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One of the things you will also find in a Google search is that Name Calling never fixed a Low Space issue.
I believe what you meant to say was that it's not always a simple issue to track down and you are correct. However, clearing data in the most notorious data hogging apps like Facebook is in fact the first place to start.
The version of Sense we have is not as data efficient as it should be, and the bloatware put on by VZW does not help in the least. Unfortunately moving apps to the SD card and keeping your SMS and email storage trimmed down is how most alleviate the problem.
Sorry your experience with your DInc was not a pleasant one. Hopefully you next phone will meet your expectations.
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I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
I don't know who you think you represent. Go ahead and try to lecture me.
It would be better if you did more research. This problem goes back to 2009 and hasn't been fixed. It's far more complicated than simply blowing out some VZW apps, facebook, etc. If you spend 20 or 30 hours reading about this like I have, and another 20 hours doing all manner of things and rebooting your phone, you might have a reason to be in this thread. Go into diagnostic modes, even. I know more about the phone than you do.
It's not fixed. It's not going to get fixed. It's shameful on the part of HTC. Read. Don't post.
My expectations are far exceeded in everything except one thing. I expect the phone to work. It does not.
Since you don't like my style, here is something from someone who stated it better than I can do:
Re: Low Phone Disk Space/Memory - DROID INCREDIBLE by HTC (Verizon) - Android Forums - HTC Community
Posted by Matrixesque
on 1 Dec 2011 8:30 AM
Well, I just wanted to pitch in that I've had the same problem for the better part of this year. In that time I've factory reset my HTC Incredible twice, gone through a Gingerbread update (which killed any text, email, or app syncing when an out-of-memory error would occur--missed a lot of notifications due to that) switched to Handcent and Gmail exclusively for text/email clients, and learned to aggressively manage my application cache memory. These days, I now have to regularly clear my apps caches every few days to scrounge every little bit of memory, despite having plenty of space both on the SD card and internal memory. This is a whole lot of fun since then I need to regularly sign-in to all of my accounts.
The post where the HTC rep said that Android limits application data to 50-100MB or something is complete bunk. No application on my phone ever takes up more than 20MB or so, if HTC's Application settings are to believed. Perhaps that's true behind the scenes, but I don't have any control over it.
Despite the over-enthusiastic response of some forum posters, there isn't a single silver-bullet fix to this problem other than constant vigilance and conservative app usage. Everyone has different stories about deleting *something* and the error message going away. I can safely say this is only a temporary fix. Too bad we can't check in with them a few days or a week later and see how they're doing. Frankly, if the "solution" is to limit my social media participation, truncate my application history, and delete caches that are used to speed application response time, then I don't want a part of that solution. What's the point of having an expensive smartphone if you can't USE it?
This isn't even some sort of greedy user downloading his laptop's harddrive to his phone and expecting everything to go well. I just want to read the NYTimes, search through my email from the past few days, and perhaps stream Google Music stutter-free when I'm in a waiting room. In none of these cases is the internal storage or the SD card even remotely close to capacity.
Look, I loved the Incredible when it worked. I loved the form factor, the zippiness, the UI, just about everything about it. I bought an aftermarket 3500mAh battery for the little guy and now I never have to worry about plugging my phone in, despite heavy usage. You can't say that about other smartphones--even iPhones. Motorola has sloppy/ugly designs. Samsung was in the same boat until the Galaxy S II. So yeah, I really wanted to return to HTC during my next upgrade cycle.
I can safely say that this debacle has really turned me off to HTC in the future. The purpose of this post is perhaps try to get through to someone at HTC so they can somehow change their management of these problems. There really needs to be either a quicker fix (seems like it's a hardware/OS interaction problem, so not so easy!) or better design in the first place. I'm cynical enough to know they're not going to fix problems unless there's money on the line; well there is: my next phone won't be an HTC phone. I work with technology every day, and while I love projects and tinkering, I don't want my phone to be a project.
Well, thanks for the memories, guys.