Dear xda community,
I have noticed a strange behavior of my galaxy S6 32GB. I upgraded through smart switch my S6 from lollipop to marshmallow. That moment I had free around 4GB of storage with all my apps games and files coming from lollipop. I checked all the files and installed apps and the overall occupied space was for example than 20GB (the sum of my free space plus the calculated sum of my apps, games and files). So I said lets go with a hard reset. After I reinstalled everything that I had before hard reset (apps, games and files) I managed to have around 12GB free space. A few days ago Samsung announced through OTA an update for marshmallow which I installed. After the update the free space became again 4GB. I tried to do a wipe cache partition through the stock recovery but it didn't help.
Has anybody noticed the same issue ? How can I delete without root and increase my storage at 10GB before the OTA update ?
My phone is not rooted and is provided by Vodafone Greece.
santong7 said:
Dear xda community,
I have noticed a strange behavior of my galaxy S6 32GB. I upgraded through smart switch my S6 from lollipop to marshmallow. That moment I had free around 4GB of storage with all my apps games and files coming from lollipop. I checked all the files and installed apps and the overall occupied space was for example than 20GB (the sum of my free space plus the calculated sum of my apps, games and files). So I said lets go with a hard reset. After I reinstalled everything that I had before hard reset (apps, games and files) I managed to have around 12GB free space. A few days ago Samsung announced through OTA an update for marshmallow which I installed. After the update the free space became again 4GB. I tried to do a wipe cache partition through the stock recovery but it didn't help.
Has anybody noticed the same issue ? How can I delete without root and increase my storage at 10GB before the OTA update ?
My phone is not rooted and is provided by Vodafone Greece.
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Hi
Searching Sammobile for your device [here] there is one Vodafone Greece Marshmallow Release
Having a backup at hand, proceed an Odin Flash with full wipe.
You may follow these general instructions.
Please, let us know your findings.
Nice regards.
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I have recently upgraded my Unite 2 (4GB) model into Lolipop from service center. But after that my storage became 1.43 GB only. Cannot install some useful apps. Please help. My phone storage is a real concern. Anyhow I want as much as possible storage. :crying: :crying:
Have you tried to clear your cache? If no, download App Cache Cleaner from Google play.
The lollipop update need more space in system than KitKat, so in order to give the /system partition more space other spaces from other partition were deducted and added to /system as far as I know
Skyrocket, rooted, CM10 (older version). Please see attached screenshot showing available memory. Will not update or load new apps. Please reply.
Vincom! You are the king and savior of all skyrocket users. So many thanks for your monumental efforts on our behalf. I would never have had the courage to root my phone without your concise, thorough and voluminous advice. Thank you.
...The best cellphone is the one you have...
Using your file manager go to( /data/log/) you will need to do this as root. In that folder you will probably find a bunch of dump files which are eating up your space. Delete the dump files. I personally changed the permission to read only and never had that problem again
I too am having this problem. I viewed the location suggested using CoolMuster Android Assist program. I only had the trial version son so I'm having to buy the full version to actually delete these dump files. I had only 4 files, but they are rather large. Being a novice at this Android stuff, I have a dumb question. How do you interpret the storage information in the phone settings? I'm seeing that my phone has almost 2 GB of "device" storage, a little over 11.2 GB of "usb" storage and I have a 16 GB SD card. I have moved all possible apps, pictures, videos, etc. to the SD card and phone shows there is almost 10 GB of free usb space. Therefore, I don't understand how I can keep getting these insufficient memory messages when I try to download new apps or even when I try to update existing apps.
use a android 6.x.x rom,
hi i am a newbie and after a lot of fails i managed to unlock and root my nexus 5 with wugfresh nrt and flashed xtrasmooth rom .all this took 3 days to succeed and today all day the numerous and heavy apps of my account is downloading on my phone.but now i see the storage is 16gb instead of 32 which is very serious problem as i have a lot of apps.please tell me a way to restore to original storage size without having to wipe any apps and data from my phone (and do all the same all over again would be a nightmare...)
Hi,
Thanks for using XDA Assist.
AFAIR your issue is fixed now. Please tell me if you need further help.
Hi, I´m owning an Huawei Mediapad T5 with 2GB RAM and 16GB storage capactiy. It´s running on 8.0.0.231 C432.
Unfortunately the Pad is full of apps installed (6.5GB) and with abt. 7GB of firmware I only have 2.5GB left for apps. I´m not able to delete more apps because it tells me these are not deletable.
I wonder if I can install from Huawei the FullOTA firmware which - seems to me - to have abt. 2GB file size only. Does that mean I will have abt. 14 GB space left after installation of thes FullOTA firmware? Or will all the apps be installed atumatically afterwards like Google, Microstof office tools etc:? I dont need much apps on it but I want to be free to install my own apps (some games etc.). Installation on SD Card downst work as all people know.
Or is there another way to keep the system relevant files low in terms of GB storage use?
Thank you!
Brgds
Twistaa
Hi there,
there isn't a solution to this problem. Maybe on rooted device, but as far I know, there is no way to get bootloader unlocking code for MediaPad T5.
There is actually paying 3rd-party service that gives you kirin659 bootloader's unlock code. BUT it requires opening device's backcover.
About Mediapad T5, 2GB ram, 16GB ; It's a pain even when rooted.
About OP, you're just better to use an OTA-MF and not FullOTA-MF.
If FullOTA-MF does not install cause space missing, it won't erase the downloaded FULLOTA-MF (located in superuser folder /data/update/)...
Which would force you to do a factory reset to gain back storage.
oslo83 said:
There is actually paying 3rd-party service that gives you kirin659 bootloader's unlock code. BUT it requires opening device's backcover.
About OP, you're just better to use an OTA-MF and not FullOTA-MF.
If FullOTA-MF does not install cause space missing, it won't erase the downloaded FULLOTA-MF (located in superuser folder /data/update/)...
Which would force you to do a factory reset to gain back storage.
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Many thanks for first replies.
I´ve wiped the cache and reset to factory settings by using the recovery mode (so called hard reset) as per Huawei customer support. After reset of the tablet now I have (all figures abt.):
Firmware:6,5GB
Apps: 1GB
Other: 1,5GB
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totalling to abt. 9,5GB internal storage used after factory reset. This leaves abt. 6.5GB internal storage left. Not very big but 4 GB more than before.... strange...
How about this unlocking of the bootloader? Even if I have unlocked it what would I be able to do with? As I heard theres no custom fw available?
Thanks
when i update operating system i found that problem but i have enough storage space. before update everything worked perfectly
HELP!!
Same issue here after unlocking the bl, rooting and restoring backup (from locked bootloader where RAM expansion was active) through phone cloner in the settings app. Not sure what created the issue. Obviously I have 100 GB of free space so I don't understand what is going wrong.
@eduardorodr978 did the issue happen to you after unlocking the bootloader ?
Also would using swapper for Root available on the playstore achieve the same thing as the default RAM expansion setting ?
Any help would be appreciated.
just saw that this option is not available when rooted https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/ram-expansion-issue.4431027/
However there are a lot of ways to expand the RAM while being rooted so it's not a big issue after all.