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Increasing Memory

Apologies if its a repeat post but I've been searching and could not find an answer.
How can I increase the memory on my XDA Pro. The memory remaining is showing 0.27 MB and it is constantly coming up with a "Storage Memory is Critically Low" message.
I store most of my work on the SD Card anyway. I've tried looking for large files to delete from the Pro but cant find anything.
Please help.
Thanks a lot everyone.

It sounds to me as if you have used up your storeage memory with applications. Assess your usage priority and move the programs that you don't use a lot of to your memory card.

How would I do that?
Is it just a case of copy and paste?

Also using something like Clear Temp (freeware) http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=1489 will clear away all of those pesky temp files that take up all of your space.
You'll probably find you regain lots of space by doing this.

Search the forum for UPX - you can comress your apps to free up space and many of them will run faster too

nmiah said:
How would I do that?
Is it just a case of copy and paste?
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For moving programs, no. The best thing would be to uninstall from main memory and reinstall on a storage card. If there's any data related to an app, you'd want to back that up first so you don't lose it. I have a 4GB card in my Universal and have most of my third party apps installed on it to save the device memory. I just leave it in all the time.

Thank you all.
I finally managed to find out that I had over 10 MB in the temporary internet files, deleted all those and everything seems fine.
Also, managed to find out a lot of useful stuff as mentioned by you all in the above post.
Thank you all once again.

This is all great advice, but how do you tell which apps or data are located in Main memory? Is there some way to tell?
Lee.

"Storage Memory is Critically Low..."

Dear friends:
I have posted a similar question on the Hermes Mobile 6 section. Sorry for being a bit ridiculous. But I am quite desparate because this problem is driving me crazy...
I'm using a T-Mobiles MDA (838Pro) running WM6, CE OS 5.2.1437 (Build 17944.0.3.1), ROM Version: 3.54.707.3.
For the last month or so, I kept getting messages to say that my Storage Memory is critically low.
I have all my documents, ring tones, music, photos, video, etc. saved on my storage card. So there is practically nothing stored in the device ROM. I've checked all folders under "My Device", and there weren't really a lot of files in there.
I've used Oxios ClearApp and Hibernate to do clean up a few times a day. But that doesn't seems to help.
I've installed Clear Temp and use that to clean up the temp files. It works for a few days, but then the problem returned.
I've even deleted some programs, but it looks like whatever gets freed up will just be quickly be eaten up again.
Tonight, things have gone worse... My Storage Memory has dropped so low that I can't even send out any long SMS anymore.
It looks like I might have found where the problem is, but still don't know how it happened and how to solve it.
First, when I open Settings>Remove Programs, I see that practically all the appication programs are listed under "Programs in storage memory", including those that weren't even installed by me, like "Cyberon VoiceCommander". I'm not sure whether this is talking about the same "Storage Memory". But I thought that when I choose "Install in My Device" when installing a program, it is supposed to go into the "Program Memory", not "Storage Memory"?
Secondly, I took a closer look under "File Explorer", and I've finally found a few files that are very large size:
pim.vol (in root directory), 6.35MB
cemail.vol (in root directory), 412KB
compimeh.0904 (in Windows directory), 16.8MB
It also looks like these files will be amended every time when I do an ActiveSync. Not sure whether this is what caused my Storage Memory to go down everyday.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Would anyone have an idea of what these files are and whether it is safe to delete them?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you very much!
John

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Im sure you have already done this but make sure that your Internet Explorer Cache is stored on the Storage Card. This can eat memory very quickly.

kismat1970 said:
Im sure you have already done this but make sure that your Internet Explorer Cache is stored on the Storage Card. This can eat memory very quickly.
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I think I'm always keeping them there. And I have been using Clear Temp to clean them up to. But it doesn't help.
But just in case I haven't done it right, how can I check or change it? I checked the "Options" in IE, but couldn't find anything.
Thanks!

Thanks to those who were reading and trying to help. I have part of the mystery solved.
From this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=343878&highlight=compimeh.0904
I learnt that the file compimeh.0904.dat is in fact the dictionary that the Hermes used to autofill when we type our e-mails and messages. It will keep growing as we use those functions.
I have followed the instruction on the thread and deleted the file. Now I have 16.8MB back.
But I still don't understand how 30MB of my Storage Memory would be occupied. If some friends here can shed some light, it would be most appreciated.

When installing programs, if you select 'device' as the target, the program will be installed in storage memory.
It's a bit misleading, but program memory is ram, where running programs reside etc..

