Ok so as we all know this is the folder that gives us the low on storage message when we get under 15mb of space left. But this folders data numbers are going crazy on me. For instance I moved a few bigger apps (like google earth and google plus) to the sd card and had about 20mb left, but after using the phone for 2 days straight I checked and only had about 1.5mb left. Now to lose 18mb to cache is kinda crazy but after restarting the phone the number jumped back up to about 16mb free. Seems this problem keeps happening to me in Ginerbread only and I am getting tired of keep getting that low on space message.
I dont think any one has found a fix for it other than using apps such as link2sd and notenoughspace. I use the link2sd app my self, it moves the apk, dalvik, and lib files to a sd card extension.
possible fix
You should check out jermaine151's Stock+ version 2.1. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1260994. I can't personally vouch for it as he just released it and it's a little late to start reinstalling everything, but it looks promising.
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I keep getting the "Memory Full" message, even though I've deleted enough stuf to give me roughly 5 MB of free space. I can't even receive new texts. I did a soft reset and it worked for a while before the "Memory Full" message popped up again. As for emails, they are read then purged from the phone (but kept on my pc). A lot of pictures have been moved to my microSD card. I'm now up to a little over 6 MB in free space, but the message still pops up.
How can I fix this and stop this annoying popup???
First I would get as many programs as you can to the SD card, I would also delete all the att bloatware, and get Total Comander and retweak all mail and texts to SD card.
Also this may be a simple fix, but after you deleted your messages did you go to the delted items folder and clear all deleted ?
delete your web browsing cache... I've heard that takes up a lot of storage.
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First I would get as many programs as you can to the SD card, I would also delete all the att bloatware, and get Total Comander and retweak all mail and texts to SD card.
Also this may be a simple fix, but after you deleted your messages did you go to the delted items folder and clear all deleted ?
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I sure did. After it was emptied I got up to 6 MB of free space. I'll try your other suggestions one I get home tonight.
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delete your web browsing cache... I've heard that takes up a lot of storage.
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I did this also.
i got the same problem at the moment with the memory on my phone. it says its full but i dont know what to get rid of to clear it. ive deleted web browser cache and history, i have evan got rid of my emails which seems ****ing pointless of having this phone now. ive kept everything on my memory card so i am confused now of what to delete.
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
Looking for ideas here. I've been getting a low on space notification in my Stock 2.2 for a couple days now. It states that the application data space is low.
What space is it referring? I've got 6.5 GB free on the internal and 4.5 GB free on the external drives. Is there another location that is partitioned off in the internal memory?
Any ideas of what I might be able to do to clear up the notification?
Hmmm... I just found a thread that mentions that it has nothing to do with the storage size but how much is in /data. They recommended clearing the dalvik cache, but I actually did that yesterday.
Installed Cache Cleaner (needs root & Busy Box).
We'll see how it goes...
Go through management for each app... I bet you find one with 99mb of cache.. Clear that app's cache
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Go through management for each app... I bet you find one with 99mb of cache.. Clear that app's cache
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I appear to be ok now. The next time that pops up I'll give that strategy a whirl.
Thanks!
Plenty of people including me who get the warning and no large cache, social apps, email, messages, Google Earth, Skyfire or any of the other suspects. Android has a big a55 bug up its butt and was in 2.1 and now 2.2.
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Go through management for each app... I bet you find one with 99mb of cache.. Clear that app's cache
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Nice tip - thanks, I'd not thought of that.
I still get the error and have no large cache built up on any app, or a total of cache for all apps. I have ZERO of the usual issues: Google Earth, social apps, messages, large emails- none.
I have had the follwing roms and always clear data and caches before installing:
2.1 stock = Low on space
2.2 Skyraider = Low on space
2.2 Stock = Low on space
2.2 without bloatware = Low on space
I have about 380mb of storage out of 748mb I can not use. Ironically, I used to be able to go to about 250mb free, but it creeped into less space now.
It seems almost like the Android OS still thinks some apps using apps2sd still reside in device memory. The device shows the space is free, but I wonder if the OS "thinks" it is not free. Only thing that makes sense to me- displacement.
