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on board storage memory

hi was hoping a few of you could post the figures of your storage memory on here i seem to have "lost" quite a bit of memory recently even though i install every program i can to my sd card. mine are as follows:
total: 42.55mb
in use: 37.49mb
free: 5.06mb
only a few weeks a go i had aprox 18mb free, ive intalled a few app but all to sd card. ive .NET 2.0 installed to phone memory and 9 hole golf, everything else i on my sd card. can anyone help me?

Try clearing out the Internet cache and temp files. Open Internet Explorer, then tap Menu > Tools > Options. Tap the memory tab and tap the "Delete Files" button.
Then delete residual files left over from emails and SMS/MMS by going to Start > Program Files > File Explorer > My Device > Windows > Messaging. Delete all the files in that folder except for the "Attachments" folder.

i believe registry wizzard can also redirect your ie cache and whatnot to your storage card. this should help.
i found that after a few days id have about 10-15 meg of ie cache on the phone memory! much better now ive moved it.

elathan said:
hi was hoping a few of you could post the figures of your storage memory on here i seem to have "lost" quite a bit of memory recently even though i install every program i can to my sd card. mine are as follows:
total: 42.55mb
in use: 37.49mb
free: 5.06mb
only a few weeks a go i had aprox 18mb free, ive intalled a few app but all to sd card. ive .NET 2.0 installed to phone memory and 9 hole golf, everything else i on my sd card. can anyone help me?
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The 9hole Golf has taken all your internal memory. This should be installed on your SD card because of many files that are created from this program. I have 9hole golf installed on the SD card. Re install to your SD card, you'll be amazed the amt. of memory you have after doing this!

thank u all for ur time and advice, but none helped, yesterday i had 4.06mb free yet this morning it was down to 1.20mb! and all i did in between was sent 2 sms! any ideas anyone?

elathan said:
thank u all for ur time and advice, but none helped, yesterday i had 4.06mb free yet this morning it was down to 1.20mb! and all i did in between was sent 2 sms! any ideas anyone?
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Don't know what else to say to help you on this topic. Did you move 9hole golf to your SD card like I suggested? You apparently have more programs installed in the main memory that you don't rememember installing there. Go back and look at everything in your directory..ie: Look at all folders, My Documents, App Data, all folders, Windows, all folders, etc.
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thanks hotdog53, i did move it and it made sum difference but think im gonna go for a complete re install, the main thing bugging me is overnight as my wizard sat on charge and me doing nothing with it, it lost over 2mb of memory, i had no sms mms or email sent to me in that time ether!

elathan said:
thanks hotdog53, i did move it and it made sum difference but think im gonna go for a complete re install, the main thing bugging me is overnight as my wizard sat on charge and me doing nothing with it, it lost over 2mb of memory, i had no sms mms or email sent to me in that time ether!
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Was this last night and this morning? Tonite before charging, delete all your temporary internet files, take note of how much memory you have, and in the morning make a comparison. Please let me know your results, coz there could be more...
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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.

Internal storage full, says apps=12.25GB

Hello,
an error popped up on my a500, claiming internal storage is almost full. When I press the popup I'm taken to a list of apps where the title claims the same (applications using 12.25GB of 16GB). But I have only downloaded say 20 apps, and when I sum up the space they occupy individualy I don't count any further than <200MB. What can be wrong here? Does media files which belongs to the apps (say NFS game) don't count?
thanks for any help.
Henrik

I have the same problem. Posted here a few days ago. This is a known problem on the zoom as well. No one knows what the cause is so what I did was reset the tablet. :-(

that's a bad problem
try to check with file manager if you see some weird data... inside your tablet.

Also have this problem. Apps showing almost 8GB, which is impossible. Same amount of apps on my Xperia X10, and my internal storage still has plenty of space.
Saw this when I manually upgraded from 3.0.1 to 3.1. Before and after, the app usage still shows almost 8gb.

VoodooBOB said:
Also have this problem. Apps showing almost 8GB, which is impossible. Same amount of apps on my Xperia X10, and my internal storage still has plenty of space.
Saw this when I manually upgraded from 3.0.1 to 3.1. Before and after, the app usage still shows almost 8gb.
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I found out once when I was messing with my tablet that you have an additional setting when you go to manage apps screen. There is also the USB storage section which doesn't get erased when you remove an app so you should not only check how many apps are installed but also if one of the apps uses a big amount of USB storage (like youtube or browser).