Very little Device Memory HD2. (What? Already!!!)

I've had my HD2 for about a week now. I've installed maybe 3 or 4 apps directly to the device (not to SD Card). I'm now in the situation of not being able to d/l any videos etc. due to having insufficient memory! I can't believe it!!!
Device total storage stands at 200.40MB
Used storage= 189.02MB
Free storage= 11.38MB
However below this info my phone is showing ''Free program storage'' as being 178.38MB. While my SD card is showing Free Memory being at 1453.95MB.
Would the solution be to transfer everything to SD card and only install to the SD card in future?

Yep I would, saves the phones internal memory

I install any non-system apps to the card, anything that needs access to the system files goes on my phone

Found this article on a blog:
Just go on google and search "windows mobile marketplace:choose where to install"
Click the 3rd one down-DarkBlog
(Apologies for not placing a direct link, I'm a new member, so It won't allow me to put outside links right now, sorry for the inconvenience)
It might help you a little?

Gonna have a look at that, looks good
LINK:
http://blog.idlezone.org/post/2010/01/11/Windows-Mobile-MarketPlace-:-choose-where-to-install

GadgetTechPlus said:
Found this article on a blog:
Just go on google and search "windows mobile marketplace:choose where to install"
Click the 3rd one down-DarkBlog
(Apologies for not placing a direct link, I'm a new member, so It won't allow me to put outside links right now, sorry for the inconvenience)
It might help you a little?
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Thank you. That's really helpful.

These reports of low memory are really starting to bug me.
It would appear that there is something going on that is not fully understand because there is no way that you should run out of phone storage memory with only 4 apps installed!
A serious in depth investigation is needed to unearth the cause.
I have 27 apps installed and I have 152Mb of storage memory left.
Could you tell us what ROM you are running?

Did you go to the task manager and see what is running and try ending the tasks? If you don't kill programs in there they will eat up your system memory... Specially if you are downloading a bunch of porn... Opera is probably using up a bunch.

crisisinthecity said:
Did you go to the task manager and see what is running and try ending the tasks? If you don't kill programs in there they will eat up your system memory... Specially if you are downloading a bunch of porn... Opera is probably using up a bunch.
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Thats not the memory the OP was talking about. Unless I've got it all wrong! Or you have!
I think you are referring to Program memory. The OP was talking about Storage memory and how something was using it up.
This is all very strange.

Things you should definitely look at
1. Where are your camera pictures and camcorder videos stored? ---> if you select device and not storage on the camera app or camcorder app settings, then u are my friend putting pictures and videos you've taken to the sdcard...
solutions: go to ur camera app settings and look at where u are storing the pictures...
or go to ur file explorer, go to ur device's memory and check if they are there...
if they are there, then copy and paste them to ur sd card...
2. set ur outlook, yahoo e-mail and stuff to be stored in sd card, not device's memory...
3. idk what else you have in there to have that very little memory left...

Oh I missed that... My phone has 686.12 Total Storage, 190.64 used, 495.48 free. I have installed all of the apps on the Storage card though. If his says that the total storage is 200 or whatever, that sounds like the problem... Should be like a gb of total device memory between storage and programs...

It seems that Opera 9 saves downloads to a folder on the phones 'device memory', but it doesn't always delete them when you tell opera to do so in the downloads menu tab.
It saves them too: \My Device\Windows\opera9\profile\download
When I deleated most of the files there it released over 110 MB of space in the device storage.
I wonder where other programs save similar files?
Sam.

Have a look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638 for tips on freeing some space. The HTC Album cache is my biggest storage hog. Even then, like you, I have just a few programs installed to my internal store and hardly any memory left. The UK version has less storage than the USA HD2 which makes matters worse.

maybe for the euro hd2, cleartemp could help. It can help find those caches and delete them regularly.
I have the tmous version and flash all the time so I don't have that problem.
Also look for the youtube cache. I've heard it can get pretty big if you look at a lot of youtube vids.
edit: go find cleartemp. There are loads of stuff it can clear for you.
I found 10mb under thumbs.db alone.
Not to mention a few mb for google maps and for opera cache each.
you can also add custom folders to be cleaned as well. I haven't looked too much into it, but maybe I should.
Just remember that caches help your phone run faster, so don't erase them unless you need the memory.

