Help Internal Memory very Low

[darkurza]

So I've noticed that i only have about 30 Mb of internal memory left. I read on Wikipedia that the default Desire comes with 150. I did some math and calculated that the maximum amount of memory all my apps combined should only be about 90 (we'll assume 100). What could have happened to the other 50 Mb?

Also, side question, what was HTC thinking with only 150 Mb available for Apps considering all the games that surfaced.

Any help or ideas or similar findings would be appreciated.
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[kejlyCZ]

If the Desire has 150MB in virgin state, your applications occupy 100MB and 30MBs is free, you're missing just for some 20MB. Internal applications also use internal phone storage (SMS, emails, contacts, calllogs, browser cache, Market cache), try to delete some caches first, it can free up few MB.

The phones are getting better with every model, it's called progress (or marketing - producing the same phone, just with different name and little bit more memory every 6 months My old HTC Dream also had just some 90MBs user available space, my Blade already has 310MB. Fortunately most huge apps can be installed to SD card, so mostly it's enough to have some 50MB left on device.

Delete cache : Settings / Applications / Manage applications, select All applications and look for Market or Browser, click it and delete cache

 

[Hadron]

That 148MB has to hold all of your installed apps, plus data from all apps (user installed and system), plus other system files used by the java virtual machine. So any temporary files used by apps (application caches), browser histories, phonebook, everything facebook has stored, etc, are all in there.

A cache cleaning utility, such as 1Tap Cleaner, will show you how much each app's cache is using and let you clear all of these temporary files. Then check which apps are using large amounts of data - for example, if your phonebook ("Contacts Storage") is a couple of MB that's OK, but sometimes that can get filled with large numbers of duplicates and become very large. Social networking apps can collect a lot of data too. Just look to see which are using a lot of data, and decide whether that's reasonable and necessary. If you are running Froyo, just enter the applications menu, manage applications, and then hit the menu button and sort apps by data size (it actually works better in Froyo than in Gingerbread).

And no, I don't know why they thought it was enough. There are ways of solving it, but you need to be rooted to use the most effective ones.

 

[SUroot]

 

[darkurza]

Thanks for the tips. I did that and it freed up about 10 or so. And yeah, rooting would solve it by removing the apps I never use like Twitter or News but I really don't want to do that until my warranty expires. Am overseas right now and if it broke down, then i'm without a phone for a long time.

 

[spile]

Check that your contacts are not taking an unusually large amount of space (Facebook/contacts bug)

 

[kejlyCZ]

Rooting doesn't help much, because all useless apps, like Twitter or Facobook, are placed in different partition /system. So if you remove them, it will not free more space in user available partition /data.

 

[Usta]

Rooting doesn't help much, because all useless apps, like Twitter or Facobook, are placed in different partition /system. So if you remove them, it will not free more space in user available partition /data.

Rooting will open the way to gain extra space for internal storage.
The most popular one is to use A2SD+ (see the Guide in Rooting Forum sticky) to create an extra partition on SD card and move certain amount of applications data there. A more advanced approaches involve, re-partitioning the internal memory to allocate more space to /data partition (where the apps are installed) in the expense of /system partition. More info/discussions in Rooting forum section.