Insufficient storage: google playstore error

Fitseries3 · Apr 29, 2012

before anyone jumps on my ass... i HAVE googled the **** out of this and spent 2 days looking for an answer. NOTHING i've found has worked.

i CANNOT install ANY updates via market. the ones i have tried, end up telling me "insufficient storage available" and then seem to disapear. facebook, maps, gmail, and a few others did this. one by one apps are leaving my phone. NO there is not a virus.

i've tried:
repairing permissions via TWRP
cleared cache/dalvik
deleted TONS of txt msgs
removed lots of apps
moved as many apps to SD as i could
deleted old nandroid backups
deleted old TIbackup backups
used leedriod to fix permissions
installed apps2sd and moved apps

im 5mins from doing a factory reset.

HELP!!!

some info:
nocturnal adrenaline r118
2.17.651.5
sense 3.0
hboot 1.4

metalfan78 · Apr 29, 2012

You didn't say if you went into 'applications', manage, play store, and then cleared data. I hope you tried that and then rebooted. Same thing has happened to me and this cleared it up.

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Fitseries3 · Apr 29, 2012

tried that as well.

jslim38 · Apr 29, 2012

I know you may want to here this but you may need to reflash the Rom and and do a full wipe and a super wipe and wipe dalvik ceche wipe ceche and format system and the list go's on basicly wipe everything and run a super wipe tool and then flash your Rom if that doesn't work then you may want to try another Rom

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jslim38 · Apr 30, 2012

I know how you feel my girlfriend phone had the same problem

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Rydah · Apr 30, 2012

Mine did too yesterday. Factory reset was only thing that worked.

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aagame · Jul 3, 2012

factory wipe work, but in my case, after some time the problem keep reappearing. i can't find a proper solution for this yet.

fearwillkeepus · Jul 3, 2012

Try turning the autosync off on your Google accountunder settings(not playstore) then back on. If that fails try signing out if your Google account then readding it.

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aagame · Jul 3, 2012

Is there no progress regarding this issue?

fearwillkeepus · Jul 3, 2012

aagame said:
Is there no progress regarding this issue?

Try what I said. Want to know if that works

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laie1472 · Jul 3, 2012

Try clearing data on google services framework and google partner setup. Then reboot. Then add your account again and try the market.

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aagame · Jul 4, 2012

Here's a compendium of not working solutions i've tried

repairing permissions via CWM recovery
uninstall market updates/use old market
cleared cache/dalvik
use marketfix
deleted TONS of txt msgs
removed lots of apps
use cache fixer
installed apps2sd and moved apps (ungazedata2sd,darktremor,link2sd)
find corpse app using sdmaid
Flash/reflash various ROMs
deleted old nandroid backups
deleted old TIbackup backups
uninstall/reinstall TIbackup
used Rom Manager to fix permissions
Try turning the autosync off on your Google accountunder settings(not playstore) then back on. If that fails try signing out if your Google account then readding it. (New)
Try clearing data on google services framework and google partner setup. Then reboot. Then add your account again and try the market. (New)

Here's a compendium of temporary working solutions i've tried:

unmount sdcard->install app->mount sd card only work for one download
using logcat to find specific file copy problem only work for that particular file, other download will still display this annoying error.
factory reset only helps for a while, and this annoying error came again.
Repartion/reformat sdcard also provide temporary solution, but soon the error came again.

This is soooo frustrating man!

Keion · Jul 4, 2012

aagame said:
Here's a compendium of not working solutions i've tried

repairing permissions via CWM recovery
uninstall market updates/use old market
cleared cache/dalvik
use marketfix
deleted TONS of txt msgs
removed lots of apps
use cache fixer
installed apps2sd and moved apps (ungazedata2sd,darktremor,link2sd)
find corpse app using sdmaid
Flash/reflash various ROMs
deleted old nandroid backups
deleted old TIbackup backups
uninstall/reinstall TIbackup
used Rom Manager to fix permissions
Try turning the autosync off on your Google accountunder settings(not playstore) then back on. If that fails try signing out if your Google account then readding it. (New)
Try clearing data on google services framework and google partner setup. Then reboot. Then add your account again and try the market. (New)

Here's a compendium of temporary working solutions i've tried:

unmount sdcard->install app->mount sd card only work for one download
using logcat to find specific file copy problem only work for that particular file, other download will still display this annoying error.
factory reset only helps for a while, and this annoying error came again.
Repartion/reformat sdcard also provide temporary solution, but soon the error came again.

This is soooo frustrating man!

Get a new SD card.

KrewsialNL · Jul 4, 2012

Weird how this problem is popping up up left and right.

I just had the same with CoolRom. Play Store AND apk files outsode of it could not be installed anymore.

Had to factory reset and now it works fine again. Pretty weird if you ask me...

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stevefwt · Jul 5, 2012

Both times I've had this error I used Cachemate to clear the cache, the apps then installed. Dunno why but suggests not enough RAM rather than storage.

aagame · Jul 5, 2012

jdeoxys said:
Get a new SD card.

Already tried these sd cards:
2GB Class 2
Samsung 2 GB Class 4
2 different Transcend 32 GB Class 10 (New)

stuck again.

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KrewsialNL said:
Weird how this problem is popping up up left and right.

I just had the same with CoolRom. Play Store AND apk files outsode of it could not be installed anymore.

Had to factory reset and now it works fine again. Pretty weird if you ask me...

Sent from my HTC EVO 3D X515m using xda premium

Factory reset is a temporary solution, after some time, the bug will come again.:crying:

stevefwt said:
Both times I've had this error I used Cachemate to clear the cache, the apps then installed. Dunno why but suggests not enough RAM rather than storage.

already tried clearing cache/dalvik, but not working 4 me.:crying:

MightyBen · Jul 9, 2012

Had the same problem with my Evo 3D. The problem is that you have to have at least 10% free internal storage in order to install anything. So move some big App to SD card to solve this.

aagame · Jul 9, 2012

No solutions up until now yet, but the real culprit is the cache created by google playstore in the cache partition when downloading apps.

I found a workaround to use until google sort out this bug. I backed up all of my apps, do a factory reset,and restore the app. In order to prevent google playstore to build up it's cache when downloading new apps, i use an apk leecher, transfer the apk to sdcard, and install from sdcard. Sometimes i have to use market fixer to link some installed apps to playstore. i preserved the cache for updates only.

not very pretty and i don't like this, but at least it worked.

1branchonthevine · Jul 21, 2012

Just verifying...You sound like you know what you are doing, but just in case...

Maybe you really are out of space... when you did apps2sd/Link2SD, did you actually partition the SD card with two partitions? Use that 32GB CL10 and make a 4gb partition (use the recovery formatter, since most align the partitions, don't use winblows/linux), then use Link2SD (my preference, since it's UI manageable, plus apps2sd didn't work for my rom anyhow) and click "Link" (not move to SD). Link moves the .apk, cache, and user data (if I recall correctly) to the "4GB" partition, but move-to-SD just moves user data to the larger USB mountable FAT partition, so this isn't going to move everything, plus it's not as flexible when mounting via USB. Good luck!

aagame · Aug 19, 2012

Thank you very much for reminding me. I did make 3 partitions which includes 2gb of sd-ext, 1 gb of linux swap, and the rest is fat32. on the sd-ext, i've symlinked data, cache, google play cache, system/app, and user/app partitions. there was still plenty of space left on it (more than 800mb at that time).

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