insufficent storage - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II

my note II is reporting insufficent storage when I have over 4 gigs of internal storage and over 2 gigs of sd card space. Wth? It only happens with installing some apps. None of the apps update at all. They all say "error insufficient storage"? How, with over 4 GB's worth of internal storage. Also, why can I install APP2SD yet cannot install any google apps, facebook etc...???? Anyone run into this problem? I searched on here and google with no solution. Everyone says to "free up space" in other forums on the web.

Im not expert but my understanding is that samsung format build memory "special" way. Part of 16 gig is used as internal memory and rest as sd card. When you install own sd card that card for become ext sd. Use file manager and move some videos, pictures and music from internal storage and SD card to your ext SD card. App2sd doesn't work on Jellybean
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Thx for the reply but I have already cleared sdcard. I have over 5gigs qorth of space on my sdcard0 and over 3gb of space on my extcard. Some apps i download from market installs fine without a problem. I.e. apps2sd, facebook messenger app. However, theres apps that i would download which says "error insufficient space" i.e. facebook app, google drive app etc... I really dont know what else to try.
Thanks for the apps2sd card insight. I didn't know apps2sd didn't work on jb.
If anyone else xan help i'll greatly appreciate it. Trying to get facebook back on my note II after uninstalling it.

Install App Cache Cleaner from Play Store and give a try before you do factory reset.
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Wrong. All wrong.
Assuming you are rooted with a custom recovery?
Go to your device settings/applications, find the play store app, clear data on it, also find your downloads app and do the same.
Make sure you are on the latest version of twrp.
Boot to recovery, clear cache, and dalvik cache. Then fix permissions and reboot.
Fix permissions is under advanced settings in recovery.
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Im having the same problem. I tried what the previous post said but it didn't work. Any suggestions?? Ignore my sig. I haven't updated it yet
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Lol, clear ram memory before installing those apps.
(seriously)

Sometimes it needs more ram than you have to install. Creating this will let you install the app.
Also, try deleting the cloud agent file in storage. It's usually hogging an ungodly amount of storage on your internal memory.
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Tried clearing RAM and it didn't work. All I am doing is trying to update apps and it says insufficient storage available. Now are we talking about read only memory or random access memory because I cant see how clearing ram would have anything to do with storage. I could be wrong though.
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kickdrum74 said:
Tried clearing RAM and it didn't work. All I am doing is trying to update apps and it says insufficient storage available. Now are we talking about read only memory or random access memory because I cant see how clearing ram would have anything to do with storage. I could be wrong though.
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Try deleting the cloud agent file.
Otherwise we need more information.
Which program you are updating?
How large?
Screen shot of memory page?
One last note, when I was using my n4, Facebook had a bugged update, which kept telling me that I didn't have enough memory. A couple of days later, they fixed it. And it updated normally.
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Thanks for the reply. I truly believe that this is a Play Store issue because I can side load any app without any problems from Amazon Appstore for instance. As far as apps I am trying to update they are Google Play Music and Twitter. I will get a screen shot soon but my cloudagent file shows 0 bytes.
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Screen shots as requested
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You only have 1.3 gigs of free space. You have either a ton of apps or games that suck up memory (like the stock need for speed game) you will probably need to root and move to sd, or delete some stuff.
I personally don't like to use more than 3/4 of my available memory, for speed reasons.
Here is mine for comparison, although I deleted "Simpson's tapped out" which took up a lot of memory recently.
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kickdrum74 said:
Thanks for the reply. I truly believe that this is a Play Store issue because I can side load any app without any problems from Amazon Appstore for instance. As far as apps I am trying to update they are Google Play Music and Twitter. I will get a screen shot soon but my cloudagent file shows 0 bytes.
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Here's what worked for me...
Go to google play store, download an app called link to sd...(should still download and install without giving u insufficient storage error)
Once installed and opened, go into settings and click on "install location". Be sure "internal" is checked.
See if this fixes your problem.
I believe somehow we changed our app install location to ext sd card and for some reason my phone is not letting me install or even move apps to my brand new 32gb sd card :/

