before I loaded gapps, I had roughly 123megs available. Granted I installed the basics like gmail, maps, voice, etc(was around 8 apps) but now I've got 21 megs.
I didn't even open the apps yet, I was just installing them and it stopped me stating insufficient space.
where did the 100 meg go?
how do I fix? move apps? resize partitions?
edit: i've always been bad about "seeing" totals. Just adding up the individual app sizes, it comes to 100mb. boy did that go fast.
I found moving apps is stupid easy. It was never available to me before so I didn't know about it.
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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...
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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.
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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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I was very close to spiking my phone against the wall in frustration over this so I really hope someone can help me.
I have a Sprint Evo 3D, its rooted and S-OFF. I am using the SmoothCriminal ROM which is a highly optimized version of the stock ICS ROM.
Even with the custom rom, I have a mere 800 megs of space, not nearly enough for my usage (Especially since some of my apps are 200-400 megs and can't be moved to the SD card). So I created a 4GB partition on my SDcard and used Link2SD. Everything was working perfectly.... until I needed to reboot.
Despite the fact that I should have around 300-400 mb free on internal. 800 mb free on the link2sd partition, and around 2GB free on the SD card, my phone goes absolutely NUTS when I reboot it. It clearly fails to re-link or re-mount or whatever all the linked apps, and thinks they are all internal. So it basically thinks I have 4GB of apps installed on 800 megs of space, believes it has zero space left, and everything crashes nonstop. Half the time the "desktop" doesn't even load and all I see is a notification bar. I have to uninstall a random internal app just to clear enough "space" so I can boot up Link2SD and frantically try to get SU to not crash so I can re-link everything. This isn't even that functional as a large amount of my apps it thinks are missing as they just appear as com.whatever in the apps list when I do this.
This is a total mess, I can't spend over an hour every time fumbling with an unresponsive device that warns me every 10 seconds that it thinks it is out of space, only to do it again every time it reboots, and now not even all the apps are re-mounting anymore when I do it!
Is there any way I can get Link2SD to not lose all of these mount-settings on boot? Or is there some better alternative? I tried other sd installing apps, but they didn't work.
Please, I am about to smash this damn thing.
First of all, I know this have been asked numerous times but I only got more confused of the threads that were aboout this...
My S2 has been showing the message "Insufficient storage available" for the past 8 or 9 months, but it has gotten worse since. At first I couldn't download any big apps, now I can't even download apps that are small (like 5mb). Anyway, I don't exactly know how it started but it probably has something to do with Android 4.x.x ... It has gotten really annoying because I needed to do some necessary updates on certain apps (WhatsApp for example) and I can't use them anymore because of this problem.
It's probably something with System Data. (yes I know I still have about 600mb of apps, but those are either apps I really need or apps that are on my phone as a default.) But as far as I know, I can't reach that System Data... It's just a chunk of (useless??) data that's just there. I don't really what it consists of, because the app (DiskUsage) I used to look into me storage won't let me open that map (as can be seen).
I WANTED TO SHOW A PICTURE HERE BUT I CAN'T SINCE I'M A NEW MEMBER BASICALLY, THE SITUATION IS LIKE THIS:
DATA [2015 MB]
- APPLICATIONS [574 MB]
- SYSTEM DATA [1397 MB]
- FREE SPACE [what's left. this ranges between ~90mb and ~10mb since I clear cache now and then]
I've been to a store with this problem and they basically said that there is nothing I can do... Is there really nothing I can do? I tried wiping my cache but that didn't do enough. I usually clear 90mb of cache when I do this once in every 3 days (after those 3 days I have about 5mb of space left), but like I said, this doesn't do enough.
Any suggestions? Sorry again as I know there are some threads already about this, but I looked into them and didn't really got a lot out of them...
Thanks in advance.
Did you try *#9900# on phone call menu?
From what I think, it's because of your application files. For example if you always use whatsapp(what I mean here is, if you keep on chatting), it'll store your chat messages into your phone memory which will 'eat' your memory bit by bit. And also, this is from what I've experienced, whenever you uninstalled an application, let's say TubeMate, you'll see tubemate's folder(s) is/are still inside your phone.
So what I'm trying to suggest here is, whenever you want to clear some space, try to delete some of your whatsapp chats or maybe other chat apps that stores chat messages if you don't want to uninstall other app. And when you want to uninstall an application, make sure you delete the app's folders inside your phone.
I'm don't know much about phone memory, so if I'm wrong about it, correct me
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Did you try *#9900# on phone call menu?
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Why haven't I thought of that 2 months ago... I thought that option was only for clearing my storage of calls and texts and since I don't call or text a whole lot, I thought it wouldn't be beneficial.
I've cleared over 1,2 GB by this. Thanks for your help, really appreciate it!
The desire x is my business mobile, so i dont want to mess with it in case any problems and i get charged for the phone. to be honest i struggle, its terrible device compared to my personal phone.
I need maps to navigate around, the connection in London drops when im close to destination, i blame this on the tall buildings blocking signal but not sure if 100% the reason. i was told may help to download a map program and use this way, but there is no storage free, and i have only 2 small apps required for work.
Is there a way to delete apps like chrome and facebook / twitter which came pre-installed but i cant remove them.
I tried adding a sd card but it wont allow me to move apsp to sd card. ( so failing the deletion of apps, can i roll back the rom to a older version?
pretty weird that the data partition is full, when there are only 2 apps installed.
are you storing all your company-mail on your phone or something like that??
whatever, as first step you can try to locate the storage-hog by using a storage analyser like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobile_infographics_tools.mydrive&hl=de
i have downlaoded the program but not sure what i am lookign for?
can i remove the android APK files? surely once program isntalled i no longer need these?
A takes 591mb
O takes 127mb
App storage is taking 2.51Gb of 2.91 available.
Apps = 704Mb
other = 1.82Mb
Available - 408Mb but when i download the map program it requires me to download a large file for offline maps. plus i have this space as i deleted a few photos which were for work but old. so when i take photos this space decreases further.
the only apps i can uninstall are the two apps (about 40Mb each for work, plus i have pocket locker and now this analyser which have small footprints).
I have an unrooted S4 on official Android 5.0.1. I am almost out of free space -- AGAIN. A month ago after about a year, I ran out of free space for my apps. Removing some apps provided only a temporary respite. The only way I could fix the issue was to do a factory reset and reinstall the apps which gave me 4+gb of space. Now, just a month later, the space is getting gobbled up again and fast, almost entirely gone. I added a few apps (and deleted most of them after trying them). Aside from that, I just do normal updates as pushed by the play store. It seems like after every batch of updates, I lose hundreds of megabytes of free space. Why does this happen and can I reclaim my lost free space without another data wipe? I really don't want to reload the phone again, especially since that's seems to be a temporary fix.
One other thing I would like to know is if this is also problem with Android versions after 5.0.1? Because if it isn't, I guess I'll have to root and upgrade.