"Low on space"?

[DROIDBerryMA]

Ok - so I woke up this morning and as usual, grabbed my phone to see what I "missed" in the few hours that I had been sleeping.

Well, I noticed a new notification in my notification bar, and went to see what that was all about. Here's what it says:

"Low on space"

What??? This struck me as odd, so I went over to see my available space in settings. Here's what I found:

SD Card:
Total space: 14.83 GB
Available space: 11.26 GB

Internal phone storage:
Total space: 6.60 GB
Available space: 6.24 GB

Phone memory:
Total space: 748 MB
Available space: 647 MB

What gives????? When I click on the notification, it brings me to the list of applications that I have. Now, I'm not running anything crazy on this device, I never do. I have a few apps, and that's about it. I have NO music or videos loaded onto it. It's pretty basic, standard.

Anyone else ever get this notification????

[Willymakit 75]

No never has this before? Could the device be letting too many things run in the background? If possible run Advanced Task Killer? I guess if all else pull the battery and see if that helps.

[mclarryjr]

Don't use a task killer it will only cause more harm. I have a ton of apps, music, movies and have never seen that notification before. Try to power off and on and see if it comes back.

[tjubb]

I think it's cache related. I've had the same problem and based on some other threads it's a possible memory leak from one of the htc apps (mail, messaging, widgets). All I did was remove a couple apps I could do without, namely a few of the ones that take up the most space. Haven't had the message popup in 24 hours now. If it pops up again I'm afraid it's "hard reset" time as the big thread on this mentions others have had to do a hard reset and the problem has not resurfaced afterwards.

[drPheta]

HTC Mail Memory Leak/Bug ("Phone Storage Getting Low")

There you go. Sounds like what many of us dealt with

[krelvinaz]

Did you look in this thread (assuming you are using HTC Mail with exchange)

HTC Mail Memory Leak/Bug ("Phone Storage Getting Low")

[nyx528]

I had that problem on my Hero, and rooting & installing Cachemate cleared it up. It is cache related most of the time.

[evilgood]

So, what if you're not using HTC Mail?
The problem I have is that the Contacts DB is 90MB or more. I have Gmail and 3 gmail accounts synced to the phone.
3 account each have >1000 contacts, but, in reality, that export from gmail is 1MB or less as a text file.
I've tried to avoid connecting Peep, Facebook or Flickr via HTC sense to the contacts database, but I suspect that one of them is connected.

If I "Delete Contacts Data" will that sync back to Gmail???

Thanks in advance for any help. -EvilGood

[DROIDBerryMA]

evilgood - this was the precise problem! It was my contacts, it was over 100MB, once I deleted the contacts data, the problems went away, and after a few minutes my contacts all synced back.

Now I have no issues and my contacts are back down to about 10MB. All is well.

Thanks for your help everyone, I appreciate the links, they were for a different issue (I had read them prior to posting this link) but it was good to have reference to.

[gmz73]

mclarryjr...why do you not recommend task killer? My phone is going to be delivered Tuesday and that was one of the first apps I was going to get. Thanks in advance for any insight on this!