How to clean Android?

[Android Central Question]

There was a time I got told you have no rubbish left over in Android if you install and uninstall something?
I have a Galaxy T580 Tablet with Android 8.1 and I had enough to get permanent told I have 82% of my RAM used.
Today I reseted my tablet to factory level and installed everything new and ..... 12% RAM used ...... ?
Means?
Means after 1 year I had 60% hidden rubbish in my tablet that ruined the RAM?
How do you clean your Android without factory reset?

 

[methodman89]

Your ram is not your storage as you describe, that would be rom. Use an app like Data Size Explorer to see what's saved on memory.
Good luck

 

[hallux]

That wasn't RAM, that was ROM, your long-term storage.

Maybe you just weren't looking in the right places for stuff to clean up - photos, videos, music, downloaded files, map caches, just app caches in general. Did you reinstall EVERYTHING you had before?

There aren't many TRUSTWORTHY "clean up" apps. Unless I was actually having a problem I might not have done a reset to recover space as you did. You had free space, and that notification was either a system app that you could have disabled the notification for or was an ad that needed to be dealt with.

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[Mooncatt]

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for now. We get a lot of questions similar to this, but the people mention "memory." Memory refers to your RAM, but when drilling down into it, it turns out they actuality meant their storage. Since you specifically refer to RAM, I'll answer this taking you at your word.

Android is designed to keep RAM filled, which allows for better multitasking and more efficient power consumption. Having about 80% of your RAM filled is a good thing for the most part. When you reset the tablet, it isn't going to use much at first because there isn't much going on and it's re-learning your usage patterns. Over time, your RAM usage will grow and fill up again.

 

[pmwarden64]

Ok, RAM ROM, possible I mixed something up.
As a ex Computertechnician from MS-DOS times I'm sometimes confused.
I mean the 32GB whatever I have in my tablet.
I install a programm what you call in Android a app and uninstalled it at my 32GB get smaller and smaller.
Also mein Speicher, however you call it, get smaller and smaller after every installing and uninstalling from a programm.
How do I unsinstall so 100% of that I installed is gone again?

 

[ManiacJoe]

App, program -- same thing different name

Storage gets used for many things:
Android OS app files -- cannot uninstall
Android OS app data and cache
Factory installed app files -- cannot uninstall
Factory installed app data and cache
User-installed app files
User-installed app data and cache
User-created and downloaded files -- documents, music, pictures, movies, videos

App data and cache files can usually be deleted from the phone's Settings app without uninstalling the app.

A properly written app should delete its own cache when uninstalled.
The app data may not be deleted when the app is uninstalled depending on the nature of the data.

Web browsers and most social media apps use lots of cache files to speed up their data syncs from the internet on both your computer and your phone.

Some file browsers implement their own "recycle bin" instead of directly deleting files. If you use one of those file managers, check the app to see what is still not fully deleted yet.

Part of the process of app installs and uninstalls involves OS data being updated and saved. After an app gets uninstalled, it is reasonable to expect 99% of the storage space to be returned but not 100% since not all the used space belonged to the app.

 

[mustang7757]

I'll leave a Link to register so you can communicate here as a guest account you can only post questions but can't reply

https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=409154