Hi guys, so i have a samsung vibrant with ICS rom. My phone has 16gb built in, but it says it has 2gb internal and 14gb external. From what i've read it puts away 14 for the phone and the 2gb is apparently all you need? I keep having the same problem after i get all my apps installed and what not, it says the phone storage is low and eventually it gets to the point where i can't receive texts because it's full so I have to reformat the whole phone for that to go away. Is there a way to make it so I have more storage? This keeps happening every few days and I always have to format for the phone to work..
2gb - this is the space for android to install apps... it doesn't have to be any bigger
14gb - space for the rest of your storage, i.e. photos, videos, music
Your apps and text messages are being stored in that 2 GB partition. How much is being taken up by the apps? Can you move some to SD card or delete some you don't need? Also check how much is being used by the data and cache in induvidual apps. Facebook can sometimes have tons of data, IMDB will cache all sorts of stuff - I deleted something like a 100 MB cache once. Pull up the apps in settings and sortby size. How many texts are you keeping? Can you delete some threads or older texts?
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i have an htc wildfire and i am constantly having storage issues and i dont even have a lot stored on my phone. i have very few apps and everything that can b stored on my sd card, is. what can i do to fix this problem besides constantly clearing data
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i have an htc wildfire and i am constantly having storage issues and i dont even have a lot stored on my phone. i have very few apps and everything that can b stored on my sd card, is. what can i do to fix this problem besides constantly clearing data
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GSM Arena specifications:
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 32GB
Internal 384 MB RAM; 512 MB ROM
Are you installing applications on your microSD? Contact and other information would be beneficial to store on there as well.
It only takes few apps to exceed 500MB.
My phone is a AT&T Galaxy S3, rooted, running M11 (cm11). I have NO sd card in the phone. The internal storage capacity is about 12 GB.
During a recent trip, I used the phone as a storage device, i.e. transfer files from my Canon camera to my phone regularly. I stored about 5GB of files (mostly pictures & videos) from my Canon camera to my Galaxy S3 during the past week during my trip. At the end of the trip, the phone had about 1GB internal storage left.
This afternoon, I copied another big file (a DVD file) to the S3 internal storage, that left only about 400MB of space. I thought that might be too low, so I deleted some apps to free up spaces, it leaves about 700MB space after that.
Then I was going to copy those 5GB pictures & videos from S3 internal storage to my PC, the copy keeps failing. I tried rebooting the phone -- after rebooting, A LOT of my files are gone. Now, the phone has 9GB space left! Looks like a lot of files/folders are gone, it does not appear any apps are gone.
Any one has any idea what might go wrong, obviously, my main concern is to recovery those 5GB pictures & videos from my last trip. Note that those 5GB pictures & videos are originally not in DCIM folder, I put them in a separate folder in the phone.
Since I noticed the lost files, I've stopped using the file to avoid any more writing to the phone. Also, since I've never used a SD card with this phone, I believe it should have nothing to do with LOST.DIR issue. TIA!
I used Disk Digger and it recovered most of the pictures, although MP4s seems mostly corrupted after a few seconds of play. Wish there is a way to recover all, still puzzled at how this all happened..
I have ARHD 7.3 installed and keep getting the storage is low notification constantly. This must be the system storage but I don't know how to check it.
I have nearly 400MB free from the 1.15GB user data partition
SD has 6GB free
Every app that can be moved to SD has been moved
Disabled the built in mail app as I read that it stores emails in the system partition
Uninstalled dropbox and facebook app
The only thing that seemed to help was to go to Storage and select the 2nd Make more space option and clear the "Temporary files from HTC apps" (currently 7.02GB). The problem with that is:
TuneIn radio app stops working with "System Audio" error message
Skype stops working properly too
If you do a 4ext/nandroid backup and reflash, the problems go away but then come back as soon as you restore the backup you took
Don't what else to try. Help!
The way I see it, low internal memory is a hardware limitation. Considering this is a 5 year old phone, there is little that can be done especially as newer apps are more bloated. The problem is even worse if you are using Kitkat/Lollipop based ROMs since the OS itself takes up a lot of space.
One workaround which you can try if you can manage to get a high speed SD card (UHS-I) is to increase the data partition size. Check this mod for more details http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-sensation/development/mod-turbo-data-8gb-data-partition-t3036742 . I myself am waiting for a new card to prolong my phone's lifespan.
I'm having a problem with my Z3, where it seems to be counting data and/or apps stored to the external SD card as part of the internal storage, which is leading the phone to show as being full when it isn't.
As you can see in the screenshots below (no you can't because all my xda posts are somehow gone and I'm back to being a noob who can't post links) , my 16gb phone believes that it contains more than 22gb of data, the main problem being more than 16gb of apps, which are in reality stored on the SD card.
When I eject the SD card, the apps disappear, and the internal storage drops to what looks like the correct level (with apps showing at 5.88gb).
Some of the apps, notably Amazon underground and Vainglory, seem to be much larger than they should be, e.g Vainglory at over 4gb, when it should be 1.25gb, and Amazon being more than 2gb when it should be around 124mb (as they are on my Nexus 9). So it looks to me that somehow the phone is counting the apps and data stored on the SD card more than once. I've tried tried uninstalling both of those apps, incase it is an Amazon underground issue (vainglory is installed from Amazon). That helps free up some space (apps still show over 10gb though), but the next biggest app is Google Play Music, which is also showing data that is stored on the SD card as being part of the internal storage. When I reinstall Vainglory from the Playstore (still storing the data on the SD card), it shows as being 3.47gb, smaller but still way too big. So the problem is clearly not related to Amazon.
I'm running a stock Sony rom, Android 6.0.1 build 23.5.A.1.291 on a D6603.
Can anyone help me with this before I go nuclear and factory reset it again?
As a normal user without any development expericence, I recently managed to install LineageOS to my Moto G 2015 (8GB) device. It's really cool and I would like to thank all developers!
One issue however occurred yesterday. I could not update some apps due to low internal storage. I found out that internal data is not added up correctly: There is more data displayed than is actually there. 1.2GB Apps + 2.75 GB System + 0.1 GB Cache (which seems all correct) sums up to 6,4 GB in total (which doesn't seem correct)
Migrating data (that isn't actually there) to SD fails. Sometimes settings crash, sometimes migration starts but fails due to low storage. When I open the "Couldn't move data" notification, I get to the "SD card is ready" screen even though my SD card is alread set as internal, has data stored and continues to work fine.
What am I doing wrong and what can I do better?
Thanks!