[Q] Insufficient space on the device - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I've got a weird problem whenever I try to install any app from the market, it says 'insufficient space'. I've got a lot of space on each partition. Currently I'm running Vanir ROM 4.4.4, though I encountered this problem on CM11 and Paranoid Android. Cleaning cache and dalvik does not help and I cannot fix permissions as PhilZ Recovery doesn't support doing so.
Of course the phone is SGS 3 gt-i9300. Thanks for your help.

Use FreeSpace and check the data partition.
You must have more than 10% free.

I suggest you CCleaner or SD maid
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songs appear twice..

..well hello guys.. i am having a tough time with my galaxy s2.. i am a rom freak .. so i pretty much keep trying roms out... a month and a half back.. my phone started showing songs thrice .. so i reflashed the rom and used kernel cleaners etc.. and the problem disappeared .. but after a few days it came back.. this has been happening even though i have flashed several different roms.. and i always full wipe before flashing... any suggestions..
I think that you need to format your sdcard.. backup the content of it(music,photos,videos,apks) to your pc... Then flash with a full wipe the rom (I suggest ParanoidAndroid) and then format your sdcard with the phone (settings-memory)..
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Try delete data of Google media server (setting - app - all) then reboot and let's rest the phone to scan again... I think is a rom aokp bug... sorry for bad english
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What music player do you use? I had the same problem and I had to point the music player where the songs where stored as they had been duplicated on my internal SD card. Make sure it is just accessing your music from one directory.
If you use a stock music player, perhaps a data wipe is in place.
Or as suggested, back up your music and any other important files and wipe your SD card or search it till you find the duplicate files.
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@.. yea i have already tried it once.. and wouldn't wanna repeat it because i have music for about 8 gb and it ll take a while to transfer and put it back.. but either ways .. i ll give it a go.. thanks..
hughfollett said:
I think that you need to format your sdcard.. backup the content of it(music,photos,videos,apks) to your pc... Then flash with a full wipe the rom (I suggest ParanoidAndroid) and then format your sdcard with the phone (settings-memory)..
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themadba said:
What music player do you use? I had the same problem and I had to point the music player where the songs where stored as they had been duplicated on my internal SD card. Make sure it is just accessing your music from one directory.
If you use a stock music player, perhaps a data wipe is in place.
Or as suggested, back up your music and any other important files and wipe your SD card or search it till you find the duplicate files.
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well i don use stock music player.. i use a number of music players including apollo and sony music player etc.. but all of them seem to show duplicates.. and there isn't any copy of the music files either.. so i guess need to format memory card.. some bug related to aokp rom..
No formatting memory don't resolve, try my method... clear data of Google media server in app... and reboot...
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Floydfire said:
No formatting memory don't resolve, try my method... clear data of Google media server in app... and reboot...
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yea i ll try this method..and even my volume seems to automatically becomes zero(while playing my music).. will this help clear that issue also ??
Uhm... strange.. i have cleared data of media server, reboot a lot of time for fixing this bug of aokp... the music is stored in external Sd?
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Floydfire said:
Uhm... strange.. i have cleared data of media server, reboot a lot of time for fixing this bug of aokp... the music is stored in external Sd?
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yep.. i store all my music in external sd.. i know... strange problems.. also my screen goes all orange colored sometimes.. with almost most of the roms.. no idea .. what happened.. keep getting bugs which are strange and unheard of..
Change rom & kernel xD btw this problem is "fixed" by clear data of media server & Google framework service but I have fixed this bug only with the first clear data...
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Lol.
Settings > Storage > Unmount SD card > Mount SD card.
Fixed it for me.

