Have you experienced the pop-up message on Roku saying that “Can’t Run Channel” and it denoted the issue of insufficient space? This is the guide for you to fix the issue.
It’s not a complicated issue. We get the solution to fix the problem from the message pop-up itself. The reason for this is that your Roku device is running out of space and does not have enough memory space to run the channel.
The error message should appear like this
Can’t run channel – channel name could not be run because there is not enough space. Please removed one or more of your installed channels and try again.
It’s not similar to the kind of error the Roku channel failed to load content that we discussed before, but here in this case it’s completely due to the lack of the availability of memory space on your streaming device.
It’s very frustrating when seeing this error, but once you are appropriately keeping your device like uninstalling unwanted apps, and keeping it up-to-date with system software, you can not only keep your Roku device with higher performance, but keep away from such types of errors.
How to fix Roku’s not enough space issue?
Our main aim is to free up the space on the device to fix the issue. Let’s see what are the possible things we can do regarding this.
Remove unwanted channel apps
Every app that we added to our Roku TV from the channel store takes a small amount of space to install. So, if you are using unwanted apps that you are not using, simply remove them from the system to free up the space.
It’s easy for you to do this. Once you launch the app and while playing it, press the Asterisk button on the remote to get the pop-up menu. Select the Remove channel option to proceed with permanently deleting the app from your device.
Once you do this, clear the Roku TV cache to clear any residual cache stored on memory associated with the removed app.
Clear system cache
A cache memory is allocated on the device to keep the frequently used files on the system. This may contain wanted and unwanted files. If it’s too long you cleared the cache, it may be overloaded with files, which will take too many spaces from the device memory slot.
Clearing system cache will clear overall cache files within your device.
There is a simple method that you can follow to clear it with your remote in under one minute, or even 30 seconds.
Press the HOME button 5 times>>Press the UPWARD arrow button>>Press the REWIND button Twice>>Press the Forward button twice
That’s it!
Run a system update
Every time a newer version system is updated, the developers try to reduce the size of overall system software files to make it robust and lightweight. It’ll boost the device’s performance.
Check the availability of the system update this way Settings>>System>System update
Install an SD card if the slot is available
If your Roku streaming device allows you to put the SD card, then install one on it. Putting an SD card on your streaming device to make it faster to load the channels and the games. Insert a memory card of at least 2GB of memory space to experience a significant performance boost, and the issue of not having enough space will be fixed.
The device models Roku ULTRA LT and some other models in the same series have a memory installation unit. Make use of it. It may cost up to $15 for a minimal storage memory card.
There are a hell lot of customers for the Roku EXPRESS 4K model which allows an expandable memory slot, you can mount a microSD card on it.
That’s all about fixing the can’t run channel and not enough space on Roku TV.
Hope this helps you. 🙂
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