Why an SD-card saved app uses phone memory Lately I had issues with my phone's (Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-S5570) internal memory aw well as with the SMS memory. I deleted all unwanted messages, rooted my phone and used Link2SD to move some apps as well as link other ones on my SD card.

Yesterday I installed some apps from Samsung Apps and I am facing a rather weird situation. Note that before the installation I had ~20 MB free phone memory.

All those apps are installed on the SD card(at least that's what Link2SD says). The moment I finished the installation I got the error message that


  my phone's internal memory is nearly full


I used APPMGR III to see what is my free memory and I found out that I had only ~5 MB left! I was so surprised!

I decided to delete all the new apps only just to find out that after that I had only ~12MB free!

Why did that happened? I checked to see if any app cached but everything seems OK. I keep having the message about the internal memory as well as the SMS one.

How can I fix that? Where did my free memory go?
Link2SD only moves the app itself to your device's SDCard. App data still go to internal storage (/data/&lt;package_name&gt;). For every app you install, the Android system automatically creates this directory – and I don't know of any app that doesn't put at least a few files here.

For details, please take a look at the app2sd tag-wiki. It not only explains the different App2SD approaches taken (including Link2SD), but in "Extended Methods" also holds hints for a possible solution to your problem (S2E).