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Just started getting "storage memory is critically low&

Hope somebody can give me a quick answer to this one.
I got up this morning to find that my MDA Pro is now reporting the "storage memory is critically low" error. Previous to this I'm *sure* it had at least 5Mb available. I've not installed anything (for weeks) so really can't understand it. What it has done in the meantime is synced my mail but all attachments are due to be soted on teh stoage card (but when checking the mail account settings there are currently 0k of attachments being stored).
I have soft-reset the device with no change in the storage space.
What I'd like to find is a utility that will tell me folder sizes so I can see what is being taken up where .... can't seem to find anything as yet that is free.
Any suggestions for software or any suggestions full stop?

Re: Just started getting "storage memory is critically
blueivy said:
Hope somebody can give me a quick answer to this one.
I got up this morning to find that my MDA Pro is now reporting the "storage memory is critically low" error. Previous to this I'm *sure* it had at least 5Mb available. I've not installed anything (for weeks) so really can't understand it. What it has done in the meantime is synced my mail but all attachments are due to be soted on teh stoage card (but when checking the mail account settings there are currently 0k of attachments being stored).
I have soft-reset the device with no change in the storage space.
What I'd like to find is a utility that will tell me folder sizes so I can see what is being taken up where .... can't seem to find anything as yet that is free.
Any suggestions for software or any suggestions full stop?
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...how about:
clearing the IE cache (cookies/history/files)
going through inbox/sent/deleted and emptying those folders from email/outlook/texts/mms
check my documents in particular my pictures/videos/music for anything you dont want.
other than that perhaps re-evaluate whats in your main memory and move to storage card. I think as a rule only programs that require today plugins or alter system activities (like notifications etc) need to be installed in main memory. For example in my main memory I have only installed: apreminder+, avantgo, check notifications, phonealarm, ps shutxp, smallmenuplus, spb weather, total commander.
......check notifications and total commander(TC) could go on storage card but i generally leave TC open. With all that installed and my 3MB avantgo account maxed out I still have about 22mb of storage memory free.
hope this helps.
matt

The application that you're looking for is WIMR (Where Is My RAM).
Extremely useful in these cases!

My G/F had this recently, we found a sound file that was 31Mb in size, she must have accidentally hit the sound recorder button and left it running. check for dodgy files on your device.

Where is all of my storage going?!?!?

I went to take a picture today with my 8125 and it said i only had 22 remaining.... i swear a few days ago it was well over 50. Im assuming the pictures get saved to the "storage" memory by default so i checked my memory and it says i only have 6.5 mb left. I have no clue how this is possible since i dont even have a lot of programs installed. here is what i have installed 3rd party:
tonaya weather to go
magic button
agile messenger
TCPMP with two plugins
TomTom w/ one voice
Not sure what this one is but : FdcSoft PPCContacts manager. (let mek now if i can delete this one)
along with that i have 13 full res pictures and the stock ones it came with. Im running aku2.3 if that has any affect...
like i said i just dont understand how i am using almost 40mb out of 47. and im not quite sure what program memory consists of but that is almost have full at around 22mb of 44mb. Thanks for the help

use activesync to delete some unneccessary sound files, and pics

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use activesync to delete some unneccessary sound files, and pics
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even if I do that it seems like it would only free up a few mb`s if that....it seems like something else is hogging my space.

DO not assume anything. Usually by default, items are stored to your Main Memory. Go in and check all your programs, change the default "save to" and clear cache and temp files.

eViL D: said:
DO not assume anything. Usually by default, items are stored to your Main Memory. Go in and check all your programs, change the default "save to" and clear cache and temp files.
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I can't say I understand...could you please explain a little more please. do all of the new programs I install go to storage memory or program? I'm just confsed on what to clear out

well i posted this topic earlier today and i said that i had around 6mb of free storage space. I just went to install opera and it said my storage space was down to 2mb! I havnt installed anything or taken any pictures since i started this topic and i lost 4mb of storage already. How is this happening?? I did 2 soft resets and my storage memory never went up. Im really confused as to how this thing is eating my storage memory without me doing anything. I had to delete agile messenger just to gain some space! Please help with this

