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I am pulling my hair out on this.
I rooted the phone, unrevoked forever!, and now my phone is always reporting it is low on storage. I removed half the apps on the phone and can't get rid of the message.
I did do a nandroid recovery once to make sure the nandroid backup was good (could that screw up the storage totals)?
Under phone storage:
SD Card:
Total 7.6, avialable: 6.2
Internal Phone: Total: 6.6gb, available: 6.45
Phone Memory: Total: 748mb, available 628mb
Looking at the items listed under manage memory (when you click low storage) I estimage about 160mb or so of storage.
When I mount the drives on my computer, I am matching the numbers shown above for available (but the bar charts in windows showing how much memory is left are wrong - they are showing very little free storage).
Any suggestions on how to fix this? I am out of apps I can remove (and that does not seem like the issue anyways).
Any suggestions?
I had this happen over and over again over the life of the phone, including well before root (the first time within days of receipt).
Online, I could only find discussions where people blamed HTC's Mail application, which appears to increase in size, even when no new mail has been downloaded. Asinine, because we have PLENTY of storage?
However, 90% of my ROM installs, I haven't even bothered to set up HTC Mail, and still had it happen. A few times I went into Settings > Applications > Manage Applications, and cleared out data for com.htc.provider.settings or com.htc.socialnetwork.provider to clear the message.
The last time, yesterday, I deleted Facebook/Twitter data (official applications from the market), and deleted Google Earth. One of those cleared it.
I've sat around quiet about it because obviously this isn't widespread. HTC is aware of the issue... but considering I've run two sense and two vanilla ROMs based on leaked 2.2, I have a strange feeling I'm going to keep seeing it.
Let me know if you find anything that isn't a little more hearsay. I'll do the same. My next plan is to wait for Cyanogen and do apps2sd. Don't know why I linked the two, but that is the plan.
I did a complete wipe and a nandroid recovery of my base ROM. While syncing in Touchdown, the low storage message popped up (I sync a large amount of data - ~68mb of data currently). I went into touchdown and removed a few folders (shrinking the data file size) and the message went away.
I am guessing there is a bug when data file size (either one or the aggregate of all) hits a certain threshold the message pops up. For now, I am just syncing less data and will see if it appears again.
I freaked the first time I saw that. Then I saw I had 5 nandroid backups. I moved all but one into a file on my computer and TAHDAH! I had space again. Of course I'm still using the 2GB card that came with the phone, but check how many nandroid backups you have, or back ups from other apps.
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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
adesonic said:
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
Looking for ideas here. I've been getting a low on space notification in my Stock 2.2 for a couple days now. It states that the application data space is low.
What space is it referring? I've got 6.5 GB free on the internal and 4.5 GB free on the external drives. Is there another location that is partitioned off in the internal memory?
Any ideas of what I might be able to do to clear up the notification?
Hmmm... I just found a thread that mentions that it has nothing to do with the storage size but how much is in /data. They recommended clearing the dalvik cache, but I actually did that yesterday.
Installed Cache Cleaner (needs root & Busy Box).
We'll see how it goes...
Go through management for each app... I bet you find one with 99mb of cache.. Clear that app's cache
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Go through management for each app... I bet you find one with 99mb of cache.. Clear that app's cache
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I appear to be ok now. The next time that pops up I'll give that strategy a whirl.
Thanks!
Plenty of people including me who get the warning and no large cache, social apps, email, messages, Google Earth, Skyfire or any of the other suspects. Android has a big a55 bug up its butt and was in 2.1 and now 2.2.
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Go through management for each app... I bet you find one with 99mb of cache.. Clear that app's cache
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Nice tip - thanks, I'd not thought of that.
I still get the error and have no large cache built up on any app, or a total of cache for all apps. I have ZERO of the usual issues: Google Earth, social apps, messages, large emails- none.
I have had the follwing roms and always clear data and caches before installing:
2.1 stock = Low on space
2.2 Skyraider = Low on space
2.2 Stock = Low on space
2.2 without bloatware = Low on space
I have about 380mb of storage out of 748mb I can not use. Ironically, I used to be able to go to about 250mb free, but it creeped into less space now.
It seems almost like the Android OS still thinks some apps using apps2sd still reside in device memory. The device shows the space is free, but I wonder if the OS "thinks" it is not free. Only thing that makes sense to me- displacement.
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I still get the error and have no large cache built up on any app, or a total of cache for all apps. I have ZERO of the usual issues: Google Earth, social apps, messages, large emails- none.
I have had the follwing roms and always clear data and caches before installing:
2.1 stock = Low on space
2.2 Skyraider = Low on space
2.2 Stock = Low on space
2.2 without bloatware = Low on space
I have about 380mb of storage out of 748mb I can not use. Ironically, I used to be able to go to about 250mb free, but it creeped into less space now.
It seems almost like the Android OS still thinks some apps using apps2sd still reside in device memory. The device shows the space is free, but I wonder if the OS "thinks" it is not free. Only thing that makes sense to me- displacement.
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It's a bug. Interestingly I get the same issue at around 380MB too. Oh well.
The only time I see the warning is when I install the beta of Firefox. If I uninstall it, the message goes away. Firefox is a resource HOG!
