a Friend is trying to download and install BBM from the Play Store, but it won't download at all. Keeps saying something about not enough space on the disk.
He has like 400MB free space on the device and the BBM app is only 22MB(Make it 25MB max) so there should be enough space, yet it doesn't download at all.
His device is stock 100%, not rooted. I'm not familiar with Samsung devices that much(Galaxy S3 was the last one I had and that's been a while back already). I did some searching on google and saw mentions of a hidden menu *#9900# . Will this work on the Galaxy S4 Zoom? Worst case scenario, let's say it doesn't work, is there another method we can resolve this issue without rooting or making other changes to system?
Deleting an excessive amount of apps is not a total solution as a lot of the apps is for both personal and business related purposes. I already made a similar suggestion and he won't be able to go without many of the apps, I managed to only free up like 100MB after getting rid of the things he didn't need.
I only have access to the device for maybe 10mins, max.
Any help would be appreciated thanks in advance.
No one?
I used the *#9900# code and it did work, I freed up some more space on the phone, albeit it was only a couple of MBs. It didn't make a difference, couldn't download the BBM app still. I then proceeded to downgrade(uninstall update) Google Play to a previous version and at least this time around the app downloaded but after downloading it attempts to install it and then stops stating that there are no storage available.
Is there no solution to this problem? I went through every app he has(Even though he really doesn't have a lot of apps on the phone) one by one and can't seem to move a single app to SD Card.
The guy is close to painting a wall "Galaxy K" colored.
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I'm seriously fed up with uninstalling apps/updates when I want to install something else, and I will always have to clear cache, clear data of my Facebook or even to the point contacts, when I need to install a new app/an update.
Is there a fix to this yet?
P.S.: I did use the search button, but couldnt find what Im looking for.
it's my problem too ( . please help me . The Internal memory is very low !
Yeah sadly, android isn't doing anything to fix that. T.T
Actually, "Android" can fix that if you're able to root your ChaCha and partition your SD, "faking" a bigger internal memory.
HTC isn't doing anything to fix that, because this is a hardware problem that can't be totally solved using only software updates. They also don't want to open the bootloader so anyone can root and modify the partitions, that's why this is a big problem to this phone.
HTC ChaCha was destined to teenagers that don't want to use any app other than Facebook. That's the truth.
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I recently got a ChaCha (AT&T Status) mainly because it has such a nice keyboard and I don't like virtual keyboards. It was also a bargain. I don't do Twitter, and I rarely go to Facebook. So these (and other) AT&T supplied apps are just wasting memory space on my phone. I was frequently running into the memory limitation problems (inability to update apps, inability to synch, etc.). But since ATT disallows removal of these apps, we're stuck. Or are we?
If you look at the applications manager under downloads tab, you'll see the updates to facebook, twitter, and other pre-installed apps are huge. While the apps themselves cannot be uninstalled, the updates can be, which is what I have done. First, I went to the market and un-checked the automatic update box so they won't be updated again. Then I uninstalled the updates for Facebook and Twitter on my phone. I also unstalled the updates for the ATT Code Scanner app. Although I might find a code scanner useful, I reasoned there are other code scanner apps out there (probably better ones judging from the typical AT&T Software ) and the other apps could be transfered to the SD card, using very little internal memory.
Anyway, the result is I now have about 39-40MB of free memory . I still can't wait for the gurus here to come up with a permanent solution, but in the meantime, I think I have solved my memory issue.
Hmm running 2.3.5 here and since that I have around 40mb free.
I am using FB, twitter and a bunch of other apps. Trying to clear cache for a lot of apps weekly though.
Check the Everything for ChaCha thread (also in my signature).
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Check the Everything for ChaCha thread (also in my signature).
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All great suggestions. Unfortunately, most of them require a rooted phone which means I can't use them.
Only one which can help you in this case is a factory reset.
yea..i having the same problem too although had upgrade to android 2.3.5..is there other way to solve this pity fewer of memory?
I tried to update an app today and the play store was giving me an insufficient storage error message. Clearly this shouldn't be the case as I have several gigs free on the phone. I've tried several things indicated online for other phones that people had problems with including the following:
Retry the update several times
Reinstall the app, I can't even fresh install the app as it gives me the error too....
Reboot phone
Clear unused apps/junk
clear data/caches for download manager + play store
Pretty much at a loss here for what else to try.
I did notice that there is a clockworkmod folder taking up 800MB, its apparently used for backup purposes. Whats the best way to view the actual partitioning of the phone to see what the real storage usage is?
EDIT: Even stranger... I can install other apps that are much larger apks.....
