I was begining to think that i was the only one suffering from this problem - obviously not as it appears there are plenty of others on other forums are having similar problems - it was suggested that this is best place for the answer - please someone help as i'm pulling out what little hair i've got left!
The Desire keeps telling me that i'm running low on internal storage space - the phone is "clean" as it was delivered - in other words there isn't any other apps been loaded.
I go to manage applications and discover that the HTC Mail application says it has 75mb in data - This cannot be right - but i go to my inbox to find i have 15 headers there each with a 100k limit.
I delete them from the inbox, go to the Trash folder and delete them from there too so they are deleted from phone.
I then go back to the Mail App and it tells me i have 76mb in data
As i continue to receive email the amount of data keeps rising.
I've spoken to VF - they tell me to do a factory reset - still the same.
The phone's OS is getting jerkier by the day as obviously it is loosing operational memory - the Mail today tells me i have 96mb - but i don't have any emails on the phone so where the heck is this data?
If this goes on the phone will ground to a complete stop.
Hope someone can assist as i and thousands of other will be extremely grateful !
Keep up the excellent forum
Have you checked to see if there are any other folders being filled up as it syncs?
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Have you checked to see if there are any other folders being filled up as it syncs?
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Thanks EroThraX but unless i'm missing something here i'm begining to think i'm thick - but by all means point me in the right direction !
I've checked all the mail folders - Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, Sent and Trash and they are all empty.
There isn't a single email on the phone yet it tells me i've now 98mb in data - and yes the OS is now extremely jerky
Download "quick app clean cache"
Fon22
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Download "quick app clean cache"
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Well i've just paid and downloaded the app but it dosen't do anything - it is for clearing the cache - you can do that without getting the app.
What it won't clear is the data
So thanks for trying but that is a dead end.
Anyone else have any ideas?
I guess there is indeed a problem with the mail app. My problem isn't as big as the OP but Mail has 1.9 MB in data and I have no accounts set up! I did play with it for a while bit didn't like it so I'm using only the Gmail app, so I deleted all my accounts in Mail. Why does it still have data (2 MB of it!)?
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Well i've just paid and downloaded the app but it dosen't do anything - it is for clearing the cache - you can do that without getting the app.
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Launch the app, and go into menu
List items by data usage.
You should see where its all being kept
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Launch the app, and go into menu
List items by data usage.
You should see where its all being kept
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Thanks mate - but i've done this already and all it shows you is indeed where it is all stored - in the Mail App in data - not cache.
Curiously the write up for the app states that it allows you to remove data - yet in reality it dosn't allow you to remove data only the cache - so the search continues - what i cannot understand is how many people it is affecting yet there isn't that much of a panic on at the moment to it swallowing data.
i admit that i have plenty of emails coming in and i remove them out of the inbox and trash folders but the data is still there - but where the heck is it ?
You're not the only one at all. I've been troubleshooting this for a few weeks now. First it was the cache, which is somewhat tamed by the above aforementioned app. Now it's the data. With some apps, the data just keeps growing day by day. My Mail is now at 3.5MB without me knowing why (empty mail accounts) and my internet is at 6.2MB - although I'm inclined to reckon this is due to added bookmarks.
In the Mail app, under Menu>More>Settings>General Settings>Attachment Cache, do you have "external storage" selected?
Somehow, deleted junk mail attachments were still being kept and this was how one of my storage related issues was resolved. I go into the SD card dir and manually delete the large attachments now, if I can clearly make out which are unwanted. Even after the selected mail is deleted, their attachments are still there.
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I`m going to go out on a limb and say that the op is using a googlemail or gmail account with the Htc Mail app and unless you actually delete from the account,not just the phone then the trash will just keep being resynced and added back.
Similar thing happened to me, but with the browser and perhaps with some other application, same 75mb in data, so it has to be a bug of some sort...
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You're not the only one at all. I've been troubleshooting this for a few weeks now. First it was the cache, which is somewhat tamed by the above aforementioned app. Now it's the data. With some apps, the data just keeps growing day by day. My Mail is now at 3.5MB without me knowing why (empty mail accounts) and my internet is at 6.2MB - although I'm inclined to reckon this is due to added bookmarks.
In the Mail app, under Menu>More>Settings>General Settings>Attachment Cache, do you have "external storage" selected?
Somehow, deleted junk mail attachments were still being kept and this was how one of my storage related issues was resolved. I go into the SD card dir and manually delete the large attachments now, if I can clearly make out which are unwanted. Even after the selected mail is deleted, their attachments are still there.
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Thanks for all this - i was begining to think i was the only one suffering from it.
As per your question I do have external storage selected.
