Not use my phone for a couple of days and on booting up today had a queue of apps wanting to update.
I was asked by one app (can't recall what!) to "allow" further permissions and I declined the request and immediately received many "Error - not enough memory" notices!
Investigating Application Manager, I notice that the top of the usage list was "Google+" taking up 1.72GB!
I don't think I even use Google+!!
I'm not very clever with these things, but suspect this is wrong!
Can anyone help me?
What do I need to do to reclaim this memory capacity?
Could the fact that I had problems attempting to delete a short video from within the "Photos" App have anything to do with it?
I had a permanent "Deleting Video" notice, and had to force the App to close.
If it helps, this is a standard unmodified phone which updated it's software end of April 2015 to Android 4.4.4 KitKat.
No real issues with that!
Edit (one hour later!)
Just put the phoner on charge and re-booted it...the previously queued items which generated error messages have now all updated successfully! (Don't you just hate it when that happens!)
However, I have now identified the App which wanted "unreasonable" access, ... it was Amazon!
That for some reason wanted full access to my Photo and video files as well as camera and microphone!...my response - Sod off!
that done, Amazon stands in glorious isolation, still wanting an update!
Checking the state of my memory usage, "Google+" still hogs 1.72GB, however the "Avaliable" RAM has increased from 500MB when I was receiving the "Low Memory" notices to 624MB now after installing the 13 updates which previously failed!
And they say that digital technology strictly follows logic....
Can someone explain what has just happened?
I'm still in the dark ...what would happen if I just deleted "Google +"?
Would Armageddon be upon me?
I was asked by one app (can't recall what!) to "allow" further permissions and I declined the request and immediately received many "Error - not enough memory" notices!
Investigating Application Manager, I notice that the top of the usage list was "Google+" taking up 1.72GB!
I don't think I even use Google+!!
I'm not very clever with these things, but suspect this is wrong!
Can anyone help me?
What do I need to do to reclaim this memory capacity?
Could the fact that I had problems attempting to delete a short video from within the "Photos" App have anything to do with it?
I had a permanent "Deleting Video" notice, and had to force the App to close.
If it helps, this is a standard unmodified phone which updated it's software end of April 2015 to Android 4.4.4 KitKat.
No real issues with that!
Edit (one hour later!)
Just put the phoner on charge and re-booted it...the previously queued items which generated error messages have now all updated successfully! (Don't you just hate it when that happens!)
However, I have now identified the App which wanted "unreasonable" access, ... it was Amazon!
That for some reason wanted full access to my Photo and video files as well as camera and microphone!...my response - Sod off!
that done, Amazon stands in glorious isolation, still wanting an update!
Checking the state of my memory usage, "Google+" still hogs 1.72GB, however the "Avaliable" RAM has increased from 500MB when I was receiving the "Low Memory" notices to 624MB now after installing the 13 updates which previously failed!
And they say that digital technology strictly follows logic....
Can someone explain what has just happened?
I'm still in the dark ...what would happen if I just deleted "Google +"?
Would Armageddon be upon me?
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