{"id":1450,"date":"2015-04-01T02:57:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T00:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.npcglib.org\/~stathis\/blog\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2015-04-01T10:36:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T08:36:15","slug":"android-task-insufficient-storage-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.npcglib.org\/~stathis\/blog\/2015\/04\/01\/android-task-insufficient-storage-available\/","title":{"rendered":"android task: &#8220;Insufficient storage available&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I started getting this message on my rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 (I9300) running Cyanogenmod 11. This post is merely a note, just in case it reoccurs, so I won&#8217;t have to search around. The best solution, and by all means less intrusive, is the one provided by Jonathan Mergy in his <a href=\"http:\/\/mergy.org\/2014\/05\/fixing-false-insufficient-storage-available-errors-on-android\/\" title=\"Fixing false &quot;insufficient storage available&quot; errors on Android\" target=\"_blank\">very detailed blog post about the issue<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In essence, I just fired up a terminal on my workstation and attached my phone over USB, then:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nadb root\r\nadb remount\r\nadb shell\r\n\r\n# landing on the phone's terminal\r\n\r\nroot@m0:\/ # chown system:system \/data\/app-lib\/*\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Jonathan uses a Terminal app to chown the files right from within the device, which is a bit simpler &#8230; if you don&#8217;t have fat finger syndrome, like me. All credit and thanks to Jonathan of course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I started getting this message on my rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 (I9300) running Cyanogenmod 11. This post is merely a note, just in case it reoccurs, so I won&#8217;t have to search around. The best solution, and by all means less intrusive, is the one provided by Jonathan Mergy in his very detailed blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npcglib.org\/~stathis\/blog\/2015\/04\/01\/android-task-insufficient-storage-available\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"stathis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.npcglib.org\/~stathis\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.npcglib.org\/~stathis\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"sigmoid\",\"description\":\"..oo..oo..oo..oo..oo..oo..\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.npcglib.org\/~stathis\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.npcglib.org\/~stathis\/blog\/2015\/04\/01\/android-task-insufficient-storage-available\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.npcglib.org\/~stathis\/blog\/2015\/04\/01\/android-task-insufficient-storage-available\/\",\"name\":\"android task: \\\"Insufficient storage available\\\" - 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