Storage mem is where you install apps and where apps by default save their files (pictures, video's, temp files, IE cache, Word documents etc). When you use your cam to take pictures, they come in the mydocuments folder on your storage mem. To change this, you have to go into the options of all apps you use and change the default storage location for the files to SD card. For instance: in the camera app, go to the settings, options, general and change the location to storage card.
With file explorer you can search your device for these files, perhaps your pics are taking up so much space? You can also use the built-in search function in start-programs and search for files larger than 64 kb, that should show you the culprits.
Program Mem under WM5 is only used to run apps, not to store them. It wll gradually fill up since not all apps are properly closed, even with task managers. Soft-resetting will empty your program mem from these apps and free up your RAM.
Storage mem is ROM mem and will not be emptied by a soft reset. There must be a lot of files in your storage mem that take up the place, so find out which apps do that. perhaps you have been surfing and there are large temp files from IE on your device?

Thanks for the advice, that is pretty much the answer i needed. One more question though, where should i regularly look to delete files? I will change my picture save location to my stroage card but what are some places i should always be clearing out? Thanks
Edit: I think i may have found the main culprit....one i forgot i transfered a 6mb song for a ring tone and second i went to windows=profiles=guest=temp internet files and cleared all that out and now im up to 22mb of free storgage! Is there any way i can not have it save the temp files or something? Also, in the windows folder it has all of my sounds/ring tones and those same files are also in the Rings folder. It wont let me delete them out of the windows folder and i dont want to delete them out of the rings folder and have it not work. What should i do?

You can run the search function in start-programs regularly if your storage mem goes down to fast for your liking to see large files that hog your storage mem (like files and frames in your temp folder that you downloaded or some app dumped there).
To clear out the IE cache, start IE, tap menu-options-memory and click the buttons delete history and delete files.
I have no idea which other locations to check, I only applied the camera option and clear out the IE cache once in a while (f I remember to). I have lots of apps installed in storage mem and still approx 15 MB free, so freeing up space has never been an issue for me.
good luck with it!
PS judging on your installed apps, I have no idea what can hog your storage so extremely. Perhaps the weather app is saving all downloaded data somewhere on main? I presume that your TT maps are on storage card (they are too big for intenal strage anyway)
PPS AFAIK PPCContact Manager helps you to select all your contacts in one go, for batch sending them trough BT to e.g. a BT carkit or other operations you want to carry out involving all contacts instead of one by one. tap and hold on a contact and you should see "Select all contacts" in the pop-up menu.

youve been a huge help koksie, i appreciate it. Any idea why my soungs are stored in the windows folder and under windows/rings? It wont let me delete them out of the windows folder but it will out of the rings folder. The only reason i dont want to delete them out of the rings folder is i feel if i do then i wont be able to select the deleted ones as ring tones even though they are still in my windows folder. Maybe i should just leave this as is...

Have a search for a free utility called Where Is My RAM? WIMR. As I can best recall this will run on WM5 too and will list your files in order of size. A real boon!

There's a program called Registry Wizard made by one of the geniuses here that will set your IE temp/cache files to be saved to the storage card. I use it and love it! It also has a lot of other tweaks for performance, annoyances, etc....
Do a search for it.
Hell....it's still on the first page when I do a search for "8125"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=39725&highlight=8125

I store all my songs on the storage mini SD card. Only my ringtones and mp3 I want to set as ringtone are in the windows/rings dir. All the songs I only use for listening are on my SD card. Use total Commander (freeware) to delete all the stuff you don't need in the windows dir. This app has more possibilities than the standard file explorer. Just save your songs you need for ringtones on your main mem (windows/rings) and move all other songs to your SD card. Sorry, kinda wasted right now, just got home at 4.30 AM after "some" drinking, so I might not make much sense, but I might be more clear later on after some sleep...

Storage Shortage....why???

