[GUIDE] Android Storage Memory and How to Deal with Insufficient Storage Warnings

[id23]

I reset my phone and phone said storage running slow.. But no apps are installed.. Why I can't fix it because I'm 13 years old I dont know about this problem but I change the boot animation of my phone and build number and etc. Hahahhaha

 

[B. Diddy]

Which phone do you have? I assume you rooted it? What else did you modify?

 

[feministewynn]

my phone won't let me transfer apps over to my sd card...what do I do?

 

[B. Diddy]

Not all devices support the ability to move apps to the SD. I see from your other posts that you have an Alcatel OneTouch Pixi, which is an entry-level phone that I assume comes with very little internal storage. These kinds of phones are very basic, and are mostly good for making calls, texting people, and browsing the web. You can install a few apps, but the low storage prevents the user from installing a lot of apps. If my tips at the beginning of this thread didn't help, then I'm afraid all I can suggest is to upgrade to a phone with more storage memory, or resign yourself to the fact that your current phone isn't capable of acting like a flagship or midrange device. Sorry!

 

[Elsdae]

My tablet has 1 GB internal storage (~100 MB available) and 5 available GB of internal SD storage. Obviously 1 GB is not sufficient memory for much. How can I set new apps I want to download to go to the internal SD storage?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! You can't, unless perhaps you root the device. Devices with that little amount of storage will always have problems with modern Android apps, since they have steadily grown in size.

 

[LoisJM]

Thanks so much for the information. I've tried some of it; some of it I haven't. I'll keep it handy and work on it soon.

 

[Fulani Filot]

my phone won't let me transfer apps over to my sd card...what do I do?

I'm afraid you'll have to replace it with a device that can...Exactly what I did Samsung GT-I8262 replaced with Samsung SM-N9000

 

[renukadissanayake]

Plz help me

Hey, I have an honor 4C and I recently got a new Remax 32Gb sd card. So now sometimes when I try to move an app to it it gives me "not enough space" error. And so I scanned the storage with the system scanner and it shows 588GB of cache. WTF ! and so i checked the apps and sometimes Snapchat and sometimes Facebook Messenger show 1TB or 500GB as their Data. Why is this ?? But if i restart the phone its all fine.
But the problem comes randomly. I thought it was the Marshmellow update so I rolled back to lolipop. But its still there , I would be so great full if you could get me a solution. thanks

 

[B. Diddy]

See response in your other thread: http://forums.androidcentral.com/general-help-how/787004-incorrect-storage-honor-4c.html

 

[Emilian Guzu]

Hi. I have a problem with my Ulefone S8. When my RAM memory is used by 75-80% and more a notifivation just pump into my screen every 90 seconds. There is any possibility just to stop it?
https://i.imgur.com/0iPmQEO.png

 

[Joe chia1]

Cannot storage 8.00?

 

[Fulani Filot]

Hi. I have a problem with my Ulefone S8. When my RAM memory is used by 75-80% and more a notifivation just pump into my screen every 90 seconds. There is any possibility just to stop it?
https://i.imgur.com/0iPmQEO.png

Is this a Samsung phone?

 

[dariotto]

I've read all this thread and googled a lot without finding a solution to my problem.
I've a Huawei Honor 7 with Android 6 and 16GB internal storage of which 10.46GB available for apps and media.
This smartphone isn't a brand new and I decided to use it as a replacement of my previous old smartphone, so I did a factory reset and installed all my apps.
The free internal storage become less than 1GB so I added an external MicroSD card of 32GB and moved there all the media files and the apps that can be moved, but after few months the free storage is still below 1GB.

The problem is that I tried a lot of file manager and storage analyzer app from Google Play Store but I can't find the reason why the storage is used up to the full.
All these apps report a summary as: 9.52 GB of 10.46 = 90% used.
When I start the deep analysis of the storage the report show, as the first biggest item, the Android folder with 301MB and then all the other folders but the total is far from the 9.52GB total used storage.
Only Storage Analizer app show me the possible reason, showing this figures:
Total: 10.46 GB
Used: 9.52 GB
Free: 967.42 MB
Used by publicly accessible files: 844.6 MB including 19.16 MB of overhead
Used by android/inaccessible files: 8.69 GB
I understand that within the 8.69GB used by Android there should be a inaccessible part of the installed apps that appear also within the accessible Android folder.
But it's a bit confusing.
How can I get rid of that inaccessible files?
Is there any solution other than a new factory reset?
Thanks for your support

 

[fazansplaca]

I have an odd situation:
I have a Samsung S4mini running 4.2.2
Under device memory it says that my total space is 8GB, my available space is 276MB, and that my applications take up 96.94GB !
My SD card has 12.15GB free out of 29.71GB.
How do I fix this? I already deleted most of my apps.
I can't update or install any apps or even properly sign in to my google account.

 

[hallux]

@dariotto The files that show as inaccessible are the Android system files, you can't do anything about those.

 

[B. Diddy]

@dariotto, how many apps have you installed? Show us a screenshot of your Settings>Storage menu. You might also want to us DiskUsage to get a better idea of what's taking up storage.

 

[B. Diddy]

I have an odd situation:
I have a Samsung S4mini running 4.2.2
Under device memory it says that my total space is 8GB, my available space is 276MB, and that my applications take up 96.94GB !
My SD card has 12.15GB free out of 29.71GB.
How do I fix this? I already deleted most of my apps.
I can't update or install any apps or even properly sign in to my google account.

Welcome to Android Central! Try wiping the cache partition: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-27777