Also, I see you are rooted. How many nandroids do you have on your internal? Those can suck up a lot of memory if you don't put them on your external.
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mrbkkt1 said:
Also, I see you are rooted. How many nandroids do you have on your internal? Those can suck up a lot of memory if you don't put them on your external.
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Yep, i was gonna suggest the same, each backup for me took just over 2gigs of space. I moved em to the computer and then deleted them off the phone.
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I have exactly the same problem. I cannot install pretty much any App, and the updates do not work. I did what was suggested in previous post but it did not help at all. I did simple testing.
Removed an App then cleared all cache. I tried to resinstall it back and got Insufficient Memory Error. I the App was installed, why it does not want to install back.
This all happened when I rooted my phone with GalaxyNote2 Toolkit. Acutally when I rooted I was able to install Apps until I got to the point the momeory on internal SD was full. I started to remove Apps one by one to be able to install some Apps that I needed but rmoving apps did not help at all. I also tried everything possible to move Apps to SD card but I was not able to...
Any clues ?
Arthur

aklisiewicz said:
I have exactly the same problem. I cannot install pretty much any App, and the updates do not work. I did what was suggested in previous post but it did not help at all. I did simple testing.
Removed an App then cleared all cache. I tried to resinstall it back and got Insufficient Memory Error. I the App was installed, why it does not want to install back.
This all happened when I rooted my phone with GalaxyNote2 Toolkit. Acutally when I rooted I was able to install Apps until I got to the point the momeory on internal SD was full. I started to remove Apps one by one to be able to install some Apps that I needed but rmoving apps did not help at all. I also tried everything possible to move Apps to SD card but I was not able to...
Any clues ?
Arthur
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In the app manager try going to the play store and clear data & cache
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It did not help. I have 7.5 Gb free space but still get the same error, no space avail. ...
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I know I suck at math, but I must be missing something.

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"Insufficient storage available" but its a lieeee

