Hi,
I have a rooted Galaxy S. I have almost 2 gigabytes for /data partition, and when I check free memory for example in Root explorer, there is 1,12 gigabytes free. However, when I tried to install Wind-up knight game from the market, I couldn't start download as it said I have no room for it. But root explorer says I do have. What is wrong? Doesn't market recognise that I've repartitioned the internal memory? Or what is it? I even moved some apps to SD, but it didn't help at all..
/datadata is where apps store information. If this space is full, you can't install apps; if there's no room at all, apps will force close if they try to write new data here. In Root Explorer, go to this folder—it will say the free space near the top. I'd check that first.
Of course, you said you already tried moving apps to the sd card, which would fix this problem. But keep in mind some games are 20+ MB, whereas lots of apps are <1 MB. If you need more space, simply uninstall apps or move them to the sd card.
Hopefully that works!
If you can't install apps from market , but can install from apk-s you should clear your cache from recovery (not dalvik cache). And clear market cache data from app manager.
Hope we solved your problem.
Something I realized: As I just translated the finnish error message to english, it doesn't tell enough about the problem. The real message is about "insufficient space". And I found out other users have had this same problem.. tried wiping the cache, dalvik cache and market application data, but it's no use..
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perttu.tuovinen said:
Something I realized: As I just translated the finnish error message to english, it doesn't tell enough about the problem. The real message is about "insufficient space". And I found out other users have had this same problem.. tried wiping the cache, dalvik cache and market application data, but it's no use..
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Maybe you should read the answers to the thread you posted about this problem. You know, considering that's probably why you posted this thread.
The only thread I posted questions about this problem to is THIS thread..?
And the only answers I've seen are doing those things I already did.
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didnt work
ppeterpp said:
If you can't install apps from market , but can install from apk-s you should clear your cache from recovery (not dalvik cache). And clear market cache data from app manager.
Hope we solved your problem.
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Unfortunately i have the same problem
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Error downloading "blablabla. There is insufficient space on the device.
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Stil have 1.8 GB.
Hope some one will be able to help me out this is anoying. (tryed already to downgrade market..... )
perttu.tuovinen said:
The only thread I posted questions about this problem to is THIS thread..?
And the only answers I've seen are doing those things I already did.
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Don't blame them. They probably didn't hang around XDA often enough to notice when this problem was first raised a year ago.
Here's the problem:
Wind up knight - size ~41 MB
I9000 Cache - Size ~39 MB
See the problem there? No matter what the hell you do, you can't download wind up knight from the market without modifying the cache size somehow. I remember someone posting a thread explaining how he managed to do a symlink for the cache, but there was quite a long time ago. When the I9000 was released, the market has an app size limit of about 25 MB. Over time this has been increased gradually and quite a number of people have expressed worries that one day the limit will eventually exceed the cache size. Well, it has happened now, and there's not a lot that we can do about it.
So you're saying that we have to live with this issue?
Edit: We can still solve this by downloading the APK's using the computer right?
deleted. posted in wrong section. my mistake
smiles.smiley said:
So you're saying that we have to live with this issue?
Edit: We can still solve this by downloading the APK's using the computer right?
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Yes, since the installation process does not use the cache partition.
Fox, please stop posting random crap just because you have no idea what's going on. You are not helping at all in any way.
As for solutions, well the MIUI rom seems to have a bigger cache size.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/27854-symlink-market-download/
A possible solution - I haven't tested this myself
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-941339.html
Specifically, this line of code:
Code:
su
mkdir /sdcard/tempcache
mount -o bind /sdcard/tempcache /cache
The last method looks promising.
Edit: Well guess what? It works! Blimey. That was easy. Plus since its temporary, everything goes back to the original state after a reboot, so you don't have to worry about breaking stuff (unlike symlinks).
All credits go to danieldmm
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Don't blame them. They probably didn't hang around XDA often enough to notice when this problem was first raised a year ago.
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snapper.fishes said:
Fox, please stop posting random crap just because you have no idea what's going on. You are not helping at all in any way.
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Oh, of course not. We know nothing, and you're the freakin' messiah. Right.
I've helped more people with similar issues than you can probably count to, buddy. It's not my fault the OP fails at providing accurate information to diagnose a problem, as surely I can't memorize the size of every download on the market, just to help him out. Leave the condescending attitude for people that can't, won't, or don't help others, not for people helping diagnose an issue.
And yes, the fix you posted works just fine. Not that anyone other than you would know, right? Please...
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Oh, of course not. We know nothing, and you're the freakin' messiah. Right.
I've helped more people with similar issues than you can probably count to, buddy. It's not my fault the OP fails at providing accurate information to diagnose a problem, as surely I can't memorize the size of every download on the market, just to help him out. Leave the condescending attitude for people that can't, won't, or don't help others, not for people helping diagnose an issue.
And yes, the fix you posted works just fine. Not that anyone other than you would know, right? Please...
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Hey, let me gloat over my success for a while would you?
To be fair, I think his post was clear enough. If you google around a bit the wind up knight download problem has appeared quite a few times.
But what Fox did was just to post whatever that he thinks is the problem instead of even trying to diagnose the situation. I have asked questions before and received too many non-relevant solutions that obviously wouldn't work. It gets a little frustration if it seems like people aren't even trying to listen to you.
Use semaphore kernel and enable 50 mb cache
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Hello everybody! A big question for a great job!
After a forceclose with bootloop and block written on Samsung than 5 minutes, the phone is rebooted! The memory in Aplication manager has grown sharply from 354MB to 1.0GB! :crying:
I searched on the forum, on the internet, with various applications, but I couldn't find these 650MB of junk stuff!
Any idea where they're hiding?? Thank you.
what is that? check for log files.. use sd maid
nokiamodeln91 said:
what is that? check for log files.. use sd maid
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Thanks!
