Help New phone, no internal memory (Virgin)

[mewikime]

I bought my girlfriend a Wildfire S on Virgin Mobile two weeks ago on Black Friday, along with a new 8GB SD card.

Now she keeps getting popup messages that she has low internal memory, that she should delete her history, messages, etc, and her apps won't update because there is no room for them.

Last week she factory reset the phone to see if that would fix the issue, but it's doing the same thing now.

The apps she has downloaded are Amazon Appstore, App2SD Pro, Batterylife Widget, Best Buy App, Bubble Buster, Kmart, NetSpend, Photobucket, Target, and Soundhound Infinity.

Amazon Appstore, App2SD, Batterylife, NetSpend and Soundhound are on the phone, the rest are on the SD card. Also, the phone is stock, unrooted, etc, so it has all the bloatware that Virgin installed too. We transferred her photos and music over from her Optimus V to the new SD card, and all the other apps are installed on it ("all" being a grand total of 4 -- the phone won't let her download any more)

App2SD says her internal storage is 150mb, and that she currently has 17mb available. She still has 6GB free on the SD.

Her Optimus V had way more apps, including What to Expect, EasyTether, Barcode Scanner, Netflix, Fruit Ninja, LA County Library, Progressive and Carls Jr which are all pretty large, so it's a huge letdown that she can't install these.

Is this normal for the Wildfire S or does she have a faulty phone? If we have to exchange it we need to do it soon.

 

[agentc13]

The phone doesn't have a lot of internal memory space. Even using an app like apps2sd it doesn't move the whole app, just what it can. It doesn't matter how big the sd card is if the internal memory is low.

She can try clearing caches on the apps regularly, as well as making sure old SMS/MMS are deleted. If rooting is an option (i.e. something she or yourself want to do) then there is an app called link2sd that would greatly help. It moves almost everything from an app to your sd card (much more than the apps2sd does). I used it on my wife's optimus v and that fixed her issue.

Hopefully that helps. I think it is just a case of not having much internal memory to begin with. Also if you don't have enough internal memory left (which it looks like she is close to) she won't be able to receive SMS/MMS.

 

[InsaneDDay]

rooting the phone for the sole purpose of installing link2sd is completely worth it. i rooted my WS on day 1 due to the low internal memory, and i now have around 60 installed apps on it. my wife was dead set against hers being rooted until she got the dreaded update failed message due to low memory, so she caved in and let me do it to hers sp no more memory problems. link2sd is a pain to set up, but if you can get it working is totally worth the effort. i really enjoy my wildfire s, but the memory would have been a deal breaker for me without solutions.