{"id":688,"date":"2012-03-01T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2012-03-01T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T03:35:10","slug":"fix-running-out-of-internal-storage-space-android-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/fix-running-out-of-internal-storage-space-android-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Running out of Internal Storage Space Android devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever received an error stating that \u201cyou are running low on storage space\u201d or something to that effect on you Android phone? Then when you check you see that you have what looks like<\/em><\/strong> loads of free space on you internal SD card AND your external one too! And then you can\u2019t figure out what is causing that error notification and you are not sure what you are to do?<\/p>\n

Like most people, you probably do some research on the net. And in most of the first responses\/search results you see people start telling you that you need to either uninstall and remove applications or even \u2018move\u2019 some application to the external SD card? Well DONT DO THAT YET! As with most stuff on the internet not all that makes it to the top of the search results is good advice or even close to correct!<\/p>\n

But fret not. There is a solution you can use FIRST that is much simpler and probably the RIGHT one. [Don\u2019t get me wrong, you may actually have way too many applications and<\/em> if your device is rooted (and if it\u2019s not why not?) you can actually move most of your downloaded applications to an external SD card. But that is for another post]<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to add a few \u2018pre\u2019 steps here. <\/p>\n

1st do a full Titanium Pro backup. [Read through my previous posts about this application.] In case you clear the cache and settings of an application that absolutely needed you can restore the data via Titanium! Saved me having to re-enter all my book marks and settings in my browsers (Dolphin HD and Firefox)! Simply opened Titanium and chose Backup\/Restore, found the application in question and restored data. BAM done.<\/p>\n

2nd I\u2019d do a full CWM backup. I\u2019m a believer in images. [all you have to do is read through my blog to figure that out.] If you don\u2019t have a custom CWM based recovery don\u2019t worry. Titanium should be all you need.<\/p>\n

OK, So let\u2019s free up loads of space by clearing application caches and data stores.<\/p>\n

By clearing the cache that some applications use, you can reclaim quite a lot of storage space!<\/p>\n

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