I - like so many others - have come across the issue of not being able to install apps or even update existing ones very early during the usage of my Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 due to low storage space, despite having an SD card and all possible apps moved there (partially, I know that much).
According to my "Storage" information, I should have a bit more than 9GB (out of the 16 the device has in total) for my personal use, which is a lot. I have a decent amount of apps installed, yet none that takes up more than 500MB of storage (the biggest one takes up 310MB of internal storage right now).
Trying to update one of the heavier apps, I have now found myself unable to do so, no matter if I uninstall some apps, delete PlayStore data or obviously clear the cache (my Download Manager takes up 0,9MB, before anyone asks). Curiously, my device told me about around 1,1GB of free space before trying the update when it finally seemed to work. Afterwards, however, the app still shows as not updated and I can't use it before updating. The problem is, my storage space is given to me as 152MB now - almost nothing!
Checking what's taking up all that space, the culprit is clear - while Pictures (49MB), Audio (188KB), and Downloads (26MB) take up less than 80MB, Applications is rated at the horrendous number of 9,03GB! Now I wondered. Given that no app shows with more than 310MB occupied space and there is only five apps above 200MB (including Facebook and Chrome, both not movable, thanks very much), I would have to have over 80 more apps there, given they all take around 100MB of space! Granted that that would be ridiculous, I started counting (rounded to the nearest 10MB to make it manageable, so 15 and 24 are both 20, everything below 5MB is not counted) and arrived at a reasonable amount of 5,2GB. Where the hell is the rest of the supposedly occupied 4GB of space? I have fought with the seemingly limited storage space on the Tab for months, just to realize that it's actually not me bloating it but the device itself being full of non-existant data.
So, my question, finally, is: Does anybody else have this issue? Does anybody have an explanation for this/knows why it happens? And most importantly, does anybody know how to fix it (I'm guessing the code word here is factory reset, but I really don't want to go through all the work of getting my Tab back to the point it's at right now (overfilled with nothing, I know, ha ha) if it can be avoided)? I would really appreciate any advice as this is bugging me a lot now that I've noticed.
According to my "Storage" information, I should have a bit more than 9GB (out of the 16 the device has in total) for my personal use, which is a lot. I have a decent amount of apps installed, yet none that takes up more than 500MB of storage (the biggest one takes up 310MB of internal storage right now).
Trying to update one of the heavier apps, I have now found myself unable to do so, no matter if I uninstall some apps, delete PlayStore data or obviously clear the cache (my Download Manager takes up 0,9MB, before anyone asks). Curiously, my device told me about around 1,1GB of free space before trying the update when it finally seemed to work. Afterwards, however, the app still shows as not updated and I can't use it before updating. The problem is, my storage space is given to me as 152MB now - almost nothing!
Checking what's taking up all that space, the culprit is clear - while Pictures (49MB), Audio (188KB), and Downloads (26MB) take up less than 80MB, Applications is rated at the horrendous number of 9,03GB! Now I wondered. Given that no app shows with more than 310MB occupied space and there is only five apps above 200MB (including Facebook and Chrome, both not movable, thanks very much), I would have to have over 80 more apps there, given they all take around 100MB of space! Granted that that would be ridiculous, I started counting (rounded to the nearest 10MB to make it manageable, so 15 and 24 are both 20, everything below 5MB is not counted) and arrived at a reasonable amount of 5,2GB. Where the hell is the rest of the supposedly occupied 4GB of space? I have fought with the seemingly limited storage space on the Tab for months, just to realize that it's actually not me bloating it but the device itself being full of non-existant data.
So, my question, finally, is: Does anybody else have this issue? Does anybody have an explanation for this/knows why it happens? And most importantly, does anybody know how to fix it (I'm guessing the code word here is factory reset, but I really don't want to go through all the work of getting my Tab back to the point it's at right now (overfilled with nothing, I know, ha ha) if it can be avoided)? I would really appreciate any advice as this is bugging me a lot now that I've noticed.
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