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Insufficient Storage Available

Hello,
I'm experiencing an issue with Gingerbread or ICS ROMs with Sense whereby i reach a point of trying to install apps and I receive the error 'Insuffcient Storage Available'.
Meanwhile I typcially have over 100mb available on the internal memory and 11GB available on the SD card.
I've tried:
- cleaning cache
- uninstalling apps (temporarily works until more apps are installed)
- fixing permissions
- using recovery to wipe cache and dalvik cache
- also removed SD card and tried installing apps, this still fails
I seem to notice the error with Sense based ROMs and can't recall if I have experienced this with MIUI ROMs.
I'm unsure what else to try and I'm wondering if anyone has more insight how to resolve this problem permantly so I can install more apps.
Any help is indeed appreciated, so thank you in advanced.
P.S. Current Phone info:
ROM - InsertCoin ICS Sense ROM 4.0.6
Phone - HTC Sensation
Fully rooted, SuperCID'd, current 4EXT touch recovery

This may be obvious but......have you moved your already installed apps to SD? The ones that can be moved.

I've had the same problem, but rebooting usually fixed it for me.

antijesse said:
I've had the same problem, but rebooting usually fixed it for me.
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Same here.

Hey guys,
thanks for posting, Ididn't want to try moving the apps to sdcard yet, as i i have enough space on internal memory, just puzzled why i can't use it; however it seems i may have to do this, thanks.
I have rebooted but still no change what to do...

Goutetsuu said:
Hey guys,
thanks for posting, Ididn't want to try moving the apps to sdcard yet, as i i have enough space on internal memory, just puzzled why i can't use it; however it seems i may have to do this, thanks.
I have rebooted but still no change what to do...
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The problem is not insufficient internal storage, it is some cache or market data. Since you have cleared cache, try going into Manage Apps, go to the market, and clear data. That fixed it for me before.

[Q] "Other" storage taking up space

So I tried search and went through pages of posts but only found ones asking the question but no answers. On my One X AT&T if i go to storage I see that Other is taking up 4 GB worth of space. This seemed like a lot, so i reinstalled CleanRom and wiped everything, system, factory reset, cache, dalvik, sd card, android_secure, all of it. When it was booted the other space was only down ~40MB, just under 4GB. So i thought maybe that was the ROM, did a clean intall of Cyanogen with the same wipe as before. When that booted the storage didn't have an other, but the free space was only about 2GB, about the same as the Sense install.
So is this something everybody else see's or just my phone (I just bought it, so I'm not sure what's normal)? If not is there a way to free up the space?
Also if it's stuff like the OS and the like why wouldn't they just label it like that?
Thanks in advance for any help provided!

Other is stuff on your sd card. That stuff doesnt get wiped when you flash a Rom
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area51avenger said:
Other is stuff on your sd card. That stuff doesnt get wiped when you flash a Rom
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I did the wipe external storage in TWRP, does that not wipe the sd card? The pictures were deleted from the sd card when I did that so I figured I did.

[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.

low memory with 10.2

not only does cm10.2 not recognize that there is 8gb on onboard but it only seems to see about half that. now i cant even update nor download apps. any ideas?
thanks!!!

nycdave said:
not only does cm10.2 not recognize that there is 8gb on onboard but it only seems to see about half that. now i cant even update nor download apps. any ideas?
thanks!!!
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roms take more space after being flashed
so to increase your memory you can uninstall unwanted system apps and other apps and after that boot into recovery and wipe cache partition and then reboot you will really have more free space
also
you are having space issues right??
dont you use sd card ??

aditya rathee said:
roms take more space after being flashed
so to increase your memory you can uninstall unwanted system apps and other apps and after that boot into recovery and wipe cache partition and then reboot you will really have more free space
also
you are having space issues right??
dont you use sd card ??
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If you do the correct wipes and install an aftermarket ROM, is should take up less space. Most aftermarket ROMs are quite a bit smaller than the stock ROMs. There are a few running around in this forum that are heavily bloated with stuff to make the Tab more media friendly, but these are the exceptions. With that being said, did you do a clean wipe prior to install? If not, that's the issue. There's some left over data in there. Also, the memory is partitioned into sections, one for the ROM and one for storage. Getting a SD would be good so you can store your backups there. Backups take up a lot of memory.

