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Low Storage Space

Hi all..i have a T-Mobile MDA,Rom ver.is 1.8.10.2 WWE and extRom Ver.is 1.8.10.104.I have a 1GB Memory Card inserted in my device also.Now the problem is that m getting error messages after every minute that
"Your phone is running low on free storage space.Delete old or unused items to create more space."
What its mean?? m already using 1Gb card and i think this problem is with the phone internal memory.I want to fix this problem.And my phone is also working slow sometimes...Plz any suggestions for my both problems...Should i upgrade my Rom Ver.??? Plz advice

an sd card is like a big floppy putting it in dont mean anything apart from you can store data on it
some applications you can reinstall on the sdcard rather then phone storage
but sd cards are slower and some applications warn about being put on the sd

Weird Memory Location Problem

I have a HTC Touch (Elf) with the 1GB memory card.
When I download or install something, even if I tell it to save to memory card, it still seems to go onto the internal memory. I don't quite understand what's going on, but it is of course limiting what I can do as the internal memory is very small.
When selecting install location as 'Storage Card' its as if the shortcut to that is pointing to some location on internal memory, as checking the memory usage shows my internal memory depleting and my storage card not changing.
Unless I move files by cutting and pasting afterwards.
Cheers in advance.
Jon

OK to narrow the problem down a bit... when I install something and it gives you the option where to install it i.e. on phone or storage card, whether I pick phone OR storage card it always ends up on the phone.
I cannot install programs to storage card! Which is not good as the phone memory is tiny!
Any ideas please?

Storage Problem, 2GB internal, 14gb External

Hi guys, so i have a samsung vibrant with ICS rom. My phone has 16gb built in, but it says it has 2gb internal and 14gb external. From what i've read it puts away 14 for the phone and the 2gb is apparently all you need? I keep having the same problem after i get all my apps installed and what not, it says the phone storage is low and eventually it gets to the point where i can't receive texts because it's full so I have to reformat the whole phone for that to go away. Is there a way to make it so I have more storage? This keeps happening every few days and I always have to format for the phone to work..

2gb - this is the space for android to install apps... it doesn't have to be any bigger
14gb - space for the rest of your storage, i.e. photos, videos, music

Your apps and text messages are being stored in that 2 GB partition. How much is being taken up by the apps? Can you move some to SD card or delete some you don't need? Also check how much is being used by the data and cache in induvidual apps. Facebook can sometimes have tons of data, IMDB will cache all sorts of stuff - I deleted something like a 100 MB cache once. Pull up the apps in settings and sortby size. How many texts are you keeping? Can you delete some threads or older texts?

Internal Storage showing more than 100% full.

I'm having a problem with my Z3, where it seems to be counting data and/or apps stored to the external SD card as part of the internal storage, which is leading the phone to show as being full when it isn't.
As you can see in the screenshots below (no you can't because all my xda posts are somehow gone and I'm back to being a noob who can't post links) , my 16gb phone believes that it contains more than 22gb of data, the main problem being more than 16gb of apps, which are in reality stored on the SD card.
When I eject the SD card, the apps disappear, and the internal storage drops to what looks like the correct level (with apps showing at 5.88gb).
Some of the apps, notably Amazon underground and Vainglory, seem to be much larger than they should be, e.g Vainglory at over 4gb, when it should be 1.25gb, and Amazon being more than 2gb when it should be around 124mb (as they are on my Nexus 9). So it looks to me that somehow the phone is counting the apps and data stored on the SD card more than once. I've tried tried uninstalling both of those apps, incase it is an Amazon underground issue (vainglory is installed from Amazon). That helps free up some space (apps still show over 10gb though), but the next biggest app is Google Play Music, which is also showing data that is stored on the SD card as being part of the internal storage. When I reinstall Vainglory from the Playstore (still storing the data on the SD card), it shows as being 3.47gb, smaller but still way too big. So the problem is clearly not related to Amazon.
I'm running a stock Sony rom, Android 6.0.1 build 23.5.A.1.291 on a D6603.
Can anyone help me with this before I go nuclear and factory reset it again?

SD Card formatted as internal memory

I really don't recommend that to anyone, (on every phone available)
it really slows down phone. (this phone has 300/100 read/write)
And if you don't have such sd card don't format it as internal memory,
just as SD card for multi-use.
I tried with 100/40 or something SD card,
and it felt like s...

Yes, I can confirm that! My old Phone had only 16GB of internal memory, so I thought that it would be nice if I format my Class10-SD-Card as internal memory.
But it was a mistake, because it slows down the phone so much...
Also if you have a very fast SD-Card - it will not work and slow down your phone...

I've always been using microSD on my smartphones as an internal memory and have no speed issues.
It is also advisable to move all apps to the internal memory and to use the "external" internal memory only when the internal memory is full.
When the microSD is formatted as internal memory, the transfer rate drops because the microSD is encrypted (AES-128).
However, this is hardly noticeable in practice.
let alone that: The advertised microSD speeds are rarely achieved in practice.
I have more problems with a portable formatted microSD.
There are e.g. Access problems with third-party apps or file managers.