i been having this storage issue, even though i dont have any pictures/video/songs in my internal memory plus i deleted my apps it keeps on saying low memory, on top of this to check the device storage when going into setting, it keeps on saying calculating and i have waited for like 15min but still says calculating. i had this problem 1 month ago and i factory restored everything and started again now the issue is back.....
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i just got my nexus one for about 1 week, tried many different roms, kernels, and apps.
it is rooted, with 2.2 rom.
today, when i checked out about my phone, it shows i only have 22.8mb left on my internal phone storage?
i am just wondering is this normal? do i have too many stuff on the phone, and i should move them to the sd card?
thanks
I think it's very normal, me myself have 27MB left internal storage. i have a bunch of apps installed, i think around the 90.
even with the help of app2sd,my internal storage only has 40MB.
folder of data/data takes a lot of space.
Unused storage is wasted storage. Enjoy your phone and stop worrying.
Hello Everybody. Thank you all in advance for any help you can give a noob with the Captivate. I tried searching for similar threads and I couldn't find any.
I just got this phone about a month ago and have not modded it on my own and have only installed applications through the marketplace and added music/taken pictures.
It is an unlocked (how it was unlocked I don't know, the cell phone shop had it done for me) and I use it with TMobile. I don't know if it is rooted, or if it is Froyo XYZ, etc and all I was told is that I am not to do a system reset of the phone to get it back to original factory settings or else they'd have to jump through hoops again to get it working again (I had problems getting it to receive MMS and get online before)
The issue I am having is that all of a sudden yesterday, I got a red notification icon on the very top of the phone and it told me that my Internal Phone Storage was full or nearly full. And then shortly after that.. I received another notification that my text message box was full and some new messages were refused because it's full.
I quickly deleted all of my text messages (about 20 threads or so) except for one old one that had some important simple text info on it (no mms). But that didn't fix the problem. I still received the text message full notice even after I turned off the phone, pulled out the battery and restarted it after a minute or so.
I also uninstalled many of the games and fonts and applications that I had installed through the marketplace and tried restarting my phone yet again and still nothing. I had most of the apps except one or two on there for at least a 2-3 weeks so got rid of the few that I just installed this week.
I was unsure what types of things affect what portion of the Internal Phone Storage and what types affect the Internal SD (I don't have an external sd card but may get one if that helps). Applications are stored and ran from where, if the amount of text messages affect either (tho I had already cleared out the mailboxes).
The settings showed:
Internal SD Card:
Total Space: 13.03 GB
Available Space: 11.88 GB
Internal Phone Storage:
Available Space: 189 MB
I called the support at Samsung and they were absolutely no help at all saying that the Internal SD Card and the Internal Phone Storage were one and the same and they share the 16GB total (which is possibly true in one being a smaller partitioned space for system useage while the other larger partition is for things like Media). The thing that got me was when I asked them what kinds of things take up space in the Internal Phone Storage vs Internal SD and basically asked them which one the text messages affect and which one the applications affect, they said that both affect both. Well in that case, I should have plenty of space seeing as I have 11.88GB of SD left. His solution was to to restore to factory settings.
I felt that they were not able to tell me and tried the Chat. They told me something else altogether for the most part... that the Internal Phone Storage is not used for Anything at all and everything is run and stored in the Internal SD. Her solution was to to restore to factory settings.
Basically they were no help and just kept pushing to restore to factory settings, so I just decided to uninstall just about all the apps/games/live wallpapers that I installed (I can't touch the crap that AT&T had on it when I got it new) and it seems to have worked.
Now my Internal Phone Storage:
Available Space: 215 MB (while it seems to have gone down from 216 yesterday after I uninstalled all the stuff)
I don't want this to be a temporary fix since my phone Should be able to do all the cool things and have cool apps and games and the like and shouldn't be a barebones phone, otherwise I could have gotten a much much cheaper non touch screen Nokia not so smart phone if all I wanted to do was talk and text on it.
I don't think that the media should be making much a difference considering I only have about 1.5 GB used up and what would be the use for having a boasted 16GB internal storage if it craps after less than 1/6 of it's capacity?
So if anyone could help with finding a permanent solution for this so I can go back to having a cool smart phone!