My Wizard has been driving me crazy lately. Every couple of minutes I'm getting the "Storage is critically low" notification. It's telling me that I only have 0.48mb of 47.46mb!!!
Thing is that since I got my 2gig miniSD, I barely have anything in my main memory. Not many programs and any program that uses or creates extra files (eReader, media files, camera, etc) are set to use from / store on my sd card. I've:
- deleted all emails with attachments
- made sure all of my pics and IE files are on my storage card
Searching File Explorer shows me nothing that would give me an indication of what is taking up all of that space.
I lothe the idea of re-doing the pocket pc, but I don't really know what else to do! Any ideas?

Jaidnoire said:
My Wizard has been driving me crazy lately. Every couple of minutes I'm getting the "Storage is critically low" notification. It's telling me that I only have 0.48mb of 47.46mb!!!
Thing is that since I got my 2gig miniSD, I barely have anything in my main memory. Not many programs and any program that uses or creates extra files (eReader, media files, camera, etc) are set to use from / store on my sd card. I've:
- deleted all emails with attachments
- made sure all of my pics and IE files are on my storage card
Searching File Explorer shows me nothing that would give me an indication of what is taking up all of that space.
I lothe the idea of re-doing the pocket pc, but I don't really know what else to do! Any ideas?
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IE temp files? Ringtones? Which ROM are you using?
--M

I'm totally unfancy....I'm using the rom update that TMO made available - haven't really gotten into any of the great looking cooked roms on this site. I've done some reg hacks and have my ringtones and IE temp files on my SD card.
I just went thru and even deleted some unused system media files (sample sounds, a movie and templates)

Jaidnoire said:
I'm totally unfancy....I'm using the rom update that TMO made available - haven't really gotten into any of the great looking cooked roms on this site. I've done some reg hacks and have my ringtones and IE temp files on my SD card.
I just went thru and even deleted some unused system media files (sample sounds, a movie and templates)
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Truely weird then. Call TMo and ask them, maybe they'll give you a new phone
--M

Moving Mail to Storage Card & Other Mysteries!

Has anyone successfully managed to move the Inbox to the Storage Card yet?
The usual registry hacks that have worked on several previous devices don't seem to be working on the HD2.
It is quite happy to let me move attachments to the Storage Card through Inbox-Options but as soon as I hack the registry to set 'PropertyPath' to move the Inbox and reboot, I end up with a folder in main memory called 'Storage Card' and the actual Storage Card renamed 'Storage Card2'.
If memory serves, this can happen where the card is slow to be mounted, but I'm puzzled why it will happily send attachments to the card and then throw a hissy fit when I ask it to do the same with mail.
Was the issue of the speed of mounting the card ever solved anywhere else? Can't find it if it was!
Any help gratefully received.

Bump...
Has anyone tried moving their Inbox to the Storage Card? Someone must have, surely?
A simple yes it works/no it doesn't would be very helpful - at least I'd know whether it was worth trying to find a solution
Thanks in anticipation

Still keen to know whether anyone has successfully managed to move their mail store to the Storage Card.
Also, has anyone managed to turn off autolock? I don't want to have to enter a pin every time my device wakes. I have tried tweaks and reg hacks and neither seems to give me the behaviour I want/expect
I appreciate that there are differences between Manila and Sense, but surely the underlying registry entries can't be that different? Many of the expected keys exist but they are just ignored by the device - odd.
Or is it just me...?

unfortunately you are right.
I experience the same issues in trying to redirect pictures I shoot to storage card\My Documents\My Pictures.
Like you say there appear to be some differences here and there.
I'm looking but I hope somebody with some more knowledge finds it fast
DicE

Gustopher said:
It is quite happy to let me move attachments to the Storage Card through Inbox-Options
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Hi Gustopher, how and where did you do that? I am unable to find where to tell the HD2 to put attachments on the Storage Card even after days of searching for it, resulting in less and less storage on the device, even when all mail and messages have been removed.
Thanks in advance.
Crazy...
Edit : O.k. just found it . . . . . . duh, what a good night rest can do for ya.

