I'm trying to install an app (around 5mb) but I get the 'out of space' error. However, the SD/Phone card storage says the my phone has 97mb free.
Has anyone else had this issue? Is there any way to fix this?
I tried installing a different app, same problem.
the SD/Phone Card storage is different to where apps are stored, which is on the internal memory. If your running Froyo or even better a custom rom with A2SD+ then you can move some of the apps to your SD card instead and free up some of that internal memory.
Yeah, I'm on a custom rom pinky
I know I could install to SD, but was just wondering why, with 90mb free, it wasn't letting me install to the phone.
thanks for the help
i have had the out of memory error, found that rebooting frees up some memory
i use a widget called mini info, atm i have 29MB free, reboot the phone and i now have 35MB free i have found that if i reboot after installing programs browsing web and market place i don't see the out of memory error.
Though it could be that you just have to many apps installed *
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Hello
is there a way to free space on the internal memory ?
i have something like 17 mb left which is not enough in my opinion
i havent rooted or anything, latest official rom from htc is installed and all apps that support installing on sd card are on it.
Delete apps
No other way other than to go custom and use a ROM with A2SD+
TulpiX said:
Hello
is there a way to free space on the internal memory ?
i have something like 17 mb left which is not enough in my opinion
i havent rooted or anything, latest official rom from htc is installed and all apps that support installing on sd card are on it.
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))) Try moving what you can to sd. Or root and move everything.
hmmm ok.
thx, hoped there would be some other method, the lack of internal memory sucks
I suggest you install DiskUsage from the Market. The app shows you the .apk's on the internal storage and the size of the data connected. Click on a data position (preferably "Cache") and then Menu > Show and you are in the Settings > Applications > Manage Apps section of the phone at the respective app. You then can delete the cache data. (I would suggest that you don't touch the system apps, but your downloaded apps only.) Some apps really gather lots of data by the time, which you can easily delete, like EStrongs File Explorer.
You can also deinstall your email accounts and re-install them. This will also free a lot of internal storage. And, of course, you can go into the settings menu of the internet browser and delete all cache there.
Furthermore, under Froyo, you can use the ADB setInstallLocation (search for it in the General Topics section) command in order to shift really most apps to the SD card.
I hope this helps.
thanks
sad thing is i have done most of those things so it seems i have to possibilities, either being stuck with low storage or root and move apps to sd card.
hey
thanks again for your help.
rooted my phone and went the setinstalllocations way.
now got 28 mb free on internal which is far less than i expected. but at least i can now install all apps on sd.
strange thing: moved a 26 mb big app to sd but it doas not seem to free 26 mb of storage.
htc should make slimmer roms
Backup all your apps, reset the phone and reinstall all over. It will probably take you 30 mins and will free up way more memory. I usually do it once a month if I install/uninstall a lot of apps. There is a stupid memoryleak somewhere...at least on my phone there is.
Hi there,
I have this problem. I did noticed it just now.my phone keeps informing me there is not enough space in phone.i uninstalled few apps imstaled few other apps and so on so on.now i have only 16 Mb left.i noticed it on last app.i tried a few apps and games but after uninstallong them(via settings/manage applications) not all of the storage they have occupied have been gained aftwr uninstal.so basically some storage was lost somewhere.i cannot find any apps related files on phone and also they are write protected folders on phone memory(this is becasue i have NO root i guess).so i cannot delete the leftovers.what to do now?how to get the storage back? is this common issue? Also i have an issue that i cannot install/update apps on sd card. I have to install/move-then-update them on phone memory and then move them to sd card.for eg Mapdroyd cannot be installed.it keeps saying "could not install on usb storage or sd card" or smthng like that.i have to unmount the sd install it and then move it manually.
I am using stock 2.2.
I am considering an factory reset but i want to fix it if possible and prevent in future.
Any advice?
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I had exactly the same problem with my son's Wildfire, but as I had already rooted and installed a custom ROM on my Desire to solve the same issue i was keen to root the Wildfire too. The procedure is painless (Revolutionary is a Noob friendly semi-automated process - search in the Android Development thread). I used Deep Knights ROM and now have 133Mb free space after loading loads of apps and games. Take the plunge!
I have 1.3gb free in my internal memory yet when I try to install Link2sd it says I don't have free space. I can install other apps without any problem though. Tried every possible solution but nothing works. Please help.
please help i cant install apps any more because it says "insufficient storage available"
i used apps 2 rom which transfers data to rom and after a month i deleted some apps and i free up my internal storage up to 2.2 gb
and after that i removed my apps from rom and they took a little space to my internal storage, still i have 2.1 gb free but it cannot download apps
My rom free: 316.6 mb
My internal storage free: 2.1 gb
But still cannot download an app
I have it Rooted. i know advanced in android
i dont have a memory card
cedie said:
please help i cant install apps any more because it says "insufficient storage available"
i used apps 2 rom which transfers data to rom and after a month i deleted some apps and i free up my internal storage up to 2.2 gb
and after that i removed my apps from rom and they took a little space to my internal storage, still i have 2.1 gb free but it cannot download apps
My rom free: 316.6 mb
My internal storage free: 2.1 gb
But still cannot download an app
I have it Rooted. i know advanced in android
i dont have a memory card
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Some apps look for percentage available instead of MB available or some nonsense.
