Storage question - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Can anyone help? I have a 16 GB nexus 5 running slim kat. My phone reports to me that it has 3.9 GB free memory. Where has all the space gone? In es my sdcard is only about 3 GB. I only have about 30 apps. From what I understand I skiing have started with about 12gb... I feel I should have more space.. Is it telling me wrong.? Where did all the space go?
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It depends on the apps. Can you put screen shots?
If you have games such as real racing or others they download a big change of data.
Also, check for Nandroid backups. Have just one and that put somewhere on your PC. Although restoring a nexus phone is easy as pie.
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bigbear6708 said:
Can anyone help? I have a 16 GB nexus 5 running slim kat. My phone reports to me that it has 3.9 GB free memory. Where has all the space gone? In es my sdcard is only about 3 GB. I only have about 30 apps. From what I understand I skiing have started with about 12gb... I feel I should have more space.. Is it telling me wrong.? Where did all the space go?
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Please read this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2534010

Thanks. I'm still a little confused as to where all my space is going. Even after clean flash/factory reset I don't gain much storage back. Doesn't seem to be reporting properly..am I wrong?
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bigbear6708 said:
Thanks. I'm still a little confused as to where all my space is going. Even after clean flash/factory reset I don't gain much storage back. Doesn't seem to be reporting properly..am I wrong?
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please read the above the thread rootsu posting. it has your answer.

Zepius said:
please read the above the thread rootsu posting. it has your answer.
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Yep... can't have read it thoroughly
Pro tip... read the contents section. Any sound familiar?
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rootSU said:
Yep... can't have read it thoroughly
Pro tip... read the contents section. Any sound familiar?
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yep, skimmed it on tapatalk, thought i saw everything. re hit it from the computer..becoming enlightened! that app discusage is extremely helpful. thanks again

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[Q] SD support

So is it not possible to put apps on the sdcard at all?
Whats it good for?
If I'm not mistaken as it stands right now you can't use apps2sd or link2sd or any of that. they are working on it I think lol
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So is it not possible to put apps on the sdcard at all?
Whats it good for?
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I load my apps in the internal and my media on the external.
Hopefully someone comes up with a way to move apps.
I just received my tablet and would like to know if this is still the case with not being able to move apps to sd. I've tried the apps 2 .sd app with no luck and don't get the option through the stock software.
Thanks
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Any change in this?
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I just received my tablet and would like to know if this is still the case with not being able to move apps to sd. I've tried the apps 2 .sd app with no luck and don't get the option through the stock software.
Thanks
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Has there been any change to this? I am nearly out of room on the internal
Try gl2sd or gltosd may be
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Mohamedselim said:
Try gl2sd or gltosd may be
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Tried using that app just now it didn't work. I selected the game I wanted from the list and hit move, and it moved it, but then when I went to start the game from my app draw it started downloading the data all over again. There was no other way to start the app even from within GL2SD. Maybe I did something wrong?
Any other ways anyone can think of? or do I have to wait till we get something better created?
May be this link is helpful
http://m.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/gl-to-sdroot_bldlo.html
May be you missed something in op try to follow closely
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I'm curious about this as well, I use some dictionaries that are close to a giga a piece app I have no room left, but I have a mostly empty 16 GB card that could hold those dictionary files.
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Kumabjorn said:
I'm curious about this as well, I use some dictionaries that are close to a giga a piece app I have no room left, but I have a mostly empty 16 GB card that could hold those dictionary files.
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If you are rooted try directory bind. Works great for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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Unfortunately I'm not that advanced. I prefer stock, anything goes wrong and I can bring it on to the store and complain.
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Where did my space go?

Hay guys I have a problem. Out of 12 gigs around 4 gigs are under misc.
Any idea where those went?
I've checked my download folder and there is not 4 gig worth of stuff in there
I recently went to another build on aokp and before I restored my apps via titanium backup it was still high under misc.
Any idea how to find out what's taking up so much room?
Maybe an app that can find out for me?
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Nandroid backups are pretty big... Use astro file manager or root file explorer than check the size of your /cyanogen folder
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I deleted my nandroid from my internal and it deleted about 4 gigs of stuff...when you backup in CWM, make sure you backup to external sd card..
I would say it's system files the rom uses but it looks like that 4gb is already accounted for as your total space says 12gb vs 16gb like on a tw rom
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Is it okay to delete the even the latest nandroid backup?
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Myspace is still there, it's just been overrun by the likes of Facebook and twatter but I think it's still better.
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Schism169 said:
Is it okay to delete the even the latest nandroid backup?
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You can delete whatever you want but if your using cwm I would delete the back ups through recovery and not a file manager because someone says it doesn't get rid of all the blobs that way. Also I would keep at least one back up just in case.
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Went into nandroid but only I when I went to the delete option there is said that there were no files to be deleted. Which is odd because eight before I did a factory reset, I deleted some of my other nandroid backups. So I deleted them via root explorer but still up to 3 gigs of misc. Is that normal?
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Download "DiskUsage" from play store

