Low Storage on HTC Wildfire S phone - nightmare!

Daisygirl

Rusty! wrote: »

If you're feeling a bit techy, it is possible to set the phone so that (nearly) every application can be installed to your SD card, this may help you with space in the future.

You either need to have root access, or use your PC to send some commands to the phone, if you're interested in dicking about like that, I can help

Thanks much Rusty, your help is (and will be) very much appreciated. I would like to do that in the not too distant future! I will post again when I'm ready

Rusty!

Here's a way to do it, I've automated it

Download and extract this .zip file: http://www.mediafire.com/file/gv370674z50b31g/apps-sdcard.zip

On your phone, goto Settings => Applications => Development and tick 'USB Debugging'

Connect your phone to your PC, and run the file called 'a2sd' it will send the command for you (which is pm setInstallLocation 2 for the inquisitive among you), and now almost all user applications will have to option to move them to the SD card, and newly installed apps will go to the SD card by defualt.

Mr_Thrifty

Basically, it's just a rubbish phone. I say this as somebody who owns one.

I have a 32Gb card in it (yes, 32 GIGABYTES) yet can't even browse the web sometimes because I rarely have more than 11Mb (seriously!) useable on the phone for apps. It's such a flaw with the phone it's unreal. 25Gb of spare memory space and I can't even install a 5Mb app. Pathetic.

And that setInstallLocation 2 thing works on a very, very small number of apps only. I did it but only freed up about another 10Mb.

What I really want to do is to be able to remove all the bloatware I don't need - youtube, etc.

Also, the phone has rubbish FM reception and the battery runs flat after about 8 hours unless you do literally nothing at all with it and/or run Juicedefender (which then stops you receiving e-mails in a timely manner).

Rusty!

Mr_Thrifty wrote: »

Basically, it's just a rubbish phone.

True that, it's really low spec'd and over priced.

DUTR

Daisygirl wrote: »

I've had this problem before, but not so severe and after a call to Orange decided that if I regularly cleared the cache it wouldn't be a problem. Anyway, I have really low internal storage on my phone now, so low that I sometimes can't send texts, or use the internet, or view photos in the gallery, etc, etc. At the momentI have only 1.8mb or internal storage space on it. There is not even anything I can move on to the SD card, I literally have no apps downloaded by me now. There is only what came on the phone in the first place. I deleted Angry Birds and now have no Hotmail on there - always cleared the cache after having ininstalling anything. It's a bit maddening really, I can't view emails or look at my photos!!!!! I would be grateful if anyone can help before I phone Orange again, or throw my phone in the bin!!!! Really the phone is not fit for purpose, nothing that it's meant for and the reason why I bought it can be used properly! I would really like to change it for another model, do you think this would be possible? I am on a 2 year contract that I started last August Thanks for reading

Just found this after dohting a search (I'm on orange though!)

http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/HTC/Vodafone-mis-sold-me-HTC-Wildfire-S-and-your-staff-are-useless/m-p/1037215#M78146

Also I'm not after telling orange they mis sold me the phone - I made my own decision, but feel angry that it just doesn't work!!! I'm really not happy with it now.

Don't know if you ever got the the bottom of this, this weekend my Xperia ray started showing low user memory, I tried the tricks I usually do, anyways after a call to SE UK, the guy suggested that I remove the SMS from the device, I downloaded a SMS back up app, and transffered 8500 sms onto the SD card, user memory has upped over 100mb more, and the handset is fast as new :cool:

thegoodman

All this have been changed with Android 4.0 and above.
The internal memory is taken from the storage as required.
Not sure if it's true for all phones or only released with 4.0
Would upgrade to 4.0 help?

Rusty!

No it wouldn't.

ICS doesn't automatically make that happen, it's up to the manufacturer to implement things that way, some will do it, some wont.

HTC's new ICS phones don't work like that.

Also, the Wildfire S is a budget pile of !!!! and will never see ICS.

thegoodman

Rusty! wrote: »

No it wouldn't.

ICS doesn't automatically make that happen, it's up to the manufacturer to implement things that way, some will do it, some wont.

HTC's new ICS phones don't work like that.

Also, the Wildfire S is a budget pile of !!!! and will never see ICS.

Thanks. I was not sure if this was the case or not.

Daisygirl

Back again - albeit briefly as now our PC is not working and am now typing on the laptop which is dodgy as well!!!

My phone hasn't even been linked to the PC yet, I did try when I first got the phone but was even stuck doing this! (knowhow!) I will try again when it is (hopefully) working soon. Advised by an Orange shop person that regularly connecting it to the PC will help to make it work more efficiently (memory). Don't know how true this will prove to be though! I've installed a 7GB data card but no help as I can't download apps in the first place never mind move it to this!!! Well I did manage to download a few and move them to the card, but not half as many as I would have liked and still unable to have Angry Birds lol. Basically I would NEVER have got this phone if I had known about this problem with it. Constantly having to delete memory cache with the apps etc is a total pain! Stuck with it for another 12 months!! Too expensive atm to upgrade it as well. Sorry having a right old moan here!!! Any other tips appreciated, will try to pop on here again soon!

Rusty!

The Orange guy as talking out of his !!!!.