Just a cautionary note for other users; I am posting this so that if it happens to you, you don't needlessly exchange the phone.
I had the phone just two days and began to get warning message about low on storage space. Then, a few minutes later, I got a text message alert, but it tossed it because it had no space. "No space to receive text message" or something like that.
The device was still working as a phone, and I could still access email with it.
I called Sprint tech support, they said no way should a phone in use 48 hours should be doing that, so they said phone needed to be swapped.
I did some troubleshooting, found browser app was taking up 108MB of space. I did a "reset" on that app (Settings --> Applications --> Manage Applications --> Browser --> Clear data) and allowed it to throw away what few bookmarks I had, and the problem was fixed. After reset, the browser was 208K. Added: Now that I revisited the browser app management window, there is a clear cache button - somehow I did not see that before - was it greyed out? Anyway, always try to clear the cache before doing a "clear data".
It was later I realized how to check the overall storage space utilization (Settings --> Applications --> Running Services) that shows that colored bar thang.
I had been using the browser to see if it could display some Java-based weather radar animations - the web page was this one (ok to visit that link on your Android as the problem was a link on that page, not the page itself).
The "fatal" link was one of the links labeled loop on the left side of that page... I may have had a couple of them going. When I just received a white screen, I exited the browser and probably didn't close those sessions. Somehow, this ballooned the browser app until it exhausted all of the space.
4G_4ME
I had the phone just two days and began to get warning message about low on storage space. Then, a few minutes later, I got a text message alert, but it tossed it because it had no space. "No space to receive text message" or something like that.
The device was still working as a phone, and I could still access email with it.
I called Sprint tech support, they said no way should a phone in use 48 hours should be doing that, so they said phone needed to be swapped.
I did some troubleshooting, found browser app was taking up 108MB of space. I did a "reset" on that app (Settings --> Applications --> Manage Applications --> Browser --> Clear data) and allowed it to throw away what few bookmarks I had, and the problem was fixed. After reset, the browser was 208K. Added: Now that I revisited the browser app management window, there is a clear cache button - somehow I did not see that before - was it greyed out? Anyway, always try to clear the cache before doing a "clear data".
It was later I realized how to check the overall storage space utilization (Settings --> Applications --> Running Services) that shows that colored bar thang.
I had been using the browser to see if it could display some Java-based weather radar animations - the web page was this one (ok to visit that link on your Android as the problem was a link on that page, not the page itself).
The "fatal" link was one of the links labeled loop on the left side of that page... I may have had a couple of them going. When I just received a white screen, I exited the browser and probably didn't close those sessions. Somehow, this ballooned the browser app until it exhausted all of the space.
4G_4ME
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