I have to recreate the event. Because fc, when I tried to film in 1080p, has happened to 3 days ago and with SD Maid I couldn't locate it.
Thanks anyway for the advice! :good:
P.S. I remember that long ago, I read about this issue, and where were these junk files, but now I could not find the discussion. :cyclops:
Hey, looking for a bit of help here. Just yesterday, I updated from trickdroid 5.4 to 7.0. I followed the instructions on the website for upgrading to android 4.2.2, and everything seems to be working fine... except that my SD card is nearly out of space for some reason. Currently, windows is showing 7.31gb available out of 25.4 total space. The strange part is that none of the files contained within are using any of that space... in fact, when I select all of them and check the total amount of space they're using up, all the folders total to only 5 megabytes. MEGAbytes! No hidden folders, either.
I'm wondering if any of you know how I can get that space back? Would be wonderful.
Thanks in advance!
PS. I posted this in the Trickdroid thread as well. I searched around and I haven't found a solution to this one yet. If I missed something, feel free to call me names and point me in that direction.
EDIT: Formatted it. Works fine now. Commence mocking.
SlightlyChaotic said:
Hey, looking for a bit of help here. Just yesterday, I updated from trickdroid 5.4 to 7.0. I followed the instructions on the website for upgrading to android 4.2.2, and everything seems to be working fine... except that my SD card is nearly out of space for some reason. Currently, windows is showing 7.31gb available out of 25.4 total space. The strange part is that none of the files contained within are using any of that space... in fact, when I select all of them and check the total amount of space they're using up, all the folders total to only 5 megabytes. MEGAbytes! No hidden folders, either.
I'm wondering if any of you know how I can get that space back? Would be wonderful.
Thanks in advance!
PS. I posted this in the Trickdroid thread as well. I searched around and I haven't found a solution to this one yet. If I missed something, feel free to call me names and point me in that direction.
EDIT: Formatted it. Works fine now. Commence mocking.
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Hey there, noob here as well. I was/am having the same problem, except i have over 20 gigs of 'ghost' data (see image). How did you format it exactly? (sorry im really noob)
aplaceinspace said:
Hey there, noob here as well. I was/am having the same problem, except i have over 20 gigs of 'ghost' data (see image). How did you format it exactly? (sorry im really noob)
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I know it's been awhile, but I have the same issue on my wife's Note 2. Did you find a resolution?
So a month ago I had downloaded 3 pdf files from my Android Gmail and saved it in sd card. But a while ago I found that they no longer exist anywhere on my phone wtf. How did it get deleted? I didn't remove sd card directly and I've rebooted my phone twice in hope that those files would appear back but they didn't.
Is my phone compromised or what? How to know that
Bloodydroid said:
So a month ago I had downloaded 3 pdf files from my Android Gmail and saved it in sd card. But a while ago I found that they no longer exist anywhere on my phone wtf. How did it get deleted? I didn't remove sd card directly and I've rebooted my phone twice in hope that those files would appear back but they didn't.
Is my phone compromised or what? How to know that
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I know my lg has a feature called smart cleaner. And if im not careful it will delete downloaded files and apps that I have not touched for a while
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I know my lg has a feature called smart cleaner. And if im not careful it will delete downloaded files and apps that I have not touched for a while
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-->> This would more than likely be correct @Bloodydroid.
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-->> This would more than likely be correct @Bloodydroid.
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U sound like me and had this happen a time or 2 before u caught on to lgs trash stock apps
TheMadScientist said:
U sound like me and had this happen a time or 2 before u caught on to lgs trash stock apps
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This is why I make it a habit of not using stock cleaning applications baked into the operating system by any given OEM installing Android to Carrier specifications.
It's merely experience learned over time mayhap.
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-->> This would more than likely be correct @Bloodydroid.
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TheMadScientist said:
I know my lg has a feature called smart cleaner. And if im not careful it will delete downloaded files and apps that I have not touched for a while
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Linuxephus™ said:
This is why I make it a habit of not using stock cleaning applications baked into the operating system by any given OEM installing Android to Carrier specifications.
It's merely experience learned over time mayhap.
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Well guys. I have Redmi 4 (not note) Marshmallow. Few weeks ago it was auto rebooted and there was no phone update going on. That made me paranoid lol. I'd been opening these deleted pdfs files every now and then , so how could the stock cleaner delete them? My phone runs fast. No suspicious battery drainage, no odd photographs in my gallery. So my phone isn't compromised I guess.
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Well guys. I have Redmi 4 (not note) Marshmallow. Few weeks ago it was auto rebooted and there was no phone update going on. That made me paranoid lol. I'd been opening these deleted pdfs files every now and then , so how could the stock cleaner delete them? My phone runs fast. No suspicious battery drainage, no odd photographs in my gallery. So my phone isn't compromised I guess.
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That could *potentially* have been caused by the scheduled cleaning setting of the application in question.
How is everyone doing today?
Ok so I use the Device Care App all the time and recently I noticed that when I click on Memory and it says something like 800MB so i would tap Clear Now. What i noticed that after it is done if I go back and do it again instead it being lower than 800MB its higher, and it takes a few times going back and clearing the memory.
Does anyone have any ideas ?
Thank you all in advance.
Andr3w151 said:
How is everyone doing today?
Ok so I use the Device Care App all the time and recently I noticed that when I click on Memory and it says something like 800MB so i would tap Clear Now. What i noticed that after it is done if I go back and do it again instead it being lower than 800MB its higher, and it takes a few times going back and clearing the memory.
Does anyone have any ideas ?
Thank you all in advance.
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I don't know the "Device Care App" and am sorry that I can't contribute to your observation. Did you ever tried or considered to use
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