We will see together how to use the native functions of Android to do this, and then move on to the applications designed for this. improve memory usage and get some more free space On your smartphone or tablet.
Free up space with Android
While it already offers some nice tools to save storage space, it would be a shame not to take advantage of what your system has to offer. The most important thing anyway is how the data is stored on your Android device.
In general, your apps probably take up the most space (if you use several), otherwise you risk quickly filling up your device’s internal memory with photos, music or videos. In the effect, multimedia content is one of the causes of memory saturationand one reason why consumers seek adequate memory space on their smartphones or tablets.
The first and good idea is probably to clean your device.. You may have content on another storage medium (computer, CD, USB key, etc.) for which it would be better to find a place, as we do not know what could happen to your personal data. For this, I invite you to watch our tutorial to backup your personal data.
After that, you should already see everything more clearly and you should even have gained quite a bit of room to get started. If this is not enough for you, you can look at your applications. It is possible that you only use a little compared to what you download.. Why don’t you uninstall some apps and clean files anymore?
Last resort before searching further: most of your apps use a caching system. Second, while practical, it can quickly become imposing or even useless, depending on what’s stored there. Let’s say you rarely use certain apps, then keeping the cache won’t work. To delete, go to: “Settings”back then “Applications”.
Select the app whose cache you want to clear. In my case, the application will “Chromium”. Once on the page, scrolling down a bit, you’ll find the section. “HIDDEN” with one line that gives the size of the current cache:
Then just click the button “Empty cache”and in some cases you will notice that the operation completed successfully although there are still a few kilobytes left, but ignore this.
If you want to go further than that and you still have serious shortcomings in internal memory, the Android system will not be enough. He’ll need help with some cool apps or tricks to at least gain some free space. So let’s take a closer look at that in the next part of this tutorial.
Tips to save space on internal memory
The Android system is particularly rich with the Google Play Store, which offers a host of apps to take care of your phone’s internal memory. However, we will only see a few because it would be impossible to cover them all, so here is what I recommend.
Store your data online
Another solution to save some space on your device, store your personal data (documents) and content in the cloud. This alternative is not to everyone’s taste, but if you don’t mind leaving your data on the internet, you can choose an app like Dropbox for it:
All you have to do is create an account and you will already have several gigabytes of free storage to host some of your data there.
Best practices for backing up your data
Otherwise, if you have documents for writing or using the famous Google Drive, you can of course turn to Google applications, namely Google Docs. host all your files, you can consult them from any device and even share:
This is not bad for storing your data and freeing up space on your phone or tablet, will very well appreciate this new comfort.
Delete unnecessary apps
How many of all the apps installed on your smartphone do you actually use? Three quarters, half, or just a few. Sort it out a little app drawer, it’s easy to find apps that we hardly ever use. Why keep them on your smartphone, as a simple wipe will suffice to free up storage space?
To delete an app, all you have to do is:
- Go to Settings > Apps
- Click on the app you want to uninstall
Additionally, despite the optimizations suggested above and even regularly emptying the cache of apps, some, like Facebook, still take up too much space. At this level, there is no real solution to the problem other than deleting Facebook and using the mobile site instead, which will allow you to gain autonomy.
Transfer your photos to your computer regularly
If you have a high-end smartphone with a 13 or 16 Megapixel photo sensor and you take pictures regularly, it’s no surprise that your storage is like snow melting in the sun. High-resolution photos take up space, and videos take up even more.
In this particular case, we will recommend, first of all, a good standby method that consists of regularly offloading the photos and videos you have taken with your phone to your PC’s hard drive with a USB cable. especially now Google Photos stores all images in the cloudyou can access them from your smartphone even if they are no longer available locally.
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Prefer streaming to local storage
Most of you use music streaming services like Deezer, Spotify, Apple Music or Google Play Music. From there, and if you have a substantial data plan or use your smartphone frequently over Wifi, it becomes unnecessary to store your MP3s in your smartphone’s memory since you already have access to your entire music library.
Also, along with the streaming service, Google Play Music lets you store up to 50,000 titles in the cloud even in its free version. In other words, you will not run out of space. So even if you don’t have unlimited access to the service or use a competing platform to stream, you can still use this trick to store your MP3 files elsewhere than on your phone.
Install a manufacturer or even a custom ROM
Another solution to save a little more space on your phone or tablet is to choose another ROM. Perhaps your current system has an SFR or Bouygues Telecom overlay, and the latter is complemented by applications from the operator (usually useless).
Switching to a builder app would already be a win in free space.. For example, if you have a Samsung device, you can install an official Samsung ROM. Undoubtedly, you will get the TouchWiz skin from the company, but you will already save a lot of memory space.
But if this solution is not enough for you and you are not afraid to do some manipulations on your device, you can also roll back to a custom ROM, that is, made by third-party developers, but all the same, powerful and justified. mostly takes up very little memory space.
Therefore, I can naturally present you the most famous ROM: CyanogenMod. With this, you should quickly notice the difference and maybe you’ll finally have enough space (let’s agree as much as possible).
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Buying an external memory card
This last case is only relevant for people who haven’t maxed out their device’s memory with a micro SD card. Check the maximum space (32 or 64GB) your smartphone or tablet supports and get yourself a micro SD card with the maximum supported capacity. The latest range usually supports up to 256GB via micro SD.
Lucky for you, these cards are not among the most expensive on the market, and here are the brands I recommend: Kingston (lifetime warranty), Sandisk or not, it’s a brand like Samsung but it always stays on reliable hardware and isn’t a sub-brand that can cause performance issues at the level of reading and writing to micro SD.
How do you choose the right microSD card for your Android smartphone?
Solution
This is the end of this tutorial. We’ll have seen many things the same throughout the last one, and now you’ll have all the cards (or nearly) to do some major cleaning on your smartphone or tablet, and you don’t have to complain so much about the lacking anymore. Free up space on your Android device.
You can ask any questions you want for comments or offer tips and apps you use to free up spacebecause after all the Play Store is full of them so it would be a shame not to share them with the Moyens I/O community.
