Android Market error on downloading (Error Downloading. There is insufficient space on the device.)
by jimmy on Oct.15, 2011, under English, My Life
Today suddenly when I want to download an application from my Android tablet, I receiving this error : “Error Downloading xyzxyz. There is insufficient space on the device.”
It’s only displaying the error on downloading application with big size.
After browsing around, I found out that the cache folder (that I assume used by the market) is using small partition (around 20mb in my case).
So to solve this we need to change it to bigger partition.
- You gonna need Android Terminal Simulator or equivalent terminal app. This will also require your Android rooted.
- Type ’su’ (root permission request will be showned, you need to approve it).
- Type ‘cd /’
- Type ‘umount /cache’
- Type ‘mount -o rw,remount -t rootfs rootfs /’ (to set the folder access to rw – read write)
- Type ‘rmdir /cache’ (delete cache folder)
- I personally using root explorer to do point 5-6
- Type ‘mkdir /sdcard/cache’
- Type ‘ln -s /sdcard/cache /cache’ (to link cache folder to /sdcard/cache – which shoud have bigger partition size)
Done.
Try to rerun your Android Market and download big applications
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October 21st, 2011 on 5:16 pm
Hi,
Any workaround for unrooted phones?
Thanks!
October 26th, 2011 on 6:52 am
Whenever I type in umount /cache and hit enter, It says can’t umount /cache: Device or resource busy.
November 21st, 2011 on 12:15 am
@Dragos: mount/unmount will require root access, no idea about workaround for unrooted phone..
@DuckyVader: strange, have you try restart the android then directly go to terminal.. and make sure there’s no service running accessing the folder
November 26th, 2011 on 12:51 am
@DuckyVader
Just do the forced unmount option: umount -f /cache
November 26th, 2011 on 9:22 am
I tried the above steps, I get the error can’t forcibly umount cache: Device or resource busy
November 26th, 2011 on 10:38 pm
@Wrexx
Try a lazy unmount. ‘umount -l /cache’
November 29th, 2011 on 9:37 pm
I tried that too, didn’t end up working for me either… I ended up blowing up the phone and installing a fresh/recent CM7 nightly build for my phone. Then the first thing I ran was this, and all is fine now…
Thank you for the assist though…
December 1st, 2011 on 12:26 am
Whenever I get to the line where I have to enter “unmount /cache”, it says, “unmount: not found”. I have tried with both the -f and the -l, but neither of these work for me. Any ideas?
December 1st, 2011 on 2:36 am
@AD3
Yes sir, it is umount, not unmount! Hope this helps!
December 1st, 2011 on 5:37 am
Thanks so much for the correction!
It works now!
December 8th, 2011 on 10:20 am
Thanks man. Great solution very clearly laid out for linux noobs like me
well, actually 20 years ago I knew my way around unix… but have been since Redmondofied
December 8th, 2011 on 3:48 pm
Hi I’ve tried this, and now I am unable to pull updates from Android Market, it just closes down, or it says theres a download error, and after that, the programs I have tried to update is listed under uninstalled programs in the market, despite they are still installed on my phone. Do you have a solution for this?
December 8th, 2011 on 11:26 pm
@Bjarke:
is it happen to all application?
how if you reinstall the application?
December 8th, 2011 on 11:48 pm
I suppose it has happened to all my app’s, so far it has been alle the app’s i’ve tried to update.
December 12th, 2011 on 5:53 am
Hi,
This worked.
… then however, A week later I had the same error come up. I repeated the steps above and it fixed it again.
Can you think of anything that would have reset the settings? I wonder if “Market” does it?
December 14th, 2011 on 5:58 am
Thank you! This fixed my issue with the “insufficient space” error. Thanks so much!
December 23rd, 2011 on 11:47 pm
@Bjarke:
Not sure how to solve it since I don’t experience that. Update on my Galaxy Tab 7 is normal
@Damien:
Same as above this issue might on specific device/rom only
January 26th, 2012 on 6:33 pm
guys all went gud for me bt im unable to go thru 6th step.
whenevr i got thru rmdir /cache it always says rmdir failed for /cache,Read-only file system.
can any1 help me on dis plz…
im facing dis problem for so long tried everything written on other posts but cudnt find a solution.
plzz help!!!!!
February 6th, 2012 on 11:43 am
Do I need to type the symbols too? arghh…It makes me crazy enough! All I have type and I press enter it says: not found. someone please help me TT
April 3rd, 2012 on 10:20 pm
It worked temporarily. After the reboot, same problem again. Any permanent fix for this?
April 5th, 2012 on 3:44 am
it worked with my HTC Inspire but it effected my “Aptoide” application, it stopped downloading, until i rebooted the phone when the Android Market stopped working again and got my “Aptoide” back. any idea how to fix it permanently (even after rebooting)and keep both markets ?
April 7th, 2012 on 11:05 pm
@yoong: you can try hacker keyboard or other keyboard that have ‘tab’ it will help you autocomplete the command/directory name
@bking007 & @3la2: what’s your phone? From the comment I see some is experience like you guys, it got reset after reboot which I don’t experience.
Not sure about this Aptoide application strange behavior though
April 17th, 2012 on 4:20 pm
I have an HTC Evo 4g, and started receiving this problem two weeks ago(had myy phone for over a year). The steps above work wonders, but like bking007, I have to repeat this after a reboot, and am also wondering of a permanent fix.
This didn’t start for me until I upgraded to the “Google Play Store” from the “Android Market.” Could it be coincidental?