I have run out of space on my phone and am having to constantly transfer pictures off my phone, and delete texts as they come to clear up space. My phone has a max storage of 25.98GB and Google Play Services is taking up that much of it to where I can't install any apps. I have 15 downloaded apps (the biggest one being Facebook taking up 341MB) and none are games. Does anyone know how to fix this without having to delete Google Play Services, because I read it may be bad if I delete it?
Javier P
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Wow! That's a lot of data for Play Services. How much of it is included as "cache" in settings - apps - Google Play services? You can safely delete this selecting "clear cache". If you tap on "manage data" you'll get a better idea of who's taking so much storage.
Tell us how it goes.
Tell us how it goes.
I would probably start by deleting everything on your google play account. Books, magazines, movies, music, etc. That might be taking up space. Also try getting rid of any unused apps from your play account.
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I also would like to know how the play services is taking up that much space. Mine takes 365 mb on a galaxy s6.
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Idk if you got any important files in docs, sheets, or any google productivity apps, but before you do that i suggest backing them up somewhere else.
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Javier P
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I've never seen Google Play services using so much data before. I'll ask around and search about it. I'll let you know what I find.
Well you may have no choice unfortunately. Its not gonna delete your apps, it deletes app data such as Google Doc files, Books, Music, etc.
Thats also why I said you should back up your stuff on a computer you have.
I have been having this problem, and use Clear Data in an attempt to fix it. However, the Google Play Services app keeps growing even after I do that, and ends up taking up the entirety of my open storage. I have to clear all data daily to get rid of it. I also tried disabling it, but for some reason it won't let me, claiming that it's an "active device administrator". Is there a permanent solution to this, or do I just have to put up with the low storage notification and only clear it when I want to download something?
My Google Play Services after weekly "Clear All Data". The solution is to turn of syncing of some Google application such as Google Drive, Sheets, Contacts, etc.
Refer to this posting: http://forums.androidcentral.com/as...gle-play-services-storage-clear-all-data.html
Refer to this posting: http://forums.androidcentral.com/as...gle-play-services-storage-clear-all-data.html
I have the exact same problem but the only difference is that when I click 'clear data', it waits a couple seconds and nothing happens. I've rebooted and done everything from trying to delete the program, which I can't seem to do since it is a system app, to trying to clear the data. Nothing works at all, please help.
Im having the same prob with google play services using all of my storage space. I have deleted all apps except built in apps, cleared cache and even cleared all data several times. When I go to manage it shows normal amounts of app data but when I go back to the app itself it shows tons of stored data. Everytime I clear all data within 3 sec its back. I dont know what to do. I can barely use my phone at all and have to erase everything as it comes in. Can anyone help?
G_Fernandez
New member
Guessing no one figured out how to contain/fix the space hogging Google Play Service app. My app size is 219mb and beefs up to over 300mb and usually keeps going until I delete app data, BUT instantly goes from 219mb back up to 270mb seconds after I clear data. Tried disabling, tried un-synching. For a few days it dropped to like 130mb then went back up. If u have to delete stuff u saved on another app that takes up its own space just bcuz u downloaded from Google makes no sense. That might be the only solution...to delete other stuff bcuz google is a fat boi that wants to use more storage than any other app or saved files on a device. Hopefully there someway to roll it back to an old version or another way to save space. Anything other than clearing data every half hour.
Rukbat
Retired Moderator
That's 40MB. 0.04GB. I wouldn't worry about it too much even on a phone with 8GB of storage.
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