Low memory??? Help! - EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I was playing dragon, fly! When all of a sudden i got a message saying i had low memory and that the game may crash or restart. What can i do to improve my memory??
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I've never experienced a low memory error like that as Android will manage your RAM for you automatically killing off unneeded background apps when memory is needed. You sure this wasn't an ad of some sort?
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Make sure that app data isn't being stored on internal memory. Also try clearing Cache and reboot.

It was not an ad. It was a legit htc thing. I clear my cache once every 2 hours really. Reboot my phone around that time also. How do i have app date save stuff to somewhere else?
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If all you want to is move your apps, you can go into Menu-Settings-Applications-Manage applications-downloaded. Then just hit the Move to SD button, if it's not greyed out. You can also use Titanium Backup to move apps. It's free on the Market. Open TB, then go Backup/Restore-long press on app you want to move-wait for pop up-choose Move to SD card. Once your all done just back out of TB. Sence will reload. I like to reboot if I move a bunch of apps. But it's not necessary.
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[Q] storage problem/free space -- what is taking up so much??

So starting off with this phone I know it doesn't have the best internal storage. When apps are moved to the SD some of the app stays behind on the internal storage, I know that. I have had 2 shifts. My first one i dropped, cracked the screen, and the insurance gave me a new one. On my first shift at the time I had about 70mb of free space left when I sent it in. Before sending it I made a titanium backup and restored that on my shift I have today. When I restored it I had about 120mb of free space. (NOT THE PROBLEM READ ON)
So the point is something in the system is causing massive storage to fill up over time, and its not apps. I have force moved apps and that only helps a little. Is it a certin cache that I can clear? please help!
At the moment I have 60mb of free storage, that is with the app cache cleared through App2SD
Right I have the following : System ROM 219MB , Internal 222MB , SD Card 8.32 GB . When you long press on an app in TB it should give you the option to move to SD card. You shouldn't have to force move an app. When you restored all your apps did you restore apps and data? Or just the app? Also after restoring with TB you need to make sure the app was restored to the correct place. There's an option I usually check in the preferances before I restore all my apps. It restores to the previous location you had the app. Hope that helps.
I restored the apps and data... This isn't a problem with tb, its a problem with some storage/cache something building up in the system
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My email took up a lot of storage on my old hero because everytime I deleted something it still stayed on a new folder called imap/trash... it was taking up about 50mb so you might want to look into that
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In your sd card or internal? There was a folder on my sd called .trashes and it had everything I had deleted on my sd. Where exactly is it located? Ill look in root explorer.
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Don't know if your restoring SMS with something. But if your are sometimes that takes up hella space. Did a phone that had over 25MB of SMS messages restore back onto it on internal mem.
i will see, i also use a tool called disk usage. you have probubly heard of it but it maps out everything and the amount of space it takes up. you can narrow the results to a certin cache or whatever. ive seen that apps like pandora are taking up space in the dalvik cache. Its only like a mb or 2 but still. do you know anything about apps storing things in the dalvik?
what is the dalvik even for anyway?
I've been trying to go back to stock today, so I've wiped a few times, but I've got 430MB total space internal, with 366MB free
and.....
i dont understand what this has to do with this thread
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i will see, i also use a tool called disk usage. you have probubly heard of it but it maps out everything and the amount of space it takes up. you can narrow the results to a certin cache or whatever. ive seen that apps like pandora are taking up space in the dalvik cache. Its only like a mb or 2 but still. do you know anything about apps storing things in the dalvik?
what is the dalvik even for anyway?
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I beleive dalvik cache gets recreated everytime you reboot. But, about Pandora is it on the SD Card? Or internal mem? I listen to a TON of music. When I had Pandora on internal it was up to 12MB .So I moved it to the SD card, only 536KB on internal now.
My app is on the SD but it is storing over 1mb on internal
If you have DiskUsage go to the [root required] section and press 'App Storage'
if you can find pandora you will see that most of it is stored in the dalvik cache
Sorry I don't use DiskUsage app. Your right about how much is on internal. Mine reads 1.28MB.
any idea what it is storing there?
Drawing a blank on this, I'll keep looking. See if I can come up with something. But I'd probably head on over to theMikMik and see if somebody there can help.
My biggest space hog when I had problems was email... Try clearing data for email or gmail to see what happens (maybe back up first)
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Mail or gmail app..
I have both, a aim on the mail app and my gmail on the gmail app
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i cleared my cache partition, not sure what was stored there but it doesnt matter cleared up 20mb... is there any other ways i can get more space??? why are apps storing data in the dalvik??
Any other suggestions here? My wife's Shift is having this problem. Constant notification about low storage space. Can't even download any new apps. I have not rooted her phone yet, and not sure if I will; I don't want to have her have to go without for any length of time, and I don't think she wants things changed around so much as she just wants the thing to work, not to have to tinker or troubleshoot.
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Any other suggestions here? My wife's Shift is having this problem. Constant notification about low storage space. Can't even download any new apps. I have not rooted her phone yet, and not sure if I will; I don't want to have her have to go without for any length of time, and I don't think she wants things changed around so much as she just wants the thing to work, not to have to tinker or troubleshoot.
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Did you download a lot of apps? Try moving the apps to the SD Card. The path is Menu-Settings-Applications-Manage applications-Downloaded. Then just click on the applications one at a time. If the button says Move to SD card, and isn't greyed out press it. That should free up some space. If that doesn't work since your not rooted, I would just try a factory reset.
clear the folder /data/tombstones. App crashes and such create rather large files that can eat up quite a bit of space. Also check the cache folder at the root, failed market installs will have file fragments in there as well.

