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I cannot install a 48.6 MB app from the market; "Insufficient space on device"

I cannot install a 48.6 MB app from the market; "Insufficient space on device"
This is driving me absolutely insane. I've tried so many solutions that used to work in the past for me, but nothing works anymore.
I am using an AT&T Captivate (Samsung Galaxy S). I have over 700 MB of internal memory and over 9.8 GB of memory on my SD card left. When I try to download an app that is 48.6 MB (Jelly Defense), no matter what I do, I cannot download it.
I have tried Force Closing and wiping the Data/Cache of Download Manager, Google Services Framework, Market, and Market Updater, and then rebooting the phone. Didn't work.
I've tried doing all of the above and uninstalling the Market Updates. Didn't work.
I've tried what's in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18874811&postcount=2
but I had the same problem as in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18889951&postcount=3
What else can I do? This is absolutely ridiculous. I CANNOT install this app.

If you have android 2.2 there is an option on the app section that allows you to move apps to sd.If not then you should root,make a partition for the apps to be stored and move them in the external storage

The captivate has horrific stock software. I would root and go custom rom and then try it. You can odin back to stock if needed for service, even without a working screen if necessary.
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But how can I move this app to SD? It won't even let me download it once in the first place...
I'd prefer not to install a custom ROM if possible.

insert your sd card in an adapter and transfer a custom rom or something

I have the same problem with blood and glory. Nothing has worked so far.
-Sent from a Galaxy far far away

If it's a free app then try and find an apk file, put it on your SD card and install it to your device? On my rooted Cyanogenmod Galaxy 5 I can choose an option to automatically install every application to my SD.

Your /cache partion is too small search the i9000 forums there's a guide to increase the size of it
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1188972
That?
ok... now to figure out what that post means lol

Yup, that's the one it's not as hard as it looks
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factory reset

agent205 said:
factory reset
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this would be an absolute last resort for me, and I definitely would not do it for a minor issue such as not being able to download a single app from the market, let alone a game.

So, the Android Terminal Emulator on the market is basically a Linux command line, yeah?
I have never touched anything related to Linux before...
copy the script to your phone give it executable permissions and run it through adb shell or a terminal
I have no idea how to give the script executable permissions, or how to run it through the terminal.
Can somebody please help me?

ok so
I'm now pretty sure I know what's stopping me from running the script fully
https://market.android.com/details?id=jackpal.androidterm&hl=en
I used that app. It moves the cache to the SD card, which removes current problems with market cache... but it still doesn't allow you to download apps above 30 MB in size...
but because it moved the cache, the script I'm now trying to run can't work, since it's trying to find the cache in its original location.
the description for the app doesn't say what the app ACTUALLY does, or where it moves the cache
does anybody have any idea how I would go about undoing what the MarketFix app did?

So, running the script through a terminal absolutely will not work.
btw, I'm on a Captivate, Rooted, without a custom ROM. Although I did do the official upgrade to 2.2.
I tried running it through a script manager, and this is what I get as an error.
It says it cannot find the device "mount"
What exactly is the problem?

Insufficient storage google play.

So yeah insufficient storage available when installing anything in Google play..
Wiped cache
Manually deleted dalvik cache. (dont have a recovery and not getting it.)
I have 20 gb on internal storage if the app partition this small this is seriously ****ing stupid.
I don't plan to wipe data nor install any app since I use all I got and don't have that many -.-
It would be a pain in the ass having to each app to external SD to be installing apps... seriously WTF ASUS/Google

deathskater said:
So yeah insufficient storage available when installing anything in Google play..
Wiped cache
Manually deleted dalvik cache. (dont have a recovery and not getting it.)
I have 20 gb on internal storage if the app partition this small this is seriously ****ing stupid.
I don't plan to wipe data nor install any app since I use all I got and don't have that many -.-
It would be a pain in the ass having to each app to external SD to be installing apps... seriously WTF ASUS/Google
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Well... I noticed I could install any other app regardless of size file.. went to the folder where apps are being installed and found out there where apps with the same name as what I was trying to install. I had this installed previously and uninstalled it seems the system created these .odex files that for some reason prevent me from installing the app with its name.
so just delete the .Odex and it works...
Oh well hope this help for other people. I was about to Rage RAAAAWRRRR

deathskater said:
Well... I noticed I could install any other app regardless of size file.. went to the folder where apps are being installed and found out there where apps with the same name as what I was trying to install. I had this installed previously and uninstalled it seems the system created these .odex files that for some reason prevent me from installing the app with its name.
so just delete the .Odex and it works...
Oh well hope this help for other people. I was about to Rage RAAAAWRRRR
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YES! I looked all over and nobody seemed to have the answer until I found your post! I had the same problem. I could install other apps, but I couldn't install 1 specific app that I had already installed/uninstalled, no matter what my download source for the app was. Then I found where the backup .apk and .odex files were (/data/app/), deleted that .odex file, and it reinstalled perfectly after that. Thanks!!!