Look for very large (or very many medium- to -large) files in /data/tombstones. Best I can tell these files are storage from crashed apps; I've never had any problems arise when I removed them.
For some reason this folder doesn't show when using File Manager HD, so you may need to use Root Explorer (I uninstalled ES File Manager so not sure if it shows up there.)

[TUT] Free Up Memory [Up To 4gb+]

Hey guys, I just thought I'd share this tip with you (as I just saved about 4gb of memory without removing any mp3's/apps )
If you're low on memory, go into "My Files" and delete the folder called "LOST.DIR" it's just like a bin that gets filled with files if something goes wrong (removing the usb without 'safely ejecting' it, etc.) Enjoy!
EDIT: Also, be sure to check the "Android" folder for any unwanted files, I just found a Gameloft file that was 1.4gb, yet I don't have any Gameloft games.

Lost only 10mb.. But hey, every mb counts.. hehe.. thanks
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Lost 800MB deleting this "LOST.DIR". Thanks for the heads up, mate!

i removed almost 1gb of space, thanks for the tip. well use in future reference

Ever since my S1 and now S2 I delete it weekly off both the internal and external cards. Left unckecked for a while it can really fill up.
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My LOST.DIR is empty.
Maybe because I always properly disconnect or shutdown?
Thing is, everything ending up there is actually LOST, and I don't like loosing any of my data stored on the phone.

I saved 275 MB

okmijnlp said:
EDIT: Also, be sure to check the "Android" folder for any unwanted files, I just found a Gameloft file that was 1.4gb, yet I don't have any Gameloft games.
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This ofcourse is utter nonsense. Obviously you had installed something from Gameloft before.
And if your Lost.Dir directory is filled with stuff you're doing some things very wrong. Which doesn't surprise me a lot, judging by this thread.

My Lost.Dir folder was also empty ... don't know whehter I should be happy that I'm using my phone correctly or sad that I'm not gaining any extra free space.

zee54 said:
My Lost.Dir folder was also empty ... don't know whehter I should be happy that I'm using my phone correctly or sad that I'm not gaining any extra free space.
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You can download a navigation app with lots of maps and delete them afterwards and post the results and your happiness here?

I've never found anything in the lost.dir EXCEPT after prematurely disconnecting the phone without unmounting from the pc end. If you are finding stuff in there, then either there is something wrong with the phone, or the way it is being used.

My lost.dir is always empty but android folder had 2.1gigs
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mariosraptor said:
My lost.dir is always empty but android folder had 2.1gigs
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Mine is ~500MB - hehee, I don't really wanna delete those as it's the 500MB GTA3 needs to download before you can play.

HellcatDroid said:
My LOST.DIR is empty.
Maybe because I always properly disconnect or shutdown?
Thing is, everything ending up there is actually LOST, and I don't like loosing any of my data stored on the phone.
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Exactly. Always unmount the device properly. Mine is 0.0 bytes

I lost 1mb )
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Lost my LOST DIR. how's that for saving space.
Could loose the ANDROID aswell but then again,
what's an android phone without android?

Not really a [TUT] to freeing up memory like... lol
6 files, 6mb.... actually from 6 photos i didn't delete properly ...
lost.dir is the lost+found directory basically. For sd memory, this will be where files, or copies, may end up when the memory is not, or does not, properly unmount or mount.
So no one should have huge amounts of data in there really...

I thought I'd take the opportunity to look through my folders on the phone, and to my surprise there was a couple of folders containing game information from games that I uninstalled ages ago one from EA and one from Glu . . . saved about 400Mb . . .
Why doesn't the uninstall 'really' uninstall . . . almost as bad as microsoft
Android needs some sort of disk clean up utility which could get rid of left over rubbish . . I don't mean cache files, but some utility that cross references installed apps with files that are no longer needed on your card

morg01 said:
I thought I'd take the opportunity to look through my folders on the phone, and to my surprise there was a couple of folders containing game information from games that I uninstalled ages ago one from EA and one from Glu . . . saved about 400Mb . . .
Why doesn't the uninstall 'really' uninstall . . . almost as bad as microsoft
Android needs some sort of disk clean up utility which could get rid of left over rubbish . . I don't mean cache files, but some utility that cross references installed apps with files that are no longer needed on your card
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Try Junk Cleaner:https://market.android.com/details?...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5yZXRpbmF4LmRpc2tjbGVhbmVyIl0.

If you really want to see what is taking up a lot of space on your internal/external USB storage, download GridSize from the Market.

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 ;]