So when I go to the sdcard/mail directory are you saying that the files in there are the mail data that the mail app says is in storage internally?
There is a lot of them some are just numbers as the name,
permisssions : .rw
but it dosen't say the Mime type:
Size are all different - 47, 275 bytes
Some are tokens and numbers - but are 0 bytes in size
and i have maybe 20 which are small images (4,020 bytes)
If i'm wrong - slap me ! - surely that means that as i have external data selected the data should go to the sd card - so how come it keeps telling me that i'm low on internal memory if the data is stored on the sd card?
Are you suggesting that this data also needs to be removed too - but how can you differeniate between the files if you did want to keep important emails on the phone when the files are literally just aline of numbers?
Another point suggested by a forum member - the mail account is NOT a web based account - it is a server so that when they are downloaded once that's it you don't get them repeatidly - but thanks for the interest anyway.
Hopefully as other members are discussing this now we might get to a solution before the phones stop completly !
Any news about it? Tried to figure out the location where these files are stored, but couldn't find it
Not sure anyone found an answer, but I believe the /sdcard/.mail directory is the files that get attached to outbound emails. I had my eris configured for the stock email package (for my personal email account) and a gmail account.
I rooted my phone recently and before I installed a bunch of stuff I parused the sdcard contents. The .mail directory had attachments from long ago.
I'm guessing they are orphaned since the email no longer exists on my phone.
I deleted the files since I had all the attachments. (leave the .mail dir)
I had exactly this issue with the HTC mail app also with a pop account.
Cleared cache, deleted all emails, deleted all acounts and then deleted all the actual emails it left behind on the sd card and phone using Astro file manager (yes deleting the accounts and email through the app made no difference and left them physically behind).
After doing all of the above the mail app still showed as 80MB used.
At this point i then bit the bullet and did a "factory data reset", this resolved the issue for me and i havent had the issue since (well sort of, read on).
I am a lot more stringent on my mail sync'd to the app now though which is what is making the difference / a work around.
I only sync 14 days, only download the text (attachments if i need them i do manually).
There is currently only 3MB being shown used in the email app now after 3 weeks (i dont get a lot of email), which is a lot for only text mails for 14 days with the odd attachment.
There is no way there is 3MB worth of email in the mailbox which for me confirms the app itself just doesnt clean up after itself when you delete the mails.
So yep seems like a bug to me, which by the way i saw in 2.1 and 2.2.
Hope that helps
Actually I have exactly same issue with my stock 2.1 desire.
Is this problem resolved in 2.2? I am with an Asia ROM so haven't got 2.2 yet.
Touchdown is okay but I don't really want to install another program just for this stupid bug...
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I read about people having problems with this app just after the Desire was released, it was said that the stock Android email app doesn't have any problems so I have been using that until recently and I never had any problems with it.
I have started using the HTC Mail app but I might switch back after reading this.
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Actually I have exactly same issue with my stock 2.1 desire.
Is this problem resolved in 2.2? I am with an Asia ROM so haven't got 2.2 yet.
Touchdown is okay but I don't really want to install another program just for this stupid bug...
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No its not fixed in 2.2, as per my previous post i have seen this issue in 2.1 and 2.2 which im currently running.
how to claim back the free space without doing a factory reset? my mail app now is 47mb....
Just another confirmation. I have a co-worker with a CDMA Desire running stock 2.1 -- Mail app is showing 69MB and getting the Low Disk Space warning notification. Deleted all mail accounts and power cycled -- no effect.
Probably going to end up doing a master reset.
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Hi all,
I finally got myself a unbranded/sim lock free HTC Desire and the first thing i tried to do was to install some extra apps.
So i install an application called AppManager and it was reporting that the device had 145MB free out of 147MG possible .
Up to this moment everything was okay, and then i started to install some other applications, and since some of them didn't made my happy i just uninstalled them.
This procedure was been done maybe for a half-dozen applications, and at the end i only left the AppManager installed. However now the device reports 101MG free out of 147MG possible. I have restarted the device some times, and this value maintains the same..so i wonder where all the memory went? Is there some sort of bug in the memory management or in the uninstall procedure of applications within HTC Desire / Android 2.1 OS?
If there's any extra info i can provide, feel free to ask for it.
Thanks for your time,
Bruno
Have you tried clearing the internet and mail cache, these can soak up several Mb
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Have you tried clearing the internet and mail cache, these can soak up several Mb
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Hi adesonic,
I have only the gmail account setup (and this email account it's an empty one) and i didn't used internet so far.
By installing and uninstalling over and over applications the memory keeps droping until i see the low storage warning message. The way to fix it is to do a factory reset, but it seems to me that something is very wrong with the device/os.
