Still trying to figure this out, but after using four roms I still get the infamous "Low on space" error. It used to be with 250mb free, but now it is with 380mb free. I am beginning to wonder if at a lower level in the OS, Android "thinks" apps moved with apps2sd function are actually still taking up device storage.
This makes some level of sense in my case, since after 2.1 stock, 2.52 Skyraider, 2.2 Stock and 2.2 Lite, I still get the error and no Google Earth, Skyfire, social apps or large message cache. Since 2.1, I would get the error with 250mb free, but now it is with 380mb free. What would cause the "Low on space" error to drift inward? It seems like though the space shows as 380mb free, the apps may still think the space is being uses, even though moved to sd.
It sucks to not be able to use the rest of the space, but it makes no difference, in spite of clearing data, cache and four roms. Ruled out hardware error, since the parity check on flash ram tends to be all or nothing for an error (it will either work or not work).
My guess is if there were more app hounds like me, the problem would be more commonly mentioned.
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Hello all,
First off apologies if already discussed although I did search.
My problem is that the internet app on my desire keeps bloating up to more than 20mb in size taking up all my free memory. Whenever I get the dreaded "memory low" notification and I go to my "manage applications" tab it shows that the internet app is hording 20mb of data! Note this is not the the cashe section but the data section. (i have screenshots but nowhere to host them).
I seem to have narrowed it down to when I have closed the browser with a flash heavy site still displayed (skysports.com does nicely) so I can only assume it has something to do with that?
So, has any1 else noticed this? any fix of my to limit how much data an app keeps on phone mem or a way to move it to sd card?
I am using the "official" froyo sense ROM v10c by opendesire - (again apologies if ROM related)
Thanks in advance
Has anybody else managed to replicate this? Its quite annoying!
I've seen this too. Twice. I notice because I get a message about a TXT being discarded because of insufficient storage. I am thinking that it has something to do with watching a flash based movie - do they buffer to internal memory?
yeah i have the same problem,
--using devillian 1.0
How do you guys clear the space. One time I just clicked clear data - but this obviously got rid of my bookmarks too so don't fancy doing that every time.
So, I guess you both use a froyo ROM too? I suppose its to do with flash 10.1? I never noticed it before I updated.
Do you think there is any kind of limit on how much data the internet would store on the phone memory - I assume mine stops at 20mb cos that all the space I have, would it eventually fill the phone memory no matter how much space me have left?
It happened to me twice. It took up 70+ MB of internal storage and I had to clear data losing all other settings and bookmark.
I wonder why is this happening although my cache is only set to 6MB max.
Sent from my HTC Desire
i force kill the app and then reopen it. works most of the time.
yeah im pretty sure its flash thats doing it, happens mostly when i go the sites populated with flash elements
clear all cache of all apps that use it and reboot the fone twice and it should clear ALL internal cache. i had this with 2.1 stock
Any news on this topic...? Running the stock HTC Gingerbread on my Desire and every MB counts in the fight against low space...
(Is there a way to save your bookmarks if the only solution is to clear data...?)
I keep getting low space messages even though I have around 500MB free space. I understand that the OS needs a bit of free space but this seems a rather large amount. In fact 500MB is more space that the whole of my last phone (HTC Desire) had across all partitions and then I would get notifications about low space when I only had around 16MB free.
Is there any hack/mod force stop this happening when there's such a high amount of space?
Thanks
I'm running AOKP build 38 but this has happened across all roms I've tried.
Heres an example of it happening when I had around 490MB free. http://i.imgur.com/PyzuB.jpg
Your phone sees it as you only have 3.1% space left, and since everything is stored internally on the GNex, that is dangerously close to the loss of function of apps and such (due to caching needs and so on)... soooo no.... you should probably delete some unnecessary bulk?
I am actually running into the same problem, but it is only when I try installing from an .apk directly. When I download something from the play store I do not experience this problem. I have well over 7GB free...
Anyone else experience this?
Edit: Nevermind, it was a single .apk that was the problem.
