Insufficient room on device

**b.roberts** · 11-11-2011, 06:39 PM

I have been having troubles downloading market apps. I have tried clearing data and cache, but that doesn't seem to help. I even unistalled apps to the point where my phone is nearly empty. I have about 1.66gb available phone memory and 13gb available internal sd card memory. Any ideas of what's going on?

**loraque** · 11-11-2011, 09:24 PM

Are you stock?

I have seen lots of complaints on this for "larger" apps. By larger they are not referring to the total size, but the amount of space in the /cache partition. If this is the same problem, and it probably is IMO, Captivates normally only have 30MB allocated for /cache and that is a problem. Or this could be a similar issue I have read about, if you are running CM7, with the /data/data allocated space. In both cases I have seen it get resolved in the custom ROM world. If it is a sign of our phones starting to age, that sucks

Hopefully someone a little more certain will chime in.

**b.roberts** · 11-12-2011, 09:06 AM

No, not stock. I have been using cognition for about a year. Started.having this problem about a month ago. Switched to fasty7. Currently using the latest serendipity, which I really like, but the market problem has persisted.

**b.roberts** · 11-12-2011, 09:09 AM

Maybe I just need to upgrade to sgs2. I really like my phone, but the galaxy looks really nice.

**apbthe3** · 11-12-2011, 02:33 PM

Try going into settings / applications and uninstalling the market updates. This should fix it temporarily to let you install the app you're trying to install, but once the market re-updates you will be back where you were before.

**joe1987** · 11-12-2011, 02:55 PM

b.roberts...I had this issue after installing some rather large apps. I kill all tasks and rebooted, did the trick. Was able to continue on to the next app I want to install....

**b.roberts** · 11-13-2011, 09:08 AM

Thanks for the advice guys. Tips worked to get "normalish-largish" apps like angry birds back on my phone.

**kbolt876** · 11-13-2011, 10:29 AM

You could try the following. It worked for me indefinitely.

With a terminal emulator:

su
umount /cache
mkdir /sdcard/cache
busybox mount /sdcard/cache /cache

**liquid64** · 11-15-2011, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by kbolt876

You could try the following. It worked for me indefinitely.

With a terminal emulator:

su
umount /cache
mkdir /sdcard/cache
busybox mount /sdcard/cache /cache

+1 on this. I use gscript lite to execute these commands when I run into apps that are larger than 30 gig in the market.