System data forever growing

[anon(10796887)]

Hey,
So my phone is a Samsung J7 running Android 9.

Internal memory is 16GB according to specs.

Diskusage shows total space is 10GB.
Diskusage shows "system data" which is forever growing now at almost 6 GB:

November

December

March


Apps are currently using 4GB, I've trimmed everything down by
* moving all possible APKs to SD using AppMgrIII (nice batch mode)
* uninstalling unnecessary apps (as far as possible, since some stuff cannot be really uninstalled, but at least updates are uninstalled which frees space)
* disabled automatic updates of stuff uninteresting to me
* making sure "app data" which can't be moved on unrooted phones remains as small as possible (like setting a maximum retention on chat apps)

So ... I dunno... how do I get rid of all that "system data" which is forever growing? Soon I can delete everything and it will just use all internal storage...

Thx,
Marki

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Try wiping the cache partition: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/de...axy-j7/wipe-cache-partition-samsung-galaxy-j7

 

[Mike McKechnie]

Hey,
So my phone is a Samsung J7 running Android 9.

Internal memory is 16GB according to specs.

Diskusage shows total space is 10GB.
Diskusage shows "system data" which is forever growing now at almost 6 GB:

November
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December
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March
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Apps are currently using 4GB, I've trimmed everything down by
* moving all possible APKs to SD using AppMgrIII (nice batch mode)
* uninstalling unnecessary apps (as far as possible, since some stuff cannot be really uninstalled, but at least updates are uninstalled which frees space)
* disabled automatic updates of stuff uninteresting to me
* making sure "app data" which can't be moved on unrooted phones remains as small as possible (like setting a maximum retention on chat apps)

So ... I dunno... how do I get rid of all that "system data" which is forever growing? Soon I can delete everything and it will just use all internal storage...

Thx,
Marki

Only 6GB? I'm up to 22GB on my 64GB Samsung S8

This cannot be all app cache surely? Besides I checked my app settings and sorted by memory usage and it's nothing like. Dropbox is the top app in the list with just under 1GB