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Storage space issue Sony Xperia Z3

DanielMKing221 — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 20:35:31 GMT

I keep getting messages saying that I am running out of storage space. Why?

The Cache has been cleaned. It says I only have 500mb of free space, but only says there are approx 4gb of data installed. Does any one know why this has happened and is there a solution. Thanks.

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Uliwooly — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 21:23:08 GMT

Could you upload the picture to box or Dropbox and post the link here

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stockyvillage — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 04:41:30 GMT

Looking at the graph you should have roughly 9GB left.How much data is in the misc folder?

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Uliwooly — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 04:46:09 GMT

There's something going on with your phone perhaps if you boot on safe mode

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Phy — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 04:46:47 GMT

How to boot on safe mode

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/FAQ/How-to-boot-your-phone-into-safe-mode/m-p/348008#U348008

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Olgapall — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 09:23:00 GMT

Prompt how to transfer appendices to sd the card? I removed already almost everything unnecessary ((and the place all the same isn't present.

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Phy — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:01:09 GMT

Try repairing your phone with Sony PC Companion .

http://support.sonymobile.com/us/tools/pc-companion/

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eskah78 — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:17:58 GMT

Got the same problem storage slowly filing up for no reason cache empty uninstalled almost every app i should avec 6gb free yet im full. Original non modified setup a 128gb sd (no problem on the sd only on main storage)

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bilomar — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:05:21 GMT

Did anyone solve this problem? I have the same issue on lollipop. Do I really have to reinstall firmware to fix this?

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stockyvillage — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 08:08:24 GMT

@bilomar can you put a screenshot up .Also do you take a lot of photographs and just delete them off device.As they just go into the bin so still take space up in apps until you empty bin

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perrytron — Mon, 18 May 2015 06:19:22 GMT

I have the same kind of issue on my Z3 I have almost everything that takes up space saved on to my SD card and yet my storage graph shows only 2gb free. could it be a bug where this graph looks at each app as a whole and not the breakdown of what's stored on the SD card?

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Nick_S — Mon, 18 May 2015 10:59:11 GMT

Have you tried downloading this app called diskusage? It will scan your internal or external storage and show you a visual representation of your files proportionate to its size. This helped me out when I had storage problems.

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perrytron — Mon, 18 May 2015 13:39:21 GMT

many thanks for the reply, I will give this a go in a sec 🙂

I have been on to Sony support and although i do not think that they understood totally what my problem was they suggested that I back everything up and then run a Software fix via my PC.

I would like to try and sort the problem out before i attempt the above as knowing my luck the back up will fail and I will lose everything!

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perrytron — Mon, 18 May 2015 14:13:59 GMT

sorted!! it turned out that my Google movie downloads were saving to the internal memory, even though the phone suggested otherwise!

I have removed from internal memory and set the default to SD card and will re-install later.

The suggested App above was a great help, many thanks

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reemeeran — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 08:11:44 GMT

Even i am having the same problem in my z3 and when some messages arrives in the whatsapp then it will show that the storage space is full then i ll change all my whatsapp message medias to the SD card and it is continued like this and i uninstalled almost all the major applications and only uising social media apps no games . How to resolve this if u come to know about some solutions please let me know

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Ruggy — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:43:47 GMT

Not quite sure of the resolution here. I now have the same issue where the free is 500MB but the graph shows half as free. Therefore should be about 5G free. I used diskusage as recommended and it shows almost 6.5G of System data but how do I locate the large files to clear manually clear it. I tried some disk app and none so far help clear that up. I used PC explorer to look for them large files and cannot nothing of the directories show large data with Show Hidden is turned on .

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Ruggy — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 03:23:48 GMT

Update the phone via Sony Companion via PC and it resolved it. Con... Had to do update and wipe out everything. Awesome Pro... Got back the multi-user logins. Was so dreadful when the OS was updated and took that away. So worth it actually.