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.
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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 topic must be very common. I have the Moto E but since this is a software related question which is pretty much the same on Moto E and G, I chose this place.
Not everybody wants to root their phone. And I'm one of them cuz I dont want my warranty be void.
Ok, so the Moto E has 4 gigs of internal storage out of which only 2 gigs is available. Well, that's nothing. It filled up just like that in no time and I didnt even have any idea on who the hell used it up expect some small apps and games (Max. 50 megs in size). I just restored the phone to factory setting and decided to start from the scratch.
Now my phone has nothing expect the default apps.
Now comes my question. I can move the app to SD card but the data remains in the internal memory. Is there any possible way out there that would let me move the data part to SD card as well? I found lots of stuff ion the internet searching for this but nothing worked. I followed this tutorial: http://karthikkn.wordpress.com/2013/...ut-rooting-it/ but what it basically did is setting the default install location to SD card which did work but is pretty much useless I guess cuz its the same as manually moving the app to SD card. Date still resides in the internal memory.
I repeat my question, is it possible to move the data to SD card without rooting the phone? This is really annoying cuz I'm that kind of a guy who would love to install loads of games and apps but would really hate it if this space problem prevents. I have a 32 gig class 10 memory card with me already mounted.
Another question is: After updating the default app like Play movies, Play games, Youtube, Maps and all, the internal memory space was rapidly consumed. Tapping on "Uninstall updates" restores the space. I wonder how can updates take same amount of extra space which is equal to the size of the download? Arent updates meant to "replace" the existing version? So that shouldnt take much space I guess? But installing an update takes the same amount of space as that of the download size which is quite absurd. Any comments to justify this?
*note i have lte version with 8gb mircosd, on vanilla 4.4.3 with temp root*
i'm trying to install hearthstone, the game takes like, 1.8gb or something
well, i have enough for it to install, then i cleared alot of stuff, and moved all the app that i could onto sd in setting
after everything, i have ~500mb left
problem is, i can't update it, i think you need like, 1 gb (or maybe even the entire game's space, 1.8) for it to update
hell, i couldnt even update chrome with like 300mb of space left over
i'm noticing that moving the app to sd there's is virtually not much saved space, plus i've created alot of dup data on the sd card
the linking between the two is piss poor
is there anyway to force the entire app to go on the sd card? my previous phone could do that (samsung exhibit 2: had only <2gb internal memory and i moved entire apps to the sd card)
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
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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.
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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!
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?
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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?
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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