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  will Google/Android ever address and fix this common error "Laurence Smith" <dr4sight@hvi.net> - 2016-07-19 10:35 +0000
    Re: will Google/Android ever address and fix this common error Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2016-07-19 15:15 +0100
      Re: will Google/Android ever address and fix this common error The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 08:44 -0700
        Re: will Google/Android ever address and fix this common error nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-19 12:15 -0400
        Re: will Google/Android ever address and fix this common error pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-07-19 18:46 +0100
    Re: will Google/Android ever address and fix this common error Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-07-19 15:34 +0100

#32219 — will Google/Android ever address and fix this common error

I am sure most if not all Android users have attempted at one time or
another to add an app at the Play Store only to be thwarted by the
message: insufficient storage.


There are dozens of online articles describing techniques to work
around this usually by clearing the cache manually or using an app to
do the clearing.

But I have to wonder why the folks at Google just allow that to come up
at all.  Is it so hard for them to fix?  Is there any good done by
having a message like that?

Seems odd to me.

-- 
Larry Smith

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#32229

On 2016-07-19, Laurence Smith <dr4sight@hvi.net> wrote:
>
> I am sure most if not all Android users have attempted at one time or
> another to add an app at the Play Store only to be thwarted by the
> message: insufficient storage.
>
>
> There are dozens of online articles describing techniques to work
> around this usually by clearing the cache manually or using an app to
> do the clearing.
>
> But I have to wonder why the folks at Google just allow that to come up
> at all.  Is it so hard for them to fix?  Is there any good done by
> having a message like that?
>
> Seems odd to me.

It tells you why trying to install this app will fail and saves you the
time and (possibly expensive) bandwidth that would be used if you
download the package only for it to fail.  It gives you the chance to
decide if there is anything currently stored on your phone that you
could delete to make room for this app, or if you want to keep
everything you have stored and thus will have to do without this app.

Not even Google have yet dared to suppose that they know better than you
what stuff you want to keep.

-- 
-- ^^^^^^^^^^
--  Whiskers 
-- ~~~~~~~~~~

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#32236

On 07/19/2016 07:15 AM, Whiskers wrote:
> On 2016-07-19, Laurence Smith <dr4sight@hvi.net> wrote:
>>
>> I am sure most if not all Android users have attempted at one time or
>> another to add an app at the Play Store only to be thwarted by the
>> message: insufficient storage.
>>
>> There are dozens of online articles describing techniques to work
>> around this usually by clearing the cache manually or using an app to
>> do the clearing.
>>
>> But I have to wonder why the folks at Google just allow that to come up
>> at all.  Is it so hard for them to fix?  Is there any good done by
>> having a message like that?
>>
>> Seems odd to me.
>
> It tells you why trying to install this app will fail and saves you the
> time and (possibly expensive) bandwidth that would be used if you
> download the package only for it to fail.  It gives you the chance to
> decide if there is anything currently stored on your phone that you
> could delete to make room for this app, or if you want to keep
> everything you have stored and thus will have to do without this app.

I've gotten this message when I had something like 800MB of space left 
(BLU Dash 4.5 with 4GB of storage) and the app was under 50MB.  I was 
able to install and run the same app from 1 Mobile Market with no problem.

> Not even Google have yet dared to suppose that they know better than you
> what stuff you want to keep.

Then why are so many useless apps made non-removable?  I don't like the 
way the official gmail app works so I use something else, but I'm unable 
to remove it.

-- 
Cheers, Bev
   Never try to extort more than it would cost to have you killed.

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#32240

In article <nmlhsk$1p2$1@dont-email.me>, The Real Bev
<bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Not even Google have yet dared to suppose that they know better than you
> > what stuff you want to keep.
> 
> Then why are so many useless apps made non-removable? 

because they're part of the system.

> I don't like the 
> way the official gmail app works so I use something else, but I'm unable 
> to remove it.

who cares. it doesn't take up much space.

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#32249

On 16:44  19 Jul 2016, The Real Bev wrote:

> On 07/19/2016 07:15 AM, Whiskers wrote:
>> On 2016-07-19, Laurence Smith <dr4sight@hvi.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am sure most if not all Android users have attempted at one
>>> time or another to add an app at the Play Store only to be
>>> thwarted by the message: insufficient storage.
>>>
>>> There are dozens of online articles describing techniques to
>>> work around this usually by clearing the cache manually or
>>> using an app to do the clearing.
>>>
>>> But I have to wonder why the folks at Google just allow that
>>> to come up at all.  Is it so hard for them to fix?  Is there
>>> any good done by having a message like that?
>>>
>>> Seems odd to me.
>>
>> It tells you why trying to install this app will fail and saves
>> you the time and (possibly expensive) bandwidth that would be
>> used if you download the package only for it to fail.  It gives
>> you the chance to decide if there is anything currently stored
>> on your phone that you could delete to make room for this app,
>> or if you want to keep everything you have stored and thus will
>> have to do without this app. 
> 
> I've gotten this message when I had something like 800MB of
> space left (BLU Dash 4.5 with 4GB of storage) and the app was
> under 50MB.  I was able to install and run the same app from 1
> Mobile Market with no problem. 

Same here.  The remaining space I had (admittedly only 1GB) was 
far in excess of what the app needed even allowing for generous 
quantity of data downloaded by the app.  

I freed up a trivial amount of space and the Play Store installed 
the app.

>> Not even Google have yet dared to suppose that they know better
>> than you what stuff you want to keep.
> 
> Then why are so many useless apps made non-removable?  I don't
> like the way the official gmail app works so I use something
> else, but I'm unable to remove it.

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#32230

Laurence Smith wrote:

> add an app at the Play Store only to be thwarted by the
> message: insufficient storage.
>
> There are dozens of online articles describing techniques to work
> around this usually by clearing the cache

So you have a nearly full disk, you fail to install an app, you clear 
the cache, install the app and then start getting runtime failures as 
apps fill up the storage again?

Better to remove an unwanted app, increase storage if that's possible 
with your device, or consider a device with larger storage.

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