can confirm before smashing my phone doing a factory reset i found a .odex file in /data/secureapp/ or some thing like that deleted thia and BINGO WAS HIS NAMEO whoop whoop thx

deathskater said:
So yeah insufficient storage available when installing anything in Google play..
Wiped cache
Manually deleted dalvik cache. (dont have a recovery and not getting it.)
I have 20 gb on internal storage if the app partition this small this is seriously ****ing stupid.
I don't plan to wipe data nor install any app since I use all I got and don't have that many -.-
It would be a pain in the ass having to each app to external SD to be installing apps... seriously WTF ASUS/Google
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Environment: Galaxy S3
App: MX player
OS: JB
issue: as title.
but i cannot located the .odex for this app.
could anyone please help?

Can't install new apps from Google Play, "insufficient storage" message

Hi,
I installed the route 66 stock rom on my Verizon Galaxy S3, and now am getting the "insufficient Storage" error on Google Play when I try to install apps. I have lots of room on the internal and the external SD cards. I've tried clearing the data on Google play, but still won't work. Any ideas on how to fix it?

If you Google search insufficient storage space Google play there is some good info
Could this be your problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726525
Are the apps you are trying to install ones you have installed before?
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Android_Monsters said:
If you Google search insufficient storage space Google play there is some good info
Could this be your problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726525
Are the apps you are trying to install ones you have installed before?
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium
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No, that isn't the issue. These are new apps.

How many apps do you have?
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Frustrated!!!
Android_Monsters said:
How many apps do you have?
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Not so many. I have lots of space on both the internal sd card and the external card.
I'm getting frustrated with this, considering wiping phone and starting from scratch, but no point unless I understand what's wrong.

Did you use lucky patcher on this app?
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android94301 said:
Hi,
I installed the route 66 stock rom on my Verizon Galaxy S3, and now am getting the "insufficient Storage" error on Google Play when I try to install apps. I have lots of room on the internal and the external SD cards. I've tried clearing the data on Google play, but still won't work. Any ideas on how to fix it?
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You have to deo-odex the app first, then install normally.

Fixed it
After trying a lot of things, I gave up, backed up everything with Titanium Backup, wiped my phone in recovery, and install the new Synergy Rom. Now works fine, and I can install apps fine. Don't know what was wrong, but just in case I installed Cache Fixer for future issues.

android94301 said:
After trying a lot of things, I gave up, backed up everything with Titanium Backup, wiped my phone in recovery, and install the new Synergy Rom. Now works fine, and I can install apps fine. Don't know what was wrong, but just in case I installed Cache Fixer for future issues.
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Can you tell me how much space has the Galaxy S3 for Intallation of apps? Confers with what I read on other sites: 2GB? My S2 had 16 GB internal, but only 1.75 GB for installing apps! ! Thankful!

fireboypr said:
You have to deo-odex the app first, then install normally.
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may i know how to de-odex, i face similar issue on my friend's S3, problem where there is problem with update, i uninstall the app and when i try to reinstall the app back. it stucked. in ICS, i know where is the odex file located, i root the device and removed the file, and it work. but in S3, which is JB, i can't seem to located the odex for this apps. perhaps something else or some other hidden location.
apps install and having problem is MX player.

Having Market issue Insufficient Storage Available Error Message

Hello, I been away from xda for a while and very limited as I been in the hospital for 3 weeks and came across this error on market. "Insufficient Storage Available" whenever I try to down a add or update as well. I Can't find a fix for it and hope someone can help me. Hope it hasn't been posted before cause I tried to find a fix and had no luck. Thanks guys!
Edit- I forgot to mention I am on Aokp

I am also having this problem. Im running the latest Paranoid Rom 1.6

vwgtiturbo1 said:
Hello, I been away from xda for a while and very limited as I been in the hospital for 3 weeks and came across this error on market. "Insufficient Storage Available" whenever I try to down a add or update as well. I Can't find a fix for it and hope someone can help me. Hope it hasn't been posted before cause I tried to find a fix and had no luck. Thanks guys!
Edit- I forgot to mention I am on Aokp
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Normally you can clear caches and it will work otherwise uninstall the app and reinstall. If you have to uninstall make a data backup first. What it equates to is the app dev didnt put a call in to remove the app prior to installing the new version. Ive run into this with Plague Inc. and Ive sent a bug report to the app dev. I suggest the same for whatever app you are having issues with.

