I've had a scenario where the storage memory dropped to <5mb only. Coz of that I couldn't launch Youtube which required at least 8mb of memory.
I've tried stopping all running programs, using Memmaid and soft-resetting but to no avail. The memory remained at <5mb.
I only got back my storage memory to its optimum level on doing a hard reset. Is there a way I can regain storage memory without doing a hard reset?
I have the same problem. Have you been able to fix it without a hard reset? Tnx.
I had this problem yesterday, Lost about 12meg but i can't find where.
maybe opera stores its cache in the storage? but if it does i cant find where.
rumpleforeskin said:
I had this problem yesterday, Lost about 12meg but i can't find where.
maybe opera stores its cache in the storage? but if it does i cant find where.
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Try to run Advanced Config and change the storage folder for cache, downloads, temp files etc to internal memory. it may work. But my guess is that the storage memory is low to begin with. You run/install a couple of programs and it's in red.
My own solution is to flash to a "modified" ROM which gets rid of unnecessary pre-installed programs to free up space. Works wonders. Now I am not in red after installing like 20 programs on my diamond and believe me, it's MUCH faster. There is whole ROM section for diamond in xda-developers for you guys to play around. Read carefully and thoroughly before you try. It's not like adding a new software but you wipe out the ROM (Read only memory) and HTC will tell you that the warranty is void if you do that.
thanks for the info
im running TLR3 at the moment and generally happy with the amount of memory it left me, i was just a little supprised at having 12 mg dissapear on me.
i followed your advice about moving the caches to the internal storage, hope this will prevent the situation recoccuring.
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When I open IE and go to a link, it will start to load and then it freezes the Tilt. I think it started when I moved the location of the storage (cache, history, etc) to my storage card.
Could this be the problem or anyone know of a solution?
I have come across this same issue. cache is on storage card. I'll move it back and see what happens....
I had the same exact issue and it got extremely annoying. It's because of the proxy--you have to disable it.
I came from a Wizard/MDA and was in the habit of trying to get everything on the storage card except the today screen. Once I moved the PIE cache back to main mem it has worked ever since. Stock ATT rom.
**Update**
Moving all Cache back to phone storage has stopped the PIE Freeze issue....
I too have had this problem and wouldn't mind a fix.
ChumleyEX said:
I too have had this problem and wouldn't mind a fix.
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As posted above: DON´T move the cache to the storage card. The Kaiser/Tilt doesn´t like that....
Last night I got a popup saying that my storage memory was low. it was at .05mb. I thought this was a bit low, but I went and deleted some stuff and got it up to 5.5mb. I then actually watched the memory count down to .01. I dont know if this is a virus or what. I tried to use sprite but it didnt work, also there is an icon was added to my HTC launch page, looks like a piece of paper witha windows symbol.
i have HTC Home, touch cube, kaiser tweak, voice command, garmin xt, just the basics. Please help
try clearing the browser's cache. the same thing happened on my old ppc even though I know I didn't have much installed, but clearing the cache fixed it.
I dont think it was the cache that was the problem but i could be wrong, i kept deleting stuff and nothingi did worked. Also when i hooked it up to sync it just kept cycling through the sync.
Needless to say i just did the hard/doft reset back the the beginining. Now I have to decide whether or not to reinstall all the programs or flash the rom
Are you using a cooked or stock ROM? A lot of cooked ROMs will contain fixed-size page pools, and while they are great for performance, they tend to have memory leaks.
i am using a the stock rom
None of the programs you listed are known for causing memory leaks, so I would reload all of them as usual, and see if the problem returns.
It may have just been some registry corruption causing it.
Well Windows is know to cause Memory issues.
Best thing I can recommend is a Hard Reset and Restore all your programs.
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Last night I got a popup saying that my storage memory was low. it was at .05mb. I thought this was a bit low, but I went and deleted some stuff and got it up to 5.5mb. I then actually watched the memory count down to .01. I dont know if this is a virus or what. I tried to use sprite but it didnt work, also there is an icon was added to my HTC launch page, looks like a piece of paper witha windows symbol.
i have HTC Home, touch cube, kaiser tweak, voice command, garmin xt, just the basics. Please help
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I see you're using Garmin XT, now i don't use that program, but does it download maps? I know that most mapping programs can chew through memory like you wouldn't believe. I use all the other programs and have never run out of memory before...of course truth be told, i've never left a rom on for very long either...