RikRong said:
If you do the correct wipes and install an aftermarket ROM, is should take up less space. Most aftermarket ROMs are quite a bit smaller than the stock ROMs. There are a few running around in this forum that are heavily bloated with stuff to make the Tab more media friendly, but these are the exceptions. With that being said, did you do a clean wipe prior to install? If not, that's the issue. There's some left over data in there. Also, the memory is partitioned into sections, one for the ROM and one for storage. Getting a SD would be good so you can store your backups there. Backups take up a lot of memory.
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yes bro i totally agree with you 16 gb internal storage is filled up very quickly if we install apps and play movies and songs and do some gaming
that's why i was asking that whether @nycdave was having sd card or not

aditya rathee said:
yes bro i totally agree with you 16 gb internal storage is filled up very quickly if we install apps and play movies and songs and do some gaming
that's why i was asking that whether @nycdave was having sd card or not
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GUYS..... first of all thank you so much for taking the time to respond. this has been a thorn in my side for a while now.. i do indeed have an sd and prior to the switch from stock to cm10.2 i was able to employ the ext script to swap memory which worked well overall. i do not know of any viable way to employ any memory swap script or app thast works well with cm10.2 i have done a great deal of research and i have not seen anything.. im also not a noob but i do feel like on right now!!!! this is so annoying. here are my questions:
do you know of any app to sd applications that work with cm10.2?
do you know of anyway to install apps to the card?
as for the wipe.... yes I did wipe completely ( at least I thought I did) I wiped data, system, cache, dalvik, and then formatted system, cache, data then wiped then cleared dalvik again prior to rebooting. this was thorough and typically what i do when I flash.
im totally open to suggestions. as of now the tab is pretty much rendered useless because I cannot even update apps. it only sees 4.59gb of the onboard space and the entire 16gb of the ext card.
thanks !!!!!!!!!!!

nycdave said:
GUYS..... first of all thank you so much for taking the time to respond. this has been a thorn in my side for a while now.. i do indeed have an sd and prior to the switch from stock to cm10.2 i was able to employ the ext script to swap memory which worked well overall. i do not know of any viable way to employ any memory swap script or app thast works well with cm10.2 i have done a great deal of research and i have not seen anything.. im also not a noob but i do feel like on right now!!!! this is so annoying. here are my questions:
do you know of any app to sd applications that work with cm10.2?
do you know of anyway to install apps to the card?
as for the wipe.... yes I did wipe completely ( at least I thought I did) I wiped data, system, cache, dalvik, and then formatted system, cache, data then wiped then cleared dalvik again prior to rebooting. this was thorough and typically what i do when I flash.
im totally open to suggestions. as of now the tab is pretty much rendered useless because I cannot even update apps. it only sees 4.59gb of the onboard space and the entire 16gb of the ext card.
thanks !!!!!!!!!!!
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right now there might not be any app which works with cm 10.2 cos it itself is not quiet stable right now
also to move apps to sd you can try app2sd script or any app which move apps to sd card on rooted phones

aditya rathee said:
right now there might not be any app which works with cm 10.2 cos it itself is not quiet stable right now
also to move apps to sd you can try app2sd script or any app which move apps to sd card on rooted phones
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thanks man I have tried it... does not work. my primary concern right now is getting back the total 8gb onboard memory without switching back to stock. I have cleared and formatted data/cache/system partitions and I have flashed a few times already. im losing my mind over this bull**** already. any other ideas?

nycdave said:
thanks man I have tried it... does not work. my primary concern right now is getting back the total 8gb onboard memory without switching back to stock. I have cleared and formatted data/cache/system partitions and I have flashed a few times already. im losing my mind over this bull**** already. any other ideas?
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i think that some memory is occupied by the rom so there is not a thing you can do besides clearing cache so it is of no use
also have you tried sdmaid??

