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Strange Internal Storage Problem

Please take a look at the attached screen shot where it shows that the information I have on my phone only takes up about half of the internal storage, yet I only have 511MB available. Can someone please help me find out where my internal storage went?
I am running CyanogenMod 10 on my SG3. Before this I ran all of the Experimental M builds and before that I ran several different nightlies.
Update:
I can't tell if my screenshot is working. I will type out what I see when I go to settings, storage:
Internal Storage:
Total Space
12.05GB
- Apps 3.03GB
- Pictures, videos 635MB
- Audio 22KB
- Downloads 97.64MB
- Available 510MB
Thre is also a graph of which more than half is dark gray representing Available.

Do you have a lot of backups? My backups don't show up in that chart either, but I've got 2.5 GB worth. Use something like storage analyzer from the play store.
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kintwofan said:
Do you have a lot of backups? My backups don't show up in that chart either, but I've got 2.5 GB worth. Use something like storage analyzer from the play store.
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Storage Analyser was great and showed me that it was my backups. How can they be 5GB? Anyway, thanks.

erikcave said:
Storage Analyser was great and showed me that it was my backups. How can they be 5GB? Anyway, thanks.
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They backup your ROM, apps, and all data. Make sure you delete them through recovery.
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kintwofan said:
They backup your ROM, apps, and all data. Make sure you delete them through recovery.
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Accidentally saved some CWM backups to internal SD. Deleted them through CWM, but still shows 4.4GB in CWM folder. Also have several weird folders, USBDriveA-F, dated the same as CWM backups. Running Jelly Beans build 6. noob, so any help is very much appreciated.

Shouldn't your Total Space list 16 GB though?
I have the 32 GB model, and I just checked mine, and it says I have exactly 32 GB of Total Space.

pdykstra said:
Shouldn't your Total Space list 16 GB though?
I have the 32 GB model, and I just checked mine, and it says I have exactly 32 GB of Total Space.
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I have the 16 GB model and I get 12.05 top work with. The system takes there other 4. I'm kind of jealous that your system doesn't take from your already bigger drive.
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DutchDuke said:
Accidentally saved some CWM backups to internal SD. Deleted them through CWM, but still shows 4.4GB in CWM folder. Also have several weird folders, USBDriveA-F, dated the same as CWM backups. Running Jelly Beans build 6. noob, so any help is very much appreciated.
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Go back into cwm and clear unused backup data in the backup menu, should clear up a little room. They do take up a lot of space though, they will take roughly 1.2 gb per backup. Also, i have those folders too. Not sure why, but they don't take y space, do they yours?
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kintwofan said:
I have the 16 GB model and I get 12.05 top work with. The system takes there other 4. I'm kind of jealous that your system doesn't take from your already bigger drive.
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That perfect sense, and actually that is what I would expect. I was surprised when I saw mine reading "32.00 GB" Total Space. I thought it was going to read 27 or 28 GB or something like that.
Attached a screenshot. Maybe my phone is just including the system partition files in the Miscellaneous category or something?

I tried deleting backups from CWM, but the blobs folder was still 4GB. Is there a way to delete blobs folder contents through CWM? After flashing TOB 4.5, knew I wasn't going back so I deleted the contents of the blobs folder from file manager :good: My usbdrive folders are empty too, just wondering if that was normal.

Internal Storage dropped from 11.26GB to 1.97GB

Originally on CM 10.2
Carelessly flashed the Lightning Zap Kernel for 4.4 on top of CM 10.2 (my mistake on not reading)
Full Wipe
Flashed vincom's Superlite CM 10.2
Realized that my internal storage dropped to 1.97GB
Assumed it was a ROM issue
Went back to CM 10.2
Internal Storage still at 1.97GB
I've read numerous posts on this topic and people claim that the 1.97GB is for reserved for apps which confuses me because before this issue, I was installing apps just fine on the 11.26GB internal.
Any help would be really appreciated!

