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Help "Low on space" phone/application storage notification

sdrawkcab25 said:
It's not really a bug, they made the partition that small on purpose (stupidly). The fix is getting a different model phone or rooting and using workarounds.
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I have a rooted phone. What are some options I can do with root to get around this? I would love to try other rooms but not sure which one would give me sense a 2.3.4.
 
hugobarb said:
I have a rooted phone. What are some options I can do with root to get around this? I would love to try other rooms but not sure which one would give me sense a 2.3.4.
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"Ng cache cleaner" (free cleaner of the partition) or "not enough space" (paid app that virtually enlarges the partition).

The roms Nils makes (business gingersense) have newer versions of sense (Sense versions are: 2.0/2.1/3.0/3.5).
 
sdrawkcab25 said:
"Ng cache cleaner" (free cleaner of the partition) or "not enough space" (paid app that virtually enlarges the partition).

The roms Nils makes (business gingersense) have newer versions of sense (Sense versions are: 2.0/2.1/3.0/3.5).
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Thank you so much. Do you have any of the links to Nils Roms with the newer version of ginger sense? I assume those are based on a 2.3 build.

Thanks again downloading those apps now.
 
Mine just started giving me that message. Been rooted ever since root came out. Seems the synced hotmail account and the Opera browser cache were the culprits so far. Time will tell.
 
PHone is Verizon, htc incredible. I thought this was fixed but learned it's a recurring bug. Had an emergency yesterday, needed to send text to someone about serious problem and got the message that text messages couldn't be sent because I was (AGAIN) low on space.

WHY DON"T THEY FIX THIS?????
I'm upset, it seems the only permanent fix is to root the phone and that is out of my comfort zone.

Why should I have to become a phone expert to fix my own phone? I have to break their rules in order to fix it myself?

It's all so frustrating.

From what I read it's a bug in the way the apps store data in a data/data folder. I have a huge amount of available space on the phone AND the card but it still says Low on Space.

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Can anyone verify that installing the Gingerbread update alleviates this Low On Space warning?

I've spent hours reading and am getting contradictions, some say yes, some say no. I have a headache.

As I understand it, once I upgrade to Gingerbread, rooting the phone becomes much more difficult and complicated, and will prevent me from doing so if I need to.
I'm not an advanced user, just a middle-aged lady trying to learn how to fix her phone.

I'd really like to know if it's safe to accept the update. And if not, can I permanently delete the nag alert?

Thanks for any help.
 
UnplugMe said:
Can anyone verify that installing the Gingerbread update alleviates this Low On Space warning?

I've spent hours reading and am getting contradictions, some say yes, some say no. I have a headache.

As I understand it, once I upgrade to Gingerbread, rooting the phone becomes much more difficult and complicated, and will prevent me from doing so if I need to.
I'm not an advanced user, just a middle-aged lady trying to learn how to fix her phone.

I'd really like to know if it's safe to accept the update. And if not, can I permanently delete the nag alert?

Thanks for any help.
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In my case it does not help. As of now I don't think you can root after gb so if you want to hang on to inc I'd recommend skip update and root now.
 
My solution to this problem is simple. My Father sends me over 6 to a dozen forwarded picture messages a day, and they tend to take up a large amount of storage space in this "Partition". So every time I got this message I would delete all his stupid pic messages, and the low on space message would go away. Only once or twice did it ever require a reboot to remedy the alert.
 
In researching the "low on space" error, I discovered this threadon the HTC site forum: http://community.htc.com/na/htc-forums/android/f/91/p/2795/60062.aspx

I have downloaded the file and it shows you the capacity and amount remaining in the /data/data file. This is clearly the problem.
 
If you have lots of contacts (I have over 400 in Phone and another 350 Facebook synced contacts) your phone contacts will take up 1/3 or more of the 150 MB in /data/data. Mine is at 48MB. Nothing you can do will reduce this unless you uninstall FB and remove Phone contacts. I did an experiment: I exported all contacts to SD (People menu) then deleted them all with Contact Remover. My /data/data space was still only 70Mb. and my contacts provider space was down to 12Mb. So I had 36MB in contacts alone, with 12Mb "fixed" overhead. Needless to say I am screwed for using this phoen as the master source for my contact info, which was my original plan when I went "smart".
 
I am doubtful anybody will have a solution, but here is the problem I am having. I used to occasionally get the "low space" error and I would move an app to the SD, or clear a cache, or uninstall an app I never used, and it would resolve itself.

After getting the Gingerbread update on Monday and another software update on Tuesday, I started getting the error again, and was able to make it go away with the same actions listed above.

Today, I am getting the error: "Phone storage is is getting low." I don't think this is talking about the "application data storage," because in the settings menu I see that I still have 46MB free out of the total 149MB available. The first couple of times I got the error, I would tap on the notification and it took me to a list of apps and it would show something like "250MB used, 498 free." That didn't seem low to me. Today, in the settings under phone memory it says total space 748MB, available space 0.00MB. When I tap on the low space notification, it is a little different, saying 741MB used, 7.4MB free. Those numbers have fluctuated a little today, but the free space actually seems to be getting lower when I clear a cache or uninstall an app!

I am still getting text messages, but the phone won't even let me take a picture with the camera because it says "Phone storage space is getting low." Nevermind the fact that I offloaded all my pictures and videos and my internal storage says 6.29GB of 6.6GB free. Apparently the lack of Phone Memory means I can't use the camera.

If I was confident that a factory reset would fix the problem, I guess I wouldn't mind doing that, even though it is a hassle to set up all my widgets and shortcuts again.

Any suggestions?
 
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