EDIT2: Sorry.. I figured it out, I cleared out the odex file for the app and installed it again.
I clearly have enough space with over 7GB of free space, I can install games and things that are much larger than Tasker however, everytime i try to install tasker i receive the following error.
"Tasker couldn't be installed. Free up some space and try again.
Any ideas?
I am running Cyanogenmod 10.1 Nightly 1/7 on a Samsung Galaxy S 3
I was hoping that other people had experienced this issue even if it was not just with tasker
I just had this pop up even though I had over 2gb of phone memory left. I deleted an old rom backup and it went away and I was able to install the app I wanted.
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I just had this pop up even though I had over 2gb of phone memory left. I deleted an old rom backup and it went away and I was able to install the app I wanted.
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According to the phone i have 8.23Gb of available space on the phone. and I can install things that are much larger than this without any issue.
Hello!
I've been using XT1032 for a while as someone that's mostly new to smartphones - it's an upgrade after heavily worn out LG GT540. However after rooting it, installing official CM and updating to the latest nightlies every second day or so, I still have several problems. I'm sorry if there's too little detail in this post, I'll try to add detail later on.
First off, I don't understand how the storage space works. The phone is supposed to have 8GBs of internal memory, however only 5.5GBs are accessible to the user. Additionally, applications refuse to install when the system reports that there's ~400MBs of "space" left. Is this because of a partition being filled up? The Apps panel of system settings isn't specific what is taking up too much space and I'm afraid the DiskUsage app doesn't help either.
Second thing is the actual available RAM. It's supposed to be 1 GB, but Z-DeviceTest reports only 885MBs being available. Where's the rest? There's also swap of 255MBs that I don't know where it came from. I thought that on a low-end smartphone they wouldn't waste internal storage on swap.
There's a trick to increasing available storage space by linking the /cache folder to root. How does that work? How do I know if the folder is being used or not, and if it's safe to do this? DiskUsage doesn't show this folder normally, and when switching to it in root it's being 651MBs large, with "System data" taking up 11.2MBs and pds-CM10.img 3MBs. There's also recovery and backup folders, 56KBs and 16KBs respectively. Why is it this big anyhow, if it's not being used?
The most immediate problem, and the one that annoys me the most since I bought the phone for a certain purpose, is that Google Play Music is lagging terribly. It uses ~110MBs when I switch to the Running Apps screen from the settings quickly enough to check its stats, each song takes several seconds to load even on WiFi, no matter the quality, and the worst part is that even if it "loads up" it takes several additional seconds to scroll around it! It's not just the playing affected, the whole interface is sluggish. Screens take seconds to switch between each other, returning to the app after opening two applications makes it either "restart", where it still plays music, but you can see that the interface is now several screens back. How is it possible that in 2015 an operating system developer can't make a performant app that's not a game, that's not a video editor, but a god damn music player? The only quirk is that it's streaming the music from the net instead of playing a downloaded file. It has a cache that uses over 700MBs already, no excuses. I checked that with DiskUsage.
Hey guys, new here, hope it's right to post this here and not in my device's section but it's probably pretty empty in there.. Anyways, i have a very strange problem with my storage access where apps can't properly see contents in my storage (both internal and sd card) meaning the following: apps know folders exist and that space is taken up, but they seem to be unable to actually read or write files somehow. For example the storage tab in the settings shows how much space is free but the categories like pictures, music etc files show 0 bites, except for apps, that section shows up fine. Another example: fx file explorer can't show the amount of used space in the general overview or the folder information tab. But when i actually go into a folder it does show how much space is used and how much is free. I can open a music file in the built in fx music player but when i try to open in an external app it cant play it, shows its at e.g. 116:27:01 out of 5:52 actual play time and that the media format may not be supported. I'd post screenshots but i cant actually make any as the system cant save them.
I have tried restarting, even had a security update from before a few days that i was to lazy to install so i did that, still no change. I also tried removing the sd card to no avail. Since the google play services were using up alot of battery i tried deleting cache, data and even updates for both them and the play store but it seems that this was just another symptom and not the cause. So i think the culprit might be the whatsapp beta version 2.19.365 which crashed at the splash screen for most of it's users. I somehow managed to update it but the problems started when i tried opening it so i don't see what else would be the culprit. I've already contacted their support but tbh i don't ecxpect much help from them.
I'm on an unrooted Honor 7x with Emui 9.1 (based on Android 9).
Does anybody have any idea on what i might try except for a factory reset? I would really like to avoid doing that.
I thsnk everybody who took their time to read and maybe even answer this. Hope your day is going better. Cheers