I'm trying to install a 3.5mb app from Play Store and it keeps giving me "Not enough space" error. I have at least 500mb free space and I even tried wiping cache partition but to no avail. What else can I do?
It started happening after using the android-lag-fixing app Seeder, although I'm not sure if it is directly connected because I uninstalled the app and the problem persists.
Had same problem recently, used rom toolkit to move a heap of apps to sd card using the app manager in toolkit, this freed up a lot of system space and also gave me more operational ram, after a reboot i could download apps again, hope this helps
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It may be trying to install to the wrong spot?
Dan Demonic said:
Had same problem recently, used rom toolkit to move a heap of apps to sd card using the app manager in toolkit, this freed up a lot of system space and also gave me more operational ram, after a reboot i could download apps again, hope this helps
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How did you move them to sd? My phone doesn't allow it. App2sd says I don't have sd card nor sd partition, and in rom toolbox it only allows me to backup apps.
Freeing up the cache helped though.
clear play stores data.. if that doesn't work then clear it again along with google services framework
In Rom Toolbox lite and pro version in the app manager if you star/check an app in downloaded list there is a pop up sliding options bar with choices such as uninstall, freeze, move to sd card, use finger to scroll it left or right to choose apps2sd, you can star multiple apps and move to sd storage in bulk which in gnex is internal sd storage, it will apparently move any user apps, if you only got 500mb left in internal sd storage you will probably start getting pop up low memory warnings if you move too many apps to sd. Internal sd is 13.* gb @K786 fix lookd easier and quicker anyway
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So i managed to root my phone, flashed the latest Leedroid rom and use A2SD+ , to overcome the storage issues.
All is working fine, i can see the ext partition and that the partition is actually in use.
What i understood is that you should not move apps from phone to SD anymore, because A2SD+ is automatically installing them to the EXT partition.
However i notice some apps still take up quite a lot of phone storage.
When i move them to SD, the free space increases a lot
For instance i moved Google Earth and that got me an extra 23 mb of free phone memory. Also moving Rock Player freed up some space.
So my question is:
should i leave app on the phone at al times, as people are suggesting, or can i move apps to SD which seems to clear some phone memory?
If it frees up more space, move them to sd.. I use titanium to do that as i've heard it works better than the stock way.
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Well a2sd+ moves that apk and the dalvik cache to ext. "move to sd" moves the apk and the libs to fat.
Using either solution over the other will not be as effective as using both. However bear in mind that it becomes messy when you are splitting the components of an application over 3 partitions.
My advice if you're struggling for space, do it with the odd application. Don't make a habit of it
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Hi guys,
I have the Cachemate app and after clearing the cache, it showed my used internal memory at 115mb. I did not install any new apps, but I did app updates from the Market and now it shows my used internal at 123mb. I have also cleared the web browsing history and all text messaging threads I had going. This would also happen on my Nexus One and Hero, so I know it's not just an E4GT issue. After about 3 months of just updating apps (and not installing any new ones) my internal memory would just keep going down and down. I would go into Settings/Applications/Manage Applications and click on every app one by one and clear cache that way, but I could never get my internal memory to back to where it was when I first flashed a ROM and installed my apps initially. On my Hero, it got to the point where i couldn't update my apps anymore because it said i had no more space in memory to do so. Is there a reason why the internal memory keeps going down only from updating apps? Is there anything I can do to stop this, like a directory to manually clear out that is being missed by clearing the cache? Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks.
Did you have it moved to the sd card (USB storage) before and the update installed it on phone memory? Then just move it to USB storage again.
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Did you have it moved to the sd card (USB storage) before and the update installed it on phone memory? Then just move it to USB storage again.
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I move all the apps I can to the SD card. I keep some on the internal memory because i use their widgets and they won't load if the app is on the sd card. When the apps that are stored on the sd card get updated they definitely stay on the SD card but the internal memory still goes down. Same result with the apps that get updated that are stored on the internal memory of the phone. No matter which apps (SD or phone stored) get updated, the internal memory will keep going down until there's none left. I'd understand if the updates were a larger file size then the originals, but they aren't. I also just tried wiping the dalvik cache, but that didn't increase the memory either. It's just weird that I have to re-flash the same ROM every few months just so I can keep updating apps.
Download Memory Booster Lite from the market and check what is using your memory in the task killer. Kill apps you are not using that are autoloading. If they keep loading back up freeze them with something like Titanium pro or bloat freezer.
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...Or Gemini App Manager
Thanks guys, I will definitely try those.
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I'm sure it's been addressed but I'm having issues when installing apps from the market. It downloads them but when it installs I get no storage space. It's impossible because I have over 3gb storage free and 1gb internal storage. I'm running cm10.1 1/25 if that helps. Just weird considering I installed things fine the other day
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I was getting this error, too. I couldn't figure out what was taking up so much space on my internal SD. I did a search on it and clockwork can leave behind some serious blobs. Delete the clockwork folder, namely the blobs folder, but I just deleted everything and made a new backup.
While your at it, look for other old, unused files on your SD to delete. ROM toolbox will give you a last modified date. I only delete stuff that hasn't been used in like 2 months.
Another great way to free up space is by using apps to SD. I move all my games and larger apps to my SD card. I'm working with well over 100 downloaded apps and I haven't even filled up half of my internal storage.
Bottom line, storage space requires a little maintenance now and then, just like a computer. Unclutter. Delete all the crap you'll never use.
