So like the majority of us, I recently got the "Low Memory" error message.
I looked into the problem and ended up deleting my many text messages which fixed the problem. I then thought, something isnt right. So I did some more research into the problem and found an app called NES- NotEnoughSpace which looked pretty promising so I bought it.
I followed the steps to create another partition so I can move the heavy hitter apps to this new partition and free up space. I tried creating a partition on the /emmc and on the SD, both seemed to be successful (tried various sizes from 100mb to 1000mb)
When I tried to move the big app (netflix) to this new partition, the program tells me "unable to retrieve partition size." I have contacted the developer and after a few back and fourth emails he pretty much said well i have no idea whats going on and stopped replying.
My question is, has anyone else had this problem and if so how did you fix it? if it makes a difference, when I use Partitions Info Lite I get a message saying "you have too many partitions, maybe because of Apps2SD" although I havent used Apps2SD.
Any ideas?
Thanks guys.
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Hey guys,
Been searching on this for a whle and haven't found the info I'm looking for.
How does the custom APPS2D actually work? By that I mean, what is it really doing? I know it's copying the app(s) to the partitioned ext2/3/4 area of the sdcard, but how does it know *what* part of the app to move as it seems something is always left on the phone.
I'm currently running AdamG's OpenDesire 3.0.5 (nice) and thanks to the script provided by msdl28712 in this thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748529, I can see that APPS2SD is saving me "188MB". Pretty nice.
But my internal memory is still going down. I started out at about 148MB I think. I'm currently at about 115MB free. Of course, that's fantastic - but it sort of suggests that, even though I've downloaded loads of apps to the sd card, they will always leave some footprint/config/data on the internal memory of various sizes (as I can see it on my info page).
So really, I am still quite limited in the number of apps I can store. Even though I gave myself a nice big 4gb ext4 partition, I'll still hit a limit because of the footprint data left behind on the phone's int memory even after "copying to SD".
Is this right or am I way off?
Although I have no Actual knowledge of what you ask I will say this. The phone needs to be able to function if there is a SD card installed or not and therefore it must have info about the apps installed in the phone memory. I would imagine its very similar to windows and the windows registry. The registry will always be stored on the windows (Phone) storage and the program resources can be anywhere. Therefore when you install an app there will always be a small amount of phone storage required to link to and handle the operations of that program.
All in my opinion.
Some apps, not all, I've found in multiple places on my Eris.
I found it strange that the market wasn't consistently placing them in both places ( actually, that's a good thing, cause it would eat double the space ), but that led me to believe that the developer who wrote whichever particular app that was being stored in 2 location, wrote it to store to additional "backup" location ...
For example, say you download an item from the Android market, and it puts it in the "data\app" folder location. Well, I'd also find another copy in the root of the "cache\" folder ....
The way I found this, was I wondering where the heck all my memory was going, especially since I'd recently installed/uninstalled some various music player apps, but the space wasn't being freed up. I went digging through various folders looking for items, and low and behold, started finding the duplicately stored APK files. I started removing them, and I've monitored that files contents on a regular basis since, which has helped.
- JB
What A2SD? A2SD+, A2SD Froyo?
Found a nice explanation on CM Wiki... can't find it now though...
but there's always short explanation by MIUI Au..if you wanna give it a tryy
http://www.miui-au.com/faq/a2sd/
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Some apps, not all, I've found in multiple places on my Eris.
I found it strange that the market wasn't consistently placing them in both places ( actually, that's a good thing, cause it would eat double the space ), but that led me to believe that the developer who wrote whichever particular app that was being stored in 2 location, wrote it to store to additional "backup" location ...
For example, say you download an item from the Android market, and it puts it in the "data\app" folder location. Well, I'd also find another copy in the root of the "cache\" folder ....
The way I found this, was I wondering where the heck all my memory was going, especially since I'd recently installed/uninstalled some various music player apps, but the space wasn't being freed up. I went digging through various folders looking for items, and low and behold, started finding the duplicately stored APK files. I started removing them, and I've monitored that files contents on a regular basis since, which has helped.
- JB
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First of all you are answering a quite old thread(hint: 8th august)
Second to clarify no, the app is not installed to several locations.. The apk file in the cache is just the one, that the market downloads in order to install it(hint: cache) upon installation the file is placed in the /data/app folder or in case you are using a2sd/a2sd+ it will be placed in /sd-ext/app(the phone still think it is in /data/app, but it wont take up space on the /data partition)
After the installation the downloaded .apk file is sometimes left behind, but as the /cache partition have a fixed size, this won't take up any space for app installs(/data) when the space is needed on the cache partition for another download or something else, the file is eventually deleted.
edit: for people, who want to know the answer to OP, please search I and many others have wrote it over and over again in this very forum.
