Internal storage: 600meg free out of 4gig?

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JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
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LG Tribute 2

I plugged the phone to my computer and I looked thru every directory.
cant find where 3.4gigs of space went?!?!
 
gorcorps

gorcorps

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Jul 18, 2004
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JEDI said:
wha?!
they said the opposite of each other?!?!

shabby said the operating system is taking up the space.
JeffMd said it doesn't.
wtf?
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You're not reading it correctly

Jeff said the storage space listed on the device spec (the 4gigs) does not tell you how much space the OS takes, only that the device has 4 gigs total. The OS will always take up some of that total space.
 
JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
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gorcorps said:
You're not reading it correctly

Jeff said the storage space listed on the device spec (the 4gigs) does not tell you how much space the OS takes, only that the device has 4 gigs total. The OS will always take up some of that total space.
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oh.. found out my phone has 8 gigs.
4 gigs reserved for OS.
4gigs for everything else.

600meg free out of the 4gigs for everything else.
but don't see 3.4gigs worth of files when I look in file manager?!
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

No Lifer
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JEDI said:
wtf did I just install?
where is diskusage?

how do I use it??????????
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Open it up, and it gives a graphical representation of the file system. Click on a color block to expand it if it has subdirectories.
 
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manly

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Fardringle said:
Go to Settings > Storage and see what the phone says is using the space.
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The high level storage usage is accurate, but the per-app reporting is often inaccurate. For example, when I had Google Music store streamed music on external SD, it would still count all the app's storage usage as internal. This is somewhat easy to see, at least.

In other cases, notably WeChat, the counters would not report the hundreds of MB of space that the app data had accumulated. So on the device itself, it can be somewhat difficult to figure out where all the storage has gone.

Also in my experience, Android 6.0 would complain that it was low on storage with about 0.5 GB free. It seems like it keeps a storage buffer so that apps don't start failing when they cannot write data. All in all, this was a crappy experience because I have a minimal number of apps and still was unable to update system or 3rd party apps.

Regrettably I have an 8 GB phone that I'm not ready to replace, so I finally switched over to adoptable storage despite reading many warnings against. So far it's working fine, despite a few issues:
  1. Supposedly Android always warns that the SD card is slow. In reality the Samsung card I have is decent and performs fine in real-world use.
  2. Evernote is not happy and although the app does run, it constantly experiences a low-level exception.
  3. When copying my photo library back into /DCIM/Camera, MTP does not preserve timestamps. This is okay for photos because they have timestamps in EXIF data. Not okay for video files, which do not.
 
JEDI

JEDI

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lxskllr said:
Open it up, and it gives a graphical representation of the file system. Click on a color block to expand it if it has subdirectories.
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I don't see that.
all I see is 'Available', installed, and updates
under 'available' it's a bunch of GPL and Apache files, whatever those are.

or I d/l the wrong file?
I clicked on 'download f-droid' link on that page
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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JEDI said:
I don't see that.
all I see is 'Available', installed, and updates
under 'available' it's a bunch of GPL and Apache files, whatever those are.

or I d/l the wrong file?
I clicked on 'download f-droid' link on that page
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sounds like you downloaded the fdroid package manager. If so, you can open that up and search for "disk usage", and install from there. Otherwise, you wanted the .apk link farther down the page.
 
JEDI

JEDI

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lxskllr said:
sounds like you downloaded the fdroid package manager. If so, you can open that up and search for "disk usage", and install from there. Otherwise, you wanted the .apk link farther down the page.
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thx. d/l now.

why cant I find f-droid in the play store?
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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JEDI said:
thx. d/l now.

why cant I find f-droid in the play store?
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fdroid is a 'play store'. It's an alternate repository that only has libre software. I'm guessing google doesn't allow third party repositories to be distributed through their store, as it breaks official android policy of not allowing the installation of programs from 'unknown sources'.

Just speculation. I neither use nor endorse google play. Pretty much any android program I recommend comes from fdroid.
 
WelshBloke

WelshBloke

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Clean the cache on your phone and from a few apps.

That should give you enough space to load up chrome to let you buy a phone WITH MORE THAN 8GB OF STORAGE!
 
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JeffMD said:
Do not touch phones with 4 and 8 gigs of storage space.
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My friend had a hawaii phone with 2gigs, oh god what a mess, they bought an sdcard and thought it would solve all their storage issues, well it didn't. Wechat was just sucking all the space, the phone was unusable.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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I can get by with 8gb as long as it has external storage, but I consider that the functional minimum. My ghetto phone has 8gb, and that's fine for what it is.
 
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