Questions tagged [insufficient-memory]
The **'insufficient memory'** error often occurs in connection with data sync or app installs when your device is running low on *internal* storage (i.e. phone, not the internal SD card).
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Where did all these photos and videos come from?
My phone's memory is so full that it won't let me take or download pictures anymore. Also cannot download almost any app due to low memory. When I look at memory usage, most of it is used for photos ...
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my internal memory is empty but cant add new apps
Not enough storage when loading apps to my phone why is this and my internal memory is empty, also new 4gb memory card is brand new.
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insufficient space with space plenty available
My tablet has internal memory of 4g and external (not sd card) memory 32g.
When downloading apps are stored only in the internal memory and nothing to the external.
How to direct my downloads to the ...
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Repartitioning Android phone's internal memory
I have a Micromax Unite 2 on Android 4.4.2 KitKat. The original internal memory was 8 GB, but now it shows me only 1.67 GB.
I used a third-party app to see what happened. It shows me unallocated space ...
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"There is insufficient space on the device"--This is not duplicate [duplicate]
My mobile is Micromax Canvas HD Plus .It has 4 GB inbuilt memory and 16 GB external memory card.I have selected SD Card as default location to install apps but still when I try to install app from ...
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Moving Apps From Internal Storage to SD Card
Is there a way to transfer apps like Facebook or WhatsApp that reside on phone memory to SD Card without rooting my phone?
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internal memory
My phones internal memory is only 2GB. I only have very few apps like facebook, viber, etc.
When I bought my phone I installed a lot of apps and games but did not have any problems with the internal ...
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How much free storage does Android need?
How much free storage does Android KitKat need?
I've noticed that when storage (not RAM) gets down to somewhere between 200 and 300MB, Android starts to complain that it will not be able to function ...
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insufficient space? [duplicate]
I have an android next book tablet. I have a 16 GB SD card in it. Why is it still telling me I have insufficient space? How can I make things download straight to the SD card and not the internal ...
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Make my external SD card as my internal memory for apps [duplicate]
I have a CUBOT P7 phone with very little internal memory, so I installed an 8GB external SD card.
However, my apps will not download directly to there, and I have no more space on my internal memory....
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How can i change app data location?
My default write disk is external sd card , my internal sd total space is 5.28 gb available is 4.66 gb my sdcard total space is 14.83 am using 16 gb available in sd card is 11 gb . my phone storage ...
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Can't delete app because it isn't there
I have an LG L70 and was downloading an app that was about 470 megabytes and then i got a notification saying that there wasn't enough space on the phone to download it so i clicked it and it looked ...
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How to reinstall Playstore?
Do you have any Idea to reinstall Playstore?
Do I need to Flash it?
Do I need to reset factory?
Do I need to download apk?
Can you help me?
Please?
Device:Cloudfone 700d tv
I don't know how to ...
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why does my tablet say insufficient space? [duplicate]
I have a few apps, but this tablet is new and I want more apps. Every time I say download, it says I have insufficient space. Please help!
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Get Rid of Google Play Services
I am using Micromax A80 with Android A80 from last two years. (Android Ginger bread, RAM of just 256MB)
From last two weeks Google Play services application is taking too much memory and phone gives ...
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How to deal with link2sd?
I installed link to sd and moved apps without creating the 2nd partition , do I must unistall my apps (I can't move them to internal storage),If I can do a recovery please tell me how!
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Is it possible to increase the RAM on Android devices, like a phone or tablet?
I recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 32GB (SMP900) tablet. I love the tablet. However, the RAM seems inadequate.
I use the tablet to do lots of movie streaming, playing games, digital ...
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Apps on SD Card taking up internal storage (
My phone has been claiming the impossible for a while (see screenshot). Namely, it claims that more internal memory is being used than is available, and hence it is rather difficult for me to download ...
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Missing space/Storage space running out Galaxy S2 [tried almost every solution I can find!] [duplicate]
I periodically get this error on my phone. It will say the internal storage is running out but when I check the storage use it will say:
Total space 1.97 GB
Available: 182MB
Apps: 622 MB
Cached 11.70 ...
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insufficient storage space when running updates on S4 mini
my s4 mini keeps trying to run an update but everytime I allow it to, a message pops up saying that I dont have the 539mb (or something like that) in my internal memory or sd card. But I have deleted ...
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Why are some apps unmovable?
I recently just started downloading a lot of apps, and sometimes it will come up with saying insufficient storage available even though I've only used 4GB of a 32GB card. I'm not sure how it's not ...
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Unable to install app on Micromax A106
I'm unable to install an app on Micromax A106. It shows sufficient space in storage, but an error comes out as not enough space.
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What is the internal storage being used for?
My Android phone is showing me a notification saying that the "Phone storage is low". So, when I click on the notification, it shows me this:
The total space used is 6.59 GB, but the space used by ...
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unable to free up space on samsung s3 mini
I've got a Samsung S3 mini. It keeps telling me that I have insufficient space. I have just deleted loads of photos and videos, I only have a few apps. Instagram, pinterest, watsapp and picsart. I ...
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insufficient space on the device in my Micromax canvas 4 what to do [duplicate]
What to do ?
I can not install any application in my device?
I have tried clearing cache of all the applications .
