"Application data space is low." ...NO it's not.

This is sort of a known bug.  The "Low Memory" does not have to be overall internal memory but can be memory allocated to specific applications running out of what it is allowed.  The one that seems to get hit most is "com.htc.socialnetwork.provider".  I just noticed on mine that the data was 32M and I don't even use facebook or anything like that.

Anyway, go into Settings > Applications > running applications and look for "com.htc.socialnetwork.provider" and clear the data and see if that helps.

Also, you may have a lot of e-mail that even though it is going to other storage tends to eat system resources so you may want to change the receive limits so you have less on the phone.  For example if you have download all of messages try changing it to a lower number.

Let us know how you make out

Also, does anyone know the rest of that message?
"...go to Mail..." And what, clear the cache? change Settings? Email Google & complain?
I'm very curious.

It's back!
This is F***ing ridiculous.
I've gone through every app in Settings>Applications>All and made sure its not overloaded.
Mail is only cacheing 3 days of e-mails, all to SD Card.
I don't know what to do.
I got the Incredible day 1 on April 29th & haven't had any problems I couldn't fix.
Somebody, anybody... HELP!!!
(nils, you were awesome, any other sage advice?)

posted this in another thread:

i got this message over the weekend and it took awhile to figure out how to clear it. i started by moving apps over to the sd card but that didn't fix it. so i started clearing the data out of individual apps until the message was removed. my suggestion is to go to settings -> applications -> manage applications and then click on individual apps and clear the data within the app. once i did this for several apps i no longer had any issues.

I also have been having that message pop up lately. Guy at VZ store told me it was too many apps. Tried to delete apps I wasn't using but that didn't help.

As suggested here, what did seem to help [fingers crossed] is to go into Settings > Applications > manage applications and then to go app by app and "clear data" for those I knew I didn't need. Message went away as I was doing it. Some apps were preinstalled, not uninstallable and never used - except maybe at the beginning just to see what they were about.

Here's hoping.

Where is there a good explanation about storage & memory on the DI?

NB

There is a bug that causes this error, but since 3 big companies are involved, none of them are going to fix it any time soon. Basically, app space is limited to some arbitrary amount and is not equal to the space available on your phone. Lucky for us, there is a workaround. Touch the notification for "app data space is low." Wait until everything settles down. The biggest data hog apps filter their way to the top. If they don't, hit menu>sort by size. If you see any apps near the top of the list that you rarely use, uninstall those (move to sd doesn't seem to help). You can always download them again. Clobber a couple big apps and this issue will go away.

If you don't want to re-download the apps, or suspect that they might be removed from the market, there are many app backup apps. (lol) I like SystemPanel. You can archive apps to the memory card. Then you can re-install them without using market. Another use for this feature (My favorite) is to archive apps that like to run in the background.

aCCleaner can clear all your caches in one step:

If I find a way to boost the app space limit, I'll post a follow up.

Try uninstalling Firefox. Worked for me. HTC mail app is also a hog, switch to MailDroid or K-9. Clearing cache of FB, email, etc helps too.