Insufficient Storage Available even there is lot of free space in device memory

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The total space of my app is 10 nbsp MB  and after installation it will take less than 20 nbsp MB  In Galaxy Note I  while updating my app  it s saying  Insufficient Storage Available   where there is 214 nbsp MB of free space in device memory  internal   It happens even trying to download a new app   I searched long for the solution  and a perfect reason for the cause of this problem  but I can t find it  How do I fix this problem   This is the result of the  adb shell df  in my another device which has the same problem  It has 35 nbsp MB free space    dev  115788K total  0K used  115788K available  block size 4096   mnt asec  115788K total  0K used  115788K available  block size 4096   system  179840K total  168376K used  11464K available  block size 4096   data  201856K total  168524K used  33332K available  block size 4096   cache  108544K total  1284K used  107260K available  block size 4096   cdrom  8960K total  8632K used  328K available  block size 4096   tmp  2048K total  28K used  2020K available  block size 4096   pds  1536K total  1320K used  216K available  block size 4096   mnt sdcard  1928992K total  1014496K used  914496K available  block size 32768   mnt secure asec  Permission denied

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Some apps need to reboot to completely install  Android just says it has insufficient memory for some reason - it should say it needs reboot to complete the installation  Try it - it will install completely automatically when you reboot

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The memory may be in reserve by the OS to be used for running what you normally run  kind of like a swap file   You may be able to squeeze in another app or two by  Trying to install them right after a restart  or By force closing some apps that are running  but that second option may not be a good idea -- see the first link    But the only very good fix might be to  Repartition your SD card so that apps can be installed directly to it  see the second link    Take a look at forum post It was bound to happen  low memory warning   The important part is   The OS knows how much memory it needs to run the apps you already have  This is a perfect example  Now you may be able to  quot fool quot  the OS by force closing some apps that are sitting in RAM  This will increase your  quot bucket quot  of memory which may let you install an app  but remember if you do these types of things you will only cause issues down the road   lagg  error messages  etc   because you are fooling the OS in thinking you have given it additional memory which in fact you did   you only force closed    Another good explanation of what is happening is in forum post Low Internal Memory  The important part is   The reason why your internal space is filling up is 3-fold  First  when an app is  quot moved quot  to the SD card  it isn t completely moved  Only portions of it actually go  Second  the Dalvik cache of the app is still stored on the internal memory  which takes up a substantial amount of space   Three  the data for apps and all your system settings are stored in the internal memory  yes  some apps use the SD card for portions of their data  but every app has data stored on the internal memory    And the thread includes suggestions on what partitioning you can do to your SD card to allow  moar apps

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I had the same problem  and it was solved by using App Cache Cleaner     HT  acejavelin Android Forums

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If you have root  delete all of the folders on the path    data app-lib    And then restart your device   I had this issue many times  and this fix worked for me each time  It even has an XDA thread   I write all folders  because if there is a problem with one app  there is a good chance you have this issue with other apps too  Plus  it s annoying to find just the folders of the problematic app s

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At first I tried Berislav Lopac s answer  but I got Connection problem or invalid MMI code  when I tried to dial   9900   I was using CyanogenMod on the phone  and I believe phones with custom ROMs don t use the stock dialer  so they lack the SysDump functionality   Basically  Delete dumpstate logcat in SysDump clears out the log files in  data log  But you can also do this manually without SysDump   This is assuming your phone has been rooted  which will be the case if your phone is running CyanogenMod or any other non-stock ROM     Make sure Superuser and Terminal Emulator apps are installed   They come with most custom ROMs   Run Terminal Emulator Type in su  hit return  This will bring up a Superuser prompt  Grant access   You will have to wait three seconds before you can click  Allow    Change current directory by typing in cd  data log  followed by return  MAKE SURE you are in the data log directory by typing in pwd  followed by return  It should print out the present working directory you are in   data log  It is very important to make sure you are in the right directory as the next step removes all files in whatever working directory you presently are in  Remove all the files in the directory by typing in rm    followed by return  Close the terminal window or app  or type in exit to leave the su session    I deleted roughly 1 500 1 nbsp MB files like this and fixed my  Insufficient Storage Available  problem   As with the other posters  I own a Galaxy S II  so it seems to be a problem with that model   If anyone knows of the permanent solution to stop the log files building up  please let me know   NOTE  Some file managers will falsely list  data log to be empty as they are running unprivileged and hence lack the permissions to view the files inside

