Hi guys!
Many people have troubles with internal storage in M4 Aqua, personally i have an E2306 (16GB) but this steps works for me to gain more internal memory. (Version used: 26.1.A.99)
Troubles:
The models with 8GB have only 1.5 GB free after all updates.
The M4 Aqua don't have actually ROOT and can't delete these unused system apps.
Many apps can't be moved to external sd card.
help to trouble #1 and #2:
You need uninstall updates to these unused system apps, how?
Go to Settings-> Applications -> ALL
Next seek your unused system app and select them.
Next you select uninstall updates, when finish, select disable button to prevent future updates to this app. (this option disable the app too).
With these steps you can recover some MB in internal memory and the frozen.system apps.
Help to trouble #2:
You can move aprox 40% or 60% of apps in internal memory to external SD Card. How?
Go to Settings -> Storage -> Transfer data to SD Card
Here you need select move Images, videos, music and APPS
This option recover aprox 40% or 60% of apps space in internal memory (obb folder can't be moved to sdcard because the apps seek in these path for data in games or large apps, but you can move the app folder in /sdcard/android/obb to External sdcard manually (with any file explorer) to free space and when you need play these game you need return folder to original path.)
With these steps you can survive until Android M arrive, in android M you can add the MicroSD space to internal memory with an partitioning the microSD Card and you can get up to 128GB more! (in teory).
I got 2.13 GB of free space deleting unused apps, good is use Facebook Lite instead normal (250MB vs 10MB). Im using some of pre installed apps and some are installed by me.. Too big are Google Play Services, but this cant uninstall updates..
If you delete cache, you will get too free space (Settings -> Storage -> press to Cache)
Deleting Different in Settings -> Storage -> Different (files) can too
Good is go to All Apps -> File Commander -> Internal storage - delete or move to SD card all folders, only DCIM, Android keep in Internal storage (if you have MCPE, keep folder games too here ) DCIM is photos and videos, Android is app data and obb.
Now i have free 2.30GB of space.
If you are not using apps like Google Drive, Youtube, Google Play Games, Movie Creator, Outline (translated by google from czech), Gmail, Social life, PlayStation app, Xperia Keyboard, you can get 250 MB free (im using it, if you delete it , you will got 2.55GB)
I have some installed apps, WoT Blitz (85MB), Skype(65MB when moved to SD), Messenger(65MB, moved to SD), Shazam (32MB, moved to SD), etc., when i will uninstall it, i will get 270 MB free space (2.78GB).
You can see here, Skype have 139MB, when move to SD card , in phone will keep 65MB (approx. 50% of app is on SD card).
If it was possible to unninstall Google Play Services updates, Google Play,you won 170 MB free space (2.95GB -> Stock free space)
How you know we get Android M update ? Better is ROOT and use FolderMount and Link2SD, this combination is great (or use Link2SD Plus only, now it support moving obb and data to SD)
Everything up it follows 2.70 GB free space (approx.) when you not using all google apps and all xperia apps and have 0 apps installed
If you are using some Google and Xperia apps, you can get approx. 2.3GB - 2.6GB free space.
I can't install a large app . In storage settings says :
INTERNAL STORAGE :
Total 8gb
Firmware Rom 2gb( 0 free),
System Rom 1gb (free 0.4 gb),
User Rom 1,97GB(free 200 MB,
Apps are here ) ,
User virtual SD card 2,85(free 1.65 gb)
USER VIRTUAL SD CARD:
Available 1.65 Gb,
Apps 1.3 gb, etc.
EXTERNAL SD CARD:
Total 8gb, available 1,24 Gb
Apps 1,03gb etc.
I have default save location on SD, I have restarted play store, apps are installed on user Rom. When I delete a large app user Rom has more space. I have 1 Gb free on internal and external memory. How to use this memory for default save location and not user Rom (it is only 2 gb), Or how to extend partitions? System is lagging and a notification says I have not free space, zte v975
I can't install a large app . In storage settings says :
INTERNAL STORAGE :
Total 8gb
Firmware Rom 2gb( 0 free),
System Rom 1gb (free 0.4 gb),
User Rom 1,97GB(free 200 MB,
Apps are here ) ,
User virtual SD card 2,85(free 1.65 gb)
USER VIRTUAL SD CARD:
Available 1.65 Gb,
Apps 1.3 gb, etc.
EXTERNAL SD CARD:
Total 8gb, available 1,24 Gb
Apps 1,03gb etc.
I have default save location on SD, I have restarted play store, apps are installed on user Rom. When I delete a large app user Rom has more space. I have 1 Gb free on internal and external memory. How to use this memory for default save location and not user Rom (it is only 2 gb), Or how to extend partitions? System is lagging and a notification says I have not free space. Zte v975
My S5 shows 1.27 GB available in the internal storage. I know I can move apps and files to my SD card, but I'm curious about freeing up internal space.
When I look at the storage in Windows Explorer it shows 1.24 GB free of 9.71 GB. The phone shows the following:
Total Space: 16.00 GB
System memory: 6.26 GB (I assume that's the difference between what the phone says is total space and what Explorer says).
Used space: 6.01 GB
Cached data: 447 MB
Miscellaneous files: 2.02 GB
I assume I can delete from Used and Miscellaneous, but looking at the various folders in Explorer they are either empty or the files are extremely small. I've already removed pictures and I don't have any music or videos stored internally. It could just be a lot of the stupid Samsung and Sprint bloatware taking up the space.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Hello, what happens is that my stock ROM (china generic device) mounts the sd card as primary when it is inserted and all the files generated by the applications store them there, besides when giving permission to an application you have to choose the internal storage since if I choose the partition of the sd card it saves the files in the primary one (basically it inverts the permissions).
Besides that my smartphone has a hidden application that serves to "modify" the storage of internal and ram, which by default chooses the maximum amount (32 gb, 4 ram) when in reality they are 4 gb, 1 ram, there is a way that this does not happen?
My device is rooted.
I'm sorry for my English, I'm using the google translator.