Hi
I've searched and can't find any threads on this but apologies if I've missed one.
I'm using Tillaz's Infusion 4.4.2 with an 8GB Moto G.
If I go to settings->storage it says that 5.5GB are available, this seems to be consistent with what people have reported.
However, in the breakdown below that it says there is about 600MB taken by apps, 800MB taken by everything else (mostly music) and 1.2GB available.
That's almost 3GB unaccounted for.
Has anyone any ideas how I've managed to loose it?
One thought is that CWM is hiding the backup (I think I've made one or two) somewhere I can't see them as I can't see them in the normal folder structure (i.e. I can see the clockworkmod folder but there's nothing more than a couple of kB in there). If that's the case, any thoughts how I can find the backups and delete one of them?
Any help very much appreciated!
Sam
Hi there,
5.5GB is the size of your /data partition, the rest is /system, /cache ...
The fact that system>storage doesn't add up to 5.5GB is quite strange. Can you please post a screenshot of it ? You might have a screenshot option in the power down menu.
Cheers
Total Space?
Is that the available space or the total space?
Because 5.5 + .6 + .8 + 1.2 = 8.1 GB
Hi
Thanks for the replies. I've found that CWM gives the option to delete recovery files which were adding up to almost 2GB so it's about right now.
Still kinda strange that the backup files were not showing up when looking in the clockworkmod folder using a file explorer. Hopefully this might help someone else if they're a bit low on space...
DigitalSnow - that's a good idea but no, it's the total space.
Xavier - thanks yes it looks just like DigitalSnow's but the "total" was 5.5GB, "available" was 1.2GB and then the sum of all the others was less than 1.5GB. As you say, a bit strange, but sorted now!
Cheers
Sam
Yes, CWM saves its backups to /sdcard/clockworkmod while the "available space" is /sdcard/0
This is why you can't see them from Android, and probably why the calculations when nuts.
I can't see an option to change the backup folder path, it might be a bug worth reporting to the CWM team.
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Hii, I use kryllios 9.5 and I enabled a2sd 1gb. Now my phone shows internal memory is low. On checking with titanium it shows:
internal: 201 MB (37.3MB free)
SD card (a2sd): 959MB (571 MB free)
Now basically I used only half of my a2sd space and it is showing my phone memory is full ( I have even sent apps to sd card from menu for the time being to get some space).
Anyone some suggestions???
could you please check if you have a
/data/tombstones/tombstone_xx
file?
Sorry for replying late. Was experimenting with pb os2
Yankees I have that file.
Still waiting for a solution.
thakns a lot for the information, my thought is approved
...just delete that file, restart your phone and feel happy again.
A feedback would be very good.
Cheers
qaysed
Thanks a lot man
but I have to delete the whole folder or just the files?
I think the files should be enough
but try it (never had these files/directory, cos my phone didnt crash so far)
If you delete the whole folder, no problem afaik, the folder gets created in case of crash
no crash, no folder, easy thought
I just recently tried to upgrade my SynergyROM from r73 to r118 (current). I did the usualy TiBu and CWM backups. Upon attempting to restore apps with TiBu I was having issues, and realized my internal memory is full. There's no way I filled up 16GB.... It's all under "Misc. files" When I click on it, "System memory" sits at 4.05GB and "clockworkmod" sits at 5.70G.
What in the heck is causing CWM to fill up so much??? And what's "system Memory" consist of? Quite vague.
I'd appreciate some help on this. I really don't have THAT much installed, lol. Unless CWM recovery images (Which I have like 7 of) take up 500MB each...Then let me know so I can *facepalm*
Nandroid backups ALWAYS take up a lot of space. I have just one backup (via TWRP) and its sitting pretty at 1.7 GB. Your 5.6 GB looks about right since CWM uses the blobs folder to cut down on total Nandroid space by only backing up files that have changed. 5 CWM backups take up a great deal of space.
Also, check to make sure you completely uninstalled games. I learned the hard way that if you don't uninstall those 1+ gb games, they still take up hard disk space even when you wipe and flash roms. I went searching through I think "/Android/data" to find leftover files from uninstalled games. The second data downloaded once you initially installed the game stays until you actively uninstall.