running my slcm10.2 v6.0, this is mine with quite a few apps installed, some to the system partition but most to the data partition. internal is not your int. sdcard as seen in pic from titu as int sdcard is seen as media in titu, what do u get when running titu

vincom said:
running my slcm10.2 v6.0, this is mine with quite a few apps installed, some to the system partition but most to the data partition. internal is not your int. sdcard as seen in pic from titu as int sdcard is seen as media in titu, what do u get when running titu
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Here is mine. Still on official cm 10.2

Is that a clean full wipe install and did u install any apps
Posted w/xda app w/ i727R
MY STICKIES
| ROMS | KERNELS | FIRMWARE | RADIOS | HOWTO'S | GUIDES | INFo |
NEWB GUIDES TO: RESTORE TO STOCK | USE ODIN | INSTALL CWM | ROOT |

vincom said:
Is that a clean full wipe install and did u install any apps
Posted w/xda app w/ i727R
MY STICKIES
| ROMS | KERNELS | FIRMWARE | RADIOS | HOWTO'S | GUIDES | INFo |
NEWB GUIDES TO: RESTORE TO STOCK | USE ODIN | INSTALL CWM | ROOT |
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Yes, using twrp 2.6.3.0, here's what I did:
Wipe>>swiped to factory reset>>Advance wipe>>checked dalvik, data, system, cache>>swiped to wipe all those>>flashed ROM>>reboot to test your ROM>>reboot to recovery>>flash gapps>>reboot
I have less than 10 apps installed atm. Can't install any more or it'd tell me there was insufficient storage.

Here are some pictures.
Did my partitions get messed up or do cm 10.2 ROMs purposely limit users to 2GB internal?
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ckfmunoz said:
Here are some pictures.
Did my partitions get messed up or do cm 10.2 ROMs purposely limit users to 2GB internal?
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mine shows 384mb used on my slrom with a bunch of apps installed, is the pic on a clean install or you dl'ed or let google restore your previous apps

vincom said:
mine shows 384mb used on my slrom with a bunch of apps installed, is the pic on a clean install or you dl'ed or let google restore your previous apps
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Wait, so yours also shows a maximum internal storage of 2GB?
I honestly can't remember if I let Google restore my apps or not.
I will reflash Superlite cm 10.2 tonight and let you know ASAP.
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ckfmunoz said:
Wait, so yours also shows a maximum internal storage of 2GB?
I honestly can't remember if I let Google restore my apps or not.
I will reflash Superlite cm 10.2 tonight and let you know ASAP.
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yes its 2gig internal memory, its not the internal sdcard which is 8gig, 2gigs should be plenty enough as its where the apps get installed from play or from external sources, a factory reset wipes the internal 2gig memory.
i could be wrong on this, anyone be free to correct me, no time to check my theory
edit: factory reset doesnt totally wipe the int 2gig mem but will wipe apps(not system apps of course) and user info that are stored on the int mem

vincom said:
mine shows 384mb used on my slrom with a bunch of apps installed, is the pic on a clean install or you dl'ed or let google restore your previous apps
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By the way, are you on the SL gapps or the full?

ckfmunoz said:
By the way, are you on the SL gapps or the full?
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sl

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Gotcha.
I just finished reflashing superlite cm10.2. Flashed full gapps afterwards.
Upon rebooting and letting it settle, I made sure that Google would NOT restore any apps/data from previous backups.
I started off with <90mb used internal storage.
Then Google stuff started updating and installing by itself. This consisted of:
8.38mb Gmail
24.15mb Google Play Services
10.71mb Google Play Store
38.52mb Google Search
17.03mb Google Text-to-speech
42.81mb Google+
After that my total internal storage used was 202mb (still haven't downloaded any apps at all).
I'm guessing this extra stuff is all from flashing the full gapps instead of the sl.
Would it be a bad idea to restore apps from TiBu? I have a feeling I'd clutter my 2GB internal storage again if I did but correct me if I'm wrong.