Non Rooted Phone:
Hi,
I have had my OneX since July. I have had various problems with no signal on 3 etc, but this seemed to get fixed with an update. I now seemed to be plagued with INSUFFICIENT SPACE. I thought I had seen the last of this since I had got rid of my HTC Desire...but alas no.
My phone is not rooted, it says I have:
Internal Storage: Total Space 2.11GB Available 1.67GB
Phone Storage: Total Space 25.24GB Available 21.66GB
I have freed up space by deleting apps, I have moved apps from internal to phone storage....but I am still getting messages say I have insufficient space when apps are updating and they then fail to update. The latest app I have noticed this on is Songpop. I have found that if I power off the phone and on again...some of the apps install without this space issue.
I thought this FLAGSHIP was meant the be the top phone.....alas NO. I try my hardest to keep supporting HTC and not move in the apple direction...but they certainly do not help. Even the camera does not give true representation of what is being photographed compared to the Iphone....unless of course there are some setting to improve the colour interpretation.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Backup data and do factory reset.
I have noticed that when I first install a new ROM--GB, ICS, or JB, doesn't seem to matter--my phone runs lickety-split fast and is wonderful.
Over the course of a few days, though, it starts to become sluggish and laggy. When it starts to get extreme, the OS will frequently pop messages about "xxxxx is not responding. Would you like to close it?"
The only possible correlation I can discern is that this sluggish behavior seems to get worse when I install more apps. I am running the EXT4 unlimited data mod, and typically have ~200MB free in the /datadata partition. I think I start seeing the sluggishness when /datadata free space starts dropping into the 400-350MB range or so.
Have other folks noticed similar sluggishness? Has anyone else figured out what the trigger for it is, and how to avoid it?
I'd be curious to see people respond to the following questions:
1) Do you perceive your Inc to be generally "fast" or "sluggish"?
2) How much free space is in your /datadata partition? (Does anyone _not_ run the unlimited data mod these days?)
Thanks....
MysticCobra said:
I have noticed that when I first install a new ROM--GB, ICS, or JB, doesn't seem to matter--my phone runs lickety-split fast and is wonderful.
Over the course of a few days, though, it starts to become sluggish and laggy. When it starts to get extreme, the OS will frequently pop messages about "xxxxx is not responding. Would you like to close it?"
The only possible correlation I can discern is that this sluggish behavior seems to get worse when I install more apps. I am running the EXT4 unlimited data mod, and typically have ~200MB free in the /datadata partition. I think I start seeing the sluggishness when /datadata free space starts dropping into the 400-350MB range or so.
Have other folks noticed similar sluggishness? Has anyone else figured out what the trigger for it is, and how to avoid it?
I'd be curious to see people respond to the following questions:
1) Do you perceive your Inc to be generally "fast" or "sluggish"?
2) How much free space is in your /datadata partition? (Does anyone _not_ run the unlimited data mod these days?)
Thanks....
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I think mine is mostly fast. It sometimes bogs down, but usually recovers without reboots or fc's.
I am using the ext4 mod, and i have 243.44mb free in data/datadata at the moment.
MysticCobra said:
I'd be curious to see people respond to the following questions:
1) Do you perceive your Inc to be generally "fast" or "sluggish"?
2) How much free space is in your /datadata partition? (Does anyone _not_ run the unlimited data mod these days?)
Thanks....
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I do not use the unlimited data mod, I have been managing with a 150Mb /datadata partition. I don't use Facebook or Chrome, I know Chrome is a huge space hog and I've heard Facebook is too. For me the biggest downside of not using the nodatalimit mod is having to keep a decent number of apps on the sd card (some apps, when moved to SD, take their /datadata junk along with them), which makes mounting and unmounting it pretty slow, also slows down boot times. I rarely unmount the sd though, I typically copy stuff to and from an SMB share on my desktop computer - but I digress...
1. My dinc is pretty fast. I have seen more of the slowdown you describe on other people's phones and on my own phone with ICS/JB. (JB was especially bad when we had the bug where the CPU max frequency would get stuck at 614kHz). I ran Ice Cream Senseless for several months (which is GB/Sense themed and stripped), often saw uptimes of over 200 hours, and had zero problems with sluggishness or FC's.