SGS2 Internal Memory shrunk after rooting

Good day, really sorry if this topic has been covered before. Unfortunately i have read a 100 threads and i am not able to get an answer for my problem. Please guys do help me out.
I have a SGS2 I9100 with 16gb of internal memory. I rooted the phone and put the F1 Nexus custom rom. Everything worked fine, until i decided to Format the Internal SD card/ Memory of the phone via settings. Immediately after that my internal memory has shrunk from 16gb to 4gb. I was just shocked. Also when connected through USB it shows 4gb of memory and also say that it is a Generic Volume, instead of FAT 32.
I have done every solution -
1. Flash stock rom through ODIN, worked but memory still 4gb
2. Wiped cache, data, factory reset, fix permission, delvik cache, everything basically wiped and installed either custom or Stock rom.
3. I have used custom recovery cmw, install through zip, everything installs but memory is stuck to 4gb.
Nothing has helped so far, please do help me out as i am not able to do anything now with 4gb of memory.
I am hoping someone will look into this, also is there a reason why this would happen. I dont think i will want to root anymore.
Have you flashed a stock sammy 4.0.4 rom with the pit file? If so that may be the culprit. Some people were experiencing that problem last month. All they did was flashed an older pit file which brought back their missing storage. Unfortunately i have no link for that post but you may search for it in the threads over at the general or Q and A forum. Or if someone passes by here maybe they can give you a link to that also.
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You need to flash a .pit file with Odin. But I have no idea where to get one.
You need the one for i9100, not i9100G/M/T. If you're not sure which one you have, go to settings-about phone.
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I have done that
boki9999 said:
You need to flash a .pit file with Odin. But I have no idea where to get one.
You need the one for i9100, not i9100G/M/T. If you're not sure which one you have, go to settings-about phone.
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I have done that too flashed a .pit file through odin, repartition and everything
internal mem shrunk
ephraim033 said:
Have you flashed a stock sammy 4.0.4 rom with the pit file? If so that may be the culprit. Some people were experiencing that problem last month. All they did was flashed an older pit file which brought back their missing storage. Unfortunately i have no link for that post but you may search for it in the threads over at the general or Q and A forum. Or if someone passes by here maybe they can give you a link to that also.
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Thanks guys for the quick replies. I have not tried flashing an older .pit file...will get one and see if it works.
If anyone has any other solutions..please do let me know
dont format through windows or phone.....use a special software to format mmc.....it will be recovered.....search on google[sd card formatter]......i also had this issue with pendrive and this helped me
I have flashed with 404 with pit file, same trouble, re flashed with original ROM with a pit file found with a generic search in Google (after I've tried everything on this earth), then internal Sd came back to the original size after formatting it.
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Shrunk Mem
mysterio619 said:
dont format through windows or phone.....use a special software to format mmc.....it will be recovered.....search on google[sd card formatter]......i also had this issue with pendrive and this helped me
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I have a formatting tool, the problem is that it is not recognized as a drive: by windows 7. So basically i cant see the drive to format it.
Neither Linux can do that, pit file will do the trick (I think) than format with the command you can give with your phone, not with the pc, lol.
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robygt said:
Neither Linux can do that, pit file will do the trick (I think) than format with the command you can give with your phone, not with the pc, lol.
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Thanks dude, just wondering would u have a link to the .pit file u used. Not being lazy just dont want to try some .pit file off google. Or could u help me with the search u used....like is the put file for JB / FROYO/ICS
