Yeah. Haven't found a thread so far, so I'm gonna try my best.
Got the LG G Flex 2 H-955 (16GB Storage, 2GB RAM) about 2 Months ago, and this far it is a great phone besides this little problem I am annoyed with.
There is some sort of memory lack or something, but my internal Storage ist filled with a Folder in the Storage manager under Misc. named System Data, I think you know which one I mean, if you own the Flex 2. 2 Months ago, I think I can remember having it only 2 GB, which was totally fine, but now it has about 5.35 GB, which is very much on such small 16GB Storage.
Additionally I found the Apps-part in the Storage manager being 7.75 GB big, but looking under the installed Apps, I can barely find enough to get over 2 gb, and when I look with my File Explorer (ES Explorer) at /storage/emulated/Android it is about 1.8 GB.
My 360 Antivirus is recommending me daily to clean up my phone, which I do every second or third day, but it helps nothing. Maybe it makes it even worse. I don't know.
Is there any way to get rid of these data without rooting my phone and removing warranty?
Just got a new flex 2 16GB, it came with 5.1.1 pre installed. Straight out of the box it has a 7.30GB 'system data' folder in misc heading in storage!!
This leaves me with less than 7GB free space? This can't be right can it?
Very confused about this too
Same thing here! Can someone explain if this is normal? Thanks
Checking about about with root explorer, I found that the system folder is near 4GB, and the data folder is nearly 3GB. Maybe this is what the system data folder refers too....shrugs
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OK, so I have a 16gb Note.
I know that some of it is used for system files etc, which explains why my laptop is only showing it as having around 12gb of space. Thats fine.
However, It is saying that I only have 7.8gb free, out of 12gb.
This is on a fresh rom install, after a complete user data wipe and cache wipes...
None of the rom files are on the sdcard (I installed from PC using Odin).
So I'm a bit confused... I originally thought "oh its 4gb missing, but thats probably system files" before I realised that it only showed me as having 12gb instead of 16gb...
Unless there are 2 lots of system files, which seems unlikely!
I checked out the folders, cant see anything there, in fact my pc says that theres only about 400mb of stuff on the internal memory. Which means I have around 8gb of data on that card I cant get to...
And that seems rather a lot!
It really doesnt matter much in the long run, as I have a 64gb sd-card to put in it as soon as I get my JB ROM installed properly (having an issue or two there, but its an unrelated matter), but I just wanted to make sure everything was running properly.
Any help would be nice! Thanks
nirurin said:
OK, so I have a 16gb Note.
I know that some of it is used for system files etc, which explains why my laptop is only showing it as having around 12gb of space. Thats fine.
However, It is saying that I only have 7.8gb free, out of 12gb.
This is on a fresh rom install, after a complete user data wipe and cache wipes...
None of the rom files are on the sdcard (I installed from PC using Odin).
So I'm a bit confused... I originally thought "oh its 4gb missing, but thats probably system files" before I realised that it only showed me as having 12gb instead of 16gb...
Unless there are 2 lots of system files, which seems unlikely!
I checked out the folders, cant see anything there, in fact my pc says that theres only about 400mb of stuff on the internal memory. Which means I have around 8gb of data on that card I cant get to...
And that seems rather a lot!
It really doesnt matter much in the long run, as I have a 64gb sd-card to put in it as soon as I get my JB ROM installed properly (having an issue or two there, but its an unrelated matter), but I just wanted to make sure everything was running properly.
Any help would be nice! Thanks
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Anyone with any notion on how I can fix this?
Hi there!
If I root my Nexus S, will it then be possible to see what's going on in the internal storage? My phone is acting rather strangely when it comes to the internal storage. When I delete an app's cache (from Settings/Apps) the indicated space does not get freed up. On the contrary, an equivalent amount of space gets subtracted from the indicated amount of free internal storage! On most occasions when I uninstall an app the space gets freed up. However, recently I had 300 MB available when I installed Chrome browser. That took up about 50 MB, so I had a remaining 250 MB available. I uninstalled it again and now I only have 200 MB free. I often get notifications that there is too little storage space available when updating rather small apps (typically less than 20 MB).
With a rooted phone, will I be able to see what's going on and easily locate and delete redundant files? (Back in the days I felt I had a lot better control and overview over my Pocket PC. With my Android I struggle to make sense of what's going on. Well, not that I´m going back...)
I'm not really asking for a quick solution to the problem because it seems from other discussions that this isn't possible. But I'd like to avoid running into the same problem again after a hard reset, rooting, or ROM change.
Cheers,
Larry
Nexus S I9023 (unrooted)
Jelly Bean 4.1.2
hey Larry,
first of all after you're rooted you can see all of your files and folders from...well..root directory
before doing so i'd try to move apps to SD or from SD depends where the low space is: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Aof9r.png
Hi eytan!
As I said, I'm short of internal storage. I've already moved just about everything possible out of the internal memory. Moving programs out of internal storage does result in more internal storage (as long as there's something left to move). However, this does not explain why my internal memory is disappearing. I ought to have a lot more available internal memory - at least 400 MB.
