topic Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage??? in Android

Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:45:01 GMT

Hi,

Since having my S3 I've had nothing but problems with it. After having a sim swap and been taken in for repair and STILL not fixing the problem, i'm at my wits end!!

Basically, my phone keeps alerting me that I have insufficient storage. However, if i go on to my storage it says this:
Total Space: 11.25GB

Apps: 563MB
Pictures: 27.05MB

Audio: 72.86MB

Miscellaneous: 148KB

AVAILABLE: 434MB

Where the hell is all my storage?!

I've rebooted/reset my phone 7 times now, it's happened that many times! But I shouldn't have to keep losing ALL my photos and contacts and eveything because of this horrible fault!

What should I do??

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

MI5 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:55:25 GMT

Firstly you should back up your phone so you don't loose anything It can be restored after a reset.

Have you updated to Jelly bean yet as the file format is different which means it is virtually impossible to get low space....

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:57:17 GMT

I have now started to back up everything, as I have a 1 year old and lost lots of photos/videos of him the first time I had to reset 😞 and yes, I've had all the updates! So still no idea why. Maybe a faulty phone?

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

MI5 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:01:37 GMT

If the storage you have written above is exactly as it is on your phone you have issues as it is not displaying correctly for JB OS. Go into settings, about device and look for android version in there. How have you been doing a reset?

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:03:12 GMT

Android Version: 4.1.2

I do the reset by 'Back up and reset' & pressing 'factory data reset' like the person in the o2 shop showed me to do 😕

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

MI5 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:04:28 GMT

Back up everything now and we'll try something else.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:06:02 GMT

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:05:14 GMT

Ok. Everything is backed up, I do it every day now just incase!

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

jonsie — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:09:08 GMT

Try clearing the cache by holding the volume up, home and on switch till you get the menu and then scroll down to clear partition cache, then reboot.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:13:56 GMT

The Menu says:

Reboot System now
apply update from ADB

apply update from external storage

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

apply update from cache

which one?

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

MI5 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:15:08 GMT

Choose wipe cache partition first then reboot the system

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:16:20 GMT

Done - but hasn't resolved the problem

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

MI5 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:17:32 GMT

Go back to recovery menu and choose reset this time.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:19:58 GMT

Every time I reset it works, but then in a week or two it will do the same thing again 😕

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

MI5 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:22:28 GMT

What are you downloading in that week or two? Something is filling your partition up pretty quickly if that's the case.....

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:23:18 GMT

I only download;

facebook, instagram, twitter and subway surfers! haha

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

MI5 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:25:19 GMT

Never heard of subway surfers lol, so I've no idea what that does in terms of phone invasion but the other apps should be OK. Try leaving the surfers off and see what happens

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:25:57 GMT

I've only recently downloaded that! I never had it on the last few times it happened 😞

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

MI5 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:29:02 GMT

How much data is in your instagram account?

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 - Insufficient Storage???

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:29:29 GMT

Not too much! I also have hotmail installed, forgot about that one