Cannot download to a specified location

[AC Question]

Hello Everyone,

Having been given a ZTE Blade L3 Android phone, following the loss of my Samsung mobile, I have ‘problems’!

I am well past my ‘sell-by date’ and find technical matters on this new phone very confusing, so I have joined this forum to try to find a solution.

I wrote to the Spanish (where I live) ZTE Customer Care and cannot get a sensible reply that will direct my to set the phone to download to a specified location. So I have joined the forum to try to sort out this problem.

I have browsed through the many answers to the question – “Why am I getting an insufficient space message on my phone when I have plenty of space left?” Asked on Oct 13 2014, and apart from not understanding the reference to “Rooting,” I don’t seem to find a suitable or working solution in the answers.

I have two main problems, but will deal with only one at this time.
1. Can’t download to a specified location.
2. Can’t connect to PC, or have the phone recognised when connected by USB, and upload or download photos etc.

I had to use my Gmail email address to open the phone (I was told.) I have managed to get a friend to help me to download, the App for my Hotmail and Yahoo email addresses. And also to download Skype and WhatsApp.

I want to use Firefox as my browser and I have Chrome installed.

When trying to un-install Chrome, I am warned that it might prevent other applications working. Thinking about why, I presume that I have to keep a Google email provider, and Chrome cannot be deleted for this reason.

I have the following storage details -

Firmware - Total 3.12GB. Available 0.00 B
Internal storage - Total 2.13GB. Available 211 MB
Phone storage - Total 2.75GB. Available 2.64 GB
SD card - Total 14.83 GB. Available 14.80GB
I have, therefore, a total of 17.44GB of free space available.

( I am aware of the difference between a Gb and a GB and a MB and a Mb – one is 8 times larger than the other, but that doesn’t apply as they are not shown in the statistics on the phone.)

Under Settings/Storage, I have a heading “Default Write Disc” – below this heading is Phone Storage and SD card storage, with the capacities as written above.

When one is chosen there is a circle to the right of the name and a “dot” appears inside the circle of the name chosen – I chose Phone storage, the dot appeared and I went ‘out’ and tried to download Firefox. And after it failed, I went ‘back’ and chose SD card, that too failed. On each failure I was informed that “There is insufficient space … and to consider deleting or removing some applications.”

I tried to move some applications to my SD card, but the “Move to SD card” option is greyed out and I cannot move anything so, as the Application storage (? Internal Storage) is full, I am “stuck” between a rock and a hard place!

Any advice, please?!!

Regards,

ColinX

 

[anon(632115)]

There's a few things to cover, so if I miss anything or if anything is unclear, just yell.
Storage
SD cards are just meant for media although some apps can be moved to the SD card most of the app will remain in internal memory. Apps are compile to use internal memory which is faster and more secure than SD cards. Internal storage is what is available to you so you can see the difficulties with 211MB remaining. To free up space you will need to uninstall apps. You can safely uninstall Chrome although it is probably a system app so cannot be removed, just disabled.

Nowadays phones with 8GB of memory are going to struggle with lack of space as quite a large amount is taken up by the operating system.

In order for your phone to be recognised by your PC you wil need to install the necessary drivers on your PC. You can find them here ZTE Blade L3 Mobile USB Driver Free Download ~ All Reliable USB OS Smart Phone Drivers