Internal storage question

[Johnny_Mac]

I was just looking through my Xoom's settings and decided to check out my storage settings and to my shock found that I only have 10 gigs free.

I have @ 2.5GB of media but the shocker was it says I have used almost 16GB (SIXTEEN!!!) on applications! I checked my installed apps and I have less than 100 apps the majority of which are under 1MB, a dozen or so at under 10MB, about 5 at under 20MB and only 3 apps that are using more than that (Maps, Earth, and Dungeon Defenders) at just over a gig together.

Since I'm only using less than 1.5GB what the heck is using up all the space?? Is Android using up even more space than a loaded install of Windows Vista??? I sure hope someone can shed some light on this.

What does your storage usage look like?

 

[ScottAtlanta82]

I was just looking through my Xoom's settings and decided to check out my storage settings and to my shock found that I only have 10 gigs free.

I have @ 2.5GB of media but the shocker was it says I have used almost 16GB (SIXTEEN!!!) on applications! I checked my installed apps and I have less than 100 apps the majority of which are under 1MB, a dozen or so at under 10MB, about 5 at under 20MB and only 3 apps that are using more than that (Maps, Earth, and Dungeon Defenders) at just over a gig together.

Since I'm only using less than 1.5GB what the heck is using up all the space?? Is Android using up even more space than a loaded install of Windows Vista??? I sure hope someone can shed some light on this.

What does your storage usage look like?

Hmmm, I'm only using 2.67GB for Media and 763MB for Applications. 25.00GB Available. And I have lots of apps installed....

 

[SHWELL]

Based on all your threads, you seem to be having a lot of issues Johnny..

 

[radsaq]

Try using the SD card usage tool in Astro; it will show you a visual display of the usage of all the folders in the internal storage (which is actually mounted as an sd card).

 

[Johnny_Mac]

Based on all your threads, you seem to be having a lot of issues Johnny..

LOL! Not really...most of my questions are just curiosity based. This one is a real puzzler to me though and makes little sense.

 

[Johnny_Mac]

Try using the SD card usage tool in Astro; it will show you a visual display of the usage of all the folders in the internal storage (which is actually mounted as an sd card).

Thanks! I will give it a try and let you know what I find out.

EDIT: Well, now it makes even less sense! Below is what the SDCard usage tool tells me and the numbers don't add up. Can anyone make sense of this?

Capacity: 29.48 GB
Used: 18.92 GB
Free: 10.56 GB

(folders in order of space used from highest to lowest)
Music: 1.16 GB
Android: 826.92 MB
Movies: 889.69 MB
glu: 119.65 MB
DCIM: 77.57 MB
eBooks: 54.30 MB
Download: 10.68 MB
Pulse: 1.79 MB
...and so on in descending order. All less than 1 MB.

 

[radsaq]

Weird.. there must be some sort of bug in an application (a system one?) that pooped all over your /data. (/data and /sdcard on the xoom use the same partition of the internal storage device; /system and /cache are separate partitions.)

 

[Johnny_Mac]

I'm on the phone with VZW as I type this and they are checking to see if anyone there has encountered this before. At this point it's looking like they want to replace it under the worry-free warranty. Ahh well...here goes he reload game all over again with a new one.

 

[zmenchhofer]

have you rebooted your xoom? i had issues like this... reset by these steps:

hold the vol+ and power button until it reboots.

 

[radsaq]

You could try doing a factory reset (which will kill everything in /data) and seeing if that clears up the space. That way you don't have to bother exchanging devices.

 

[Johnny_Mac]

I have rebooted and it's the same deal. If it wasn't inside the 2 weeks worry-free they would have had me do a hard reset and start from scratch all over again but since it is, they recommend I just swap it out for a new one and check each time I add an app until I find the one that is causing the false space reporting.

 

[Johnny_Mac]

You could try doing a factory reset (which will kill everything in /data) and seeing if that clears up the space. That way you don't have to bother exchanging devices.

I considered that but if it is a hardware glitch I'd rather not worry about it happening again after the replacement period has ended. If I'm gonna reset up all my stuff anyway, I'd rather do it on a fresh machine.