Well, I finally got so frustrated that I just defaulted it again. I have about 3.5 of the 8 GB free with it freshly reloaded. I then immediately installed the apps2sd app and told it to move everything to sd by default. I then loaded all my apps back and still have over 3 GB free. Hopefully it sticks past a day.
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Help Out of space. Need advice on ideas to get more internal storage
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androidmachine
Android Enthusiast
You are right. It's connecting as MTP so you aren't going to see the partitons. However, 2.6 GB for the OS and installed apps is not out of the ballpark. I have a 16 GB tablet and approximately 4 GB is taken up by the OS and recovery.
androidmachine
Android Enthusiast
Sorry about my last irrelevant post. I was done in by the second page and didn't see your last comment. I think you made a wise decision to start from scratch. At least now you know what everything is and where.
We it looks like it lasted two weeks. I. Out of space again. I've moved everything I can to SD. No updated from Google have installed. I now have 256 MB free. I can't get apps to download again. Looking at space analyzers, top directory is android at 53 MB, Waze at 22 MB, HTC Speak at 3 MB.... The folders get smaller and soon into the kilobytes. These sizes don't equal the 4GB storage that I'm out of. How do I clean it out?
This phone is so annoying. It's rooted. But with only the default google apps, if they update ota, it uses up all the internal storage so I can't install anything else. Everything else is programmed so when it installs, it auto moves to my 16 GB SD card. But if if the apps auto update, I won't be able to install one app afterwords.
Almost everyday, I have to open each app property for Google and HTC and uninstall updates. Then I open the app store and reselect the options to "do not auto update apps.". I don't know why I keep selecting that option. It obviously isn't stopping the auto updates... Or I'm not sure what's unchecking it.
Almost everyday, I have to open each app property for Google and HTC and uninstall updates. Then I open the app store and reselect the options to "do not auto update apps.". I don't know why I keep selecting that option. It obviously isn't stopping the auto updates... Or I'm not sure what's unchecking it.
androidmachine
Android Enthusiast
This is a puzzle for me. I have no more space than you, and I've got quite a few apps installed. I can't understand how you are maxing out the memory just by installing updates to the Google apps.
You can't stop the Google Play Store or Google Play Services from updating, but nothing else should update if you deselect auto updates (I've never seen a HTC app do tbis). Check you've not got auto updates on for the specific apps: select the app in the Play Store and then touch the little 3 dot button: that will give you a check box to auto update that app alone, so if that is ticked it would explain what you are seeing.
WarrantyVoider
Android Enthusiast
One possible solution to your problem is to use a partition on the SD card as a part of internal storage (specifically, as the data/userdata volume, mounted under /data). There are many hacks that can accomplish this. To make such hacks work well, you do need an SD card that has good random I/O performance though. If you decide to go this route, find an implementation compatible with your device that works for your use case. Like KOLIO said,
If Desire 610 is still on KK and you have a custom recovery installed, you can try my hack.
http://androidforums.com/threads/sd-hack-for-storage-expansion.908126/
Since I don't have your phone or even an HTC device, I can't fully support the device though. Know that any hack/mod/app that modifies the booting process has the potential to cause a boot loop. So before you try, make a backup and make sure you can fully restore the phone in case of any problem. Good luck.