I don't know what's going on, but my browser keeps getting larger (yesterday it was only 9mb). I've cleared caches, historyl etc. I tried moving caches to sd card (which works since it shows the files on my card) but nothing decreases it's size. Any idea what's up? Any programs I'm unaware of that builds up my cache?
have you gone in and cleared your downloads? press menu, more, downloads, menu, clear downloads. That might free up some room.
Sounds like the browser cache. When you go to websites it downloads the data and stores it ion the phone for faster browsing. Just go into settings->applications and click browser. Click clear data and you should be good. Alteratively if you rooted your phone you an run a script to copy caches to your sd card but thats a bit technical.
Thanks for the replies but I've tried both solutions and no dice.
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I am using the 2Gb SD card that came with the phone.
I have moved the Opera Cache to the storage card. The problem i am having is that when I clear the cache from Opera, it takes a very long time. After 2 hours of surfing, it took about 6 mins, the phone just sat there with the coloured circles spinning. I have read on these forums that the card that comes with is a class 2 card, and that class 6 is faster.
How much faster, and will it make a big difference.
Thanks
Since Opera creates a large amount of files, it'll always take a long time to flush the folder where the files are located.
I'm quite sure the class-specification addresses the transfer-rate and not the access-time.
So you could have a faster copy-rate, but deleting files would be as slow as now.
BTW: The same problem caused me to re-transfer the operacache back to flash-memory. The access-rates are much better there and so the process of deleting many files is faster.
Hi Dennis.
Thanks for the reply. I'll probably just move the cache back to the phone as well.
As long as you periodically delete the cache, you won't run into any storage problems.
Hi, how can i set the maximum space of the cache? And how can i delete the cache? With file explorer or with a built in function in opera?
Hi Bib_x. I think if you go to the opera config you can set the cache size.
Type opera:config in the address bar.
You can delete the cache using file explorer or the built in function in Opera. Makes no difference. I don't think you can do a select all in file explorer, so the function in Opera is easier.
EDIT: Mod, please move to Q&A, thx.
I'm on CyanogenMod RC1
Free space on internal memory = 322 mb
Free space on SD card = 6.21 GB
Stock browser says i'm out of room when I try to save a small image (a cyanogenmod logo that I found via google images.)
wtf
sounds like your cache is full?
clamknuckle said:
sounds like your cache is full?
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If that's true and the reason why I can't save an image, then the browser is pretty stupid.
chances are your pics are saved somewhere else. your internet temp file is full, not just pics ie., cookies, history, form data. Keeping this file clean will give a better and faster internet
While in the browser just go to settings then clear cache and try to download again
UPDATE: The problem extends beyond the browser and it has nothing to do with the browser cache (fairly obviously...). Every app on my phone that interacts with the sd card reports that the card is full, or it will force close or both. Some apps report that the card is not available. I blame the rom, there's a bug somewhere, or the card is bad.
Like a lot of people, I would imagine, I have a constant battle to try and fit all of the apps that I want on my phone memory. There are a whole heap of apps already that I would like that I have had to delete already.
My phone memory was down to 2MB and I really want to add Skype to it now that has been launched. Knowing that I would never fit it on unless I deleted something, I decided to remove my greediest app, Documents to Go, which is also around 8.5MB - the same as Skype.
I deleted it, checked how much memory I had left, expecting there to now be 10.5MB, but found that it is still telling me that I only have 2MB left.
I have tried everything to try and find where the missing memory has gone - the app has definitely been removed from my phone.
Any ideas why I still don't have more than 2MB of memory after this?
Wipe cache.
Try to delete cache of all applications and then reboot the phone
I have gone through the caches of all of the apps that I can access and cleared them. This brings it up to 4MB, but it is still far short of the 8.5MB that I thought that I would have gained by deleting Documents to Go (which I never got around to using anyway).
I guess I really should wipe the thing and start again after downloading and deleting so many apps, but it will be a major pain to set everything up the way I like it.
Roll on Froyo when I can download apps onto the SD card, which should solve the problem once and for all.
nickpendrell said:
I have gone through the caches of all of the apps that I can access and cleared them. This brings it up to 4MB, but it is still far short of the 8.5MB that I thought that I would have gained by deleting Documents to Go (which I never got around to using anyway).
I guess I really should wipe the thing and start again after downloading and deleting so many apps, but it will be a major pain to set everything up the way I like it.
Roll on Froyo when I can download apps onto the SD card, which should solve the problem once and for all.
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Is your phone rooted? If yes, go to recovery and wipe cache and dalvik-cache.
rajasyaitan said:
Is your phone rooted? If yes, go to recovery and wipe cache and dalvik-cache.
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No, it's not rooted. I looked at the process of rooting and it looks terrifying and complicated!
If it was rooted, then I know I could just install apps onto the SD card and then the problem would be solved immediately.