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why won't my apps go to sd card
I have a tablet that has little memory and I needed an sd card so I got one, but I still have 29 GB on the sd card and when I try to download an app it says insufficient memory because I ran out of ...
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Problem with internal memory of a S4 mini
I have 1 month old S4 mini with 32 gb of internal storage. . I have only installed 3 apps on it and now it tells me it has insufficient internal memory to install any more. I have 20 photos on it and ...
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I can't use the sd card to download apps [closed]
I just got a new phone but when I try to download something it says insufficient space but my sd card has plenty. How do I fix this?
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Moving internal memory to external sd card [duplicate]
My phones internal memory is full, how do i move it to my secure digital card? How can i get
my files
off my secure digital card if i took it out wrong, I did a factory reset?
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Insufficient storage when attempting to download app [duplicate]
I got my new lg g3 and when i try to download something it says that there is insufficient space on the device. I looked up some solutions and google play services doesn't let me uninstall updates. ...
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Cannot install Whatsapp - it says insufficient storage available
I just got a new android phone running 4.4.2 as an interim before I buy another phone. After factory reset, I tried to install Whatsapp. This was the first app that I tried to install and it failed ...
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insufficient space while updating WhatsApp on CyanogenMod
i hope you can help me with the following problem
I was forced to update the newest version of WhatsApp (26.Dec 2014).
Whatever i tried, update has aborted.
Error Message: insufficient space
Several ...
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insufficient space on device [duplicate]
I am getting "Insufficinet Space" errors when I try to update whatsapp on my HTC desire. I am running CyanogenMod 7.
My filesystem usage looks like this:
df -h
Filesystem Size ...
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How to add memory on an android phone
I brought a sandisk memory for my android but its still saying insufficient space on device. What do I do about putting the memory on the phone?
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Regarding the "Error Downloading: insufficient space" error in the Google Play store [duplicate]
I've spent a long, long time searching for a viable, long-term fix for this problem; though I'm beginning to believe that Google Play (or Google Play Services) is to blame. I recently factory reset my ...
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Insufficient storage message when attempting to install app [duplicate]
I am using a Samsung Galaxy S2. I have been trying to download apps, but get the insufficient storage message even though I have enough space free. However, the internal storage is almost full (200 MB ...
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ZTE Midnight Memory [duplicate]
I just got a ZTE Midnight literally today and when I tried to download some of my favorite apps, it told me the memory was full. So I went in to see what was on my internal memory, and its already ...
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Not enough storage error when trying to update an app
I have a Nexus 4 with more than 500 MB free storage space:
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Now I would like to update Chrome, but I get the error, that there is not enough free space to update it:
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LowMemoryKiller is killing loads of system apps and forcing user space death, but "free" says there's plenty of memory
For some time I've had a problem, where crucial system processes were being force killed by LowmemoryKiller/OOM.
Following help, I added a 500 MB swap file working natively a couple of days ago to ...
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swap internal sd card to external storage
I wanna make my external sd my internal one without having the need to use an app. So Instead of having 8GB of internal storage I want to have 64GB (taken from the micro sd card). It worked on my ...
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Cannot use internal memory partition in my Nextbook 7 16GB tab
I have just purchased a Nextbook 7 16 gb tab. I have installed only a few apps and then got the message of "Insufficient Memory". I looked in the storage section and found the tab has TWO partitions ...
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Why can't I take pictures?
Every time I go into my camera it says "your storage is full" I've deleted apps I've deleted pictures and I've cleared data and cleared cache and everything so why can't I take pictures it and it ...
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"there is insufficient memory on the device" [duplicate]
Well my dad just bought some phone for me "x-touch ocean" and I've beeeeeen trying to download apps but it keeps saying "insufficient memory on the device" I tried deleting apps I already found in the ...
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My new unused 8 gig tablet only gives me access to 100mb of internal storage despite displaying 4gigs of free memory. Please help!
I have a new 8gig All winner a23 quadcore Android tablet. I have only a couple of apps installed, and my tablet is giving an insufficient storage space error.
On inspection (photo attached) there are ...
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How to download apps on 4gb storage so I can move it to the SD card?
I have a HTC Wildfire S, and it's only got 4GB storage. I have a 16GB mirco SD card, but I can't download things because I'm out of the 4GB space (I don't know how ... ), so I can't get them installed ...
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Device memory in Galaxy S2 vs Nexus 5
My biggest issue with Galaxy S2 that I currently own is "device memory" being limited to 2 GB. I don't have any music and rarely take photos, so I end up with lots of free space in "USB storage" (~10 ...
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Use SD card (or part of it) as internal storage
I recently rooted and installed CyanogenMod 10 on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7" tablet. My main purpose for doing this was to get rid of the bloatware that came with it so I could have more apps because ...
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What space am I running out of when trying to install an app?
I am trying to install a new app that is around 2MB (owncloud client), but it fails with "Insufficient storage space...".
From the above screenshot I can't find a partition (other than the ...
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storage space running out error? [duplicate]
So on my android tablet that I've had for about five months I'm getting an error in my notification bar that says storage space running out some system functions may not work. I don't know how to fix ...
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Out of memory errors on S2. Safe to delete all dumpstate files?
My Android S2 is out of memory and unable to update apps. Specifically it is currently using nearly all of the paltry 2gb partitioned for apps.
I'm reading that you can issue *#9900# in the dialer,...