Hello forum,
I really need some help here please.
I'm always getting database storage almost full the last time got this was last week and I had to delete all my sms email and 300 contacts.
Now I got it again if I delete anymore ontact I well have nomore contact on the pda so I need help to understand why I'm having this problem.
I checked my SD card and phone storage in the settings and this is wat it reads:
External SD Card
Total Space 29.72GB
Available space 18.45GB
SD card is mounted
Internal Memory
Total Space 12.83
available space 9.18
Internal Phone Storage
Available space 1.08GB
I have memory space available why am I getting this message?
Thr message I get i this:
Memory Full
Database storage is nearly full
Delete some user created data from Contacts, Message, Calendar, or Call log and try again
I've delete all Calendar, Call logs Messages and it says that my sim is full whats the problem here.
Any help please.
Thank You
Gigino
Database storage is dbdata
Open a terminal app and enter "df" to see how much space is free on dbdata. If it's full, we need to thing of a way for rectify the issue, if it's not full then I'm completely wrong/thick
Ok I had the issue with my contacts2.db under /dbdata becoming very large (approx 90mb) and found a solution. Im posting it here in case it helps others. The solution had nothing to do with my handset or android in general. it was ALL to do with google contacts.
when i logged on to google contacts and tried to export "My Contacts" in an effort to fix up the problem with contacts2 on my android device being so large i discovered something weird. There is an option in the export panel to export "All Contacts" as an alternative to "My Contacts". Now "My Contacts" showed me having approx 400 contacts but "All Contacts" showed as 390000+ contacts.... WTF???... Anyhow having pulled the contacts2.db off my droid and used a sqlite browser to examine the data I noticed there seemed to be at least 300 copies of each contact. So it seems like droid is syncing "All Contacts" from google instead of "My contacts" (unverified, just my assumption).
Within google contacts there is a function to "Find and Merge duplicate contacts" which seems to chose a subset (maybe 10 or so) of your contacts and search for duplicates and merge them into a single record. After performing "Find and Merge duplicate contacts" continually until i received the "No Duplicates found" response i then went back to the "export" function and noticed my "ALL Contacts" had come down from 390000+ to approx 400.
Then on my droid i went into settings=>applications=>manage application=>All=>contacts storage and hit "clear data" and rebooted it. The contacts resync'd from google contacts and then when i checked "contacts storage" it had come down from 90mb to 1.4mb.
I have no answer at this stage as to why google contacts was getting so many duplicates. My only guess is that it is something to do with the sync back from droid to gcontacts. Anyhow I just thought i would publish the solution i found as I have seen plenty of threads from other people with the same issue.
Good luck !
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Hope this is not a stupid question?
I use my diamond for work and on my S730 i had a cab file that used my Storage Card instead of the phone to store mail. I used this cab file on the diamond but does not work. Does anyone know how to use the internal storage instead of the phone for my mail
Thanks
Brian
in the mail settings you can choose to let attachments of e-mails be stored in the internal storage. The mail itself can't be stored on the internal storage, but i don't see the point of that (because a email is about 1/2 kb most of the time.
Thanks for the reply. The reason i like to save all to the storage card is i had the whole 2gb mailbox on my 4gb card on my S730 phone. We do not currenly have exchange 2007 and i can not use the search option. As i am out alot around our 4 sites its a pain if i need an email that is not stored on my phone as on the road alot. That is why i had that cab file that changed the settings some how so it stored all emails and attachments on my old card. I am sure someone will release a hack to do the same on the Diamond
Thanks
Brian
keerttttt said:
in the mail settings you can choose to let attachments of e-mails be stored in the internal storage. The mail itself can't be stored on the internal storage, but i don't see the point of that (because a email is about 1/2 kb most of the time.
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Yes it can...the (PropertyPath) setting is just located in a different registry setting.
However, I've tried it and immediately ended up getting the common "Storage Card2 issue", a known issue with this trick.
So I've reverted back to the default setting. But you're right that just the emails aren't all that big to begin with.
I would'nt encourage you to put 2 gig of e-mails on your phone. Isn't it smarter to just get the last few days of mail via your phone and if you need a older mail you use the webinterface of your e-mail provider? (on your phone with opera ofcourse)
My Phone Has Been Deleting My Contact's For a Long Time.
It's Deleted Many Number's I Can No Longer re-cover, what's up with This Thing...?
It's Deleted My mother, siblings, Many Friend's, etc...
Any idea...?
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You have the correct groups checked? (Contacted -> display options -> select your Google account, ensure the right groups are checked)
You may wish if sync is enabled to verify the contacts online https://www.google.com/contacts
I don't Have That Group's Thing, I Used To Have 150 Contact's, I'm down to '97, That's what it say's when I Log into My G-Mail account as well, Wish There was a way To Recover Them, I Just Leave My Phone at Home 24/7 due To It's Battery Issue (Not Plugged in = Not Turned on)
So, I Haven't Gotten To Manually Writing Everythin' down yet...
