[Q] Low On space...argh! - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

OK, all the threads I've found about this are quite old.
I've been pretty good at managing the storage on my Desire, but now I have this warning permanently on and I can't bin any more apps.
When I list them, all the big ones are on SD, so what is munching my space?
I have my mail set to only carry the last 30 days. At this rate I'll be getting my XDA Serra out of the attic...

Browser cache or contracts if you have a lot of them. If not probably data associated with your apps.
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Just install S2E from market.
Thanks
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66mustang said:
OK, all the threads I've found about this are quite old.
I've been pretty good at managing the storage on my Desire, but now I have this warning permanently on and I can't bin any more apps.
When I list them, all the big ones are on SD, so what is munching my space?
I have my mail set to only carry the last 30 days. At this rate I'll be getting my XDA Serra out of the attic...
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Use starbust rom to have upto 2GB of Internal Memory

cutiyar said:
Just install S2E from market.
Thanks
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And cache cleaner.
Better still, why not root the phone and install a custom rom as suggested. You can then run everything from a larger internal memory space, meaning a faster phone and no low memory warnings!

Root!
Data2Ext, A2SD+, CM7 H-Boot table, etc.
There are plenty solution for low on memory problem, and they are the main reason why I rooted my phone.

I just tried Data 2 Ext and partitioned my SD card as was told by the RCMixHD ROM thread, but after installing that ROM I get a Low On Space warning! Getting really annoyed with the badly tested roms out there. I mean really, so much for using the data2ext script when it doesn't even work!
I'm back to Redux. Only ROM that's actually STABLE. Too bad not having a HTC Sense keyboard on that rom.

rabeel said:
Use starbust rom to have upto 2GB of Internal Memory
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It's a company phone so rooting is not an option, but thanks!

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Reduce internal mem usage

Phone gets real slow when int mem gets low. So how do I release mem? I've realised that moving apps to SD does reduce it but not all will move. I've moved what I can so far but would still like more free int mem.
Tia
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Root it or buy a new phone.
Several topics above yours you could find HTC Desire memory issues, at the 4th page I have described what one can do to increase available memory. And yeah, root + custom rom is probably the best thing you can do.
Edit
Ah I didn't saw that you are already rooted, so get a rom with more space for apps
Thx. Hmmmm yeah rooted with large SD. 2g ext4. Isn't there a method to use some SD space as internal or extention too?
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Use data2sd, data2ext or data2whatever..
You can find it in development section..
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leecavturbo said:
Thx. Hmmmm yeah rooted with large SD. 2g ext4. Isn't there a method to use some SD space as internal or extention too?
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leecavturbo said:
Phone gets real slow when int mem gets low. So how do I release mem? I've realised that moving apps to SD does reduce it but not all will move. I've moved what I can so far but would still like more free int mem.
Tia
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1045824
take a look at this, DZ have a full HTC GB rom, just with ALL the space you need...

XD2SDX feedback?

On Sebastian's sense 3.5 Rom, he has an optional XD2SDX add on. Has anyone used, if so what is the general opinion on it?
How does it compare if i move the dalvik to the SD?
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it supposed to be faster than a2sd cause it didn't move the dalvik to your sd-ext.
i use it and i can see the difference in term of the phone snappy response
I feel it is definitely faster than dalvik-sd, well it feels that way atleast, I feel you don't get the lag. You also get a whole boatload of space to install apps. Now if he would only make it work for other rom's that would be fantastic.
groovepeppy said:
it supposed to be faster than a2sd cause it didn't move the dalvik to your sd-ext.
i use it and i can see the difference in term of the phone snappy response
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does that mean smaller internal storage? as the cache is not stored on external sd
sibere said:
Moving dk to internal? Hahahaha nothing new here.
We did it a long time ago and got away with it. After a while, you still end-up with a full internal storage, especially with deodexed roms
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Here is what sibere thinks of this.
I have used it and have 400mb free of internal memory and the rom is fast
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installed 81 apps and the rom still runs pretty smooth. in my opinion much smoother then with a2sd.
erklat said:
Here is what sibere thinks of this.
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In fact, 6 months ago, we used to have it as standard. We reverted because of the bug.. Nothing new about it.