Woke up this morning to this lovely issue. Going to try clearing the cache... then removing firefox.
EDIT: Clearing the cache seems to have worked.
Donation? lol.
I had this pop up just a few hours ago. I cleared all my cache's, and even moved a bunch of apps to sd. Then I happened to have my phone turned to landscape and a I saw. 1. go to mail an.....(off the edge of screen) ??? So I followed the link to the (i guess) memory manager>gmail>cleared the data. The message went away. I sure hope I remember that one later on. I guess the notification tells you more we just can't see it since it goes off the edge into lala land.
So it must be the newest gmail app. anytime I open it up and re load my account the warning comes up. Anyone got a link to the old gmail apk?
Based on the fact that the population having the issue seems to correlate in magnitude as people accumulate apps, I think it it pretty rock solid that the Incredible has a design bug in regards to actual free phone memory. After trying four roms and starting clean with them (Including 2.1 and 2.2 stock roms), my conclusion is this device does not really have "748"mb free, but a few hundred less.
There are two stages to the problem (one with a temporary fix)
1. Cache build ups causes the warning
2. Absolute space is filled with apps and no more can be installed. This appears to hit most people anywhere from 350mb to 250mb free.
This is a big a55 bug and may be due to the allocation of flash from the 8gb. Droid X does not have the problem, but none of the 8gb internal flash was allocated (it is all phone memory).
Catch with the X is most 3D games now force most data to sd card with no option to leave in the internal flash. Ironic the X has too much storage and wastes space that media could use and the Inc has about the right amount but does not work correctly.
Funny and sad. People that say they have not had the problem probably have not hit the invisible ceiling that is a LOT less than 748mb.
Well the problem for me was my email. I cleared all the data in it and the notice goes away. Re sync it and the notice pops up again. So I cleared the data. Went back into my gmail. Started the sync, then right away went out to setting> applications> google> stopped the sync. When I went back into gmail it had what it started to download listed and I was then able to get into settings. I went into Menu > More> settings> labels then I set the sync to only 1 day at a time. Now my phone seems happy and no low space warning. Hope it lasts.
Most having the problem do not have large mail or app caches. That is a symptom to the actual problem of fake space: the Inc does not really have 748mb free.
Solution has been found!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8618549#post8618549
so any further information on this?
Idk if Im right but can this be cause to if you have to many sms/mms....
Got my desire in march 2010. Used it everyday since then. In the past months its been sluggish. Running out of memory and stalling the browser if I open too many internet Windows etc. I had about 30mb internal free memory. I got do frustrated I decided to wipe and factory reset phone. It has never been reset even since various software updates including 2.1 to 2.2. I had read that the upgrade often leaves crappy behind and a reset is recommended. I did it. I lost my messages, WiFi settings, bookmarks. I thought backup was enabled. Nope. No big deal. I had written a list of my apps down first. Reinstated them after the reset. I now have 55mb free internal. And that includes putting on flash 10.2 which I never had room for before! Synced my contacts with Facebook and gmail and now back where I was, but with much more internal space and phone seems much.quicker. not sluggish at all. Just a tip for those who never rooted and find the phone slower than a year who.
I think it would be best way to ask 2 questions in a thread. So here I go,
I bought my WF S 2 days ago, so far everything is good but noticed that there is a huge 3g traffic on my phone:
1-) Calendar Storage app is sucked around 17 mb in 1.5 days, I have Facebook, Google and Twitter accounts synched in the phone. My calendars are damn empty, not single thing, it only shows birthdays of the people on my Facebook, and that's it. But this little damn thing how come uses 17 mb of internet ? There is no way to set it up to sync only one time a day, only chance is setting it sync off. Is there a solution for this problem?
2-) I followed a method that I change default storage of my phone to SD card instead of phone internal memory with Android sdk, so now programs directly gets installed to SD card, and I can move them to SD card with App2SD app, but somehow, there is only 30 mb of internal memory left on my phone. I tried deleting caches and other stuff but still don't know what is sucking up this much memory on my phone. Is there a solution for that? I don't have many apps installed (only around 15 maybe) and no games at all.
Device is S-On and non rooted, so I can't follow any suggestions requiring those two things.
You would save more memory if you don't sync Facebook etc to the phone.
If you root the phone you'll be able to delete some fixed apps and save even more memory.
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So I got a bizarre notification today it says I am running out of room on internal storage? Specifically the root, not the SD, or external SD. I am not sure how that's possible or how to free up space. The only thing I can think of is I get lots of SMS/MMS and have 5 email accounts which are pretty active and lots of mail with attachments. Is this stuff stored on the root or SD card? Any other ideas on how to free up space would be greatly appreciated!
Not sure it makes a difference but I am running Blazer 4.0 with Gunslinger.
do you have a lot of apps if so consider moving them to sdcard you can also try to clear cache and data on some of your apps maybe the mail one since you said your email is pretty active other then that im not sure maybe somebody with more knowledge can help
Read this! http://bit.ly/AacW1j One thing that helped me to is that I had a recent Titanium backup (done automatically every night) and on applications that seemed to have 'lost' all my settings like Dolphin browser and Firefox, I simply restored that applicatons 'data' via Titanium. I litterally freed up 1.2 GB of space!!