[Q] Randomly Low On Storage [SOLVED]

[dmoneypros]

Hello all I have a rooted Aria with FR008.

Had it running smoothly for about a week until the last couple days.

Had a little over 100MB of space left on the phone, then legit 45 mins later( the phone standing idle) I randomly got the "Low On Space" message at the same time Android system usage went up to 80% + for about an hour or so and drained the battery to below 10% then the system usage went down to about 20%.

Any ideas on what causes this? It happened two days ago and I just started from scratch, and then it happened again today...getting kind of frustrating wiping the phone every other day.

I've used all the cache cleaners, task killers, and moved everything to the SD than can be.

I just find it strange that I saw that the phone had 133 MB left of space...legit hit the power button, then turned it on 45 mins later to find that warning...and having less then 8MB left on the phone.

Are there any programs that update automatically that dont go to the SD card?

Any help is appreciated...thank you!

 

[tpbklake]

Which programs do you have installed and do they run in the background?

 

[dmoneypros]

Gmail, Dropbox, ebay, twitter, facebook, barcode, astro, apps2sd, wifi analyzer...plus the task killers and cache cleaners....

Had them installed for a few days running fine, and then like I said, in a matter of 45 mins, before I knew it, the go from 100+ MB to 9 MB internal storage.

This happened today, and the only program new I installed today was the Wifi Analyzer

Thanks.

 

[tpbklake]

Gmail, Dropbox, ebay, twitter, facebook, barcode, astro, apps2sd, wifi analyzer...plus the task killers and cache cleaners....

Had them installed for a few days running fine, and then like I said, in a matter of 45 mins, before I knew it, the go from 100+ MB to 9 MB internal storage.

This happened today, and the only program new I installed today was the Wifi Analyzer

Thanks.

Which task killer are you using? Is the cache cleaner something that runs automatically, too? What purpose does the Wifi Analyzer do and does it do any logging?

 

[dmoneypros]

Using the Advanced Task Killer...I tried setting the cache cleaner both to manual and auto clean...no difference. The Wifi Analyzer doesnt do any logging, just detects the wifi signal stregnth. Either way this is the second time its happened, and the first time I didnt have the wifi analyzer.

Thanks.

 

[tpbklake]

Using the Advanced Task Killer...I tried setting the cache cleaner both to manual and auto clean...no difference. The Wifi Analyzer doesnt do any logging, just detects the wifi signal stregnth. Either way this is the second time its happened, and the first time I didnt have the wifi analyzer.

Thanks.

Is this your first Android phone? Why are you running Advanced Task Killer? What was your reasoning for deciding you needed to run it? With the FR008 ROM and Froyo 2.2 using a task killer actually has a negative impact on the Aria. Android does a great job at managing the memory just fine. So try removing Advanced Task Killer and the cache cleaner and see if that solves your issue.

 

[dmoneypros]

Ive uninstalled both of what you asked, restarted the phone a couple times and still have the message on the notification bar at the top

"Low on space"
"Phone storage space is getting low"

 

[tpbklake]

Ive uninstalled both of what you asked, restarted the phone a couple times and still have the message on the notification bar at the top

"Low on space"
"Phone storage space is getting low"

What else did you do to clean up the phone storage space? How much storage was available when you started?

 

[zervic]

Try going into clockwork and clearing cache. Also clear cache on market and browser.

 

[dmoneypros]

Thanks for all the suggestions...I just ended up starting fresh again...tried all your suggestions and still had the low storage space warning...I'll just have to take it day by day and hope it doesnt happen for the third time!

 

[kinggrowler]

I had the same problem until I enabled a2sd. You might want to check if it is enabled; it was not on my FR008 - i think you have to do it after the fact.

 

[m3galoman1ac]

You can change the text message limit to automatically delete a thread after a certain amount is reached. You can also use Titanium Backup to uninstall stock apps that you don't use, or even freeze apps that you don't want running all the time.

Sent from my Aria using XDA

 

[matt_b]

when you are starting fresh all of these times, are you doing a complete wipe?

i ran into an issue with low phone storage while running cm6 from all of my back and forth flashings. when i decided to start using cm7 nightlies, i wiped data/cache, formatted system partition, and upon installing the rom had plenty of space and haven't had any issues.

i'd try a complete and utter wipe of all your phones data/cache.

 

[dmoneypros]

Little late, but its better to have this info here for others, found the issue...It was the Twitter application. It was syncing the contacts and with my 10K plus followers, it was chewing up my space