Low on space

How to get rid of Low on space notification/restriction? I have 40MB left and that notification is simply annoying, to say the least...
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sunbriel said:
How to get rid of Low on space notification/restriction? I have 40MB left and that notification is simply annoying, to say the least...
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why don't you move some of the installed apps to SD card?!
um, I moved all the apps to SD card I could. Meaning the ones that support moving. I could force move to SD card for some apps, but don't want to screw with that.
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That message is there for a reason and if you know what your doing some times it just takes common sense you can move most of your apps to SD card even if the creator of the app doesn't allow it in the app setting 's
Torres77an said:
That message is there for a reason and if you know what your doing some times it just takes common sense you can move most of your apps to SD card even if the creator of the app doesn't allow it in the app setting 's
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How come some phones are okay with less than 20MB free... anyway, arc's internal memory size is way too small... "common sense", huh? Well, I have my own reasons for not wanting to force the apps to SD...
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Links2SD works wonderfully for the Xperia 2011 phones.
I did the "move to SD" for every app possible, but still ran into issues downloading games from the Market due to only have 20-70 MB free on the internal phone storage.
But, using Links2SD, creating a 1 GB partition on the SDCard for apps, and moving/linking pretty much everything to that, I have over 150 MB free internal phone storage for app downloading.
phoenix_rizzen said:
Links2SD works wonderfully for the Xperia 2011 phones.
I did the "move to SD" for every app possible, but still ran into issues downloading games from the Market due to only have 20-70 MB free on the internal phone storage.
But, using Links2SD, creating a 1 GB partition on the SDCard for apps, and moving/linking pretty much everything to that, I have over 150 MB free internal phone storage for app downloading.
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Are you using stock kernel?
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sunbriel said:
arc's internal memory size is way too small..
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It isn't big, but not too small.
Some of us, as I do, have more than 100 apps and ~100MB left.
Once I had 145 apps and 80MB were left, I just use the native App2SD. No Link2SD etc
Do you clear your cache regulary?
Gives me back ~10MB each day
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Flo95 said:
It isn't big, but not too small.
Some of us, as I do, have more than 100 apps and ~100MB left.
Once I had 145 apps and 80MB were left, I just use the native App2SD. No Link2SD etc
Do you clear your cache regulary?
Gives me back ~10MB each day
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Well, if you compare Arc's internal memory to some other devices' that have 16GB of it, it does seem tiny, doesn't it? I have more than 200 apps and I use Apps2SD, so I move apps to SD if they support it. I used TB to force some huge apks to SD, like Epic Blue and Green themes for CM7, but it's a bit of a pain if you're on one of those themes when you have to reboot, because you have to reapply the theme after the phone boots up. And yes, I wipe cache on daily basis. I'm getting myself 32GB memory card so I'll probably try Link2SD or something like that. I currently have 2 class 8GB card which I got with the phone. Lousy card, lol.
But anyway, I just wanted to know if it was possible to get rid of that Low on space message. Like, okay, I know I'm low on space, I'll see what I can do later, but get the fck away from my status bar now cos you annoy me...
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I think we should remove unuseful applications.
Does anyone know the way to backup applications, group them by folder and restore all without asking anything?
vr5411 said:
Are you using stock kernel?
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Yeah. Stock firmware, 2.3.4, rooted, locked bootloader.
nmdang said:
I think we should remove unuseful applications.
Does anyone know the way to backup applications, group them by folder and restore all without asking anything?
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Titanium backup does most of that not sure about the folder part tho
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup
Pvy.

[Q] Cant move apps to sd card

My problem is just as the title says. First time this has happened to me, wondering if anyone else is experiencing this as well.
Oh btw it is a 2gb one and it says sd-c026 taiwan on the back. Could it be faulty? But i can transfer regular files to and from it.
Maybe, I had an issue with CWM not recognizing a particular sdcard.
Also I can't move App to sdcard with lupus jb kernal for some reason.
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Do you have enough space on your SD card?
Are you rooted?
eksasol said:
Maybe, I had an issue with CWM not recognizing a particular sdcard.
Also I can't move App to sdcard with lupus jb kernal for spoke reason.
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No doubt it's a real hassle when our internal space is small. There really seem to be too many possible causes, sucks. But i'm on the turbo kernel.
UndisputedGuy said:
Do you have enough space on your SD card?
Are you rooted?
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Yep, have like 1gb of free space still and yes, am rooted
You could try using link2sd. You can move apps to the SD card with it
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Thanks for all of your responses. The problem has since been solved after I had flashed a new rom. I must say, I was fascinated by the smoothness of gb roms after having chased the latest versions of android for the past idk how long.

Desire. Tried many roms..

