Cant install apps, insufficent room. - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

When I try to install an game, it says im out of room.. but I still have 800mb of space left.

How big is the game? I've seen a couple that were around a gig.
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estallings15 said:
How big is the game? I've seen a couple that were around a gig.
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im not sure... Its Chrono Trigger .. I installed it before but it said something about not authenticating.. I uninstalled it and then then it said that after i tried to reinstall it

Have you tried pushing some of your existing apps to your SD card to free up the internal memory?

Bass_Man25 said:
Have you tried pushing some of your existing apps to your SD card to free up the internal memory?
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Yeah, this. You can go to "applications" in your settings and get it to sort them by size, then selectively push big ones to your SD card. Much better than randomly choosing which ones to move over.

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Is it possible to store photos and videos on internal memory? If so how would o go about doing that?
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orcsbane13 said:
Is it possible to store photos and videos on internal memory? If so how would o go about doing that?
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I'm not sure i heard it was just for apps however you us connect using PC mode it opens a drive to that 8 gb internal memory. It has some drivers and PC applications that you can install from it. I didn't try writing anything to it at the time and I'm not sure you can. Give it a try and let me know.
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I'm not sure i heard it was just for apps however you us connect using PC mode it opens a drive to that 8 gb internal memory. It has some drivers and PC applications that you can install from it. I didn't try writing anything to it at the time and I'm not sure you can. Give it a try and let me know.
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Cool, hadn't tried that yet. Got mine before work but i will deffinately try tonight.
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why do u want to do this? you have 16gb sd card for that.
moosc said:
why do u want to do this? you have 16gb sd card for that.
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Why WOULDN'T you want it is the question...
I like the idea all app data in one place and my data in another. Especially since the card can't pop out by accident. Why fill internal mem with media and then complain about no room for apps, imo of course.
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Force close on games

I am running hyperdroid gbx v10
I have tried to install speed forge 3d demo from market but the game FC all, the time..i do experience this was other random games aswell. Any suggestions for fix
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Try moving the app to the phone if its on the SD card.
I haven't moved any app s to sd card as I don't think theres any need as I have sd ext partition of 1gb. And the rom uses this automatically.
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hc97mg2000 said:
I haven't moved any app s to sd card as I don't think theres any need as I have sd ext partition of 1gb. And the rom uses this automatically.
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Well, some apps should be on phone, even if you've got SD-Ext. If it doesn't work, you're outta luck.
here's the thing.
sometimes the app installs to SD, even if you didn't tell it to, so check the app anyways and if it says "SD" move it to phone.
If it says "phone" and still FC, then move it to SD, then move it back to phone and try again, you should be good.
don't ask me why but it works.
Hi
I tried this..moved to sd then back to phone... But did not solve issue
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[q]MOVE GOOGLE MAPS TO SD CARD ???

Ok so I think Google maps is awesome! But, it's a hog. It takes up 15MB of memory on my phones internal memory. Is there anyway to move it to the SD card and have it still work properly? Yes, I used the search. Found some links on how to move it if your on WinMo. But, found no resuts for Android. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks.
If it's installed as a system app you can't move it to SD by default. If it's installed on the data partition then you can move it to SD like most other apps. I believe you can just remove it with Titanium or something similar and then download it from the Market so it installs in Data.
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just out of curiosity, are you running low on storage?
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No, not running low. It's just that I've noticed the size oof the file is huge. After this last update it went up over 4MB. Since their going to keep updating it I want to put it on my SD card. That way I'm not so concerned about the file size.
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jesusice said:
If it's installed as a system app you can't move it to SD by default. If it's installed on the data partition then you can move it to SD like most other apps. I believe you can just remove it with Titanium or something similar and then download it from the Market so it installs in Data.
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Tried uninstall with Titanium Backup, didn't work. All it did was say it uninstalled. But it actually didn't fully unistall. Just made it unuseable. Glad I thought about it and did a backup first. Well it was worth a shot . I'm still not convinced it can't be moved.
That same thing happened to me, I uninstalled it and it was still there. I rebooted. It was gone. DL from market and I was able to move it to SD.
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I think the issue with me not being able to move it has to be, because I'm on the Stock Sence Rom.
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Yeah, maybe I over looked that haha. I couldn't find a way to move it on the stock rom either. But, I moved on to 2.3.
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Going to switch to a custom rom. Too many limits on stock rom. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.
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[Q] Max size of app?

