Running out of room
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rivencap
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Can you reveal a little more info. For instance, I have oreo on my note 8. I have the apps that came with the phone, roughly 200 apps download from Google play, almost a 1000 personal pictures/video, 30 ringtones and 50 or so documents. I haven't set up my external memory card yet so no music, my 10000 plus photos & videos and movies etc. I'm sitting around 27gb free. Here's a screen shot of my memory. You either have apps that take a huge memory footprint (games can do that) , lots of apps in a whole, something is eating up your memory or no memory card and you loaded all your personal files that might have been on a external SD card on your internal memory? Again, I included a screen shot. You can find this info in settings -> device maintenance -> storage. Hope this helps.
Can you reveal a little more info. For instance, I have oreo on my note 8. I have the apps that came with the phone, roughly 200 apps download from Google play, almost a 1000 personal pictures/video, 30 ringtones and 50 or so documents. I haven't set up my external memory card yet so no music, my 10000 plus photos & videos and movies etc. I'm sitting around 27gb free. Here's a screen shot of my memory. You either have apps that take a huge memory footprint (games can do that) , lots of apps in a whole, something is eating up your memory or no memory card and you loaded all your personal files that might have been on a external SD card on your internal memory? Again, I included a screen shot. You can find this info in settings -> device maintenance -> storage. Hope this helps.//uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180502/f7aca133688767037af2d58bfc9f5f56.jpg
I have an SD card with all the pics on it.
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Rukbat
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The question is, how much free space was there available when the phone was first turned on and set up?
Storage is partitioned. The system is in a different partition than user space, but it's never going to have the full advertised storage space, even with no user-installed files (no apps, no pictures, no music, etc.) If the phone has 64GB of storage advertised, it will have (ignoring the difference between GB and GiB) around 55GB of free user storage at most. That's normal. (And, in some phones, it might be even less than that - depending on how the manufacturer partitions storage.)
I'm a real software junky, and install a lot of things just to see what someone's asking and how to fix it, and I've never exceeded the available storage in a phone with 64GB to start. As long as you keep the large stuff (thousands of music files, thousands of pictures, a few dozen full-length movies, etc.) on the external SD card, the phone should have more than enough space for all the apps you want to install. Keeping 5,000 songs in internal storage, though, would kind of change that.
Storage is partitioned. The system is in a different partition than user space, but it's never going to have the full advertised storage space, even with no user-installed files (no apps, no pictures, no music, etc.) If the phone has 64GB of storage advertised, it will have (ignoring the difference between GB and GiB) around 55GB of free user storage at most. That's normal. (And, in some phones, it might be even less than that - depending on how the manufacturer partitions storage.)
I'm a real software junky, and install a lot of things just to see what someone's asking and how to fix it, and I've never exceeded the available storage in a phone with 64GB to start. As long as you keep the large stuff (thousands of music files, thousands of pictures, a few dozen full-length movies, etc.) on the external SD card, the phone should have more than enough space for all the apps you want to install. Keeping 5,000 songs in internal storage, though, would kind of change that.
You are using a Note 8, right? I have a bunch of apps too, and store all of my photos and music on my microSD card. I have 27GB of free space on internal storage.
Here are some possible causes. These are in no particular order.
1. You could have a hardware problem and one or more of the internal memory chips are bad.
2. The firmware is corrupt and it is reporting an inaccurate storage to the OS.
3. There are one or more apps that are hogging space, either through log files, app data, or just poorly written.
4. Or... You have a crap load of apps.
My bet is 3 as the most likely problem causer.
1. You could have a hardware problem and one or more of the internal memory chips are bad.
2. The firmware is corrupt and it is reporting an inaccurate storage to the OS.
3. There are one or more apps that are hogging space, either through log files, app data, or just poorly written.
4. Or... You have a crap load of apps.
My bet is 3 as the most likely problem causer.
KruseLudsMobile
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No. If you have a 64 GB device, the OS would be taking up less than 15% of it, leaving 85% for your stuff.
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Both Nougat and Oreo have seamless updates, meaning that there are 2 OS partitions. Samsung's version of Android isn't exactly small, and that version of the OS is copied twice, meaning less room overall for the user.
If that's the case, then why do I have approximately the same amount of free space with Oreo I had with Nougat?
Like I said previously, it's possibly one of those four issues. With a possible 5th; his phone is a counterfeit.
Edit: There is another reason the OP could be running out of space. If he is using apps like Amazon Prime Video, Movies Anywhere, etc., and he is downloading the movies to watch offline. Those apps automatically default to internal storage.
To the OP. If you are using the apps I just mentioned, and you are downloading the movies to watch offline, then make sure your SD card is set as the download for each of those apps.
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When you reboot after an update, do you see the 'optimizing app 1 of 95' (I used a random number for an example)? If you don't that is the seamless updates. What happens is you have 2 partitions....Let's say you are currently running partition B. When you accept the update, it gets applied to Partition A. When you reboot to finish the update, the OS shifts from B to A. This is similar to how Chrome OS updates.
As for why the size didn't change, If you already had seamless updates, then the partitions were already there.
What is your total usable space versus what is was installed with?
Yes it did that.
This is what I'm showing.
36.2 used
27.8 unused
That equals 64, which is what I'm suppose to have.
So I'm not sure how I can have two partitions.
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