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.
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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.
Thanks
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?
phatmanxxl said:
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.
Thanks
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?
Still trying to figure this out, but after using four roms I still get the infamous "Low on space" error. It used to be with 250mb free, but now it is with 380mb free. I am beginning to wonder if at a lower level in the OS, Android "thinks" apps moved with apps2sd function are actually still taking up device storage.
This makes some level of sense in my case, since after 2.1 stock, 2.52 Skyraider, 2.2 Stock and 2.2 Lite, I still get the error and no Google Earth, Skyfire, social apps or large message cache. Since 2.1, I would get the error with 250mb free, but now it is with 380mb free. What would cause the "Low on space" error to drift inward? It seems like though the space shows as 380mb free, the apps may still think the space is being uses, even though moved to sd.
It sucks to not be able to use the rest of the space, but it makes no difference, in spite of clearing data, cache and four roms. Ruled out hardware error, since the parity check on flash ram tends to be all or nothing for an error (it will either work or not work).
My guess is if there were more app hounds like me, the problem would be more commonly mentioned.
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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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.
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.