Why do I have such low storage after the Lollipop upgrade?

[awilsmore]

Low storage after Lollipop upgrade

A couple of days ago I upgraded my HTC D816x to Android 5.02 (Lollipop). I was then unable to install much else; insufficient space in internal (*not* SD card) storage.

I looked around; I am not alone in this problem and others were given advice that did little. So far, me too.

Here is what I have done:
- Uninstalled seldom-used apps
- Done a factory reset and restored apps
- Moved all apps to SD card
- Cleared all caches

This has resulted in a trivial improvement.

Here are the current figures from Settings/Storage:

PHONE STORAGE
7.36GB/800GB
Apps - 2.96GB
Photos & videos - 10.43k
Other - 4.40GB
Available - 652MB

SD CARD
1.04/14.83BG

From Storage Truth app:
/system
size: 2264.5M
used: 1766.0M
free: 498.5M
/data
size: 4400.9M
used: 3652.2M
free: 748.8M

I have:
- No Facebook, Twitter or other "social media"
- No games
- No movies

I am guessing that Lollipop just simply uses a lot more space and there is no cure.
- Is this the case? Am I now super-limited in what I can install?
- If it is, why are users not informed and given a choice?

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: Low storage after Lollipop upgrade

Welcome to Android Central! I'm trying to figure out if the "Other" category of 4.4 GB represents the OS and other HTC preinstalled apps. Do you have 2.96 GB of 3rd party apps and app data that you installed? Keep in mind that moving an app to SD often doesn't move all of it--it's usually just a portion of the app, and sometimes a pretty small portion at that.

If you really have 2.96 GB of your own apps that you installed, then you're just bumping up against the limitation of 8 GB of total Internal Storage. The OS is always going to take up about 2-3 GB, and preinstalled apps from the manufacturer and the carrier take up a variable amount of additional space.