aditya rathee said:
i think that some memory is occupied by the rom so there is not a thing you can do besides clearing cache so it is of no use
also have you tried sdmaid??
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no i have not tried that what is it? do you think cm10.2 takes nearly half the capacity though bro? i have never had this probem with any other device before that has been running cm10

nycdave said:
no i have not tried that what is it? do you think cm10.2 takes nearly half the capacity though bro? i have never had this probem with any other device before that has been running cm10
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it has more clean up features than many other apps so you can try it
also i dont know how so much memory is occupied in this rom of yours
i think you have not done wipes before installing this rom

aditya rathee said:
it has more clean up features than many other apps so you can try it
also i dont know how so much memory is occupied in this rom of yours
i think you have not done wipes before installing this rom
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not only have I done tons of wipes but I have wiped completely..... all the way down to going back to stock to check if I have made a mistake alomng the way........ nothing works!! and with stock i get a full 8gb. with cm10 i get only 4.59

nycdave said:
not only have I done tons of wipes but I have wiped completely..... all the way down to going back to stock to check if I have made a mistake alomng the way........ nothing works!! and with stock i get a full 8gb. with cm10 i get only 4.59
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try some other good rom than this cm which poses a memory problem for you

aditya rathee said:
try some other good rom than this cm which poses a memory problem for you
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got any suggestions?

nycdave said:
got any suggestions?
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yup
try pac rom or cm11 both are good and pac rom more stable than cm11 cos it is in initial stages

nycdave said:
got any suggestions?
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I don't see a link for a cm11 build for the tab 2. Do u have one that u can send me to?
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[Q] android.process.media crashing after changing sdcard

I am trying to move from a 32 GB sdcard to a 64 GB card.
On my first effort I windows robocopy'd my files from the old sd card to the hdd and then from the hdd to the new card. When fired up the phone I instantly got a flood of android.process.media has unexpectedly stopped messages which I have never seen before. I was able to clear them out and have brief period where I was not interrupted by them. I was able to play new music off the card. It did appear that the gallery was potentially having difficulty with my old photos though. The messages keep coming though making the phone unusable.
I also tried just doing a fresh full format and putting the card in blank. Same problem.
I have used titanium backup to move some apps on to the sdcard. I assumed my robocopy on the first attempt would of preserved those.
I am using a 4.3.1 based rom.
I did try clearing the data of a couple of things like the play store and google services but they didn't seem to help. For the DRM process I tried freezing it, wiping the data, and thawing it but that didn't seem to help either.
Did I miss something? Any ideas?

wipe dalvik + cache from recovery

rzr86 said:
wipe dalvik + cache from recovery
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Good idea, thought that was going to do the trick! Still getting the same message though. The recovery does complain about not being able to mount this one so I haven't been able to do the "fix permissions" in there (TWRP 2.6)
Maybe the card is incompatible? Seems weird that it partially works though.

fredrick255 said:
Good idea, thought that was going to do the trick! Still getting the same message though. The recovery does complain about not being able to mount this one so I haven't been able to do the "fix permissions" in there (TWRP 2.6)
Maybe the card is incompatible? Seems weird that it partially works though.
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hmm,
try to delete thumbnails from DCIM folder
see how it goes

rzr86 said:
hmm,
try to delete thumbnails from DCIM folder
see how it goes
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Ooo getting less errors now it seems. The gallery still won't open though so maybe some in DCIM is still the culprit.

fredrick255 said:
Ooo getting less errors now it seems. The gallery still won't open though so maybe some in DCIM is still the culprit.
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keep searching in that way or something similar
i am out of ideas mate

have you tried rebooting into safe mode? And is your phone even compatible with the 64 GB card? look for the phone supported sd cards in your phone's specs

Well, one difference between the cards is that the old 32GB is formatted FAT32 and the new 64GB card has been formatted to exfat.
I also noticed in the log:
E/AndroidRuntime( 7147): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't obtain external volume ID for external volume.

This guy TWRP wiped the sdcard and than formated the card in Windows.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2743929
Is that any different than just formatting the card?

fredrick255 said:
This guy TWRP wiped the sdcard and than formated the card in Windows.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2743929
Is that any different than just formatting the card?
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probably if you format the card from windows you will have success but i am not sure
if you do it format it to fat32 system

Well I updated to Albinoman's 4.4.2 rom and it seems to work fine!
Thanks for the for the ideas! :cyclops:

hammadyi said:
have you tried rebooting into safe mode? And is your phone even compatible with the 64 GB card? look for the phone supported sd cards in your phone's specs
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rzr86 said:
probably if you format the card from windows you will have success but i am not sure
if you do it format it to fat32 system
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Formatting a 64GB card with any ROM will do the trick. Don't worry, it's compatible.
Happy to help.