Android: Device out of memory/Device Memory Full/Insufficient Storage Available? Here is how I got rid of this message.

Despite of having 2GB of memory on my phone, my phone was showing a very weird ratio on the storage usage. App's were using around 830 MB of memory and I was having just 240MB of memory left with me. This happens very frequently and to get rid of this problem, just follow the following steps(at your own risk). This works with non-rooted(Stock) phones.

1. Open your Dial Pad and dial "*#9900#".
2. Press the "Delete dumpstate/logcat" option.
3. Reboot the phone(optional). 

Presto! It helped me free around 800 MB of memory on my phone. Yes, some people have reported loss of bookmarks on the stock browser but rest of the data ideally is intact which is anytime better than rooting or a factory reset. 

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