Help Low internal storage afer KKat upgrade

[awilsmore]

INCORRECT HEADING: Meant, upgraded to Lollipop

A couple of days ago I upgraded my HTC D816x to Android 5.02 (Lollipop). I was then unable to install a largish new app; insufficient space in internal (not SD card) storage.

I looked around; I am not alone in this problem and others were given advice that did little. So far, me too.

Here is what I have done:
- Uninstalled seldom-used apps
- Done a factory reset and restored apps
- Moved all apps to SD card
- Cleared all caches

This has resulted in a trivial improvement.

Here are the current figures from Settings/Storage:

PHONE STORAGE
7.36GB/800GB
Apps - 2.96GB
Photos & videos - 10.43k
Other - 4.40GB
Available - 652MB

SD CARD
1.04/14.83BG

From Storage Truth app:
/system
size: 2264.5M
used: 1766.0M
free: 498.5M
/data
size: 4400.9M
used: 3652.2M
free: 748.8M

I have:
- No Facebook, Twitter or other "social media"
- No games
- No movies

I am guessing that Lollipop just simply uses a lot more space and there is no cure.
- Is this the case? Am I really super-limited in what I can now install?
- If it is, why are users not informed and given a choice?

 

[funkylogik]

I don't think it's the fact that the lollipop OS uses more space (the OS is in a separate partition from your apps) but lollipop uses a new runtime (android run time or "ART") which "compiles" (I think that's the right term but I'm not sure) your apps as they're installed instead of as you open them (when you updated, on the first boot you would have seen the message "optimising apps", that's what it was doing).
This uses more storage but makes apps open faster.
I'm afraid that's just the way it is with lollipop and you're right, you should really have been warned before taking the update

 

[EarlyMon]

The apps are compiled at the installation time - your terminology is right on.

 

[funkylogik]

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