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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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
Hey there,
I am equipping two Google Apps a.k.a. Gmail accounts on my Desire. Unfortunately, though I have a FroYo release that supports native a2sd, my phone has no internal space left due to Gmail downloading all messages to the phone memory. With a ****load of labels, this is really annoying.
I searched back & forth, but I couldn't find any solution to this problem - does anyone have a clue as how to make the Gmail data kindly move (and stay) onto the SD card? I tried 'Move cache for Root Users' (http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/it.tautility/) but it just didn't move my two accounts cache data to the SD card.
Thanks in advance!!
I surely don't mean to grab the whole forum's attention here (which I won't achieve anyway), but since 68 people viewed this topic and nobody replied... - does nobody have the same problem? Don't you ever use labels, or don't you sync them and get in trouble with disk space? Or does nobody have it on the internal storage and have some clever solution that I miss?
Do you really need all the e-mail of your account? Mine just synchronizes with the mail of the last 4 days and if i want anything beyond that it will automatically load it via my data connection.
you can change the amount of days by pressing menu when in the gmail app then choose settings and then labels.
Reminds me of Steve Job's 'you hold that phone the wrong way'....
Yes and no, it somehow worked well on the stock ROM, and I surely had some folders sync completely. I don't know why it does not work on the current ROM I use ([ROM-FroYo] Official Froyo HTC Sense ROM (16/07 v1.0c | OpenDesire Team)), but it doesn't seem to do anything strange anyway...
Ok..
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.
I have a question. I started to notice that my internal memory is running very low, without installing any new apps. So I decided to back up my data and do factory reset. Am running on stock OTA froyo not rooted. Did the adb shell setInstallLocation to install my apps on sd. After the reset i had 136mb of free space. After a couple of programs and data restore i had 123mb of internal memory. A couple of more programs and down to 120. After installing NFS Shift and Navigon down to around 98 as it should be. After linking two of my contacts with their fb accounts it fell down to 93mb! After just two minutes, without touching my phone it fell down to 89,5mb! Now the best part, without installing anything, nor touching the phone whole night (due to sleep ), my internal memory fell down to 78,95mb, whole by itself!!!
Call me crazy, but something is wrong here, and I dont know what... I delinked those contacts with their fb accounts, only left weather to sync every 6 hours, gmail notifies my instantly when a mail arrives but i recieved maybe 3 mails during this memory leak, and fb sync was on..
Any ideas what can cause this?
Anyone?
Settings > Applications > Manage Applications
Check what is using the most memory and report back
HTC contacts take up A LOT of space most of the time. Mine got up to 35mb a few days ago and has since stayed at 35.
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Hm, here it is:
Motonav 18,75mb
Rockplayer 3,99mb
Fifa10 3,86mb
Facebook 3,71mb
ASTRO 1,40mb
Dolphin HD 1,29mb
Other are less than 1mb.
For the past 24hours memory is doing fine, not leaking anymore, but I would kill to know what took 10mb just over the night while phone was idle?
What about nfs shift? That takes about 35mb?!
Make sure all the apps have refreshed and are all showing their size.
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I set the device to install all apps on SD card, so NFS takes up to 500kb in device memory The memory decreased as I was installing apps, so if it said that app takes 3mb, it got decreased by that much. So proprotion memory decrease and all installed app size is equal. But then it lost those 10mb over night, I don't know on what...
Before I did factory reset, I got 9mb of internal memory free and all my installed apps together took around 45mb, so I don't know where around 80mb went then.. After the reset, things became more normal but only thing that is bugging me are those 10mb that i lost without any trace...
That's why. I assume you're rooted? If you are, the rom you're using probably has A2SD+ so you don't need to move apps to SD, as the rest of the app goes on internal storage, instead of A2SD+ which moves all the app to SD.
Try moving apps back to internal and see how that goes.
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Not rooted :/ I did the cmd command adb shell setInstallLocation and set option 2, to install all apps to sd card.
Used this one : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742379
Thats why NFS is not 30 or so mb, but only 500kb in phone storage..
Is it possible that facebook could download so much data by linking two contacts with their fb pages?
Ahh, that's strange then. How many apps have you installed total?
Facebook for Sense will only sync contacts with phone numbers linked, and also their status', photo albums etc.
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Why its strange? Contact Sync etc over Night and your sopace will fall down if i Delete all my SMS i will have 20 MB more
But I dont have so many SMS, and only two of my contacts were linked.. I can't believe that only 2 links and already memory down bu 10mb? What if I linked all caontacts, i would need an 8 gb memory card for storage
Apps in total:
aBTC
Advanced Task Killer
Album Art Grabber
ASTRO
Barcode Scanner
Compass
Doplhin HD
Extended Controls
Facebook
FIfa10
Google Translate
Hungry Shark
Java J2ME Runner
Motonav
MyBackup Pro
NFS Shift
Post it Desk
Quick App Clean Cache
Quick System Info Pro
Retro Camera
Rock Player
Have searched and searched, which probably means the answer is no, but has ANYONE at all found a solution to CM7 deleting sync accounts after each reboot? I thought at first it was only doing it to facebook, but it does it to anything except google accounts. LAME! Help please
Move your facebook app back to the phone and it will hold your sync on a reboot.
worked for me, thanks
I struggled with that one a bit myself. I noticed the same thing with GMail app. It may very well be any sync account.
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Move your facebook app back to the phone and it will hold your sync on a reboot.
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Thought of that too. Tried it, still didn't hold. However, I really just wanted the pictures to dl. Found a syncmypix (or something alike) in the market, worked great.
Thanks for the tip.
Hi, I've been searching the whole XDA forum for some time and the only topic which seems to really describe my problem is this one, so even if it's an old thread and that my device is an LG Optimus One, I'll post it here.
I also happen on some (but not all) reboot to loose all my accounts (except Google) and contacts and calendars events associated to those accounts, and some preferences (widgets settings are resetted, virtual keyboard is back to default Android keyboard).
In *theory* I don't have apps on SD, but as I use DarkTremor Apps2sd script (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715940) on a CM7 Rom, in *reality* I have some apps on SD. However, they should be seen as internal apps by the system. As such, I don't have control (and even don't know) if an app will be installed on available actual internal memory or on fake internal memory (sd-ext) because the system will report all them as internal apps.
The purpose of DT's A2SD script is to make apps act like normal internal apps. Why then would they still cause system problems if the system thinks they are internal apps? I don't understand.
And finally, how can I then try to at least test if my problem is indeed caused because the apps are on SD?
My Micro-SD card is a 8GB class 10.
Thank you