Hey everyone. Curious what I can do about this. I have the R2D2 Droid from Verizon. I am wondering what I can do to increase my internal memory. I have a program saying that its 81% percent full. Would adding a big memory card from 8gb help increase this. Please advise.
Internal Memory Full
- Thread starter AQuinn19#AC
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I think the internal memory and the SD card are two separate things.
Try going to "manage applications" and see if there are any that will let you move them to the SD card, that will free up some internal memory space. (Note, widgets won't work if moved to SD card).
Try going to "manage applications" and see if there are any that will let you move them to the SD card, that will free up some internal memory space. (Note, widgets won't work if moved to SD card).
just move a few of your huge apps over to your SDcard and you'll be fine.
Go to>
settings>
applications>
manage applications>
menu>
sort by size>
select top app>
move to sdcard.
Repeat the last two steps until you are happy.
Go to>
settings>
applications>
manage applications>
menu>
sort by size>
select top app>
move to sdcard.
Repeat the last two steps until you are happy.
Are you sure it's the app storage space that's at 80%? Unless the R2D2 is pretty light on storage space (and I think it's 8GB internal, 8GB SD) that's a HUGE number of apps he's got installed (my X has a slew of apps, nothing on the SD card, and still just shy of 6GB free). You can verify this by going to Settings --> SD card & phone storage and looking at the last line.
I think the warning may be from a third party app that says the memory is at 80% full, which is something you can safely ignore since unused memory is wasted memory.
I think the warning may be from a third party app that says the memory is at 80% full, which is something you can safely ignore since unused memory is wasted memory.
Your right. It is actually coming from a third party app. When I go to settings, t shows internal memory on the phone at 6.29gb left.
Cool! You can think of Internal Storage as the C: drive on your computer, it's mostly for apps. External Storage or the SD card is like a USB drive you can use for your data (sound, video, documents). What it's probably reporting is the system memory, just like, well, your computer's system memory 
Modern Android flavors have pretty decent memory management which means the phone will take care of freeing up memory as it needs it, older versions used task killers. There's some debate as to how task killers fit into today's Android, in my opinion they don't and end up causing conflicts. If you can disable the alert that may be your best bet, or perhaps set it to something very high like 95%. Under Settings --> Applications --> Running Services you can see what's using up your memory. Personally I'm at 11M free and things are running fine. Killing things without need just means that they take longer to load, and if you don't know what you're doing you'll end up automatically killing apps that will automatically reload which will kill your battery life.
Modern Android flavors have pretty decent memory management which means the phone will take care of freeing up memory as it needs it, older versions used task killers. There's some debate as to how task killers fit into today's Android, in my opinion they don't and end up causing conflicts. If you can disable the alert that may be your best bet, or perhaps set it to something very high like 95%. Under Settings --> Applications --> Running Services you can see what's using up your memory. Personally I'm at 11M free and things are running fine. Killing things without need just means that they take longer to load, and if you don't know what you're doing you'll end up automatically killing apps that will automatically reload which will kill your battery life.
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