Ive recently brought a moto g 2015 less than a week ago and have installed some apps, when i originally did this there was over 1.0gb of free internal space left. Over the week the space has shrunk to 500mb and is now notifiitying me that the internal storage is low (i cleared the cache out 3 hours ago and it was 540mb free now its 500mb so that 40mb in a couple of hours?!).
Ive cleared the cache, ive not installed any extra apps and there hasnt been any significant app upgrades that would use this space, also deleted all content from whatsapp etc and looked in the misc part of the storage and theres nothing using the space.
Has anyone else come across this or have any idea whats using the space up?
Cheers
rich0898 said:
Ive recently brought a moto g 2015 less than a week ago and have installed some apps, when i originally did this there was over 1.0gb of free internal space left. Over the week the space has shrunk to 500mb and is now notifiitying me that the internal storage is low (i cleared the cache out 3 hours ago and it was 540mb free now its 500mb so that 40mb in a couple of hours?!).
Ive cleared the cache, ive not installed any extra apps and there hasnt been any significant app upgrades that would use this space, also deleted all content from whatsapp etc and looked in the misc part of the storage and theres nothing using the space.
Has anyone else come across this or have any idea whats using the space up?
Cheers
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Alot of apps/games use alot of data storage so that might be your issue and if your storing stuff from downloading like music and photos etc that will take up space as well
Hi thanks for the reply! I've got all my music and pictures stored on an sdcard and haven't downloaded any on this phone or taken any pictures. I'm just not sure what as suddenly used up all this storage that I can't now use in the space of a couple of hours without me doing anything on the phone or any apps updating
I had that to on a old phone, i think its your google play services.
my tip is to look in your apps and see what apps use to much space, than try to delete it
Probably other apps accumulating stored data, as was mentioned above. Chrome will grow over time, Google drive, Facebook etc.
Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk
You can move apps to the SD also. OP doesn't say they did that, but that can be done. Just go to settings, Apps, and then "ON SD CARD" tab. Any apps that can be moved will show there. Note that not 100% of the apps info can be moved, but most of it can. for example if you have an app that is 100MB, and move it, you will still have about 20MB on internal. Still better than the full 100MB.
Thanks for all the suggestions, ive tried them all and got a lot of free space back. Also found that google drive had 500mb of data which ive deleted!
Related
I have a THL W100 that worked perfectly, but yesterday, after updating some apps, I noticed a huge battery drain and data hog. Today, I found Yahoo Weather as the culprit, so I simply uninstalled it this morning, and left the phone on my desk for a few hours. After uninstalling Yahoo Weather, it freed around 30mb and I had around 230mb total of internal memory available. I have not installed any new app in months (not counting updates, of course).
After 3 or 4 hours, I picked the phone again just to find out that there was a warning telling me it was out of internal memory. I went to the installed apps screen just to find that it reported only 20mb free! I ordered apps by size and everything seemed correct, but I wiped all caches and most of application data too anyway.
In the storage screen, it reports that of the 920mb of internal memory, 520 are used by apps, 5 by cache. The usage graph seems correct, but the phone reports only 60mb free after clearing of all caches, so there's nearly 400mb missing!
I tried to reeboot the phone, and looked around with x-plore, but I can't find the culprit... any idea where has my memory gone?
Thanks!
EDIT: I rooted the phone with framaroot and used "storage analyser" on the /data partition to see which files were eating my space. There were a lot of enormous log files at "/data/log_other_mode" created at the same time I uninstalled Yahoo Weather which ate nearly 250mb. I deleted them and everything is back to normal.
log_other_mode
hi,
i have a lenovo s750 with etotalk rom. i periodically delete all its content of the folder data\log_other_mode. it gets to 400 mb in about 10 days for me.
i found that a permanent solution would be to recompile the kernel....(not for me ).
i also found a way around for it: make the folder read-only...this will prevent the logger to write...
i would like to write these considerations in this post but i'm not allowed: is there any way to send a private message to the author of the discussion?
thanks
Couple days ago i have bought LG L90, its a great phone, but i encountered storage issue.
Ive cleaned cache, deleted unused apps. At least warning is gone, but i still cannot install apps over 20 mb because i get that message.
The worst is, there is free space, 400MB, why i cannot use it? Could anyone explain this to me ?
Previously i had Huawei y300 and same message was appearing when i was getting ~100mb space left.
