What's eating my 'Internal memory'

[Guest Kaiser Wilhelm II]

Running the stock 2.1 ROM (but I've removed a load of Orange bloat-ware using a root file explorer) ... When I boot the phone I have approx 30megs free 'Internal Memory' (from 208.12 total) but this steadily drops down to around the 20meg mark whereupon my phone starts giving me 'running low on memory space' warnings every couple of minutes. It can take anything from about half a day to two days after power cycling to reach this condition.

This started about a month and a half ago. I've removed everything that I've installed recently, one at a time, but seems to make no difference. Perhaps it's an upgrade to software that I'd installed? Is there any way to trace what could be doing it?

(Actual RAM is typically around 60% free at 250meg or so, depending on what I'm running)

[Guest richardop]

I've found the same problem, 30-40MB free when I boot, but after a few days it's down to <21 MB and is nagging me.

I would guess it has something to do with apps internal caches, and I've also found the market can easily hang/crash and temporarily eat up 10+MB

[Guest exec]

Go into Settings > Applications > Manage applications > Press the "All" tab then hit menu button and press "Sort by size" and you should see the apps that takes the most memory.

[Guest shadowninty]

repartition!

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

do you guys have a 256 megs phone or what ??

[Guest Kaiser Wilhelm II]

Go into Settings > Applications > Manage applications > Press the "All" tab then hit menu button and press "Sort by size" and you should see the apps that takes the most memory.

That just tells you how much space the installed app ate up at install time, not what is currently being used by it.

I just had the handset give me the low memory space warning again (less than six hours after a restart) and took note before and after reboot - exactly the same result. However, the total 'Internal memory is back to almost 30meg available having been down to 20meg or so.

I thought that the 'internal memory' was essentially space for installing programs into, not actual working space? Plnety of RAM space available.

Edited February 20, 2011 by Kaiser Wilhelm II

[Guest Kaiser Wilhelm II]

repartition!

Yeah, I intend to monkey about with the phone some way down the line but for now I just want to know what has gone out of control and is eating the internal memory as even if I free up more space it's only eventually going to get eaten up.

[Guest tsddave]

Hmm Ive usually for 192 free and the phones just before the low storage warning always :D

[Guest targetbsp]

Mine does that too in all roms. The internal free space (as shown in titanium) gradually goes down in use and recovers after a reboot. Just seems to be the way it works. If you have froyo, most of your apps can go on the sd card so you'll always have so much free space you won't care. :D

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

usually with froyo you have at least > 200 megs free

(just looked now and i have 252 megs free)

[Guest targetbsp]

Have you partitioned? I only have 218 total in Froyo! With 110mb of internal storage used and 120mb of apps on the sd card.

Edited February 20, 2011 by targetbsp

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

Have you partitioned? I only have 218 total in Froyo! With 110mb of internal storage used and 120mb of apps on the sd card.

yes

i use A2SD with an ext3 partition

at boot phone has quite 300 megs free

(if you mean by the TPT method no i haven't changed the internal partitions sizes)

Edited February 20, 2011 by Phoenix Silver