Ok so I have 74mb of space left. And I'm trying to download a 9.xx mb app from the play store. However it says I can't because I have insufficient space available. I don't understand how I don't have enough space st 74 MB to download a 9 mb app. I've cleared cache and everything too. Can anyone give me an answer as to why this is? Fyi the app is the game minibash, if that makes a difference
Menu/ Settings/ applications/ manage applications / All (apps) / Google Play Store / Clear cache
try it
Wheres it trying to install SD card or internal memory? 9mb is the compressed file size, once installed it will be larger.
Maybe android is reserving a certain amount of working space for caches and stuff like that. Can you push some apps to sd to free up some space?
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AurorAllure said:
Ok so I have 74mb of space left. And I'm trying to download a 9.xx mb app from the play store. However it says I can't because I have insufficient space available. I don't understand how I don't have enough space st 74 MB to download a 9 mb app. I've cleared cache and everything too. Can anyone give me an answer as to why this is? Fyi the app is the game minibash, if that makes a difference
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Transfer apps from SD to Phone, or from Phone to SD
Every app that is movable has been moved
any apps on which I can clear the data to free up space, like amazon appstore and play store, etc have been cleared, and I clear the cache like 5 times a day. I don't know what else to do.
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Wheres it trying to install SD card or internal memory? 9mb is the compressed file size, once installed it will be larger.
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It tells me on the play store that the size is 9.02 mb. From the play store page of that app I don't know how to tell if it installs onto the sd card or the phone. Is there a wqy to tell?
How many apps have you downloaded? Free up some space by deleting an app or two that you don't use much. Then download this set it to external and move apps at will to the sd card. You should then have plenty of space.
Ok if you're in this forum you should have the evo 3d too, but if you did you'd know that the app you told me to download is not compatible with the 3vo, so I can't use that to help me since I can't download it.
AurorAllure said:
Ok if you're in this forum you should have the evo 3d too, but if you did you'd know that the app you told me to download is not compatible with the 3vo, so I can't use that to help me since I can't download it.
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That's interesting, I ran that app for months when I was rooted on the stock rom. Btw yes I have an evo3d.
birddog_61 said:
That's interesting, I ran that app for months when I was rooted on the stock rom. Btw yes I have an evo3d.
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An update then must have made it incompatible if it used to be... Thats how an app is on my phone right now, it has an update but when I go to update it it says its not compatible with my phone so I can't update it. OH well. That'd be a really awesome app cuz i have some apps that are like 10+ mb that are not sd compatible so if I could force them to go there that'd be awesome. But it's not compatible. shoot
http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2011/02/02/android-force-moving-apps-to-an-sd-card/
You might give that a shot, I have no idea how well it works.
AurorAllure said:
An update then must have made it incompatible if it used to be... Thats how an app is on my phone right now, it has an update but when I go to update it it says its not compatible with my phone so I can't update it. OH well. That'd be a really awesome app cuz i have some apps that are like 10+ mb that are not sd compatible so if I could force them to go there that'd be awesome. But it's not compatible. shoot
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I've used this app for months without one issue. It's a free app as well simple and it works well.
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TI Backup is showing I have 456 apps installed which includes everything that came with the phone. I hear there is no limit (my old windows 6.5 phone was limited to 50 apps...after that all of the apps disappeared from the deinstall menu and you had to manually delete something to see them all again). Everything is installed to the internal card, nothing installed on the external SD card. I still have almost 9 gigs of free space so it is conceivable that 1500 apps is possible, though the phone may start to slow down at some point. With TI backup eating space along with the phone's built in android backup turned on I don't know how much of the free space will be eaten up.
So anyone over the 450 number?
There is a smaller area of the SD card put aside for apps..
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I was on 448 but just downloaded another 3 to break 450. TiBu reporting 451 now. LOL
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I don't see why you can't have as many apps as will fit on the internal storage...
marko! said:
There is a smaller area of the SD card put aside for apps..
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Is there a way to increase the size?
