Low on space notification

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Marlene M

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Please help. I searched far and wide through the previous threads, but can't figure out what is wrong. I'm now getting the "Low on space" notification that the phone storage space is getting low. I know this will be difficult to figure out without having my phone in front of you.
I tried deleting cache, clearing history, form data, all of that from the internet app.
I had gmail app running with sync all going and stopped that. But I really don't understand how the sync function could cause this problem.
I deleted a bunch of extra apps that I don't use.
Internal phone storage is at 16MB and seams to drop each time I go back to it. Now it's at 4 MB and I haven't done a thing with it.
At one point I got a message that memory is completly gone and then a message popped up that an app was forcing closed. "The process com.google.process.gapps has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
I have an HTC droid eris.
Firmware 2.1
Baseband 2.42.01.04.27
Software 2.37.605
There's more info, but I don't know what's useful to pass on here.
Do I need to root the phone and find the problem myself? I couldn't find a thread here that specifically addressed rooting a 2.1 droid eris. Is there such a thing?
 
youre going to have to delete some apps. you get that notification when you have 10mb internal storage space left. clearing cache wont help because it will fill back up rapidly.
 
What simms said... I don't know if the Eris is a Sense phone, but you can see exactly how much storage each app is using. On standard Android it's in Home -> Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications. It will be something similar on Sense if the Eris has that.

You will then be able to see how much storage each app is using. Consider uninstalling anything using more than 5MB unless you really really need it, and consider uninstalling everything else unless you really need it. From that list, go into Browser and Market and click Clear cache. That will help in the short time, but like simms said the caches will fill up again.
 
Thanks extorian. That did help. It turned out to be my gmail. Since I have the bad habbit of not erasing emails, when I went through some older emails it loaded them onto my phone's memory. Through the gmail app. Or it had something to do with syncing all the folders in gmail. Whatever it was put about 64 mb of data on my phone. All mail. So as it was downloading I could see it slowly taking the memory. I also shouldn't allow all my mail to be downloaded by the mail app.
 
Yeah that can happen. If you delete as many emails as you can online, or move them out of your Inbox into a new folder/label and call it something like "Old" or whatever. You can then tell your GMail app not to sync the Old folder. Then if you go through the menus I described above and find GMail Storage, and hit Clear Data on that, it will erase everything from the GMail app. That's OK though, because as soon as you go back into the GMail app it will re-download everything from the server again. Only this time, it will only download the stuff that's not in your Old folder.
 
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