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Re: will Google/Android ever address and fix this common error

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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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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

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