I have a 2G SD card so put most apps on that. How can I free up some of the Internal Memory to allocate it to running apps instead of storage? . Already hit a problemS in trying to take a quick snap, but has to free up memory before it ran, thius the moment was lost !!!!
XDA-BOJ said:
I have a 2G SD card so put most apps on that. How can I free up some of the Internal Memory to allocate it to running apps instead of storage? . Already hit a problemS in trying to take a quick snap, but has to free up memory before it ran, thius the moment was lost !!!!
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have you got X-Button set to actually close programs?
Start -> Settings -> System -> X-Button
Select "Enable the "X" button to end running programs"
Another thing to check is that you are saving Pics/Vids to Storage Card rather than My Documents on the Phone Memory.
Hope this Helps
To free up more RAM memory, after closing all running programs, it is also useful execute the free application Oxios Hibernate.
luigug said:
To free up more ROM memory, after closing all running programs, it is also useful execute the free application Oxios Hibernate.
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Sorry if stupid question, but what does that do?
After a soft reset we have the maximum size of available ram memory.
When we close all running programs the size of ram free is smaller than maximum.
Hibernate or other similar application enable you to unlock further ram memory not in use and, therefore, to obtain a size near the maximum.
mugglesquop said:
have you got X-Button set to actually close programs?
Start -> Settings -> System -> X-Button
Select "Enable the "X" button to end running programs"
Another thing to check is that you are saving Pics/Vids to Storage Card rather than My Documents on the Phone Memory.
Hope this Helps
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if you are using wm6 just enable X button
Start -> Settings -> System -> Task -> Enable X-Button
if you are using wm5 download X button from wiki xda-developers and Start -> Settings -> System -> Task -> Enable X-Button
by the way you will still need need to soft reset ur device once in a while say once a week
I tried to install something earlier and got an error about the amount of storage available.
so I checked.
Storage
Total 181.60
In Use 159.53!!!!
Free 22.07
Program
Total 336.97
In Use 163.13
Free 173.84
I've checked for large files using storage memory and they total less than 20MB...so what the hell is using all my storage mem??
I wonder if it's all being used up in like cache or something, if you use the facebook albums feature I've seen a folder somewhere where it's storing the phtotos you view I think.
Im surprised there's no option to clear the cache of downloaded items etc even if this isnt the cause of your missing space.
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I tried to install something earlier and got an error about the amount of storage available.
so I checked.
Storage
Total 181.60
In Use 159.53!!!!
Free 22.07
Program
Total 336.97
In Use 163.13
Free 173.84
I've checked for large files using storage memory and they total less than 20MB...so what the hell is using all my storage mem??
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I had the same thing happen to me. Check your "my documents" folder. Somehow my storage card documents got copied over to the internal storage. This was not something I did. It just happened.
nope, checked the my documents folder. nothing much in there.
I can't understand what is taking up the storage space
perhaps I've found it.....I have activesync sync'd to my exchange at work, so perhaps all my emails are taking the space. All I kow id I never had this problem with my HD...I always had lots of storage available
if you haven't done too many tweaks...then a hard reset is your best friend.
I noticed a chunk of memory disappearing today and looked into it with MemMaid - I think my Albums cache (under Application Data-HTC-HTC Album-Cache) seems to have bloated in size after my browsing some pictures - there is 27mb of data in there, all with today's date. You wouldn't care if the device wasn't tight for memory in the fist place, but what the hell is the point of an album cache that's a good percentage of the size of the original files!
Two other things could also have a bearing:
Mail - unlikely, but depends on your settings
One Note files - again unlikely, but could be if you have it set to sync
so, I did some exploring and stuff..and still can't find where it has all gone
Total 190
Used 151
Left 39
Recycle Bin 4.1Mb
App Data 10Mb
Music 1Mb
My Doc 7.6Mb
Prog Files 40.7Mb
Other files 4.7Mb
makes a total of 68.1MB
I've checked for hidden files....none...
so somewhere there is 80MB of files that I can't find!!..
I don't really want to do a hard reset, but I might have to just to see what my memory is from stock. I can't believe I've lost that much though...
ok..forced to do the hard reset...
181.60 Total
64.75 in Use
116.84 Free
64 seems like a lot in use when I haven't even installed anything yet!
Opera Cache
Have you tried deleting your cache in Opera, if you use it? I was running very low on memory, deleted my browsing/download cache within Opera and freed up about 70MB of space! Must have been temporary downloads and stuff.
ok..forced to do the hard reset...
181.60 Total
64.75 in Use
116.84 Free
64 seems like a lot in use when I haven't even installed anything yet!
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You did not,but HTC did..................
Is there any solution to transfer temporary files and cache files locations to storage card? Some Opera registry settings maybe...
Yes, you can set the location of the cache via opera:config
Hi, can you expand on that a little please Gustopher? I wasn't aware that I could move the opera cache to the memory card? Can you point me the in the direction of where I could do that as I've looked around and can't find the option.
