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What is the internal storage being used for?
My Android phone is showing me a notification saying that the "Phone storage is low". So, when I click on the notification, it shows me this:
The total space used is 6.59 GB, but the space used by ...
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How disk space is partitioned in an Android phone?
How does storage space in our phone is partitioned? How can we access our storage space?
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How to stream an encrypted backup of the entire device to remote host?
I have an Android device that has no free space and no SD-card that I can replace (thanks to OnePlus policy). I also have no free space on PC to accommodate the backup so I wanted to upload it to the ...
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I have 32 GB external, but my internal is only 4GB!
My mom bought me a phone. It's Samsung Galaxy J1. And It says that it has only 4GB in my internal storage. But I have 32 GB external storage.
So, I downloaded all apps that I wanted then I moved it ...
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Android 6.0.1 Mysterious "Videos" Taking Up Space
I have been made confused by the Storage Info of my phone since it shows 3.16 GB of videos took up my internal space. But then I checked, the videos not even passed 250 MB in total size.
Can't seem ...
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Why I am only getting 8gb storage when I was said that my phone contains 16gb storage?
I recently bought Oppo A3s smartphone with 2gb RAM and 16gb ROM but I am only getting 8gb usable storage from which Android is using 2 gb. What should I do now?
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Reclaim space occupied by an uninstalled app
I have recently uninstalled Economist.
According to Settings -> Apps, it was taking up ca. 530Mb in data (from the internal memory).
After uninstalling, I did not get that space freed.
Is there any ...
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"System" using 342GB storage?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge in which I put a 400GB SanDisk micro-SD card to expand its storage space. Seems that didn't work though. The space is not available to me. And I can't really figure out ...
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Android OS Storage Usage
I have two fresh Galaxy device on Android 9 , the difference is in storage , one is 512GB and another is 128GB. System usage in both is different , 128GB version uses 27GB on fresh but the 512GB ...
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What exactly will clearing storage cached data do?
What will clearing the internal storage cached data clear? Worried I'm gonna lose something I need.
I've searched for the answer but the information I was able to find seem to be about cached data of ...
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I installed a large app & it won't install but takes my storage! now I have full storage but haven't the app?
I'll be grateful if someone help me! I installed a large app (1.25 G a game) but it won't install because of my low storage it won't install said app not installing just like this; but take my storage!...
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How do I empty trash bin on phone?
Please help. When photos and videos ef is are deleted, where do they go? I'd like to delete everything in my " trash", as my storage is always full.
Thank you.
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Missing storage space in Android 7.0
Where did all the missing space go? I've deleted most of my apps, but no matter how much I get rid of it keeps saying I'm almost out. The stuff I have accounts for 3.5 GB-ish, but there's lots that ...
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System storage taking up loads of space after adopting SD card
I recently adopted an SD card to my Xiaomi Redmi 7. Before I adopted the 64GB card, I was using around 8GB. Now my file manager says I am only using 2%, and under internal storage in settings I have ...
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How to clear space on your internal storage, other than the trivial measures?
After 3.5 years of use, my Android device (a Xiaomi RedMi 3S) has its internal storage full almost to capacity. I can run its cleaning routine, I can remove photos I snapped and music files I may ...
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