I have read about Memory Leakage and I think that is the best way to describe what is going on with my Hero. I am Running Damage Controls last ROM and my memory keeps going away until I get the low memory icon. This has been going on for a few months now. Three months ago the problem first showed its head. So I start cleaning everything out. I do not store ANY email, texts, SMS or anything that I have control of on the phone. I do not sync with facebook, Gmail, Twitter or any of those other services. But my memory keeps "leaking" away. I got a cache cleaner, I have dumped all but three programs that I put on off the phone and while I first beat this back to 40mb to 30mb to 20mb and now I can't get it above 18mb. It's like every time there is a program up date from the Market it loads a whole new program and the old one stays. At least that is what it seemed like. I have been told to dump DC's rom and move on to something else but I like the phone and what it does when it works. I have the usual problems with slow dialing and bluetooth connection problems and that kind of stuff but all in all the phone works pretty good except for this memory problem. No I don't have apps2sd working but I don't think that would matter at this point as I have mentioned I have had this phone back up to 40mb and that memory over time just leaks away. Any idea's??? Is there another rom like Damages where the phone looks pretty stock? I am really used to the way it works and hate the idea of setting it up again. But if that is the recommendations I get from this forum I gather this is where I will have go.
Any help or idea's will be greatly appreciated. As I mentioned installing a new ROM is a last resort for me and if that is where I have to go then some suggestions would be appreciated too.............
Thanks so much.........
Lisa
That's not memory leakage, that's just from apps. Install apps2sd... then you won't have to deal with that problem.
Or use Firerat's custom partitions to free up a ton of space in data.
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Okay, aps2sd is the way to go. Being I'm not a total computer wiz I have to study how to do this. So, Firerat was mentioned and how do I do the apps2sd thing? I realize I have to back up my sd card to my PC and that is no problem and the Damage Control Rom that I have has a toggle that I can check to move the apps to the SD card so I think I'm okay there. But I have to partition and reformat my SD card. I have never done that before. Could you give me a link that I can go to so I can read all the instructions on how to do this. I have Titanium so I am well backed up there and I have recent Nandroid backups but partitioning the SD card is the trick I haven't done yet. Can I take the card out of my phone and do it with a card reader on my PC or do I have to do it through the phone? You can see the kind of help I need here and while I have resisted doing any more to my phone I think if I can free up this internal memory ALL my issues with the HERO and Damage Controls last ROM will go away for me.
As usual I appreciate the links and all you help............
Lisa
To partition your SD card:
BACK UP SD CARD CONTENTS TO YOUR PC
boot into recovery
partition sdcard
partition sd
follow instructions
i personally set the data partition to 256 MB, but even with ~100 apps i still have like 100 MB free. there are many other size options.
i forgot the other numbers it asks for (like cache or dalvik partition), but you can leave them at zero.
back in the Partition sdcard menu, choose SD:ext2 to ext3
reboot
now you can enable a2sd and retransfer your backed up sdcard contents from your PC. you will probably need to reboot for a2sd to move your apps and take effect
Were you using Damage Controls ROM?
You're instructions are very straight forward and that is kind of the way I saw the process too. I'll back up everything before I start and I'll give it a go when I get a chance.........
I was not using DamageControl ROM, but I have a hunch that's how it will work.
Interesting thing, I was just looking through Damage Control's "control panel" and apps2sd is checked already. Looking at Titanium Backups "control panel on their latest version it shows memory or storage usage for Phone Memory, Apps2sd and SD card usage and it shows that I have stuff in there already even though I have NOT partitioned my SD card. How can that be??? I guess these are the kind of things that come up when you use a ROM that has been abandoned by the developer. I really like everything about this ROM But this memory thing has gotten to be a real problem. I guess if I partition the SD card I will get it working faster? Or working completely? But this is an interesting question I think..........
Any feed back on this discovery would be helpful too..............
I'm having some trouble lately, maybe the past week? I keep seeing low memory, and I'll go in and delete some apps and it'll go away, and keeps coming back, I've cleared all my caches and such and am still hovering around 15-16MB of memory.. I rooted my phone about a month ago and flashed Fresh 2.4.0 onto it, and have really liked it versus stock! But, this low memory thing has me a little worried.. I've tried searching and haven't found much, anybody have any advice for me?
I've found that after wiping data and reinstalling my apps, I gained about 50 megs. Even with all the same apps and data from titanium restore... Just a lot of trash gets built up over time (it had been months since I had wiped data)
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I'm having some trouble lately, maybe the past week? I keep seeing low memory, and I'll go in and delete some apps and it'll go away, and keeps coming back, I've cleared all my caches and such and am still hovering around 15-16MB of memory.. I rooted my phone about a month ago and flashed Fresh 2.4.0 onto it, and have really liked it versus stock! But, this low memory thing has me a little worried.. I've tried searching and haven't found much, anybody have any advice for me?