In Google I found that pit files are all the same for sgs2, than I have downloaded it, but I don't remember where, sorry. Try with xda forum...
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My kernel version is I9100XLPF-CL592261.
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robygt said:
In Google I found that pit files are all the same for sgs2, than I have downloaded it, but I don't remember where, sorry. Try with xda forum...
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Pit files are far from same for all Gs2's. Flash a wrong file and you have a very expensive paper weight. Not exactly to be messed with just like that...
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So I've been extremely lucky...
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Here is a method that solved the same issue on my phone
vijukar said:
Good day, really sorry if this topic has been covered before. Unfortunately i have read a 100 threads and i am not able to get an answer for my problem. Please guys do help me out.
I have a SGS2 I9100 with 16gb of internal memory. I rooted the phone and put the F1 Nexus custom rom. Everything worked fine, until i decided to Format the Internal SD card/ Memory of the phone via settings. Immediately after that my internal memory has shrunk from 16gb to 4gb. I was just shocked. Also when connected through USB it shows 4gb of memory and also say that it is a Generic Volume, instead of FAT 32.
I have done every solution -
1. Flash stock rom through ODIN, worked but memory still 4gb
2. Wiped cache, data, factory reset, fix permission, delvik cache, everything basically wiped and installed either custom or Stock rom.
3. I have used custom recovery cmw, install through zip, everything installs but memory is stuck to 4gb.
Nothing has helped so far, please do help me out as i am not able to do anything now with 4gb of memory.
I am hoping someone will look into this, also is there a reason why this would happen. I dont think i will want to root anymore.
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I just went from 4GB to my 11.5 GB on my i9100.
The steps follow are:
Make a backup of my offical i9100 ICS ( I'm being careful !!)
Mount the storage in the clock wise mod
Delete the 4GB Partition (via disk utility on Mac)
Create another partition (via disk utility on Mac)
Restart the phone
Format the USB storage
& here you go with 11.5 Internal Storage Back !!!
Hello,
I just bought a used samsung galaxy s II on ebay. It is not rooted as the owner said. I have checked using RootChecker application and seems it is not.
version: 89100XXLQ5
kernel: 3.0.15-I9100XXXLQ5-CL753921 [email protected] #3
compilation: IMM76D.XXLQ5
And it seems it has the same problem. Only 4GB instead of 16GB. What should I do? I do not want to root it, if it wasn't before, probably it can be solved differently.
I do not own a mac to do what was suggested. SD Formatter do not see the card in win7.
Please help, if you have a clue how.
Cheers!
electromotiveforce said:
Hello,
I just bought a used samsung galaxy s II on ebay. It is not rooted as the owner said. I have checked using RootChecker application and seems it is not.
version: 89100XXLQ5
kernel: 3.0.15-I9100XXXLQ5-CL753921 [email protected] #3
compilation: IMM76D.XXLQ5
And it seems it has the same problem. Only 4GB instead of 16GB. What should I do? I do not want to root it, if it wasn't before, probably it can be solved differently.
I do not own a mac to do what was suggested. SD Formatter do not see the card in win7.
Please help, if you have a clue how.
Cheers!
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Could imagine flashing a stock Samsung rom with pit file via Odin should solve it, as it repartitions the internal sdcard
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alexkno said:
Could imagine flashing a stock Samsung rom with pit file via Odin should solve it, as it repartitions the internal sdcard
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Do I loose the warranty at that time?
electromotiveforce said:
Do I loose the warranty at that time?
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You already lost by rooting it.
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alexkno said:
You already lost by rooting it.
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I have mentioned that I did not root it.