Thanks,
Bruno
that's a known issue mate, i am having it too and many others i think.
i dunno if this is the reason but what's the process of uninstallation ???? maybe the .apk file is left somewhere when we download it and still take space after uninstall
I have the EXACT same problem on my HTC Desire and it is driving me nuts. And to make things worse I have trouble finding other people with the same problem.
Has anyone else experienced this problem and perhaps found a solution? Im going crazy having to do a factory reset to clear up memory from apps I have already uninstalled (I have turned down cache for my browser and my emails cache is very small too.)
I'll wipe my desire in a few minutes. I've got only 8mb left now, and I really deleted all the stuff I didn't really need... Thinking about getting a bigger MicroSD card & doing A2SD until HTC leaks sense for 2.2. I'll report back after reinstalling all my apps
i've got 3MB left
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i've got 3MB left
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Get Estrongs file explorer and prune your download and downloads folders.
I guess the issue is not having the capacity of microsd card shrinking, but the internal memory being shrinked after several installs/uninstalls. It also drives me mad on my Desire.
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I assume you were using the Market app to install apps. This has a cache that gets pretty big. I've gotten it up to 10mb before. You can go into Applications and choose the market app and clear cache. I've had this issue and the only way I've sorted it was to get the apps I wanted, tested some others, come to some conclusion what I really wanted and then do a fresh restore and only install the apps I wanted.
Something i did not realized before but after reading this thread, i know realized that after 7 days of using my Desire, i only have 43MB left
And to think i was telling myself i can take my time and test as many application as possible cos i can always uninstall those i don't like. Looks like there is an after effect
Is this problem only on rooted desire or?
if you know if this will be fixed with v2.2?
No it's affecting non rooted too.
I did a Factory Reset a while ago. I then had 41MB free, after reset and installing the same apps again i had about 94MB free. All this after trying out a lot of apps.
Now it´s the same again, So a reset will free a lot of memory.
Does anyone know of an app that will back up my e-mail accounts settings? That was the only part that had to be reconfigured after the reset. WiFi, contacts and app settings are a breeze but the e-mail settings has to be done manually.
yes but factory reset delete all settings..or? isnt this annoying?
Not at all, if you've selected Menu/Settings/Privacy (Iguess, my phone is in Swerdish)
That will back up almost everything.
Not your Own Theme settings however.
i hope that this will be fixed with v2.2. Becouse i want buy this phone, but i will think twice. Problems with memory, vibrating, multitouch, and so on..
-Hell No! (Sorry )
This is an awsome phone, I've had no problems with mine.
Yes there is a shortage of memory, but you'll find that in other phones too and it will be taken care of somewhat in 2.2. The very few shortcomings are out weighted by its stellar performance in other ways. The multitasking in the Desire is seriously good. I often use 3-4 apps simultaneously and it doesnt even lag or slow down. Cardiotrainer, Music and c:geo is working about an hour together everyday and when the phone rings or I get an message/mail I don't have to exit the running apps - try that on an iPhone
My advice - Buy it and do it now.
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No it's affecting non rooted too.
I did a Factory Reset a while ago. I then had 41MB free, after reset and installing the same apps again i had about 94MB free. All this after trying out a lot of apps.
Now it´s the same again, So a reset will free a lot of memory.
Does anyone know of an app that will back up my e-mail accounts settings? That was the only part that had to be reconfigured after the reset. WiFi, contacts and app settings are a breeze but the e-mail settings has to be done manually.
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Sorry i have to ask but when you say setting up WiFi, contacts and apps is a breeze....do you mean restoring from the back up? Now if i would to hard reset, how do i restore my data from the memory card assuming i don't want to sync my contacts & calendar. What about general phone settings?
Well, all WiFi connections I had set up before - they just worked again.
All apps will be wiped, but they will be on your Downloaded page in Market. So its just a matter of installing them again.
All apps that had files and settings on memory card - recognized this and all was back to normal.
I use Google Calendar and that syncs back when setting up your Google account again.
Contacts I sync with Outlook, but if you have them in your Google Gmail account as contacts I suppose they just sync back.
The only thing I really had to do all over was setting up my e-mail accounts. The rest just fell in place.
Only thing I lost was my history in CardioTrainer, because I forgot to "Backup to SD card".
So take a peek in your apps if there is an option to backup to SD card and when the app is installed after the reset you can restore from your card again.
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Well, all WiFi connections I had set up before - they just worked again.
All apps will be wiped, but they will be on your Downloaded page in Market. So its just a matter of installing them again.
All apps that had files and settings on memory card - recognized this and all was back to normal.