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I had more than 2 nbsp GB internal space and yet I was not able to install   update applications either from Google Play or manually    Whatever may be the reason  wiping the cache partition solved my purpose   Steps  Recovery -  Wipe cache partition -  Reboot system now

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The first thing to do is to check the details of the error message  For this you could use the LogCat App   For me the problem was an error like   Cannot rename native library directory  data app-lib vmdl-    to  data app-lib com xyz   The solution was to activate the common sense function in my brain and look for the com xyz folder in the app-lib folder with ES-Explorer  I recognized that this folder was already there  So removing it solved the renaming problem and the apps can now install properly

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I kept having this problem  and I cleaned up the Dalvik cache using Titanium Backup  You ll need to have your phone rooted  As soon as I did that I was able to update Swiftkey and Beautiful Widgets

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I had this problem even with plenty of internal memory and SD memory  This solution is only for apps that won t update  or have previously been installed on the phone and won t install   It appears that in some cases there are directories left over from a previous install and the new app cannot remove or overwrite these   The first thing to do is try uninstalling the app first and try again  In my case this worked for a couple of apps   For the next step you need root access on your phone   With a file manager go to  data app-lib and find the directory  or directories  associated with the app  For example for kindle it is com amazon kindle  Delete these  Also go to  data data and do the same   Then goto play store and re-install the app  This worked for all apps in my case

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I resolved this issue for myself  Though  the internal and SD memory was showing a lot of free space  It was an issue with phone memory  which was almost full   Hence  I moved many of my apps from the phone memory to internal iemory  to free up the phone memory  Settings -  Storage -  Apps  under the internal storage section  -  Internal tab  Here are the ones which are not checked and that are occupying the space on the phone memory      Click on the Apps  one by one    Click on the button   Move to Internal Storage     Once you free up a considerable amount of space on the phone memory this way  the error should not come

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The package manager     installer     has a design problem  it can   t distinguish between a bunch of possible errors and regularly comes up with the    insufficient storage    excuse   The first steps are done  identify it   s an install problem  1   and not related to storage shortage  2     It happens on the console  pm install file apk   with Google Play  other markets and manual GUI-install  for example     clicking    on a downloaded APK file   it is not a download issue      Packages end up entirely on the  data partition -or- mostly on the SD card  and a little on  data       Both places show enough space as indicated by the original poster  33 nbsp MB and  900 nbsp MB respectively  for the  lt 20 nbsp MB package     And    the  data partition has more than 10  free  33 nbsp MB is more than 10  of 200 nbsp MB     Surprisingly most answers don   t take this into account     In reality  the  data partition needs a cleanup from residues from previous installs    Identify the common name of the problematic package  for example  com abc def  Uninstall the package  for example  pm uninstall com abc def  Check what   s left of it in data  for example  find  data -name  com abc def    Delete that stuff   The installer chokes on those  returning with the wrong reason      The interesting part is  if the package gets installed on the SD card  forced or by other means  some  all   leftovers on  data don   t hurt    which leads to the false belief that it is indeed a space problem  more space on the SD card       The Stack Overflow question where I got half of this from is Solution to INSTALL FAILED INSUFFICIENT STORAGE error on Android

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I tried several of the suggested solutions  but none of them worked for me  After some research I stumbled upon a hint to move some apps from  data app to  system app  That freed up enough space to install new apps and update existing ones   I can recommend the free utility SystemCleanup for moving the apps

