Can anyone shed some light on this problem (or perhaps suggest a fix).
My HTC EVO claims aprox 40MB available space of internal phone storage.
(Menu > settings > SD & phone storage > Internal phone storage)
When my phone has about aprox 40MB I begin to receive "Low disk space" notification. Furthermore, I cannot install any other app.
The problem here is... if i have 40MB of available space then i SHOULD be able to install (afterall I have 40MB free).
Is the reported 40MB erroneous? Perhaps this 40MB is reserved? If it is reserved, for what? And if it is indeed reserved for something, why is it reported as 40MB free?
Perhaps others have run accross the same issue with a different reported space available (mine was 40MB. others may have other values).
There are threads with a seemingly similar issue (disk space being eaten up and memory leaks), but not quite the same as this one (unable to use free space availabe).
Please advise.
Edit (added more info)
Some additional information to what ive posted above....
I am running Froyo (2.2)
Kernel 2.6.32.15-ge2fb08e
Software version 3.29.651.5
This problem has occurred when I had 2.1 (before froyo OTA update).
This problem occured when I have Froyo
I rooted (sucessfully) last night, and the problem persists.
If I am at aprox 40MB, if I remove an app to free up some space (lets say 10MB), which would put me at 50MB free the I can continue installing apps again until i reach about 40MB. Then i get the "low disk space" notifications and cannot install any additonal apps again.
newtonetienne said:
Can anyone shed some light on this problem (or perhaps suggest a fix).
My HTC EVO claims aprox 40MB available space of internal phone storage.
(Menu > settings > SD & phone storage > Internal phone storage)
When my phone has about aprox 40MB I begin to receive "Low disk space" notification. Furthermore, I cannot install any other app.
The problem here is... if i have 40MB of available space then i SHOULD be able to install (afterall I have 40MB free).
Is the reported 40MB erroneous? Perhaps this 40MB is reserved? If it is reserved, for what? And if it is indeed reserved for something, why is it reported as 40MB free?
Perhaps others have run accross the same issue with a different reported space available (mine was 40MB. others may have other values).
There are threads with a seemingly similar issue (disk space being eaten up and memory leaks), but not quite the same as this one (unable to use free space availabe).
Please advise.
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Why dont you just use darktremor apps2sd?
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thanks for the quick reply futuristicstyles.
The issue is not being able to free up additional space. The problem is that the phone is reporting I have space available (40MB), but when I try to use that space it wont let me.
until the experts chime in, i think it does have to do with memory allocated to the os that may include space reserved for cached files, mail attachments program usage, ect. or it could be a buffer memory when the developers designed it.
newtonetienne said:
thanks for the quick reply futuristicstyles.
The issue is not being able to free up additional space. The problem is that the phone is reporting I have space available (40MB), but when I try to use that space it wont let me.
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Welcome I use to wonder the same thing I think the phone does that so that it wont slow down or start force closing like winmo phone when they get full it starts freezing and, moving like dial up. Thats why i think the phone does that
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But dark tremor is a great alternative i have over 200 apps installed and my phone us still on top of the quadrent no lagging what so ever only when rebooting has to load apps from sd card
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Thank you all for posting.
Just checking if there is any additional advice or suggestions?
Also, has anyone else noticed behavior?
I agree with everyone else in that it's probably reserved for cache. Normally the phone uses /data for dalvik cache. Custom kernels and ROMs sometimes have a script that moves the dalvik cache to the cache partition, freeing up space in /data which I might suggest to you in this case.
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.
Non Rooted Phone:
Hi,
I have had my OneX since July. I have had various problems with no signal on 3 etc, but this seemed to get fixed with an update. I now seemed to be plagued with INSUFFICIENT SPACE. I thought I had seen the last of this since I had got rid of my HTC Desire...but alas no.
My phone is not rooted, it says I have:
Internal Storage: Total Space 2.11GB Available 1.67GB
Phone Storage: Total Space 25.24GB Available 21.66GB
I have freed up space by deleting apps, I have moved apps from internal to phone storage....but I am still getting messages say I have insufficient space when apps are updating and they then fail to update. The latest app I have noticed this on is Songpop. I have found that if I power off the phone and on again...some of the apps install without this space issue.
I thought this FLAGSHIP was meant the be the top phone.....alas NO. I try my hardest to keep supporting HTC and not move in the apple direction...but they certainly do not help. Even the camera does not give true representation of what is being photographed compared to the Iphone....unless of course there are some setting to improve the colour interpretation.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Backup data and do factory reset.
i just flashed Cyanogenmod 10.1.0-rc2-d2tmo a couple days ago. my S3 has a 12 gig internal storage and I also have a 32 gig samsung class 10 SD card. So all the sudden I see a icon ive never seen before, and its prompting me that im running low on internal memory! This is confusing to me, Can anyone tell me a solution? Is my rom to big? Also, cant I move everything to my SD card, or would that not work? I put up a screenshot, maybe it can help. Any input would be much appreciated!
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Try something like Disk Usage or My Storage Analyzer from the store. May help you hunt down wha exactly is eating up your space.
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Ive had the phone for about a month and my internal storage seems to have disappeared. So it has a 16gb Hard drive in the phone and I have a 16gb SD in the phone as well. When I go into settings, storage and look at the storage its says Ive used 14gb of 16gb, which seems weird because I dont have much installed on the phone. I have continually uninstalled apps to keep my room available but it seems I have less and less apps on it and less and less storage. I then plug the phone in to my PC and also use clean master to see what my storage is and they both say I have 1.7gb remaining out of 10gb.
So my question is where has the 6gb's gone?
TL/DR
Phone says ive used 14gb/16gb but my pc and clean master app say Ive used around 8gb/10gb
Try using app called diskusage, it should help you a bit.
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