Over the past few days, the free internal storage on my phone has suddenly dropped dramatically, and now there is almost no room left--I need to keep deleting apps. I can't understand where all the space is going. I haven't been installing new apps, and I've been deleting caches for everything.
I started with just under 20MB free on the internal storage, which stayed pretty constant for many weeks. I'm unrooted, stock firmware, the ZVC version (never accepted the pushed update). A few days ago I was very surprised to see the free storage down to maybe 8MB. I figured maybe it had to do with temporary files from market updates, but the number has been going down rapidly ever since then. Yesterday I went under the 1MB mark; I can no longer receive text messages or emails.
I've looked at the memory usage reported under Settings-->Applications and nothing has suddenly jumped up in size. I have tried clearing the caches for everything, including the browser, the market, YouTube, Google Maps, etc., and gained no appreciable free space. I've started to uninstall apps, but this has not freed up any unexpectedly large amounts of memory.
The apps I've used in the relevant period have been TweetDeck, GTasks, Email (stock), Browser (stock), Maps, Google Sky Map, and Locus Free. I have since deleted Locus Free, on the theory that this might be the culprit, but it hasn't helped.
Any thoughts on what might be eating up my storage and how I might fix it? Failing that, if I need to delete everything and start over from scratch, is there a way I can do so and keep the ZVC firmware? Thanks in advance for any replies!
I started with just under 20MB free on the internal storage, which stayed pretty constant for many weeks. I'm unrooted, stock firmware, the ZVC version (never accepted the pushed update). A few days ago I was very surprised to see the free storage down to maybe 8MB. I figured maybe it had to do with temporary files from market updates, but the number has been going down rapidly ever since then. Yesterday I went under the 1MB mark; I can no longer receive text messages or emails.
I've looked at the memory usage reported under Settings-->Applications and nothing has suddenly jumped up in size. I have tried clearing the caches for everything, including the browser, the market, YouTube, Google Maps, etc., and gained no appreciable free space. I've started to uninstall apps, but this has not freed up any unexpectedly large amounts of memory.
The apps I've used in the relevant period have been TweetDeck, GTasks, Email (stock), Browser (stock), Maps, Google Sky Map, and Locus Free. I have since deleted Locus Free, on the theory that this might be the culprit, but it hasn't helped.
Any thoughts on what might be eating up my storage and how I might fix it? Failing that, if I need to delete everything and start over from scratch, is there a way I can do so and keep the ZVC firmware? Thanks in advance for any replies!