I noticed that with some apps on the ROMS their cache/data needs to be cleared every now and then to make them work properly. I was wondering if there is a storage space where they are all kept, or if it varies for apps. Thanks!
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What's a good app to clean the cache and ram? Also how do you utilize the space on the phone using OneDrive. I have auto sync set up and i got the additional 100 gbs on OneDrive. I have always had a mem9ry card lol. Do I delete the pictures from the gallery once I take them because they are synced to OneDrive?
What cache are you talking about? Individual apps' caches can be cleared in stock settings, system cache can be cleared in recovery.
You shouldn't really ever have to worry about RAM, as Android does a fine job of managing it under normal circumstances.
Had some problems with ram aswell on the stock firmware. I used Clean Master to improve it
You have the stock app like smart manager, if you want another you can use SD Maid pro, is the best.
Clean master for me
Hello guys
Newbie aboard.
My lovely S7 Edge Internal Storage is 32GB, available space WAS only 7.8GB, I have all possible apps stored on the 128 GB SD card.
I upgraded recently to Nougat 7.0 and the available space rose to 17.8GB. This has now reduced to 14.6GB ( over a 2 week period).
The internal storage seems to be dropping 0.1GB every 24 hours or so.
Am based in the UK on the 3 network, the S7 is now on Nougat 7.0 and I constantly ensure apps are on the SD card where possible. I have stopped downloading Spotify because even though set to download to SD card, it appears to be stored on the internal storage (I have since cleared all Spotify downloads).
Any suggestions?
thank you in advance
Have you clear the apps cache? Cache will take more and more space over time and can take GBs of storage.
Also even if apps are on sd card, apps data will always stored on internal storage.
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Have you clear the apps cache? Cache will take more and more space over time and can take GBs of storage.
Also even if apps are on sd card, apps data will always stored on internal storage.
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Thanks,
Is there a faster way to find the apps cache, I have been clearing the cache by going through each app individually and clearing their 'cache' it was time consuming and didn't give me much more space. I am hoping you will tell the faster more efficient way of clearing the cache.
thank in advance
ozomedia said:
Thanks,
Is there a faster way to find the apps cache, I have been clearing the cache by going through each app individually and clearing their 'cache' it was time consuming and didn't give me much more space. I am hoping you will tell the faster more efficient way of clearing the cache.
thank in advance
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Yup
For nougat
Settings>Device Maintenance>Storage>(3dot)storage settings>internal storage>cached data
And click on cached data then clear
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NonXtreme said:
Yup
For nougat
Settings>Device Maintenance>Storage>(3dot)storage settings>internal storage>cached data
And click on cached data then clear
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Thank you, done that, wasn't much to clear from there probably because been constantly going through individual apps, I will keep an eye out in future though.
&.5GB on system files, does that sound about right?
"Disk Usage" on Play Store will show you why
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Secure storage?
Just a thought. Have you enabled "Secure Storage". If so, how much internal storage is that using?
I'm on OOS 5.0
Free storage is more than 3 gigs
But I'm getting the low memory error in stock cam.
Tried clearing cache via app info & stock recovery.
And also tried disabling/enabling it
Any chance to fix it without wiping the whole data.
bullooka said:
I'm on OOS 5.0
Free storage is more than 3 gigs
But I'm getting the low memory error in stock cam.
Tried clearing cache via app info & stock recovery.
And also tried disabling/enabling it
Any chance to fix it without wiping the whole data.
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Replying to self,
Here is how I fixed it for those whose looking for fix
Thanks alot for your solution!!! I was already loosing my mind on clearing the Camera App Cache!
I can confirm, after clearing cache with the method "Go to settings > Storage > click on Data in Cache > Clear Cache" my camera now is working again.
Was already in contact with Support and did a Soft Reset of the Phone...nothing worked.
You helped me! Thanks alot! :good::good:
Empty Recycle Bins...
I have a OnePlus5t 6GB/128GB and had the same problem. After having to clean my cache every few days I decided to delete some files.: My storage was saying I was using about 98%.
To make a long story...shorter....I had two very large video files, 15GB and 13GB, and after deleting them it would not make any difference on the storage usage on my device.
Apparently, the Gallery App has a Recycle Bin folder under Collections....and you have to go in there to delete them immediately otherwise it takes 30+ days to permanently delete the files.
After doing this it still did not immediately show any change to my storage usage. Using File Explorer I could see the two large files were been stored in another Recycle Bin( Can't remember the location )...and once I deleted from there they were gone for good and my storage usage dropped to 70%.
I don't expect to see that out of memory message( even though it was not a memory problem )...any time soon :fingers-crossed:
I had the same problem, I had 4gb left but it won't let me take any pictures, it says "low memory.....". I clear "Cache Data" from the main "Storage & memory" many times, it did not work. I finally got it figured out. It's not the "storage space" that was low (AKA the HD), it was the "memory" (AKA Ram) that was full. We all tried deleting files, videos and pictures, etc... but that wasn't the problem, it was the temporary RAM memory that was fully occupied.
So I did this: settings--storage & memory--Apps--Application list, then click on each apps--then "storage" to "clear cache". Did it on all the apps.
