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Hi,
I have the ChaCha of a few days now ... GREAT device; I love the qwerty keyboard, its even better as my Blackberry qwerty for sure....
BUT 512 MB onboard is not enough, I try to move as much as possible apps to my SD ... but still only 12MB free....
SO maybe in a next ChaCha version more ram ... (and an other color )
chacha dont have 512mb for apps.
its only aprox. 150mb.
I cannot understand why are qwerty alway potraiting as low end device.
I don't think that. ChaCha is like Desire Z with worsest Screen and less internal memory. All other things are similar.
The overall experience is great! But the memory is a pain in the ass
yes, it's too small, I almost forgot app2sd thing for 2 years, but seems now have to use it again in chacha
xivius said:
Hi,
I have the ChaCha of a few days now ... GREAT device; I love the qwerty keyboard, its even better as my Blackberry qwerty for sure....
BUT 512 MB onboard is not enough, I try to move as much as possible apps to my SD ... but still only 12MB free....
SO maybe in a next ChaCha version more ram ... (and an other color )
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RAM is not the same thing as internal storage, FYI. And yes, the internal storage is pitiful, but if there was 512MB of it, the situation would be much better. 512MB is adequate for the RAM, unfortunately that isn't the case for the onboard storage.
I cannot understand why are qwerty alway potraiting as low end device.
I don't think that. ChaCha is like Desire Z with worsest Screen and less internal memory. All other things are similar.
The overall experience is great! But the memory is a pain in the ass
yes, it's too small, I almost forgot app2sd thing for 2 years, but seems now have to use it again in chacha
SO maybe in a next ChaCha version more ram ... (and an other color )
The 150MB internal memory is really ridiculous! I'm constantly getting the "not enough memory" when I try to install a new app or even when I try to open standard things like Facebook!! It's been 2 days now I can't seem to open the Facebook for HTC application with the dedicated Facebook button. It keeps saying that I need at least 5120KB of free memory, but I can't free up more memory. I've copied all the possible apps to the SD card en I constantly remove cache memory of ALL the applications, but still it is not enough to free up 5120KB!! Aaaarrrggghhh... :s someone please provide us with a new ROM so we can dedicate virtual memory as internal memory!
Belasito said:
The 150MB internal memory is really ridiculous! I'm constantly getting the "not enough memory" when I try to install a new app or even when I try to open standard things like Facebook!! It's been 2 days now I can't seem to open the Facebook for HTC application with the dedicated Facebook button. It keeps saying that I need at least 5120KB of free memory, but I can't free up more memory. I've copied all the possible apps to the SD card en I constantly remove cache memory of ALL the applications, but still it is not enough to free up 5120KB!! Aaaarrrggghhh... :s someone please provide us with a new ROM so we can dedicate virtual memory as internal memory!
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I couldn't agree more. That's the most annoying thing ever! I'm sick of it... Especially that almost all google apps can't synchronize while we have this issue.. That's really unacceptable...
Belasito said:
The 150MB internal memory is really ridiculous! I'm constantly getting the "not enough memory" when I try to install a new app or even when I try to open standard things like Facebook!! It's been 2 days now I can't seem to open the Facebook for HTC application with the dedicated Facebook button. It keeps saying that I need at least 5120KB of free memory, but I can't free up more memory. I've copied all the possible apps to the SD card en I constantly remove cache memory of ALL the applications, but still it is not enough to free up 5120KB!! Aaaarrrggghhh... :s someone please provide us with a new ROM so we can dedicate virtual memory as internal memory!
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So the Status only has 150M free internal storage? Wow, that's terrible.. My Nexus 1 on stock ROM only has 190M.
Froyo Apps2SD can only help so much here. Wife is looking at this phone, but the weird screen res/orientation, quirky ROM, insufficient storage..... Not so sure.
