After GB, I'm permanently Low on Space

[Lestah_613]

Hmm might be an individual case. I don't have any problems similar and I have a boatload of apps running, not rooted and with 2.3.3
And I'm just as unhappy with gb as well tho. Grrr. I smell a conspiracy aloot, they made our Evos ****ty so wed be forced to upgrade.

 

[DirkBelig]

Such conspiracy thinking makes no sense because to deliberately gimp hardware to "force upgrades" could either make users angry and switch brands/carriers or trap them with phones they can't afford to upgrade because they have another year on their contracts which makes them angry and see above. As Hanlon's Razor postulates, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

 

[VaccPalm]

Definetly think that has something to do with it. Wish they would just fix this.

Hmm might be an individual case. I don't have any problems similar and I have a boatload of apps running, not rooted and with 2.3.3
And I'm just as unhappy with gb as well tho. Grrr. I smell a conspiracy aloot, they made our Evos ****ty so wed be forced to upgrade.

 

[DirkBelig]

Today's kick in the shins was downloading the SwiftKey X VIP beta and going to install it, but get slapped by the phone (Low space!) and the installer which refused to run because there wasn't enough space. I had 41MB of space, but no install for me! Blew away the Google Reader and Facebook data sets to allow the install, but this is getting tiresome. I literally cannot install anything new without deleting an another app. WTF does email fail just because you have 9% space remaining?

 

[DirkBelig]

Has anyone anywhere been able to sort this problem?!? I am now forced to clear my Reader and Facebook data caches twice a day to get rid of the low on memory error which effectively renders it useless since email can't come down, etc. I can understand the warning and would even accept if it stayed in the notification area 24/7, but for the phone to unilaterally decide that 42 MB free space = 0 MB free space is total effing BS!!!

 

[slwatts]

I am glad I am not the only one. There is a definite memory leak on my phone. No matter what I delete, I am down to 42 MB within 24 hours. I have deleted every app possible and moved everything else to the SD card, and I am still back to 42 within a few short hours. About to do a factory reset now. Mad.

 

[kchitown1977]

There is now root for OG Evo. So hopefully you can get rid of alot of those issues we got with GB OTA

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[Cydley]

Well, FWIW,I fixed it. I uninstalled Google Earth and Netflix. Though both were on the SD card....IDK... weird...but it worked.Im now up to 50mb free. Hope that helps someone else out.

GOD BLESS YOU! I've spent DAYS screwing around with this, trying everything under the sun. Was just about to bring it into the Sprint store and have them look at it when I tried this. Worked like a charm, I only had Google Earth loaded, but once I uninstalled, the message disappeared, and I reinstalled and moved to the card with no problem. This solved not only the low storage space message, but also the problem with the GMail app not syncing/pushing. I was at 42MB before making the changes, and after uninstalling/reinstalling Google Earth, then installing all the updates I couldn't perform with the low space message, I'm actually UP to 52MB. Weird.

 

[snowwy66]

i'd like to know what i'm doing wrong. cuz i've gone weeks without rebooting and still have 217 megs. i've yet to have the low on space issue.

 

[DirkBelig]

I don't have Google Earth or Netflix on my phone. I tried uninstalling Google Sky Map in case there was a common bug between Earth and Sky (heh), but it didn't help. I have to clear Facebook or Google Reader 2-3 times per day as the phone effectively dies as far as Gmail goes which is 98% of my mail. How the effing eff the phone ceases to work with 42MB free space is appalling!!!

I wish they'd get the latest OTA update tweaked up for rooted users so I could see if that fixes what the last one broke. I don't see it listed anywhere at XDA or in the root subforum here. I don't know if it's because everyone ran off to the EVO 3D or because those methods are favored by those running the mod boards and thus uncovered (though they did before), but all I know is that because of whatever is causing this and the INSANE decision that 42MB = 0MB, I'm at my wits end. I'm almost ready to jump to a Galaxy II S, regardless of cost, to get a WORKING PHONE!

One thing I saw referenced was deleting files stuck in the phone's hidden .mail folder. The problem is that no file manager I've tried can see this folder (if it exists) and attaching the phone to a computer just accesses the SD card. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[Treesham]

this problem is bringing me to the end of my rope. ever day, i lose a little more memory, and it's getting to the point where there's nothing left for me to delete.

 

[DirkBelig]

Tell me about it. Unless this gets resolved NOW, I'm seriously contemplating investigating what it will cost to get a Galaxy S II (what's Sprint version, the Epic Touch 4G?) because I've effing had it with this. I'd switch to CyanogenMod but it appears significant development has halted, especially since their founder sold out for a gig with Samsung. Nice for him; sucks for us.