Why does my phone give me these weird "insufficient storage" pop ups when I have free memory. I barely have any apps on my phone and I just went to update tb and it said that I have no room. Also when I move apps to sd card most of them work but some of them give me this message as well even tho I know they're lying because I know I have free memory on both the phone and sd card but I get this message and they don't let me install or move apps. Anyone have this problem before? And I've seeen it on different roms so I don't think a reflash will fix it.
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lilajrestnom said:
Why does my phone give me these weird "insufficient storage" pop ups when I have free memory. I barely have any apps on my phone and I just went to update tb and it said that I have no room. Also when I move apps to sd card most of them work but some of them give me this message as well even tho I know they're lying because I know I have free memory on both the phone and sd card but I get this message and they don't let me install or move apps. Anyone have this problem before? And I've seeen it on different roms so I don't think a reflash will fix it.
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First, what program is giving the error, and what segment of the memory is it trying to write to. If you are trying to write to the SD card and there is no room there, then you might have a problem with that. On the other hand, it may be another section.
Additionally, you may have downloaded a program that wants to allocate a very large chunk of space for itself. More than you have. Some games download their data when you first load them. They often check for sufficient space first. They can use well over half a gigabyte, so if your SD Card doesn't have that space free, it will error out.
I know wht you're talking about but I don't recall titanium backup needing an extra couple hundred Mbs to work lol.
Its happening with every freaking app I'm trying to download off the market or install off my sd card. And even the apps I'm trying to simply update off the market.
And I have like 4gbs free on my sd card and 500 mb free on the phones storage.
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There's been several ways of going about remedying this, there's the odin to stock method, the factory reset, and the clear market data method. I've personally only tried the latter 2, and they work temporarily in my experience.
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This has happened quite a few times to me.
lilajrestnom said:
Why does my phone give me these weird "insufficient storage" pop ups when I have free memory. I barely have any apps on my phone and I just went to update tb and it said that I have no room. Also when I move apps to sd card most of them work but some of them give me this message as well even tho I know they're lying because I know I have free memory on both the phone and sd card but I get this message and they don't let me install or move apps. Anyone have this problem before? And I've seeen it on different roms so I don't think a reflash will fix it.
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DONT REFLASH... lol titanium backup odex file is corrupt, remove it from system/app and uninstall TB, then download again
What hsppens is there are fragments of the old programs still In data that screw up the reinstall. Search with root explorer and nuke those bits. For instance if youtube app fails, search for youtube and a list of all files with that in the name will pop up. Nuke those files (don't forget to make r/w). Other option is odin and clean imstall.
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yeah I got that error too
Is there a app that can automatically clean old left behind files like 1click cleanup.
Hi all, I too had that problem before when I was on stock EC05 BML and had little space on internal memory. I could not upgrade Titanuim so I got so mad that I started getting into custom roms with MTD to have more space. Also helps if you get a class 10 32gb card.
I saw that the July 15, Titanium try to download from market it failed because not enough space and I was tripping but I used the lucky and it cleaned the messed up left behind odex, then install was coolio.
I also get sometimes could not parse error on .apk and never could figure it out. I guess they are not compatible with my phone since they were not downloaded from market...
Lanboy =)
lanboy said:
Is there a app that can automatically clean old left behind files like 1click cleanup.
Hi all, I too had that problem before when I was on stock EC05 BML and had little space on internal memory. I could not upgrade Titanuim so I got so mad that I started getting into custom roms with MTD to have more space. Also helps if you get a class 10 32gb card.
I saw that the July 15, Titanium try to download from market it failed because not enough space and I was tripping but I used the lucky and it cleaned the messed up left behind odex, then install was coolio.
I also get sometimes could not parse error on .apk and never could figure it out. I guess they are not compatible with my phone since they were not downloaded from market...
Lanboy =)
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A app called SDmaid has helped me in the pass.
Thank you guys. I'm going to try now and see what happens.
Edit: okay so I searched "titanium backup" in root explorer and got nothing.
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lilajrestnom said:
Thank you guys. I'm going to try now and see what happens.
Edit: okay so I searched "titanium backup" in root explorer and got nothing.
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It isn't called "Titanium Backup". It is com.something.something in /data/app/
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
It isn't called "Titanium Backup". It is com.something.something in /data/app/
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its in data/app and its called com.kermidas.titaniumbackup-1.odex and .apk
If you delete something else you will not be able to run the program yyou delete...btw
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its in data/app and its called com.kermidas.titaniumbackup-1.odex and .apk
If you delete something else you will not be able to run the program yyou delete...btw
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I just missed the .odex file but I got it now. Thank you very very much its working now.
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lilajrestnom said:
I just missed the .odex file but I got it now. Thank you very very much its working now.
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No problem, just helping out. have fun
Titanium Backup is one of the most useful programs to come along for people who root and flash. It is well worht a few bucks ($6) to guarantee working updates, support the developer, freeze apps, batch work, and to save all your data. It pains me to see a program discussed here whose sole purpose is to cheat the developer out of a few bucks.
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Titanium Backup is one of the most useful programs to come along for people who root and flash. It is well worht a few bucks ($6) to guarantee working updates, support the developer, freeze apps, batch work, and to save all your data. It pains me to see a program discussed here whose sole purpose is to cheat the developer out of a few bucks.
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I just had to scroll back and re- read the whole thread. The second time around I saw the app you refered to by name. After Google searching it I realized what you are talking about. I agree with your statement and am a proud owner of Titanium Backup.
He says it will get rid of all 'corrupt data'?? I don't understand...?
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I think that this is sometimes caused by unnecessarily re-flashing the gapps when doing a dirty upgrade upgrade on cm or aokp. It also happened to me after advance-restoring data on aokp. Duplicity seems to be the main connection here. Clean installs are good for the epic's soul.
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Can't Find Memory

Ok this isn't your typical "my phone says it has 16GB" question...
I am using Tasks AOKP ROM
On the internal SD, my phone says that 6.06 GB has been used (on ES File Explorer and Storage)
I run an SD card analyst on ES File Explorer and it can only account for 5.35 GB of data.
Where is that extra 0.71 GB of data? Since yesterday, this has gone up from around 0.66 GB of data I couldn't locate... so that's an extra 50MB that was used I can't account for on top of the whole 0.71 GB I can't account for...
Any ideas?
Have you installed any new apps? Heavy YouTube or internet access?
Could be a variety of reasons. It is only 60mb.
Personally I don't even use internal. If it's being used its used by apps or temporary nandroid backup. Everything I need is on the external micro sd card (titanium backup, nandroid, music, videos and such).
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Try an app like cache cleaner and see if that helps?
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mymusicathome said:
Have you installed any new apps? Heavy YouTube or internet access?
Could be a variety of reasons. It is only 60mb.
Personally I don't even use internal. If it's being used its used by apps or temporary nandroid backup. Everything I need is on the external micro sd card (titanium backup, nandroid, music, videos and such).
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No it's 0.71 GB of data missing, which is 710 MB of data...
I did a fresh clean wipe and install and it still comes out like this, so the Cache isn't it...
Unhived__Mind said:
Try an app like cache cleaner and see if that helps?
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I definitely don't have 710 MB in cache... I'm looking at it now.
Anybody? Any recommendations for another app?
Disk usage from the play store. It will show you all your usage.
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Can't get phone to use SD card?