Belasito said:
The 150MB internal memory is really ridiculous! I'm constantly getting the "not enough memory" when I try to install a new app or even when I try to open standard things like Facebook!! It's been 2 days now I can't seem to open the Facebook for HTC application with the dedicated Facebook button. It keeps saying that I need at least 5120KB of free memory, but I can't free up more memory. I've copied all the possible apps to the SD card en I constantly remove cache memory of ALL the applications, but still it is not enough to free up 5120KB!! Aaaarrrggghhh... :s someone please provide us with a new ROM so we can dedicate virtual memory as internal memory!
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Yeah, that sucks. I was stuck at 2 MB free even after moving my apps to SD until I finally just did a factory reset. Then, I set my default app install location to SD card (http://androinica.com/2010/08/how-to-install-apps-to-the-sd-card-by-default-on-android-2-2-froyo/) and from then I settled to 20-30 MB of free space after reinstalling all my apps. Not a lot, but enough, and definitely better than 2 MB.
That's the best solution I can think of until we get some smaller ROMs out.
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Yeah, that sucks. I was stuck at 2 MB free even after moving my apps to SD until I finally just did a factory reset. Then, I set my default app install location to SD card (http://androinica.com/2010/08/how-to-install-apps-to-the-sd-card-by-default-on-android-2-2-froyo/) and from then I settled to 20-30 MB of free space after reinstalling all my apps. Not a lot, but enough, and definitely better than 2 MB.
That's the best solution I can think of until we get some smaller ROMs out.
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Smaller ROMs wouldn't help, unless I'm misunderstanding what you guys are discussing.. Considering there some talk of "memory"... well anwyay.
Unless the ROMs partitioned differently, the ROM is generally in /system and the user apps are in /data, which sounds like it's around a 250M partition. dalvik-cache and some other stuff is going to always be in there, reducing the actual effective available space.
Anyway. Wife is still semi-interested, I'll poke on the phone when we see one.
no choice, have to wait for root & app2sd, that will resolve the problem...
Im using galaxy S2 and bought one chacha for my wife, when using it, except the keyboard, I felt like drop from heaven to hell
S2 is the size of a table tho. Horses for courses!
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So on my phone, I am using about 6 GB of my SD Card. I had to change my 8 GB card to a 16 GB, but regardless, I only have one album of music on my phone and some pictures. I am not sure what is taking up so much space, because the pictures are around 1 MB each (due to high quality) but I do not even have that many pictures. Also, I do not have that many downloaded files. Any ideas of what may be taking up the space? Also, I need a remedy on how to free up space on my phone whether it be using my Mac or an app from the Market. Thanks in advance.
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So on my phone, I am using about 6 GB of my SD Card. I had to change my 8 GB card to a 16 GB, but regardless, I only have one album of music on my phone and some pictures. I am not sure what is taking up so much space, because the pictures are around 1 MB each (due to high quality) but I do not even have that many pictures. Also, I do not have that many downloaded files. Any ideas of what may be taking up the space? Also, I need a remedy on how to free up space on my phone whether it be using my Mac or an app from the Market. Thanks in advance.
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DiskUsage is exactly what you need.
What bit-rate is that album encoded at?
I would say if you did any nandroid back ups that will eat up a lot of your space on your card. just into file manager if thats what you have or astro find you folder saying clockworkmod>backup> and it will show you all your back ups that you ever did now you would want to keep your most recent one. Now what I did was just that and moved the old ones to my PC. Hope that helps
So is there any usable phone storage on the sidekick instead of using just the memory card?
I guess I read online theres only 135mb of internal space. That sucks compared to the vibrant. Oh well.
Yes, it fills up pretty fast, then you have to weed out the less important apps to make room for the important ones! I wish there was a way to "merge" removable (SD) storage with internal (Phone) storage.
Also a few apps can be optionally moved to the SD card but will lose Widget capabilities.
And it is amazing how many apps are NOT movable to the SD even though there is no reason (widgets, etc.) to have them on internal storage (example: Zippo Lighter).
If you go with a light rom you can get a lot back, gcV2 leaves 380mb for use.
