Five Proven Ways To Maintain And Improve Storage Space on Your Android Device

Five Proven Ways To Maintain And Improve Storage Space on Your Android Device

Limited storage space might be a barrier if you the type that love downloading videos, music, files with large size and lot of applications on your Android devices. The more files you have on your phone the more space it consume, despite the facts that there are a lot of decent smartphone nowadays with good inbuilt storage space. The most annoying thing I bet any android user can ever experience either when you want to update your app or download a file and you get ‘insufficient memory’ or ‘Android internal memory is full’. It can be so frustrating.

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But there is always a way out of every predicament. The below simple steps will guide you through on how to get more space on your Android device.

1. Clear Cache + Data: Cached files are little bits of data stored by apps every time you use them. You can do this manually for individual apps by going to Settings > Storage > Apps then click on clear cache.

2.Clear Old Downloads:
Every time you download new apps, games, videos and PDF or other document from the web it is stored in your Downloads folder, but the chances are you probably don't need it anymore. If you have a File Manager app installed on your device use this to browse your Downloads folder, locate and delete anything you don't need.

3. Back up photos and video to Google Photos, then delete them from your phone:
Photos and video are one of the biggest space hogs on any Android phone, and more so as their integrated cameras come with increasingly high megapixel counts.

Download the free Google Photos app from Google Play, then in the Settings menu select to back up all photos and video over Wi-Fi. Once the media has transferred you can delete them from your phone.

4. Move apps and files to SDcard:If your phone supports sdcard, move all your apps and files to SD card; any or use apps2sd to move difficult apps to SDcard.

And for those using Android 6.0 Marshmallow, you can combine your SDcard memory + phone storage. See steps below;

Step 1: Make sure the microSD card is okay, well inserted inside your Android Marshmallow running smartphone and is in good working condition.

Step 2: Navigate to your smartphone’s ‘Settings’ and go to ‘Storage and USB’ inside the settings menu.
Step 3: Locate your external microSD card under the ‘Portable storage section and tap on it.

Step 4: Post jumping in the external microSD, locate the three-dot menu at the top-right and hit on ‘Settings’

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Step 5: Now here you will get four options - Eject, Format, Format as Internal and Movie Media. Choose ‘Format as internal’.

Step 6: You will not be greeted by a screen saying that your microSD card will be erased completely and will only work on that particular device. Tap on ‘Erase and Format’.

Step 7: After finishing the process, your external SD card will now work as your internal storage.

5. Use lite apps: With recent improved technology Android developers are now releasing two variants of their apps, one standard, and the other lighter, which not only consumes less cellular data, but takes up less space on your phone, too.
Some of those apps that consume space like Facebook, messenger, Youtube and opera have lite apps, consider switching to them.

Well, this is just few of those ways you can free up and improve the storage space on your Android smartphone, what is your preferred method of freeing up space?

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