topic Re: Lost space in Other/General

Lost space

Danial-mach1 — Sun, 04 May 2014 20:53:12 GMT

i have 400mg lost space on my internall storage

for example if phone shows 1gb free space when i connect to pc it shoes 600mg free space

i cant find anything that cause this diffrence...no hidden thing..no system protected or system hidden thing

any idea??

Re: Lost space

_alexdon_ — Sun, 04 May 2014 21:09:58 GMT

Could it be only app data?Maybe facebook,chrome.others?

Re: Lost space

Danial-mach1 — Sun, 04 May 2014 21:27:43 GMT

so if they are app data why phone dont calculate them??..also if i clear those apps data the difrence will remain the same

a solution i can find till know is factory reset..but it will return with exact 300 or 400 mg lost space

Re: Lost space

_alexdon_ — Sun, 04 May 2014 22:01:48 GMT

If you go to settings-storage,can you clear cache?

Re: Lost space

CarbonoAtom — Sun, 04 May 2014 22:12:46 GMT

Get the app Es-File explore. then click view and sort it from most space to the least, also one the left hand side, turn on the hidden files. Delete the file which has the most space, usually it might be like the others have said a cache file. Also,The data of cached files will come as misc files Danial, it is hard to view it on the settings as it only shows your app data and will not specify what actually uses that space.

CarbonoAtom

Re: Lost space

Danial-mach1 — Sun, 04 May 2014 22:12:51 GMT

nope..i have no options

also setting>apps>all there is just"storage capability" with no options

Re: Lost space

Danial-mach1 — Sun, 04 May 2014 22:44:34 GMT

@carbonoatom

no avail

i cant find any file that i cant see on pc

also es-explorer tell me i have 1.2gb free just like phone say..but pc say 800mg

Re: Lost space

_alexdon_ — Sun, 04 May 2014 22:49:07 GMT

There could be an issue with the files the PC sees and the phone sees.So in settings-storage,you do not have cached files?

Re: Lost space

3xperia — Mon, 05 May 2014 07:54:48 GMT

Hi, Danial. 400mg? What's an MG? Do you mean MB?

Perhaps the PC reads/writes it different because of the phone chace. Have you tried some app named Disk Usage for Android yet?

Re: Lost space

Danial-mach1 — Mon, 05 May 2014 17:36:46 GMT

@alexdon

yes i found cached data..its 183mb

if i perform factory reset at the starat i have 5.2gb free space..but after time phone and pc goes in to 400mb diffrent

@3xperia

yes i mean mb

what that app will do?

Re: Lost space

3xperia — Mon, 05 May 2014 18:54:05 GMT

Danial

That app will tell you what files on your memory/storage that consume a lot of space. Some kind of files that might not be detected by PC when you connect your phone through USB cable.

Re: Lost space

_alexdon_ — Mon, 05 May 2014 20:42:13 GMT

Just tap on cached data,it should clear it.

Re: Lost space

Danial-mach1 — Tue, 06 May 2014 09:22:54 GMT

the result is it

Re: Lost space

Rickard — Tue, 06 May 2014 11:57:30 GMT

I'm not sure but i think this has to do with reserved space. About 10% or so is reserved so that you don't fill the phones memory completely. It's the same when i check an SP here. If i look at a Z1 which has more memory the difference is even bigger (still about 10%).

Re: Lost space

Danial-mach1 — Tue, 06 May 2014 12:57:51 GMT

so if this is a reserved space then after factory reset it must have it as well.right?

but after reset to factory free space are the same on pc and phone

Re: Lost space

3xperia — Tue, 06 May 2014 13:13:40 GMT

@ Danial

There's nothing wrong with that at all. Stored chace or some space that should be empty for the system.

Take a look the visible difference clearly
Your PC reads 768 MB of 5.37 GB of the internal storage.
Disk Usage app: 1.1 GB of 5.5 GB of the internal storage.

You can send or transfer files from PC to your phone up to 768 MB as the phone system should leave some empty space on it.

When you download some apps/files through your phone, there will be a pop up notification tells you that your internal memory limits have reached which the PC can do that.

Best usage for a 5.5 GB storage is 4 GB or 4.5 GB, and you have reached it already.

Re: Lost space

3xperia — Tue, 06 May 2014 13:15:15 GMT

Correction: PC can't do that

Re: Lost space

Danial-mach1 — Sun, 11 May 2014 20:23:26 GMT

thanks to all of you

yes maybe its a reserved space and honestly i didnt notice that diffrent beetwen full sizes "5.8 and 5.4"