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Hi all,
I am using a stock ROM on my Inspire 4G. For some time now, I have been getting this message: "Low on space: Phone storage space is getting low." I do have a lot of apps installed, but I have moved every movable app larger than 1MB onto my SD card, and I have continued to get the message. Today I reached the point where I cannot even upgrade an app. I am showing 70.34MB of available space.
I have searched Market for something that would tell me what's using all my storage, but everything I found is limited to external/SD card storage. Can anyone tell me what else I can do to most effectively recover some storage? What are the most likely culprits?
Thanks!
search the android market. Diskview.
not much else you can do without root access to that partition
I could be very wrong on this, but from what I understand the internal storage is partitioned in a way that most of it is not usable for general use. I have rooted my phone and switched rooms and I still only have a little over a gig of memory on my phone for apps and such
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Barkt said:
I could be very wrong on this, but from what I understand the internal storage is partitioned in a way that most of it is not usable for general use. I have rooted my phone and switched rooms and I still only have a little over a gig of memory on my phone for apps and such
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4gb internal storage on specs and around 1gb is 'usable'.
However, OP's issue is that he's out of internal storage space. I do know that there have been issues with other devices where moving apps to sdcard still left a copy on the internal storage.
OP: Might consider doing a bit of data cleaning rather than app moving.
Even when you move apps to the SD card, it still leaves a little bit of the app in internal. So if you really have a lot of apps, you're going to have to remove something. Unless there is something else wrong. I have around 150 apps installed, with everything that can be put on SD put there, and I have around 650MB still available.
Thanks, everyone, for your replies. I've been really slow getting back to this because I've had other issues I've had to deal with. I did move absolutely every movable app onto the SD card, but it didn't help.
Wolamok, I had assumed I would have to remove some data, but what? I had about 2300 contacts, many of which were duplicates. While I was cleaning them up in Outlook, I decided to delete them ALL from my phone to see what memory I could free up.. A few contacts were repopulated from social media, but only 60 or 70. However, I 'me still out of of memory and getting notifications, and I still can't so much as upgrade an app.
I feel really stupid, because on my Pocket PCs and Windows Mobile devices, I knew exactly where to look for data and what to remove, but I feel totally lost here.
I don't even know which apps to uninstall, because I don't know which ones have left pieces around in internal memory and how much.
Any more ideas, anyone?
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I forgot to mention that while I appreciated the Diskview suggestion, I can't get it to run. I don't know if you my memory is too low to even do that, but it says it's analyzing the SD card and never finishes.
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MagicSpeller said:
I don't even know which apps to uninstall, because I don't know which ones have left pieces around in internal memory and how much.
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Whenever you uninstall an app, be sure to clear cache and data for it first. And force stop it if that option isn't grayed out. Then there shouldn't be any remnants of it.
When you go into manage applications, you should be able to get an idea of where the most storage is being used. The amount that is listed for each app is only internal storage if you're on the "downloaded" or "all" tabs. So even if an app is on the SD card, what's listed is how much internal storage it is using.
Bottom line is, if you're hurting for storage, uninstall anything you don't really use. Even all those free Amazon games. You can always reinstall them in the future. Hope that helps to give you an idea of what's hogging storage.
pazzo02 said:
Whenever you uninstall an app, be sure to clear cache and data for it first. And force stop it if that option isn't grayed out. Then there shouldn't be any remnants of it.
When you go into manage applications, you should be able to get an idea of where the most storage is being used. The amount that is listed for each app is only internal storage if you're on the "downloaded" or "all" tabs. So even if an app is on the SD card, what's listed is how much internal storage it is using.
Bottom line is, if you're hurting for storage, uninstall anything you don't really use. Even all those free Amazon games. You can always reinstall them in the future. Hope that helps to give you an idea of what's hogging storage.
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Thanks a lot for the reply. By the time I saw it, I had already gotten so frustrated I had followed you advice in advance. I deleted all the apps I'd installed and was going to try out "some day"--and yes, that included all the free Amazon games I'd never played!
I was surprised to see how much space was being used by apps that supposedly were on the SD card.
