My phone displays that I only have 8GB total to store things on my sd card even though I have I have the 16GB card that came with it. It also displays 4GB internal for storage even though in settings it says 8GB. Any ideas what is wrong?
i to am having some isues but not the same as yours. when i mount my phone to my computer it will only mount the external sd card. cant seem to get the internal storage to mount. sometimes when i download an app is tells me not enough space when there is plenty of space.
with the messed up way motorola has partitioned the internl storage, it is causing alot of isues.
Well I know on my nook color (rooted and running cyanogen) when I try to mount the internal to the computer it doesn't work either so I'm not sure if the problem is the device or a limitation of Android.
Oh and I have had the not enough space message pop up when trying to download some apps I've found retrying the download or rebooting has helped.
Hi all,
I was on my O2X installing Nova HD 1.0.3 ROM for the third time, to test some different configuration, and I set the swap memory to 256 MB, when I finished flashing the ROM my internal memory had disappeared, it shows mnt\emmc as empty and with 0 Bytes, in CMW when I try to mount \emmc it gives an error "can't mount \emmc. Then I tried reinstall the ROM without swap memory, no success, tried restore backup, again no success, still without internal storage, as a last hope I tried to connect the phone to PC and format internal memory with Partition Wizard, but it don't recognizes de internal memory. Windows recognizes it, but with no information, and when I try to access or format, it gives an error saying to inser a disk at that unit.
I would be very thankful if anyone could help me.
Sorry by bad English.
EDIT: Sorry, but I found the solution right after start this thread. After has tried all the above I tried the simple: I just went to phone settings and selected the option Erase SD Card, just after erased, the memory reappeared.
Hi!
Today I flashed my Note from the leak JB to German ICS 4.0.4 and I did a factory reset before the downgrade. I know there's been some issues with some eMMC bugs but I decided to do it anyways. Now for some reason when I go to settings -> Storage it shows that there are 3,50gb of some miscellaneous files even after I format the internal memory. I noticed that when I remove my SD card my phone shows that the phone's internal memory is empty but when the SD card is installed the files on the SD card show up also on my phone's internal memory. What could cause it?
J-lou said:
Hi!
Today I flashed my Note from the leak JB to German ICS 4.0.4 and I did a factory reset before the downgrade. I know there's been some issues with some eMMC bugs but I decided to do it anyways. Now for some reason when I go to settings -> Storage it shows that there are 3,50gb of some miscellaneous files even after I format the internal memory. I noticed that when I remove my SD card my phone shows that the phone's internal memory is empty but when the SD card is installed the files on the SD card show up also on my phone's internal memory. What could cause it?
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Use this app & see whats exactly those files are..
So I bricked my phone and ended up having to FXZ to the OTA JB update. Once I did I found that the internal memory just isnt there. There is still 4GB for the apps but no storage and backup will not work because it can not find internal storage. It also will not show up on my computer like normal. How do I get it to show back up?
thecodydavis was able to format his internal storage, after so many reboots, the phone ask him to reformat the storage space. And I believe reformat it will lose all the data in the storage, but you will have internal storage back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2246065
I have the same problem except I need to recover the data. I am still trying to make an image of /dev/block/mmcblk1p26 (storage memory block) and hopefully data recovery tool works on the image.
Thanks! Pretty much what happened! Problem solved!
After shenanigans yesterday I've pretty much got my Moto G 2014 LTE running on Marshmallow.
\the problem I have now is one I've experienced a number of times before, on various devices and Android versions:
Why is it that, despite the storage screen showing that I have plenty of available space, am I not unable to install some larger apps?
Settings > Storage shows internal storage 1.15GB used of 5.52GB (as well as SanDisk SD card 890MB used of 14.59GB)
But when I try to install Injustice: Gods Among Us (1.12GB) i get the error message App requires external storage: "Injustice: Gods Among Us" can't be downloaded. Insert an SD card or USB storage with sufficient storage, and try again.
This app was installed prior to upgrading the OS, and while quite large, should still fit on to my device.
Can anyone tell me what causes this, what I can do to get round it, and also, if there is a way to make the OS see the SD card as part of the internal memory so I can install apps directly to it
On Marshmallow, it is possible to use external SD card as internal but don't do it.
Why ? Because you have a too small SD card. This option doesn't merge internal and external, it just sets the external as internal. So you need a 8gb or more SD card (or you will get less storage than before)
Maybe the play store doesn't want to install because your SD Card doesn't have enough space to install the game. I know it is weird, but sometimes even if you want to install to internal, it checks the SD card's available memory.
You can try to wipe the play store cache and data, and if it doesn't work do a wipe cache from recovery.
Try getting the apk file by google'ing it. Install it. Open it then check if it is downloading files or not.
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Mavireck said:
On Marshmallow, it is possible to use external SD card as internal but don't do it.
Why ? Because you have a too small SD card. This option doesn't merge internal and external, it just sets the external as internal. So you need a 8gb or more SD card (or you will get less storage than before)
Maybe the play store doesn't want to install because your SD Card doesn't have enough space to install the game. I know it is weird, but sometimes even if you want to install to internal, it checks the SD card's available memory.
You can try to wipe the play store cache and data, and if it doesn't work do a wipe cache from recovery.
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Sorry that should have read 14.59Gb for the SD card, so loads of space
Mavireck said:
On Marshmallow, it is possible to use external SD card as internal but don't do it.
Why ? Because you have a too small SD card. This option doesn't merge internal and external, it just sets the external as internal. So you need a 8gb or more SD card (or you will get less storage than before)
Maybe the play store doesn't want to install because your SD Card doesn't have enough space to install the game. I know it is weird, but sometimes even if you want to install to internal, it checks the SD card's available memory.
You can try to wipe the play store cache and data, and if it doesn't work do a wipe cache from recovery.
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Tried to download the apk and it just days no SD card. I know its there, still shows up in settings and shows apps installed on it. Must be a dodgy card or something, but now i cant work out how to tell the phone to stop using it for apps and install internally unsteady (told it to use it as internal when I did set up, not sure how to go back)
EDIT: OK worked out how to get it to stop using the SD as internal and formatted it for data, and seems to be installing the game now. So I think that pretty much solves my immediate query, but still interested as to why android sometimes says insufficient space despite it reporting in settings that there is plenty
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Tried to download the apk and it just days no SD card. I know its there, still shows up in settings and shows apps installed on it. Must be a dodgy card or something, but now i cant work out how to tell the phone to stop using it for apps and install internally unsteady (told it to use it as internal when I did set up, not sure how to go back)
EDIT: OK worked out how to get it to stop using the SD as internal and formatted it for data, and seems to be installing the game now. So I think that pretty much solves my immediate query, but still interested as to why android sometimes says insufficient space despite it reporting in settings that there is plenty
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Yeah sorry for my mistake I have read 1.xxgb instead of 14.xxgb
Android reports the storage to be full as soon as XX% of the storage is filled (maybe 90%, I'm not sure). Then if you have a 100gb device, even if you have 10gb free it won't allow you to do anything.
That's weird, but that's how it works.
Have you tried wiping cache ? It sometimes solves the problem.
It is better not to use the format as internal storage except if you really know what you are doing.