I have an Mi A1 which is part of the Android One program. I recently got the "system storage is running low" warning and looked at my storage. I have 64gb internal storage and 128gb Samsung SD card. The storage screen was showing 128gb of "system" storage on the SD card. I tap it, it says, "system storage contains files for Android 8.1.0" or something like that. Obviously 128gb of system storage is way too high. I restarted my phone and it went down to 65gb on the SD card, which is still ridiculously high. I am also showing 9gb of system storage on the internal drive. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Any idea why, or how to fix it?
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I have a HTC Touch (Elf) with the 1GB memory card.
When I download or install something, even if I tell it to save to memory card, it still seems to go onto the internal memory. I don't quite understand what's going on, but it is of course limiting what I can do as the internal memory is very small.
When selecting install location as 'Storage Card' its as if the shortcut to that is pointing to some location on internal memory, as checking the memory usage shows my internal memory depleting and my storage card not changing.
Unless I move files by cutting and pasting afterwards.
Cheers in advance.
Jon
OK to narrow the problem down a bit... when I install something and it gives you the option where to install it i.e. on phone or storage card, whether I pick phone OR storage card it always ends up on the phone.
I cannot install programs to storage card! Which is not good as the phone memory is tiny!
Any ideas please?
So it's to my understanding Internal storage is for the system and such. Usb storage would be the internal memory, and SD card would obviously be the physical memory card.
I flashed a new rom to my galaxy player, and it seems like it dropped the ball.
Internal storage is correct, that's where the system files are.
"SD card" is now the internal memory. When I take out the actual card, "SD card" is still available.
The actual SD card is now called "usb storage".
I'm pretty sure what happened, is the locations got mixed up going from "internal storage / sd" to "internal / usb / sd"
Everything works fine, except that my 16gb sd card isn't recognized by the player.
Does anyone know anything about this? I've been digging through the forums and googling all day so I figured I might as well start up a thread. Thanks for any help whatsoever.
I am using Varun's Cyanogenmod 12 ROM [link]. I have a bug that I believe no one else is having, which is having two internal storage partitions. The first is clearly meant to be the phone storage, as it is only a mere 1.57GB which is taken up completely by Gapps and one or two apps I have downloaded. The SECOND Internal Storage partition has a total space of 4GB and is almost empty except for a few files I moved to it, such as Music and Photos. It strangely has an "Erase SD card" option in the bottom, which is also present in the SD partition.
How do I fix the partitions such that the first is phone memory and the second is Internal and used for apps? I am constantly getting a low storage warning and it is very annoying.
Thanks in advance!
A really annoying problem, then again, I get what I pay for...I'll keep that in mind next time but for now I am trying to solve this. I cannot update or install apps because I receive an error message that there is not enough storage. Extremely annoying because while my internal storage is low, I have a 16 gb SD in the phone. Under settings -> storage, default storage is the SD card so I don't understand this error. Available space on the SD 13.82 gb, plenty of room.
Searching this problem, I have found that the default storage location only applies to photos and videos? And to actually think this issue, the phone may need to be rooted. What gives?
Hi!
I have Motorola G7 power xt-1955-4.
And I also got a 512gb Kingston hama sdcard.
The card was formatted as internal storage.
The problem is that today I saw that I can't access the files on my phone. This happened after I moved several files from phone to my computer, to free up some space.
Now, when I open File manager it shows "main storage not available".
I reinserted my SD card a couple of times, but I keep having a notification saying "checking sdcard... Reviewing current content".
When I go to Settings - Storage it says only "sdcard checking..".
When I press on "Checking sd card" notification only it gives me the option to Forget.
How can I access my SD card without formatting it?
Thank you.
You said you moved some files from the card to your PC? How did you do this? If you removed the card from the phone and put it in your PC, then what you effectively did was slice off part of your phone's storage, messed with the files, and put it back in. You cut off a piece of brain, rooted around in it, and tried to reattach it.
Internal storage means the card is not removable, and the storage space will be filled with files essential to the phone. Chances are to get the card to work again it needs to be reformatted.
dannyetlv said:
Hi!
I have Motorola G7 power xt-1955-4.
And I also got a 512gb Kingston hama sdcard.
The card was formatted as internal storage.
The problem is that today I saw that I can't access the files on my phone. This happened after I moved several files from phone to my computer, to free up some space.
Now, when I open File manager it shows "main storage not available".
I reinserted my SD card a couple of times, but I keep having a notification saying "checking sdcard... Reviewing current content".
When I go to Settings - Storage it says only "sdcard checking..".
When I press on "Checking sd card" notification only it gives me the option to Forget.
How can I access my SD card without formatting it?
Thank you.
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Sorry I'm a bit late. I had this same issue recently. Until now, I have had a problem with any program recognizing the drive without offering to format it first. I can't do that because I am stupid and had important files on there I need. I just located DiskGenius and I am running it now.
Not sure this will repair the issue, but it recognized the sd card which I had set as the primary storage not knowing something like this could happen. It is running a search now for bad sectors. When it finds them, it will provide a repair, but the sectors will be deleted. I am hoping it won't be the sectors that contain my files that I need to recover. But it's a step in the right direction.
I now know not to set an sd card as main storage for Android, because it encrypts the files, and it tied the SD card to the system. I can't even install apps right now because the main storage is non existent.
I just had to throw out a 62g card due to corruption. I do t know how it happened but I eventually had to factory reset/wipe phone. I put the card in a laptop to reformat it. Wouldn't work. I'm getting a new card, but I will not make it phone storage. Bummed me out.