"30.81 GiB free", "You do not have enough storage space".

[Android Central Question]

For whatever reason, my Hongyue Android cellphone tells me it has two storages, 32 GiB internal storage, and another 32 GiB phone storage
https: slash slash imgur dot com/gallery/BvR6aDJ For whatever reason I cannot post a pic. not even a link to imgur. No screen captures = no one getting a thing of what I'm saying, please revise your own rules.
These are screen captures. I have about 61 GiB of free space total, yet it tells me I cannot even install an app that adds stickers to whatsapp. How does this come together? Is this a joke?
I'm a programmer and I can't understand it.
Extra data, when I connect the phone to my PC it tells me it only has one GiB of space total. This is surely a joke. I mean, why even tell me I got all that space if I cannot use it?

I guess the phone has a separate storage for only apps, and another for pics, music, videos and such. But why would it separate them, and why would it not show me the important storage, the apps one? I mean, I don't need 32 gigs of music. About 4 gigs is just fine. However I do need lots more than just 1024 MiB of app space. I mean I would need ten times more or even more.

 

[Rukbat]

For whatever reason, my Hongyue Android cellphone tells me it has two storages, 32 GiB internal storage, and another 32 GiB phone storage

No, it's telling you that you have 32GB of internal storage and no external SD card. Then it's showing you the storage setup on your "default write drive", which is your internal storage, so it's showing the same storage, but with different text.

For whatever reason I cannot post a pic. not even a link to imgur.

Because you haven't registered here. Register an account, then make 10 meaningful posts using that account, and you'll be able to post links.

No screen captures = no one getting a thing of what I'm saying, please revise your own rules.

No thanks - we don't want people coming here just to post links, which is why you have to be here for a little while, talking about something, before you can post ;inks.

I have about 61 GiB of free space total

No, you have about 31GB of free space - total for the phone, not total for your use. Storage is partitioned, like a hard drive. You only have access to the userdata partition, the rest is used by the system. And how Hongyue partitions storage is up to them, so we can't tell you, from those screenshots, how much storage you have. If you install a terminal app (like Terminal Emulator for Android) and run the df command, you'll see how large the user partition is and how much free space there is on it.

yet it tells me I cannot even install an app that adds stickers to whatsapp. How does this come together? Is this a joke?

That depends on how badly they partitioned storage. It's highly unlikely that you're out of user space, but it's possible.

Extra data, when I connect the phone to my PC it tells me it only has one GiB of space total.

That's the /sdcard directory on the user data partition. And it may be all the free space (or even total user space) you have.

This is surely a joke. I mean, why even tell me I got all that space if I cannot use it?

Because Android runs on Linux, so both of them are taking up space. So is all the bloat that came with the phone.

I guess the phone has a separate storage for only apps, and another for pics, music, videos and such.

No, that's all user space.

But why would it separate them, and why would it not show me the important storage, the apps one?

If you understand Linux, you'll understand this, otherwise google it - apps sit in a directory named /data/data - and on an unrooted phone, you don't have read access to /data.