UPDATE**
Clean installed ~25 of my most used apps from the Play Store, ended up with just under 600mb of internal being used.
I am okay with this.
Flashed these apps from your BYO list since I actually use these:
-Calculator
-Calendar
-Desk Alarm Clock
-Email&Exchange
Rebooted.
Checked Internal storage and it jumped from <600mb all the way to 1.3gb being used.
What just happened?
I have a hard time believing that those 4 tiny apps could have added an extra 700mb to my internal storage.

You're right it's like from your 25 app data builds up.
Edit: please note the app itself has a size and then the apps data.
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ckfmunoz said:
UPDATE**
Clean installed ~25 of my most used apps from the Play Store, ended up with just under 600mb of internal being used.
I am okay with this.
Flashed these apps from your BYO list since I actually use these:
-Calculator
-Calendar
-Desk Alarm Clock
-Email&Exchange
Rebooted.
Checked Internal storage and it jumped from <600mb all the way to 1.3gb being used.
What just happened?
I have a hard time believing that those 4 tiny apps could have added an extra 700mb to my internal storage.
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weird, i have about 45 apps in my drawer w/only 385mb used, try clearing the caches from recovery.
if using slgapps do the byo apps one at a time and see how much memory it consumes.
if thats normal then install your other 25 apps one at a time and check memory use after each install.
ts can be a pia but its the only way to pinpoint the problem

vincom said:
weird, i have about 45 apps in my drawer w/only 385mb used, try clearing the caches from recovery.
if using slgapps do the byo apps one at a time and see how much memory it consumes.
if thats normal then install your other 25 apps one at a time and check memory use after each install.
ts can be a pia but its the only way to pinpoint the problem
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Alright I'll give that a try. It'll be tedious but it's bugging me so much I have no choice.
I'll keep you updated.
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ckfmunoz said:
Alright I'll give that a try. It'll be tedious but it's bugging me so much I have no choice.
I'll keep you updated.
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Just wondering what is your progress.
I am running through the exact same problem and it pisses me off so much. I moved all moveable apps to external storage but this does not seem to help. Right now I have a message telling me you are running out space and I have no way to solve this problem.
How do you access the internal storage partition. I am able to access device's root but I can pinpoint to where exactly is the partition!
Does anyone have long time solution aside from wipe and re-flash ,,, as I have done that several times in the past few months and it did nothing to help.

Don't know if it will apply in your case but I found that my file explorer had a recycle bin that was taking up 4GB of my internal sd and took a bit of looking to find as I didn't use it for app removal and didn't realize it was on.
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[Q] What is using my Storage?

Hello,
recently i updated to 4.4.4 and ever since my internal storage seems to be all used up by idk what.
Maybe someone has an idea what#s using all of that and how to fix it.
i sadly can't add a screenshot so i'm just gonna type it out.
Total Space: 5.52GB
Available: 0.89GB
Apps: 0.97GB
Pics: 337MB
Downloads: 43MB
everything else is even lower.
Best regards,
ischju

Clockworkmod backup?
/storage/emulated/0/clockworkmod/backup/​

lost101 said:
Clockworkmod backup?
/storage/emulated/0/clockworkmod/backup/​
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thank you, i had 2 old cwm backups still lying around. just kept the most recent one i made after updating to 4.4.4. guess that should be fine.
Got almost 3GB free now. You are my hero!
Enjoy your weekend!

Android Lollipop - not recognizing all the storage and some app icons not loading.

So yesterday I installed android 5.0 and I've had a few bugs. The first bug i noticed is that most of the system app icons are missing and I can't get them to show up. The second issue is that when I go to "Storage" I'm getting 12GB total space. This isn't right because I have a 32GB Nexus 5!
I've rebooted, reinstalled, factory wiped, etc. Nothing fixes the issues. Any suggestions?

UPDATE: Factory reset fixed the storage bug.

