How to increase storage for Android Emulator INSTALL FAILED INSUFFICIENT STORAGE

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I get this sometimes not often  for one of my projects  couple of classes only  Installation error  INSTALL FAILED INSUFFICIENT STORAGE  How do I increase emulator s storage

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On Android Studio Open the AVD Manager   Click Edit Icon to edit the AVD   Click Show Advanced settings   Change the Internal Storage  Ram  SD Card size as necessary  Click Finish   Confirm the popup by clicking yes   Wipe Data on the AVD and confirm the popup by clicking yes   Important  After increasing the size  if it doesn t automatically ask you to wipe data  you have to do it manually by opening the AVD s pull-down menu and choosing Wipe Data   Now start and use your Emulator with increased storage

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I m a beginner  but I had that problem while playing around with the  Hello Grid View    I was trying to use my own photos  which were all very large in file size   The quick fix was to reduce the number of photos  thus reducing the size of the APK file   But  I guess my follow up question for anybody else who hits this thread is this  How do I attach large files like JPGs and MP3s to an app and make sure they save on the SD Card so the APK remains small

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you can start the one when selecting  one item from the left tree  virtual device  in AVD manager dialog on the platform of eclipse  the start UI has the option  Wipe User Data

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I guess you should restart the emulator with  emulator -wipe-data -avd YourAvdName  or check  Wipe User Data  in run configuration if you are using Eclipse    I am facing the same issue right now

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To resize the storage of the Android emulator in Linux   1  install qemu  2  Locate the directory containing the img files of the virtual machine  Something like    android avd  avd and cd to it   3  Resize the ext4 images  i e  for growing from 500Mb to 4Gb execute   qemu-img resize userdata img  3 5GB qemu-img resize userdata-qemu img  3 5GB   4  grow the filesystem   e2fsck -f userdata img resize2fs userdata img e2fsck -f userdata-qemu img resize2fs userdata-qemu img   5  For the sd card image  optional  rescue the data   mkdir 1 mount -o loop sdcard img 1 cp -a 1 2 umount 1   6  resize the image from 100Mb to Gb   qemu-img resize sdcard img  3 9GB   7  re-generate the filesystem   mkfs vfat sdcard img   8  optional  restore the old data   mount -o loop sdcard img 1 cp -a 2   1 mount -o loop sdcard img 1

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this problem comes with android 1 5    try 2 0 or 2 1 or 2 2

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Run AVD Manager  Select your AVD and click  Details     button   In my case AVD Manager sets disk size as  disk dataPartition size 4000M   This invalid value  disk is approx 500MB despite numbers specified   Go to AVR s folder by path in  AVD details     Edit it in config ini to  disk dataPartition size 4000MB   and remove all  img files

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Update  This answer is  as I write this  nearly eight years old  and about five years stale  But it s still  as I write this  the  accepted  answer  because it answered the question when it was asked   The newer answer  that applies to the newer Android Studio tools  can be found here  https   stackoverflow com a 35828035 62 -- it s a great answer with screen shots  If you re using Android Studio  ignore the Eclipse answer below   Original Eclipse-based Answer  I was searching for the answer to this question  and was unsatisfied with the above answers  But then I found the answer  so here it is for future reference   To summarize  and clarify   in Eclipse  go to  Debug Configurations   You can find that in the drop-down under the  debug  icon  Select  target   and select a preferred emulator target to launch  Then under  additional emulator command line options   add this   -partition-size 1024  Then CLOSE the emulator  and remove any devices   and click the debug icon  which will launch the preferred emulator you selected  This is important  Eclipse needs to launch the debugger  not AVD    That fixed the problem for me

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you need to increase virtual memory of emulator  How to increase virtual memory of emulator  emulator -avd  Emulator Name  -partition-size 2024  after then try to install your apk

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Update your settings in AVD Manager and start the device by enabling  Wipe user data   This worked for me

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Just start emulator by command line as follow   emulator -avd  lt your avd name gt  -partition-size 1024 -wipe-data

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avd manager has an option  ideal size of system partition   try setting that to 1024MB  or use the commandline launch option that does the same   fyi  I only encountered this problem with the 4 0 emulator image

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The following approach worked for me   Navigate to your android SDK tools folder in the terminal window  in case you didn t added the path for it  Make sure the virtual device you re planning to clean is powered off  Run the command    emulator -wipe-data -avd YourAvdName  where YourAvdName is the name of your virtual android device

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The only time I ve seen this happen it was when the host filesystem was basically out of space  Do you have much free space on the filesystem where the VM s filesystem is stored

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It is defenetly not a appropriate answer  but it is a small hint   If you want to make use of static files in your App  You should put them as resources or as assets  But  if U have memory concerns like to keep your APK small  then you need to change your App design in such a way that    instead of putting them as resources  while running your App after installation  you can take the files defenately different files as user may not keep files what you need  from SD Card  For this U can use ContentResolver to take audio  Image files on user selection   With this you can give the user another feature like he can load audio image files to the app on his own choice

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lt manifest xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  package  com android junkfoodian  android installLocation  preferExternal       this line can work for  Installation error                                                               INSTALL FAILED INSUFFICIENT STORAGE

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Add the following to the avd config ini  disk dataPartition size 1024MB   Let me know if this works for you also    I added in the line

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Try choosing project -  clean  A simple clean may fix it up

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I was doing an install of an apk   adb install  home me jones android-arm apk   And I was getting an error message telling me that    data local tmp jones android-arm apk   was too big   Using the sdk tools from r15  and ADT 15 I was able to use the AVD manager to manipulate some of my existing emulator s settings   Window- gt  AVD Manager - gt   select you virtual machine  - gt  Edit   then going to the Hardware properties window just below  Skin   I was able to select  with the Hardware  New button  Ideal size of partition   I was not  however  able to   set the value other than to  0   Undaunted  I went to my   HOME   android avd directory  There was a  MyVm avd  directory  Going into that directory I found a  config ini   file   There was the entry    disk dataPartition size 0   I set this to   disk dataPartition size 1024      then went back to the AVD Manager  selected MyVm  selected  Start   opted to wipe user data win the dialog following  and was able to run and install

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