Out of space and nothing opens
I have the HTC 8Xt running 8.1. The 8XT has a storage size of 8GB, so space on my phone is pretty rare. I tend to install all apps on my SD card because local storage on my phone becomes more and more scarce. Whenever space seems to run dangerously low, I'll delete some pictures or some long-running text threads.
Yesterday, my phone began alerting me that there wasn't enough space to be able to check for updates, an alert I had never seen before. I checked and saw I had about 40MB of space on my phone, and figured I'd do a phone cleanse later to try and free up space. Shortly after, I tried to send a text only to get an alert that there wasn't enough space to send the text. Checking my memory, I was now down to only a few kilobytes of space.
I went back to my messages and tried to delete some threads to free up space, but my phone told me actually didn't have enough space to be able to delete a thread. I tried deleting some pictures, but they flat out couldn't be deleted.
The biggest problem finally came when no phone function tile could be opened. I would press Messaging/Phone/People, the tiles would fly away, only for everything on my start screen to fly right back into place. Downloaded apps and games can open, but if I try to select anything from the settings list, it jumps right back to the settings list itself. Someone called me, and their bare number was displayed instead of their contact name and picture. Simply put, nothing is opening.
I've tried rebooting the phone dozens of time. I've tried draining the battery, leaving it off for a few hours, leaving it on and be for awhile, but almost 24 hours later it's still doing this issue.
Does anyone have any idea what I could do before I have to resort to a hard reset?
I have the HTC 8Xt running 8.1. The 8XT has a storage size of 8GB, so space on my phone is pretty rare. I tend to install all apps on my SD card because local storage on my phone becomes more and more scarce. Whenever space seems to run dangerously low, I'll delete some pictures or some long-running text threads.
Yesterday, my phone began alerting me that there wasn't enough space to be able to check for updates, an alert I had never seen before. I checked and saw I had about 40MB of space on my phone, and figured I'd do a phone cleanse later to try and free up space. Shortly after, I tried to send a text only to get an alert that there wasn't enough space to send the text. Checking my memory, I was now down to only a few kilobytes of space.
I went back to my messages and tried to delete some threads to free up space, but my phone told me actually didn't have enough space to be able to delete a thread. I tried deleting some pictures, but they flat out couldn't be deleted.
The biggest problem finally came when no phone function tile could be opened. I would press Messaging/Phone/People, the tiles would fly away, only for everything on my start screen to fly right back into place. Downloaded apps and games can open, but if I try to select anything from the settings list, it jumps right back to the settings list itself. Someone called me, and their bare number was displayed instead of their contact name and picture. Simply put, nothing is opening.
I've tried rebooting the phone dozens of time. I've tried draining the battery, leaving it off for a few hours, leaving it on and be for awhile, but almost 24 hours later it's still doing this issue.
Does anyone have any idea what I could do before I have to resort to a hard reset?
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