I had the same issue with clockwork mod. The blobs was using up 1.5 gigs of internal space.
From what I read it has to do with the new way that incremental backups are done. But I don't do any nandriod on my internal memory so I don't know how it got there.
I just deleted the blobs and it gave me that space back. Will look into apps to sd.
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Well I erased the clockworkmod folder and still nothing its very selective about the apps it gives the error to. I installed shadow gun dead zone and it went fine but I tried a battery app and it gave the error
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Have you tried clearing market data? It might be as simple as that.
Also, get ROM toolbox and back up your apps once you get this figured. I usually stop that data hoggin' auto download from the market and just install ROM toolbox. I restore apps only and some select data. WAY faster! Use less battery! Switch ROM fast!
please help i cant install apps any more because it says "insufficient storage available"
i used apps 2 rom which transfers data to rom and after a month i deleted some apps and i free up my internal storage up to 2.2 gb
and after that i removed my apps from rom and they took a little space to my internal storage, still i have 2.1 gb free but it cannot download apps
My rom free: 316.6 mb
My internal storage free: 2.1 gb
But still cannot download an app
I have it Rooted. i know advanced in android
i dont have a memory card
cedie said:
please help i cant install apps any more because it says "insufficient storage available"
i used apps 2 rom which transfers data to rom and after a month i deleted some apps and i free up my internal storage up to 2.2 gb
and after that i removed my apps from rom and they took a little space to my internal storage, still i have 2.1 gb free but it cannot download apps
My rom free: 316.6 mb
My internal storage free: 2.1 gb
But still cannot download an app
I have it Rooted. i know advanced in android
i dont have a memory card
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Some apps look for percentage available instead of MB available or some nonsense.
Could also be that it needs to install some secured data, and that's going into a place you don't have enough space.
Also, if you had an app installed on external memory at some point, and you try to reinstall it, you'll get that error. Check your Application Manager for any apps that have the memory card icon on them. Those can cause problems.
Personally, I use Link2SD Plus, which requires an SD card. This allows you to move whole applications to a second partition of the SD card. Works well with the tab 3, and leaves me with lots of free space.
I'm assuming when you say ROM space free, you mean System partition space free? I only have about 9MB free on mine and it causes no problems.
Have had this issue on my phone before because the ROM itself locked the device as read-only, causing any app to give that error, and had to flash it again.
I had a bunch of unknown junk cluttering my user/data partition (they're the same physical area on the device), and had to wipe the "internal storage" and "data" from a custom recovery after backing up my data I cared about.
Hopefully this is informative, and hopefully someone else can be more helpful
Good luck to you
Greaper88 said:
Some apps look for percentage available instead of MB available or some nonsense.
Could also be that it needs to install some secured data, and that's going into a place you don't have enough space.
Also, if you had an app installed on external memory at some point, and you try to reinstall it, you'll get that error. Check your Application Manager for any apps that have the memory card icon on them. Those can cause problems.
Personally, I use Link2SD Plus, which requires an SD card. This allows you to move whole applications to a second partition of the SD card. Works well with the tab 3, and leaves me with lots of free space.
I'm assuming when you say ROM space free, you mean System partition space free? I only have about 9MB free on mine and it causes no problems.
Have had this issue on my phone before because the ROM itself locked the device as read-only, causing any app to give that error, and had to flash it again.
I had a bunch of unknown junk cluttering my user/data partition (they're the same physical area on the device), and had to wipe the "internal storage" and "data" from a custom recovery after backing up my data I cared about.
Hopefully this is informative, and hopefully someone else can be more helpful
Good luck to you
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i dont know what it says but i think it means read-only memory, and my tablet has no recovery mode it only shows "downloading mode"
I don't know if this is a permanent solution but I noticed that I had no "OBB" file in "Android " on my "extsdcard". I created said file and moved all files from "OBB", "sdcard0" to new OBB file. I then started a program who's file I moved to new OBB and immediately closed. Then went back to original OBB to delete newly created file (double) for that app. Now all my apps download straight to extsdcard in the new OBB file. I can also move apps to SD card from app manager .
Let me know if it worked for you.
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cedie said:
i dont know what it says but i think it means read-only memory, and my tablet has no recovery mode it only shows "downloading mode"
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Did you press Volume up+power+home button?
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hi guys,
please help me out.. i have no games installed on my device. only required few apps out of which most of them are moved to sd card. all my music/photos is on sd card. yet the internal storage space fills up very quicly and even i cant update my existing apps. an error crops up - not sufficient storage left.
I have to reformat my phone again and again to get storage space reclaimed.
I've been using Clean Master to free up space whenever I update anything.
Side note: looks like Titanium Backup can remove system apps now. Failed in the past, but I just uninstalled Bubbles.
Now if only I knew what was safe to remove and what wasn't.
If an app can be disabled normally, can one assume it's safe to uninstall?
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Integrating system app updates doesn't work. Tried to integrate YouTube, and now it's completely gone. Crap
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bluevolt said:
hi guys,
please help me out.. i have no games installed on my device. only required few apps out of which most of them are moved to sd card. all my music/photos is on sd card. yet the internal storage space fills up very quicly and even i cant update my existing apps. an error crops up - not sufficient storage left.
I have to reformat my phone again and again to get storage space reclaimed.
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Root the device and uninstall all bloatware from system. also, with some effort, you can install Link2SD and move most apps and data to SD-card after Root.