Why is my Huawei phone's storage being constantly filled?

Medi DEMIRDELEN

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Hello, I'll try to explain the situation.

I had an issue with my phone (Huawei P8 lite 2017) where the storage was pretty much completely filled and I couldn't have access to almost all of it. Since I was using the phone since quite a lot of time now, I thought it might have been an accumulation of residual useless files or stuff like that, so I decided to reset it.

After I did the reset, my phone was plugged to my laptop and it showed me 7,23gb of room left on the laptop windows explorer (internal storage is supposedly 16gb, I don't know the exact value I think it's closer to 14~15).

Considering the two games I wanted to have on my phone shouldn't go over 5gb, I thought I would be able to install these two. However, after I installed the first one (approximately 2gb), my phone only had 2gb left, which was weird since, after doing the math correctly, there shoud be about 5gb left.

When I checked the internal storage on my phone, I had that (screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/I0etqHw.png) Even by taking into account the little gap of actual gb value/displayed gb value, it doesn't add up, there is approximately 4gb lost.

I then installed the app Storage Space that supposedly shows how the storage is occupied. And it showed me 8gb of apps (rather than the 3~gbs showed by my phone). And when I checked back today (I did the reset tuesday, aka two days ago) on Storage Space (screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/713fAnN.png), the apps are now at almost 9gbs!!

Can anyone explain how my phone's storage is always getting filled but things I don't know? Like, how I see the things, I definitely should be have more remaining storage than that. Even now, when I add up one by one the storage of my apps, I don't reach 9gb, and at the time just after reset it was pretty much almost all storage free but it's been clogged up little by little.
 
Welcome to Android Central! I'm not familiar with the Storage Space app -- how much detail does it give? DiskUsage is another good app to use, and can tell you in more detail what's taking up the space.
 

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