Boat Browser

Tried searching everywhere to no avail.
I have made several book mark backups with boat Browser and can't find where they are stored so I can delete some.
It says it stored in Drive but can't see them?
Can anyone help.
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Anybody!
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Galaxy s2 said:
Anybody!
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Don't bump your own threads within 24 hours - read the rules please.
http://www.boatmob.com/guide/bookmark_management - took me about 10 seconds with Google.
First of all, sorry
Secondly, the page you refer to does not tell you how to delete backups.
Only how to delete bookmarks.
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Galaxy s2 said:
First of all, sorry
Secondly, the page you refer to does not tell you how to delete backups.
Only how to delete bookmarks.
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No, but it tells you where the "Save Path" is - surely you can go and manually delete any unwanted backups yourself?
Like I said in the 1st post
I chose to backup to Google drive but when I open Google drive they can't be seen.
But can be restored from there.
Doesn't make sense I know but you need to try it for yourself to understand.
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Galaxy s2 said:
Like I said in the 1st post
I chose to backup to Google drive but when I open Google drive they can't be seen.
But can be restored from there.
Doesn't make sense I know but you need to try it for yourself to understand.
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You didn't make it at all clear that you were backing up to Google Drive.
No idea - I'd try running a full search on your Google Drive to see if you can find them as it should be fairly simple to work out where they are I'd have thought.
I can't locate them that's why I'm asking for help.
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Galaxy s2 said:
I can't locate them that's why I'm asking for help.
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I reckon you might be better off contacting the developers and asking them.
I did leave a comment on the app store, but they didn't respond.
But thanks for all your help.
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Galaxy s2 said:
I did leave a comment on the app store, but they didn't respond.
But thanks for all your help.
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Often the comments section isn't the best place to try and get support as there are so many things posted there.
Go direct instead - email addresses on this page http://www.boatmob.com/mobile/support.html
Thanks bro, just mailed them.
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Wow you're right...I just backed up to google drive and was able to restore from it, but when i go to drive I do not see the backup...odd.
Ok this is the response I got from them, should now help anyone else who uses boat browser.
Dear user,
Thanks for using.
The file in google drive is not visible, but it can be cleared via attached steps.
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[Q] Nexus 5 storage issue, indicator shows about 1/2 used, avail 544mb

I'm running CM 7/17/2014 CM nightly.
I did a factory reset from the last stable release. On flashing into a nightly my storage has disappeared. I've tried flashing 3 different nightlies.
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I'm running CM 7/17/2014 CM nightly.
I did a factory reset from the last stable release. On flashing into a nightly my storage has disappeared. I've tried flashing 3 different nightlies.
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If I had said "I bet you're a clockworkmod recovery user", would I have been richer?
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rootSU said:
If I had said "I bet you're a clockworkmod recovery user", would I have been richer?
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It's been awhile since I've played in custom ROM's, is there a better one out there.
jimmer71 said:
It's been awhile since I've played in custom ROM's, is there a better one out there.
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Philz or TWRP
The reason I ask is because this is a symptom of having cwm and taking backups.
Click the link in my signature to get to sticky roll up. In resources is a thread about nexus storage. You'll find the answer there.
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rootSU said:
Philz or TWRP
The reason I ask is because this is a symptom of having cwm and taking backups.
Click the link in my signature to get to sticky roll up. In resources is a thread about nexus storage. You'll find the answer there.
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Sweet, thank you very much. Have a great day!

Dec Update

There's a new update out. Downloading right now.
Just a security patch or anything else?
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Release notes.
I'll update with observations on a day or so.
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Blis said:
Release notes.
I'll update with observations on a day or so.
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A lot of the articles I've read recently are saying Samsung is sending an update that will prevent charging. I'd proceed with caution if you're trying to hold on to yours. Did you get the 60% battery limit update?
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This came out 3 days ago there is another thread i made and this is november security patch and also adds samsung cloud. But it seems that does not work i always get backup failed
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JonathanRAZ said:
This came out 3 days ago there is another thread i made and this is november security patch and also adds samsung cloud. But it seems that does not work i always get backup failed
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Ditto here backup always fails for me as well.
XBlackChaosX said:
Ditto here backup always fails for me as well.
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I got the update and nothing bad so far, made a backup and rooted again no problems
@Zenngn
Im just curious, which rooting method do you use on the note5?
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shanda5303 said:
A lot of the articles I've read recently are saying Samsung is sending an update that will prevent charging. I'd proceed with caution if you're trying to hold on to yours. Did you get the 60% battery limit update?
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um, this isnt the note 7 sucker lol... you posted in a note 5 subforum
Pu$$nBooT$ said:
um, this isnt the note 7 sucker lol... you posted in a note 5 subforum
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Lol my bad sorry too many threads intersect on tapatalk it's hard to keep up. I'll see if I can delete my first comment
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