Would I be able to buy an external mirco sd and then install/store/run all the applications on there?
Does the text messages take up much space and where is that stored?
Again, I thank any and all help in advance!!!
well, there is a free sim unlock tool in the android development section of the forums.
Then you could flash stock (seeing as the phone doesn't require a sim card to turn on and function), then sim unlock.
Then do as you please with it.
I actually tried that when I first hot the phone before I gave it back to the cell phone shop to unlock and unfortunately it didn't work.
And the phone storage and text message thing happened again today and all I have done w the phone since yesterday was pair it w a blue tooth headset. Again the phone storage full notification popped up first and then the text message full notification popped up right after. I ended up installing the rest of the apps and still only have about 240mb of internal phone storage! Then the text notification also went away.
dgemhsu said:
I actually tried that when I first hot the phone before I gave it back to the cell phone shop to unlock and unfortunately it didn't work.
And the phone storage and text message thing happened again today and all I have done w the phone since yesterday was pair it w a blue tooth headset. Again the phone storage full notification popped up first and then the text message full notification popped up right after. I ended up installing the rest of the apps and still only have about 240mb of internal phone storage! Then the text notification also went away.
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I'm having this problem as well so do you think that it is a simple internal phone storage shortage? I have only 165mb free and I KNOW for a fact that it is stopping me recieving texts as I get text notifications when someone tweets me and I have stopped recieving them, instead getting notifications that my text memory is full. Furthermore, I deleted a thread with over 400 messages in it to no avail so I shall get rid of some programs/move them to SD card until the memory full error goes.
SORRY I POSTED THIS IN THE WRONG DEVICE SUB-FORUM! MY APOLOGIES!
I'm using TurboStock. A few days ago, I started having this issue were my Gallery, Camera, and basically any other app that involved me using my internal or external memory, say that I don't have any more memory available on my phone, when I have at least 3 gigs of external SD space and 2 gigs of internal space. I found out that the issue has something to do with the Google Frameworks Services process, if I clear the data and reset the phone, it all starts working again, but after a few minutes, the issue comes back again.
I'm pretty sure this had something to do with me transferring songs over Songbird. After I made the transfer and disconnected my phone, I started having this issue. Any ideas on why the issue might be coming up again?
I have had problems in the last few weeks with my micro sd. I posted in 'android general' about this, I want to switch back to the normal partitions. In the past, on XDA I had found a 'fix' that would switch the mounting of microsd and local mass storage, making the microsd the main partition (to the eye of the device, the microsd would become the internal memory, and apps would be installed there automatically).
Anyway, never installed any rom on my phone, only the root. I tried a hard reset today....I went to the configuration (language and account setup) now the phone shows a black screen, you can see (and interact with) only the status bar. A popup telling me about an update came up, I did the update (67 MB), reboot, and then the message: couldn't update the device, try connect to Kies.
Screen still black with only the notification bar (that works, wifi gps buttons etc,). I could go into the options, and see that the microsd is still seen as main memory (switched).
Basically I have two questions:
- why didn't the hard reset work?
- how do I switch microsd and internal memory? I tried looking for the file but I can't remember which one I did edit
And third:
- how do I get out of this ? the only reason why I did the hard reset (microsd not working, switching microsd-internal memory) is still there, so how to say, I in an even worse situation now.
Ok, switched off, removed the microsd. Now it won't boot. Stays stuck on 'SAMSUNG' logo glowing. I guess it doesn't find the files he put on the microsd. But anyway, I thought the stock rom for the hard reset was always stored in the (real) internal memory (2GB big), not the 12GB one (that he can't find because it's called as a microsd partition now...)
this looks like a problem.
fixed. closed
So I have this issue where randomly the phone will throw up warnings that "Storage space is running out". I check the storage, and it is indeed full.. usually only a few hundred megabytes free.
But, here's the kicker.. if I wait a while (1-3 days generally) my phone goes back to normal storage utilisation (around 50GB free).
I have attached some screenshots of what I can see in the phone UI. I can find no way to manually clear the space, except for waiting a few days (during which the phone doesnt work properly because its so full).
I am wondering if its a log file rotation issue or something, causing the phone to fill up, or something else going on... anyone got any ideas?