Tibu says I only have 204....best start downloading so app's....lol
space for apps
If there is a finite amout of space available for apps then there is definitely an upper limit to how many apps can be installed. i may be close to the limit since i tried installing a large app from amazon and received a message saying there was insufficient space. After I deinstalled Angry Birds Rio the nessage went away and the app installed. So to increase the amount of available space for apps you either have to increase the amount of allocated space for apps (whereever that directory is), delete other optional files like pics and music, or perhaps reformat.....I remember seeing soem sort of reformat option somewhere...maybe this post belongs in the dev forum since they are savvy with the system.
panflute said:
If there is a finite amout of space available for apps then there is definitely an upper limit to how many apps can be installed. i may be close to the limit since i tried installing a large app from amazon and received a message saying there was insufficient space. After I deinstalled Angry Birds Rio the nessage went away and the app installed. So to increase the amount of available space for apps you either have to increase the amount of allocated space for apps (whereever that directory is), delete other optional files like pics and music, or perhaps reformat.....I remember seeing soem sort of reformat option somewhere...maybe this post belongs in the dev forum since they are savvy with the system.
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Sounds like you need Apps2sd.
Yes. I just got apps to SD. I didn't know any apps were on the SD card, I am still curious exactly.how much space is available on the phone. I'll have to copy over the apps to my 2nd SD card.
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When I try to install any apk from explorer or market i get an error: "not enought space avaliable in device" (in spanish something similar), but i´ve got 2.5 gb free memory.
If i uninstall an app then i can install another one, seems like there was a limite with number of apps installed in my device. I´ve got more than 350 apps installed, yes i know it´s a lot, but i´ve got enought space for more why can´t install more?.
Thought since ICS there was no limit in number of apps installed, since desappeared partitions in internal storage, which there used to be in honeycomb, etc....where there was a limit of space for apps partition.
velow said:
When I try to install any apk from explorer or market i get an error: "not enought space avaliable in device" (in spanish something similar), but i´ve got 2.5 gb free memory.
If i uninstall an app then i can install another one, seems like there was a limite with number of apps installed in my device. I´ve got more than 350 apps installed, yes i know it´s a lot, but i´ve got enought space for more why can´t install more?.
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I doubt it's an app limit in ICS. For some reason, that space is unusable to you. Sounds like you would just have to uninstall some apps to make room for more. If you want to clear cache on all of your apps it should give you enough room for another app or 3.
Please forgive me if my reply is incorrect, but first are you sure this isnt ghe error letting you know there is no more space on your home screen, which would mean it installed but its just not showing the icon anywhere other than the app drawer, i know its probably not but i figured i would mention. And finaly what is the size of the app you arr trying to install? Also it may be that android requires at least a gig or two of free space to run for temp files and such, again i may be wrong its just a guess.
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Please forgive me if my reply is incorrect, but first are you sure this isnt ghe error letting you know there is no more space on your home screen, which would mean it installed but its just not showing the icon anywhere other than the app drawer, i know its probably not but i figured i would mention. And finaly what is the size of the app you arr trying to install? Also it may be that android requires at least a gig or two of free space to run for temp files and such, again i may be wrong its just a guess.
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The size of the app does not matter, i´ve proved with diferents apps with diferents sizes, and the same happened, even if i uninstall a big app and try to install 2 apps smaller, i can install only one.
You might have conflicting apps. For example, if you tried to install an update or another version of the same app.
jdeoxys said:
You might have conflicting apps. For example, if you tried to install an update or another version of the same app.
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First time it happens was installing an app, android proccess for installing packets closed itself, Prime rebooted itself, and since then i get that message of lack of space when trying to install any app. May be a cassuality? But first app that maybe caused everything was a new app, so no problems about updates conflictions.
robproctor said:
Please forgive me if my reply is incorrect, but first are you sure this isnt ghe error letting you know there is no more space on your home screen, which would mean it installed but its just not showing the icon anywhere other than the app drawer, i know its probably not but i figured i would mention. And finaly what is the size of the app you arr trying to install? Also it may be that android requires at least a gig or two of free space to run for temp files and such, again i may be wrong its just a guess.
