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browser size 10mb!

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.

HTC Album cache

found a novel way of stopping the htc album cache filling the phone memory up.
deleted the cache files, viewed one image to create the cache files again (but only taking few 100k). then set all files to read only.
albums still work ok, the hd2 is so quick generating the thumbnails i dont see the need to cache them at all
i need to see if zero length read only cache files will work also

how many photos do you have? it would take A LOT of photos of to fill uip the HD2 internal memory with thumbnail generation, even on a stock rom with less free space than a custom rom

I have 52 pictures in the HTC Album thing on Sense (although I have about 500 dotted across the storage card which dont get opened) and mine goes upto 28Mb quickly

have over 200 pics now after just three months ownership, that will continually grow, so yes i consider it a problem

dexterslab said:
found a novel way of stopping the htc album cache filling the phone memory up.
deleted the cache files, viewed one image to create the cache files again (but only taking few 100k). then set all files to read only.
albums still work ok, the hd2 is so quick generating the thumbnails i dont see the need to cache them at all
i need to see if zero length read only cache files will work also
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Thanks, it seems to function on my HD2. Will stay tuned, my cache files are still 1,5 MB ...

have just tried deleting all the cache files and replacing them with zero length read-only files, which also works

dexterslab said:
have just tried deleting all the cache files and replacing them with zero length read-only files, which also works
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I did the same, it works fine.
It's really an inventive solution for that old album cache problem

dexterslab said:
have just tried deleting all the cache files and replacing them with zero length read-only files, which also works
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how did u do that?

Gallery just plain does not work.

9 out of 10 times, nothing loads in the gallery. Sometimes the folder shows up but no pictures, and sometimes just the yellow/black background. I can reboot my phone but the problem will persist again after leaving it on for awhile.
Anyone else having this problem?

I am with Virtuous 9.0 and 9.5 which uses the HTC Gallery. Only folder it displays is the camera shots folders. There are a couple of other folders on my phone that won't shot up (like my DroCap folder).

the 3d gallery is total garbage.
Believe it or not, the stock gallery that came with the espresso sense on the Mytouch slide was better than the 3d gallery. At least all the pictures showed up and it wasn't dog crap slow.

Do you guys have tons of pictures on your phones?
I may have 100 seperated into folders on my sd card. Just wondering if the amount of pics may be the problem.

Have over 300 pictures in my gallery and MOST of the time it works just fine. Sometimes it will open up and not display anything. A force close and a cache clear typically fixes that though.

I've also noticed mine sometimes does not load any pictures and I have to close it and try again. It's been working pretty good the past few days though.

Any chance at getting the old-school gallery version on these G2s? I tried QuickPic and really liked it, but the only downfall is that it took a while to generate thumbnail images when you launched it. Worse of all, it seemed to do that every time I started that application, but it is better than the 3-D gallery.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/quickpic/com.alensw.PicFolder

Here is a thread for the old 2d gallery.
I tried it but I was too lazy to let it make thumbnails of all my pictures and I nandroided back. I may try it again if there are good results.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=891201&highlight=gallery

You could try clearing cache for the gallery. Settings - manage applications - all - gallery then clear cache.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

Gigamaster89 said:
9 out of 10 times, nothing loads in the gallery. Sometimes the folder shows up but no pictures, and sometimes just the yellow/black background. I can reboot my phone but the problem will persist again after leaving it on for awhile.
Anyone else having this problem?
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When it happens, use Rescan Media. It will scan your phone and show up all of your pictures and videos.
Mog said:
Do you guys have tons of pictures on your phones?
I may have 100 seperated into folders on my sd card. Just wondering if the amount of pics may be the problem.
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I don't think it has something to do with the quantity. The 1st time it occured to me it was 10 days after I got my phone and I had something like 50 pics in it.
From what I've read since this is a well-known bug.

Photo Gallery Cache Problem - Not reading properly?

hi,
Since few weeks i have installed a new SD card, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Mic...&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 which so far did the job, but something strange and annoying has been happening.
Even though i scroll to all the photos in the gallery (i have been told this way they all cache), oftentimes the gallery will have to reload all the photos again, which means that the cache is not working/reading at all.
My wife has another S5 with my older SD card and this does not happen, although she has less photos than me, we scroll down all photos ONCE and boom they are all there all the time, when you shoot a new photo, just one is reloaded, as it should, etc.
Is this a problem with the phone or the SD card or too many photos? I checked in the application the cache size and it fluctuates, at one point it was 146 MB which i thought okay that seems to have loaded all thumbs, then in the morning i checked it again and it went at 86MB, with the phone just being in airplane mode all night...what is happening?
Also, SOMETIMES when i restart the phone, the gallery's cache seems to be wiped out if you go to application manager > gallery... but not all the time....
any ideas?
thanks,
Gabrio

OOS 5.0 camera: low memory error

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.