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Help Phone Storage is Full

camplejo

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Follow-on to my Internal Memory thread. I currently have 16.08MB free according to App2SD. I still have no clue from the other thread what is consuming the 102MB and I'm not interested in rooting at this time.

But now I try to send a text and get:

Low on space
Phone storage is full! Delete
some files to free space.

It just doesn't make sense...How can there not be any room to send a text? I had a few in there that I deleted and still it says not enough to send.
Seems like it isn't doing good clean-up. But with 16MB free I should be able to send a text!
 
The dalvik-cache for all of your apps. If you download an app to your phone it is say 2.05mb and then you move it to your SD card and it says it is 988kb. The difference is the dalvik-cache and it is still on your phone.

I just did a tutorial for using Link2sd which will alleviate this problem, but it requires rooting your phone. I went from ~35mb of free internal memory to ~108mb free internal memory today.
 
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The dalvik-cache for all of your apps. If you download an app to your phone it is say 2.05mb and then you move it to your SD card and it says it is 988kb. The difference is the dalvik-cache and it is still on your phone.

I just did a tutorial for using Link2sd which will alleviate this problem, but it requires rooting your phone. I went from ~35mb of free internal memory to ~108mb free internal memory today.

So you did root? Which instructions did you follow?
 
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Here is the tutorial I posted for Link2sd with a link to the method I used to root.

I decided to give Link2sd one more try now that I have an 8gb sd card and I have read about the dalvik-cache that says in the internal memory after you move an app to sd.

I currently have over 100 apps (probably about 120) and 108mb of free space of internal memory. I decided to do a mini-tutorial to hopefully help anyone that wasn't getting Link2sd going.

  • Root your phone, I suggest this guide. [How-To] Root the LG Optimus V - Android Forums
  • Backup everything on the SD card, I suggest using Titanium Backup. Make sure there is a backup not on the SD card (like on your hard drive)
  • Connect your Optimus V to your computer and mount the SD card.
  • Resize the partition, I used Minitool Partition Wizard, leave 1-2gb of free space.
  • Create a new FAT32 partition with the free space, mark it as primary.
  • Disconnect your Optimus V and reboot it.
  • Download and install Link2sd if you have not done so already.
  • Run Link2sd, it will tell you it needs to reboot to mount the second partition.
  • Run Link2sd, it will list all apps it can move and tell you which ones are currently on the SD. It can't do anything with the apps on the SD already.
  • Inside Link2sd select an app to link to your sd.
    • If your app is on your internal memory select Create Link.
    • If your app is on the SD card select Manage. This will take you to the stock app management screen. Move the app back to the phone.
    • Hit the back button to go back to Link2sd and now you can select Create Link.
After a few apps chances are your internal memory will be full. Go back to the main screen of Link2sd, open the menu and select More and then Quick Reboot. Once the phone has rebooted go back into Link2sd and open the menu and select Storage Info. Your internal Memory should be full of huge tracts of memory now.
 
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You can still move apps to SD that you wouldnt normally be able to. So what if you still have some memory on the phone? Its better than holding the full memory on the phone. If you force the apps to SD then u can move even PHONE ONLY apps to SD. It doesnt move ALL of the memory of the app to the SD but its better than nothing. Its a rootless fix for ppl who dont want to void warranty.
 
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You can still move apps to SD that you wouldnt normally be able to. So what if you still have some memory on the phone? Its better than holding the full memory on the phone. If you force the apps to SD then u can move even PHONE ONLY apps to SD. It doesnt move ALL of the memory of the app to the SD but its better than nothing. Its a rootless fix for ppl who dont want to void warranty.

Just rooting your phone is safe,and can be undone if needed,when you install a custom recovery or Rom that's when restoring to factory can be an issue.
 
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You can still move apps to SD that you wouldnt normally be able to. So what if you still have some memory on the phone? Its better than holding the full memory on the phone. If you force the apps to SD then u can move even PHONE ONLY apps to SD. It doesnt move ALL of the memory of the app to the SD but its better than nothing. Its a rootless fix for ppl who dont want to void warranty.

How is this done?
 
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Move more of your apps to SD. o_O. You can use ADB to force some apps into the SD card. Be weary of moving some apps to SD though as it may cause glitches.

Androinica How to Install Apps to the SD Card by Default on Android 2.2 Froyo

I did this and it worked! Now I have 33MB free. I am going to consider uninstalling my apps one by one and re-installing so they go direct to SD to see if that frees up even more (i.e. that dalvik cache), since it still doesn't make sense that it was reporting 16MB free and yet I couldn't even compose a single text message.
 
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I did this and it worked! Now I have 33MB free. I am going to consider uninstalling my apps one by one and re-installing so they go direct to SD to see if that frees up even more (i.e. that dalvik cache), since it still doesn't make sense that it was reporting 16MB free and yet I couldn't even compose a single text message.

So some new apps downloaded direct to SD card, but ones I uninstalled and re-installed went to the phone but show they can be moved to SD card. But doesn't that still leave a lot of space used on internal. So it seems like this work-around doesn't send all new apps to the SD card.

Any thoughts?
 
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I think that even though you are installing these apps to the SD card, unless you are rooted you will still leave some files, sometimes large files, on the phone's internal memory. The workaround above made a default to SD card install possible but does that actually install all files to the SD card or just what you could do yourself through Android's Manage Applications setting? I don't know.

I know the rooted phone can use a program like Link2SD to cause the SD card to "mimic" your phone's ROM by creating a link on the phone to the SD install so the entire program is actually installed on the SD card. Your phone still thinks it is installed on the phone, though, as evident when you look at the program, again in Android's Manage Applications setting.
 
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Just rooting won't void your waranty, or break the phone.. It's pretty simple and involves downloading the driver for your phone and the 1 step root tool, then click a button.
If you want a root-free option you'd need to buy a phone with more internal memory.. which means ditching virgin mobile.

Which "simple" process did you follow?
 
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Unless SuperOneClick has been fixed for the one click to work with the Optimus V, this is the easiest tutorial I have found.
[How-To] Root the LG Optimus V - Android Forums

If you are just rooting.. You do not need to download the stock rom .zip file either..
Simple.. Steps
Download LG drivers for phone & install them
Download SuperOneClick
While it's donwloading go to settings > Applications > Developer and turn on USB Debugging.
Connect your phone
Open SuperOneClick
Hit the Root button..
Test at the end to see if phone is rooted.
Reboot phone
You are done
 
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Do you use the stock browser? It can store a ton of crap in the cache that's a little complicated to delete. One time, while using it to check VM's site (and why on earth doesn't VM have a MOBILE site???), I suddenly lost about 20 MB in a second and everything seemed to go crazy. Go into browser settings to empty cache.

In addition, you can clean the cache and remove data (be careful with this, so as not to have to re-enter sign-in info, etc.) by going into phone settings and selection "Applications".
 
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There is no stock rom zip in this, just a zip with su and busybox.

Has superoneclick been updated so the root button works on the Optimus V now?

It should.. that's what I used.. I blieve that it's listed in the how to root stickie in all things root...

To the guy with 108MB free?
HOW THE HELL did you do it..
I just did the Link 2 SD, and restored all my stuff.. and I'm still sitting with around 28MB free..
Edit: Cleared my cache and BOOM extra 20MB.. but still.. According to Titanium I have 119 apps, but still could only free up 40.46MB That's not exactly the Tracts of free space I had my fingers crossed for.
 
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