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This is the easiest thing to do  Go to settings  look for storage or memory touch it and look for cached data  touch it and clear your data from there  SIMPLE

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Clearing the Google Play cache memory will also help you     Go to the app information page of Google Play and clear it

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Go to Settings  Apps  All and uninstall Google Play Store  This will replace by the old version and then you can download without the  Insufficient Storage ERROR   It works for me

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After uninstalling a few apps I m able to install the new one      I think OS calculates the total memory required to run all apps  If it doesn t fit then it says  in sufficient memory

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I got the same error message in case the package name was too long   128 chars   Just using a shorter name fixed the issue

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I have an un-rooted Nexus 4  which has only internal storage  no SD card  and was getting this error with larger apps updating  Smaller apps would update fine   I discovered that it was because I have recently signed up to the Play Music All Access service and had pinned several albums   These are downloaded to the hidden  data partition and it was this that had run out of space  I assume   I unpinned a couple of albums and now have no problems installing apps

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1  Restart the phone and then re-install the application  I was also getting the same problem Insufficient Storage Available on my device  but I restarted my device  and it worked fine  PS   2  Install application on external storage For this  set Storage Location with the following command adb shell pm set-Install-Location 2    2 for external storage   SD card  1    adb shell pm set-Install-Location 1    2 for internal storage   adb shell pm set-Install-Location 0    for auto

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Here s a very simple solution that works on my Samsung Galaxy S II and Note 1  I have no idea about other models    Open the phone app and switch to keypad  Dial   9900  On the screen that appears  click on the button labelled  Delete dumpstate logcat     I ve restored about one GB of system space this way

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I had the same issue on Galaxy S4  i9505  on stock ROM  4 2 2 ME2   I had free space like this  473 nbsp MB on  data  344 nbsp MB on  system  2 nbsp GB on  cache  I was getting the free spate error on any download from Play Store  small app  2 5 nbsp MB   I checked LogCat  it said  Cancel download of ABC because insufficient free space    Then I freed up some space on  data  600 nbsp MB free  and now it s working fine  apps download and install     So it seems like this ROM needs a little more free space to work OK

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I also had this issue while installating an app after I had uninstalled that  I resolved downloading Lucky Patcher and then click on menu - troubleshooting - remove fixes and backups  insufficient storage available   Please notice you need your device to be rooted

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Most of the space you have available is reserved by the OS  The best and easy fix is to move your apps to external storage  This will free up a lot of space for you

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Does the app necessarily have to be installed in internal storage  If you are not running any service  you could try installing it on the external storage  This can be done by adding the following code in your manifest    manifest    xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android   android installLocation  preferExternal         This usually works on Android 2 2 and higher in most of the cases  Be sure that your app will work properly if it is installed on the external storage  You ll get a good idea on what kind of apps can be installed on external storage in App Install Location

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When it comes to areal device  the behavior of devices seem different to a different group of devices   Some of the strange collection of the opinion I heard form different people is    Restart your device after unplugging Remove some apps from device and free at-least 100 nbsp MB Try to install your app from the command line    adb install  Application path Move your application to SD card storage or make it default in SD card in the Android manifest file  android installLocation  preferExternal  You got a lot of memory acquiring stuff in the Raw folder which installs a copy in phone memory while instating an APK file and the device doesn t have enough memory to load them Root your device and install some good ROM which help to letting the device know about its remaining memory    I hope one of them is relevant to you

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The same problem was coming for my phone and this resolved the problem    Go to Application Manager  Apps from Settings  Select Google Play Services       Click Uninstall Updates button to the right of the Force Stop button  Once the updates are uninstalled  you should see Disable button which means you are done      You will see lots of free space available now

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I did not find a free solution that worked  but I found a solution  I used the non-free version of Titanium backup  clicked on the context button and chose to check the memory occupied by apps  Find the download app  and you will see that it has a certain amount of space allocated to its cache  Clear data is the option that you want

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