I hadn't thought of clearing cache and data, and I guess I'm too late for that now, but I'll definitely keep that in mind for the future.
Thanks again!
I continually run out of space on my blaze's internal memory.I can't sync certain things, like evernote does not have enough space to save notes. I can't do any backups because there is not enough available memory.
I don't think I have an excessive amount of apps, and have put as many on the external sd card as possible. I don't have any games stored on the internal memory, nor any media save a few pictures.
If I look at the applications on the sd card(the internal card) It says I'm using 1.3gb. Just a quick tally and I hardly have more than 70mb in the size of the applications. Am I missing something? Previous phones I have used with less memory have not encountered this. Is there any screenshot or other info that may help?
Any assistance is gratefully appreciated.
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Bradlees said:
I continually run out of space on my blaze's internal memory.I can't sync certain things, like evernote does not have enough space to save notes. I can't do any backups because there is not enough available memory.
I don't think I have an excessive amount of apps, and have put as many on the external sd card as possible. I don't have any games stored on the internal memory, nor any media save a few pictures.
If I look at the applications on the sd card(the internal card) It says I'm using 1.3gb. Just a quick tally and I hardly have more than 70mb in the size of the applications. Am I missing something? Previous phones I have used with less memory have not encountered this. Is there any screenshot or other info that may help?
Any assistance is gratefully appreciated.
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Are you on custom ROM/kernel? If so, which ROM/kernel are you using?
some questions
are you using a custom rom? do you have CWM? If you have cwm maybe a backup is on there along with titanium backups... that would eat up a gig.
Best advise is to connect it to your pc and check where all the space is being used.
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I believe by default the pictures and video files are saved to internal storage so I would check on that too.
I am using the darkknight rom build 3. Sorry for not mentioning that. But I encountered this same issue while running stock. I know the majority of the pics are on the external sd.
I do have cwm and ti on this. THese cannot be setup to use space on the external sd can they?
I would suggest booting to recovery, format /cache and dalvik-cache partitions.
Fix perms, and reboot.
You stated you had low MEMORY so that leads me to believe your device is cluttered with temp and cached files which can be easily removed by doing what I stated above.
Keep in mind ladies and gents, memory is different from storage.
However, the issues you stated above could indicate a low STORAGE issue.
So, if you are having a storage problem, then you need to figure out what is taking up so much space on your device. That can usually be determined by going to settings>storage and looking at the output that is displayed.
For more advice, please let me know that it is a low MEMORY issue or a STORAGE issue.
Try out an app called DiskUsage, it works a lot like WinDirStat for PCs.
That way you can find what's taking up a ton of data
I'm a little confused. I thought i read somewhere the blaze had 4gb of internal memory. Why am i only showing up with 1gb system memory. But also like 2gb usb storage but what is that?
Thanks for any help.
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I'm a little confused. I thought i read somewhere the blaze had 4gb of internal memory. Why am i only showing up with 1gb system memory. But also like 2gb usb storage but what is that?
Thanks for any help.
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It comes with a 4gb external sdcard
LiveFaster said:
I'm a little confused. I thought i read somewhere the blaze had 4gb of internal memory. Why am i only showing up with 1gb system memory. But also like 2gb usb storage but what is that?
Thanks for any help.
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It comes with 4gigs internal and 4gigs external. The internal is used for the OS and system apps. I installed GTA anniversary edition and it took up all my USB storage...then it got deleted.
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thomas.raines said:
I would suggest booting to recovery, format /cache and dalvik-cache partitions.
Fix perms, and reboot.
You stated you had low MEMORY so that leads me to believe your device is cluttered with temp and cached files which can be easily removed by doing what I stated above.
Keep in mind ladies and gents, memory is different from storage.
However, the issues you stated above could indicate a low STORAGE issue.
So, if you are having a storage problem, then you need to figure out what is taking up so much space on your device. That can usually be determined by going to settings>storage and looking at the output that is displayed.
For more advice, please let me know that it is a low MEMORY issue or a STORAGE issue.
