xXElit3snipesXx
Newbie
I really need help, I have 2 apps that take up not even a gigabite and no photos or videos, I cleared app cache and did all that stuff and still can't download a 4mg app... Help!
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Help No storage!?
- Thread starter xXElit3snipesXx
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Read this-
http://androidforums.com/threads/the-insufficient-storage-problem.1004573/
Download and install Storage Truth to see how much internal storage you actually have available-
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sa.storagetruth
It would also help to add more info about your device, such as mfr, model, Android version, claimed internal storage etc.
xXElit3snipesXx
Newbie
Well I CNY install the app, just tried and deleted my only 2 apps and Still can't get it, I have a HTC desire 626s and it has 8 gigs on it but about 7 is taken up by system, I have a SD card in to help with storage but it doesn't help that much...
IsaacGuti
Well-Known Member
That's too much storage being used by the system, my 626s says system is using 2.52GB.
Maybe you should do a factory reset.
xXElit3snipesXx
Newbie
Yea, maybe I will, thanks
xXElit3snipesXx
Newbie
I really don't want to restart my device please some help!!!
There is something wrong with your information. The system won't be taking 7GB. Can you give us more detail of your storage usage?
Something funky going on by the sounds of things. Sure that's a real HTC you've actually got there and not a knock-off, clone, replica, or whatever?
xXElit3snipesXx
Newbie
It's taking up ablution 4.50 of my 8 gigs which is still a lot.
The size of the /system partition is fixed. Really fixed. Can you post a copy of your storage information screen (if you still have the space for that)? The actual system partition really should be the same size as Isaac's.
This is why it would be ideal to install Storage Truth, since that gives us an unambiguous summary (different phone displays, trying to be "user friendly", often make it hard to interpret the real situation). But I understand that you aren't able to do that.
This is why it would be ideal to install Storage Truth, since that gives us an unambiguous summary (different phone displays, trying to be "user friendly", often make it hard to interpret the real situation). But I understand that you aren't able to do that.
xXElit3snipesXx
Newbie
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OK, so that number is "System and other", which explains my confusion. My phone lists 10.6GB under that heading, but my /system partition is only 1.9GB in size, and even adding all system related space (system cache plus the partitions that store bootloader, recovery, baseband and other low-level firmware) the total still only comes to 4.5 GB. So on my device that "System and other" contains about 6GB of "other".
(And yes, the implication of my device, which is a HTC One M7, using 4.5GB of its 32GB for system purposes is that an 8GB device is unlikely to have more than 4GB available even straight out of the box. Sorry, but that's the reality: 8GB just isn't much storage to start with when it has to include the system as well).
The problem is that "other" just means "anything that isn't apps, music, photos and stuff in the downloads folder". It could be files saved on the internal storage by apps. It could be apps' internal data (which don't move when you move apps to SD, and would also include data stored by system apps).
Your big problem is that you don't have enough internal space to install apps. You might say "there's 127MB free", but Android needs some working space for caches, so to protect the stability of the system it will refuse to install any more apps when the free space drops below some minimum, which is typically in the region of 200-500MB (depends on the device). So that's the sort of free space you'll need before you can install anything, no matter how small.
So, how to free space? Use a file browser and see whether your "internal sd card" (/sdcard, aka /storage/emulate/0) has folders left there by apps you have deleted. Go to Settings > Apps > All and "sort by size" - that will at least identify which apps are the big space users (i.e. the ones where you'll gain most by uninstalling or clearing data, though obviously you don't want to clear important data). If there are pre-installed apps which you don't use, and know you don't use, try "uninstall updates" for those (updates use your user space, and you can't move system apps to SD, so there's a potential saving here). If you are sure you don't need them then clear data for them and disable them (it should hopefully not let you disable anything that's really essential), but be careful not to assume that something you don't recognise/don't know what it's for is necessarily unimportant. It's all tedious, but it's all I can really suggest.
(And yes, the implication of my device, which is a HTC One M7, using 4.5GB of its 32GB for system purposes is that an 8GB device is unlikely to have more than 4GB available even straight out of the box. Sorry, but that's the reality: 8GB just isn't much storage to start with when it has to include the system as well).
The problem is that "other" just means "anything that isn't apps, music, photos and stuff in the downloads folder". It could be files saved on the internal storage by apps. It could be apps' internal data (which don't move when you move apps to SD, and would also include data stored by system apps).
Your big problem is that you don't have enough internal space to install apps. You might say "there's 127MB free", but Android needs some working space for caches, so to protect the stability of the system it will refuse to install any more apps when the free space drops below some minimum, which is typically in the region of 200-500MB (depends on the device). So that's the sort of free space you'll need before you can install anything, no matter how small.
So, how to free space? Use a file browser and see whether your "internal sd card" (/sdcard, aka /storage/emulate/0) has folders left there by apps you have deleted. Go to Settings > Apps > All and "sort by size" - that will at least identify which apps are the big space users (i.e. the ones where you'll gain most by uninstalling or clearing data, though obviously you don't want to clear important data). If there are pre-installed apps which you don't use, and know you don't use, try "uninstall updates" for those (updates use your user space, and you can't move system apps to SD, so there's a potential saving here). If you are sure you don't need them then clear data for them and disable them (it should hopefully not let you disable anything that's really essential), but be careful not to assume that something you don't recognise/don't know what it's for is necessarily unimportant. It's all tedious, but it's all I can really suggest.
xXElit3snipesXx
Newbie
Thank you so much!!!!!
xXElit3snipesXx
Newbie
Have no storage again and this notification at the top won't go away!!! It says no storage and I know that and it's pissing me off!Help !!