Memory full on Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone

gfplux
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I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 16gb mobile phone. Model number SM-G900F. It is running Android version 5.0
I am limited to the number of apps I can install as I often get warnings that my device is nearly full and then is full! I then need to delete as much as I can to get it to operate properly.

I have a 64GB SD card on board and transfer what data and apps I can to this card.

This is an ongoing problem I am looking for any ideas to help me.

There are a number of Samsung apps that take up space that I can not delete. These automatically update and although I can delete the updates freeing up some space, within 24 hours they have all downloaded the updates again. Is there anything I can do to stop these automatic updates.
These “fixed” apps are - Chat on, Galaxy Apps, Google Apps, Google Play services, Polaris Office Viewer 5, SHealth, Samsung Link Platform, Samsung Push Services, YouTube.
I “think” I don't use any of them except YouTube occasionally.

An snapshot today of my memory situation
System Memory - 4.18GB
Used Space - 4.61GB
Cached Data - 86.82MB
Miscellaneous Files - 6.41GB (of which my podcacher “BeyondPod” 5.69GB)
AVAILABLE SPACE - 731MB

There is 53.74GB of space on the SD card

I would be grateful for any tips or tricks to help with this.
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Comments

  • cookie365
    cookie365 Posts: 1,809 Forumite
    You can tell BeyondPod to store all its podcasts on the SD card.

    http://www.beyondpod.com/cms/index.php/how-to-change-the-location-of-downloaded-podcasts

    And have a look at the DiskUsage app to get a more detailed view of what's eating the space.
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&hl=en_GB
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    See your identical post .
  • Le_Kirk
    Le_Kirk Posts: 24,290 Forumite
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    I have a Galaxy - not as new as yours - and I do not accept the updates, currently there are 14 waiting! When I receive the notification, I just hit clear. Can you turn off automatic updates and do them manually?
  • gfplux
    gfplux Posts: 4,985 Forumite
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    Thank you everybody you have been most helpful.

    So following all the advise I did the following.

    After turning off auto update in play store then deleted updates saved 387mb
    They also disappeared from app manage list.
    Moved Beyond Pod to SD card from app manager but made no difference. When I moved it from within BeyondPod (Settings > General settings > Podcast Download Folder) it worked.
    Deleted Cashed data.

    A snapshot today, 18th May 2016 of my memory situation
    System Memory - 4.18GB
    Used Space - 4.06GB
    Cached Data - 20.79MB
    Miscellaneous Files - 2.13MB (of which my podcacher “BeyondPod”1.43MB)
    AVAILABLE SPACE - 5.60GB

    I might now turn on auto updates in a few days.
    Thank again.
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