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I still get the error and have no large cache built up on any app, or a total of cache for all apps. I have ZERO of the usual issues: Google Earth, social apps, messages, large emails- none.
I have had the follwing roms and always clear data and caches before installing:
2.1 stock = Low on space
2.2 Skyraider = Low on space
2.2 Stock = Low on space
2.2 without bloatware = Low on space
I have about 380mb of storage out of 748mb I can not use. Ironically, I used to be able to go to about 250mb free, but it creeped into less space now.
It seems almost like the Android OS still thinks some apps using apps2sd still reside in device memory. The device shows the space is free, but I wonder if the OS "thinks" it is not free. Only thing that makes sense to me- displacement.
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It's a bug. Interestingly I get the same issue at around 380MB too. Oh well.
The only time I see the warning is when I install the beta of Firefox. If I uninstall it, the message goes away. Firefox is a resource HOG!
Woke up this morning to this lovely issue. Going to try clearing the cache... then removing firefox.
EDIT: Clearing the cache seems to have worked.
Donation? lol.
I had this pop up just a few hours ago. I cleared all my cache's, and even moved a bunch of apps to sd. Then I happened to have my phone turned to landscape and a I saw. 1. go to mail an.....(off the edge of screen) ??? So I followed the link to the (i guess) memory manager>gmail>cleared the data. The message went away. I sure hope I remember that one later on. I guess the notification tells you more we just can't see it since it goes off the edge into lala land.
So it must be the newest gmail app. anytime I open it up and re load my account the warning comes up. Anyone got a link to the old gmail apk?
Based on the fact that the population having the issue seems to correlate in magnitude as people accumulate apps, I think it it pretty rock solid that the Incredible has a design bug in regards to actual free phone memory. After trying four roms and starting clean with them (Including 2.1 and 2.2 stock roms), my conclusion is this device does not really have "748"mb free, but a few hundred less.
There are two stages to the problem (one with a temporary fix)
1. Cache build ups causes the warning
2. Absolute space is filled with apps and no more can be installed. This appears to hit most people anywhere from 350mb to 250mb free.
This is a big a55 bug and may be due to the allocation of flash from the 8gb. Droid X does not have the problem, but none of the 8gb internal flash was allocated (it is all phone memory).
Catch with the X is most 3D games now force most data to sd card with no option to leave in the internal flash. Ironic the X has too much storage and wastes space that media could use and the Inc has about the right amount but does not work correctly.
Funny and sad. People that say they have not had the problem probably have not hit the invisible ceiling that is a LOT less than 748mb.
Well the problem for me was my email. I cleared all the data in it and the notice goes away. Re sync it and the notice pops up again. So I cleared the data. Went back into my gmail. Started the sync, then right away went out to setting> applications> google> stopped the sync. When I went back into gmail it had what it started to download listed and I was then able to get into settings. I went into Menu > More> settings> labels then I set the sync to only 1 day at a time. Now my phone seems happy and no low space warning. Hope it lasts.
Most having the problem do not have large mail or app caches. That is a symptom to the actual problem of fake space: the Inc does not really have 748mb free.
Solution has been found!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8618549#post8618549
so any further information on this?
Idk if Im right but can this be cause to if you have to many sms/mms....
So I got a bizarre notification today it says I am running out of room on internal storage? Specifically the root, not the SD, or external SD. I am not sure how that's possible or how to free up space. The only thing I can think of is I get lots of SMS/MMS and have 5 email accounts which are pretty active and lots of mail with attachments. Is this stuff stored on the root or SD card? Any other ideas on how to free up space would be greatly appreciated!
Not sure it makes a difference but I am running Blazer 4.0 with Gunslinger.
do you have a lot of apps if so consider moving them to sdcard you can also try to clear cache and data on some of your apps maybe the mail one since you said your email is pretty active other then that im not sure maybe somebody with more knowledge can help
Read this! http://bit.ly/AacW1j One thing that helped me to is that I had a recent Titanium backup (done automatically every night) and on applications that seemed to have 'lost' all my settings like Dolphin browser and Firefox, I simply restored that applicatons 'data' via Titanium. I litterally freed up 1.2 GB of space!!