I've tried the whole "clear your caches and fix your permissions" thing, and, at least from what I can tell, you can't install anything through Play/Market unless you have at least ~55 MB of space available (even if you are installing to microSD or replacing a currently installed app). I'm not sure quite where the threshold is, but it is somewhere around there.
I can't answer "Why?" as it is in Google proprietary code and I don't have the source available.

I have tried clearing caches and dalvic.. also reinstalled gapps.. can't get it to work..
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vwgtiturbo1 said:
I have tried clearing caches and dalvic.. also reinstalled gapps.. can't get it to work..
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Have you cleared data from Google Services Frameworks? That has fixed every market issue I've ever run into. If jeff is saying it's coded to not let you install with under 55mb of space left I believe him though.

I can't be sure it's "coded that way," but I haven't found a way to get Play/Market to install when I get down somewhere below 60 MB free space, including flashing a new ROM, clearing cache, fixing permissions, reinstalling gapps, and probably a few other things I've tried. There are definitely days when I wish someone would prove my theory wrong!

I believe Jeff no doubt but I have 66.1mb available..
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i have this problem when there's an update for the "Dark Jelly" theme i have. i found the only way to get it to update really is to uninstall it and then re-install. i know its a pain in the arse, but its the only way i found to update it.

I had to move some apps from the internal storage to the SD card to overcome this problem. I'm on the Galaxy Beam rom

Apps2SD problem
My Apps2sd (in ROM toolbox) was set to install to SD card automatically and as soon as I changed it AUTO (location) problem was fixed.

Anyone know how to install Apps to the SD card by default? :S
I've been using Titanium Backup to manually move my apps to the SD card.
I'm on CM9, Hefe KoD.

Can U try this?
Lucky Patcher -> Troubleshooting -> Remove fixes and backups(insufficent storage available)
^^

hechoen said:
Have you cleared data from Google Services Frameworks? That has fixed every market issue I've ever run into. .
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My husband's Galaxy S 4G is having the same problem with erroneous memory capacity error message.It seems happen after he adds an app. And we are not sure why the error message goes away WHEN it does go away. Can you clear the Google Services Frameworks without removing important info he has put in the apps, or will it delete any apps?. Sorry for my ignorance of the Android system.

KnHtown said:
My husband's Galaxy S 4G is having the same problem with erroneous memory capacity error message.It seems happen after he adds an app. And we are not sure why the error message goes away WHEN it does go away. Can you clear the Google Services Frameworks without removing important info he has put in the apps, or will it delete any apps?. Sorry for my ignorance of the Android system.
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If you're husband's phone is rooted then you can always back up his apps and app data with titanium backup or you can make a nandroid backup through cwm that way in case anything goes wrong you have a backup to fall back to
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mjmjhkgh said:
Can U try this?
Lucky Patcher -> Troubleshooting -> Remove fixes and backups(insufficent storage available)
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This worked for me, thank you !!
I was having trouble installing UberSocial. I could download and install every other app (smaller and bigger in file size) except for UberSocial.
Tried the Lucky Patcher method and worked like a charm.
BTW, I should mention I have a rooted S3 but found this thread via Google .

The Jelly bean rom takes up a lot internal memory, plus it installs most of the apps from the market to the internal memory instead of SD card. I don't why, maybe the devs can answer this. I had to remove the xbmc app (97mb) in order to install anything else.
Hit the thanks button if it helps. It's my motivator to be more helpful.

I use Titanium to move all data apps to SD, I also use History Eraser before updating apps so that at all times I have over 110MB free on internal mem.
sent from me

There is also a way via terminal to move cache to the sd card. It's been a while since I've needed to do that and that was on GB. If anyone is interested in the how, let me know.

Kyndig66 said:
There is also a way via terminal to move cache to the sd card. It's been a while since I've needed to do that and that was on GB. If anyone is interested in the how, let me know.
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Ive been working on a universal script to move stuff from internal to external, so far i have it down for my s3 and i could do one personally for the sgs4g but i want to make it universal since ALL ICS AND JB roms do this AND your storages are different when using stock compared to AOSP