If Froyo doesn't get released for Legend soon though, I think I will have to try and root it though as this memory problem is really starting to drive me insane.
hi there,
I have just installed a new SD card the other day and i noticed that every time i access the "gallery" app, then not all thumbnails are loaded by default... it's still extremely fast but it seems is not caching EVERYTHING... does it take some time for that to cache everything?
I went under all applications and the size of the cache of "Gallery" is in fact growing... or is there a limit for which IF you have more than XYZ photos, then it will NOT cache all of it?
thanks,
Gabrio
gabriolinari said:
hi there,
I have just installed a new SD card the other day and i noticed that every time i access the "gallery" app, then not all thumbnails are loaded by default... it's still extremely fast but it seems is not caching EVERYTHING... does it take some time for that to cache everything?
I went under all applications and the size of the cache of "Gallery" is in fact growing... or is there a limit for which IF you have more than XYZ photos, then it will NOT cache all of it?
thanks,
Gabrio
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Any ideas? Or maybe that is normal?
If I clear the cache, to make the gallery show all thumbs instantly, I have to slowly scroll through them all until they have all been generated
Subsequent visits to the gallery show the thumbs immediately, until I clear the cache again
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If I clear the cache, to make the gallery show all thumbs instantly, I have to slowly scroll through them all until they have all been generated
Subsequent visits to the gallery show the thumbs immediately, until I clear the cache again
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So if i do the same thing and clear cache, it will be really slow.. then i do as you say and slowly scroll down the gallery until i see all thumbs, first time going slow and consequent times are faster, but not all thumbs are instantly there which makes me think cache is disabled or something?
I have all photos on the sd card and i think i have like 2-3000 photos in few different folders...
Just strange.. thanks
Gabrio
hi again,
so i have done more testing, it seems really strange.... the gallery app doesnt want to cache more than 50-60mb of stuff, on my wifeàs phone that is another S5 with a different Sd card, it caches 200MB without any issue and all thumbs are loaded fine after the first "slow load", could it be a problem with the SD card? its quite annoying..
also, if you do a photo with the camera, i noticed that it starts loading all thumbnails again, even the very recent ones... is there a setting somewhere for caching photos at all anyone knows ??
thanks,
Gabrio
I'm on OOS 5.0
Free storage is more than 3 gigs
But I'm getting the low memory error in stock cam.
Tried clearing cache via app info & stock recovery.
And also tried disabling/enabling it
Any chance to fix it without wiping the whole data.
bullooka said:
I'm on OOS 5.0
Free storage is more than 3 gigs
But I'm getting the low memory error in stock cam.
Tried clearing cache via app info & stock recovery.
And also tried disabling/enabling it
Any chance to fix it without wiping the whole data.
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Replying to self,
Here is how I fixed it for those whose looking for fix
Thanks alot for your solution!!! I was already loosing my mind on clearing the Camera App Cache!
I can confirm, after clearing cache with the method "Go to settings > Storage > click on Data in Cache > Clear Cache" my camera now is working again.
Was already in contact with Support and did a Soft Reset of the Phone...nothing worked.
You helped me! Thanks alot! :good::good:
Empty Recycle Bins...
I have a OnePlus5t 6GB/128GB and had the same problem. After having to clean my cache every few days I decided to delete some files.: My storage was saying I was using about 98%.
To make a long story...shorter....I had two very large video files, 15GB and 13GB, and after deleting them it would not make any difference on the storage usage on my device.
Apparently, the Gallery App has a Recycle Bin folder under Collections....and you have to go in there to delete them immediately otherwise it takes 30+ days to permanently delete the files.
After doing this it still did not immediately show any change to my storage usage. Using File Explorer I could see the two large files were been stored in another Recycle Bin( Can't remember the location )...and once I deleted from there they were gone for good and my storage usage dropped to 70%.
I don't expect to see that out of memory message( even though it was not a memory problem )...any time soon :fingers-crossed:
I had the same problem, I had 4gb left but it won't let me take any pictures, it says "low memory.....". I clear "Cache Data" from the main "Storage & memory" many times, it did not work. I finally got it figured out. It's not the "storage space" that was low (AKA the HD), it was the "memory" (AKA Ram) that was full. We all tried deleting files, videos and pictures, etc... but that wasn't the problem, it was the temporary RAM memory that was fully occupied.
So I did this: settings--storage & memory--Apps--Application list, then click on each apps--then "storage" to "clear cache". Did it on all the apps.
You will find social media accounts like "Line" "Whatapps" etc, and Maps and Chrome have the most Cache to clear. Once I went thru all of the Apps to clear, the camera immediate works again.
Make sure you don't click "Clear Data" (Just above "Clear Cache"), it will clear all your chat history and login settings, unless if that's what you want to do.