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Titanium Backup "insufficient free storage space" error
This is due to the 'Mount namespace separation' setting in SuperSU being turned on (by default). Untick that, reboot and try your Titanium Backup operation again.
This happens because the permissions ...
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My adoptable storage is full. How can I move the data to a bigger MicroSD card?
Having a similar issue, I read through the comments to your question and ended up doing the following based on a hint suggested by Barleyman:
Go to Settings > Storage & USB › Internal Storage, ...
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How disk space is used on Android device?
Android's filesystem hierarchy is a bit complex and people often find it difficult to grasp. A major reason for confusion is that Android isn't very expressive in explaining these things and it's not ...
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How can I move apps to SD on non-adopted Marshmallow storage?
Marshmallow internal storage can be better used with a mixed-format SD card as I also explain in my blog here:
http://blog.sam.liddicott.com/2016/02/android-6-semi-adopted-storage.html
First, you ...
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Titanium Backup "insufficient free storage space" error
This happens due to some service change in kitkat. Some research on google showed that there is an app available to modify the platform.xml file. The app once run, prompts the user to allow it to go ...
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Titanium Backup "insufficient free storage space" error
At TB's startup it always displayed a warning that SuperSU's namespace separation feature "might not work reliably on some platforms".
Well, I never faced any problems until a recent SuperSU update......
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insufficient storage even with marshmallow sd card formatted for internal space and plenty of space
I have the same phone & same SD card setup. David Coleman has good advice, but here are some additional points.
Many apps will not even show the word "Change." That means they cannot be moved to ...
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Is it safe to delete .thumbdata3 file?
You can delete that file safety, but it will be recreated soon. I have not tried to prevent its recreation, but the method described in this article might work... Let us know if it does!
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How can't install a 338KB app when I have 474MB free?
Note: the quoted user was me. And here is the reference. To explain why it wasn't 10% in your case, here's an exception from behind the link: "As long as the device maker doesn't change the default ...
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How to adjust the threshold for the "storage low" event?
Low storage threshold is the minimum value of the two:
sys_storage_threshold_percentage (default is 5%, was 10% on Android 7 and older). It's multiplied with the total storage size to get threshold ...
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How to free Internal Storage by moving data or using symlink / bind-mount with Adoptable Storage?
First of all, symlinks don't work on Android's emulated storage. A workaround is to use bind mounts instead. See this answer for details.
But with Adoptable Storage you don't need to:
Create symlink ...
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Installing to SDCard by default
Install "Terminal Emulator for Android" in your mobile and open
$ su
# pm get-install-location
0[auto]
# pm set-install-location 2
# pm get-install-location
2[external]
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Google Play store asks to uninstall apps on sd card to free up space for new installations
See App Install Location for what could be the reason
When your application is installed on the external storage:
The .apk file is saved on the external storage, but all private user data, databases, ...
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Titanium Backup "insufficient free storage space" error
(Titanium Backup)batch backup interrupted: insufficient storage space
this solution work for me any one can try see if it work.
I have a fix. I did a little research and found that you can edit /etc/...
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I cannot take pictures because my phone says "your internal storage is running out of space"
I managed to fix the issue where I was getting an "Insufficient storage" for my camera app. This was after I 'changed' a MicroSD card in my Moto X Pure. It was driving me a bit batty. But it's ...
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How can I get rid of the low disk space notification?
Run these commands from adb shell or a root terminal (the second may not work on later versions of Android):
settings put secure sys_storage_threshold_percentage 5
settings put gservices ...
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insufficient storage even with marshmallow sd card formatted for internal space and plenty of space
I had the same problem because, although adopted storage is supposed to merge the internal storage with the SD card there is still a distinction between the two and Google Play still seems to want to ...
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Deleted thumbnail file but no space was freed
The .thumbnails folder has a file of the format .thumbdata4* whose size is shown to be really big usually. But in reality, it's not a big file and it's size is shown as such is because it's not a ...
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What Is Using Up My Storage/Data on Android Phone?
You can examine storage usage from terminal with du
in your "about phone" settings, tap "build number" 7x (seven) times to unhide the hidden developer settings, then enable USB-...
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Can I change the dalvik cache location e.g. with a symbolic link?
Of course you can. Although it seems like there's no problem to migrate dalvik-cache to a normal SD card filesystem (the most common, vfat), it still is highly recommended that you format your SD card ...
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I cannot take pictures because my phone says "your internal storage is running out of space"
None of the solutions here (or elsewhere) worked until I did a very simple thing:
I downloaded another camera app from the Play Store. All of them are taking pics normally.
This solved my problem ...
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How much free storage does Android need?
Having worked for a major phone carrier in tech support for the last 3 years I have noticed that a lot of the common procedures for androids typically recommend to have at least 150 MB of storage ...
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Using 64GB SD card, yet Play Store doesn't install apps because of insufficient memory
There are two solutions to your problem:
Moving apps from internal memory to SD card (not necessary external SD card).
This will allow you to install apps on the internal memory while the data of the ...
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What Google Apps can I disable?
Generally speaking, any system app you can disable can safely be disabled. Core system apps will have the disable button greyed out. You can see this if you open App info for the Settings app itself.
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How to move /data from internal storage to external SD card?
If you want to set your SD card as the default storage device, go to settings > storage, then select default writing disk to SD card. This will make your phone store everything to the SD card by ...
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How can I move apps to SD on non-adopted Marshmallow storage?
You are correct. Android Marshmallow has done away with apps being on the SD card when it's setup as portable storage. The only way to use it in that way is with root and apps like LINK2SD.
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How to determine the amount of app space available?
It's your /data partition running low on free space (as always when this error occurs – see our insufficient-memory tag-wiki for details, first-aid and further information). According to the output ...
Izzy♦
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MIssing internal storage
You didn't name the device, but that's the usual way manufacturers fool their customers without lying: the storage chip has 8GB, but guess where the OS is installed? Looks like on your device, ~4GB ...
Izzy♦
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why can't I download apps with 29 gigabytes of free memory on sd card
Your android device has internal and in your case external storage. The external storage is, in this case, your SD card with 29GB of free memory.However most of the android apps get installed on your ...
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Constant decrease in android's internal storage free space
Seeing the reference to WhatsApp... I installed All-in-One Toolbox today for another problem (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=imoblife.toolbox.full&hl=en). I happened to notice it ...
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