I use Google Calendar and that syncs back when setting up your Google account again.
Contacts I sync with Outlook, but if you have them in your Google Gmail account as contacts I suppose they just sync back.
The only thing I really had to do all over was setting up my e-mail accounts. The rest just fell in place.
Only thing I lost was my history in CardioTrainer, because I forgot to "Backup to SD card".
So take a peek in your apps if there is an option to backup to SD card and when the app is installed after the reset you can restore from your card again.
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Thanks for the info. Will come in handy looking at my memory already now left with 25MB. It's going to be too soon before i have to hard reset
Hi folks. I've had my HTC Desire for about two months now and I just love it. However lately something has come up: although I only have about 10 apps installed, the phone started to warn me that its reaching its internal storage limit. When I check the apps list, cache etc, I see that Mail is taking over 22mb of space.
My question is: are all my emails being stored in the phone internal memory? I have four accounts configured in the device and three of them are work related so I need to have old messages always at hand. I tried looking through menus and settings but did not find any option to select where email messages are stored.
I'm worried that as more messages are stored it will eventually require all of the phones internal memory space (that is, assuming that the messages are indeed stored there, as it seems to me right now). Furthermore I already had to uninstall a few apps just so I could have the Navigon satnav app in the phone.
I know Froyo is expected to fix such issues when its released to the Desire devices, but until then what should I do? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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My question is: are all my emails being stored in the phone internal memory?
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Yes, they are (many had the same problem as you before, myself being one). Make sure your deleted ones are deleted again from each accounts Trash folder.
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Hey there,
I am equipping two Google Apps a.k.a. Gmail accounts on my Desire. Unfortunately, though I have a FroYo release that supports native a2sd, my phone has no internal space left due to Gmail downloading all messages to the phone memory. With a ****load of labels, this is really annoying.
I searched back & forth, but I couldn't find any solution to this problem - does anyone have a clue as how to make the Gmail data kindly move (and stay) onto the SD card? I tried 'Move cache for Root Users' (http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/it.tautility/) but it just didn't move my two accounts cache data to the SD card.
Thanks in advance!!
I surely don't mean to grab the whole forum's attention here (which I won't achieve anyway), but since 68 people viewed this topic and nobody replied... - does nobody have the same problem? Don't you ever use labels, or don't you sync them and get in trouble with disk space? Or does nobody have it on the internal storage and have some clever solution that I miss?
Do you really need all the e-mail of your account? Mine just synchronizes with the mail of the last 4 days and if i want anything beyond that it will automatically load it via my data connection.
you can change the amount of days by pressing menu when in the gmail app then choose settings and then labels.
Reminds me of Steve Job's 'you hold that phone the wrong way'....
Yes and no, it somehow worked well on the stock ROM, and I surely had some folders sync completely. I don't know why it does not work on the current ROM I use ([ROM-FroYo] Official Froyo HTC Sense ROM (16/07 v1.0c | OpenDesire Team)), but it doesn't seem to do anything strange anyway...
Hi a while ago i was trying to root my phone,so i copied the contents of two sd cards on to my pc,whilst resetting everything last time,and inserting the memory card with one of the images,all my messages returned again,so somewhere on the sd memory this lives,id rather not go through the process of transferring stuff off etc of my current mem card,so does anyone know the location of the data relating to messages?
I know it seems longwinded but if anyone knows id appreciate it as i need one of those messages
I am sure that SMS messages are not stored in the SDcard. They should be stored somewhere in the /data folder in the internal memory...
However, I think your messages came back from HTC sense account sync if you had one before you wiped everything.
Setup HTC sense account again and cross your fingers, if you have a sense account now, delete it a re-do it and hope that might help.
You are in fact a legend,that worked
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I really fail to see what HTC Sense Accounts were about. It was probably a major factor in me getting a DHD over the D (of course, now that I am running a custom ROM, I wouldn't go back!).
Anywho, they are meant to be able to track your phone, see where it has been, store all your messages etc. I set it up as instructed, logged in, ran through all the hopes, enabled all the right settings, and what happens? Nothing. 95% of the time when I try to access the site, it doesn't want to work. Also, it has only saved about my first 5 text messages.
In the end I find that using SMSBackup+ is the best thing to do. It allows you to backup all your texts/mms/call log to your GMail account.
Hi all - I searched for references to this issue, but haven't found anything yet. Hope someone here can help.
I've been using my Galaxy Nexus (LTE / Verizon) since mid December, locked, unrooted, vanilla - and it's been great. I've been using the native email apps for my GMail account and my work/corporate account on our company's Exchange Server. All has worked perfectly so far. First sign of something weird happened last night.