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Thanks for this, you confirmed my suspicion of the Nandroid backups taking up so much space. I really had no idea they were so large. I deleted most of the old ones I wasn't using and kept a few critical backups. Still having some issues with TiBu skipping 7 items that it coulnd't restore, and system apps erroring out on me. I might need to just go back to what I had.
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Thanks for this, you confirmed my suspicion of the Nandroid backups taking up so much space. I really had no idea they were so large. I deleted most of the old ones I wasn't using and kept a few critical backups. Still having some issues with TiBu skipping 7 items that it coulnd't restore, and system apps erroring out on me. I might need to just go back to what I had.
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Okay, I'm posting here again in extreme frustration.
I deleted most of my Nandroid backups and I'm up to almost 3GB of internal space. I had about 7-8 of them, now down to just 3. However, when I check my "storage" under settings, misc. files take up a total of 8.5GB. When I go inside, TiBu takes up 600mb, while "System memory" takes up a whopping 5GB+.
What in the hell is in the "System Memory" files that takes up 5GB? After ictures, videos, music, it brings me down to 2.8GB internal memory. Though I need to start using my sd-ext for some storage, this is NOT correct!!!
Anybody ever deal with this? I did some Googling and somebody had a similar issue with the Note 2.
Thanks in advance!
Weioo said:
Okay, I'm posting here again in extreme frustration.
I deleted most of my Nandroid backups and I'm up to almost 3GB of internal space. I had about 7-8 of them, now down to just 3. However, when I check my "storage" under settings, misc. files take up a total of 8.5GB. When I go inside, TiBu takes up 600mb, while "System memory" takes up a whopping 5GB+.
What in the hell is in the "System Memory" files that takes up 5GB? After ictures, videos, music, it brings me down to 2.8GB internal memory. Though I need to start using my sd-ext for some storage, this is NOT correct!!!
Anybody ever deal with this? I did some Googling and somebody had a similar issue with the Note 2.
Thanks in advance!
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Did you go into cwm under the backup section and pick to clear needed data(something like that)
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Some quick background... I was running Synergy ROM for GS3 r73 for the last couple months. I wanted to update to Synergy r118 when I came across this. I didn't notice until after I loaded r118 that my memory was so full, and TiBu had issues restoring files due to lack of memory.
kintwofan said:
Did you go into cwm under the backup section and pick to clear needed data(something like that)
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I just "cleared nandroid space" after backing up all my backups to my PC (hmmm, ironic). No dice, still sitting at 3.95GB "System Memory" under settings/storage/Miscellaneous.
If you check your phone, do you get the same? A LARGE amount of data under misc., "system memory?" Mine is 3.95GB + 3.24GB CWM +700MB TiBU + 100MB various other items. This is what the 8.XX GB under miscellaneous storage consists of. I was starting to wonder if "system memory" consisted of all items below it added together, but I do not believe this to be true. If I add up the size of all files under misc., it comes to just over 8GB.
Any suggestions? I really want to know what is in system memory that beefs it up to almost 4 gigs!!! Arg, this is insanely frustrating!!!!!
Weioo said:
Some quick background... I was running Synergy ROM for GS3 r73 for the last couple months. I wanted to update to Synergy r118 when I came across this. I didn't notice until after I loaded r118 that my memory was so full, and TiBu had issues restoring files due to lack of memory.
I just "clearned nandroid space" after backing up all my backups to my PC (hmmm, ironic). No dice, still sitting at 5GB+ "System Memory" under settings/storage/Miscellaneous.
If you check your phone, do you get the same? A LARGE amount of data under misc., "system memory?"
Also, now most of the time I look in this location, "system memory" doesn't even show up, nor does CWM. So it looks like I have a handful of apps installed that vary between a couple KB and 700mb (TiBU).
Any suggestions? Arg, this is insanely frustrating!!!!!
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I'm looking at this and I'm not sure if you realize but that 4-5 gb taken up by System Memory is TW. System Memory = TouchWiz, CPU. This space is always taken up on any device using flash memory.
Quick breakdown using your numbers, since you started with 16 GB internal storage:
*16GB = 11 GB usable, 4-5 (let's say 5GB) GB are dedicated to the System for the OS. You're not getting any of this back unless you're on an AOSP rom.
*so, 11 GB is the "new" starting point.
