Hello.
I've searched about a fair bit trying to piece together exactly what is happening with my phones memory but it just isn't making sense :s

A couple of days ago I got a message saying "Internal phone storage is getting low" then shortly after that several of my applications stopped working properly complaining about a lack of memory. The low memory notification directs you to uninstall programs so I removed a few of the larger ones, and sent a couple to the SD card and the application list is now showing "1.7GB used" and "178MB free" but still the phone complains about not having enough memory. I have 2 apps over 20MB, 5 over 10MB and many less than 5MB, but no where near 1.7GB installed. How can I work out exactly what is using what?

In other news I have rooted the phone and am running a lag fix as well as having Titanium Backup installed, so I'm not surprised I'm having a problem, I just can't work out what it is or how to fix it. I'd prefer not to delete messages and photo's and things randomly as I like to keep 'heritage' data on my device for reference (it's surprising how often it is useful to look up the licence plate in a photo or check the date an old message was sent) but the phone is becoming unusable as it is - I can't even check email now. So if someone could explain how I can find out how the 1.7GB of data is being used and why 178MB free may be insufficient I'd be most grateful.

Thanks.


Edit:
I probably should have said, when I mount the phone as an external drive on my PC the drive comes up as being 13.4GB, 3.34_used/10.0_free.

 

Thanks for the reply Rofa.
I do have Titanium Backup installed so there is a good chance that could be the culprit.

What I find perplexing is the "1.7GB used" and "178MB free" when the phone I have is meant to have 16GB of storage. After a fair bit of hunting I've seen people in other posts discuss things like "Phone Memory", "Internal a Memory" and "External Memory". From what I understand the phone is shipped with 16GB of memory but a proportion of this is section off as "Phone Memory". I had thought the "section off" part was about 2GB (leaving 14GB of "user" storage), so there for I figure my "1.7GB used" was measuring "Phone Memory". Any idea how one can look at exactly what is stored on "Phone Memory"?

I also tried looking for files with Astro and ended up deleting about 6GB of music I didn't much care for but the music was stored on "Internal Memory" so alas it did not help my 1.7GB problem .

So really what I'm wanting to understand is what is this mythical "Phone Memory" and is it possible for me to access it?