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No, the app is not installed, does not show neither the home screen nor the app drawer. About the temp files use, in the past i had less free space with less installed apps and never had this problem. And there is no relation with the size of the app to install, i,ve tried with less than 1mb apps, and if i uninstall an app for example of 34mb i only get to install another one, if i try to install 2 apps of 1mb i only can install one of them.
There is an app in the play market called amaze memory cleaner. My memory, the 2gig portion was under 300mb, I deleted close to 10 apps & it never went above 300mb. I couldn't install updates it was terrible. I was about to do a factory reset, i googled the problem and found an article referring to an app called amazed memory cleaner. I went to the play market and found the app. It said it was an htc app but had only been downloaded once . I almost didn't install it because I thought for sure it was some kind of malware, but I really didn't have any other choice so I download it. I ran the app and my memory went to 1.2 gigabytes. And the phone was running like a top again. It seems there's a glitch in the system that once an app claims memory even if that app is deleted the system never sees the memory as freed up well this app fixes that. It's been 4 days since I installed the app I've ran into no problems, trustgo scanned the app and didn't find anything malicious contained within it, and like I said I've had no problems. My memory now read what it should if I add up the megabytes from all the apps i have installed instead of refusing to go above 300 megabytes no matter how many app's I delete. Anyone having similar problems try the app I promise you won't be disappointed. Create a backup and all that just to be safe if you'd like. I'm in no way associated with this app just a user that it helped out. I wish htc would push out an update for this problem instead of having to download an app from the play store but I'm just glad my phone's back to normal.
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You got a link for it, nothing shows in the Market for it
RavenWulf said:
You got a link for it, nothing shows in the Market for it
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Here you go.
This app doesn't do crap. Wtf is it supposed to "Update Successful"
Use CacheCleaner NG and set it to clean the SD Card also. Also use it the old method and set it to clean every 12hrs.
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The interesting thing about this app is it's only for the Amaze and the developer that released it is HTCdev. I can't confirm that it did much of anything for my phone but there is definitely strange goings on here.
look at your phones internal memory before & after
I didn't think it did anything either, it just say update successful. But before I had 289mb internal Memory free & couldn't even update my apps. After 1.2gb free & I was updating away. It worked wonders for me.
macheteZen said:
The interesting thing about this app is it's only for the Amaze and the developer that released it is HTCdev. I can't confirm that it did much of anything for my phone but there is definitely strange goings on here.
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I had deleted about 10 apps & my internal memory went up maybe 9mb. It's like the phone wasn't reclaiming the memory before and after it does.
I wrote a paper on what it did for me at least so people wouldnt be confused, & it's like no one read it. Lol oh well I tried.
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This app doesn't do crap. Wtf is it supposed to "Update Successful"
Use CacheCleaner NG and set it to clean the SD Card also. Also use it the old method and set it to clean every 12hrs.
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Cleaning the cache will only free up minimal space(trust me I tried) not a gigabyte like this app did for me. Not saying it will do that for everyone my GF has the same phone she's not having the problem. But in my case it worked well.
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I saw this on another forum. Is this true? It would make it unusable to me, and I just ordered one before seeing this. Do we not have at least 12 GB free for apps?
"..an issue I do not know how to resolve. It comes w 4.3 pre installed but the internal storage is not unified (due to USB storage enabled) so just under 2GB is allocated as app storage. This being the setup on older android version we had the option to move individual apps to the secondary partition b within the app option but this being 4.3 this option does not exist so this really puts a damperbn usability of this device."
lightfire said:
I saw this on another forum. Is this true? It would make it unusable to me, and I just ordered one before seeing this. Do we not have at least 12 GB free for apps?
"..an issue I do not know how to resolve. It comes w 4.3 pre installed but the internal storage is not unified (due to USB storage enabled) so just under 2GB is allocated as app storage. This being the setup on older android version we had the option to move individual apps to the secondary partition b within the app option but this being 4.3 this option does not exist so this really puts a damperbn usability of this device."
