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Help HTC Sensation unexploited memory

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Dear Android users !

I own an HTC Sensation smart phone running an Android V4.0.3 OS. I have a few question about the phone´s memory capacity.

First of all, if the phone has for instance 150 MB free memory, apps much smaller than that may still be impossible to install, due to lack of memory. Why is that, and can it be changed ?

I have, off course, cleared some of the phone´s internal memory, to make space for updating apps, and installing new ones, and also moved some apps to the 32 GB SD card in the phone, but at some point the phone becomes unable to move more apps to the SD card, even when the card has about 27 GB free space.

Why is that, and can it be changed or do I simply have to uninstall apps, and reinstall them using the SD card memory ? Is it even possible to select where to install apps, internal memory or SD card ?

I do hope someone can help.

Thanks in advance.
 
According to HTC, that phone came with 1G Storage, 768M RAM, and Android 2.3.
It is time to get a new phone.
 
You could root it and uninstall any HTC/carrier bloatware to free some space. You could try a custom ROM if you root possibly saving more space. The Sensation was my first Android and first I rooted. It never let me down but my son would tell you they dont like being submerged in water
 
El Presidente said:
Or if you can't afford to replace it...

There is no way to force apps to install on the SD Card unfortunately, that option was removed in 4.0, you can't move stuff either.

What app is it you're trying to install? Try sideloading from here: http://www.apkmirror.com/
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If it came with 2.3 (GB), then Jack should still be able to install apps to the SD card, no? (I can't imagine that it's running 4.0 at this point).

Pugs1957 said:
It never let me down but my son would tell you they dont like being submerged in water
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For me, it's been my daughter (N5, last year) and then my wife (N5, a few months back). My daugther's N5 is a test device now (99.996% works fine :p) and my wife's seems pretty-much unscathed :).
 
The thing is, Android requires some internal storage to be kept free as working space. It seems to be typically about 200 MB these days, though in the earlier days it used to be 10% of the internal storage (some phones, not much older than yours, didn't even have 200 MB in total - I know because I owned one!). Not certain what the limit would be for that handset and OS version, but the order of magnitude you quote in your example (150MB) sounds plausible. If installing an app would take your internal space below that minimum, the OS will refuse to install it (which includes updates).

Moving apps to SD (assuming, from your first post, that you still have that option) was always a limited operation: only some apps could be moved, only part of the app was moved and app data always remained in internal storage. So the reason you can't move more is likely to be just that you've moved all of the apps that allow it, and even when you move them they still take up some internal storage (just a bit less).

Your options are basically to clear some space or to root the phone. The latter would not fix this by itself, but is a required first step for further modifications that allow you to move more stuff to SD (e.g. partitioning the card and using an init.d script or an app like Link2SD to move apps or data to the new partition). I'd advise making sure you know what is involved and whether you are happy with it before making a decision on that.
 
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