Samsung Galaxy S I9000 Bug - low storage warning though you have plenty of storage space

Are you an Android based Phone user?  Then you may notice silly and random bugs though not so serious but it often annoys you. One such bug associated with Samsung Galaxy S19000 is “Low storage Warning though your mobile has plenty of the storage Space”. It really annoys anybody for “No space left” message and  prevent you from  downloading new apps from Google play store.

This article deals with the devices which run on CyanogenMod. Here CM utilizes a small and Partition size is just 170MB but fast flash chip to store data in /datadata. For most of the users this is No big deal but the geeks who uses a lot of Apps, beware of the “low Notification” warning message which is Quite normal as the unwelcome guest.

Fix :
In 2903 datafix, only libraries ("lib" and "libs" subdirectories) stay on /data by default.
but you should choose which will store their cache in/Data and this is reversible if one of selected app becomes Laggy and rolled back their cache onto /datadata.

Steps to do : Make an android backup

1.     The Zip file needs to be grabbed and flashed it in recovery mode.

2.     At reboot, it is Obvious that datafix will revert it to previous one (if any one) and apply this one. So first boot in recovery mode takes 5 minutes more than “normal” boot.  

3.     This boot will also creates a "datafix" directory in /data/local with two files :

a.     Move_cache.txt

b.    Skip_apps.txt

4.     Just edit the first file (root needed) to add apps whose cache will go back to /data at next boot :

Code:

com.android.chrome

org.mozilla.firefox_beta

by making these changes you will put Google Chrome and Firefox Beta cache on /data and rest all others apps cache will go to /datadata.

By removing “FireFox cache” in the file and reboot and save the firefox cache on /datadata.

One has to add its name in "skip_apps.txt" file after installing & before rebooting the phone. In addition to it, if you eliminate the apps name from "skip_apps.txt" file list but libraries will be moved to /datadata at next reboot.

The following are the basic requirements to fix this

     

·         Samsung Galaxy S based phone GT-I9000, Vibrant, Fascinate, Captivate, etc.

·         CM based rom including CM7/9, MIUI and maybe ao(k)sp etc.

·         Kernel that supports init.d scripts latest CM9 nightly support it

·         Busybox installed