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Out of space, even on Gingerbread?

Ok, so my wife has been battling the 'out of space' issue on her droid inc for some time.
Finally, GB comes out for her inc... I think "hey, this was a huge problem, and never really solved, im SURE GB fixed this up"
Flashed the other day, and today she says it showed up again.
What the heck? Come on HTC!!
ALL of her apps are on the SD card, she has it rooted, and uses the stock email app, as well as handcent for txting.
How do i fix this?!?!

Hm, how many apps does she have installed?
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Well before This happened she had about 30-35? now its 20 or so other than the stockers

How large is the sd card?
It may b custom rom time
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Is it me, or have there been a lot of these kinds of problems cropping up? I'm kinda curious what the reason and solution is since I'm probably gonna put my dInc back on Sense sometime.

its the stock 2gb card, but both the card, and her 'sd card' report over 500mb free...

IIWY I'd check directories for usage files and phone dumps that can fill up phone space (700mb) fast — you can't delete the directories (causes some FCs; annoying), but you can delete all the files, then make the directories read-only so they stay empty:
/data/tombstone
/data/system/dropbox
/data/system/usagestats
And def. install/use an app cache cleaner if you haven't already.
There's a program here (search for SD maid) that helps clean up, too. I haven't tried it but I've read about it; looks great.

Clear out or back up and delete old mms messages.
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Trebuchette said:
IIWY I'd check directories for usage files and phone dumps that can fill up phone space (700mb) fast — you can't delete the directories (causes some FCs; annoying), but you can delete all the files, then make the directories read-only so they stay empty:
/data/tombstone
/data/system/dropbox
/data/system/usagestats
And def. install/use an app cache cleaner if you haven't already.
There's a program here (search for SD maid) that helps clean up, too. I haven't tried it but I've read about it; looks great.
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Did this. There was a bunch of stuff, alas, icon is still there were working on cache clearing now, but weve done that before with different apps.

kodakeos said:
Did this. There was a bunch of stuff, alas, icon is still there were working on cache clearing now, but weve done that before with different apps.
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If she's rooted, download NotEnoughSpace. It will give you direct access to the 150 megabyte \data\data partition. Every application and any contacts synced to the Incredible are dumped in there. If less than 10% is free, you'll get a low memory message, and performance will degrade.
NotEnoughSpace lets you relocate stuff out of \data\data and frees up space in that directory.
I also discourage folks from downloading all their Facebook contacts. Completely unnecessary, and all dumped into \data\data anyway.
BTW, with NotEnoughSpace, I recommend moving what can be moved until you get up to about 20% free (i.e. 30megabytes) only to emmc or a NES partition, *not* the cache. You might have to clear the cache and then the info will be missing from the apps.

[Q] Low phone memory htc desire

HI, im really sorry if this has been posted already but i did look and all i found was for other phones and not mine.
So my phone has had the low memory icon since December 31st, 2011 and has only gone away a few times. I clear the cache, took off photos, even cleared out my music and did a factory reset...all the while took off all the apps and put them back on one by one. Now my phone has decided to deny me access to my photo's, music and text messages. yesterday my internal phone memory was 10.93 and this morning it is 8.88. My sd card is 8 gigs and has 4.77 available space. I went to the telus store and the representative told me just to force stop applications running which I do that all the time and even go to the manage applications and stop the large ones. and I spoke to multiple representatives and all they would do if I sent it away would be update the software and do a factory reset. my phone wont even update any application....
please help me!!! I'm ready to throw my phone against a brick wall.
THANK YOU
MELISSA

I think that this hasn't been asked yet. Furthermore, in no case there are a billion of custom ROMS whose primary task was to circumvent this issue.
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Have a look in the development section of this forum. There are custom roms (phone software) that allow apps to run from your memory card rather than the very limited phone memory. This will give you 5 times or more amount of space
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Unfortunately you have to start a root and install a modded rom.
The Htc desire has this big problem. You can install apps only in the internal memory (about 520mb).
The modded roms allow you to install apps also in the SD card with (virtual) unlimited space.
Tom

tomtomxxx said:
Unfortunately you have to start a root and install a modded rom.
The Htc desire has this big problem. You can install apps only in the internal memory (about 520mb).
The modded roms allow you to install apps also in the SD card with (virtual) unlimited space.
Tom
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The Desire has only 150 MB Internal Storage (/data-partition).