CWM nandroid = 3 GB
Pics/Vids = 2.8 GB
5GB is roughly the most you should have if you have 0 apps. I'm just using the numbers that you posted previously. If you have a few dozen apps and one or two games, I imagine you should now have probably 3 GB's at most to use of internal storage.
How close am I to what you have as free space? Is my estimation of apps/games taking 3 GB of data correct?
SlimSnoopOS said:
I'm looking at this and I'm not sure if you realize but that 4-5 gb taken up by System Memory is TW. System Memory = TouchWiz, CPU. This space is always taken up on any device using flash memory.
Quick breakdown using your numbers, since you started with 16 GB internal storage:
*16GB = 11 GB usable, 4-5 (let's say 5GB) GB are dedicated to the System for the OS. You're not getting any of this back unless you're on an AOSP rom.
*so, 11 GB is the "new" starting point.
CWM nandroid = 3 GB
Pics/Vids = 2.8 GB
5GB is roughly the most you should have if you have 0 apps. I'm just using the numbers that you posted previously. If you have a few dozen apps and one or two games, I imagine you should now have probably 3 GB's at most to use of internal storage.
How close am I to what you have as free space? Is my estimation of apps/games taking 3 GB of data correct?
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Ok, wow. I really never figured I'd run out of memory so quick with 16GB. I also didn't realize TW takes up so much space. Thank you for explaining this. Time to move my backups, pics, vids, and apps to the EXT-SD, stat!
Edit: You'll noticed I edited the above right as you were responding to it. I reread it and it seems garbled, lol.
Weioo said:
Ok, wow. I really never figured I'd run out of memory so quick with 16GB. I also didn't realize TW takes up so much space. Thank you for explaining this. Time to move my backups, pics, vids, and apps to the EXT-SD, stat!
Edit: You'll noticed I edited the above right as you were responding to it. I reread it and it seems garbled, lol.
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Ahh, I see the edits now haha it's all good. So is everything squared away now? Out of curiosity, how much free space do you have left on the internal storage?
When you first turn on the 16 GB GSIII, you only have at most 12 GB to use, 4 GB are immediately lost to the system/OS. It's not really JUST TouchWiz taking up space, it's the entire OS and various components that fuel that. The GSIII is marketed at 16 GB but that's never the case with flash memory. Mine shipped with 12 GB readily usable however I caught a good deal on a 32 GB microsd card several months ago and have been fine since.
OK, I am having storage/space issues with my Blaze that are making the cameras inoperable (I keep getting a message stating there's a lack of memory or space on the SD card). I am running CM10 Stable on Android 4.1.2 with the CM kernel.
When I go into Settings and look at the Storage, here's what it says (I tried taking Screenshots but they didn't work):
Total Space= 1.12GB
814MB of Apps
252MB Available
Internal Storage= 1.4GB
208MB Apps
553MB Pics/Videos
4.78MB Downloads
SD Card= 3.69MB Total Space
1.99GB Available
Here's the thing: I have NO pics/videos, yet somehow 553 MB are being used for this. So what's the deal? Can someone give me the quickie/noob explanation? Or at least explain what's the best way to control your storage on the Blaze (and yes, I've used Search but haven't really found what I was looking for)? I would really appreciate it, this is a very annoying and frustrating issue.
Thanks!
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OK, I am having storage/space issues with my Blaze that are making the cameras inoperable (I keep getting a message stating there's a lack of memory or space on the SD card). I am running CM10 Stable on Android 4.1.2 with the CM kernel.
When I go into Settings and look at the Storage, here's what it says (I tried taking Screenshots but they didn't work):
Total Space= 1.12GB
814MB of Apps
252MB Available
Internal Storage= 1.4GB
208MB Apps
553MB Pics/Videos
4.78MB Downloads
SD Card= 3.69MB Total Space
1.99GB Available
Here's the thing: I have NO pics/videos, yet somehow 553 MB are being used for this. So what's the deal? Can someone give me the quickie/noob explanation? Or at least explain what's the best way to control your storage on the Blaze (and yes, I've used Search but haven't really found what I was looking for)? I would really appreciate it, this is a very annoying and frustrating issue.
Thanks!