[Q] HELP! Insufficient Storage Space...11.24 GB Though

Hi all,
I already searched around and could not find anything close to a solution. I have a huge ANNOYING problem. I haven't had this issue until recently. Or rather, I haven't noticed it until now. I flashed a new ROM coming from CM10 thinking it was the ROM, but I have tried two different ROMs and still the same problem. WTF!? I keep getting the message "Insufficient Space available" error when trying to install programs from Google Play or trying to side-load.
For some reason I have two internal storages when I look under storage in system settings. One is 1.97GB and the other is 11.24GB. In the smallest one, I have 209MB available. WTF!? Yet the other has 11.17GB. It's to the point where I have only 9 progrmas installed! 9!! Something's got to be wrong here, Please help!
What's the deal!? Anyone have a solution. I have done a factory reset and cleared everything. Still nothing. Any help is greatly appreciated.
*temporary fix*
OK, so I went in and cleaned out the folder /system/lost+found
It had 1.6gb of used space. Deleted it all and now I have that space available.
The main reason for this being a temporary fix is because I still have two internal storages. So eventually the 2gb where all the programs are being installed into, will run out again. So then phone is not taking advantage of all 14 GB available for storage.
-Carlos

Did you wipe data and caches?
I had this problem before, where I had gigabytes of files in the lost+found folder, which would take up the internal storage where apps are installed. When I went to another ROM, I did a clean flash, and even though I restored all apps from Google, I had much more space available.
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I did all that. Just like always. Even before I flashed the new ROM, I cleared cache and wiped data. Even did Dalvik cache wipe. Still nothing.Where is this lost+found folder you speak of. Maybe go into it manually. But still doesn't explain all that available space.
-Carlos

hondalude89 said:
I did all that. Just like always. Even before I flashed the new ROM, I cleared cache and wiped data. Even did Dalvik cache wipe. Still nothing.Where is this lost+found folder you speak of. Maybe go into it manually. But still doesn't explain all that available space.
-Carlos
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Look in /system/lost+ found.

hondalude89 said:
I did all that. Just like always. Even before I flashed the new ROM, I cleared cache and wiped data. Even did Dalvik cache wipe. Still nothing.
-Carlos
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Wipe data from google play services, google play, and google services frameworks. Clearing the data also wipes the cache for you. To do this go to Manage apps>all and pick those apps. It'll take some time to resync all your google info but after that you should be good.

So I just had this problem yesterday and what worked for me is to wipe Everything, except for the sd cards. That should clear out the data that is from your last rom.

bonkieash said:
So I just had this problem yesterday and what worked for me is to wipe Everything, except for the sd cards. That should clear out the data that is from your last rom.
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Actually the way to fix it is set "use rm-rf" options in settings in TWRP while flashing. I don't know why but make_ext does not work sometimes

epapsiou said:
Actually the way to fix it is set "use rm-rf" options in settings in TWRP while flashing. I don't know why but make_ext does not work sometimes
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I'll try that. Actually I got it to where I can actually install other rpogrmas. But the phone still has a 2gb internal storage and 11.4gb internal storage. Which is pretty frustrating. Buddy's S3 only has one internal storage. Sondoea another Buddy's note2. So I'm lost as to why I have 2 internal storages. Wtf!?
For right now, see first post for my "temporary fix"
-Carlos

hondalude89 said:
I'll try that. Actually I got it to where I can actually install other rpogrmas. But the phone still has a 2gb internal storage and 11.4gb internal storage. Which is pretty frustrating. Buddy's S3 only has one internal storage. Sondoea another Buddy's note2. So I'm lost as to why I have 2 internal storages. Wtf!?
For right now, see first post for my "temporary fix"
-Carlos
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Have you figured out a solution (and not just a temp. fix) to your 2 internal storages issue? I'm having that problem right now after flashing official CM 10.2.
Please let me know asap.

bonkieash said:
So I just had this problem yesterday and what worked for me is to wipe Everything, except for the sd cards. That should clear out the data that is from your last rom.
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Did you wipe internal sd card as well or did you mean you wiped everything except both the internal and micro sd card?
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My solution was to disable Sync App Data in my google account as I logged into a factory wiped phone. I had Despicable Me 2 installed on my tablet, but even though it wasn't installed on my phone it was still syncing the 600 (SIX HUNDRED) MB of App data (videos I assume?!). There is no easy way to know which apps are doing this(abusing data sync), especially if you have multiple devices using the same account but different app sets. Wiping /data and making sure not to sync app data was the only thing that worked for me. Once you are in, you may be able to delete that app data by delteing the app from the 'My Apps' 'All Apps' section, but there should really be a better way to manage this data.

Did anyone come up with a permanent fix for this? I have tried flashing several roms several times and always end up with the split storage.

vegantacodrone said:
Did anyone come up with a permanent fix for this? I have tried flashing several roms several times and always end up with the split storage.
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I haven't found a permanent solution, but you can install apps on the external SD card. I think there is an Xposed module that will force apps onto the sd card as well.