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Sorry for not clarifying, its a storage issue. I should have been a little more exact with my posting...
Incidentally, I cleared up about half a gig by deleting the ti backup folder's contents,
You can change the location of your backups in Titanium by going to preferences-> and scroll down to 'Backup folder location'. Look next to the 'DETECT' button and that will show you the current path. It defaults to 'mnt/sdcard/TitaniumBackup'. Change it to 'mnt/sdcard/external_sd/TitaniumBackup' by pressing the back button and navigating to the right place. The removable storage (sd card) on the Blaze is the sdcard/external_sd path. That way you will still be able to have your backups.
Thanks, there was about half a gig in the ti backup folder, so this should fix my problem.
Is there a way to store apps on the external sd and still get the widgets to work? And also to free up the internal storage?
Thanks
No, sorry, widgets need to be on the internal storage to work properly.
How do i get games like gta and spectral souls to install to my external?? Those games took up all the internal memory. It type suck because theres no space to cache up music from my google music library.
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xavicivic said:
How do i get games like gta and spectral souls to install to my external?? Those games took up all the internal memory. It type suck because theres no space to cache up music from my google music library.
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Link2sd app you can force move those resource/memory hog programs
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OK so this is my problem...and need help quick BEFOOREE!!
Ok....so I've had the phone for about three months now and i'm beginning to think that this is a problem that I can't resolve on my own..meaning I might have to get a new phone...I'm running the custom ROM and have not rooted the phone.. The problem started when I tried to sedn pictures through my messages. The phone would say..Not enough memory get rid of some stuff.... so i started uninstalling apps that i really don't need. Problem didn't seem to resolve itself, so since everything is backed up to googles ( as far as contacts and apps) I did a system reset to no avail. Seems like I'm having the same problem. Now I have an 8Gb Sd card mounted in system and when I try to move apps into the Sd card it says not enough memory??? Even after system reset. So this is what it says on my storage window... System Storage 0.89GB....USB Storage ( by the way wtf is this??) 1.40 GB and then the SD card with Total space : 7.40 GB Available 7.35GB...I can't seem to move anything into the USB or Sd cards... and yes the Sd card is mounted, or so the system says.... for the sake of not throwing the phone out of the window please help!!
I'm noticing....*whilst* playing around that it seems my phone thinks this USB storage is the SD card. when i check applications and see those in the SD card it shows me those on USB storage...and nothing seems to go to Sd card. I tried downloading apps2 sd and it says same thing...not enough memory...because those few appas I have are taking the whole 2 GB's of space in this invisible usb storage??? Still need help. what the hell is this usb storage and what makes it...looking around i found on the samsung forums that (You must enable USB storage to mount the SD card) i don't remerber doing this and have looked everywhere to turn it off...btw I have the phone replacement thing from T-Mobile..would rooting the phone affect that?.Since it looks to be my only option...I though doing a system reset would fix this but seems not...
in settings-storage, the sd card shows your external sd, usb storage shows the internal space and system shows the system space. this phone has very small system space. my solution was to root the phone and remove the unneeded apps and the "bloat" that tmobil gave us so kindly. you can find guides that show you what can safely be removed, or you can install a custom rom which already has been thinned out. aside from this, clearing the app data in setting-applications can recover some of the space but depending on which app you clear you may need to login to apps like facebook the next time you use that app.
the options in there will have a 'move to sd' button if the app can be moved otherwise it will be greyed out. moving any that can be moved will help.
next will be the stock messaging app that stores its info in system, consider trying out go-sms or handcent as your messaging app and they will store most info on your external sd and help save system space...
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Guess ill try rooting it. My problem seems to be that the phone thinks the Usb storage is the sd storage...and then external sd is actual sd. Sucks...cause it seemed to be a decent phone..but your tight..the bloatware is rediculous..any. smooth custom Roms u can reccomend?
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ive been using tweaked and from what ive read, dark knight is nice also... since flashing tweaked i havent gotten the memory message at all, but i do move everything that is movable to sd...
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