Your single application won't be given all of the 1 gig of memory on the device. It is a much more humble number like 16MB or 24MB. Probably the first thing to investigate is why the images are on internal memory.
On Feb 16, 5:21 pm, Jim Andresakis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have an app where I let users take pictures and at the same time I > stream pictures to the user based on their location. Im storing the > image files from the download in a file that is supposed to be on the > sd card but for some reason gets created on the internal memory. Just > recently I hit a problem where suddenly after about 80 small image > files have been downloaded into the file my app will no longer allow > users to take images. I get no crash but just a warning in the logcat > that states > > Java.IO.Exception no space left on device > > This is happening when I am trying to create a file from an > outputstream. > > In my code this error happens at this particular line: > > bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 80, out); > > I have that line nested within a method that I use to create an image > that can be stored locally on the phone rather than in memory so I > dont run out of memory. > The whole method looks like this: > > private void writeFile(Bitmap bmp, File f) { > FileOutputStream out = null; > > try { > out = new FileOutputStream(f); > bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 80, out); > } catch (NullPointerException e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > Log.w("nullpointerException on image error", > "nullpointer"); > } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { > Log.w("fileNotfoundException on image error", > "filenotfound"); > // TODO Auto-generated catch block > e.printStackTrace(); > } > finally { > try { if (out != null ) out.close(); } > catch(Exception ex) {} > } > } > > both catches never hit when this method fails so I guess Im hitting > the final catch in the finally block. > I have done some research on this and I do not think Im running into > the problem of having to many files in one directory or using names > that are too long. The file names are 1 to 5 characters at most and > last week I was able to have over 400 files in the same directory > without any problems like this occurring. The phone Im testing on at > the moment has over 1gig free of internal and close to the same on the > external so hard memory is not the issue either. This is a sudden > problem that just came on last week so Im kind of stumped and any help > would be much appreciated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
