Submitted 1 week ago by postmateDumbass@lemmy.world to askandroid@lemdro.id
Hours ago i freed up ~600 mb of space.
It is now gone and i have downloaded less than 10mb of items.
Android ate all the remaining space and now will not stoo nagging me to delete my files.
Amdroid should delete whatever it decided to do that ate up 500+mb.
It happens all the goddamn time.
I feel violated by the operating system.
How much storage space does your phone have total?
It’s because Android is designed to run every goddamned app you have installed just on the off chance it needs to phone home and/or gets a notification. You can’t keep apps installed that you only use once every few months or something, or they’ll be run in the background without notice, too.
Every app gets run, then swapped out to cache files (where all your space is going) because it makes Android seem “faster” as the initialization routines of the app are already done - all it needs to do is bring the cache files back into active RAM and it’s ready to use. Nice if you actually USE all those apps constantly, but if you have a large number of apps installed while only using a small subset of them regularly then it just results in wasted storage space, CPU cycles, battery power, etc
There are a number of apps that will “freeze” most other apps to try to prevent them from running, but it doesn’t always work (I’m not an expert, so I’m not going to try to explain why as I’ll probably get some details wrong). Nonetheless, they are helpful enough with most to be worth using, IMHO. I personally use “Hail” with “Shizuku” (for the elevated privileges necessary). Both are available on F-Droid.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Most likely you don’t have enough space on your phone…
Delete all your cache, then turn the size for it down as low as possible.
But you’ll most likely still need to delete something else to give the operating system some breathing room.
You can’t just get your phone to slightly below limit and then use it. Everything on there is going to cache data. You need to leave some headroom, so delete some apps or media after you lower the caches.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Do you lack reading comprehension?
Go back and try again.
See where i did make space.
See where andriid ate it.
Now tell me how to stop it.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I already did, you just didn’t understand and got upset, why would you think I’d try again?
You do realize you’re asking people for help, not calling into T-Mobile customer support, right?