There seems to be very few threads where anyone has any information, let alone a solution to this issue, although several people seem to be suffering from it.

The way I went about troubleshooting this was to use Disk Storage to find an area that was taking up a huge amount of space ("System data" in \data, as reported by DS), then I used Yaffs Explorer (my favorite so far; enable all the root options) to find and view that folder. I found about 20 or so "alog*" files, 15 of which were 8mb each and one "alog_events" that was 724mb. So I just deleted that, rebooted, and I am back in business, at least for now.

This file seemed to be growing at a rate of a few MB every hour. I had USB debugging on though, so that might have had something to do with it. I looked inside the file, but it was repetitive hex/ascii gibberish. I couldn't tell what might be the culprit. I'll have to monitor the situation.

 

Welcome to the forums!

Very interesting information! What phone are you using?

 

So - is this a problem for all HTC phones?

I have this storage issue now, but I'm a bit nervous about rooting my phone. I don't have any real experience messing with this kind of stuff, and I was afraid I'd just kill the whole phone.

 

Oh sorry, that would be the Motorola Triumph. Forgot I'm not in a Triumph forum. I think it's more an Android thing though. In my research it seems like people with several different phones are experiencing this problem with storage steadily being filled up.

 

Am also getting same problem at losing phone memory my hanset gallaxy fit so pls anybody help me

 

I just found this thread. Is this the same problem as "Low on Space?"
I asked it about that yesterday but haven't gotten a reply.


I was reading this:
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them

and wondered if the Live Wallpaper was bogging down the CPU. It would be helpful if we knew just exactly "which" space was low; what Low On Space refers to, because I had plenty of storage space.

Here was my original post. Right now the phone's "Low on Space" message is gone, I don't know if it's really fixed, time will tell.
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Low On Space alerts when not Low on Space? Does anyone know if there's a particular app or bug or something that causes the phone to constantly alert that it's low on space, when it isn't?

I tried removing some apps but I still have more than 2/3 of my phone's internal storage free, so I can't figure out why I'm suddenly receiving Low Space warnings that won't clear.

Thanks for any ideas.

Alert says:
Low on space
Application data space is low.


Internal Phone Storage:
Total space 6.6GB
Available space 4.83 GB

Phone Memory
Total 748 MB
Available 547 MB

SD card
Total space 14.83 GB
Available 14.33 GB

Phone: HTC Incredible I
Android 2.2
No recent updates


Most recent installed apps:
Air Push
Reinstalled Call Confirm
ConvertPad (unit converter)
Italian Verbs
Italian Free
OnTheFly Backup
SiriusXM update
MyAppSharer
Aquarium Live Wallpaper (just removed this, along with deleting and moving several apps, rebooted phone and message is gone now). Don't know if Aquarium was the problem or not?

 

well, problem is back. I moved a 54MB tapfish to the SD card, that was my biggest app, and it's still telling me low space. I don't have low space!!!!!

I guess nobody knows. Nice.

 

FYI to the OP:
Someone posted a similar topic and made a suggestion that fixed it on my phone.

Menu/Settings/Applications/ManageApps/(ALL)/Internet/Clear Data.


(link to that thread:http://androidforums.com/android-lounge/428681-low-space-clarification.html )

 

You are not having the same crazy alog problem, unplugme. Those are just standard low space problems.

 

I saw like one or two posts about on other sites. If they're googling hard enough they'll find this thread. I also found another thread (with no answers) on this board and stuck a link to this thread there.

After I deleted the files they did not come back for me. They must have been caused by something I had already deleted. Then I wound up trying CM7 and MIUI anyway.

 

clear the cache using app 2 sd.

 

No, that will not remove the alog files.

 

Another Triumph owner here.

I deleted the logs with root explorer and freed up over 900MB.

 

On my Motorola Triumph, after deleting an alog_events file of ~800 MB with YAFFS File Explorer (rooted), I observed the file to be re-created and start growing again, being logged to and growing a few KB in size every few minutes.

I then used YAFFS File Explorer (rooted) to modify the permissions on this newly re-created and much smaller sized alog_events file (< 1 MB) to change the user:group from system:log to root:root and removed all permissions (no rwx for user, group and others = 000 permissions).

At first I thought this didn't work because the file grew another couple kB shortly after I changed permissions; I tried rebooting and it grew another couple kB. However, after that it stopped and hasn't increased in size for several hours.

Might want to give it a try and see how it works for others having this issue (I'd rather make it so the file can't get big to begin with instead of having to go and delete it every few weeks, and looks like this might do that).

Johnny

 

UPDATE: 6 days later and the alog_events file has not grown at all since my last post. Looks like changing the user:group and permissions of the file as described in the last post does prevent the issue from being ongoing!

 

I have a problem, my cellphone is an android 2.2
ii said low on space and text message memory full
already clear all already remove all apps already did a reset factory already did a flash erase
still after the reset it appear LOW ON SPACE!!!

someone know a solution? i heard a lot of solution about using the LINK2sd
to move apps, but i cant install nothing!!! because said full!!!!

someone plz help me

 

I also have the space issue. Got "att zte avail" android phone. 512 rom but 162mb is for programs and stuff. Have about 16mb left. And upgraded from 2gb sd card to 16gb card. Was on sale at costco for 20 dollars. The problem is not all programs can be moved to the sd card. And forget rooting. I don't want to break my phone and void my warranty.

Anyhow but the 162mb internal storage is more than plenty if not for the file problem. I installed wise pilot like 15mb or so. And when I uninstalled it only got 2mb back. So something not right. NO apps seem to cleanup the space. Only cache which is not the problem. 13mb can't be cache. There are like 20 apps on the phone (not sd card) according to "Apps 2 SD" and only 2 are around 3 mb. And the rest are all way less then that. Most not even over 1mb. So there is no way I'm using 145mb on my phone.

Something is not adding up.

 

Hello everyone. I just found this thread after experiencing same problem myself. I also have a Triumph. So is the conclusion that everybody came to that there's no solution unless you root your phone? Is there anything we can do to fix this problem even temporarily besides a factory reset for those of us that don't have their phones rooted?