WTF is up with my storage? cant install anything!

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I hope somebody can help me with this cause Im not too happy right now. 2 days ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 and Ive signed into my Google Accounts so I can install my apps.

The device has 8GB of memory, Ive installed only 12 games yet the device tells me I do not have enough room to install more ?!?!? WTF ! I have 8GB of storage.

When I go to settings, SD Card and Device Storage it shows I have 5GB of space left.

Then I plugged the device into my computer to see if I can copy over some music, 1.25 GB worth copied to the device with no problem leaving me over 3GB of space so whats the deal? why cant I install a 20mb app but I can copy over a gig of music?

That's happened to me a few times. Try clearing Market cache in Menu > Applications > Market and reboot

I am curious... what error are you getting from your phone?

I get a "can't install on USE or SD card" error....

And its getting worse...

I have like 30 meg free... and get an error installing a 4 meg file...


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And I obviously have an error with tapatalk....

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Originally Posted by redpirate8

That's happened to me a few times. Try clearing Market cache in Menu > Applications > Market and reboot

If you meant Settings>Applications>Manage Applications I just did that and the option to clear the cache is greyed out and its already set at zero.

Originally Posted by rignfool

I am curious... what error are you getting from your phone?

I get a "can't install on USE or SD card" error....

And its getting worse...

I have like 30 meg free... and get an error installing a 4 meg file...


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the exact error reads:

Error

Error downloading "world of goo". there is insufficient space on the device.

Originally Posted by JonGarrett

the exact error reads:

Error

Error downloading "world of goo". there is insufficient space on the device.

Hi,

I'm still new to the SGP5 (in my case), but if you can, try to get something like App2SD installed. That tells you how much "internal" (not sure what its called on the SGPs) memory is available. At least on another device I have (a Droid), even though you have lots of space available, they only allocated a relatively small amount for "system", which is where apps normally go, so you can run out of that "system" space way before using up all of the internal SD space.

Apps like App2SD/App2SD pro will "move" parts of some apps (not all apps are "moveable") to the external microSD, leaving a much smaller "footprint" in the internal SD.

Jim

This is quite common, what you want to do is clear all the cache and everything else. To do this go to the Sd card or root of device and deleting the tmp folder and going into android and deleting other cache related to the device. Thats how mine got fixed.

hey thanks for the info. I was beginning to think I had a defective device. I wound up installing my apps a little bit at a time, took me a couple of hours. for some I actually had to side load them.

I will definitely get App2SD and see how that works.

This device is a Xmas gift for my 8yr old because he likes my Galaxy S II more than the iPhone 4 I gave him. he would not have been able to put all the games on it so I figured Id open it up and at least put all the games on it.

thanks again for your help.

Originally Posted by JonGarrett

hey thanks for the info. I was beginning to think I had a defective device. I wound up installing my apps a little bit at a time, took me a couple of hours. for some I actually had to side load them.

I will definitely get App2SD and see how that works.

This device is a Xmas gift for my 8yr old because he likes my Galaxy S II more than the iPhone 4 I gave him. he would not have been able to put all the games on it so I figured Id open it up and at least put all the games on it.

thanks again for your help.

Hi,

Mind you, not all apps will be moveable. I'm not sure of the technical details, but I think they have to be written a certain way to be moveable. In any event, a nice side benefit of apps like App2SD/App2SD Pro is that they will show you the space available for apps, so you get an idea about how much "headroom" you have.

Good luck,
Jim