Could also be that it needs to install some secured data, and that's going into a place you don't have enough space.
Also, if you had an app installed on external memory at some point, and you try to reinstall it, you'll get that error. Check your Application Manager for any apps that have the memory card icon on them. Those can cause problems.
Personally, I use Link2SD Plus, which requires an SD card. This allows you to move whole applications to a second partition of the SD card. Works well with the tab 3, and leaves me with lots of free space.
I'm assuming when you say ROM space free, you mean System partition space free? I only have about 9MB free on mine and it causes no problems.
Have had this issue on my phone before because the ROM itself locked the device as read-only, causing any app to give that error, and had to flash it again.
I had a bunch of unknown junk cluttering my user/data partition (they're the same physical area on the device), and had to wipe the "internal storage" and "data" from a custom recovery after backing up my data I cared about.
Hopefully this is informative, and hopefully someone else can be more helpful
Good luck to you
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Some apps look for percentage available instead of MB available or some nonsense.
Could also be that it needs to install some secured data, and that's going into a place you don't have enough space.
Also, if you had an app installed on external memory at some point, and you try to reinstall it, you'll get that error. Check your Application Manager for any apps that have the memory card icon on them. Those can cause problems.
Personally, I use Link2SD Plus, which requires an SD card. This allows you to move whole applications to a second partition of the SD card. Works well with the tab 3, and leaves me with lots of free space.
I'm assuming when you say ROM space free, you mean System partition space free? I only have about 9MB free on mine and it causes no problems.
Have had this issue on my phone before because the ROM itself locked the device as read-only, causing any app to give that error, and had to flash it again.
I had a bunch of unknown junk cluttering my user/data partition (they're the same physical area on the device), and had to wipe the "internal storage" and "data" from a custom recovery after backing up my data I cared about.
Hopefully this is informative, and hopefully someone else can be more helpful
Good luck to you
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i dont know what it says but i think it means read-only memory, and my tablet has no recovery mode it only shows "downloading mode"
I don't know if this is a permanent solution but I noticed that I had no "OBB" file in "Android " on my "extsdcard". I created said file and moved all files from "OBB", "sdcard0" to new OBB file. I then started a program who's file I moved to new OBB and immediately closed. Then went back to original OBB to delete newly created file (double) for that app. Now all my apps download straight to extsdcard in the new OBB file. I can also move apps to SD card from app manager .
Let me know if it worked for you.
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cedie said:
i dont know what it says but i think it means read-only memory, and my tablet has no recovery mode it only shows "downloading mode"
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Did you press Volume up+power+home button?
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Why am I getting "Insufficient storage space available" when I try to install an app?
I am running Cyanogenmod 1.10-InstallerXNPQ32P on a Samsung Galaxy S4 (T-Mobile), with that, the Android version is 4.4.4
My internal storage has 2.3GB used, and 7.3GB free. I have uninstalled other apps in order to attempt to install more, it worked eventually and I was able to install an app to transfer apps to my external SD card, but once they notified me that they were unable to do this due to my phone type, I uninstalled them and am attempting to install STORAGE PARTITIONS by LAKSHMAN in order to see how this space is so low, and once again i am unable to install anything due to insufficient space. I have looked everywhere, I have cleared every cache imaginable and uninstalled at least 4 apps in order to figure this out. There seems to be no way that I have insufficient space, and yet, I am told I do. I can't find where to solve this problem.
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I am running Cyanogenmod 1.10-InstallerXNPQ32P on a Samsung Galaxy S4 (T-Mobile), with that, the Android version is 4.4.4
My internal storage has 2.3GB used, and 7.3GB free. I have uninstalled other apps in order to attempt to install more, it worked eventually and I was able to install an app to transfer apps to my external SD card, but once they notified me that they were unable to do this due to my phone type, I uninstalled them and am attempting to install STORAGE PARTITIONS by LAKSHMAN in order to see how this space is so low, and once again i am unable to install anything due to insufficient space. I have looked everywhere, I have cleared every cache imaginable and uninstalled at least 4 apps in order to figure this out. There seems to be no way that I have insufficient space, and yet, I am told I do. I can't find where to solve this problem.
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This is a problem I have been grappling with for weeks. I'm running a Nexus 10 tablet with 32GB internal storage, 17GB free. Rooted, with CM11 M11 installed. Some updates fail with the 'insufficient storage' error, others update normally. Size of the update does not seem to matter. Some large new installs will fail, others will work. Some new installs of 2 to 3MB will fail while a program of 25MB will install. Sometimes uninstalling the old version will enable me to install the new version. Sometimes not.
I've searched the web, as well as XDA, anhave tried so many different fixes, but have found no definitive answer.
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