Okay so it seems that jelly been doesn't allow us to Intel apps to the SD card anymore.. Okay fair enough, stood move by Google but I doubt there's anything we can do about that. My question: how can I get my phone to save other data to my external SD?
What I ultimately want is to be able to save downloads (ROMs), nandroid backups, and if possible, move extra files needed for games and cached music (I have 2gb of data from Google play music of cached music. Deleting this every few days when I go through a few hundred songs to clear space is frustrating). Does anyone know of a way that I can make any of these things happen?
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You posted a question in general. .and if you do some searchong you will find a thread aboit yoir issue
pokedroid said:
Okay so it seems that jelly been doesn't allow us to Intel apps to the SD card anymore.. Okay fair enough, stood move by Google but I doubt there's anything we can do about that. My question: how can I get my phone to save other data to my external SD?
What I ultimately want is to be able to save downloads (ROMs), nandroid backups, and if possible, move extra files needed for games and cached music (I have 2gb of data from Google play music of cached music. Deleting this every few days when I go through a few hundred songs to clear space is frustrating). Does anyone know of a way that I can make any of these things happen?
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Search XDA - there are thread(s) how to change Google Music storage to exSD card.
Thanks gentlemen. Using tapatalk at work so search doesn't work terribly well. Probably should have just used website search tool. Still not sure about game data, nandroid storage, etc., but I'll try to keep looking on my own. Thanks
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Found nothing yet, still looking.
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Found something that works for music, buy I don't think it will work for other apps and I don't think binding the directories will persist through a data wipe or ROM installation. I was just curious if this was a possibility and it seems that it is not.. I guess SD cards are becoming useless.
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Apps to sd
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Using this thread I was able to move my apps to external sd.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2109112
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Q) what files can I delete from my internal sd without messing up my phone and get ri

I want to clear out my storage but theres so many files. Concerned if I delete the wrong one. Running out of space :/ sucks
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chuko303 said:
I want to clear out my storage but theres so many files. Concerned if I delete the wrong one. Running out of space :/ sucks
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If you are just clearing items from the internal SD and not from any system locations then you should be fine. Everything on internal SD is just extra storage for you and your apps. You may lose saves and settings if you were to just clear the whole thing. I would suggest going through and deleting the largest items or moving them to external SD. Use Disk Usage app to view the largest items and see what needs to be moved. Use GL to SD to move large games to the external SD but do note that you MUST launch them from GL to SD if you do this. GL to SD does require root. Also, I would advise deleting pictures and video if you use your camera a lot. Back them up first of course. If you have Google+ installed with it set to auto upload your photos and videos, this won't be a problem.
Disk Usage:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...DMsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC5kaXNrdXNhZ2UiXQ..
GL to SD:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zbGYuTGlzdGdsQXBwIl0.

"Insufficient storage available" when I have 800mb free for apps and 9gb free on sd.

"Insufficient storage available" when I have 800mb free for apps and 9gb free on sd.
See title. What's wrong with this idiot phone? Happens with every app I try to install.
I'm on stock 96 rooted Xperia S.
Tried searching on Google and found a couple solutions that didn't help at all.
Weird
i had that issue right after one of my apps had a licence check failiour
Clear google play store data, that usually works for me
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Did you installed any patch with Lucky Patcher? If yes, go to fix problems and look for things related to apps not installing...
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Seems like the problem fixed itself. And no I don't use lucky patcher. I don't know what happened but it annoyed me a lot.

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