I have 200mb of app storage free and both the internal and external SD cards have about 5 gigs free. I'm not low on storage space at all. Why does the phone keep telling me this and how can I stop it? I've tried wiping cache and dalvik cache.
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I have 200mb of app storage free and both the internal and external SD cards have about 5 gigs free. I'm not low on storage space at all. Why does the phone keep telling me this and how can I stop it? I've tried wiping cache and dalvik cache.
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Had the same issue a while ago, I just reflashed my ROM... lol went away..
Same problem
I have the same problem on my SGS. I get the notification even though I have 1.7gig free internal Storage, 0.9gig free usb storage and 2.8gig free on SD card.... WTF?
What's worse is that it's the same even when I flash a different rom.
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I just installed apps2sd on a freshly wiped system. I'm pretty sure mine's working and tested it by installing Google Earth.
It did subtract around 20mb from the SD card secondary.
But it also subtracted it on the phones internal storage of around 20plus mb.
I rebooted to be sure, but it's still missing 20mb.
Is it normal that values are subtracted on both storage?
It's not normal as far as I know. It would defeat the purpose of Apps2SD.
Urgh. What have I done wrong?
I partitioned the SD until ext4 using Amon_RA 1.7
I wiped to factory settings and ext using Amon_RA 1.7
I flashed CM 5.0.6
then I wiped again to factory settings.
maybe I'm wrong, but what I have heard is that the app stores on SD card but cache of the app is stored on internal memory. what you are experiencing also happens to me when I install any app.
sstang2006: You're right. The data of the app is still store in internal memory from what I know .
Yup...the main data of the app is still stored on internal memory. Only the apk file and some other stuff is stored on the SD.
did you apply the app2sd?
setting > application > apply the app2sd
Its normal. Apps are installed on the SD card, but program DATA is still stored in the internal memory. i.e. apps2sd is literally "apps to sd card"
see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=646579
Yes Apps2SD is checked. Oh well, I guess Google Earth naturally takes a lot of the internal storage.
I just thought I would never have a problem with the internal storage decreasing in free space.
Thanks for the responses guys!
use CacheMate and clear your Cache....you'll get some internal memory back.... I use it only after using the market to dl/install apps as i've been told a lot of "data" can be used and never "cleared" when dl/installing from market....Give it a try wth right?
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Yes Apps2SD is checked. Oh well, I guess Google Earth naturally takes a lot of the internal storage.
I just thought I would never have a problem with the internal storage decreasing in free space.
Thanks for the responses guys!
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Google Earth has a library file that is 17MB that is installed at /data/data/com.google.earth.
Hi.
I'm currently on Froyobread v21. I noticed that on my initial install that I had about 200+Mb of internal storage. I added some apps and games which are all installed on the SD card but my internal memory is now at 117Mb.
I understand that apps will leave some Mb's or Kb's on internal memory when transferred to SD but I calculated all the apps installed and I should still have about 180+Mb of internal storage.
I wiped the cache, dalvik cache but it keeps on depleting.
Any Ideas?
Oh, one other thing. I am not doing anything to my phone right now but the internal memory changes from 122Mb to 110Mb to 117.
Anyone? Please help...
Use a2sd+ script, install a2sd+ app, move dalvik cache to sd, but first of all partition your sd card
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jaygod611 said:
Hi.
I'm currently on Froyobread v21. I noticed that on my initial install that I had about 200+Mb of internal storage. I added some apps and games which are all installed on the SD card but my internal memory is now at 117Mb.
I understand that apps will leave some Mb's or Kb's on internal memory when transferred to SD but I calculated all the apps installed and I should still have about 180+Mb of internal storage.
I wiped the cache, dalvik cache but it keeps on depleting.
Any Ideas?
Oh, one other thing. I am not doing anything to my phone right now but the internal memory changes from 122Mb to 110Mb to 117.
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I guess app's data are also taking some of the internal memory.
/system is also taking some internal memory
so it's hard to have more internal storage unless you delete something in /system.
Anyway, 100Mb free is fine...
X8 have 512 MB of nand system+data+cache
But a OS can cost almost 400MB memory.
Thanks for looking into this guys!
Anyway, I checked all cache on the phone and to my surprise the new Market is taking 20+Mb of cache!
I deleted it and now I have a full 140 - 170Mb of free space. I just have to remember to clear the Market's cache.
Maybe this will help others having the same problem.
Thanks to all of you!
alright guys, I have miui on my Nexus one and was having no problems up until tonight. I started with 21 mb of internal storage, and suddenly my phone had a pop up asking if I wanted to "export my data to my SD card" it then went on to explain it would move pictures, screenshots, data, etc from my internal storage, to my SD card. And I thought, awesome, now I'll have more space. But now I'm down to 11 mb of internal storage, and keep getting an low memory error. My SD card has plenty of space, 3.6 gb left. This low memory issue is driving me insane, and I don't understand how I ended up LOSING internal storage when I thought I would gain it. Can someone please help me out?
You're running MIUI, I guess - I don't remember this message on any other ROM.
