Cha cha has a tiny internal memory. Best option is to load a custom rom that has link2sd and saves things on sd card. But rooting is quite difficult at the moment as well. Here is what I did.
1. Under settings>privacy, make sure backup my settings and restore applications are both checked
2. Install all applications that you need. Phone memory will get to almost zero.
3. Do a factory data reset settings>sd and phone storage>factory data reset
4. Setup the phone with your previous google account. The phone will take a long time to download all applications from market.
5. Move all applications to sd card. Except widgets, they don’t work from sd cards
7. Voila, suddenly you have an immense amount of internal memory free.
I just did a reset, my space is coming down but even with all my previous applications and more games, i have 50megs free. Previously I was struggling with 10
Let me know if this worked in the comments
Resetting would erase all photos and music…any way to move those to the sd card before resetting the phone?
I have reset my phone yesterday. My music and photos are on my sd card. They were not ruined by the reset
Bro, I have reset my phone as above steps. why on earth the whatsapp not restore back? Do I hv to reinstall manually?
thanks
Some apps sometimes give trouble. You probably have to take a bit of pain and install it again from the market.
Did resetting help? I still have 24mb left even after reinstalling everything and a whole lot more
Worked for me, thank you so much
Yes, it worked…thanks for the info
btw, is it a norm for the “contact storage” to used up 27mb? Fyi, I dont sync it with my FB or other apps. just sync with my google ctc and there are 400++ contacts in the list.
Though 27 Mb is a bit large but it is not that unusual. It all depends
on the number of images and fields in your contacts
I see…in actual fact I have already minimized all the image file almost to non. I observed that after the factory data reset, my contact storage is about 14mb, then 1 or 2 days later can see the increased of mb till current 27mb
i have dismissed all the linked suggestion, but seems the same.
Ok, I’d like to try this. I have gotten some things from the HTC Hub (widgets and sounds..) will I have to get all these things again? Or will Ijust need to setup with Google and everything will be just as it is now – only with more internal memory????
You will need to redownload the htc hub stuff. All the items from android market will pop right back. However, I am writing another post for a permanent fix. It requires root but now I no longer need to concern myself about phone memory.
Fuck you i lost all my contacts….
Didn’t you sync them with your google contacts?? Anything that you haven’t synced with google can’t be synced back. Sorry that you lost all your contacts.
Hi! I’d like to try this out but I don’t really get this part:
“Setup the phone with your previous google account. The phone will take a long time to download all applications from market.”
Can you explain a little how I can setup to my Google account? Much thanks )
@C: Setting up google account is simple. Once you do a reset and boot your phone, it will start asking a lot of info about your wifi network and facebook password and also it will ask for your google account. When it asks for your google account, put in the login and password of the google account you are currently using on this phone. That’s it. Please don’t skip this at the boot. Otherwise, the phone sometimes fails to restore all apps
M serious pissed of htc cha cha..plz help..cnt download ny app..such a bullshit ph..phewww…
I’m writing another post on how to root and get a lot more memory space along with a better battery life. Will finish this weekend and post here
Hello Drabir,
Are you done with the post on how to root and get a lot more memory space along with a better battery life?
I really want to do that!
Sorry about the delay. But work has been horrendously hectic and I haven’t managed to get any time to sit down and write. Before that though you need to S-OFF your phone from any mobile shop. Try to find out a shop in your country that carries the XTC clip and spend 10usd to S-off it. I hope to write it this weekend and publish next week
I neva have enough memory on this stupid phone!!! I uninstalled my games n other stuff n still dont but have but 5mb! I reset this stupid phone twice n the 1st time i lost all my contacts. I only use fb n the internet on this phone. I called att n still couldnt get no help!
Wow that really helped, Went from 5MB to 106 thanks.
How does that actually work?
Maybe good to remind ppl to export contacts to the SD card
Look fwd to a longer post at some point
Thankyou
when i do all the steps and reset, i put in the details for the google mail thing, and it doesnt redownload the apps, also is it worth putting the contacts in first then syncing, then reseting or not?
The redownloading apps always seem to work for me. Put in the gmail address during our first boot up after reset and it should work. The contact syncing method you mentioned sometimes helps, but most of the time it makes no difference
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!! I finally took the plunge and did the reset! went from 10-15MB internal memory to almost 90!!!!!!!!!
I’ve done the factory reset twice already and it will free up some space for awhile but eventually I will see the pop up again that my internal memory is low and need to free up some space. Isn’t there a way to delete some of the apps that came on the phone that I do not use, or a way to put them on the sd card? please help! I really loved this phone when I first got it but now I’m starting to hate it. I can’t even take pictures without it telling me I need to free up some space.
Thank you sooooo much! I went out and bought a larger Memory Card then found this, and realized I shouldn’t have done it. THANK YOU
NOTHING was restored!!
I dont get it, ive synced everythingwith my google mail before restoring factory settings and did all of the above
LOST EVERYTHING and non of the pics, music, apps nothing was restored back
i think im gonna cry right now!!
Damn it!!!!!!
Apparently i got stupid enuf to misunderstand ur directions and erased everything off the sd card too!! Who wud do that?!
Anyway i am actually getting the apps back slowly but am.dying over all the pics and music!!
Sorry i dont get it: Do you move all apps and pics from your sd to your phone and then reset it? Or do you reset with all the apps you want to keep on the sd card? (Also do you reset the phone with the sd card still inside)?
… I want to make sure I get this right.
hi!
im also having the same problem here! with htc chacha.
wtf, 512mb for a smart mobile, that is a social potential and memory is the main necessity?
a smart phone like this if this nonsense issue…wtf? couldn’t they, just make the users chose where to save/store the apps?(internal or card)? Ive done it the reset and got back some space, but eventually, it comes back to the same dilemma! im getting frustrated, because i will note reset again!
inst a way, to instal everything new, the contacts the history,bookmarks, apps, MSG, etc. on the SD card? its taking out all the coolness of this gorgeous phone! wtf
hoe to move the applications to SD card? I click settings, applications, applications that i want to move to the sd card but cannot move. Pop up message “FAILED TO MOVE APPLICATION. SYSTEM UPDATES CANNOT BE INSTALLED ON EXTERNAL MEDIA”
how did you do it? im soooooo sick of this phone…. Nokia 3310 is more better than this phone what a craft!
Hi, I had to factory reset my phone about 3 weeks ago due to memory problems. After the factory reset, I had over 100mb of free space. Since then, anything that I’ve downloaded, I’ve made sure I’ve moved it to my SD card straight away.
I have done the ‘clean application cache’ thing endless times – it is supposed to increase the internal memory slightly, but when I did it this morning, it decresed my memory to 2.1mb.
I checked this morning, and I’ve now got only 2.4mb of free space!
I’m getting slightly annoyed now, as I dont want to have to do another factory reset.
Is there anyone who knows what I can do?
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hello, i was wondering how do i make sure my contacts are backed up to my email?
visit contacts.google.com and see if they are there
Thanks for this!! Worked great. Went from 14 Mb to 48 Mb free.