This thread has good suggestions. But most are usual recommendations that will help but perhaps not resolve the issue completely (well a couple of posts do mention temp issues). I had a similar experience recently.
A couple of facts:
1. I install all my apps into the main memory. Never had issues. Opera, IE cache, temps all there by default.
2. I download and save on SD. Music, films, pictures, documents, Android are all there.
3. Still I have plenty of room for storage.
And then I suddenly had that warning!
The cause was temp made by the default ZIP utility that used up almost all my storage space. That utility works fine until I wanted to uncompress 160 mb zip from SD into another SD folder. It started uncompressing, used all storage temp space, gave me error, and closed. It didn't clean the temp though!
I cleaned a bit manually and then installed SK tools that cleaned my device properly and everything is fine now. It is very simple issue and similar to running out of disk space on a PC.
Bottom line: it is unlikely that usual apps use so much storage. I bet on downloads and big user files left in storage and finally huge temp files as leftovers of unsuccessful uncompressing for example.

Why is my internal storage so full?

I'm not understanding why my internal storage is so full? Any ideas on how to talk down what is taking up 21 GB of "other" ?

You haven't downloaded a bunch of spotify playlists to offline by any chance?

GReddySetGO said:
I'm not understanding why my internal storage is so full? Any ideas on how to talk down what is taking up 21 GB of "other" ?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage

I had this problem on my S5 when I use Wanam in Xposed to automatically record my phone calls. I wouldn't pay attention and the next thing I knew I had less than 500mb of space left in my internal storage. I would really lose storage when my calls were recorded in HD. Is it possible you have done something like that and forgot about it?
Also, while you're in the setting of your phone located in the first picture, you can select Other and it should pull up what files, and sort them by size (largest on top, smallest on bottom).

Ok so I found a folder called .estrongs that is 7.5GB. What is this?

Here is a screenshot

Ok, I just figured it out! Apparently ES File Explorer uses a recycle bin by default, which is .estrongs this keeps a bunch of crap you delete. I disabled this recycle bin function so hopefully this won't happen again!

GReddySetGO said:
Ok so I found a folder called .estrongs that is 7.5GB. What is this?
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Glad you got it sorted out ;]

Internal almost Storage full. How to access more folders internal storage

I've been searching for this answer with no positive fix. I have around 20gigs being used up somewhare. This same thing happened on my old s7. I've cleaned cache in settings in phone and cleaned again useing cc cleaner. Nothing really changed. I need to find a app to look deeper into my internal storage whare the ghost data is being stored. I have tried useing total commander,disk info,disk usage,storage analyzer+disk useage,amaze file manager and x-plore but none of these seems to go deep enough into internal storage files/folders. Any one have a app or program they can reccomend. Or a known fix.
I'll post ss of what I'm looking at

Looks like I need 10 posts to post link of my screen shot links. Unless there's another way to upload here from phone gallery?

Smitty1920 said:
I've been searching for this answer with no positive fix. I have around 20gigs being used up somewhare. This same thing happened on my old s7. I've cleaned cache in settings in phone and cleaned again useing cc cleaner. Nothing really changed. I need to find a app to look deeper into my internal storage whare the ghost data is being stored. I have tried useing total commander,disk info,disk usage,storage analyzer+disk useage,amaze file manager and x-plore but none of these seems to go deep enough into internal storage files/folders. Any one have a app or program they can reccomend. Or a known fix.
I'll post ss of what I'm looking at
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Do you have Whatsapp installed ?
Whatsapp stores all the media files in the internal storage. If you have Whatsapp installed, then you can try clearing the Whatsapp/Media folder in the internal storage

No I just use line app from time to time. Does it store similar to WhatsApp?

I was thinking root explorer might be able to find the hidden folders but I'm not rooted and would hate to run the risk or of bricking phone trying to root just to try out a app unless someone knows for sure root explorer would work. Or a similar app that does not need root access. But I'm kinda thinking I will need to be rooted to unlock the hidden folders to view them.

Smitty1920 said:
I've been searching for this answer with no positive fix. I have around 20gigs being used up somewhare. This same thing happened on my old s7. I've cleaned cache in settings in phone and cleaned again useing cc cleaner. Nothing really changed. I need to find a app to look deeper into my internal storage whare the ghost data is being stored. I have tried useing total commander,disk info,disk usage,storage analyzer+disk useage,amaze file manager and x-plore but none of these seems to go deep enough into internal storage files/folders. Any one have a app or program they can reccomend. Or a known fix.
I'll post ss of what I'm looking at
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Check if you have other user profiles or any place that separates data from your main OS