Android - Why am I constantly running out of space on my Galaxy S2?

If you're getting "storage space runout" on your Samsung S2 phone, just dial *#9900# on the tablet and select option 2 “Delete dumpstate/logcat”

It's not necessary to root your android. Restart your phone afterwards.


Signed up to the site specifically to answer this question. I'm also using a Samsung Galaxy S2 with lots of storage but constantly full. I could not install applications or do pretty much anything.

I'm using Cyanogenmod, but this applies to all Androids.

What I did was using a file explorer with Root Permissions (to see all the files), navigated to the /data/logs folder.

The contents of the folder totalled over 1 GB, causing the problem. I deleted all files in that folder and it workes fine now.

As to why this is happening, I don't know - but I do know how to fix it. Hope this helps!


You need to clear the logging files. Dial *#9900# and select delete dumpstack