External storage, meaning your sd card, has nothing to do with apps. You need to clear out some space on the internal memory. Unless you have a ton of games or several hundred apps installed, then something is misbehaving and filling your space. If you are rooted try wiping cache and Dalvik, otherwise your best bet is to probably to factory default and add things back in manually (do not backup/restore apps or allow the Play Store to auto-restore your apps).i got an sd with 32 gb, but when i try to download any apps it still say that there is insufficient storage available. what do i doo??
The Amazon shopping app?!?! Wow... I use Amazon all the time and I just looked, it is using 16MB (9MB for app&data, and 7MB for cache). Cleared data and the gain corresponded with that.I had this problem despite moving all possible apps to sd,in desperation I started clearing data from the apps,
it was when I cleared Amazon almost 740mb of data suddenly became available!!
I now clear the data regularly from this app & have had no further problems.
I found a fix.
This friggen problem has been plaguing me for months on my Galaxy Note.
The Note has 2GB of untouchable system storage (unless youare rooted), and I was constantly at 1.9GB. Every update would respond with insufficient storage available.
Therefore I would clear all caches, delete each large apps data, uninstall updates, and this would give me enough space to squeeze in another update. Maps, google search, facebook where the biggest hogs.
This solution removed enough logging crap to give me back over 600MB of storage and suddenly all my ubdates started downloading and installing with space to boot.
Solution.
Using the phone keypad, Dial *#9900#
Then select the menu item "Delete dumpstate/logcat"
Now enjoy your new phone. And all works as normal, nothing deleted.
Of course it still says you are low on space, all you did was make the external sd card larger, that isn't used by the system for "storage" space... clear out some of the data on the INTERNAL storage or remove some applications.I got a micro sd card, however it still says low on space...even though i got 32 GB
I found a fix.
This friggen problem has been plaguing me for months on my Galaxy Note.
The Note has 2GB of untouchable system storage (unless youare rooted), and I was constantly at 1.9GB. Every update would respond with insufficient storage available.
Therefore I would clear all caches, delete each large apps data, uninstall updates, and this would give me enough space to squeeze in another update. Maps, google search, facebook where the biggest hogs.
This solution removed enough logging crap to give me back over 600MB of storage and suddenly all my ubdates started downloading and installing with space to boot.
Solution.
Using the phone keypad, Dial *#9900#
Then select the menu item "Delete dumpstate/logcat"
Now enjoy your new phone. And all works as normal, nothing deleted.
yeah... that's great and all but how's that going to help when they have removed that little feature from most if not all the latest phones??You can go into each app and if the app writer wrote the option into the app, you can move the app to your external sd card. I am must a geek who has so many even this doesn't help me.
Go to Settings > Apps > Select an App > Select move to phone storage.
If you want to move the app back to the phone internal storage you do the same and select "move to phone" on the last step.