"Low on space" when very few apps are installed

Hey I'm currently using a HTC HD2 with Android 2.2 and having issues with storage.
I remember when I first received this phone, I downloaded multiple apps/games and there was enough space for all of them. However after few months of use I was hit with the "Low On Space" notification. So I deleted apps that I wasn't using and fewed a few on SD card. A few more months now and I realise I have no games on my phone and every app that I need is on SD card, yet I'm still given the "Low On Space." Could anyone explain what is happening?
I've read a few other posts and googled but I'm so confused in what they mean. Some suggest moving caches and others tell me to try another ROM. Absolutely no clue what they mean :S
Thanks.
First of all, wipe all caches. Do this by downloading any cache cleaner application and using its primary function.
Also, I once got an extra 30mb of space by using root explorer, going into /data/ and looking around for useless files and deleting them
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Hey thx for the reply, I downloaded app cache cleaner and cleared about 11mb which is very helpful. Also I use OI file manager and browsed into data, but nothing is there (or perhaps its hidden not sure). Thx for the tip thou
No problem
Another tip is to delete your browser history (if you don't really care about it), for me it takes up a lot of space
Deleting old sms and mms messages, clearing call log help as well.
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If you have root, you can moove every app on SD-card. Download Link2SD, create 2nd partition on SD (i have 300MB FAT32) card and enjoy the space. Evenif you change rom, you can link apps what you have on SD

Out of space

I am trying to install an app I downloaded from the web. Its the xperia album but every time I try to install it I get an out of space error but I don't have a lot of apps. So I go to the app store and try to dwnload angry birds b//c its a lot bigger than the album app and it allows me to dwnload it. Does anyone know what's going on.
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Maybe I panic to easy and post to quick. I called and did a factory reset and everything is fine.
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I was wondering why my internal storage was running out of room so I used Diskusage to see what was really going on. I found about 2Gb of junk in /system/media/ Since I wasn't doing a factory reset between flashes, every zip I installed and other useless app data remained. The weird thing is the folders weren't showing up with my root browser.:thumbup: for the factory reset in between flashes and also for Diskusage.
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Sad thing is we shouldnt have to do a factory reset to clear up space on the phone. Last week before I bricked my phone I was simply listening to Amazon Cloud Player and it basically took up all the space on my phone. I was getting warnings for low space. And how am I supposed to clear that space? Thats how I bricked my phone by moving all my apps to my SD card with RootToolbox Pro. I think its clear we need a custom rom like CM 9 or 10 to get rid of the glitches in this phone. Please take the time to donate to guys like interloper and aaarrrgh just to show you care about their work.
How to recover wasted space
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... And how am I supposed to clear that space? Thats how I bricked my phone by moving all my apps to my SD card with RootToolbox Pro. I think its clear we need a custom rom like CM 9 or 10 to get rid of the glitches in this phone. Please take the time to donate to guys like interloper and aaarrrgh just to show you care about their work.
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Diskusage will allow you to find and delete the files in /system/media/ that might be taking up space. What I found there was mostly redundant zips and Rom Toolbox app backups. As far as I know, apps won't work on the external sd but that shouldn't be too much of a problem once you get that wasted space back,

Storage space question

I have deleted many unwanted apps off my phone and only have about 30 apps downloaded, and every time a app wants to update i get "insufficient storage space", does anyone else have this problem? And is there a way to fix this?
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Hmm....there are several ways of taking care of that problem.
Apps2sd,move apps to SD with titainium back up pro,and so and so on.
I have never had this problem but then again....I don't have a use for so many apps lol.
I have the same issue sometimes. The only thing that works for me is to uninstall the app that has an update and reinstall it.
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Yeah titanium pro is the way to go. Move all non-essential apps to sd card and integrate dalvik into rom. That will odex your rom so it will boot faster too.

Insufficiant storage space

Today I got a notification from the market telling me insufficient storage space installing an update to adobe air.
I opened lucky patcher and tried removing fixes and backups. This did not correct the problem as it has in the past.
What else can I do? Open up the phone and install bigger memory chips? Lol
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Today I got a notification from the market telling me insufficient storage space installing an update to adobe air.
I opened lucky patcher and tried removing fixes and backups. This did not correct the problem as it has in the past.
What else can I do? Open up the phone and install bigger memory chips? Lol
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You could move some apps to your sdcard or uninstall unused ones. Your internal storage (1gb) is probably a bit full.
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You can check how much more internal memory you actually have by going to settings>apps>manage apps. If you go to the "on sd card" tab, it lists all apps that can be installed to SD. Ones with a checkmark next to them denote that they're already on the SD. To move one, tap on it and press "move to USB storage". If the button says "move to phone" it's installed to SD. Be wary about phone crashes, even in the best case scenario Titanium will attempt to install them to the internal memory, making it full once more. Worst case scenario, you lose everything due to weird symlinks (pretty sure that's what it is) between internal and SD storage. Both have happened to me.
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I checked and had 590mb free. Just to be on the safe.side, I moved a few apps to the storage card.
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I've had this happen a lot. Someone suggested in the tweaked thread I odin back to stock and start over. It seemed to had been attributed to ext4 to rfs conversion which i've never done. It's my only phone and I'm very busy so I haven't got around to it. Anytime I get to around 100 ~ 120 mbs left it gives me this notification, won't let me install even the smallest of apps, and gmail stops syncing. My phone seems to imply I have 1.2 gb of storage so maybe that's the problem?
All I've ever done is been on tweaked 3.1, then 3.2 ..recently flashed 1214 kernel. Complete wipes both times, no dirty flashes
I hate to revive an older thread but i cant get past the insufficent storage problem. I moved apps to usb storage freeing up over 500mb. When that failed, i tried lucky patcher. Any other suggestions?
it seems the only way to update some apps is to delete and reinstall... Some i just dont update anymore.
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