You will find social media accounts like "Line" "Whatapps" etc, and Maps and Chrome have the most Cache to clear. Once I went thru all of the Apps to clear, the camera immediate works again.
Make sure you don't click "Clear Data" (Just above "Clear Cache"), it will clear all your chat history and login settings, unless if that's what you want to do.
Galaxy S5 G900V Verizon
AOSP Rom 8.0.1 Oreo
My phone is working great for the most part except every few days I have to restore my TWRP backups because internal storage space starts decreasing for no reason. I start out at about 6.33GB then a couple days later i'm down to 4GB or less. No installation of apps and all photos/videos/downloads go to my external SD card. I researched the issue and have installed the app DiskUsage but can not find any apps adding storage. I have also went into Device/System/Bin and went to Dumpstate and Dumpsys properties and unchecked write and execute. I clear all app caches and davilk all the time and restart phone. But problem still persists! Since my phone isnt stock I can not access the #0990# or whatever the code is to access the menu to delete dumpstate as going thru dialer does not pull up the hidden menu even tho hidden menu is marked 'ON' in my settings. I'm getting a bit annoyed by this internal storage issue! Any ideas? Anyone!?
UPDATE: 12/22/2019 I restored backup again and took screenshot list of all app sizes to compare for later when storage drops. I've found out most of my apps are taking up more space and i'm not referring to just cache without doing anything the ones that I hardly use or know that dont save data. Why is this happening!? I went from 60% to 68% taken space over night.
Did you ever sort this out? I am having the same problem with a custom rom on my rooted A3 2017.
Dave
funkoot said:
Did you ever sort this out? I am having the same problem with a custom rom on my rooted A3 2017.
Dave
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No it's still an ongoing issue despite weather I use the android version mentioned, 7.1.2 or Android 11. Something to take note I never had this issue on STOCK roms that I can recall or before Android made the decision to use Adaptable storage for apps I want to say that happened in 2015 or 16. Previously you could just put most apps on external sd card.
Droid9684 said:
No it's still an ongoing issue despite weather I use the android version mentioned, 7.1.2 or Android 11. Something to take note I never had this issue on STOCK roms that I can recall or before Android made the decision to use Adaptable storage for apps I want to say that happened in 2015 or 16. Previously you could just put most apps on external sd card.
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My issue with disappearing internal memory appears to have settled down. I've installed the "Disk usage and storage analyser" app from the play store and for the last week my internal storage has been stable at 4GB. Don't know why but the app seems to be limiting the amount of internal memory that the apps can take.
I'll give it another week and see if things take a turn for the worst.
Dave
funkoot said:
My issue with disappearing internal memory appears to have settled down. I've installed the "Disk usage and storage analyser" app from the play store and for the last week my internal storage has been stable at 4GB. Don't know why but the app seems to be limiting the amount of internal memory that the apps can take.
I'll give it another week and see if things take a turn for the worst.
Dave
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I think I might have talked to you about this app before. Anyhow nope it didnt work for me. In the past week in storage has ballooned to more than a gig. I have to restore my phone anywhere from every couple weeks to a month because of the storage issue. Apps are writing to internal storage once installed. Thanks for trying to help with the situation.
Try something like SD Maid to clear the caches.
Google Play Services and other Google apks are notorious for building "useless" bloat data bases.
Make sure Google Firebase is disable.
Find the data hog 3rd party apps and take the trash apps out. Multiple browsers are prime targets.
blackhawk said:
Try something like SD Maid to clear the caches.
Google Play Services and other Google apks are notorious for building "useless" bloat data bases.
Make sure Google Firebase is disable.
Find the data hog 3rd party apps and take the trash apps out. Multiple browsers are prime targets.
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Thanks for the tips! I did install SD Maid it's helped clear out space but still having the issue. I looked into disabling Google Firebase but I can't find where it's located? I don't have too many apps installed and just Chrome browser. Most stock apps are trashed.
Droid9684 said:
Thanks for the tips! I did install SD Maid it's helped clear out space but still having the issue. I looked into disabling Google Firebase but I can't find where it's located? I don't have too many apps installed and just Chrome browser. Most stock apps are trashed.
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You're welcome.
Phone settings under Google.
Disabling Google play Services probably will kill it too although the data will remain.
blackhawk said:
You're welcome.
Phone settings under Google.
Disabling Google play Services probably will kill it too although the data will remain.
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Yeah I can't find firebase under google settings. Disabling google services will make Google product apps stop working. I need PlayStore, Gmail and Maps etc.
Hello,
I have nearly 50% space on my internal storage as well as external (Screenshot-1). However every now and then when I try to update apps, Google Play throws error saying I don't have enough storage and I need to delete some apps (Screenshot-2). If I just close Google Play and come back after few minutes and update apps, they update fine, which means I indeed have enough space. Sometimes I force-close and clear the cache of Play Store and that seems to work too. So it's not the end of the world and I can keep doing this but it is annoying as f**k. The error keeps coming back.
I have tried booting into recovery and cleaning the cache partition. That made no difference. I also ran the built-in Mobile Manager to clear cache but that has also made no difference.
Has anyone faced this issue?