hi guys,
i bought this new one phone and i am very disappointed about a strange issue here :
my phone is supposed to have 8GB INTERNAL STORAGE and 768 MB RAM but mine has (from system info) 4 GB INTERNAL STORAGE and 498 MB RAM, also on the box is written 8GB.
The firmware is up to date with Gingerbread 2.3.6 (probably updated from the seller) and i can't find anything about this issue on the net or about a new limited S advance like this.
I wrote also to samsumg and the seller but no response until now.
Also Samsung Kies detect internal storage as 4 GB .
Is it possible ?? Any advice ??
Thank you so much.
PDA I9070XXLD1
PHONE I9070XXLD1
CSC I9070OXFLC2
COA
build info : Sun Apr 1 19:21:57 KST 2012
SSN I9070GSMH
FCC ID A3LGTI9070
System, system, system
Data is taken up by system apps, and some RAM is reserved for system processes
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gagdude said:
System, system, system
Data is taken up by system apps, and some RAM is reserved for system processes
Sent from my MB508 using xda premium
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Thanks for the response,
so you mean that a part of ram is system reserved (and this is reasonable) but if the system take also 50 % of the declared storage seems to be very strange.
Considering that i have 4 GB and 2 GB ROM where is the rest ?
I would like to hear another S advance owner.
So i have in real life 7,8 GB - 1.95 GB ROM is 5.9 GB remaining storage but i have only 3.9 GB effective mass storage, i can't find the other two.
Thanks again for your time.
Bye
roberto1212 said:
Thanks for the response,
so you mean that a part of ram is system reserved (and this is reasonable) but if the system take also 50 % of the declared storage seems to be very strange.
Considering that i have 4 GB and 2 GB ROM where is the rest ?
I would like to hear another S advance owner.
So i have in real life 7,8 GB - 1.95 GB ROM is 5.9 GB remaining storage but i have only 3.9 GB effective mass storage, i can't find the other two.
Thanks again for your time.
Bye
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Ok, let's say that i figured it out as follows :
USB mass storage 4 GB - 3.91 GB real
ROM memory 2 GB - 1.95 GB real
SYSTEM/USER storage 2 GB - 1.95 GB real
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TOTAL 8 GB - 7.81 GB real
so 8000 MB / 1024 = 7.81 GB
it is like buying a car with 8 seats but 2 can't be accessed due to engine space, 2 seats are only for the owner and his wife and the remaining seats are for the rest of the family. :laugh:
The producers make always things more complex.
Thank you.
samsung s advaced
roberto1212 said:
Thanks for the response,
so you mean that a part of ram is system reserved (and this is reasonable) but if the system take also 50 % of the declared storage seems to be very strange.
Considering that i have 4 GB and 2 GB ROM where is the rest ?
I would like to hear another S advance owner.
So i have in real life 7,8 GB - 1.95 GB ROM is 5.9 GB remaining storage but i have only 3.9 GB effective mass storage, i can't find the other two.
Thanks again for your time.
Bye
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yesterday brought the s advaced its internal memory is showing 3.8 gb and in its phone cover its 8 gb . i went to the store to ask and i got a reply that rest is system mem so u cant see it.
Internal memory showing only 3.94 gb instead of 11.5 gb.
irvin calicut said:
yesterday brought the s advaced its internal memory is showing 3.8 gb and in its phone cover its 8 gb . i went to the store to ask and i got a reply that rest is system mem so u cant see it.
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Hi....my samsung galaxy s advance showing 4 gb instead of 11.5 gb.....after i root and then reinstall the firmware.....later it shows the 11.5 gb but now it showing only 4 gb.....can u suggest any method.
Memory internal storage repartition
irvin calicut said:
yesterday brought the s advaced its internal memory is showing 3.8 gb and in its phone cover its 8 gb . i went to the store to ask and i got a reply that rest is system mem so u cant see it.
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As above:
for a galaxy s advance of 8gb
USB mass storage 4 GB - 3.91 GB real
ROM memory 2 GB - 1.95 GB real
SYSTEM/USER storage 2 GB - 1.95 GB real
TOTAL 8 GB - 7.81 GB real
because 8000 MB / 1024 = 7.81 GB
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for a galaxy s advance of 16gb i figured it out as follow
USB mass storage 12 GB/1048 - 11.45 Gb real (here it might shows 11.5 Gb)
ROM memory 2 GB - 1.90 GB real
SYSTEM/USER storage 2 GB - 1.90 GB real
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TOTAL 16 GB - 15.26 GB real
Notice that i divided the first galaxy with 1024 bit and the second with 1048 bit, the reason is that each producer use a different method of calculation with a considerable difference from storage to storage.