And you probably don't have A2SD running - because otherwise you wouldn't be left without memory.
Reboot the phone, it'll probably restore you back to 21MB of free space. Then read up on A2SD, partition your SD card and enable A2SD.
Hi everyone.
There's no forum for the Galaxy Exhibit, and everyone posts about it here due to similar hardware. I have 7gb free of storage space on my ext4, and 1 gig free on my internal storage, but updating my apps, I get the Insufficient Storage error. Anyone know what to do? I literally just bought a 32gb SD card so I could have more app space
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Hi everyone.
There's no forum for the Galaxy Exhibit, and everyone posts about it here due to similar hardware. I have 7gb free of storage space on my ext4, and 1 gig free on my internal storage, but updating my apps, I get the Insufficient Storage error. Anyone know what to do? I literally just bought a 32gb SD card so I could have more app space
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What works on my S3 Mini is I do a nandroid backup, wipe everything from recovery and then restore my backup. It seems that this way all unnessecary files left from updates are cleared and now there's no more "insufficient space" error Hope I helped!
After shenanigans yesterday I've pretty much got my Moto G 2014 LTE running on Marshmallow.
\the problem I have now is one I've experienced a number of times before, on various devices and Android versions:
Why is it that, despite the storage screen showing that I have plenty of available space, am I not unable to install some larger apps?
Settings > Storage shows internal storage 1.15GB used of 5.52GB (as well as SanDisk SD card 890MB used of 14.59GB)
But when I try to install Injustice: Gods Among Us (1.12GB) i get the error message App requires external storage: "Injustice: Gods Among Us" can't be downloaded. Insert an SD card or USB storage with sufficient storage, and try again.
This app was installed prior to upgrading the OS, and while quite large, should still fit on to my device.
Can anyone tell me what causes this, what I can do to get round it, and also, if there is a way to make the OS see the SD card as part of the internal memory so I can install apps directly to it
On Marshmallow, it is possible to use external SD card as internal but don't do it.
Why ? Because you have a too small SD card. This option doesn't merge internal and external, it just sets the external as internal. So you need a 8gb or more SD card (or you will get less storage than before)
Maybe the play store doesn't want to install because your SD Card doesn't have enough space to install the game. I know it is weird, but sometimes even if you want to install to internal, it checks the SD card's available memory.
You can try to wipe the play store cache and data, and if it doesn't work do a wipe cache from recovery.
Try getting the apk file by google'ing it. Install it. Open it then check if it is downloading files or not.
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Mavireck said:
On Marshmallow, it is possible to use external SD card as internal but don't do it.
Why ? Because you have a too small SD card. This option doesn't merge internal and external, it just sets the external as internal. So you need a 8gb or more SD card (or you will get less storage than before)
Maybe the play store doesn't want to install because your SD Card doesn't have enough space to install the game. I know it is weird, but sometimes even if you want to install to internal, it checks the SD card's available memory.
You can try to wipe the play store cache and data, and if it doesn't work do a wipe cache from recovery.
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Sorry that should have read 14.59Gb for the SD card, so loads of space
Mavireck said:
On Marshmallow, it is possible to use external SD card as internal but don't do it.
Why ? Because you have a too small SD card. This option doesn't merge internal and external, it just sets the external as internal. So you need a 8gb or more SD card (or you will get less storage than before)
Maybe the play store doesn't want to install because your SD Card doesn't have enough space to install the game. I know it is weird, but sometimes even if you want to install to internal, it checks the SD card's available memory.
You can try to wipe the play store cache and data, and if it doesn't work do a wipe cache from recovery.
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Tried to download the apk and it just days no SD card. I know its there, still shows up in settings and shows apps installed on it. Must be a dodgy card or something, but now i cant work out how to tell the phone to stop using it for apps and install internally unsteady (told it to use it as internal when I did set up, not sure how to go back)
EDIT: OK worked out how to get it to stop using the SD as internal and formatted it for data, and seems to be installing the game now. So I think that pretty much solves my immediate query, but still interested as to why android sometimes says insufficient space despite it reporting in settings that there is plenty
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Tried to download the apk and it just days no SD card. I know its there, still shows up in settings and shows apps installed on it. Must be a dodgy card or something, but now i cant work out how to tell the phone to stop using it for apps and install internally unsteady (told it to use it as internal when I did set up, not sure how to go back)
EDIT: OK worked out how to get it to stop using the SD as internal and formatted it for data, and seems to be installing the game now. So I think that pretty much solves my immediate query, but still interested as to why android sometimes says insufficient space despite it reporting in settings that there is plenty
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Yeah sorry for my mistake I have read 1.xxgb instead of 14.xxgb
Android reports the storage to be full as soon as XX% of the storage is filled (maybe 90%, I'm not sure). Then if you have a 100gb device, even if you have 10gb free it won't allow you to do anything.
That's weird, but that's how it works.
Have you tried wiping cache ? It sometimes solves the problem.
It is better not to use the format as internal storage except if you really know what you are doing.