MatDrOiD said:
The Desire has only 150 MB Internal Storage (/data-partition).
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It has about 500mb, but 350 occupied by the sense data...
So you're right... Only 150 mb...:sly:
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Internal Storage space

For some reason, I have run out of internal space on my gs3. As far as I know all of my music is on my sd card. I have a 16gb sd card and my phone has 16gb internal storage. I uploaded screen shots of it. It doesn't make sense because the memory doesnt add up. I dont believe I used 16gb of memory.....
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rocafella_ny said:
For some reason, I have run out of internal space on my gs3. As far as I know all of my music is on my sd card. I have a 16gb sd card and my phone has 16gb internal storage. I uploaded screen shots of it. It doesn't make sense because the memory doesnt add up. I dont believe I used 16gb of memory.....
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Are you running any app2SD apps? I did once and got the same thing. If you are, try uninstalling it and you should be fine.

Not that I know of. I deleted a few things but idk whats taking up all that space. I havent used up all my memory. These are all the apps I have....
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Try using a cache cleaner and clear some of your cache to see if that helps
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I just downloaded app cache cleaner. Its saying I only have 2.5gb of internal memory. I really need to get to the bottom of whats taking up all this memory
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Are you rooted? Have you done any nandroid backups? Check your Clockword or TWRP backup subfolders if you have. Backup files are rather large and it only takes a few to eat up a fair amount of memory.

you can use app cache cleaner you can download.it in play store
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I went to recovery and formatted the internal memory. It wiped everything! I wasnt too disappointed that all my stuff was gone but I had to try something. After rebooting the phone I looked and the storage and everything was back to normal. Yes I am rooted. Ive been rooted since the second day I got my phone which was back in september. Cache cleaner did little for me it cleared up only about 1/2gb of memory. As you could see from the previous picture I only used about 2gb of memory. Heres a screenshot of how it is now....
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Questions about internal storage or lack there of

What apps could I use to monitor my internal storage ? I download a lot of games and since they won't solely rely, or install on the SD card they're taking up space on internal. Though even after uninstalling I'm guessing there is remnants left on internal because usually I'm still having low space issues. Is there an FAQ somewhere with information on how to keep it down ? Any help would be appreciated. I'm updating to latest Cyanogenmod right now, but figured this time around I'd consult you all here and what you're all doing to help out with the minimum space that's available ? Obviously not installing a lot of games would be the better idea. I have 32gigs external and that's just it. I hate that I have all this, but typically using none of it. I do plan to upgrade to the Note II shortly. Though for now I'm still using my Epic and I can say it's still a spiffy phone. Thanks for any help guys/gals.

You could do a data wipe/factory reset. That will wipe your data partition where you app data is. Use Titanium backup to backup the apps you want and care about first. Sometimes only backing up what you use and doing a data wipe is a great way to "start fresh". I do that every once and a while. I usually find out that I have several apps that I wasn't using and don't miss. Other than that, it's SD for the rest as we don't have a ton of space.
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[Q] How do I do moves apps to sd?

Hello all! Ive done some research and still am not completely understanding the partition thing. I downloaded an app that was called app2sd (I think that was the name) but it says unable to do so because of a patch that was needed. Can someone explain specifically the process. What is the partition and what about this patch thing? lol sorry but I knew just enough to use the toolkit to root my phone and now id like to benefit from it. Thanks to all who help.
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Well from the research I've done after no replies here. They have resulted in the ultimate answer being is yes you can move apps to SD, BUT it takes a process that I don't think I'd be able to do. You have to "fool" your note 2 into thinking that your SD is your internal memory and I don't want to mess things up. If someone has an easy, easy way to do this please let me know. Until then I will just wait til 4.3 update which hopefully apps to SD will be integrated with that update. The S4 in Germany has it, Shortly others shall follow. Well maybe not shortly but eventually haha.
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There's an app called folder mount that works with high data games.
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+1 on FolderMount. It's different from Apps2SD. I suggest installing My Drives. It'll help find the files that are big storage hogs.
The problem is how Android setups up the memory because of the ability to have multiple profiles.
I haven't personally tried it on the GN2, but you could tired the function Convert to System App. Maybe through that you can move an app to the SD card.
Not that they all do, but I find the two biggest storage hogs are games and videos. Videos are easily moved. Well, nandroids are too.

That is what's eating up most my memory is videos and pictures. I eventually change it over to where my pics and vids were stored on my sd card but that was after my internal memory was almost all gone. Im just going to get drop box on my computer and store them there so I can erase them on my phone to free the memory. The only reason I didn't want to do that before is because my cpu is 3 4 years old and slow. so I hate getting on it. Ill just suck it up and do it. Thanks guys.

If you set up a google+ account you can use it the same way as drop box and you can also get picasa Web, the cool thing about them is Thayer all free unlike drop box
Give it a try I think that's the best route and you can upload from your phone.
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Thanks ya'll and I've got drop box on my CPU now and it is free...for what I'm using it for anyway.
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