Recent content by REM_droyd

Good to know but I won't be re-installing. A quick look at the app shows it to be nearly useless. I want to note that reading Play Store reviews after I identified this app as the problem child showed too many people lost important to them pics etc. We must always back up our important...

I looked in the Play store and found a lot of 1 star reviews in the last few days regarding Samsung Members being a storage hog. In every case the Samsung reply was:

A little searching turns up numerous uses are having the same problems. The mystery to me is I've never used it, never started it yet it had used up 29 Gigs of storage. I did sign in and take a look, I can't see that there is much value to it. Seems to be mostly advertising. I deleted it.

Many thanks to Rukbat, mustang7757, and me just saying for your help and suggestions. With your help I've loved part of the issue. The biggest offending app is Samsung Members. Still on the hunt for the rest of the problem apps

me just saying Yes before trying safe mode I tried looking at battery usage as well as memory usage and closed all apps not in use. Then entering safe mode has stopped the rogue storage usage and proven that one of the installed apps is at fault. I have installed just one app recently, I had...

mustang7757 Your suggestion stopped the storage from filling up. Now to find out which app is guilty. Can individual apps be started while in safe mode? Thank you

Thanks for the suggestion. In safe mode now and will give it some time to see of the storage is still filling up

Rubkat Thank you for the reply. Yes, I've cleared cache from recovery. I'll check update on apps in Play. I have cleared cache for individual apps. I am using the back button and have taken the extra step of regularly checking for running apps and shutting them down. Storage still is...

How to stop an unknown app or something from gobbling up storage even when the phone is not in use. I've done the obvious of deleteing unused apps, clearing cache, backing up and deleting photos, videos, audio, unused files and docs. Yet with the phone not being used, just sitting around...