Root Missing storage space?

[Wrath6647]

I've had my phone for about a month now and recently noticed that my available space was no where near what I was expecting it to be.

I've attached a picture of my storage breakdown, and I've added everything up and I come up with about 4.8 GB of used space , yet it says I only have 1.23GB of free space. How do I find out whats taking up so much space? Or any ideas on how to recover my space?

I have rooted and unlocked my phone, and after trying out CM and AOKP, restored back to the stock ROM for now.

Thanks in advance

 

[MacFett]

Are you accounting for your dalvik cache? I run storage analyzer and it gives a pretty good idea of where your space goes.

 

[Wrath6647]

I guess it was actually CWM, and its backups/blobs. I deleted my CWM backups and the blobs and installed TWRP. I liked TWRP better on my previous phone anyways.

Thanks for the Storage analyzer app, that thing is great. I also wiped my cache and dalvik cache for good measure, and now have about 5.5 GB of free space, which is fine with me.

 

[MacFett]

Careful with twrp and wiping the data. I did that and it wipes the" SD" too.

 

[desarenezitic]

Wipe data / factory reset on TWRP does NOT wipe internal storage so you're stuff is safe, you have to be specific if you want to wipe internal storage.

OS doesn't show up on the storage, that's why usable is shown as 12.92 (16GB) and 5.67 (8GB). Misc is just that, anything that doesn't show up in the categories above (typically Titanium Backup, zip files etc) just click it to see what it's comprised of.

 

[MacFett]

Wipe data / factory reset on TWRP does NOT wipe internal storage so you're stuff is safe, you have to be specific if you want to wipe internal storage.

The version I was using from xda when I said to wipe data it came up with a message that proceeding would wipe my SD card too. I didn't fully read it the first two times and couldn't figure out what happened to my back ups and zips. I got frustrated with it and switched to cwm.