My phones internal memory is suddenly being drained and I dont know why. Ive had a steady 2gig free. All of a sudden in the last week or so ive lost a gig of memory and havent downloaded anything or made any changes. Any help, suggestions, or ideas as to why this is happening would be greatly appreciated.
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Problems With Internal Memory
I have an LG Optimus Zone 3. My phones internal memory is suddenly being drained and I dont know why. Ive had a steady 2gig free. All of a sudden in the last week or so ive lost a gig of memory and havent downloaded anything or made any changes. Any help, suggestions, or ideas as to why this is happening would be greatly appreciated.
I have an LG Optimus Zone 3. My phones internal memory is suddenly being drained and I dont know why. Ive had a steady 2gig free. All of a sudden in the last week or so ive lost a gig of memory and havent downloaded anything or made any changes. Any help, suggestions, or ideas as to why this is happening would be greatly appreciated.
methodman89
Well-known member
Re: Problems With Internal Memory
If it's ram you are referring, go to Settings, Battery, storage, and use the free up space option.
If you're referring to the internal memory, download Data Size Explorer from the play store and see what is using your storage.
Good luck
If it's ram you are referring, go to Settings, Battery, storage, and use the free up space option.
If you're referring to the internal memory, download Data Size Explorer from the play store and see what is using your storage.
Good luck
Mooncatt
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Ok thank you for info.
What's the storage size of the phone ? Do you have lot of apps download or pictures , music?
8gig total. It says that android system files take up about 4gig. My videos, music, and pics which i have alot of are on my external microSD.
It says that Google Play services is taking up 1.65gig. Also when I tap apps storage 3.8gigs for downloaded Apps. Ive had these apps for awhile and like I was saying was able to free up 2gig. As of last night 848 megs.
If you have total of 8gb and system taking 4gb and download apps another 3.8gb ...your storage is just about full
Google play services is showing that the actually app is using. 181meg and the data used 1.46gig. I added up the amount of actual space of the downloaded apps and it doesnt come close to 4gig. Why in the storage graph does it say data used 3.99 gigs. Can I clear the data in the google play services area.
Mooncatt
Ambassador
Did you also check your app cache amounts? Those can creep up over time too.
Text messages can also add up if you donut have the phone set to automatically delete them.
Text messages can also add up if you donut have the phone set to automatically delete them.
Rukbat
Retired Moderator
That was a barely usable phone 2-1/2 years ago - with only 8GB total storage. You have to be ultra-careful to close every app when you're finished with it, to allow it to clear its cache. (If you use the Home button when you finish using an app, you're assuring that you'll run out of storage.) And now that you've had over 2 years to get used to Android, and decide that you like it, you should get a real phone - at least 64GB of storage. (They make starter phones that will barely run what comes on them, but you don't use them for months, you use them to get used to Android, to see if you like it - then if you do, you buy a real phone.)
If you want to see what you have, install a terminal app, or connect the phone to a PC and run adb and issue the shell command. Then issue the
df
command, and you'll see how much space there is on the emulated or sdcard (that's not the SD card - that's extSdCard) partition - probably not more than 2GB. The rest is used by the phone.
If you want to see what you have, install a terminal app, or connect the phone to a PC and run adb and issue the shell command. Then issue the
df
command, and you'll see how much space there is on the emulated or sdcard (that's not the SD card - that's extSdCard) partition - probably not more than 2GB. The rest is used by the phone.
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