Recent content by dgelerin

Thank you but been there, done that as well. I finally got it to work by telling it not to back up the message log. I figured that was a huge thing that I can let go

Yes. Loads. It was definitely the phone space causing issues.

That's exactly what I'm doing. This is happening when I am doing the Smart Switch backup to the PC. I finally got it to do it by cutting out what I'm backing up, but that's not really a great solution long term.

my Samsung A21 is getting quite frustrating to me so I figured it's time to look into a replacement. But, it's been a while since I backed it up, so I went to use Smart Switch and got the dreaded "not enough space" error along with a helpful suggestion that I need to delete 1.25GB before it can...

Is there any way to see if I can trim any of that? My old phone used about 2GB for system stuff! 10GB seems like a bit of a jump.

Yea, I don't have that option on that screen. :( I basically did it on my other phone since it was the only way to handle having a 16GB RAM phone. I can handle it here (32GB) a bit better, but especially since, somehow, the system files are taking up over 10GB, I figured I might need it eventually.

As mentioned in another thread, I just upgraded from a J7 to an A21. I'm finding that there are some features that I was reassured existed, that don't. The next one I found was the inability to move apps to the SD card. It seems that, in Android10, the secret is in this "Storage Booster" which...

Apps too. It seems that the Google Files option doesn't do apps. :(

Nope. I'll check out the safe folder Google thing Thanks

I just upgraded from my old J7 to an A21. I was reassured it had all the features I wanted, but the rep was wrong about it having the Secure Folder application. I've done a little web searching but can't find anything I like that works like Secure Folder. Is there a recommended replacement or...

I have a Samsung J7 running Oreo. As users of the J7 know, there's no actual LED notification light, so I use the NoLED app to generate notification icons. Everything works peachy except for one small thing. I have one single SMS thread - notifications from Twitter - that has all...

Somewhat, and mostly irreplaceable, but that's life. I'm running recovery on a PC right now. We'll see what happens. Thanks!

Thanks! I tried to run an Android recovery program but, since the phone isn't rooted, it wouldn't work.

Not the card. I can see everything else on the card. I can even get into the hidden folder that the images were in. I just don't see the images. I could've sworn I moved them and double checked, but the only thing I can think of is that they were really still in the secure folder when I reset...

I recently had to factory reset my phone. Among the preparations I took was to move certain files out of the secure folder to make sure they didn't get wiped and were still accessible. These files - both when in and out of the secure folder - were on an SD card. After the restore, they weren't...