Please please gelp with missing storage. - Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers

Can anyone pkease help. I've been having problems after uninstalling some games and apps, the apps are gone and removed but I never gain the storage back that the games take up. I've searched for residual files and folders that may have been left after uninstalling but can't find any. It doesn't always happen and seems to be totally random. It's really starting to annoy the hell out of me now and must have lost 15-20gb of precious storage space. I really don't want to have to do a factory reset as it has taken weeks to get my phone how I want it, I,e many games, many apps and many settings etc. I have tried everything I can think of. Surely I can't be the only one that is experiencing this but I can't find anything relating to it on the net.
Thanks again in advance.
My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge with 6.0.1 android and a uk version.

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Try Clean Master.
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My Galaxy S7 (SM-G930V) Running Baseband APD2 on Android 6.0.1 Has had issues with Multiple Applications Constantly Crashing, On Nebulous it takes me back to the home screen randomly, and on youtube videos they randomly close. I've tried clearing the cache from the recovery and storage. I haven't rommed/rooted my phone either. Could anyone try explaining why this happens? Its super annoying because I just Transferred from a iPhone 5S. I have had the phone for about two months and this is a wonderful welcome back to android... I am trying to avoid a factory reset but it I have to I will, but I'd Prefer that that doesn't happen.
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Same thoughts as here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67523356&postcount=16
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Hi, does anyone know if installing official system updates will remove the adoptable storage work around. I've heard that Samsung have removed the work around in an update. I really don't want to update and lose the adoptable storage as I have spent weeks installing all my stuff and moving over etc, but would like to keep the phone upto date.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks all.
It shouldn't but who knows?
Yeah can't find a definitive answer anywhere unfortunately.
Not sure if I should post this one here or not but it is about adoptable storage, I can start a new thread if needed. I've been having problems of after uninstalling some games and apps, the apps are gone but I never gain the storage back that the games take up. I've searched for residual files and folders that may have been left after uninstalling but can't find any. It doesn't always happen and seems to be totally random. It's really starting to annoy the hell out of me now and must have lost 10-15gb of precious storage space. Again I really don't want to have to do a factory reset as it has taken weeks to get my phone how I want it, I,e many games, many apps and many settings etc. I have tried everything I can think of. Surely I can't be the only one that is experiencing this but I can't find anything relating to it on the net.
Thanks again in advance.

Is there a way to test memory? Lots of weird issues!

I'm not sure if it's my device or an OS update or what. For whatever reason, apps just don't seem to be able to stay running in the background on my OP5. Doesn't matter what kind of app it is, but whenever I to switch to it using the recent's list or pressing the icon, they almost always seem to start up as if they haven't been opened yet. It seems to be getting worse as time goes by. I'm running the lastest OS version and have also factory reset my phone as well as removed a bunch of unused apps and photos.
The thing is my first device didn't have this problem. But I had a hardware issue and my phone was replaced. But about the same time I got my replacement phone, I also had a major OS upgrade occur. So I'm not sure if my replacement device has some sort of defect, or it's just a normal thing that happens now.
Also, on top of apps always starting up from scratch every single time no matter how long it's been since I just used them; now I'm finding apps disappearing from my recently used list! WTF is going on???
I have all optimizations disabled as much as I can, I've deleted a ton of apps and photos to make sure I'm not running out of memory. Yet this phone is still acting very weirdly.
I've searched and used some "memory testers" that I've found in the Play store and they say everything is fine. But I'm not confident they are actually testing the memory or system properly.
Help please!!
ned4spd8874 said:
I'm not sure if it's my device or an OS update or what. For whatever reason, apps just don't seem to be able to stay running in the background on my OP5. Doesn't matter what kind of app it is, but whenever I to switch to it using the recent's list or pressing the icon, they almost always seem to start up as if they haven't been opened yet. It seems to be getting worse as time goes by. I'm running the lastest OS version and have also factory reset my phone as well as removed a bunch of unused apps and photos.
The thing is my first device didn't have this problem. But I had a hardware issue and my phone was replaced. But about the same time I got my replacement phone, I also had a major OS upgrade occur. So I'm not sure if my replacement device has some sort of defect, or it's just a normal thing that happens now.
Also, on top of apps always starting up from scratch every single time no matter how long it's been since I just used them; now I'm finding apps disappearing from my recently used list! WTF is going on???
I have all optimizations disabled as much as I can, I've deleted a ton of apps and photos to make sure I'm not running out of memory. Yet this phone is still acting very weirdly.
I've searched and used some "memory testers" that I've found in the Play store and they say everything is fine. But I'm not confident they are actually testing the memory or system properly.
Help please!!
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Please read ahead several posts from here https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...xygenos-4-5-2-7-1-1-ota-t3627003/post78727896
strongst said:
Please read ahead several posts from here https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...xygenos-4-5-2-7-1-1-ota-t3627003/post78727896
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But I have been having these issues for the better part of a year, well before I got the Pie update. Granted, Pie has made it much worse, but it's been going on for a very long time now. And it seems to be getting much worse as time goes by.
ned4spd8874 said:
I'm not sure if it's my device or an OS update or what. For whatever reason, apps just don't seem to be able to stay running in the background on my OP5. Doesn't matter what kind of app it is, but whenever I to switch to it using the recent's list or pressing the icon, they almost always seem to start up as if they haven't been opened yet. It seems to be getting worse as time goes by. I'm running the lastest OS version and have also factory reset my phone as well as removed a bunch of unused apps and photos.
The thing is my first device didn't have this problem. But I had a hardware issue and my phone was replaced. But about the same time I got my replacement phone, I also had a major OS upgrade occur. So I'm not sure if my replacement device has some sort of defect, or it's just a normal thing that happens now.
Also, on top of apps always starting up from scratch every single time no matter how long it's been since I just used them; now I'm finding apps disappearing from my recently used list! WTF is going on???
I have all optimizations disabled as much as I can, I've deleted a ton of apps and photos to make sure I'm not running out of memory. Yet this phone is still acting very weirdly.
I've searched and used some "memory testers" that I've found in the Play store and they say everything is fine. But I'm not confident they are actually testing the memory or system properly.
Help please!!
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There is no solution for this. Maybe you can try a custom kernel. Apps killed in background is a normal thing for OnePlus.
https://dontkillmyapp.com
You can see this article
This is beyond acceptable now. Apps are being closed while I have them open and are using them! It's different apps, different types of apps, random times, nothing to connect them. Is there anything at all that I can do?

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