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Help Phone Storage is Full

Did the Link2SD last night, and yes indeed, I do have right at 100mg free on the phone's internal storage.

It was getting mighty close...
 
word of advice about moving apps to SD card on a rooted phone partition the SD card and use Link2SD,if you use Titanium backup to move your apps,the next time you have to power cycle the phone,you will lose apps,widgets, shortcuts,it is evil what will happen
 
lou61166 said:
if you use Titanium backup to move your apps,the next time you have to power cycle the phone,you will lose apps,widgets, shortcuts,it is evil what will happen
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I never lost apps or short cuts using Titanium backup, only widgets. The same thing will happen if you move a widget on an unrooted phone.
 
MacFett said:
I never lost apps or short cuts using Titanium backup, only widgets. The same thing will happen if you move a widget on an unrooted phone.
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Link2sd you lose nothing, phone has to be rooted and you have to duel partition,it works a hundred times better.maybe my issues was related to the ROM,
 
koopakid08 said:
I have noticed this on both my rooted phone and my brothers non rooted phone. I think that it is just due to the amount of apps I have on my SD card.
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Seeing how's your rooted,try sd speed increase, or something like it, that increase the read/write speeds of the sd card,it does help some.
 
anytime I install an app that makes the phone storage go down to 16MB, I get messages saying I have low phone storage...I can understand 10, maybe 8MB but 16?
 
And I regularly clean out my text messages but even after I do, I get messages saying something like "incoming message rejected due to low storage space". Did I miss a message or not?? If my friends text me and it got rejected, they would text again to make sure I got it but they don't.
 
musiciansapp said:
anytime I install an app that makes the phone storage go down to 16MB, I get messages saying I have low phone storage...I can understand 10, maybe 8MB but 16?
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Without either rooting and moving all but system Apps,you will have these issues the Rom space on the V is pretty pathetic.
 
Did you go through each app and manually clear data?

Browsers, especially, keep big chunks after you close them. Market does, too, so make sure your cache is cleared regularly, too.
 
Can someone please summarize what's been suggested for freeing up space if you do not want to root the phone? I'm getting lost among all the root-or-not-to-root posts.

My phone seems to start hollering when available memory is less than 20Mb. Like one PP mentioned, 20Mb should be plenty of space for texts to come and go (but obviously, it isn't).

I was doing good until a Google Maps update today. That seems to have stolen 5Mb!

Thank you.
 
xrae said:
Can someone please summarize what's been suggested for freeing up space if you do not want to root the phone? I'm getting lost among all the root-or-not-to-root posts.

My phone seems to start hollering when available memory is less than 20Mb. Like one PP mentioned, 20Mb should be plenty of space for texts to come and go (but obviously, it isn't).

I was doing good until a Google Maps update today. That seems to have stolen 5Mb!

Thank you.
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If you don't use Google Maps, uninstall the updates. When you go into the Market app, go to the Google Maps and untick the box for auto update. I did this for all of the default apps that I do not use that came with the phone. If yer not using them, then no point in keeping them updated. It'll save you a ton of space. ;)
 
NoNameFace said:
Instead of going through each app, install App2SD Free and use the Clear Cache option. It clears the cache for all of your apps in one shot. ;)
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Yes, you can clean the cache in one shot, but that doesn't clear the data, and I don't know of a one-shot data cleaner (or if I would even want one.)

I just went to google, googled CNN, went to the page for one story and exited to check.

The browser cached 700kb--but when I checked the data it had 1.04mb.
 
Adding: don't clear data out of apps you don't want things like passwords removed from, because that will do it.

But I don't have personal data in the browser and it still always has a good-sized chunk.

Settings -->applications --> Manage applications --> All.
 
Sorry about the freight train here, but it is easier right now to make a new post than edit...

OP, I resisted rooting for a long time and tried everything, including clearing the cache and data several times a day, and deleting apps right and left (which took away half the fun of the phone.)

If you remove all but the most necessary of apps, don't have a game that stores the data on your phone and clear out all the cubbyholes in the phone, you might do okay, but if you are like me and can't stop playing with the phone and fiddling around and checking out things one last time before you put it down, you would be better off reading about root now so you get a feel for it. I wouldn't have rooted if it hadn't been for the space issue, but I haven't regretted it, either.
 
I've been having space problems too. From what I read, removing the bloatware won't even help as it is in a different partition on this phone. (true?) I keep my caches cleared religiously, but still I hover around 17MB free... any less than that, and the phone starts to cry. (Everything is on the SD card that lets me move it to the SD card, of course.)

I AM rooted, but I have read the link2SD procedure and just don't want to go through it.

What to do?

Well, tonight I stumbled on a tip in another forum... tombstone files! Android keeps core dumps in /data/tombstones. I just deleted a single 17MB (!) tombstone file and finally have some breathing room.

- Root your Optimus V
- Install ConnetBot and fire it up
- Connect to the local session
- cd /data/tombstones
- ls -l (see any big tombstone files?)
- su (to switch to root)
- rm tombstone_xx (where xx is a number)

For all I know I just gave my phone a brain aneurism by deleting these core dumps. YMMV, caveat emptor, etc etc.
 
link2SD is simple and once you do it, you'll jump to 100Meg free and never look back... I've been downloading apps like crazy and I still have 62Meg free. I'm down to 53meg on my 2nd SD partition, though. So I may need a bigger SD card, so I'll now how to figure out how to migrate from one SD to another...
 
camplejo said:
link2SD is simple and once you do it, you'll jump to 100Meg free and never look back... I've been downloading apps like crazy and I still have 62Meg free. I'm down to 53meg on my 2nd SD partition, though. So I may need a bigger SD card, so I'll now how to figure out how to migrate from one SD to another...
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I agree the nice thing i only found a couple of apps that did not work right after moving them, otherwise hands down the best way to free up ROM.
 
Awesome app. Time consuming but TOTALY worth it. Thanks to everyone who posted.
LG OP V
running cleaned stock rom
 
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