Help Problem with "insufficient storage space"

[SouthernGuy85]

As the title says, my Galaxy S2 Epic 4G with Jelly Bean 4.1.2 will get that message "insufficient space on device". It does it when I go to update some apps. Even if it's less than 15 mb. I also if I install a new app and if it goes to the SD card because of low storage on the phone the same message comes up when I try to move it onto the phone storage. Also if it starts to get below 200 mb (where as after apps save data) I will get a pop up saying space is running out, even though I have between 195 and 200 mb of free space. What I don't get is that I have over 200 mb of free space on the phone storage, over 10 gb in the USB storage and over 7 gb of free space on my sd card.

I know I can put some apps on the sd card, but I feel no need since I have soo much room on the phone. I'd rather them all be on the phone storage since I read that if an app is put on the SD card it might not work correctly.

The only way I can by-pass that really is to clear the app data on an app that uses a lot of mb just for data. But, that's really annoying since I would have to open the app like it's newly installed and would have to reset everything like I had it.

So is there anyway I can fix this? Maybe lower the amount of space to make that pop up. Anyone know what I could do? Thanks

 

[Dngrsone]

You could delete a few apps you don't use anymore.

You could clear the cached data for several apps.

I am not familiar with Android OS, but I wouldn't doubt that there is a way to increase the 'phone' partition some, but that would require root access and some in-depth knowledge of Android and possibly Linux.

 

[iTzKPanda]

You can try this:
Mike's Mostly Tech blog - Fix running out of internal storage space on Android device