Omnom the Fluffy Dinosaur said:
UPDATE: Factory reset fixed the storage bug.
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How much storage is it showing now?
Mine says total available storage of 27.6GB
I think i remember seeing that on KK at 31.2 GB

What to do Samsung Galaxy S2 Device memory full tried #9900# code not working

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I have an unrooted Samsung Galaxy S2 phone which keeps having a message pop up saying Storage Space Running Out. I have checked the apps I have on the internal Device Memory and as you can see in the screenshots attached below I haven't got many apps installed on the phone now (as I progressively had to delete more and more of them off here due to this problem) so it's not an app problem (for the amount of apps I have installed I should at minimum have 1 Gb and more likely 1.5 Gb of space). I believe due to what I have researched that it is a problem with log files taking up room but to fix it I tried calling the code #9900# and it came up with the message on my phone: Connection problem or invalid MMI code. I don't know where to go from here to free up more space in the device storage part of my phone. (note I have space on the usb/sd section and on my external sd card so that's not a problem only the device storage section)

kynan01 said:
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I have an unrooted Samsung Galaxy S2 phone which keeps having a message pop up saying Storage Space Running Out. I have checked the apps I have on the internal Device Memory and as you can see in the screenshots attached below I haven't got many apps installed on the phone now (as I progressively had to delete more and more of them off here due to this problem) so it's not an app problem (for the amount of apps I have installed I should at minimum have 1 Gb and more likely 1.5 Gb of space). I believe due to what I have researched that it is a problem with log files taking up room but to fix it I tried calling the code #9900# and it came up with the message on my phone: Connection problem or invalid MMI code. I don't know where to go from here to free up more space in the device storage part of my phone. (note I have space on the usb/sd section and on my external sd card so that's not a problem only the device storage section)
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It's probably due to apps being updated, or maybe you've got app data hanging around from apps you've uninstalled, look in your Android folder.
Also, if your S2 is running 4.1.2 like most other S2's then it's also because you have a limited data partition, you can re-PIT or repartition your internal storage to give more space to data and/or system partition.
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Droidriven said:
It's probably due to apps being updated, or maybe you've got app data hanging around from apps you've uninstalled, look in your Android folder.
Also, if your S2 is running 4.1.2 like most other S2's then it's also because you have a limited data partition, you can re-PIT or repartition your internal storage to give more space to data and/or system partition.
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Hi thanks for the reply Droidriven. Yes I do believe it could be the app data from previously installed apps but like the log data files I don't know if I can or how to access it without rooting my phone. I know how to delete the data and cache of apps I still have on there (and tried that already) but if there is any remaining from previous apps I'm not sure how to go about that. Also, yes you are right in that my S2 is running 4.1.2 and that it has a limited partition (2GB Device Memory vs 11.50GB USB/internal SD storage). How do you " re-PIT or repartition your internal storage to give more space" and is there any problems that can come from doing this? Could the log files be taking up too much space?

kynan01 said:
Hi thanks for the reply Droidriven. Yes I do believe it could be the app data from previously installed apps but like the log data files I don't know if I can or how to access it without rooting my phone. I know how to delete the data and cache of apps I still have on there (and tried that already) but if there is any remaining from previous apps I'm not sure how to go about that. Also, yes you are right in that my S2 is running 4.1.2 and that it has a limited partition (2GB Device Memory vs 11.50GB USB/internal SD storage). How do you " re-PIT or repartition your internal storage to give more space" and is there any problems that can come from doing this? Could the log files be taking up too much space?
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What is your model number?
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droidriven said:
what is your model number?
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gt - 19100t

kynan01 said:
gt - 19100t
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This thread liked below is about the best place for help with S2.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/qa-friendly-qa-thread-t1648351
As for the re-PIT, try starting in the thread linked below, the developer there has created a way to repartition the i9100, he has adapted it to work on other models of i9100 and other models of S2, he may have adapted it or can adapt it for your i9100t.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/orig-development/tool-lanchon-repit-data-sparing-t3311747
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