Zest 1 Insufficient Storage

[Kangaroo Jack]

Hi Guys,

As an Afrihost client I decided to take up their offer of a reasonable priced smart phone for my 14 year old son , the Zest I. He was impressed with it when he first got it but now is very dissatisfied. He has hardly got much on the phone in the way of apps and music as well as photo's. He often has to delete certain apps in order to download a game he wants when he gets the error message: insufficient storage. I have tried clearing the cache but to no avail. I have never had an android phone myself so of course have never experienced this.

He will bring the phone to me expecting me to do something about it which I am not able to do.At face value it appears to have sufficient storage but when he wants to download a new game the error message appears.

On principle I will not spend 6 or 7k on a phone for kid for it to be lost or stolen hence I thought the Afrihost Zest 1 would be a viable option. I am so frustrated with it now it is about to go under the wheels of the next 4x4 I come across. Please help !!'

Keith Thomson
King William's Town

 

[Thor]

Welcome.


Root the phone get link2sd

 

[Thor]

That "/data" folder is what causes the insignificant space issue.

 

[B@rrels]

Here is a long thread on the Zest.....http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/625839-Zest-T1

 

[CathJ]

Here is a long thread on the Zest.....http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/625839-Zest-T1

A bit too long to find anything useful on a specific issue

Any ideas on this? My dad's phone is apparently doing the same thing, and he has applied the repartioning patch.

 

[Thor]

A bit too long to find anything useful on a specific issue

Any ideas on this? My dad's phone is apparently doing the same thing, and he has applied the repartioning patch.

After the patch what happened?

 

[JimM]

Try clearing the cache memory! You will be surprised how much memory is freed up!!

There is a free app to do this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife.cache

This doesn't carry the risk of rooting the device of course as no root is required!

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Try clearing the cache memory! You will be surprised how much memory is freed up!!

There is a free app to do this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife.cache

This doesn't carry the risk of rooting the device of course as no root is required!

OP says he already did that.

 

[JimM]

OP says he already did that.

This app finds stuff that could otherwise be missed...

 

[Thor]

Just go back to my first post been through this

 

[Kangaroo Jack]

Thank you Thor , would you suggest that I use a programme like Kingo to route the phone before partitioning the SD card with Link2SD ?

Thanks

Keith

 

[Kangaroo Jack]

Apologies , I meant mini tool

 

[Kangaroo Jack]

Hey Guys,

I am still stuck , I have partitioned my memory card after downloading mini tool. I then went to the Google Play Store and downloaded Link2SD. When I selected ext 2 I got this error message. I get the following error message : mount script cannot be created and not allowd to su . Please Help !!!

 

[zaozzie]

Complex repartition fix on Zest website.

 

[JimM]

Hey Guys,

I am still stuck , I have partitioned my memory card after downloading mini tool. I then went to the Google Play Store and downloaded Link2SD. When I selected ext 2 I got this error message. I get the following error message : mount script cannot be created and not allowd to su . Please Help !!!

su = Super User which means you need to have rooted the device!

 

[Skyzulu]

Welcome.


Root the phone get link2sd

Thanks for the heads up Thor -

Any suggestions to root the Zest T1? I have tried "[ROOT/GUIDE] Zest T1-G46 - by ka13b @XDA" but I fail to link my phone to Win7 due to driver failure. Any suggestions?

Flashed the memory partion ok, and all else is well.

The drivers supplied by Zest for the memory partition don't help any - these are probably APK specific?

 

[Thor]

Thanks for the heads up Thor -

Any suggestions to root the Zest T1? I have tried "[ROOT/GUIDE] Zest T1-G46 - by ka13b @XDA" but I fail to link my phone to Win7 due to driver failure. Any suggestions?

Flashed the memory partion ok, and all else is well.

Try kingo root as a last resort

 

[Skyzulu]

Lol - that was real quick.

Tx

 

[Thor]

Lol - that was real quick.

Tx

Worked ?

 

[Skyzulu]

Howdy Thor

Incredibly - I have to say no. Why? I still can't find sufficient drivers to link the T1 to my W7 PC!

I have tried finding out who assembled this device - to maybe get it direct. The Zest driver set supplied for the Memory rewrite seems only to work for that SDK/APK.

And I am amazed not to be able to find a basic driver for Adroid that will let my PC see the device.

So still looking - I have reverted back to my Xtreamer JoyZ for now.