Yes, that's what rooting does. Maybe I should have elaborated a bit... Will it make sense without extensive knowledge of the Android system. It seems like instead of cache (and certain programs like chrome browser) being deleted they are somehow being copied within the internal storage. I was wondering if I would be able to locate this - find some folder that has grown 50 MB in case of the google chrome uninstallation. Or will all this data be stacked up in some sort of system file that isn't accessible.
- larryvega
Nexus S I9023 (unrooted)
Jelly Bean 4.1.2
well, you can always search your phone by folder size and locate the origin of this.
i guess your best chances are at DATA folder, just be careful and make sure you delete only things your'e sure that are already uninstalled and just have "leftovers"
Okay so this phone has an internal memory that is split into internal storage (2GB) and phone storage (10GBs). I've been going through the memory and trying to clear it out because it always seems full. After freeing up some space it says I have 1.43GBs being used on my phone storage for all my apps, music (which is really just a couple of podcasts consisting of 550MBs), and my gallery only 90 photos. This leaves only 1.6GB free out of 10 on that partition? Where is all this missing space? I completely cleared the app cache and like I said there is no video or music of any kind. I figured the OS was part of the internal storage as well so what could be taking up the other storage?
I forgot exactly how its split up, and I think whether your are ICS, JB or AOSP it gets displayed a bit differently. But I think its 2 GB for apps, 4 GB for the OS, and 10 GB is user accessible storage (basically an SD card, just internal or "virtual"). I don't think the OS takes any of the 10 GB of user accessible storage ("phone storage").
Are you rooted/bootloader unlocked, and have TWRP backups or Titanium Backup data, because both of those take up lots of space on the SD (phone storage).
Do you have any apps, like games, that may have had additional content data downloaded after you started up the app the first time? These can often take up a lot of space on the SD (phone storage) as well. You will often see them in folders specially named after the app or the software company (such as Gameloft). This data is obviously needed to play the game or run the app.
Also take a look and see if you have a LOST.DIR folder. Sometimes corrupted files will get dumped in here, and never deleted until you do it manually. I think I found a couple hundred MB worth of files in here once. Unless you know you have corrupted files that you want to recover (like photos you took), this data is safe to delete.
Also use es file explorer. Go menu -> manager -> sd card analyst it will tell you where your storage is being used
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Also use es file explorer. Go menu -> manager -> sd card analyst it will tell you where your storage is being used
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Great tip. Thanks. I love ES File Explorer, and its my go-to file browser app for the time being. But I don't think I ever knew that feature existed.
Rooted Cricket Stylo - System Data "chunk" ENORMOUS! >6GB on 8GB Stylo!
I have the Cricket version of the LG G Stylo (LG-H634), and the "System Data" chunk has gradually ballooned from under 2GB, to take up now more than 6GB of my total 8GB internal storage! I managed to root the device (thanks to these forums), and have been able to delete enough to increase my available storage from under 300MB to almost 600MB (including uninstalling Facebook, which I'd like to reinstall, once I free up more space). Yet the "System Data" chunk hasn't decreased. If anything, it seems like uninstalling apps has, at times, actually caused "System Data" to INCREASE! I've tried everything I've managed to find in these forums, short of either doing a complete factory reset, or hunting down files individually.
I've used multiple "system cleaning" apps, including several that require root access. I use DiskUsage to view the used space (as much as possible), and have used 2 or 3 different file manager apps, trying to make sense of the folder hierarchy. But I have yet to decidedly figure out which folder(s) are even a part of this "System Data" area, let alone, which ones are taking up so much space. PLEASE, someone help! How do I find out what's clogging up my storage, get rid of it, and keep it from getting SO HUGE again?!?
I'm wondering the same thing and which lg apps I can remove and strip out to make room. My storage manager says there is 4.3GB and it's mostly the pre installed crap I never use.
I've got 10.46 gigs used on this thing, and that's with only a couple of downloaded apps. It's the 8013 variant, and I've had it rooted since the day I bought it. I've installed and uninstalled a couple of ROMS on it since then as well. The problem I'm having is not having any free space for anything anymore. When I go into Root Explorer I've got all these directories pointing to the same files. Root/Sdcard, Root/storage/emulated/0, Root/storage/emulated/legacy, Root/storage/sdcard0.
If I go into settings it says I've got 6.51 gigs of miscellaneous files, but when I open it to see what is there it only shows a couple hundred megs worth.
Back to Root Explorer. ... If I delete a file in one directory. It's gone in all the rest. I think the 0, and legacy folders are for different users. As far as the rest. I'm not sure. So I guess my question is are these all just links to to the same place? And if so, what is taking up so much space on my SD? And Is there a way to re-partition the storage?
Never mind FIXED.
Sorry for wasting space on xda. I decided go into TWRP and format the data. I lost everything, but it wasn't much to begin with. I now have 514.51 megs used, and 11.23 gigs free. I guess there was just a bunch of cap left over from old apps and roms. Thank you.