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i think you never cleaned up ur cache and over time lots of crap got accumulated hogging up all your space...also u need to look into your thumbnails as they tend to stay over time even if you move the actual photo...all you need to do is to backup your apps and their data n then boot in recovery mode and do a factory reset and then boot and go to any file manager and move whatever pics and vids you have on internal storage(by change if u have any) to external storage and delete the DCIM folder then...if even that doesnot let you do anything i think you are in need to format your system, cache, data and dalvik and flash the rom u use fresh and start over...you will be good as new then for sure even if it takes lil more time to set up things as u want again but thats better than being frustated and not able to do anything...hope that helps you
Check the ".thumbnails" directory under DCIM (or camera, I forget). My daughter's blaze seems to like accumulating 100+MB files I'm there.
Definitely check app cache too. The Cheeseburger Network app was pulling 500MB of cache on my S2.
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I was traveling but I read your recommendations and deleted a ton of files under DCIM folder. That seems to have fixed the issue for now, thanks so much. But I do need to re-flash the ROM anyway due to another issue so that will help.
Thanks! :good:
Hello, and I have a question about my nexus storage space, I had search to look for my internal storage, it show I have about total of 5.4GB of space is use(include app, picture, video, download and other) but from my calculate and observations I found out there is 2.4GB is unknown, I only find out there is 3GB is used and know who is who belong to who...except for the downloading (which take about 554MB ) I cannot find where is the 554MB come from.
Over all my problem is, there is about 3GB of something that is occupying me space (include the unknown download) and anyone know how to find out those 3GB come from, or give a tool or suggestion to help me out to clean the 3GB space.
Also I have use the ES file explore to see how big is the system file and folder, but the result show to me is, "the whole system include sdcard (the location is →' \ ' )is near about 18GB and I only have a 16GB nexus 5
By the way I have completely check everything in the "sdcard" folder
So does anyone know how to solve this problem or give a suggestions? thanks ~~
Please go to the sticky thread in my signature then read my Nexus 5 data thread within there
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Hello, and I have a question about my nexus storage space, I had search to look for my internal storage, it show I have about total of 5.4GB of space is use(include app, picture, video, download and other) but from my calculate and observations I found out there is 2.4GB is unknown, I only find out there is 3GB is used and know who is who belong to who...except for the downloading (which take about 554MB ) I cannot find where is the 554MB come from.
Over all my problem is, there is about 3GB of something that is occupying me space (include the unknown download) and anyone know how to find out those 3GB come from, or give a tool or suggestion to help me out to clean the 3GB space.
Also I have use the ES file explore to see how big is the system file and folder, but the result show to me is, "the whole system include sdcard (the location is →' \ ' )is near about 18GB and I only have a 16GB nexus 5
By the way I have completely check everything in the "sdcard" folder
So does anyone know how to solve this problem or give a suggestions? thanks ~~
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Try Sdmaid app
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Hi everyone. Sorry for starting a new post, but I looked and I wasn't sure where my question fit in. I'm using Link2SD on my kids' tablets and overall it works great. I got really fast (SanDisk extreme) micro SD cards for black Friday and the games run faster than with tablet memory. One thing I'm trying to figure out is why, even though I have both tablets set up mostly the same, one of the tablets has a lot less free space showing. I do have about 400-500 MB more of apps on the tablet showing less free space, BUT it is showing 4.0 GB free space vs. 5.8 GB free space on the other tablet. Why would this be (1.8 GB difference) if all else is the same?
Is it something to do with dalvik/cache? Speaking of it, is it safe to wipe the dalvik/cache through TWRP now that I have Link2SD set up with 30+ apps linked? Do I then just relink the dalvik files after rebooting? Or do things get messed up? I'm hesitant to do any of that because I have everything working well now, except the free space issue.
Or, if I multi-select and then choose to relink everything (apk, dex, internal data), could that help? Everything appears to already be linked correctly, so would relinking mess it up? Also, as a side note, I don't have any lib files linked as I have found that in the past it did mess things up for me. It would cause some apps to re-optimize at every boot, I think because the lib files wouldn't relink, even though I enabled it in the Link2SD settings. So now I stay away from that and all else is good, except this free space issue.
Any ideas on a solution? Is there something else taking up free space that's not listed in internal or system memory? Maybe downloaded Google play books? Or are they listed in the app data? Is the free space shown not correct, and it's actually more? I just can't figure it out. Any ideas would be great. Thanks!!!!
Here are the screenshots. You can see 5.76GB vs 4.07GB, but only 6.94GB vs 7.34GB for internal space difference. Why?