I just finished a new app that is about 32mb. I have 70mb of free space on my phone, but when I try to install the apk it says "not even space, could not install, please free up some space and try again." Even though the app is quite large, 70mb of space should be more than enough. Does anyone know why it won't install? Are apk's not allowed to be >30mb or something? This is the biggest app I've made so far so I haven't had to deal with this issue before, all of my other apps were less than 10mb.
It should have worked.
Here are the limits as I know it:
1. Android market allows a maximum of 50MB per apk.
2. Installing to SD card is also limited but I don't know the actual limit.
3. Installing to internal memory is limited to 50% of free memory.
Try adding android:installLocation="preferExternal" to your manifest file.
Disclaimer: things might have changed since the last time I checked, so I might be wrong.
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Try adding android:installLocation="preferExternal" to your manifest file.
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I would prefer: android:installLocation="auto" so one can choose where to install the app and you can do different tests. Anyway may attention: this could be used only for api level >8 (it seems it could be used even for OS <2.2 but I've not tested for it).
Hmm I'll try that. I might look into getting a new phone as well because this Desire is starting to feel outdated. Internal memory is so small that I have to uninstall an app almost every time I want to install a new one.
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Hmm I'll try that. I might look into getting a new phone as well because this Desire is starting to feel outdated. Internal memory is so small that I have to uninstall an app almost every time I want to install a new one.
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ever tried apps2sd?
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plants vs zombies apk is almost 75mb all on internal.
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ever tried apps2sd?
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What's the difference between apps2sd and just going into the default Android settings and transferring the apps to the sd?
The problem I have is most of the huge apps don't let you transfer them.
rpimps said:
What's the difference between apps2sd and just going into the default Android settings and transferring the apps to the sd?
The problem I have is most of the huge apps don't let you transfer them.
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if I remember correctly, apps2sd allows you to move the entire /data folder to your SD card (/data is what takes up your internal memory)
just search "desire apps2sd" and I'm sure youll find something
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[Q] out of space?

My wife just got an M as a replacement for her old Rezound. She has had it for about three weeks and the phone is already telling her she is out of internal storage. However, when I look at her storage it appears that only her "Backup ASSISTANCE Plus" is full. It's unfortunately causing her phone to be worthless. Does anyone know how to fix this? Her phone is completely stock. Thanks in advance.
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txkorm said:
My wife just got an M as a replacement for her old Rezound. She has had it for about three weeks and the phone is already telling her she is out of internal storage. However, when I look at her storage it appears that only her "Backup ASSISTANCE Plus" is full. It's unfortunately causing her phone to be worthless. Does anyone know how to fix this? Her phone is completely stock. Thanks in advance.
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couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
jco23 said:
couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
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Might also want to disable Backup Assistant in the Application Settings.
Also, clear the cache and make sure that no leftover OTA updates are stored.
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jco23 said:
couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
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Thanks for the feedback. I tried to disable it but it wouldn't let me. I'll take another look tonight. I don't want to do a hard reset unless I have to but if I can't disable it, I'll have no other choice.
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Conclusion. This phone sucks if you can't put apps on the SD. 8gb internal hard drive is really only 4 gigs.
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txkorm said:
Conclusion. This phone sucks if you can't put apps on the SD. 8gb internal hard drive is really only 4 gigs.
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If you root, you can easily store apps on external. Also, internal is partitioned into 4gb halves. One for the the ROM and the other for media/etc. Personally, I don't understand how people fill that up so quickly. I use very few apps and all my media gets stored to my external SD. I'm still sitting at about 3.5GB available on my storage side.
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If you root, you can easily store apps on external. Also, internal is partitioned into 4gb halves. One for the the ROM and the other for media/etc. Personally, I don't understand how people fill that up so quickly. I use very few apps and all my media gets stored to my external SD. I'm still sitting at about 3.5GB available on my storage side.
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I understand it's portioned but I've never seen a phone require half of its internal storage. As for media, it's all going to her card. I guess if you use few apps your ok, but that's not the case with a 5 year. You shouldn't have to root for a phone to be functional with a relatively low amount of apps in use.
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Her phone....
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Her phone....
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I've got just over 100 apps. Also, a little more than 1 gig of my internal space is dedicated to music.
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jco23 said:
I've got just over 100 apps. Also, a little more than 1 gig of my internal space is dedicated to music.
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How are you not having the same issue? Very interesting.
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Do you know if the phone was previously rooted? I know that nandroid backups get saved to internal storage if you don't specify and they will eat up the storage space quickly.
calbrs said:
Do you know if the phone was previously rooted? I know that nandroid backups get saved to internal storage if you don't specify and they will eat up the storage space quickly.
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It came straight from Verizon as a replacement phone so all I know is that it's a refurbished phone. I cleaned up the backup assistance so hopefully that will help. I have a theory that triggered the warning and loss of functionality. We'll see. If it pops back up, it's going back to Verizon.
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txkorm said:
How are you not having the same issue? Very interesting.
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gaining root access allowed me to clear out all of the Verizon bloatware.
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gaining root access allowed me to clear out all of the Verizon bloatware.
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Makes sense since this phone is loaded with it. This is our first Motorola smartphone. Is that a Motorola issue with excess bloat? I know all phones have it but this seems like a lot considering the limited amount of internal memory.
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txkorm said:
Makes sense since this phone is loaded with it. This is our first Motorola smartphone. Is that a Motorola issue with excess bloat? I know all phones have it but this seems like a lot considering the limited amount of internal memory.
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bloat is an issue with all Verizon android phones (the bloat helps bring down the costs on the device).
one of the drawbacks to this device is the lack of internal memory. however, the bigger drawback is in the OS that prevents folks from moving apps to their SD Card.
but once I rooted, and installed a "clean ROM", I got a lot more space.
with your wife's phone, I suspect she has the latest OTA baseband (check the phone settings, if the baseband is prior to May 2013, then you are in luck - DO NOT ACCEPT the UPDATE). if the baseband reads May 2013, then your only option is to gain root access and freeze/delete the bloatware.
if space is an issue, I highly recommend to go this route. otherwise, start trimming some of the apps she never uses.

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