Hey everyone, quick question. I was having trouble searching for the answer (sometimes it was too broad or narrow and I didn't get anywhere)
So on my 16 GB sd I do not have it partitioned and it says there is no sd-ext. I'm running the CM Nightlies and on the latest (132 at the moment)
Into the problem/concern/thing:
Through "Quick App Manager" I move big apps to my sd. It really only shows you the movable apps and then redirects you to the Settings>Applications>(Click on App for Info) screens. Okay thats normal so whats the deal?
When I try to move some apps it says "Failed To Move" and when I click it a second time it successfully moves the app to sd. It didn't do it for maybe the first app but then failed EVERY time after followed by working on a second click.
What I'm hoping for in an answer is: does it matter as long as its working? Should I consider partitioning? I know a lot of people say "the G2 has so much memory why would you even..." well because its preference. This IS android after all
*I apologize because the answer likely exists but I truly didn't see it earlier and don't have all the time in the world. So even if you can just link me to it that'd be swell.
Did you format the card from recovery? I'd reformat it with the settings it chooses from Clockwork (or w/e recovery you use).
Hi,
I'm running Cy4noobsMod-7.1.3.1 with great satisfaction since a couple of month but recently I got the following problem with the market.
I had updates for standard apps like fb, opera and a couple more ready to download but upon trying to download the market was saying it could not do it and was putting out "error 492".
Although for other phones, I found posts that suggested to wipe phone's cache form the boot menu and I tried that. Now the situation is changed:
the download does occur, but upon trying to install the whole system crashes and reboots..
It might be worth noting that I'm running S2E on an EXT4 partition appearently without problems.
thanks for your help
davide
Hi, it looks like I'm the only one with this problem..
anyhow the problem got worse and it's indeed related to S2E, now it seems unable to see the ext4 partition and can't access any app outside the core ones including S2E itself. the partition is still there though from the mac I can't see its' content and I don't have a windows pc at hand right now to look into it.
please suggest me how to proceed.
thank you
davide
did I break some rule of this forum?
I haven't seen many other posts with specific problem going unreplied...
Had this few months ago just stop using s2e reflash should help
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I have E4GT with Caulkins 2.9.1.
I have the following storage available on my device:
SD Card 24.25GB
USB Storage 3.25 GB
Device Memory 1.23 GB
I get the following error when trying to update apps, or install new apps:
"There is insufficient space on this device"
I have gone into settings>apps>google play> clear cache. -> no change
I have downloaded App Cache Cleaner app and cleared all cached files. -> no change
The error message is a lie written by a lazy programmer. What's actually happening is that the installation is trying to copy or move a file and can't. To circumvent this problem I have to enter root explorer and look for files related to the program I'm trying to upgrade and delete them. Sometimes I just find dangling files which aren't really needed; other times I have to delete the whole shebang and reinstall the program from scratch. One process that I've noticed can sometimes cause this problem is the auto-Odex routine that is available in the Development folder.
Bottom line though is that this problem has NOTHING to do with your available memory space.
Henri Blanche said:
The error message is a lie written by a lazy programmer. What's actually happening is that the installation is trying to copy or move a file and can't. To circumvent this problem I have to enter root explorer and look for files related to the program I'm trying to upgrade and delete them. Sometimes I just find dangling files which aren't really needed; other times I have to delete the whole shebang and reinstall the program from scratch. One process that I've noticed can sometimes cause this problem is the auto-Odex routine that is available in the Development folder.
Bottom line though is that this problem has NOTHING to do with your available memory space.
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How do I find dangling files in explorer. Is there a was for me to determine which ones are wasted files?
before i read your reply i went into recovery and wiped cached and dalvik cache, thought it worked, because i was finally able to install or update about 3 apps, but then got the same error on the 4th app.
so those steps that have been suggested by others on different devices but with similar errors, did not resolve this issue on E4GT.
thanks for any additional help.
This may help http://bit.ly/GNQOZh take a read. I fought this a while ago and went nuts till I did what I describe.
It's usually, but not always, as simple as looking for files with the name of the program imbedded. The most recent program for me was AudioGalaxy.... so I just searched for and deleted any reference to the program that didn't look essential.
If you're REALLY stumped, then download a program from the Market like Log Viewer, which shows you the real-time system log of your Android operating system. That's how I discovered that a failed file copy was being misinterpreted as a full disc in the first place. It also will show you the name of the file being copied or moved and into which directory. Helpful hint: cut and paste the log into something like Notepad for easier reading.
