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All apps on SD Card but still no memory?

Hi guys,
This is my first thread in here so I apologize in advance for the noob question.
Ok, like the topic says I have completely run out of space on the phones rom. I keep getting the memory warning pop-up followed by the red SD card graphic.
My phone is rooted and all my apps were moved on the SD Card through Titanium Backup. I have even removed a few bloatware programs.
I have only 50 mb left and no apps will update unless they're a small file size. All I keep getting is the stupid red triangle.
Anything I can do to clear some space?
I have read the countless threads about the memory issues on this phone, but nothing was really specifically mentioned with my problem.
Thanks again for the help!
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In Titanium Backup clear the Davilik (sp) cache on the phone that may free up some space. After removing a bunch of bloat and moving things to the card I freed up 40 or so megs internally to give me 133 free right now.

The author of this is correct.
I experienced it last night. I removed some apps and cleared some space.
It's ridiculous. The warning only starts when you have less than 50mb of space left. I tried to install a 700kb app and it failed.... Insufficient space.
REALLY? What is the 50mb for then? Swap?

Thanks guys for the response!
I have tried clearing the Dalvik Cache but there isn't anything to clear.
It has me stumpted. When I bought the phone I had a little more space available. Now, even with every app on the sd card, and bloat ware deleted, I'm out of space. Odd as hell.
What does everyone have for available space? I'm at 40.5 mb right now.
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After zero-byte-ing the two fota files and moving a lot of stuff user-installed apps to the SD card using the pm setInstallLocation trick, I'm at 214/514 MB used, with 301 MB free (stock ROM).

Ok, so far for an update:
I've downloaded aCCleaner attempting to clean up some cache. Before the clean I had 45.8 mb free. After the clean I had 46.8 mb free. 1 whoping mb was cleared. So, it cannot be program cache hogging up my precious mb's.
I'm running out of ideas.
To the user above, I have all my programs installed on the SD card already. It doesn't seem like that 0 trick does anything other than allow the apps to be installed on an SD card without root access. So it wouldn't be beneficial to me
I'm still confused about this. Technically, with all my apps on the SD card and program cache cleared, shouldn't my available mb's be very similar to stock levels? Granted the only thing taking up space should be text messages and my gmail in boxes.
WTF. Frustrating. Tired of looking at the red triangles and red sd card.
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Seanathan said:
Ok, so far for an update:
I've downloaded aCCleaner attempting to clean up some cache. Before the clean I had 45.8 mb free. After the clean I had 46.8 mb free. 1 whoping mb was cleared. So, it cannot be program cache hogging up my precious mb's.
I'm running out of ideas.
To the user above, I have all my programs installed on the SD card already. It doesn't seem like that 0 trick does anything other than allow the apps to be installed on an SD card without root access. So it wouldn't be beneficial to me
I'm still confused about this. Technically, with all my apps on the SD card and program cache cleared, shouldn't my available mb's be very similar to stock levels? Granted the only thing taking up space should be text messages and my gmail in boxes.
WTF. Frustrating. Tired of looking at the red triangles and red sd card.
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I dunno how the heck you don't have anymore memory left. But if your really wanted to get that space back. I suggest using Odin and flashing aloneinshadow's Deodexed KB5 Enhanced v2.0 OR download the "fota.zip and extract the files and use root explorer and moving the 2 files and replacing the 2 fota files in the data/fota directory. You'll get about 300mb back.
Here's the link to the fota.zip file and also the TAR for flashing the stock ROM minus the bloat. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12153961&postcount=1
You can also reinstall the bloatware you want afterwards.
Here is the guide on how to use Odin http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1001759

Yeah man idk what you're doing.. the fota trick leaves me with 379mb of free space...
Seanathan said:
Ok, so far for an update:
I've downloaded aCCleaner attempting to clean up some cache. Before the clean I had 45.8 mb free. After the clean I had 46.8 mb free. 1 whoping mb was cleared. So, it cannot be program cache hogging up my precious mb's.
I'm running out of ideas.
To the user above, I have all my programs installed on the SD card already. It doesn't seem like that 0 trick does anything other than allow the apps to be installed on an SD card without root access. So it wouldn't be beneficial to me
I'm still confused about this. Technically, with all my apps on the SD card and program cache cleared, shouldn't my available mb's be very similar to stock levels? Granted the only thing taking up space should be text messages and my gmail in boxes.
WTF. Frustrating. Tired of looking at the red triangles and red sd card.
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Sweet! Thanks!
I'm going to have to try that fota trick. Before I do that I'm going to try to explore the main directory and make sure all the programs are in fact on the SD card.
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I just flashed to the custom rom listed above (worked perfect), also put fota files in /data/fota on sd card. After all is said and done, I lost TouchWiz, (which I love) and my memory is still at 53 mb! It kept all my apps and data, which I was surprised... but I did this only to free up internal memory. Did I do anything wrong or any guesses as to why my memory is still so low? Thans.

Got TouchWiz back (just had to choose that default instead of launcher duh) and now memory has gone up to 109 mb free, which is better, but still I was looking for 200+...

Here is my newest issue- two things I absolutely loved on the S4G were Program Monitor and Task Manager. Both are now gone (must have gone away with the bloatware). In Titanium Backup the two (along with all the other bloatware) are listed, but with a line through them. There is no way to restore these backups with lines through them. My second thought was to simply reinstall the apk, but when I do this all the phone says is 'Application Cannot Be Installed'. Any ideas on how to get these back? Thanks.

goalyguy33 said:
Here is my newest issue- two things I absolutely loved on the S4G were Program Monitor and Task Manager. Both are now gone (must have gone away with the bloatware). In Titanium Backup the two (along with all the other bloatware) are listed, but with a line through them. There is no way to restore these backups with lines through them. My second thought was to simply reinstall the apk, but when I do this all the phone says is 'Application Cannot Be Installed'. Any ideas on how to get these back? Thanks.
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New rom being posted. V2.1. Has those 2 apps back plus extra and bugfixes.