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Use firerat's internal partition mod...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754805
It repartitions the internal space. When youre donr you have 2-300 mb of space for apps and cache. Very simple to do
you have a few choices here
1. switch to an odex'd build these have more internal space because of how odexing works
2. modify your partition like PMDColeslaw suggested
3. delete some of the apps your not using, i know on my phone i can name atleast 6 apps i have installed that i use barely at best
Andrew486 said:
I'm having some trouble lately, maybe the past week? I keep seeing low memory, and I'll go in and delete some apps and it'll go away, and keeps coming back, I've cleared all my caches and such and am still hovering around 15-16MB of memory.. I rooted my phone about a month ago and flashed Fresh 2.4.0 onto it, and have really liked it versus stock! But, this low memory thing has me a little worried.. I've tried searching and haven't found much, anybody have any advice for me?
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If you switch to cm, you'll gain about 50 mb of storage immediately
Sent from my hero running froyo... take that Sprint!
Hi all I'm having this problem that's doing my head in. I went to use OCLF but was informed that I didn't have enough space in my phones internal memory. On checking it, apparently I only had 800 mb free, so I went and deleted all my large apps, and left a whole bunch of small apps about 4-5 mb in size (in total there wouldnt have been more than 30 mb combined). This didn cut it as now I only had 1100 mb free and I needed 1.5 gb to run the fix. After reading a few forums my understanding was that I had to do a factory reset to free up the rest, but in doing so I would lose my contacts, messages etc. So I used titanium to back some important things up then did the reset. On rebooting my phone I was shocked to see that my free available memory was still around 1.1 gb, and the reset was in vain as I had lost everything and my backups didn't work. Wats worse is the reset left some apps behind but none of them work! I ruined my phone and gave myself a big headache for nothing! Please somebody help! How can I free up some bloody internal memory so I can run OCLF and wat can I do about my failed titanium and astro backups?? Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Hi all I'm having this problem that's doing my head in. I went to use OCLF but was informed that I didn't have enough space in my phones internal memory. On checking it, apparently I only had 800 mb free, so I went and deleted all my large apps, and left a whole bunch of small apps about 4-5 mb in size (in total there wouldnt have been more than 30 mb combined). This didn cut it as now I only had 1100 mb free and I needed 1.5 gb to run the fix. After reading a few forums my understanding was that I had to do a factory reset to free up the rest, but in doing so I would lose my contacts, messages etc. So I used titanium to back some important things up then did the reset. On rebooting my phone I was shocked to see that my free available memory was still around 1.1 gb, and the reset was in vain as I had lost everything and my backups didn't work. Wats worse is the reset left some apps behind but none of them work! I ruined my phone and gave myself a big headache for nothing! Please somebody help! How can I free up some bloody internal memory so I can run OCLF and wat can I do about my failed titanium and astro backups?? Any help would be greatly appreciated
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OCLF?
Isn't Voodoo Lagfix is a better solution?
I'm assuming you are still on the Stock 2.2 Firmware, right?
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OCLF?
Isn't Voodoo Lagfix is a better solution?
I'm assuming you are still on the Stock 2.2 Firmware, right?
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Yeah, OCLF is so deprecated, any thread that relates to it on these forums should be eradicated.
But isnt OCLF supposed to have a much faster fix than voodoo?? If not, then i'll be damned. I bet knowing my luck voodoo wouldnt require as much internal space. All this headache seriously for nothing - everything I intended to be removed off the internal storage is still their only corrupt and doesnt run, and everything i intended to keep through backup is lost through backups that don't work! ARGH!
Back to the matter though, how can I clear my internal storage if factory resetting isn't clearing up the 2g internal partition??
AND does anyone have any experiences with voodoo being much faster, efficient to use etc. than OCLF?? Thanks in advance
OCLF used black magic and trickery to get high benchmark scores but is not faster/smoother/better than ext4 voodoo.
Where have you been all these months and please don't tell us you are still on 2.1 or something.
haha ive been extremely busy with work over the last few months and haven had any time to play around with my phone or even come back on here (i forgot my old username and password cos i didnt come on in so long). that was until last week when i upgraded to 2.2 (and am hearing rumours of 2.3 coming officially coming soon?), rooted my phone and tried this OCLF rubbish all in the same night.
hard reset ur phone, then apply the oclf, not just the factory data reset..heres the dialer for hard reset
*2767*3855#
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ok so i tried a new approach and im having more problems. sorry i guess its my inexperience. first problem was when i tried the hard reset by dialing *2767*3855#. The phone went through the process of 'resetting' the phone only when it rebooted, all the damaged apps which id been seeking to remove were still there (since initially trying the 'soft' reset option under privacy in settings, anytime i try to open one of the apps left behind the phone will vibrate twice then force close the app). the second problem was when i tried to flash voodoo using the recovery mode. i can enter the 3 button recovery mode only i cant move up or down the menu using the volume keys! fml
you need to just put it in download mode and flash back to stock.
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you need to just put it in download mode and flash back to stock.
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This, use odin one click to flash back to JF6 and start over before it gets worse.
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