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Phone memory full

kel94 — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 17:12:13 GMT

My phone memory is pretty much full completely (with hardly any apps on the phone) it says 324MB used and 96MB free.

My SD card storage has LOADS of available space - 1.3GB used, 6.1GB free.

I have absolutely no idea how apps can be saved via the SD card instead of the phone, and it is getting ridiculous because I have about 14 updates available for apps, and have no way of updating them, and physically can't get on to some of the apps without updated versions!

I know if you go on Settings, Apps, some have the option to 'move to SD card' but this is hardly any..

Would really appreciate some advice!

Re: Phone memory full

Uliwooly — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 17:51:50 GMT

Settings > apps > manager apps > on SD card > move them all

also it will be wise to empty cache on streaming apps (G+, play music, instagram, facebook, youtube, etc)

Re: Phone memory full

kel94 — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:39:13 GMT

Have no option for 'manager apps'

Re: Phone memory full

Uliwooly — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:46:01 GMT

That was a typo

settings > applications > manage applications

Re: Phone memory full

kel94 — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:13:31 GMT

No still don't have manager apps, this is screenshots of it and as you can see from the last one the 'move to SD card' button is not an option that allows me to click it.. desperate for help!!

Re: Phone memory full

Uliwooly — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:40:31 GMT

I can't see the pictures, upload them to box.com and post the link here

Re: Phone memory full

Tartine — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 20:50:04 GMT

Hello Kel94,

I have exactly the same problem ! Can't see down below if you manage to fix it... If yes, how ? Thanks in advance

Re: Phone memory full

kel94 — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 23:08:04 GMT

Still not resolved yet unfortunately! I dont know who to turn to either; sony directly / android help / vodafone... tried everything!

Re: Phone memory full

Uliwooly — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 23:19:05 GMT

There you have it, its the cache on apps, twitter shouldn't be 205MB

Re: Phone memory full

kel94 — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:06:03 GMT

That's irrelevant to my original post.

I need to know how to move the files on to the SD Card, I don't know why the phone would allow you to input an SD Card if there is no way of transferring files to it

Re: Phone memory full

Dr_LS — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:16:23 GMT

i have exactly the same issue.

barely any apps on the phone but the memory's full.

looking foward to someone helping out.

have the sony support team on chat n they dont seem to have a solution either

apparently.

Re: Phone memory full

kel94 — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:26:33 GMT

I'm getting rid of the phone in the next couple of weeks so doesn't matter to me too much now, it's frustrating that no one has any answers though, it seems like something you could so easily find a solution to!

Re: Phone memory full

PowerLee — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:51:52 GMT

Root the phone & then install DS Apps to SD.

The issue is down to several things.

Low memory built in to the phone.

Preinstalled junk apps a lot of people dont want that cant be removed easily.

Lazy app writers who cant be bothered with setting up saving there app to an sd card.

There is another issue but it doesnt really concern the Arc S - Google not wanting you to be able to save app's to an SD card function in later versions of Android operating system & claiming it's to do with security reasons for the operating system.