System data forever growing

anon(10796887)

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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
Screenshot_20211106-160538_DiskUsage.jpg
December
Screenshot_20211203-201349_DiskUsage.jpg
March
Screenshot_20220306-214422_DiskUsage.jpg

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
 

Mike McKechnie

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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 :eek:

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