Also consider that the GingerBread system has its internal memory divided as system/user partition and a usb mass storage partition.
I know that if you try a ICSandwich system this method is no longer used so you will have only one partition instead of two
Usb memory show 4 GB after format
I Purchase samsung galaxy advance 2 week ago.
my Samsung GT-i9070 have 16 GB internal space. when i purchase it shows 11.5 as usb storage. and after format it shows only 3.91 GB in Usb storage. plz help me out....:crying:
Low internal memory
brain.teaser said:
I Purchase samsung galaxy advance 2 week ago.
my Samsung GT-i9070 have 16 GB internal space. when i purchase it shows 11.5 as usb storage. and after format it shows only 3.91 GB in Usb storage. plz help me out....:crying:
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same problem wid me....
brain.teaser said:
I Purchase samsung galaxy advance 2 week ago.
my Samsung GT-i9070 have 16 GB internal space. when i purchase it shows 11.5 as usb storage. and after format it shows only 3.91 GB in Usb storage. plz help me out....:crying:
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please go to Settings - Applications - Manage applications and tell me how much memory is displayed under every tab (Downloads/All/SdStorage/active) and after this go to Info and tell me what is there (Storage Memory / System Memory).
RAM?
I have the same problem.
What about RAM? Where is the rest of it? I have only 515 RAM? See the attached picture.
And these two are the same thing.
ROM memory 2 GB - 1.95 GB real
SYSTEM/USER storage 2 GB - 1.95 GB real
Everything is ok
rlarry said:
I have the same problem.
What about RAM? Where is the rest of it? I have only 515 RAM? See the attached picture.
And these two are the same thing.
ROM memory 2 GB - 1.95 GB real
SYSTEM/USER storage 2 GB - 1.95 GB real
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Ok ! the RAM is only 512 Mb because the rest is taken as shared memory for the system like processor and/or graphic or system cache.
In the attached pictures notice that the TAB "On SD card" means the internal storage of the phone and not the external storage card.
For the external storage card you must consider the other menu under settings->memory at "Storage" and also there is displayed the "USB Storage" that is the same data of "On SD card".
The misleading here is that they refer to the same data with two different names "On SD card" and "USB storage", i dont't know why but that's it.
Pratically you have to sum :
ROM memory 2 GB - 1.95 GB real (the ROM space is not displayed anywhere in the settings)
SYSTEM/USER storage 2 GB - 1.95 GB real (system storage)
USB mass storage 4 GB - 3.91 GB real (USB storage or On SD card) thi may change on the 16 GB version
After all of this there is the real EXternal SD card if you buy one.
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roberto1212 said:
Ok, let's say that i figured it out as follows :
USB mass storage 4 GB - 3.91 GB real
ROM memory 2 GB - 1.95 GB real
SYSTEM/USER storage 2 GB - 1.95 GB real
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TOTAL 8 GB - 7.81 GB real
so 8000 MB / 1024 = 7.81 GB
it is like buying a car with 8 seats but 2 can't be accessed due to engine space, 2 seats are only for the owner and his wife and the remaining seats are for the rest of the family. :laugh:
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It's more like the car ad says "seats 3 in the rear". Your family members each weigh 600 pounds, and only 2 of them can fit in the back seat.
Drive and manufacturers specify drives in gB (g = 1 billion) because the number is larger. The rest of the industry uses GB (G = 1024 * 1024 * 1024) because computers use powers of 2. Some memory manufacturers use something in between, a unit that's the number of bytes divided by 1024.
The actual number of bytes available is the same, they just manipulate the units to make the number larger. (It's like telling you I'm giving you 1,000 "Currency Units" instead of 10 "currency units" - where "Currency Unit" = penny and "currency unit" = dollar. It's the same amount of money in either case.)
BTW, it's 8/(1.024 * 1.024 * 1.024) to go from 8gB to 7.45GB.
USB Mass Storage settings
Hi,
how do i mount USB Storage on a linux machine, the phone keeps connecting with MTP ... i have enabled USB Debugging mode, but to no avail.
it mounts as a camera with 3.3GB space.
Samsung Galaxy S Advance, 16GB, kernel 2.6.35.7-1194396,Baseband - I9070DDLI1
help!
Galaxy s Adv - 16GB - internal memory
patlip said:
same problem wid me....