Thanks
No worries:
Open Opera
In the address bar enter 'opera:config' (nothing else, no quotes)
The Opera Preferences Editor should open
Scroll down to 'User Prefs' and click it
Scroll down to 'Cache Directory4' and edit it to read something like '\Storage Card\OperaCache' (doesn't matter what you call the folder on the Storage Card
Scroll down to the bottom of the 'User Prefs' section and click 'Save'
Confirm the prompt and you should be in business
You almost certainly will need to close and restart Opera, but I don't think you need a soft reset
Use a file explorer to check that Opera is writing to your directory
Hope this helps
Gustopher said:
No worries:
Open Opera
In the address bar enter 'opera:config' (nothing else, no quotes)
The Opera Preferences Editor should open
Scroll down to 'User Prefs' and click it
Scroll down to 'Cache Directory4' and edit it to read something like '\Storage Card\OperaCache' (doesn't matter what you call the folder on the Storage Card
Scroll down to the bottom of the 'User Prefs' section and click 'Save'
Confirm the prompt and you should be in business
You almost certainly will need to close and restart Opera, but I don't think you need a soft reset
Use a file explorer to check that Opera is writing to your directory
Hope this helps
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yes works.
thank you.
Thanks a lot Gustopher, that's working great! It might be an idea to re-direct other stuff to the storage card too, like emails/attachments etc.. if that's possible, to preserve phone storage space...
You can certainly redirect attachments - must be done through the Inbox settings though.
However, unless someone has found a way in the meantime, you appear not to be able to redirect mail using the registry tweaks in common circulation.
For reasons I haven't yet got to the bottom of, either the mail app is quick to load or the Storage Card is slow to load on the HD2. As a result, when the HD2 tries to find the mail folder on the Storage Card it can't as the physical Storage Card hasn't been mounted yet. It therefore creates a virtual version of the Storage Card by creating a folder on the device and naming it 'Storage Card'.
When the real Storage Card is mounted a few moments later, the device calls it 'Storage Card2' and all programmes previously installed on the Card no longer work
Yes, all very technical. When you say that you can re-direct attachments you mean physically selecting where you want to save a file once downloaded or is there If there of automatically saving downloads to a specific folder without having to select it yourself every time? I hope you're with me?!!
In the meantime, if a method of saving emails to storage card becomes available, be sure to post it here if you can. Thanks for your help.
Being picky, attachments and downloads aren't the same thing. I'm talking about stuff attached to emails - if you open it and save it off somewhere else, that's a different matter.
To have your email attachments saved to the Card, open Inbox, click Menu-Tools-Options and select the Storage tab at the bottom. Tick the options that says 'When available use this Storage Card...'
hi evry1. need help quickly! My X2 main memory is criticaly low and i cannot find any files sufficient to take up 200 MB,WTF? im pretty sure that its some kind of a internet cache cuz like 50 Mb were taken while i was on youtube.Someone help ( I use Opera Mobile 10)
it sucks
well that does kinda sucks, most efficient way is to back up what you need and hard restart. but a quick temporary fix is to do a soft restart or run clean ram. for future references, make sure you save all apps on your storage card (there is a setting for this in marketplace too) also if you use "notes" a lot, save them on your storage card. just do a long press and click "rename/move" and put it on your storage card.
clean ram link http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-cleanram.html
I would also try moving whole Opera 10 to Storage Card - then you just need to make a new link to Start Menu and everything works OK, tested =)
And use Schaps Advanced Config for to redirect temp & documents folders to storage card
My advice to install immediately two small programs:
Clear Temp and FastCleanup.
Both make a great job on clearing temp files.
Also good to look at "Error Report" folder in main memory
where appaently all the MMS data is saved.
Reinstalling all the software to the sd card is a good move.
Clean memory and all the cache etc. from all the browsers.
Remember all the downloads from Opera goes to /MyDocuments on main memory.
In my case everything is fine, the only thing which slowly takes away memory is SlideView - with each photo and video it creates thumbnails.....
+1 for Clear Temp
Hey guys, I recently updated to 2.3.4 found here yesterday:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1219407
Ever since, my phone has been saying:
"Low on space: Phone storage space is getting low."
I've deleted a bunch of apps and the notification will go away briefly only to return a few minutes later. What can I do?
Should I try installing this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1221972
Or is there something else I should do?
Thanks in advanced!
OH,OH,OH,OH,OH, I know the answer to this one. It happens to me all the time. My stock message app which you can't get rid of for any mms sms to work defaults to keeping attachments on phone storage. When that happens it moves it all to the phone storage and you get that message. I also found if your always trying new roms that the camera will default to phone storage too. Go change that all to sd card and then remove the pictures and attachments. Get a cache cleaner run that and you hopefully will be good to go. That is what I find works for me. Let me know how it goes.
You should check your data/data partition with root explorer or terminal emulator (I think the command is df -h data/data). Maybe watch your dialer and messaging storage too, go to settings>applications>manage applications and look through all your apps and check their data and cache. Delete whatever is using too much space.
I am running the one in your second link right now. No low space but I only loaded it up 6 or 8 hours ago. Move what ever apps you can to your SD card also
Htc jammed so much into the ota that it takes up about 240 ish of the 250 available memory so yea..you don't have that much memory lol
/droid3
had the same thing happen while running nils business gingersense ROM, but found an easy fix with my contacts storage
1. settings- sync- turn off sync temporarily
2. manage applications- clear data on Contacts Storage
3. settings- sync- recheck whatever you unchecked
4. let the phone do the work
fixed me right up
I started using a cache cleaner and it made a difference.
Im rooted though..