Update:
I did the fota mod and WOW! Went from 33.1 mb to 290 mb!!
Amazing.
So, what does the fota files do anyway? Anyone know?
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Seanathan said:
Update:
I did the fota mod and WOW! Went from 33.1 mb to 290 mb!!
Amazing.
So, what does the fota files do anyway? Anyone know?
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FOTA = Firmware Over The Air

Seanathan said:
Update:
I did the fota mod and WOW! Went from 33.1 mb to 290 mb!!
Amazing.
So, what does the fota files do anyway? Anyone know?
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how do you do the fota mod

schron said:
how do you do the fota mod
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search in the development section for "fota fix", or look for the app in the market.

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

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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?

Low Disk Space Issue

Today, I tried installing an app and got an error message with no specifics. I looked in the /system/data folder and found that it was low on space. It says 1MB of 258MB free. I uninstalled a few apps and was able to install the app I wanted.
So, my question is how do I solve this problem for the long run.
I have Android 2.2 stock, rooted.

that doesn't sound right at all. the /system partition in small and it's in that range because it only requires there to be room for the rom which should be read only and never changes, there is very little extra room on the /system partition stock but that doesn't matter because you dont install new apps here to begin with and app data is stored in /data/data while apps go in /data/app.
the /data partition is 1gb or so and very hard to fill with apps, you can also move apps to the 14gb internal sd storage.
i dont know why you have a /system/data folder, i haven't run froyo in a while but that sounds wrong. i don't know why you are still on froyo but you should have no issues installing apps based on storage. there is a bug that was giving that error because of some settings in the rom that didn't agree with certain versions of the market though....

Sorry, I didn't provide correct info. I intended to say /system/app folder. It has APK files for all the apps. I also noticed that to install an app, I could just place it in that directory and it would be installed.
Any other questions/insights? I need HDMI and Bluetooth, hence no custom ROMs for me. I did install GB but found it to be little unstable. Has there bee. Any progress on this in recent times?

There's several ron's with bt & hdmi
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isaiahe97 said:
There's several ron's with bt & hdmi
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Thanks, I got ETHEREAL from jscott and works superb. I got back to custom ROMS, had never thought I will, but here I am. Issue has been fixed and what a piece of crap the stock ROM really was.

At max storage capacity after installing CM10

I was looking through the folders to try and see which one was taking up all of my space, found the Samsung folder was at about 11 gigs but the three sub folders are nearly empty. The sub folders are just images, videos and music so I'm assuming that it's OK to delete this folder but unwanted to make sure that I wasn't missing something first. (everything I load besides apps goes onto my external SD card)
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Dmoser2113 said:
I was looking through the folders to try and see which one was taking up all of my space, found the Samsung folder was at about 11 gigs but the three sub folders are nearly empty. The sub folders are just images, videos and music so I'm assuming that it's OK to delete this folder but unwanted to make sure that I wasn't missing something first. (everything I load besides apps goes onto my external SD card)
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I just flashed cm 10.2 and I'm only showing 4gb internal memory with about .5gb avail. I don't know where my storage went either. Used SD analyst and it doesn't add up to 4gb. Wondering what happened to the other 4gb. Any ideas?

raybudd said:
I just flashed cm 10.2 and I'm only showing 4gb internal memory with about .5gb avail. I don't know where my storage went either. Used SD analyst and it doesn't add up to 4gb. Wondering what happened to the other 4gb. Any ideas?
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That happened to me too... The problem was that cm10.2 rom saves data to /sdcard not /sdcard0, so the files in /sdcard0 just stays there.... You can't delete the files inside because you can't access them. You need to flash the previous rom, and delete all files in /sdcard0, and reflash cm 10.2.

So does that mean a previous version of cm or whatever rom I had installed before cm10?
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Dmoser2113 said:
So does that mean a previous version of cm or whatever rom I had installed before cm10?
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I think they are the same thing. Create a folder in in sdcard and you will see it in Sdcard0. Your 8gb of storage is 2gb for ROM, 2g apps and apps/data and 4gb storage.

thats weird
emm try to stay away from CM 10.2 , android 4.3 is not stable yet !
try CM 10.1 or a stable rom.. i advice you : slimrom build.8-OFFICIAL :good:

Internal storage moved

So as the subject says, somehow my internal storage moved to a different location in my phone. It moved from storage/emulated/0 to data/media/0 somehow. I don't know how but now my apps and file managers are unable to access my internal storage and I am unable to download anything from my browser. My nexus 5 is rooted with Android 6.0 and has experimentalx kernel with xposed. Other than that, my nexus 5 is stock. I tried using root browser and solid browser to move my internal storage back to the correct place but that just gives me an error. I also tried using Android commander to move my storage using my pc but it's giving me permission denied. So I don't know what to do. Any help will be appreciated thank you
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shogun656 said:
So as the subject says, somehow my internal storage moved to a different location in my phone. It moved from storage/emulated/0 to data/media/0 somehow. I don't know how but now my apps and file managers are unable to access my internal storage and I am unable to download anything from my browser. My nexus 5 is rooted with Android 6.0 and has experimentalx kernel with xposed. Other than that, my nexus 5 is stock. I tried using root browser and solid browser to move my internal storage back to the correct place but that just gives me an error. I also tried using Android commander to move my storage using my pc but it's giving me permission denied. So I don't know what to do. Any help will be appreciated thank you
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