I have a low-end Samsung Android, a Galaxy A01. It officially has 16G of storage in the main chip. I keep getting notifications that I am running out of internal storage and memory management reports 95-97% full. But I am scarcely doing anything with it: I’ve moved everything I can to the SD card but most of the default aps that came with the phone cannot be so moved. Of 16G available space, System uses 6.7 GB and another 8.49 GB is taken up by “Other”.
Is this normal, or is something cluttering my storage that needs to be deleted; and how would I do so?
I had that same phone. Kept running out of memory. I tried everything, even installing an SD card and moving as much stuff as possible to the card. And then it would run out of memory again. When connecting the phone to a computer, I would search through the folders on the phone in an effort to find where all the memory-eating files were located. I couldn’t find anything.
It got to the point where I couldn’t even open a picture, let alone download an App. Couldn’t find a fix when I Googled the problem. So I broke down and got a Galaxy A13 a couple months ago. Problem solved.
I’m afraid that your phone is woefully out of date in terms of the minimum amount of memory needed to function at even a primitive level. Treat yourself to an early Christmas present and upgrade. At this point, you are trying to squeeze water out of a rock.
I know that all of the apps on my Android device, a Samsung Galaxy 6, (yes, it’s obsolete) will with every update, move from the SD card back to internal storage. I have tried to prevent this from happening to no avail. With every update i have to move storage from internal to the card.
Yeah, they keep expanding the needed memory with all those updates, it’s their way to force you to spend more money on a phone.
My Galaxy J3 is struggling. Haven’t gotten an SD card for it yet. Honestly, wouldn’t know how to install it. Afraid to go back to a store for it lessons because of all the hard sell bullshit they try to force on me.
Any suggestions/tips?
No, I’m not buying a new phone. SD card, yep, new phone, nope.
My previous phone had 3 GB of RAM, ran Android 9, and worked fine with that amount. My current phone also has 3 GB of RAM but under Android 11 programs keep shutting down wnen I page away from them. Looks like I need 6 GB to run Android 11 adequately.
I have that issue with a relatively new iphone. The ancient iphone it replaced had no problem with data; this one constantly warns me that I’m almost out.
In a complete coincidence, this one constantly begs me to purchase their cloud storage for a small monthly fee.
Do you mean data or storage space? “Data” usually refers to your phone plan and the amount of transfer you’re allowed to do over cellular networks. Storage space is what’s being talked about in this thread. It’s like hard drive space (and you would offload it to the cloud).
Open the SD card slot and slide the SD card into the slot. There may be a slide you have to put the card on, but it’s essentially no different than putting in the SIM card.
That would help if I knew what the SD card slot looks like. This would require removing the hard shell case, I suppose. I probably noted it when I bought the phone but forgot about it since. I’ll pry the case off my next days off and see what’s there.
Actually, my Kindle Fire could probably use an SD card, too.
My galaxy phone has the slots along the side of phone. There’s a little hole in the top of each slot cover. The phone came with a little tool to open that, but a pin works just as well. Stick the pin into the hole and the slot cover pops open. Insert the card and press the cover to close it.
Not completely true, in that OS creep happens for a lot of reasons, not just the desire to force you to upgrade. People who are already in the ‘buys new phone every two years’ group want their OS and apps to be able to take advantage of the expected increase in power.
But as pointed out, yeah, there is plenty of efforts to sell you solutions that are a result.
Personally, I wouldn’t suggest anything smaller than 64G (storage) as a bare bones minimum, and probably 128G as a base.
Installing an SD is really easy, you’ll be able to do so with a minimum amount of effort, but it’s . . . fiddly? Just working in a very constricted area, with small things, that lack easy grips. Here’s a video though:
And in all honesty, I’ve had better longevity in SDs in that tight format than the modern one of resting in trays. For various reasons, they seem to come out of alignment and/or fail MUCH more frequently. Which is why I stopped putting faith in SD cards as a solution, a Very High failure rate.
I know you have no desire to buy a new phone, but the J3 is pretty old and not supported for OS or security updates. If you did have to upgrade, I’d want to do it on the cheap, maybe something like this?
At or around $169, should have everything you’d want (other than not having to have a new phone) with the minimum storage I’d recommend. Not pushing it mind you, but it’s in the cheap and cheerful range.
I had a J3 once. It died the death of USB port failure. I tried to squeeze a little more life of it at the time with a second battery and a battery charger, but the charger turned out to be a POS.