Another week's worth of XDA brains on this since first posting, so worth a revist:
Has anyone managed to get their mail onto the storage card?
The few who have responded so far seem to see the same issues as I did, but is this the case across the board?
If there is indeed a problem, does anyone have any bright ideas how we can fix this?
(Or is everyone too busy saying how much they love/hate the HD2 and how they are going to shag it/return it??)

Hi
Given the small amount of storage memory this is an important issue. I haven't tried it but was going to use Sktools to do it. Will try later. Hope it an be resolved.
Paul

I am pretty sure you won't get any joy through SKTools - I have already responded to someone else who'd tried it and wondered why they had a renamed Storage Card.
I just had a go through Memmaid - I was also looking at the possibility of changing some startup items to give the card a chance to load - but wound up having to hard reset.
It's a bugger, to be sure. I am increasingly convinced that the card is slow to load, but what to do about it...?

I would also like some assistance in getting this resolved. Has anyone been successful here??

here...
Find the Email icon in the main start menu (or it may be in a subfolder depending on your rom). Open it and the 'select an account' screen will open. Hit MENU, OPTIONS, go across to the STORAGE tab and tick the box that says 'When available, use the storage card to store attachments.'
After a loading icon all attachments existing and in the future will be stored on the card. You will notice an increase in available memory on the device immediately.
I assume this is what you meant, if not I don't know the solution!

i have an idea to a solution
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=641930

leoni1980 said:
Find the Email icon in the main start menu (or it may be in a subfolder depending on your rom). Open it and the 'select an account' screen will open. Hit MENU, OPTIONS, go across to the STORAGE tab and tick the box that says 'When available, use the storage card to store attachments.'
After a loading icon all attachments existing and in the future will be stored on the card. You will notice an increase in available memory on the device immediately.
I assume this is what you meant, if not I don't know the solution!
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This isn't the preferred method because it creates a folder with an encrypted name. Also, it does not move the mail, just the attachments. But, it's better than nothing.
Generally, I want to save the mail and attachment in my desired path on the SD card.
As the OP stated, all the old methods don't work.

I addressed this problem in this thread, due to the order the hardware starts up after a reset i doubt you will find a solution to this problem without rewriting the email software not to start untill the SDcard has been powered/detected

Htc 2 internal memory !!

Hi there. Just wondering if anyone has a solution to resolving my internal memory situation, my phone keeps telling that the internal memory in critically low, I've deletes all my messages, most of my pictures bar the odd few that were sent to me from some hot chick, and I mean really hot!! sorry as I was saying, I deleted almost everything and I still keep on getting this message popping up. Does anyone know what I need to do, and also would it be advisable to save my message and everything else to the SD card automatically once it's sorted?
Cheers

try ClearTemp,
if you want some insight into storage load, try MemMaid - it has nice 'Storage usage' tab, to quote:
See where your storage memory is consumed, explore those directories using the system file explorer (or your own custom explorer) or compare the directories size using MemMaid's charts
(app is commercial, but this feature should work on trial version)

Take a look at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
65. + 67 are two hints off the top of my head.

Go to My Device\Application Data\HTC\HTC Album and delete the contents of the folder and the Cache folder. You can get 20 meg + in there quite easily.
If you don't use WM default ringtones you can delete My Device\Windows\Rings that will save you 6 meg.
My Device\My Documents\My Wallpapers will save you 3 meg.
And using Clear Temp is a very good idea, make sure all of your photos are being saved on the SD card.
Installing programs to your SD card also, some will by default save to the system device like some of the HD2 games.
You can also just force-delete some of the programs on your HD2 that you don't use by going to My Device\Program Files, taking out the ones that are installed by default with your networks ROM is a good idea.
And if you haven't already, flashing a custom ROM will reduce your OS's footprint even further, I can get ~165 meg of free storage from Energy ROMs following the steps above after flashing a new ROM, that's only ~35 meg of memory used by the system, instead of ~60 meg from your network providers ROM.