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.
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I see a lot of talk about the memory and how much is available. but I was wondering about installation of apps-
1, Where are they installed to?
2. How much room is there for them?
3. Is this shared with the RAM memory?
I'm keen to upgrade to an Android phone, but if the app storage is small then this would put me off.
So far app storage for me has not been a problem and I have been downloading a few. I have 102MB still free. Not sure how much was there to begin with though...
The memory for app storage is separate from the RAM - like it should be on WiMo and Symbian handsets.
If you root the Hero you can store apps on the SD card, though I have not done this.
I think unless you go on a download frenzy, you will be fine.
Most apps will allow storage of their cache / data on the SD in their settings menu - such as FeedR (RSS feed app), Twidroid (Twitter app) etc.
it really is nothing to worry about...i had to test a magic for my work a few months ago and one of the tests was to fill the internal memory and then try and use the phone...they'd had issues with windows mobile obviously....and it took over 130 apps installed before it got anywhere near full and still it worked fine for standard use.
seriously, unless you are installing EVERYTHING, then you'll be fine!
That puts my mind at rest. Thank you.
If you do run out of memory, you could always root it. Not that im advocating that or anything ;P
Hi,
I have a problem on my xperia mini pro: I was playing around with different versions of an app (CSipSimple) when suddenly the internal storage went completely full. I had about 180M free, and it went down to a couple of KB. I've uninstalled CSipSimple now, but it's still only 7M free.
How do I find out where the storage is gone? Installed Applications doesn't show any unusual app sizes, everything seems to be normal for the system, but I can't recover that space?
TIA,
Stefan
maybe the apps is creating a large number of cache files.. try app2sd. it will notify you about cache on your phone.
I have completely oposite "problem". Up until yesterday, I had around 70-80mb free space on my Mini, st15i. Suddenly, I have 250mb free space. I'm not complaining, I'm just wondering what happened.
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I have completely oposite "problem". Up until yesterday, I had around 70-80mb free space on my Mini, st15i. Suddenly, I have 250mb free space. I'm not complaining, I'm just wondering what happened.
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dont worry if apps are working fine than there is no prob. the excess memory can be due to the cache that got cleared on rebooting ur phone.
I'm not worried at all, I just find it strange. I havent restarted phone for almost a month, so it's not because of that. I restarted it after I noticed that, I wanted to see if it's some bug or something, but it still shows me around 250mb.
Sorry for not replying earlier, but I eventually fixed the problem. I decided to root after all and through Root Explorer I found several "tombstone" files, these are basically crash dumps. Deleted them and everything is fine again.
Stefan
hey, i've got a prob....i have a rooted st15i....i downloaded root uninstaller and uninstalled some of the pre-installed apps from my phone...but the memory didnt show any raise.,..it remained the same when there should have been atleast 15 MB raise...please help...
also kindly inform me of the apps that i can safely remove...
thanx...
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.
I recently purchased a Sprint Galaxy S2 used on ebay.
My process with every phone I've ever had is fairly straight forward: root it and delete bloatware using Titanium Backup, which in turn freed up enough space to integrate apps and dav cache into the rom, freeing up a lot of app storage space on the phone.
I rooted my s2 with framaroot and deleted bloatware, but it didn't seem to free up much memory- less than a megabyte. I suspected something was amiss and tried a different tactic: I converted Google+ from a system app to a user app. Success, but no space freed. I can't even convert Google+ back to a system app because there is no space for it on the rom!
Other root apps indicate the same rom freespace, so it isn't just titanium. Any thoughts as to why this is happening? Any way to fix this?
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I recently purchased a Sprint Galaxy S2 used on ebay.
My process with every phone I've ever had is fairly straight forward: root it and delete bloatware using Titanium Backup, which in turn freed up enough space to integrate apps and dav cache into the rom, freeing up a lot of app storage space on the phone.
I rooted my s2 with framaroot and deleted bloatware, but it didn't seem to free up much memory- less than a megabyte. I suspected something was amiss and tried a different tactic: I converted Google+ from a system app to a user app. Success, but no space freed. I can't even convert Google+ back to a system app because there is no space for it on the rom!
Other root apps indicate the same rom freespace, so it isn't just titanium. Any thoughts as to why this is happening? Any way to fix this?
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I'm guessing you're running stock firmware? My best advice is to use a custom stock firmware that has customisable app options.
I've been using android for a while, and I'm not afraid to fiddle with my phone, so generally I root, remove bloatware and install ad blockers and stuff.
My motivation in this situation is that I'm low on storage space.
However, my current phone isn't remotely as ubiquitous as the HD2 I had previously and I can't just shrink down the system partition to make more room for internal user apps (at least not with confidence I won't brick my device).
So, I tried moving all my google apps back onto the system partition (I only like having apps I know I use regularly on system, so my OEM apps, Google apps, Skype and Facebook) and only half of them work.
I'd like to understand why this is and if there's anything I can do to fix it, because most of these apps were installed as system apps originally and worked fine (I moved them to user because pushing updates to system caused this same issue, and having duplicate installations is redundant).
A secondary part to this question is whether odexing is required or not on system (I thought this might be the issue, but odexing all system apps didn't work. I've read it's better to deodex and zipalign, so I will do that if odexing isn't important.
All good questions, I am in the same boat. Upgraded from an S3 to an S4, addicted to the CM themes and the best of them are quite large but require system space usage so even though I have loads of space on my ExtSD I have run out of space on my internal and now am having an issue with pushing simple updates to my system apps. Hope you get an answer to this question soon