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August 14

Samsung Galaxy Tab Storage

Why, with 500+mb remaining, does my tab say there is insufficient space to download and install a 5mb application? I am mystified. KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 13:06, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Is the free space on the device's internal storage or an SD memory card? Many apps can only be installed in system storage. Does the error occur with other apps of similar size? 88.112.41.6 (talk) 20:32, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

The free space I am talking about is the internal memory. I know about the issue with apps only being able to go on one or the other, which is annoying. KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 11:20, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Not very helpful but IIRC this was a problem with a certain model (models?) of the Samsung Galaxy; I believe it had something to do with there being a limit on the size of programs downloaded at once. However - the limit was 25MB or so, not as low as you are seeing (5MB); so I doubt this is your problem. --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 01:06, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

I did not know that but, I agree. I doubt that is the issue here. KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 11:20, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

I've been having the same problem recently, and discovered that it doesn't matter how much total space you have in the internal memory (or on the SD card). The only free space that matters seems to be the system space (which is a subset of the internal memory). You can download an app called Storage Analyzer from the market (it is free) and tap the bottom left icon (which looks like a piechart) to see how much free space you have there. It'll also give you a nice overview of other important locations. Of course, to actually clean up system space, you'll either need to uninstall some apps, or to have a rooted system to be able to clean up the junk manually. Or the problem may be with something else, but for me at least this solved the problem. —Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 15, 2013; 16:48 (UTC)

Firefox 23

I've just updated to Firefox 23, but Adobe Flash (also newest version) always crashes when I want to see for example videos. Before this, I've also had problems with Adobe Reader not displaying PDFs correctly. Is there any solution?--95.116.233.183 (talk) 19:12, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Updates can sometimes glitch out Adobe Flash. Try uninstalling and then reinstalling; instructions: Windows, Mac. And of course - since this is Firefox - it could also be one of your addons/extensions acting up after the update. Hope this helps, --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 01:09, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Reinstalling the first thing I did. It didn't work. I also removed useless addons.--77.1.136.155 (talk) 02:12, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Upon further inspection this appears to be a very widespread problem. Restoring Firefox to default state works for some, but not all. You could also try using a different browser to make sure that the problem is with FF and not something else on your computer. --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 16:27, 15 August 2013 (UTC)