Phone storage question

[Levo-Lon]

I have a J5 samsung phone that has 8gb storage.
Its saying ive used 95% ...
I put a SD card in but its made no difference.
I also deleted a few apps like Ebay and a couple of others.

I asked at Carphone and they said i should just get a new phone?? Its a year old ffs
So is there any reason why i cant free up storage as it wants space for updates..
I have a sim only contract and bought the phone. So i just pay 10 quid pcm

I only use it for text and odd calls..its in my locker all day and i only take odd pics..
No games or long FB postings etc..its just a phone

 

[marinyork]

On the latest version of android mine changed. It is samsung group and then my files then it tells me the breakdown of sd to internal.

Move photos of videos to your sd card or something a few hundred MB. It probably defaults to internal storage.

 

[nickyboy]

J5 should have same operating system as the Samsung I used to have.

It should have somewhere a "Device Storage" utility that lets you see what is on the phone and how much of the storage space things are taking up. There are the system requirements (which in a 8GB phone can take up a surprisingly large portion of total storage), apps, pictures, videos etc etc

Just sticking an SD card into the phone does nothing. You have to move stuff from your Phone storage (which is almost full) to your SD card (which is empty). And then in the future you can set up your phone so that when you take a picture or whatever, it saves it to the SD card rather than the phone

 

[jefmcg]

I put a SD card in but its made no difference.

"My spare room was full, so I bought a shed and it made no difference."

You have to move stuff to the SD card to free up space.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage

That will tell you what is using the most space. You can then work out what to do about it.

 

[ufkacbln]

Samsung guide to moving files

Some phones used to have a setting that you could use to automatically store files on the SD card, but was removed from some Android Operating system

This may (or may not) help in your case

 

[Levo-Lon]

Thanks for all the advice..ill have a play and see how i get on...

 

[marinyork]

I sympathise. Every time android is updated how my storage looks has changed on my samsung phones.

 

[Crackle]

Go into settings and apps, find Google play store and delete the cache. Quite often it can be a few hundred Mb. The rest as per advice already given, you need to move stuff onto the SD card and when it does updates you then need to check the stuff you moved has stayed moved as a few apps move themselves back to internal storage.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Ohh i think ive done it..lol ive moved Everything . I love tech

Thankyou all thats sorted it..

 

[ufkacbln]

Ohh i think ive done it..lol ive moved Everything . I love tech

Thankyou all thats sorted it..

Now all you have to do is retrieve it!!!!!!!

 

[stephec]

Go into settings and apps, find Google play store and delete the cache. Quite often it can be a few hundred Mb. The rest as per advice already given, you need to move stuff onto the SD card and when it does updates you then need to check the stuff you moved has stayed moved as a few apps move themselves back to internal storage.

This advice is top banana, I once had 5Gb in my cache.

 

[Markymark]

Bites tongue...

 

[Piemaster]

Clear out the cache. I've been having to do it more recently or app updates won't download/install 'due to insufficient space'
should go something like
Open settings --> storage ---> cached data --> clear cached data
Believe it web pages you've looked at that get downloaded to speed up and reduce data use if you go back to them again. /never caused me any bother deleting it.

 

[ColinJ]

The trouble with moving apps to the SD card is that they often get moved back when the apps get updated so then you have to move them back to the SD card again.

I updated my replacement phone to Android Marshmallow and discovered that on more recent versions such as that you can format the SD card to act as if internal memory so now I have 80 GB instead of 16 GB internal and 64 GB external. You can then forget about where things are - it becomes purely a question of the total amount of space that you are using. 80 GB will always be enough for me. I have about 13 GB worth of OS maps on my phone but I still have loads of space left.

 

[jefmcg]

Bites tongue...

Yes, because an iPhone is so clearly superior in this regard. If you run out of memory in your iPhone, all you have to do is throw it away and buy a new one with more memory.