose storage it takes up to a minute for the phone to calculate.
issue number 2: Something is odd about the size of the apps. For instance the google+ app is 21.10mb on my phone(just the app not including the data or usb storage app/data) on the market the app size is 8.33mb... i erased and reinstall the app and got same results.
another example is the kindle app. size of app alone(again without the data) is 25.22mb on the market 9.14mb...
a few other apps are the same.
Issue number 3: Google currents app I just erased it because it increased to 389mb on my phone this number included about 320mb of usb storage app which i have no clue what it means and i had no way to erase.
Any ways sorry for the long post, I guess im just worried that something is wrong with my phone and im hoping to hear from u that u all have the same issues
Happy new year

issue 1: the more data you have on the phone the more it'll take. i have 5GB used and it can take up to a minute on mine, but normally only about 20-30 seconds.
issue 2: Never trust the sizes on the market. depending on your phone/OS version it can and will be different. and most of the time the size listed on the market is the download size.
i'll take your two examples.
Google+ for me is 27.93Mb. i've seen people who's G+ is over 100MB.
the app is 21.10MB, same as you. and then 4.06Mb for data (app data) and 2.77MB for USB storage, which most of the time is cache files that would normally be on your SD card, but since the 'sd card' of the Gnex is virtual it just says usb storage data.
Now on my Nexus One. Google+ is 5.12Mb (moved to the SD) and has only 84Kb of data. and no usb storage data is listed because it's actually on the SD card and was not listed in gingerbread.
issue 3: Currents is a data hog like no other. (though i'd love to know why the amazon appstore is 107Mb on my GN for some reason)
My currents app is 12.29Mb, but i have 93.57Mb of usb storage. if you go to:
sdcard/android/data/com.google.android.apps.currents/files
you'll see what that storage is. and basically it's all cache. Currents will cache the articles and pictures on your SD card so you can just go right into them without having to wait for things to load. And because of that, the more sites you ad, the more it grows.
i hope this helped explain things to you.

Internal storage issue

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?
Jim

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.

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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.
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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.

"Not enough space" on Galaxy Ace II

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!

Question Possible storage bug

Hi XDA,
First time posting so sorry if I'm missing anything.
I have had my OP 9PRO since this summer and have absolutely loved it so far however some time ago I had some problems with updating the phone as it appeared that update would never download. But after that, recently my phone just informed me that the phone is basically full which I'm suprised by as i do have a lot of photos on there, but no movies or anything anymore.
Is it possible that the updates actually HAVE downloaded and are chilling somewhere taking up space in a folder I cant easily see?
My phone is rooted so if i downloaded that update 10X, its about 30GB extra of storage probably.
Attached are 2 screenshots, 1 of the storage overview and 1 of the app storage overview as it says there's about 55 Gigs in there.
Thank you guys in advance!

I'm attempting to bump this topic, maybe someone can help me with this

1. Screenshot, shows how much a app (cache and data) use.
2. Screenshot, how much space is occupied.
I cant see any bug. 119 of 128GB is correct. If i calculate right, u are using 118.66GB
The app is old, but it works without any problem: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/ivan-volosyuk/diskusage/diskusage-4-0-2-release/

RheinPirat said:
1. Screenshot, shows how much a app (cache and data) use.
2. Screenshot, how much space is occupied.
I cant see any bug. 119 of 128GB is correct. If i calculate right, u are using 118.66GB
The app is old, but it works without any problem: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/ivan-volosyuk/diskusage/diskusage-4-0-2-release/
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Hi Rhein,
Thanks for your reply. this is the result from that app. As you can see, its simply the "media storage "app"" using all the 30GB of space that I am "missing". Would you know what could be causing it?
Thanks so much

