Easy Way to free up some sd card space. - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

Anybody know of an easy way to clean up my sd card, as far as some space. The my phone is slowing down considerably.
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Download a file manager and start deleting what u don't need.
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Download File Analyser from the play store and find out which files are hogging up the most space that aren't useful and delete.

ryan1977 said:
Anybody know of an easy way to clean up my sd card, as far as some space. The my phone is slowing down considerably.
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Your phone shouldn't slow down "considerably" because of a full sd card... Are you rooted? Do u have anitivirus software? Av softwares are resource hogs and should be used temporarily and uninstalled after scans. If u are using a task killer or RAM manager, you will see adverse affects as well. What apps are running when you hold the home button to view currently running tasks?
If you still do believe it is a result of a full sd card, i like astro file manager. The stock file manager to delete sd contents should suffice though.
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Also any games you don't use,uninstall them, that too take alot of space, as.videos take up a ton too.
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Freeing up internal memory

I somehow have only 2.44 gbs of internal memory free and I can't figure out how to free more up. I used my back up pro and did a factory reset and I can't figure out whats eating The memory . I don't have many apps. Any help would be awesome. Thanks
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Well you may have plenty of photos and videos in there. Put in the external SD card and go to camera app options. There you should be able to choose where to save the snaps and videos.
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No that's not it. Thanks though
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Maybe it's leftover files from an HD game(Gameloft) they leave like 500mb or more of files behind when you uninstall them. you have to go in and delete the left over manually.
Crgm77 said:
Maybe it's leftover files from an HD game(Gameloft) they leave like 500mg or more of files behind when you uninstall them. you have to go in and delete the left over manually.
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Apparently Gameloft games are so large in size they actually add weight to the phone. (500mg, joke explainer, etc.)
laker666 said:
I somehow have only 2.44 gbs of internal memory free and I can't figure out how to free more up. I used my back up pro and did a factory reset and I can't figure out whats eating The memory . I don't have many apps. Any help would be awesome. Thanks
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2.44??? Your lucky, I just checked my ''internal phone storage'' and i only have 1.28 GB
and for my phone memory, total space is 5.44gb, and available space is 4.55gb
but i also have a 32gb micro sd card.

[Q] What gets saved to SD vs. phone memory?

i know that you can dictate where you want things saved (SD vs. phone memory) if you are rooted.
but if i'm using stock, where do apps get saved to? what about pics/videos, etc?
how does android determine what gets saved to what?
Apps automatically save to the phone's.memory but some can be moved to your SD card. Pictures and videos etc. get saved to the SD.
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Not in my experience
All of my Angry Birds and a few others defaulted to install on my SD card
As well as other apps
I have no explanation
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That's odd. Maybe it's a thunderbolt thing
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Phone cleanup? Or defrag type process?

Just wondering. I've flashed so much stuff, and downloaded so many apps and games, including huge games like gameloft games. I was just wondering if anyone knows of a way to do a system cleanup of sorts, or something similar to a defrag that you would do on a pc, just to make sure there isn't a bunch of residual crap on my phone.. Thanks
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Try 1 Click Cleanup (or something like that) and System Cleanup (the second one, I don't know if it cleans the SD (or media storage), but it cleans a lot of things on internal memory. Try SD Maid too.
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Thank you. I've been using 1 click for a while, that's more for cache cleaning though.. I'll check the other ones out, I want a serious DEEP clean
Edit: looks like sd maid is what I was looking for.. Sweeeeeet
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where i can get 1 clean up? can u give the link and more about this apps
razerblade17 said:
where i can get 1 clean up? can u give the link and more about this apps
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1 click cleaner is free in the market, cleans cache and you can use it to clean browser history, messages and call logs as well
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WhT is taking up all my storage space?