Any Idea's...?
Well...?
What do y'all Think...?
I think you need to go into your gmail contacts on the web and export to a CSV file to save what contacts you have left.
I have no idea why you are losing your contacts.
Hello everybody,
neef some help in this issue.
I always get a message saying that my data storage memory is nearly full and it tell me to delete some medsages, contacts or calendar events.
I only have 500 contacts, 2 month of calendar events and about 30 messages.
I delete 1 month of calendar events and it did not solve the problem, so then I delete all my messages that did not solve the problem but then gave me another problem saying that my sim card was full but it was not.
I removed the sim card to see if I still get the storage message problem which it did.
Now I was left only to delete my contact I deleted about 350 contact and that worked.
Put the sim card back in now it all fine but what I cannot understand is how many contacts can you store in the tablet how much data storage memory is they in the tablet.
When I was using WM 6.5 I had nearly 700 contact a a full year of calendar event and over 100 sms and I never had this issue.
Is this a problem with my tablet or is an normal thing?
Please need some advice.
Thanks
Gigino
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My main concern is to move my contacts from Nokia N95 8gb (Symbian) to Galaxy Note. I do not want to do Google sync as there's lot of contacts and email ids already in my Gmail account. I don't want to mix it up. I don't have an outlook account as well. Please tell me a way out.
Is there any solution for transferring messages, calendar and notes as well? I don't mind doing this manually but contacts are difficult. Thank you.
Contact is easiest
First open contacts in symbian, option mark all - copy to memory card
Now copy other/contacts folder from your memory card n put in memory card of android
Open contact in android - option(menu) - import/export - import from SD card - select multifiles from available option - and GO
there is google calender sync application available for Symbian, backed up, then download in android by sync
same way a application is available for SMS backup to gmail for android, i forget name right now
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Contact is easiest
First open contacts in symbian, option mark all - copy to memory card
Now copy other/contacts folder from your memory card n put in memory card of android
Open contact in android - option(menu) - import/export - import from SD card - select multifiles from available option - and GO
there is google calender sync application available for Symbian, backed up, then download in android by sync
same way a application is available for SMS backup to gmail for android, i forget name right now
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wow.. that was easy. i never knew there was an option called "copy to memory card" in symbian. very smooth and all details gets copied, not just the first number in a contact.
google calendar is a good option. although i thought of copying manually just this months' appointments and anniversaries. if you sync then even the old 3 or 4 year old entries get copied which is of no use.
i couldn't find any google sms backup. but i did find another excellent alternative. first follow the steps in this link:
http://www.simail.si/nokia2androidsms/
after that use this application from the following link to complete the transfer
http://android.riteshsahu.com/apps/sms-backup-restore
it has all instructions. very useful if you collect huge amount of sms and don't want to let go.
copying notes, i guess normal Bluetooth transfers would do.
thanks doc
For calender since b4 android i switched to google, just reason is it remind you with sms too, so nothing like backup needed ne more. Once make entry on pc, n forget
Perhaps I'll be able to sort this one out with the group's help.
How to merge/clean/eliminate duplicate contacts under "Phone Contacts" group? Some of the contacts seems to have up to 8 entries or at least it shows 8 times. And they all have the exact information.
If I try to link them, it says "Couldn't Link Contact". Not sure what is going on here.
And to clarify, I use "Phone Contacts" & "Exchange Contacts" only. No Google nor SIM contacts. I've disabled my Exchange account trying to figure this one out, since the Exchange account it is clean and concise.
Any help would be very appreciated!
Thank you!
Okay, upon further research it seems like the best way to go is to have Google Contacts & Exchange Contacts and to drop local Phone Contacts. So I have exported Phone Contacts into vcf file and imported back into my Google account - ironically there were never any duplicates, as I suspected despite the phone showing repeated entries. but this puzzle is beyond my level.
In any case, now I need to globally delete all 850 contact entries I have under "Phone Contacts". I can't seem to find a "Delete All" or "Select All" option to delete local contacts saved on the phone.
Am I missing something here?
TIA!
This keeps on getting better!
Tried following multiple Android forums about simply deleting "Contact" app cache & memory to realize they were referring to "Contacts Storage" app and not the "Contacts" app. Apparently this Sony only gives us access to the Contact app with the Contact Storage app not being visible.
Really? Do I need to wipe the entire phone to simply erase contacts saved on the phone? Even my freakin old Symbian phone had the option to select all contacts...
I also tried in vain to install the useless Sony Companion software but of course, no access to any contacts thru that.
Arghhhh!!!
MyPhoneExplorer
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