Hey guys I was looking at my storage space today and i noticed I only have 111GB useable. I know that several GB are consumed by the system image and that the whole 128GB is not available, but 17GB used by the system image seems excessive.
you usually get 119GB after format, 128 x 7%, 119GB remains then OS partition and then more since its 64bit.
My 64gb has 54gb free
They define GB by 1000 where it's really 1024 so formatted capacity is less,
http://www.ussscctv.com/harddrivesizecapacitiescalculator.aspx
Mine had 111 GB free straight out of the box.
Mister-B said:
Mine had 111 GB free straight out of the box.
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Same here!
The larger the amount of storage, the larger the system partition. Dunno why, but it has been this way as long as I can remember.
Ok cool. Thanks for the replys
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The hard drive space shows 13 gig and memory if I add used and free totals to 550. Is this normal?
It sounds about right. It has 1GB of RAM, however some of it is devoted to the GPU. And after formatting and the OS, 13GB is about what's left to the user on a 16GB model.
Ravynmagi said:
It sounds about right. It has 1GB of RAM, however some of it is devoted to the GPU. And after formatting and the OS, 13GB is about what's left to the user on a 16GB model.
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Thanks for the explanation.
Hello
I have a question.
I looked at my storage space today (in settings) and it shows as 16gb used and 11gb free. But i dont have apps that large.
So my question is. Is this an error or when its not what uses so much storage space?
I looked trough my apps and none uses enough storage to fill this much space.
What did i overlook?
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Do you have the 32GB or 16GB model? Also, which section are you looking at?
I have the 16 GB model, so my "Internal Storage" section reads 12.51GB total space. The graph breaks it down as 4.55GB of media files and 0.49GB (500MB) for applications, with 7.47GB remaining free space.
Unfortunately, you have not provided near enough information for us to assist effectively. More detail please.
Google map takes 256 mb itself and can grow with cache .
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Its the 32 gb model
The 16 gb used are just applications. 700MB for media and 11 gb free.
So the space adds up correctly to the 32 gb version
But i have only like 35 apps installed. Most of them i have on my phone too
I looked under applications and none of the downloaded apps (even with data and cache) are big enough by themself or summed together to fill 16gb. Did not look trough all app that came preinstalled though.
So i am wondering where the storage space goes.
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I own the 8gb model and have about 500mb of sapce remaining.
When i go to download a new app, 12mb in size it says i do not have enough space on the device.
I've heard of the issue on the 16gb version, has anybody had this on the 8gb version ?
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I own the 8gb model and have about 500mb of sapce remaining.
When i go to download a new app, 12mb in size it says i do not have enough space on the device.
I've heard of the issue on the 16gb version, has anybody had this on the 8gb version ?
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Why does your title say NOT 8GB model?
Also, maybe the Nexus saves a bit of space so you don't completely fill your device.
Its like you holding a handful of stuff, you can maybe hold a little bit more, but once you do you will REALLY struggle and perhaps drop them.
Concept is the same?
Could hold it, but would start to struggle, and the dropping could be faults or crashes
Hope that makes sense
What is the total amount of space that is showing in the 16 GB version?
For Me (Stock Rom - Rooted - Clockwork Recovery)
It shows 12.96GB, which seems a lot less than it should be.
4gb is reserved for android os
12.96 is right.
kinda like how RAM is advertised as 2GB
it is really ~1.8GB of RAM
It's the correct amount, everyone gets the same. Android system reserves way to much in my opinion.
KyraOfFire said:
It's the correct amount, everyone gets the same. Android system reserves way to much in my opinion.
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it counts bootloader, recovery, internals, etc.. not just android
zephiK said:
it counts bootloader, recovery, internals, etc.. not just android
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Still, 3GB is a bit over-reserved?
/dev, for example, is 936MiB and only 32KB is used :-/
Remember that the advertised storage capacity is in decimal notation, whereas the figures given by the device are in binary notation.
1 decimal GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes
1 binary GB is 1,073,741,824 bytes (can be written as GiB to avoid confusion)
So 16 GB advertised capacity is 14.9 GiB so there's only about 2 GiB in use by / reserved for the OS.
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kinda like how RAM is advertised as 2GB
it is really ~1.8GB of RAM
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RAM is usually advertised in binary notation, so 2 GB means 2 GiB.
zephiK said:
4gb is reserved for android os
12.96 is right.
kinda like how RAM is advertised as 2GB
it is really ~1.8GB of RAM
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Where exactly are we looking at the amount of GB's in settings under storage? Or under 'Internal Storage' ?
Not sure if my 16gig is showing up as 8
tarroyo said:
Where exactly are we looking at the amount of GB's in settings under storage? Or under 'Internal Storage' ?
Not sure if my 16gig is showing up as 8
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Settings->Storage, the "Total Space" shown at the top under "Internal Storage". Mine shows 12.92GB.
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Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if everyone else has a ton of bloat on system for their 1TB version? My current system memory is at 86.4GB which is quite a lot.
If you do have the 1TB version, how much storage is system memory taking up?
Verizon 1TB, 87.4GB for system
Memory ≠ storage!
I'm seeing similar, ~83GB from fresh reset on unlocked USA version.
As far as memory is concerned it frequently goes over 6GB used. That's a lot however the device does have 12GB and unused memory is wasted memory.
Indeed memory does not equal storage, I'm just a bit surprised that overall storage used by the system is a beefy 80+GB, I'm curious if the other models with different storage configurations have different sizes and what are some under the hood differences due to such.
Edit: Forgot to mention, thanks for replying! I'll try and look into some other models with different storage configs and see what they have.
I don't know how you got that screen but on my 128gb model the system partition (guessing) is around 20-25 GB,. I have 99gb showing as available with very few apps and no data (2 day old phone) so system size must be somewhere in the 20 to 25 range
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I don't know how you got that screen but on my 128gb model the system partition (guessing) is around 20-25 GB,. I have 99gb showing as available with very few apps and no data (2 day old phone) so system size must be somewhere in the 20 to 25 range
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It's in Device Care > Storage > Storage Settings (3 dot menu)
On my old 64GB S8+ the system took up 10GB but is independent from the 64GB free space on it.
Edit: Misquoted, fixed.
Thanks, according to that page, system is 19gigs on my 128model
This is the 512GB model for reference.
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Listen from 6:00 mins this guy explains why the use is so high out of the box it is normal
gerickjohn said:
Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if everyone else has a ton of bloat on system for their 1TB version? My current system memory is at 86.4GB which is quite a lot.
If you do have the 1TB version, how much storage is system memory taking up?
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The system has to allocate a certain amount of storage aside for switching storage sectors since all memory types have a finite amount of write and erase cycles. The system will take a block of storage that has been written to and erased, and reserve it as unavailable to the user. It will then free up an unused section of storage equal to what it had taken away. The more storage your phone has, the larger the system reserved storage is going to be. It's to prolong the life of the storage module and account for any bad sectors on the storage module.