I am bad at math.. But these numbers don't add up. Anybody want to enlighten me? I'm sure it's my ignorance here, but what's using all that space?
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I have the same thing when I check my storage in settings i suppose just how it is but I recommend getting storage analyzer or SD Card Maid from the playstore both are good to have I think they both can give u a more detailed look into your storage on your SD Card
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look up Sdcard Maid it will clean all the junk out of your storage and fee up loads of space
also when connected to your PC look for a hidden folder called .Trash ( maynot be there i found it when running AOKP and CM ..) delete that and that should freeup some space too
System and app partitions.
~10GB is normal.
Edit: sorry, didn't notice the available.
That reported total available space is odd alright, prob just a glitch.
WR
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Mine is doing the same thing.
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Edit: delete
CheesyNutz said:
also when connected to your PC look for a hidden folder called .Trash ( maynot be there i found it when running AOKP and CM ..) delete that and that should freeup some space too
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Also look for LOST.DIR
I think its a repository for files that are corrupt or damaged. Usually not much in here, but once or twice I found several hundred MB of stuff in this folder.
Fixed: thank you all. In mnt/sdcard/. trash
Had over 5GB of old ROMS and backups.
Whew. Thanks.
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[Q] Apps install to MicroSD default?

So yes, as the title suggests, I want to move my default app install location to my MicroSD card. I've seen lots of tutorials on how to move the default install place to the internal SD card, but nothing has said how to move them to the MicroSD. Thanks for your help in advance!
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Are you sure you saw tutorials showing how to get info on the "internal" sd card? They normally go there. You sure it wasn't "external", that's the same as the micro sd card.
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RewinX said:
So yes, as the title suggests, I want to move my default app install location to my MicroSD card. I've seen lots of tutorials on how to move the default install place to the internal SD card, but nothing has said how to move them to the MicroSD. Thanks for your help in advance!
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because you can't... or at least last time i asked you can't. you can put your media in the microsd card though
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droidbabyxda said:
because you can't... or at least last time i asked you can't. you can put your media in the microsd card though
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Actual you can. One way is to go to manage apps then select an app. There you will see a move to sdcard option. The easiest way by far though is to use this handy little app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidsail.dsapp2sd&hl=en
You can also use it to set the SDcard as the default save location. Some apps won't play nice if installed to SD though. Meaning they take forever to load and there widgets won't work. Why you would need to do this with a phone that has 2gigs of storage is sorta beyond me. The OP must have a metric crap ton of apps. lol
hechoen said:
Actual you can. One way is to go to manage apps then select an app. There you will see a move to sdcard option. The easiest way by far though is to use this handy little app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidsail.dsapp2sd&hl=en
You can also use it to set the SDcard as the default save location. Some apps won't play nice if installed to SD though. Meaning they take forever to load and there widgets won't work. Why you would need to do this with a phone that has 2gigs of storage is sorta beyond me. The OP must have a metric crap ton of apps. lol
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...not sure if things have changed since then, that was earlier this year....
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droidbabyxda said:
...not sure if things have changed since then, that was earlier this year....
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It is indeed moving them to the internal SD. Nice catch. I honestly never bothered to look at it. Just assumed SD was the external. Well you know what they say about assuming. Thanks for the catch.:laugh:
RewinX said:
So yes, as the title suggests, I want to move my default app install location to my MicroSD card. I've seen lots of tutorials on how to move the default install place to the internal SD card, but nothing has said how to move them to the MicroSD. Thanks for your help in advance!
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The best help I can manage is a suggestion to avoid this. There is a good reason it wasn't implemented, more than one. Unless you like your apps to dramatically slow down loading times and disappear on boot, that is.
Jack_R1 said:
The best help I can manage is a suggestion to avoid this. There is a good reason it wasn't implemented, more than one. Unless you like your apps to dramatically slow down loading times and disappear on boot, that is.
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Yes, I did a bit further research and found a way, but it required making your phone think that the external SD was your internal SD, and I just thought that might be too much. Now that you say that it makes it slower, I'm going to abandon the project entirely. I have enough space on my internal SD to store my apps, and I can live with only storing media on my external. Thanks everyone!
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hechoen said:
Actual you can. One way is to go to manage apps then select an app. There you will see a move to sdcard option. The easiest way by far though is to use this handy little app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidsail.dsapp2sd&hl=en
You can also use it to set the SDcard as the default save location. Some apps won't play nice if installed to SD though. Meaning they take forever to load and there widgets won't work. Why you would need to do this with a phone that has 2gigs of storage is sorta beyond me. The OP must have a metric crap ton of apps. lol
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I don't so much have a metric ton of apps, rather a metric ton of spare kernels, nandroids, and rom updates.
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