Android : What could be causing a Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE] besides low storage?

on Thursday, July 3, 2014


I'm an Android developer and today I've started getting this error message when trying to install and run my app. Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE]


I do have problems at times with low storage space on my phone and I get the icon in the notification bar. That's not happening this time though. I've tried deleting several apps and clearing a lot of cache. Currently my phone hasn't been this empty since I first got it.


It's an LG that doesn't allow moving apps to SD though it is rooted and I'm using Link2SD for all of my user apps.


I've read about how android installs a -1 and a -2.apk, I've looked and can't find anything /data/local/tmp/ where it's trying to install to.


My wife has an identical phone which currently shows 177MB available and I'm able to install and run just fine on it. My APK is only 71KB.


Here is my phone's storage state. Here is my phone's storage state


What are your thoughts?


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