Help Internal storage issue - Ive tried allsorts

[captainhoward]

Android Version: 2.2
Network: t mobile
Taskiller Used?: advanced task killer
[Optional]Are You rooted & which Rom: no
Issue:

Hi folks. (sorry its a bit of an essay)

Im coming to the end of my sanity with this.....

I've had my desire a while now, and for months I've had to keep deleting things to keep the "internal storage memory low" message off my back. I've read thorugh thread after thread and I've tried everything that's been suggested...

- deleting cache on every app
- deleting apps
- moving apps to sd (after the half arsed 2.2 update)
- deleting all text messages on a regular basis
- saving incoming emails to sd

Ive even gone through all the apps I use, finding sd-card-saving-alternatives for ALL of them to free up more space. After all this...the internal storage demon has caught me up yet again. But I've literally ran out of things to try. Im down to about 10/15 apps now (90% of which are saved to the sd card anyway).

I know that even apps saved on the sd card do take up some space on the internal memory, so I've even had to resort deleting some of those?! Ive noticed some of the factory applications have got larger and larger and larger (e.g. internet is now at about 6mb) but I cant do anything to reduce the size of them? even after cache is cleared etc...

The only other thing I've considered is a factory reset, is that really the only thing I can do? (and obviously do it again....and again....over the coming months)

Please please please can anyone help?

Much appreciated

 

[SUroot]

That or root and get app2sd+

 

[captainhoward]

I've been a bit aprehensive about this whole rooting thing. But if I go for the rooting...am I not gonna have the same problem in a couple of months? Most of my apps are already saved to the SD card. Would it mean that I can move everything to the sd card?

I'd probably put money on my desire finding a way of eating up every last bit of internal memory at some point...

Will it really solve it?

Thanks for your help!

 

[SUroot]

I've been a bit aprehensive about this whole rooting thing. But if I go for the rooting...am I not gonna have the same problem in a couple of months? Most of my apps are already saved to the SD card. Would it mean that I can move everything to the sd card?

I'd probably put money on my desire finding a way of eating up every last bit of internal memory at some point...

Will it really solve it?

Thanks for your help!

its different to moving to the SD card. read the FAQ in my sig.

 

[barefootpilot]

Just to give you someidea, I recently rooted and installed LeeDroid with a2sd+ support.

Currently have the following apps installed:

Angry birds + angry birds seasons
Astro file manager
Aviation weather
Audio manager
BA flights
Barcode scanner
BeyondPod
Brightness profiles
Camscanner
Colournote
Exchange rates
Dora memory game
Fingerpaint
French Verbs
Flight time limitations (self built on AppInventor)
Gesture search
Google sky map
GPS test
Bubble level
Juice defender
Connect 4
MapDroyd
MyBackup
PicSay
Runkeeper + Runkeeper Pro
Postcards
ROM manager
Sound meter
Tricorder
Titanium backup
US Army survival guide

Current internal memory remaining -119Mb

If memory is the problem, rooting and a2sd+ really is the answer.

 

[captainhoward]

Wow.....Thats a great help. Thanks so much! Il read up on rooting and get it done. Awesome. Cheers!

 

[spile]

One thing you don't appear to have tried is deleting all your contacts (incl Facebook). What you describe sound like the contacts memory leak problem which others have said is related to facebook contacts eating up your memory.

 

[Vicdude]

Sounds a bit extreme spile.... Deleting all of your contacts? Does that not render the phone a bit useless? Could you expand a little on that one for me?
I un installed Google earth and even though it was on the SD card, it freed up shed loads of internal mem. 16Mb up to 47Mb.....

 

[spile]

It is a lot simpler than rooting and adding a custom rom!
Basically a lot of folk have found that their contacts folder simply gets bigger and bigger in terms of space. Mine went from 8mb to 80Mb with no additional contacts. Some folk have suggested that Facebook contact sync is the culprit so the first step would be to delete all contacts and then turn off facebook contact sync.
In terms of backing up the contact database then yes this is a must!
You can use MyPhoneExplorer or HTC Sync to do that. Another way is to back then up to your SD card.
When I had the problem, I did a hard reset of the phone to solve the problem but if it happened again, I'd use the delete contacts method first.

 

[captainhoward]

Ahhhhhhhh

Im going to try this also. It says in the applications list my contact storage is like 18mb. Is it actually a lot large than that then? Can I not just untick the "facebook contacts" in the phonebook view?

 

[JohnnyBravo1000]

Another vote for root and Apps2SD+ here!