I was having this trouble with myl Droid/Milestone smart phone from Telus, and the Telus client care was not able to fix it. When I searched the Internet I found out that it was a well known and common bug effecting a lot of Android users. What happens is that apparently because of no reason you start getting message on your device saying “Running out of disk storage space” whereas there is tons of space available both for system internal storage and for other purposes. Deleting apps and other stuff doesn’t help taking this message away.
The side effect of this bug is that some apps stop working. In my case the text messaging would stop working, i.e. i won’t be able to receive any text messages. Some HTC users have also noticed similar problem.
Official answer to solve this problem is very ridiculous and Microsoftic, i.e., as you might have already guessed, format your system. Apparently these answer providers have came from the Windows background and don’t know in the Linux world we don’t format our systems, we fix them. In fact in the Linux world very few people actually know at all how to format a system, because we simply never need to do this. And as a side note, we don’t even reboot our Linux systems. They are started once, and thats it. Rebooting is again a necessity introduced by Microsoft, due to their poorly designed Windows kernel.
Anyways, what I have found so far helpful, which worked for me, is to unmount the SD card and reboot the phone. in this case rebooting is required because there is no option in Android to mount the SD card again. Rebooting mounts it again and the error message is gone, and the text messaging starts to work.
To unmount it, go to Settings->SD card & phone storage->Unmount SD card.
Those who really want to, and can afford to format the system, go to Setttings->Privacy->Factory data reset.
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