Help "Low on space" phone/application storage notification

[craigrn16]

Today I went to install google earth to m phone. It would complete the download and kept telling me I dont have sufficient storage.I'm thinking there is no way I could have used 8 gigs of internal memory already, so I go to phone storage and see that I have 6.38 GB of internal storage left. So how is it that a 22mb download wont download? Help!

 

[Zahav]

The only time I got this error message was when I unmounted my sd card. Restart your phone and see if that fixes it

 

[liewbob]

If you Google "htc incredible low storage space" you will find that a number of us have had this prob. Some think it's a memory leak in the mail app - I optimistically expect the upcoming OTA (or 2) will remedy the situation.
For now, I just sort my downloaded apps by size and uninstall the largest ones I'm not really using - like if you're playing with multiple launchers, browsers, twitter, or multimedia streaming apps or not playing with some of the space-hog games, you can free up plenty of space and redownload & reinstall apps as needed. If you uninstall a paid app - it still shows up as purchased in the market.
It's a pain - but I guess it's the price we pay for getting in on the bleeding edge.

 

[UHF3]

You all might want to take a look at this thread and pay special attention to the changes that people have mead to their email settings. I just had the same thing happen on my phone (I've had it since 6/29) and found about 1000 emails between two accounts in the Trash folder. I deleted all mail in both Trash folders and changed my email setting to hold only 14 days worth of mail per account. Right after emptying the Trash folders the Low memory notification went away.

 

[Terabethia]

Please keep in mind that while the phone has 8 gig's of storage (which actually comes out to more like 6.6), apps can currently only be installed in the ROM portion, which is 748MB. So you can't have a full 6 gig worth of app's installed.

Once Froyo is released, you will be able to install app's on your SD card, which will help a lot with the people who are app crazy. Till then, you are stuck with the 748MB.

 

[Vaetix]

I ran into this issue this morning and after hours of googling found a fix that actually worked for me, without requiring a hard reset. I deleted all cache and data for all HTC Sense apps (Mail, FriendStream, Peep, etc). As a result I had to re-configure my home screens, but at least I didn't have to reinstall all my apps.

Upon further investigation, it does appear that the issue is HTC Mail, which is a ridiculously bloated 90MB on my phone. I'm just hoping I can put off a hard reset and that the Froyo update will include a fix to this issue.

 

[mozes316]

I'm getting a "Low on Space" Icon but when I check my "SD Card and Phone Storage" it seems I have plenty of space left or am I just reading it wrong?
Does "Available Space" not mean, the space I have left to work with?

Menu>Settings>SD Card and Phone Storage

SD Card
Total Space: 7.40GB
Available Space: 2.43GB

Internal Phone Storage
Total Space: 6.60GB
Available Space: 6.33GB

Phone Memory
Total Space: 748 MB
Available Space: 626MB

 

[johnofcross]

I had a similar if not the same problem a few days ago. I kid you not, do not turn off your phone, as you might get it bricked. For me, I turned my phone off after I got that message, and my phone could not boot up all the way. I had to hard reset my phone to get it to boot up again. To this day, I still don't know what caused it. I remember updating several apps before it happened, just don't recall which ones.

 

[ikediggety]

I'm getting a "Low on Space" Icon but when I check my "SD Card and Phone Storage" it seems I have plenty of space left or am I just reading it wrong?
Does "Available Space" not mean, the space I have left to work with?

Menu>Settings>SD Card and Phone Storage

SD Card
Total Space: 7.40GB
Available Space: 2.43GB

Internal Phone Storage
Total Space: 6.60GB
Available Space: 6.33GB

Phone Memory
Total Space: 748 MB
Available Space: 626MB

I don't know if you've already checked this, but HTC mail has known space issues... settings > manage applications > look at how much space HTC mail is using. if's it's some stupid amount, remove your email accounts and re-add them (except for gmail).

 

[mozes316]

I don't know if you've already checked this, but HTC mail has known space issues... settings > manage applications > look at how much space HTC mail is using. if's it's some stupid amount, remove your email accounts and re-add them (except for gmail).

Mail: HTC Corporation is only using 4.56MB?

 

[DroidRocker]

There are other threads about this glitch. It happened to me and only got worse as time went on until you can't even update apps, get mail or texts. I'm not sure if it was the mail app or whatever. Also heard it could've been the Google Earth app. It finally wouldn't even completely turn on. VZW then helped me do a complete factory reset...headache as it takes a day reloading your apps, contacts, etc. However, it's been a month and hasn't re-occured (fingers-crossed). PS...I haven't reloaded Google Earth either...just in case!

 

[budone]

I just looked and Google Earth was my memory hog.

 

[ruggerxpunk]

All day it keeps saying I'm low on space in my notification bar and I'm not. Phone memory is 4gb and sd card is 32gb. The memory it uses for app usage is not low either. The problem is that I can't use Google talk. It just auto closes. Help!

 

[Itlooksfast]

Me too...

 

[ramcharger1979]

Try clearing the cache on the HTC mail.

 

[LoPan12]

So I tried to reinstall an app I had removed from a backup, and also a game from the market. They both gave me a message about not having enough space to install them. Despite my Rom space being 430MB free....any ideas?

 

[LoPan12]

The backup I have is 9.45MB. I try to install, get "Out of Space: Zenonia could not be viewed. Free up some space on your phone and try again." Then gives me options to cancel or manage applications. Why would it do this? I have plenty of space for it to be loaded too, and a 1.4MB game reinstalled fine.

 

[midgets]

I also am receiving the same message .. I deleted a few apps . still getting the message..
My Phone Memory shows
Total space : 748MB
Available space: 564MB

SD card and Internal phone storage have GB's available so can't seeing that be a factor

Also can not send text messages now... keep telling me to delete to make room.. which I have done

 

[leighdroid]

Same thing is happening to me and I have had the phone since Wednesday July 21st, barely have had the chance to get to know the phone and already have a problem with the space. I don't understand what I am suppose to do. Should I call tech support or should I take it to a Verizon store and have them look at it?!?!

 

[midgets]

I went to the VW store, the guy said it's the 2nd one he's seen. The 1st one he end up doing a reset to factory default, I'm holding off on that option.. hoping some one here comes up with a solution....

this almost seems like a worm just eating up free space on the phone

 

[ramcharger1979]

Try clearing the cache on the HTC mail.

Have you tried this yet???

 

[midgets]

Have you tried this yet???

No I have not.. could you explain how to clear the cache. I do not see that as an option.

at this point I can't even open or close app's

 

[ramcharger1979]

Go to settings then apps then manage apps then find HTC mail. Then clear the cache.

If you research this is a problem with some of these phones.

 

[midgets]

HTC Mail cache shows empty .. but now I see "CacheMate for Root Users free" installed on my phone ... I did not install this

 

[ramcharger1979]

well then at this point I do not see what it would hurt to factory reset.