I posted this on another thread - but I wanted to make it wasn't buried and hopefully get some others having this problem to give this a try and let me know if my solution works for you too.
So, I was getting the "low on space" error message for a couple weeks now - but (like everyone else), my phone showed I had PLENTY of memory! It did't get annoying until things stopped working in the past couple days:
- updates wouldn't download
- new downloads wouldn't download
- Google Talk stopped working completely
- gmail wouldn't update my inbox or download new emails
- screen touch response was getting more flaky
among other things.
So, I tried all of the things mentioned here and on other similar threads to no avail. The problem didn't get any better in spite of my best efforts.
I went into my Application manager prefs and viewed them by size instead of A-Z. One of the larger ones was Flash, which I downloaded and update for not too long ago. On a whim, I decided to uninstall it and reboot (again). Guess what...
Problem is gone.
No more error message. All of the problems I had above are gone. Everything is working as it should - except for Flash of course.
I'm curious to see if others that are having similar problems would try this (deleting Flash) and seeing if you have the same results. I would like to know if it's really Flash causing the problem, or simply the deletion of one of the larger apps that's fixing it. Because if it's Flash, that's a big deal.
I cleared the data in my yahoo fantasy football app and the low space message is gone. We'll see how long that lasts.
has anyone spoken with Verizon tech about this?
I am getting the error AGAIN and this time I'm not having luck clearing it by just deleting apps.
I uninstalled 30mb's worth of apps and it's still there.
there was a thread a 1.5 months ago that was about this and i still think this is the cause of the error. The thread died out though with not much support but i was down to 40 MBs or so of that memory when i last saw the error. which makes more sense than throwing the error with 400+ MBs of room in phone memoryYesterday, I was installing some apps on my phone and the dreaded low memory notification appears. WTF, I still have over 500MB of 748MB phone memory available. Being rooted, I was able to look at the free space in the phone and discovered where the problem was. In their infinite wisdom, HTC decided to make the application data storage a separate flash memory (149MB not reported - mounted as /data/data) from the Phone memory (748MB reported as Phone memory under the SD & phone storage settings-mounted as /data). Once the applcation data free space falls below roughly 15MB, the notification shows up. The only solution I have found (for now) is to remove some of the apps that I don't use and have large amounts of data associated with them as reported in Manage Applications. The size if the app itself isn't the problem, it's the size of the data. Now to find a way to utilize some of that free phone memory for application data storage.
I'm fairly confident that this is the cause of the problem. Right now I am at just over 19MB free in the /data/data directory. When it gets below 15MB, I start seeing the notification (verified by creating dummy files to fill the directory). I have ideas to work around it, but haven't had time to try them, it may not be until the weekend before I can really work on it.there was a thread a 1.5 months ago that was about this and i still think this is the cause of the error. The thread died out though with not much support but i was down to 40 MBs or so of that memory when i last saw the error. which makes more sense than throwing the error with 400+ MBs of room in phone memory
I had this hit a few days ago and it drove me insane as it stops all email from coming through.like most people here I had a TON of room left on my phone and my SD card (over 90% free) and the phone memory was at 599 mb available.
I went through all of my apps and none of them were using much memory
I removed my email account from the HTC mail program and deleted google earth (even though I hadn't used it in months) and now the message is gone.
Makes no sense to me to be honest but it's extremely annoying.
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