Can someone actually explain why the insufficient space problem happens, even when there is clearly plenty of storage space available, because it's really doing my head in! I've tried all the usual fixes short of the ones that require rooting my phone, which I'm reluctant to do, to no avail. It's not a capacious device, with only 2Gb of internal storage and just 756Mb for apps internally. But when it's telling me that I still have 1.84Gb available internally and 80+ Mb free for installing apps why does a 10Mb update fail?!
I'm not expecting a resolution because I don't think there is one(!) I just want to understand what it is about Android that is so intolerant of limited (but sufficient) storage capacity. One theory I had was that it is actually something in the individual apps' apk files which looks for space beyond what's actually needed. Because I can usually apply 30+ Mb updates to Firefox, whereas a tiny 2 or 3 Mb app sometimes won't update. Can anybody confirm or refute that? My device is a Huawei Ascend G300 with (as I said) 2Gb internal storage, 387Mb RAM and an 8Gb SD card.
For background, I've pared my installed apps down to a minimum and moved them onto the SD card where possible, and I've cleared out caches. As I said, I don't really want to take that next step of rooting the device, despite being a techie in my day-job, and knowing my way around Unix & Linux systems (I spent about 15 years supporting a couple Solaris servers and now have responsibility for a range of Ubuntu boxes).
Thanks.
I'm not expecting a resolution because I don't think there is one(!) I just want to understand what it is about Android that is so intolerant of limited (but sufficient) storage capacity. One theory I had was that it is actually something in the individual apps' apk files which looks for space beyond what's actually needed. Because I can usually apply 30+ Mb updates to Firefox, whereas a tiny 2 or 3 Mb app sometimes won't update. Can anybody confirm or refute that? My device is a Huawei Ascend G300 with (as I said) 2Gb internal storage, 387Mb RAM and an 8Gb SD card.
For background, I've pared my installed apps down to a minimum and moved them onto the SD card where possible, and I've cleared out caches. As I said, I don't really want to take that next step of rooting the device, despite being a techie in my day-job, and knowing my way around Unix & Linux systems (I spent about 15 years supporting a couple Solaris servers and now have responsibility for a range of Ubuntu boxes).
Thanks.