Last night I backed up, rooted and unlocked my GNex (using the WugFresh utility). I followed the directions closely -- all worked pretty much perfectly. As suggested, I took 2 backups: first without system apps and settings, and the 2nd including them. After I was done rooting and unlocking, I restored the big backup with system apps and settings. Only thing I noticed is that passwords are apparently not part of the settings that can be saved/restored (makes sense!), so I had to reenter credentials for my email apps.
This done, I sync to both GMail and Exchange Server, receive and send mail just fine. Only weird thing is that when I tap the EMail icon to start up the email client that talks to Exchange Server, in addition to opening up my inbox properly, I ALSO see two error messages in sequence:
"Account wasn't found. It may have been removed."
and
"Folder wasn't found. It may have been removed."
The errors then fade, and email is perfectly usable.
I'm guessing that some folder and account entry was restored along with the apps from my backup, and that whatever these pointed to no longer exist, and were superseded by they email app when I reconnected to the Exchange Server during setup after rooting / unlocking.
I've looked - and only see a single account configured in the app -- the correct one. I've checked in Settings / Apps, and there are no options to clear data or cache.
I'm wondering if I should delete the one account I see and re-add it...not sure if that will make a difference.
Anyone have a clue what's going on, and what I might do about it?
thanks in advance,
Jon
Im having the exact same problem!!
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Im having the exact same problem!!
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In the end, I wound up doing a factory reset on the phone. I was tempted to delete and recreate the account, but I'm convinced there was a phantom (non-existent?) folder / account that the email client kept trying to refer to and that this would have persisted. A factory reset cured the issue, and this time I did NOT restore my entire backup including system apps and data. Instead, I let Google Play and Amazon App store reinstall 99% of my apps, leaving me 3 or 4 that I had to do by hand. In the end it didn't take long at all to do this, and result is a happy Galaxy Nexus once more.
Jon
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In the end, I wound up doing a factory reset on the phone. I was tempted to delete and recreate the account, but I'm convinced there was a phantom (non-existent?) folder / account that the email client kept trying to refer to and that this would have persisted. A factory reset cured the issue, and this time I did NOT restore my entire backup including system apps and data. Instead, I let Google Play and Amazon App store reinstall 99% of my apps, leaving me 3 or 4 that I had to do by hand. In the end it didn't take long at all to do this, and result is a happy Galaxy Nexus once more.
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Hi, just wanted to let you know what the solution was in my case. I was messing around with everything, wasting two full days with about 100 times recreating the account, trying to restore/replace Mail/ExchangeServices app/data in various different ways, factory reset, reflashing system, etc. etc. ... nothing helped!
Finally, a few minutes ago I got it: Just recreate the stupid homescreen link! I never thought about trying to start the Mail application via "all apps". If I did (earlier), I would have seen (earlier) that the message does not appear then. It only appears when starting it via my homescreen link, which is actually a widget (looking like a normal app link), configured to open a certain folder of a certain account. So the actual problem was just that this widget could not find the "old" account anymore (probably because some account id changes if an account is deleted and recreated). The reason I've been fooled over and over again (even after factory resets and system flashes) is because I always restored my homescreen stuff in one way or another, so I always used the same old broken link.
D'OH!
Hope that next time someone comes across this issue this post will help. Currently there seems to be no (other) solution to this on the internet. At least I did not find anything in the past two days.
Thanks for posting an easy solution!
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Hi, just wanted to let you know what the solution was in my case. I was messing around with everything, wasting two full days with about 100 times recreating the account, trying to restore/replace Mail/ExchangeServices app/data in various different ways, factory reset, reflashing system, etc. etc. ... nothing helped!
Finally, a few minutes ago I got it: Just recreate the stupid homescreen link! I never thought about trying to start the Mail application via "all apps". If I did (earlier), I would have seen (earlier) that the message does not appear then. It only appears when starting it via my homescreen link, which is actually a widget (looking like a normal app link), configured to open a certain folder of a certain account. So the actual problem was just that this widget could not find the "old" account anymore (probably because some account id changes if an account is deleted and recreated). The reason I've been fooled over and over again (even after factory resets and system flashes) is because I always restored my homescreen stuff in one way or another, so I always used the same old broken link.
D'OH!
Hope that next time someone comes across this issue this post will help. Currently there seems to be no (other) solution to this on the internet. At least I did not find anything in the past two days.
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Thank you so much. I just had to recreate my account settings (5 of them since Ihave corporate but also use exchange settings for hotmail) and hated to see this message (and a second one similar but about a folder who could not be found). I removed the icon on the home screen and put the Email app (not the widget to avoid the same problem in the future) back and not more error! I really did not want to reset my phone.