For the past few days, it's been behaving and not screaming that it's low, but since yesterday, it's back with a vengeance. I wanted to use my Telenav program (Sprint's having a contest where using it gives you more entries) and the 7 MB of data it needed to download drove me to 35MB free which is permanent uselessness because of the utterly broken nature of the low space warning. I had to immediately blow away the data.

Here's a weird detail: My contacts storage usually runs in the 12MB range, but during a few of the Google Reader purges I saw it has dropped into the 9MB range. (How sad is it that I'm desperate for 3MB of space?) I hadn't made any changes to contacts of much note, but as of today it's back up to the usual 12MB in size.

I'm really starting to think those who are having this problem are screwed. I was hoping to see if the latest OTA would fix it, but the usual sources for deodexed files to update rooted phones seem to have gone missing. I'm seeing threads on rooting the later-dated EVOs that come with Gingerbread, but older phones which went from Eclair to Froyo to Gingerbread appear SOL.

 

[Parker Clack]

Try clearing the data in your Gmail app. Then resync your Gmail account. I was able to get about 10M back by doing that.

 

[DirkBelig]

I did that before and after the resync was in the same state, space-wise. The only difference is that I had to go thru and reset all my alert tones and settings. Waste of time.

I just rebooted into recovery and wiped Dalvik-cache and cache and at first it showed 65MB free, but apps weren't working like Quick Settings and my icons were missing. After it regenerated them, I'm back at 48MB free and all I'll need to do is start Google Reader or post a photo to Facebook and I'm screwed again.

 

[DirkBelig]

I just flashed the 4.53.651.1 update for rooted phones and with Facebook and Google Reader caches cleared and a few other things like Footprints cleared, I've got 45 MB free space and it still barfs at ~42 MB, so it looks like I'm totally screwed because there is literally nothing I can do without that's not eating space and can be moved to the SD card. I either have to get rid of important programs or not use them properly, all because of a bug which makes it see 42MB as empty. Absolutely pathetic. I've lost so much esteem for HTC over this. Samsung is calling.

 

[Parker Clack]

What as hassle. I will be upgrading to the Samsung Galaxy S II for the 1G of RAM and dual core processors. While I love my EVO I look forward to not having to worry about what programs I can have installed before I run out of memory. Right now I am riding 50M but with the phone not allowing you to install anything new or updates if you drop below the 45M mark the 1G of RAM looks tempting enough to upgrade.

 

[Treesham]

i am just baffled as to why this problem hasn't been addressed. i LOVE my Evo, but this kills it for me, and makes me question whether I will get another HTC phone.

 

[DirkBelig]

I switched from Google Reader to gReader because the latter could be moved to the SD card and that seemed to help for a few days as it hovered around 49-50MB. Then, over the weekend, it plunged down to a constant 42-43MB and repeated Low Space pop-ups and all the nonsense that comes with that. I looked up and down my apps and everything was on the SD card that I can move and what was left was so miniscule as to be irrelevant - what's deleting a 300KB app going to do for me? A: Nothing.

Then I ran DiskUsage on the Internal memory and noticed something odd: Several apps that were on the SD card according to application management menu were showing up in the tally in the internal RAM with the majority of the space being listed as Dalvik-cache. I went and uninstalled Scrabble Free, eBay, Android Central (sorry!) and something else and am currently over 52MB free space. While this is a kludge, perhaps there's a clue for someone brighter than me (not hard!) to determine why these SD card apps are eating up internal space? I'm also still waiting for an explanation (STILL!) as to why 42MB = 0MB. Grrrrr.

I'm about to try totally nuking the phone and reloading apps to see if there's some glitch that cordoned off 40MB somehow for some reason. PITMFA. Still contemplating a Galaxy 2 move. Dammit!

 

[Treesham]

maybe i'm blind, or maybe there was announcement i missed, but i wonder if HTC isn't giving a rat's ass about this problem because they don't even acknowledge the EVO 4G on their website any longer.

 

[DirkBelig]

Sprint is EOLing the EVO within the next 6 weeks. It's obsolete. Such is life.

I just read Anandtech's Galaxy S 2 review and that's it, I'm gone. I made some mad money over the weekend at a street fair selling off old DVDs and games and I'm gonna get one unless it's crazy expensive. The EVO was a great phone, but this issue has forced me to look for alternatives, just as my Pre's crappy performance forced me to look for something else, leading me to the EVO.