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I'm guessing this is the US variation of the Mate 2 you are taking about. I already have a lot of apps installed and it's still telling me I have 4.2 gigs available for app storage. Hope that answers your question
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Coffee Freak said:
I'm guessing this is the US variation of the Mate 2 you are taking about. I already have a lot of apps installed and it's still telling me I have 4.2 gigs available for app storage. Hope that answers your question
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Thanks! Yes to USA version.
Does anyone know how much memory is available out of the box for apps?
lightfire said:
Thanks! Yes to USA version.
Does anyone know how much memory is available out of the box for apps?
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If you add what it says is available to the what it says I'm using, it totals 6.81 GB. I doubt that includes system apps, as I said I have a lot installed. I had to keep them all on the phone because the ones I moved to the SD card the widgets didn't load on restart and I wasn't getting notifications.
Hope this helps you.
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Thanks!
But 6.81 is pretty bad - some 16gb phones have around 12 gb for apps. What in the world is taking up so much memory? I need to install copilot maps which are over 4 gb plus all the other software I use. Don't know if this is going to work for me. Heck - I have almost 5.52 gb free for apps on a 8gb moto-g phone
lightfire said:
Thanks!
But 6.81 is pretty bad - some 16gb phones have around 12 gb for apps. What in the world is taking up so much memory? I need to install copilot maps which are over 4 gb plus all the other software I use. Don't know if this is going to work for me. Heck - I have almost 5.52 gb free for apps on a 8gb moto-g phone
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Well, screen shots of my internal file system storage. My phone is rooted so I could free up more space deleting some system apps I don't use like Facebook but people had to reinstall the system apps they deleted to get the last update to install, and I don't feel like messing with that. I just disabled them. Can you install your co-pilot apps on the SD card?
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No, I don't think the maps can be loaded on sd card.
Darn - I purchased without checking this out - figured if my 8 gb phone had 5.52 gb free a 16 gb phone would have around 12. My fault for not doing proper research. Everyone was saying how much they like the phone. and I let that sway me. Guess I will send it back as 6.81 gb free in 2014 is almost $99 phone territory.
Looks like copilot is downloading fine. I'll let you know if I have issues after it completes.
It gives you the option to use extsd as default storage.
You are showing 12.69 GB available internal storage for apps. Is this correct? Or is it the 10.50 that is available to apps?
Yes 12.69 available. But when I go into settings > manage apps it states 5.8gb for apps. I believe it uses internal/external for app data, so I believe you'll be OK
check in the copilot options. maybe it has the ability to choose where to save the map data
NOKIA HERE does ... and its awesome btw
After clearing the caches it has 2gb or more free space, then default apps update start and fill all the memory up, leaving me with less than 200 or my own apps.
Any ideas how to fix it?
If you are rooted, you can remove system app that you don't use.
If not rooted, disable the unused apps, it won't free memory but they won't run so their cache will not grow either and play store won't update those either.
Also, disable auto update on play store.
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neo.ank said:
If you are rooted, you can remove system app that you don't use.
If not rooted, disable the unused apps, it won't free memory but they won't run so their cache will not grow either and play store won't update those either.
Also, disable auto update on play store.
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that's what I'm trying right now, can gmail be removed if I don't use it?
If I use a custom rom like Cyanogen, would it use less memory?
gusnd said:
that's what I'm trying right now, can gmail be removed if I don't use it?
If I use a custom rom like Cyanogen, would it use less memory?
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Yes, it can be removed. Use Titanium Backup to remove system apps like gmail. Since you are running CM, you already have root.
Removing all unused apps will free memory.
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gusnd said:
After clearing the caches it has 2gb or more free space, then default apps update start and fill all the memory up, leaving me with less than 200 or my own apps.
Any ideas how to fix it?
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Take my method. http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e/general/external-sd-card-internal-storage-t3274887#
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installing cyanogen "fixed" it, but I'm unable to access external SD... not sure if the memory card is gone, but I used the last nightly build