Disappearing space... - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Got a space issue on my Evo 4g LTE even though I don't have many things installed.
When I pull up my storage, I first notice that it's divided into two sections, 6 gigs for "App Storage" and 10 gigs "Phone Storage." That alone seems odd since I'm not quite sure why I don't get the whole thing for Apps (as I've already got an external SD for my other stuff).
Anyway, I don't have a lot of big apps. Under the "App storage" it says the following:
5.63GB/6.07GB
Apps 1.47GB
Other 4.16GB
Available 452MB
What the hell is in "other?" I thought it might be app data but that seems to be included with the apps so it doesn't matter if I clear it. I'm also not sure why I have 452MB available but I still can't install any new apps as I always get the "insufficent storage space" message. I don't get why I have 452MB free but can't install a 7MB app.
Help?

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Maximum number of apps installed?

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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[Q] Moving Humble Mobile Bundle apps to SD - Failure

I have a sprint Evo 3D, rooted with the SmoothCriminal rom.
The miniscule internal memory drove me crazy, it got to the point where after the ICS update I coudlen't update a SINGLE app because the internal memory always had under 10 megs free, no matter how much I deleted it would eat it up again, so I rooted it, and started re-installing everything.
I even set up a 4GB (Wish I could make it bigger) EXT4 partition to use with Link2SD.
For those that haven't heard of the Humble Indie Bundles, they allow you to purchase a set of apps (usually on Steam, but sometimes they do Android bundles) as a set for a price you decide, with a percentage going to charity.
Anyway, for Android, since these don't use the Google Play store, they are side-loaded from their own app (though they also let you just download the APK directly).
Now, the problem is that none of the games from this bundle seem to install to the SD card. I know that not all apps can be moved there, but if the "Move to SD" option is enabled instead of greyed out, that means they can, right? Also, many of these are large games, some of them 400MB, I am surprised it even defaults to internal instead of SD and would be shocked if they are the kind of apps that cannot be installed to SD considering their size.
Anyway, while Link2SD has no problem linking them to the 4ext partition on the SD card, I am unable to move these to "external" either by the built-in app manager, or the Link2SD app (apps installed using other methods, wheather they are linked or really on internal memory, don't seem to have this issue, such as Apps installed through Google Play whether they were linked to the 4ext partition or installed to the real internal memory). With the App manager it just says "Coulden't move app" (what a helpful error message) while trying from Link2SD gives me the error "INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR".
Thanks to these massive apps forcing themselves on internal, the 4GB 4ext partition is actually full!
Any ideas what I can do? This is making me pull my hair out.

[Q] Storage related question.

http://www.mediafire.com/folder/3klbjpn70lhy94i,m5e3q7cbepp2iwj/shared
These are the two screenshot of my phone storage and internal SD card space, I have enough on both of them but somehow its not enough every once in a while my email and other services stops randomly saying storage space running out! I had to uninstall a game which was 55mb in size but still it shows the same error and automatically goes away saying storage space is enough now.. when I didn't do anything. I am not even able to update my apps because of that. What's the matter with this?

Confused about lack of space.

So...I've got a space issue on my Evo 4g LTE even though I don't have many things installed.
When I pull up my storage, I first notice that it's divided into two sections, 6 gigs for "App Storage" and 10 gigs "Phone Storage." That alone seems odd since I'm not quite sure why I don't get the whole thing for Apps (as I've already got an external SD for my other stuff).
Anyway, I don't have a lot of big apps. Under the "App storage" it says the following:
5.63GB/6.07GB
Apps 1.47GB
Other 4.16GB
Available 452MB
What the hell is in "other?" I thought it might be app data but that seems to be included with the apps so it doesn't matter if I clear it. I'm also not sure why I have 452MB available but I still can't install any new apps as I always get the "insufficent storage space" message. I don't get why I have 452MB free but can't install a 7MB app.
Help?
Um wrong phone. This is the original evo 4g not the evo lte
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Roughly 2GB of usable storage space? I think something is wrong

I've seen many posts about low internal storage space, but none of the solutions that I have seen seem to work. I've attached two screenshots to try to show the issue.
Basically, even on a fresh install of a ROM, it shows roughly 2gb of free space internally. After what few apps that I use, it shows around 1GB free. I've checked and can't seem to find any CWM backups or anything taking up the extra space. I coudl be looking in the wrong area, but everywhere I have tried turns up nothing. When I use "Disk Usage" it shows that "System Data" is using up about 7GB out of ~9.9GB of internal storage.
Where is the other 6GB that should be showing up in Disk Usage? It shows up under Storage in the Android settings menu, but then it shows a bunch of files in Miscellaneous that I can only assume are the system data files previously mentioned.
It almost seems like the phone is split into two partitions (which from what I understand, is true) but instead of writing the ROM to the system partition, it is instead installing the ROM and running it from what would have been the 9GB or so of usable space that's supposed to be available to users.
Am I missing something obvious here? What could be causing this? As you can see from teh screenshots, the apps, music, pics, etc are hardly taking up any space at all, yet there is very little space available.
Actually, I guess this was my screwup. I thought that I had deleted all of my CWM backups. Turns out I seemed to have missed one that had about 6+GB of files in it. No idea how I missed it the first few times through. But unfortunately, I can't delete posts here at xda. At least I got my space back though!

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