2. Currently my phone storage partition shows:
/data 748M total, 223.7M used, 524.3M free
...and my /datadata partition shows:
/data/data 149M total, 117M used, 32M free
Titanium Backup gives a nice breakdown of how much storage apps are using, though it takes a very, very long time to calculate it.
the biggest space hogs for me is email(i have 4 accounts), facebook and a few you don;t have control over like Google Maps, Amazon App Store, Text messages, ect....So for me, I was easily exceeding 70-80 MB out of 150 for just data. Hence, once you get to below 20-30 mb free, the phone becomes unstable and in danger of going into a boot loop. I was able to use APP2SD Pro App to delete cache files occasionally but that was getting to be a tedious every day task.
Right now I at about 240-330 free of 750. About 70 MB seems to be stuff the Google Play Store caches so I have to clear that occasionally.
One thing I wonder if people are keeping track of-the Dinc and alot of older Android devices have only 512 mb of RAM. Some are worse and only 256mb. Installing programs even if not in use seems to load the programs in memory. if the memory manager does not kill these efficiently, you might get slow to sluggish behaviour. I am running OS Monitor on my phones and it does report that I have only about 45 mb of RAM free. the worst seems to happen when you are switching between apps alot-I think it;s possible for a 2nd or 3rd instance of a program to get loaded in memory temporarily. So I have removed as much from my installation as possible-stuff that should be benign like GMAIL just to prevent it from loading.
I don;t know any of this to be a fact though, I am just an end user sharing my experience.
Just an update on storage space issues, I recently installed a bunch of apps that had to reside in the phone memory. Checked in App2sd and it said I consumed about 600 of the 749 mb. I uninstalled the unnecessary stuff and cleared the cache. So I am sitting on 280 mb free now.
Without the low space fix ext4 mod, this would have been a FATAL situation resulting in a boot loop and needing a complete wipe and reset.
Sent from a HTC Droid Incredible running CM 10.1
Was getting low storage error and moved a bunch of apps to sd card and my data/data folder showed I had like 80mb free and error went away. Couple days later error came back without adding any new apps and I was under 15mb free, figured this was weird and restarted my phone and it went back to 78mb free.
So what could cause this? Is something not clearing out right here on its own? Btw I am on a stock deodexed rom.
if you don;t install the EXT4 fix, the stock configuration is for the Data partition to be a paltry 149 mb. That can get filled up pretty quickly-mostly by apps like the messaging app, Google Maps and anything else that needs to stored data in this "high performance/secure" location. i put it in quotes because it;s the "official reason" for doing this but I think it;s crap. in reality it;s a design flaw by HTC that never got fixed. also, files from the Playstore get cached to this partion which is why the free space available can jump up and down. there is only so much moving apps to SD Card will fix. the problem is certain apps accumulate data over time.
If you do install it you will have 749 mb available. if you have a rooted Dinc, I think there is no reason not to install it. then again I am not certain if your ROM is compatible. I hear that Touch of Blue has this fix integrated into it if you want to stay on Gingerbread.
this thread probably has all the info you need
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488351
Thnaks man but it's not that, something is just "wrong" with it lol.
It will say I have close to 80mb free and just a few hours later be full. I noticed If I go into Titanium Backup and do some stuff (like removing orphan data) or something it seems to fix it and the low on storage space error goes away and frees up like 60-70mb instantly. This never used to be like this.
Wonder if it's just a sign of an aging cpu or phone not calculating how much free space is there properly.
did you install the fix? if you did not, then do it. the Dinc is a very well known device. Us users have beaten this device to death over the last 3 years. there is not too much new going on. it could be possible that your device is failing and if it is, get a new one.
before I rooted my Dinc, it was a daily struggle for me to keep this partition from filling up. for me the combo of data being consumed by Amazon App store, Google Play store and mostly my email client with 4 email accounts. 149 mb is just too small.