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Please tell me how the memory is divided in your phone (16GB)
Internal memory = ?
USB memory = ?
I need to install the following app on a Galaxy S advance - 16GB.
Wiki encyclopedia - Offline (needs 3.6 GB) internal memory to install.
will it get downloaded (3.6gb) to internal memory ?
plss help...
Look fella!
When my s advance was gingerbread(2.3.6) it showed me 450 to 500 somethin' mb ram but after updating it to jellybean(4.1.2) I got 670 mb ram...... There is nothing like limited s advance.
Regarding the storage space...
I have a 16 gb s advance and it shows 11.5 gb of storage space..rest is its 1.97 gb rom and remaining is used up by touchwiz(samsung's launcher)
and the system...Therefore the 8 gb model of s advance will show to around 4 gb of internal memory..
I am happy with my phone and i am currently using cyanogenmod 10.1 which makes it BEAST!!!!!!
Help needed
bro i am facing the same problem as u faced,i also rooted and also upgraded the firmware using odin but it is showing now my internal memory as 3.9 gb instead of 11.5 gb .so if u had fixed the problem for ur device plzzz help me for fixing it for mine plzzzzz
zubairamd said:
Look fella!
When my s advance was gingerbread(2.3.6) it showed me 450 to 500 somethin' mb ram but after updating it to jellybean(4.1.2) I got 670 mb ram...... There is nothing like limited s advance.
Regarding the storage space...
I have a 16 gb s advance and it shows 11.5 gb of storage space..rest is its 1.97 gb rom and remaining is used up by touchwiz(samsung's launcher)
and the system...Therefore the 8 gb model of s advance will show to around 4 gb of internal memory..
I am happy with my phone and i am currently using cyanogenmod 10.1 which makes it BEAST!!!!!!
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Me too. How to fix it?
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PraDROID said:
Please tell me how the memory is divided in your phone (16GB)
Internal memory = ?
USB memory = ?
I need to install the following app on a Galaxy S advance - 16GB.
Wiki encyclopedia - Offline (needs 3.6 GB) internal memory to install.
will it get downloaded (3.6gb) to internal memory ?
plss help...
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me too, how to fix it
Hi folks at XDA!
My name is Erich And I have a N7000 (first gen Galaxy Note).
I have it rooted and although it is a 16GB device, it is showing just 10.9 GB of internal memory when I plug it to the PC via USB.
But this is not the major problem. The major problem is that it is displaying full memory (2GB total) even after a factory reset and installing a just the super optimizer app.
I´ve tried to use odin with the 16GB .PIT file but it didn´t helped.
I´ve tried to format it to ext 4 with Phil-z CWM and I can´t boot it past CWM anymore. Later today, I´ll try to install the original ROM file from sammobile.
Can someone please help me mainly with the memory problem?
Thanks!
Does anyone have any ideas please?
ebeall said:
Does anyone have any ideas please?
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go into settings > storage > normally you will get Internal phone storage at about 2 GB and Internal SD card at about 13.43 GB ( when it is having a 16 GB embedded SD card)
your 16 GB embedded SD card has many hidden partitions, so usable storage space will be reduced.
what you can do is copy all the contnts of your SD card to your PC and than format it by settings > storage> format to get back full space.
to learn more about storage look at My Storage ( link below)
Check this out! Links to useful Guides and " Banned " Documentaries
Thanks man! This is what I get when I do as you told:
device memory
- total space: 1.97 GB
- apps: 402 MB
- Available space: 1.56 GB
USB Storage
- Total Space 11.08 GB
- Apps: 86.12 MB
- Images, videos: 1.53 MB
- Audio: 32 KB
- Other Files: 172 MB
- Available Space: 10.88 GB
Keep in mind that I did a factory reset this weekend and formated everything via PhilZ CWM.
The real problem with all this is that the avaiable ROM goes full with just few apps like Waze, WhatsApp, gApps and such. I used to install lots of apps with no problems, but now this space goes up real fast.
Anyway, I will play with it again after the format/ factory reset.
Thanks for the info. I´ll try to update the info as it goes.
And it happened again.
It was ok yesterday, with 1.5 GB free yesterday and today it is full. The last thing I've installed was any.do and any.do Cal. But those were about 5 days ago.
All the movable Apps are in the external SD
All pictures were deleted too.
All I've intalled is:
- Super optimizer;
- tinder
- swift key
- skype
- waze
- WhatsApp
Root apps:
- root checker
- Super User
- Super SU
- PhilZ CWM
So, again I ask again the good people at XDA:
Does anyone have any Idea of what's happening?
thanks in advance
I am still having this problem.
