how to free up memory in android and solve insufficient space problem
How To Free Up Memory On Your Android
Most Android phones now usually come with a good
storage capacity, but it's not a guarantee that you will run out if
storage capacity at a point. This can be due to the high resolution photos
that might get as much as 5mb per picture or even more depending on its
quality.
You might say that an SD card solves the problem.
Yes that is true, but even the SD card eventually gets filled up too.
Read further to see how you can free up much needed
space and get more storage in your Android phone.
It's easy to run low on storage in
Android, even with a phone that comes with 16- or 32GB as internal storage
memory. Below are tips on how to free up space on your
Android, and also some ways you can get even more storage in your Android.
How To Free Up Space On Android
1) Back up your photos and video to Google Photos, then
delete them from your phone
2) Move other
files to Google Drive
3) Delete any old apps and games you don't use
anymore
4) Clear out your cached files
5) Delete old downloads
6) Move files to a microSD card
1)
Back up your photos and video to Google
Photos, then delete them from your phone:
There are always some photos and videos
that are in your phone that you hardly watch or some others that you won't be
using for some time.
Photos and video are one of the biggest
space occupiers on any Android phone, this is even more so as most new phones
cameras come with a very high megapixel counts.
Take the Tecno Camon C7 as example where
a picture can get up to 7mb and a video of 20 minutes can get up to 1GB.
Imagine backing them up and freeing up 1GB space for something more important.
To backup you photos and videos download
the free Google Photos app from Google Play if you don't have it already and
then in the Settings menu select to back up photos and video. Once the media
has transferred you can delete them from your phone (though you must be very
careful to make sure you delete them from the Gallery app rather than Google
Photos itself).
You
can use different time based subscriptions to do this to minimize cost of
data.
2) Move other unused files to Google Drive:
In the same way you moved your
photos and video to Google Photos, you can also use Google Drive (another free Google
app) or any other free cloud-storage app to store other files you rarely use in
your phone.
These two steps are worth it even
if you aren't running low on phone storage, since they also mean you won't
lose your media and files in any case you damage or lose your phone.
3) Delete old apps and games you don't use anymore:
Some apps and games consume a tremendous amount of
storage, and if you no longer use them, then they is no need for them to
be taking up the much needed space on your phone.
Some people (like me before now) are especially guilty
of not deleting old apps they no longer use. Some might even prefer to use the
App Freeze feature in New Android phones. But freezing an app doesn't remove
it. You just stop seeing it but it's still there and it doesn't even clear the
cache. There might be many reasons for this but it's better to delete
them. You can always download them again from Google Play Store.
You might have ‘freezed’ some of your applications, so
when deleting your unused apps, endeavor to unfreeze all your applications and
then objectively make a decision on apps that you need to delete.
4) Clear out your cached files:
Cached files are little bits of data stored by apps
every time you use them. Over time you can collect an alarming amount of cached
data.
Many Android apps use cached data to give you a
better user experience. Cached data can save you a little time, but files
that are stored in app caches are only for convenience and are not necessarily
important. If you need to clear up space on your phone quickly, the app cache
should be one of the places you should look.
You can clear cache files of particular applications
or you can clear the entire app cache for all applications installed in your
phone. This can simply be done with the singular click of a button.
5) Delete old downloaded files:
Every time you download a file or document from the web it is
stored in your Downloads folder in your phone storage. However, there are
always some files or documents like already installed APK files you
probably don't need it anymore. If you have a File Manager app (most Android
phones do have this) use this to browse through your Downloads folder and
delete anything you don't need any more or alternatively, you may have a
Downloads shortcut in your app tray in your Android phone.
6) Move files to a microSD card:
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| Move Files To A MicroSD Card |
If your phone supports microSD as most if not all phone do, you can use this medium for
storing your photos, video and other files currently on your phone. Depending
on your phone and its operating system you may not be able to save apps to the
microSD card, though you may be able to format the card as internal- rather
than portable storage.
Also endeavour to purchase sd cards with high storage capacity as it will take more time to get filled up.
Also endeavour to purchase sd cards with high storage capacity as it will take more time to get filled up.
7) Backup Your Apps To A Laptop.
Usually, they are certain applications that we've downloaded
that we don't use. If you have a feeling or premonition that you'll use the app
later on, you can create a backup of the app in your phone and then store it in
your laptop. You can then uninstall and delete the app from your Android
Smartphone.
By so doing you have an APK copy of the app which you can always
install to you phone if you happen to need the app.
This can save you data which you'll use to download it all over
again.
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