I quote Joeeye from the Samsung forum, where someone else had the same question about "media storage"
03-04-2021 02:49 PM - last edited ‎03-04-2021 02:55 PM ) in
Galaxy S21 Series
Media storage will just be a system app which monitors and reports all media data on your phone, ie camera video and photos, music, movies etc. You can't wipe it as it's an in built system app which isn't really taking much space. The 70GB I assume is an amalgamation of all your media files on the device.
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Media Storage consumes a lot of data
Hi, I realized that a Media Storage app consumes a lot of data - almost 70GB! I have no idea, what exactly it is. I googled and it should be some new system how to work with storage for applications but... which is inside, which application uses it so much and how can I reduce the amount of...
eu.community.samsung.com
or here
OnePlus Community
Introducing our new OnePlus Community experience, with a completely revamped structure, built from the ground-up.
forums.oneplus.com
I also found this:
The OnePlus Media Storage app is taking up too much damn storage, and no one knows why
Gobbling up over 100 GB on some people's phones
www.androidpolice.com

OnePlus 9 Pro 128GB, also storage problems.
I've read multiple topics about this issue and the only thing that works temporarily is to completely reset the phone to factory settings (wipe all data).
Tried the following things:
- Clear recently deleted files from gallery (not much there since update)
- Wipe Cache
- Wipe Data (full reset)
See attached screen shot of my system storage taking up too much space. I'm not feeling like wiping my phone every couple of months...
Any ideas to solve this bug?

Florissilfhout said:
OnePlus 9 Pro 128GB, also storage problems.
I've read multiple topics about this issue and the only thing that works temporarily is to completely reset the phone to factory settings (wipe all data).
Tried the following things:
- Clear recently deleted files from gallery (not much there since update)
- Wipe Cache
- Wipe Data (full reset)
See attached screen shot of my system storage taking up too much space. I'm not feeling like wiping my phone every couple of months...
Any ideas to solve this bug?
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Other people had this happen a long time ago they fixed it by using the msm tool
It will wipe your data you have so backup first

I used the MSM Tool and went completely back to stock. System storage (after restoring backup) is now on 8,8 GB. I will have to see if it stays there... Thanks for the suggestion.
EDIT:
Addition, I went to 11.2.4.4 from MSM, to 11.2.10.10 through OTA.

Is there any other solution except of using MSM Tool ? I just did factory reset recently, I'm not willing to do that again...
Thank you.

BTw, not good...
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/...f-storage-how-do-i-solve-these-issue.1518111/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/system-storage-issue.1533556/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/system-storage-issue.1509797/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/...how-188gb-any-solution-to-restore-it.1482320/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/storage-capacity-easily-getting-full.1474036/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/system-using-31-gb-space.1534439/

Yeah I found those topics as well.
In the meantime, my system storage has increased to 11GB (which would be within normal operating limits).

May I ask you how you have performed backup and restore? I don't believe there is some hassle free solotion...

I went old school:
Hooked my phone up to my computer with USB cable and file transfer; copied the folders Downloads, DCIM, and some other folder I thought important (Telegram for instance). For WhatsApp I created a backup from within the app to Google Drive. For phone settings I used the Backup&Restore function from Settings - System - Backup.
Oh and maybe make screenshots of your Home Screen pages, so you know which app (shortcut) you had where.
So no hassle free solution unfortunately.

Florissilfhout said:
I went old school:
Hooked my phone up to my computer with USB cable and file transfer; copied the folders Downloads, DCIM, and some other folder I thought important (Telegram for instance). For WhatsApp I created a backup from within the app to Google Drive. For phone settings I used the Backup&Restore function from Settings - System - Backup.
Oh and maybe make screenshots of your Home Screen pages, so you know which app (shortcut) you had where.
So no hassle free solution unfortunately.
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Is it fixed after the reset? Currently i have 60GB++ system

I did the same thing and it did fix it, i can recommend doing it.

I feel as if it's still increasing slightly, but less after the last update. I think 17GB for system is quite a lot, especially when there's also 17GB for 'other'?
I was just thinking the other day that I should perform the reset once more on this firmware version but you know... it takes time and effort.

You could try running SDMaid with root permissions and see if that clears things up.

I don't have it rooted anymore, just in case that was the issue. So that won't work for me unfortunately.

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I feel as if it's still increasing slightly, but less after the last update. I think 17GB for system is quite a lot, especially when there's also 17GB for 'other'?
I was just thinking the other day that I should perform the reset once more on this firmware version but you know... it takes time and effort.
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So this is weird... Just checked the size again and it has dropped down to 1,61GB!
Haven't done anything special. Rebooted the phone approximately 38 hours ago, nothing else.

linus tech tips uploaded a video about it.