I can´t update any app because the ROM isn´t enough for the action. Can someone please help me?
What ROM are you using?, and also which recovery do you have?
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Hi
I have standard problem with internal storage in Xperia L. (Applications = 566 MB + Free space = 161 MB != 1,57 GB)
Please tell me what i should do to fix it. Is enough to reflash system? If yes how to do it?
wait for fix-notice dude
when you open the storage setting or app setting, the remaining space will be +-160MB
wait until changed
As you can see in the screenshots below ~1,3gb of internal storage are missing. ( 0.53 GB free + 2.89 GB apps + 0.06 GB the rest of things = 3.48 GB. Total space 4.74 GB - 3.48 GB = 1.26 GB missing.)
If you look closely there is an anomaly. In list the Miscellaneous file takes only 26.69 mb internal storage but in the graphic look like they are taking much more. I guess there is the missing internal storage.
I am full stock with the latest firmware installed. I have the 4,7 inch model.
I tried to factory reset and wipe cache. At first was ok, but after i remove the bloatware and install my apps same results.
I use cleanmaster,powercleaner but with no result.
I looked up in every folder in internal storage but i did not find anything that can take this space.
What can i do without root? I don't wanna root right now.
tudy88 said:
As you can see in the screenshots below ~1,3gb of internal storage are missing. ( 0.53 GB free + 2.89 GB apps + 0.06 GB the rest of things = 3.48 GB. Total space 4.74 GB - 3.48 GB = 1.26 GB missing.)
If you look closely there is an anomaly. In list the Miscellaneous file takes only 26.69 mb internal storage but in the graphic look like they are taking much more. I guess there is the missing internal storage.
I am full stock with the latest firmware installed. I have the 4,7 inch model.
I tried to factory reset and wipe cache. At first was ok, but after i remove the bloatware and install my apps same results.
I use cleanmaster,powercleaner but with no result.
I looked up in every folder in internal storage but i did not find anything that can take this space.
What can i do without root? I don't wanna root right now.
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i am having the same issue, dont know what to do:S
I'm gonna guess the both of you are running the "8"gb versions? It's possible you may have an actual 16gb nand chip, just partitioned to 8.
If you are, then I would highly advise you repartition the memory and unlock the 16gb. I also think it has been mentioned somewhere that there is some 1.+gb backup file or something or other that appears to be useless. I've seen some users at the russian site 4pda complaining of the same issue.
The bottom line is you're going to have to root to fix the issue. Re-flashing the software via the mobile update app will just lead you to the same situation.
There is a flashable zip in the repartition thread in the dev section, that makes it pretty painless through TWRP. It will check to see what actual size nand chip is present.
correction: i have a 16 GB 5.5"
Hi, I'm french and sorry for spelling.
Same concern on Idol 3 (5.5) 16Gb
Parameter> Storage
(Miscellaneous) different between the graphic and its size indicated
Coordialement.
I have the same problem, what is the solution for this?
Solution here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/idol-3/help/space-device-t3276090#post64473286
I have a Samsung Galaxy Express 3. When I try to go to the Gallery it says:
Unable to open app
There is not enough storage space to open Gallery. Go to My Files, then delete some files.
When I click the link to My Files and from Storage Usage at the bottom it says:
Total: 7.75 GB / 127 GB
Device storage: 7.63 GB / 8.00 GB
SD card: 114 MB / 119 GB
under that it says:
Images : 37.16 MB Videos : 0.00 B Audio : 0.00 B Documents : 0.00 B Others : 7.71 GB
I click OK and go back to Device storage:
Download, DCIM, Playlists, Pictures, Movies, Ringtones, Podcasts, Notifications, Music, Alarms, Samsung - all say No files
Android > data - there are a number of things in there. Should I try to delete them?
then I take this route:
Settings > System > Storage > Internal storage 7.63 GB used of 8.00 GB
Used space 3.33 GB > Apps 3.33 GB
Google play music 2.41 GB of Internal storage used
Google Play services 271 MB of Internal storage used
Google Play services for Instant Apps 23.33 MB of Internal storage used
Photos 1.29 MB of Internal storage used
Gallery 428 KB of Internal storage used
then I scroll down to Cached data and Delete. Then I go back to the Gallery and try again, and get the same message. Can anyone suggest what else to try? How to find out exactly what is and is not on the SD card? How to move all photos and music to the SD card?
Thank you for any help!
David