Device tells me I don't have enough storage to install new apps.

Hey guys,
so the S2 of a friend of mine has an issue where it tells you that you don't have enough space to install new apps. The Phone is running CM10.2 Stable and I already tried a factory reset. The thing is that she has almost 10GBs free in the internal storage and about 1GB on her (2GB)SD-Card, in the settings under "storage" it says that both were full, even though they clearly have enough free space.
Can you tell me how I can resolve this issue?
Thanks for your time and help in advance.
HeavyHDx said:
Hey guys,
so the S2 of a friend of mine has an issue where it tells you that you don't have enough space to install new apps. The Phone is running CM10.2 Stable and I already tried a factory reset. The thing is that she has almost 10GBs free in the internal storage and about 1GB on her (2GB)SD-Card, in the settings under "storage" it says that both were full, even though they clearly have enough free space.
Can you tell me how I can resolve this issue?
Thanks for your time and help in advance.
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There is also an internal storage for apps, it's normally 2GB (the first one in settings - storage). Have you tried moving apps to the sdcard?
Reformating the storages? (backup!)
Or use a PIT file to increase the 2GB internal storage for apps.
Okay I didn't see that, apparently there really are 2 partitions labled "internal storage" the one has 12GB and the other one 2GB as you said, App2SD can only move some Apps, but somehow there's something taking up over 1GB of Storage that isn't labled anywhere, what could that be?
Try clearing your logs to free up space
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HeavyHDx said:
Okay I didn't see that, apparently there really are 2 partitions labled "internal storage" the one has 12GB and the other one 2GB as you said, App2SD can only move some Apps, but somehow there's something taking up over 1GB of Storage that isn't labled anywhere, what could that be?
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1GB of the 2GB internal storage?
Make a screenshot of your storagespace and post it here.
Here's the screenshot:
It's showing that only about 420MB are used, that means that about 1.4GB are not showing up there and they are used by something else
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Here's the screenshot:
It's showing that only about 420MB are used, that means that about 1.4GB are not showing up there and they are used by something else
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Strange.
/data is the location. Look in /data/log maybe that's full with logs or something.
Nope, nothing. I tried an app that deletes thumbnails, cache, temporary files and stuff but that just freed a couple of megabytes :/ What else could it be?
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Nope, nothing. I tried an app that deletes thumbnails, cache, temporary files and stuff but that just freed a couple of megabytes :/ What else could it be?
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Did your friend experienced this problem after he/she flashed this rom or recently flashed cm 10.2?
If so, did your friend got through all the necessary steps?
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I flashed it for her, I installed the latest CWM, I wiped /data and /cache and the dalvik cache and then I flashed the latest CM10.2 and gapps at the time. I did that because it was showing this error previously but reflashing CM didn't fix it and that's why I ask here.
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I flashed it for her, I installed the latest CWM, I wiped /data and /cache and the dalvik cache and then I flashed the latest CM10.2 and gapps at the time. I did that because it was showing this error previously but reflashing CM didn't fix it and that's why I ask here.
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Try these steps, backup because everything will be lost.
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe Cache
Wipe Dalvik Cache
Format /system
Format /data
Flash rom
Flash gapps
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I tried that today but it's still showing me the error.
Could I somehow repartition everything so that I merge the 2GB and the 12GB-Partition? And if so, how do I do it?
HeavyHDx said:
I tried that today but it's still showing me the error.
Could I somehow repartition everything so that I merge the 2GB and the 12GB-Partition? And if so, how do I do it?
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Here you go
Go here:
http://androidforums.com/showthread.php?t=694382
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Okay I finally found the issue, /data/logs was just full, I deleted the folder and now she has 1.7GB free space, I don't understand why all these logs were there..
HeavyHDx said:
Okay I finally found the issue, /data/logs was just full, I deleted the folder and now she has 1.7GB free space, I don't understand why all these logs were there..
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You said there where no logs. Anyway good to have it solved. Please add [SOLVED] to the thread title.
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Sometimes logs are good but the space if you forgot to turn the log command off is just a pain in the ass. I had once a 6gb log file
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I've had issues with this in the past.
One solution that works: if you have 'lucky patcher' installed, open it, (you'll see a pop-up detailing a cache or something clean), now close the app.
All should be good now.
2nd solution, use 'SD Maid', loads of options and works for me.
Good luck.
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U must not been mentioning/suggesting cracked app.
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corruptionfreeindia said:
U must not been mentioning/suggesting cracked app.
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One would never suggest using cracked apps, though I merely offer a helpful option if one has done.
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Apps can't write to sd card

Hey everyone,
I installed note 2 port of 4.4.2 for our s3
But since then any app that write to sd card can't be installed..
I know there are changes done by Google with kit kat
And I have tried to fix this by applying the sd fix apps from play store but still many third party apps can't be installed ..It just says app not installed..
For example subway surfers is not getting installed..
Any work around for this..
Thankyou
simply back up your sd and do a sd wipe through recovery.. I have had the same problem when I installed CM 11 and I fixed in that way..
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TW Lollipop 5.1.1 SD memory expansion

Hi. I'm on a Note 10.1 2014. Actually I'm using LineageOS but sometimes I miss some TW features.
I would like to know if there is a way to enable, like in MM and N, the possibility to assign the external SD as internal archive to expand internal memory.
I already tried App2SD app, but I bricked one SD (it still works, but can't be set as expansion anymore) so I don't want to use it.
It there a code via ADB or terminal that can enable that feature?
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No but you also have to remember that many oem are removing the feature from their devices. Also once it is converted to be used you can't pull it out anymore without wiping your device.
zelendel said:
No but you also have to remember that many oem are removing the feature from their devices. Also once it is converted to be used you can't pull it out anymore without wiping your device.
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Thank you. I know it can't be removed, but for someone with a good tablet with "only" 16gb of internal memory it is a good feature, especially if we use the tablet for gaming.
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