Is there any way/solution to get remaining space working without having to root the phone?
newestuser said:
Couple days ago i have bought LG L90, its a great phone, but i encountered storage issue.
Ive cleaned cache, deleted unused apps. At least warning is gone, but i still cannot install apps over 20 mb because i get that message.
The worst is, there is free space, 400MB, why i cannot use it? Could anyone explain this to me ?
Previously i had Huawei y300 and same message was appearing when i was getting ~100mb space left.
Is there any way/solution to get remaining space working without having to root the phone?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
400MB free space doesn't necessarily mean that 400MB are free in the partition allocated to applications.
Your L90 should be running KitKat, so moving apps to SD won't be like it could have been with a JB version. But some apps might still be able to be moved to SD. Go through your apps (via Application Manager) and see what you can move to SD.
Planterz said:
400MB free space doesn't necessarily mean that 400MB are free in the partition allocated to applications.
Your L90 should be running KitKat, so moving apps to SD won't be like it could have been with a JB version. But some apps might still be able to be moved to SD. Go through your apps (via Application Manager) and see what you can move to SD.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thanks, did that already, not much of a change...
What do you mean that moving apps to SD isnt on Kitkat like it was on JB?
I have been using my S7 for about two months with no problem. It has a 32GB internal capacity and I have used about 14GB of it. Since two days ago, the 14GB has been ballooning to 32GB (with 0KB free!) for no reason at all. After awhile (any time from minutes to hours), the 32GB goes back to the original 14GB. I have seen with my own eyes the space occupied increasing (about 100-300MB each time) by refreshing in and out of Settings > Storage till it finally hits the cap. I have also located the increase to specifically the app storage but none of the apps show a significant increase when I look at them individually. The largest app is Facebook which hovers around 370 to 390MB (it always has been so).
I have deleted many redundant images and videos; cleared app caches; tried *#9900# to delete dump; used CCleaner; moved apps to external storage; nothing has worked so far. I have come to point where I cannot even sync my emails, receive SMSes or even open my photo gallery. It is incredibly frustrating.
Is there any way to solve this?
Thozies said:
I have been using my S7 for about two months with no problem. It has a 32GB internal capacity and I have used about 14GB of it. Since two days ago, the 14GB has been ballooning to 32GB (with 0KB free!) for no reason at all. After awhile (any time from minutes to hours), the 32GB goes back to the original 14GB. I have seen with my own eyes the space occupied increasing (about 100-300MB each time) by refreshing in and out of Settings > Storage till it finally hits the cap. I have also located the increase to specifically the app storage but none of the apps show a significant increase when I look at them individually. The largest app is Facebook which hovers around 370 to 390MB (it always has been so).
I have deleted many redundant images and videos; cleared app caches; tried *#9900# to delete dump; used CCleaner; moved apps to external storage; nothing has worked so far. I have come to point where I cannot even sync my emails, receive SMSes or even open my photo gallery. It is incredibly frustrating.
Is there any way to solve this?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I suggest you to do a factory reset and then install your applications again if nothing else works.
I am sure an app is causing the problem .
what application have you installed during the last 2 days?
have you made another change in the system?did you start downloading a very big file check your downloads to be sure of you find pending files. You can also check dropbox or other such apps .maybe you accidentally started creating a backup-restore of your files fotos or videos
I've had my z5 compact for a year now and it has been a solid phone. For the past week or two, however, the storage on the device has been reaching its capacity.
All of my photos and other media have been moved to the SD Card, along with most apps that are able to be transferred. The problem I'm having is that the apps take up way too much storage space.
I'm baffled by why this has been happening. I did recently update my phone's firmware (to 6.0.1). However, the storage taken up by system is only 9.42gb while apps is at 22.85gb. cached data is only a few megabytes. I have constantly been clearing app cached data.
Admittedly, Final Fantasy IX is installed, but on the SD Card. 2nd place to largest amount of space is Google Play Services at 357MB (obviously on the device). I have 5 pages of apps (20 apps per page, 96 apps total), so I feel like I'm not going overboard on them. And only recently have I needed to remove apps to be able to update some. I used to have way more apps installed and have had to completely remove some.
What else can be done? It seems like even when I free up space taken up by the apps, it's quickly filled up again. I'm currently at 31.50GB of 32GB full.
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?