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?
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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.
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Has anyone on EVO come across this problem. I keep getting low disk space on my EVO. I uninstall apps to get more internal space, but then it drops again. On Friday I had approx 48mb of internal storage, then by 4:00pm I had 323 kb. I uninstalled a bunch of apps and now I am back at around 48mb.
I went into sd and storage to monitor my space. I also went into menu settings/ applications to see what was taking up the space. By chance I noticed that my Mail icon in the morning was at about 75mb and when I checked it that afternoon it was at 111mb. I called sprint tech support and we deleted/ then added my email accounts again to see if that would clear up space. We also set the max amount of space for msgs to 25 kb. text only. This seems to be working, but still under my mail settings under applications, the MAIL still shows using up about 95mb of storage.
Sprint tech support states that that is really high, but for some reason it is not something that can be erased. Of course I can always do a wipe, but that is always as a last resort. Just trying to gain back some of that precious internal storage.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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In the few years I spent supporting mobile phones for companies low internal storage space was almost always caused by pictures, mp3s, and movies.
So how much of that do you have on your phone?
deathsled said:
In the few years I spent supporting mobile phones for companies low internal storage space was almost always caused by pictures, mp3s, and movies.
So how much of that do you have on your phone?
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The EVO saves that kind of media to the SD card.
OP, what ROM are you running?
I know that apps like streamfurious will cache its content and store it to the phones memory. It can Max you out in a matter of hours. Do you use streaming apps?
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I know that apps like streamfurious will cache its content and store it to the phones memory. It can Max you out in a matter of hours. Do you use streaming apps?
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A misbehaving app is probably the culprit. I'd really recommend Cachemate in the market. There's a chance that one run of that may solve your problem.
Also, if OP is running CyanogenMod w/ Turbo that'll occupy a good amount of internal memory as well.
I use Xiia Live llite. Usually in the evening. . I'll check that out and see if it shows how much is cached.
Thanks
I'll check it out. thanks. Ok it cleared about 3mb.
My mail icon still shows 99 mb of data. If you go menu, settings,applications, manage applications, It brings up everything that you have installed. You can list them by size. The Mail icon HTC, is the one taking up all the space. is there any way to eliminate it? I am running rooted 2.1. I will probably OTA to 2.2 tonight and unrevoke 3.21. Don't know if this will help.
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I'm running into low storage also.... I have alot of apps but have moved most to sd card that I can... Anymore tips to get storage back?
Trying to fix my wife's HTC low disk space and in trying various methods, I found something odd...
If you have apps on your SD, and you transfer them back to your phone, suddenly, the apparently show up much much larger...
Her peggle went from a few megs to 74 and plants versus zombies went from 4 to 76! She deleted and moved those again and voilia no msg.
So if you're unable to find huge apps taking space, try sending them back to the phone then checkinfG the sizes again!
It is weird to me that the app size is reported so differently depending on where it is, I don't understand it totally. Is that much of the apps data moved over to the SD card?
Anyway if you're getting a low space error, checking the free space in data/data might be something to look in to. I think it gives the space warning when that partition is more than 85% full.
Galaxy Nexus running Jellybean 4.1.1 Build JRO03C, stock but rooted.
This has been happening off and on for the past few weeks.
Basically I have a small amount (2 albums, used to be more but I cut it back due to this issue) of my Google Music library stored on my phone so I can listen to it on my commute. More recently I have had several incidents (latest this morning) where it will forget that it downloaded the music...and try to re-download it again. The major problem with this is that it seems to be just losing track of the files...not deleting them. As a result it is taking up storage space that the OS is not recognizing. It's recognizing that the free space isn't there, but it can't identify that there are files there I can delete, so I have no way I know of to free up space. Between the apps I have and the music I store...I should have something like 2.4GB used...but the OS is reporting I only have about 500MB of the 13.33 GB free.
I've used the app Storage Analyzer from the Play store to try to find where the large chunk of files is located at...but after letting it run on the data partition for a while the most it reports as being used is 2.35GB with plenty of free storage.
Anyone else run into this? Or have advice? Please help...my last resort is restoring to factory and wiping the storage. I'd rather not do that if I can help it since it takes a while to get the device how I like.
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?)
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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.