Hello.
Im using HTC Desire, i really love the phone, but i have problems with it.
i tried like thousands of roms, gingerbread, jelly bean, ics..
and EVERY rom is so fkn bad at perormance.
even doodle jump have low fps on my Desire.
i have other phone, ZTE Blade, it has 600 mhz processor, same resolution as desire and its playing smooth angry birds, hill climb racing and so on.
even little minigames have low fps.
I clocked my desire, min clock was like 500-700 mhz, max 1100 something.
still bad fps.
600 mhz is 2x faster than my 1ghz?
what the hell?
shunpoo said:
Hello.
Im using HTC Desire, i really love the phone, but i have problems with it.
i tried like thousands of roms, gingerbread, jelly bean, ics..
and EVERY rom is so fkn bad at perormance.
even doodle jump have low fps on my Desire.
i have other phone, ZTE Blade, it has 600 mhz processor, same resolution as desire and its playing smooth angry birds, hill climb racing and so on.
even little minigames have low fps.
I clocked my desire, min clock was like 500-700 mhz, max 1100 something.
still bad fps.
600 mhz is 2x faster than my 1ghz?
what the hell?
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That is strange all the games I have run smooth even high end games from gameloft like splinter cell mc4 and so on, try ram manager
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sywats said:
That is strange all the games I have run smooth even high end games from gameloft like splinter cell mc4 and so on, try ram manager
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maybe its sd card problem or what?
i went to recovery, partition sd card, then 1gb, swap memory or whatever it was to 0.
apps open very slowly, and when i download from google play and first time open it, it always crashes.
even simple game (happy jump) opens like 10 sec.
shunpoo said:
maybe its sd card problem or what?
i went to recovery, partition sd card, then 1gb, swap memory or whatever it was to 0.
apps open very slowly, and when i download from google play and first time open it, it always crashes.
even simple game (happy jump) opens like 10 sec.
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Wat did you use to partition your sdcard?
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sywats said:
Wat did you use to partition your sdcard?
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I just went to recovery, and then partitioned it there, as i said.
Chosed 1 gb for apps, swap memory 0.
I did something wrong?
I dont really know anything about partitioning
what class is your sdcard? do you use script which transfers data also on sdext? did you try changing sd?
shunpoo said:
I just went to recovery, and then partitioned it there, as i said.
Chosed 1 gb for apps, swap memory 0.
I did something wrong?
I dont really know anything about partitioning
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Did u use 4ext recovery?
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heraSK said:
what class is your sdcard? do you use script which transfers data also on sdext? did you try changing sd?
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well my sd card have circle with number four in it, so i guess its 4 class.
when i first boot my rom, i open terminal and write
su
a2sd install
y
n
y
I havent changed SD card.
sywats said:
Did u use 4ext recovery?
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I didnt. Is it app what i can download from Market?
shunpoo said:
I didnt. Is it app what i can download from Market?
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Yes u can download it from the market its the best recovery for the desire, u can use it to partition your SD card, you should make a 1gb ext 4 partition rest fat32, there is a excellent guide on here to show exactly how to do it, read that to make sure you do it properly and make sure you backup all ur data to a computer, just search for the guide
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Guide in my sig, search over lol
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am i right, if i use this ext4 thing, its stays?
i mean like if u flash another rom, do u have to flash this ext4 thing again?
shunpoo said:
am i right, if i use this ext4 thing, its stays?
i mean like if u flash another rom, do u have to flash this ext4 thing again?
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No u only need to flash recovery once
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Okay. I flashed ext4.
i partitioned 2gb for apps.
So i flashed rom, went to storage and i saw that internal memory is 148mb.
It shows that my SD Card total space is 6 out of 8.
(i typed this su, a2sd install in terminal)
shunpoo said:
Okay. I flashed ext4.
i partitioned 2gb for apps.
So i flashed rom, went to storage and i saw that internal memory is 148mb.
It shows that my SD Card total space is 6 out of 8.
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You won't see your partition but its there doing its job, you can get an app called free space from the market and then you can see your extension :thumbup:
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shunpoo said:
Okay. I flashed ext4.
i partitioned 2gb for apps.
So i flashed rom, went to storage and i saw that internal memory is 148mb.
It shows that my SD Card total space is 6 out of 8.
(i typed this su, a2sd install in terminal)
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Hmm 2gb ext. Bit much. 1.5gb is usually the most recommended. Anything bigger sometimes can cause issues. If u ask me 1gb is perfect, i mean how many apps u planning on installing? 1000? Haha
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jmcclue said:
Hmm 2gb ext. Bit much. 1.5gb is usually the most recommended. Anything bigger sometimes can cause issues. If u ask me 1gb is perfect, i mean how many apps u planning on installing? 1000? Haha
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Lol that's what I thought, 1 gig plenty for me
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Is it any faster?
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Okay, i was away from computer, now im back.
Im installing Supernova 2.3 rom atm.
I hope I get better performance now.
1 thing more, what rom do you prefer for games and browsing web?
ICS have really smooth browsing, but browsing with gingerbread is horrible.
Dunno about gaymz
/Okay, i tried to download angry birds space, cool game tho, but it tells me "Sorry, there's not enough space to install this item".
//I think i give up. I have ext4, 1gb (changed from 2).
Still bad fps at games..
Still same problem! Please help!!!
I tried another sd card, still same problem!!!

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