My Device Storage space issue, **SOLVED**

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In an earlier thread of mine about my Device Storage (Lack Of). I want to share with you all, especially as this issue appears to be a common theme running through the forum, how I came about resolving mine.

I suddenly came to a situation whereby my phone was showing 0.00mb of Free Device Memory, annoying popup messages, not being able to install anything to the phone etc. Even though, since getting the phone, I'd installed virtually everything to SD card. I totally could not understand it?

I know I'm running the crappy UK o2 1.43 ROM, but surely this wasn't entirely to blame? One of these days I'll pluck up the courage to update the ROM. Bad memories on this score with my old Omnia i900.....!

Turns out that after downloading & viewing several youtube videos over a period of time and which I thought I'd deleted after viewing, were in fact being stored in a folder on the phone, thus taking up my valuable device memory.

If anyone views online videos then it might be worth trying this.

Launch File Explorer and navigate to: Windows>>Opera 9>>Profile>>Download. I had approaching over 100mb of valuable device storage space stored in this file. After deleting these video files I now have 119+mb of free device storage space. No more annoying pop up messages!

I'm not saying this is a fix for everyone who has device memory issues, but its worth checking out, especially if you view on-line vids.

Just wondered if this had helped anyone?

I watched few youtube vids as well and my storage is 0.00. It had ~15 MB of stuff, but no youtube vids, deleted, thanks.

I'm doing a bit of "spring cleaning" myself, and have just freed up a bit of extra space. I was just wondering how you managed to get youtube videos in an Opera 9 download folder? (I'm just about to check that folder myself)

Speaking of youtube, where are the vids stored, if I watch them through that HTC app?

Originally Posted by johncmolyneux

I'm doing a bit of "spring cleaning" myself, and have just freed up a bit of extra space. I was just wondering how you managed to get youtube videos in an Opera 9 download folder? (I'm just about to check that folder myself)

This is a mystery to me as well. All I know is that when I select a youtube video online the video player that HD2 uses (not sure what this player is, it certainly isn't WMP?) then gives me three options, which are: Open, Save & Cancel. I always select open. I then have to wait maybe 2 or 3 mins until a green download bar has reached 100%, this signifies that the video has been downloaded. I'm then able to view the video. After viewing I select an icon in the bottom right corner of the screen. This gives me a further 2 options, which are: Delete & Remove All Completed. I select delete.

There must have been occasions where I haven't selected delete, or forgotten to, and these are the videos I found being stored in the Download folder within Opera 9.

With my old Omnia i900 when I selected a video to view, WMP immediately opened up and began buffering the video. I would maybe have to wait, at the most, 10 seconds for the video to buffer. I was then able to view the video. I certainly didn't have to actually download the video as I appear to be doing now. I would much rather be using WMP as the viewing time is much quicker. I don't want to use the player the HD2 seems to use by default. But how do I get videos to play through WMP?

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Help on this much appreciated.

Yes I am also facing problem with memory. When I try to watch any youtube video through the HTC application I get the message ' memory is full' I donot have a folder called download within the opera folder.

Originally Posted by RoN_HD2

In an earlier thread of mine about my Device Storage (Lack Of). I want to share with you all, especially as this issue appears to be a common theme running through the forum, how I came about resolving mine.

I suddenly came to a situation whereby my phone was showing 0.00mb of Free Device Memory, annoying popup messages, not being able to install anything to the phone etc. Even though, since getting the phone, I'd installed virtually everything to SD card. I totally could not understand it?

I know I'm running the crappy UK o2 1.43 ROM, but surely this wasn't entirely to blame? One of these days I'll pluck up the courage to update the ROM. Bad memories on this score with my old Omnia i900.....!

Turns out that after downloading & viewing several youtube videos over a period of time and which I thought I'd deleted after viewing, were in fact being stored in a folder on the phone, thus taking up my valuable device memory.

If anyone views online videos then it might be worth trying this.

Launch File Explorer and navigate to: Windows>>Opera 9>>Profile>>Download. I had approaching over 100mb of valuable device storage space stored in this file. After deleting these video files I now have 119+mb of free device storage space. No more annoying pop up messages!

I'm not saying this is a fix for everyone who has device memory issues, but its worth checking out, especially if you view on-line vids.

Thought id check it out as a i have lost a bit of ram recently and used youtube a bit. When i go to windowns/opera9/profile i dont even have a download folder so no luck for me there :(