By all means empty out your caches... but only to remove a potential file that's causing you a problem. Like I said, you haven't run out of free space.
Good luck!
A common source for this error is also that there are partitions on your phone that are not visible in the system settings, but which can fill up too.
If you open a console on your device, i.e. with terminal emulator, and type "df" you should see every partition and how much space is free on it.
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This may help take a read. I fought this a while ago and went nuts till I did what I describe.
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I did this earlier, and then downloaded App Cache Cleaner app and cleared all cached files which did not result in a solution...
im working on other suggestions from this thread
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I did this earlier, and then downloaded App Cache Cleaner app and cleared all cached files which did not result in a solution...
im working on other suggestions from this thread
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App Cache Cleaner isn't really that thorough.
Try SD Maid.
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I did this earlier, and then downloaded App Cache Cleaner app and cleared all cached files which did not result in a solution...
im working on other suggestions from this thread
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You 'cleared data' on the media and still had this issue? http://mikemartinezonline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/03.png I've had this issue a few times with a few people- again it just happed to me yesterday! Seems that the media storage, media hub, oovoodo, and some others were taking up huge amounst of space. In fact my media storage was at 800MB until I cleared it. Especially noticed this for me after adding and removing media and swapping different sd cards.
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You 'cleared data' on the media and still had this issue? ] I've had this issue a few times with a few people- again it just happed to me yesterday! Seems that the media storage, media hub, oovoodo, and some others were taking up huge amounst of space. In fact my media storage was at 800MB until I cleared it. Especially noticed this for me after adding and removing media and swapping different sd cards.
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I cleared the app cache there, and still had the issue. I also went into recovery and cleared cache, dalvik cache.
I didn't try the SDMaid method, so if someone else has this same problem, that may be a place to try.
I ended up starting with scratch with my device, and just upgraded to calkulin 2.9.2.
now my device is functioning as expected, and i can finally install angry birds space...
Well same problem shows up again.
updated to Calkulin 3.0, in hopes to resolve the problem, but still no go.
insufficient space when trying to install or update app from google play.
SD Card: 3.25GB Free / 29.7 GB
USB Storage: 7.29 Free / 11.50 GB
Device: 1.29 GB Free.
It's kind of annoying, is this something that would be resolved by going back to stock. This is getting a bit annoying.
thanks again.
Which app?
Edit: Have you tried clearing data for google play in settings/applications/all yet?
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Hello,
Sometimes when I try to download from the Play Store I get an error of Insufficient space.
I guess it's because the low internal memory.
What can I do?
Thanks.
ArielElia95 said:
Hello,
Sometimes when I try to download from the Play Store I get an error of Insufficient space.
I guess it's because the low internal memory.
What can I do?
Thanks.
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Yes I get this many times. Go through all your apps and clear their cache...
Uninstall apps you don't need.
@mjt Well, it's pretty obvious. I mean, if there's a way so it won't download to the internal storage because it has small capacity.
Perhaps you might have stated clearly what you were asking for.
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Perhaps you might have stated clearly what you were asking for.
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Hi,
I'm new to this website being directed to it by a colleague when he heard my problem. I am not an expert but the following is relevant, I think, to this thread:
My HTC One has two partitions.
One partition (called "App Storage") has a capacity of 6.76GB with 761MB used by "Apps" and 5.80GB used by "Other" leaving a miserable 219MB available.
The other partition (called "Phone Storage") has a capacity of 25.24GB with 142MB used by "Apps"; 14.78 used by "Music"; 85.22MB used by " Photos & Videos"; 1.32MB used by "Downloads" with 25.02GB available.
I am getting messages of low storage. In addition, I now cannot download anymore Apps and get messages about being unable to Sync eMails.
Thus the following questions:
1 Is there meant to be two partitions? This phone has been in for "repair" twice in the last 12 months.
2 If there is meant to be two partitions, why can I not transfer data from the "Apps Storage" to the "Phone Storage"?
3 It's been suggested that the "Apps Storage" contains the operating system. When the phone was bought, it used "Jelly Bean" which had a size that was OK for the "Apps Storage". Mine has "Kit Kat" which, I understand, is much larger in size.
To me, it seams crazy that the "Apps Partition" is so small and that Apps can be stored in either partition. Any solutions/thoughts would be appreciated. BTW. Vodafone has told me that this is the first time they have come across this problem and that I would have to pay them for a solution or else dump the phone and get a new one!!!
Any thoughts appreciated
Thanks