I just factory reset because of being low on storage, & now it says I'm low on space because I only have 300mb free. Every time I try to install an app from the play store it displays the dialog asking me to uninstall apps to free up space.
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Recently i have been getting messages that my phone's memory is getting at its limit.
Even though i deleted several apps, it still asks me to clean out more apps in order to function properly.
I read that the phone's internal storage (not counting a microSD card) is 500Mb which should be more than enough to house the apps i installed. so what would cause the phone to fill up with data?
the only "big" apps i have are Google Earth (22Mb) Docs to Go (8Mb) and Google Maps/Navigate (13Mb)
Also i had a strange moment where i recieved a SMS, and it showed the first few words of the message in my sense interface, like always, but when i tried to open it, it said something like: "cant open SMS, disk full, please remove stuff".
I had to remove about 3 apps before i was able to even open a stinking SMS, i mean WTF?
Even though the specs says that Desire have 512 MB ROM, only around 120 MB are available to the user. The rest of the ROM is used by the Android operating system etc.
The first thing I'd look at is internal browser's cache. If your free space is missing, clearing it may be a good idea. Check other apps that may be storing data, also.
How come i get an insufficient space message on my phone when i try to install apps. in settings-storage, it says i still have more than 5gb free space. Surprisingly, when i use the disk usage app, it shows my storage as only 2.2gb with around 1.6gb free. Even so i still have a lot more free space than what is needed to install the pacman game for my kid. I am on ms2ginger 3.0. Any ideas?
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It could be that the storage in settings is SD card and the app is trying to install to Internal Memory?
siakgayyem said:
How come i get an insufficient space message on my phone when i try to install apps. in settings-storage, it says i still have more than 5gb free space. Surprisingly, when i use the disk usage app, it shows my storage as only 2.2gb with around 1.6gb free. Even so i still have a lot more free space than what is needed to install the pacman game for my kid. I am on ms2ginger 3.0. Any ideas?
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Try installing App2SD or something like that, move some apps around and check, if it's your internal memory that is full, it should solve the problem.
But more than probably, you have space left on your SD, but not on the internal memory. Check what is stored where (and there is a settings considering it's "out of space" with a certain % of space left... which can be quite huge, some softs (root) allows to change that, i think system rom toolbox can do it but not sure).
I'm not rooted, completely stock 4.1.1.
I have a persistent "Storage space running out, some system functions may not work" notification, even though the storage settings page (pics 1-2) says I have plenty of space in both my internal storage and SD card. When I go to the manage apps page (3rd pic), though, it gives a different story, which is weird. I also can't download or update apps.
I did some searching and apparently this problem has happened to other people on other phones, particularly samsungs it seems like.
One person suggested using the DiskUsage app to find out what's taking up space. I tried to download it, and it said I had insufficient storage available, even though it's a 155 kb application. I deleted Skype, which is ~24 MB, and I still couldn't download the app because of "insufficient storage." Restarting the phone did nothing.
It seems like this has been happening on and off for a while, but I don't think I've tried to install any new apps recently and I've just ignored the failed updates. I can't remember exactly when it started, or anything I might have done differently around that time.
Any ideas?
That can happen when there's junk in your cache partition as well.. like rogue .apk's. I'd try to clean your cache partition first.
So I hooked it up to my computer and manually went through folders to find out where the space was being taken up. Turns out it was my podcast app (Acast). There was a gig or so of podcasts saved on the internal storage that didn't show up as being related to apps or anything.
I have a rooted S5 w/ 16GB of internal storage, but I'm rarely able to update/download new apps. I have to scrounge for apps to delete for a half hour just to get it to let me download a new app or update an app. I have moved just about all the apps I can to the SD card (32GB, less than half used).
In the storage screen it says I have used 14.88GB in apps, and <20MB in everything else with "Free space" around 400-500MB. I usually have to get it to mid 500s before it will let me do anything on it. To make matters worse, somehow the apps I uninstall keep reinstalling themselves.
My problem seems to be this big "Applications" thing - which isn't right. I have some large apps, but they keep all their data on the SD card (like podcasts with PocketCasts). On my applications manager, from top down in size - facebook @ 190MB, google play services at 156MB, google app at 134MB... dropping off fairly quickly after that, so no way its 15GB worth.
What am I missing? Do others constantly have this problem? It is getting ridiculous! No reason that I can see that there should be a big bunch of stuff that is counted as used when it isn't.
Some things I've tried:
I heard about something the dumpstate/logcat, I cleared it but nothing got better
I used adb to set the default install location to the external SD card (I forget the exact command), as far as I can tell it is still trying to install in the internal SD card.
Any suggestions or more information needed?
EDIT:
More information thanks to DiskUsage (forgot I can download APKs - which install fine). It shows my internal SD card breakdown as 10796MB overall, 2612MB app data, 7815MB "System data", and 340MB free space (plus some other misc. that makes up the difference). I don't have a great understanding of how this is partitioned, but I'd imagine the ~16GB has 5GB off limits for ROM stuff? Then what is taking up nearly 8GB as "System data"? Is this normal?
EDIT 2:
Looks like it was creating duplicates in data/app (on a lot of phones I think this is data/app-lib). I used root explorer to purge the duplicates, and now have nearly 3GB free instead of a couple hundred MB!
I have the same problems but I use DiskUsage from the Play Store. Most of the time it's my cache for the download manager has several gigs of wasted space. Clearing cache fixes it for me.
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I have the same problems but I use DiskUsage from the Play Store. Most of the time it's my cache for the download manager has several gigs of wasted space. Clearing cache fixes it for me.
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I'll check that out the next time I am able to install an app but I should mention I also tap the "cached data" in the storage manager thing (in settings). Usually doesn't work I also use CleanMaster, which seems like it works, some times.
EDIT: Just checked it out, that's awesome! I have been looking for this kind of app, I use WinDirStat on windows that does something similar.
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EDIT: Just checked it out, that's awesome! I have been looking for this kind of app, I use WinDirStat on windows that does something similar.
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I use WinDirStat also. I really like the visual presentation of both.
Here ya go. You can try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=66304384
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Hello,
I have nearly 50% space on my internal storage as well as external (Screenshot-1). However every now and then when I try to update apps, Google Play throws error saying I don't have enough storage and I need to delete some apps (Screenshot-2). If I just close Google Play and come back after few minutes and update apps, they update fine, which means I indeed have enough space. Sometimes I force-close and clear the cache of Play Store and that seems to work too. So it's not the end of the world and I can keep doing this but it is annoying as f**k. The error keeps coming back.
I have tried booting into recovery and cleaning the cache partition. That made no difference. I also ran the built-in Mobile Manager to clear cache but that has also made no difference.
Has anyone faced this issue?