r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Street_Ad_762 • 2d ago

My phones storage

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u/GoldGarage115 2d ago

I know everyone's giving you shit for having a 32gb phone but you should actually do a factory reset, often system updates just sit in the cache long after they've been installed, it's a pain but it might help, also maybe get an SD card and use adaptive storage (not sure if Android still does that it's been a while since I needed it)

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u/bggdy9 2d ago

Cheaper models still have sd storage but not many.

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u/GoldGarage115 1d ago

Oh yeah I was specifically referring to the "adaptive storage" option, I've got a galaxy a06 work phone which takes an SD card

Adaptive storage will emulate having more phone storage

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u/Essaiel 2d ago

SD card won’t help much here. Seeing as the main thing taking his storage is system files and apps, which Samsung (most of the time) won’t let you move.

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u/Dear_Musician4608 2d ago

It sure would help him have space to put photos, videos, or music.

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u/Essaiel 2d ago

Which only takes up 190MB in a device with 32000MB of storage, or 0.6% of the storage on the device. So obviously, that’s not the problem. Is it?

So a SD card isn’t fixing anything.

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u/Dear_Musician4608 2d ago

It would definitely fix the inability to add any more media files, what are you even talking about? 

You think just because they only have 190mb of media when they only have 1gb of free space means they wouldn't add more if they had several hundred more GB of space?

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u/Essaiel 2d ago

You can add a SD card and he will still be in the same boat of only having 1GB free internal storage. It’s not fixing his problem.

His problem is still there. It’s not fixing anything, it’s not delaying anything. He either needs to do a factory reset or get a new phone.

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u/Dear_Musician4608 1d ago

It fixes his problem of not being able to take any photos and videos.

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u/Essaiel 1d ago

Is that a problem op voiced he had or cared about?

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u/Dear_Musician4608 1d ago

Did OP voice any problem at all or did they just title this "my phones storage" and leave it at that? 

Are there deleted comments I'm not aware of? 

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u/Dear_Musician4608 1d ago

"Failed to download attachment from multimedia message. Try again later."

Says it all.

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u/sabotsalvageur 1d ago

Usually an end user doesn't want a smaller system for its own sake; usually a smaller system is desirable because a bloated system takes up space that the user would otherwise use for media, documents, and applications; media, documents, and applications don't care whether they live in internal storage or on the SD card

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u/Essaiel 1d ago

Media take up 190mb and documents take up 10mb. For the third time in this comment chain, Samsung won’t let you move most apps to a SD card outside of some allowing storage allocation for media.

A memory card isn’t going to help him. His internal storage will still be in the same place unless he does a factory reset or manual cache clearance.

A memory card will allow them to store more media. But going by their current usage that doesn’t appear to be a high priority unless they have been backing up to google photos are clearing physical space.

Why are you people hyper focused on photos, videos and audio?

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u/sabotsalvageur 1d ago

Who said it's a Samsung?

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u/builder397 2d ago

It would still move the apps.

Besides, camera app can be set to save everything directly to the SD card, which also circumvents any space problem on the internal storage.

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u/Essaiel 2d ago

Samsung won’t let you move system apps and most third party apps to a SD card

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u/builder397 2d ago

Samsung seems to have only gotten shittier since I last owned one.

(It was a handmedown, Id never deliberately pick something thats both overpriced AND full of bloatware and idiotic restrictions.)

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u/Essaiel 1d ago

Because of the much higher use of read/write cycles the SD cards would burn out much faster. They probably didn’t want SD cards failing to damage their brand image.