There are two symptoms when the internal memory on the phone is sorely lacking:

1. Apps and Android slow down,
2. The phone displays a message that you need to take action and free up the occupied space.

The internal memory of the phone has a fixed amount, and it (seemingly) cannot be increased. However, in the guide we will tell you how to clean internal memory phone from junk files and applications.

By increasing the free space in the Android memory, you will save time and stop noticing the brakes on your phone and tablet. The whole “cleaning” will take about 20 minutes.

Error: insufficient memory on mobile device

Usually, Android issues such a message if a process or application lacks free space in the phone's internal memory.

Lack of memory can make itself felt by constant freezes. If this is imperceptible when buying a phone, then over time, after installing dozens of mobile applications and fouling with “garbage” you begin to notice it.

The question involuntarily arises: do the characteristics of the phone “lie”? If not, then why does the same smartphone / tablet work stably for others?

Checking the amount of free memory on Android

When a notification about insufficient internal memory appears, the question arises: how much memory is available, how much of it is occupied?

You can check the free space through the settings mobile phone. To do this, go to Settings - Options - Memory (Settings - Device Maintenance - Storage - Storage settings - Device memory). We carefully study the data, paying attention to the following figures:

• Total space - the amount of internal memory Android
• System memory - the minimum amount of space reserved for system operation
• Available space - how much space is left in the internal memory.

Accordingly, if the built-in memory is not enough, you need to increase the memory on the phone to the size of System memory so that the system does not give the corresponding error.

In the following chapters, I will tell you how to clean the internal memory on Android.

Clearing the phone's internal memory

You can remove the excess using the built-in tools operating system and at the expense third party applications. They analyze the used space, help identify files that can be safely deleted.

Removing apps from Android system memory

Surely your phone has applications installed that hang dead weight and are not used for their intended purpose. Their size can reach hundreds of megabytes (including the cache).

You can remove useless programs through the standard Application Manager: Options - Settings - Application Manager (Settings - Apps).

In Android 8, to calculate unnecessary applications, it is convenient to use free utility Files Go . For other OS versions, it is available for download via Google Play.

How to delete unnecessary applications in Files Go:

1. Go to the Unused apps section,
2. Sort applications by modification date or size,
3. To delete, mark unnecessary programs checkboxes and click Uninstall.

Video instruction for uninstalling applications:

Transferring files to a memory card

The internal memory of the phone, as already mentioned, has a fixed amount, so you need to constantly check whether there is enough free space for the applications and OS to work correctly.

In general, Android memory is divided into internal and external. It is easy to "upgrade" external memory, since sd-cards are inexpensive today (you can buy a 256 GB memory card for $25).

Actually, you can transfer files through any file manager– via phone or PC.

Move unnecessary applications from internal to external memory card

As an alternative to CCleaner, it's convenient to use the aforementioned Files Go app.

How to increase memory on Android manually

To manually clear the memory phone fit any file manager. We recommend ES Explorer or Total Commander.

Be careful and only delete unnecessary user files in Android internal memory that you created/copied yourself.

So, open the file manager, go to the root of the internal memory, start searching and deleting unnecessary things.

Which files it is desirable to delete (transfer to a memory card) in the first place:

1. Photos, videos, voice recorder recordings and other documents stored not on sd, but in internal memory;
2. Documents received by mail or through social networks (most often they are saved in the Download folder);
3. Electronic books and other files saved by third-party applications to the device's memory;
4. The contents of the folders DCIM, bluetooth, sounds.

We use Storage Analyzers (for clarity)

For clarity, we recommend using the Files Go application or any other storage analyzer for Android, which will show which files take up the most disk space and where they are located in the form of a diagram. Among these applications, we note:

Transferring photos and videos to Google Photos

It is photos and videos that “eat up” the most space on the phone, due to them you can quickly free up space on the memory card or in the built-in storage. If your phone doesn't support a memory card, move the files you don't access often to the cloud. The Photos app is best suited for this, or Google Photos. It automatically uploads photos to the service, where they are available in their original quality through a browser or application.

In addition to Google Photos, you can look at alternatives such as Dropbox, Flickr or Microsoft OneDrive.

Even when the photos are only available on the server, you can easily access them if you have an internet connection. And most importantly, it is really convenient and fast way free up a couple of gigabytes of internal memory!

Clearing memory: questions and answers

1. The phone did not have enough internal memory, I sent half of the photos to the sd card, after that I open it, but they are all kind of muddy. I tried to transfer back to the internal memory of Android, but the pictures are the same. How can I return the old pictures, i.e. so that it was cleaned up as before without any distortion.

2. I did not have enough internal memory in my phone, I wanted to clear it. I transferred data (photos, music) to a memory card. Now the files are not readable, although the phone sees the map. How can I get at least a photo back?

3. Phone Samsung A5. I did not know how to increase the internal memory, I moved folders with music and files from the internal memory to the sd card using a laptop. After that, when opening the folders, they all turned out to be empty. Neither the phone nor the computer sees files and music. The internal memory of the phone did not seem to decrease after that. How to find these files?

Answer. It is likely that you did not copy the originals to the memory card, but the thumbnails. The original photos may have been left in the phone's internal memory. If this does not happen, the DiskDigger program will help you.

If there is not enough space in the memory of the device, you should copy the files to the computer (do backup) and only after that move it to the memory card. It will be useful for you to read the instructions on how to clear the internal memory on Android (see the text above).

I have a phone Sony Xperia, when I go to the Play Market, I want to download some program, the system writes that there is not enough memory on Android, although the flash drive is 16 GB! What to do?

Answer. Most likely, the "not enough memory" error on Android is due to the fact that there is not enough internal memory - this is where installation files are downloaded from Google Play.

1. Transfer the largest files from Android internal memory to your sd card.
2. Delete unnecessary applications through the file manager or Files Go.
3. Use the CCleaner utility to clean junk files in your phone's memory.

Cleaned phone memory, deleted a lot of folders. And now I can not watch the gallery through Android, writes: "Storage is not available." How can I return it back?

Answer. It is likely that during cleaning you deleted the folder with photos on the memory card (SDCARD/DCIM/CAMERA). You can recover files from there using CardRecovery or PhotoRec.

The relevance of the Android operating system is growing every day, but the number of questions from users is also increasing exponentially. One of the most frequently asked and discussed questions is why there is not enough memory on Android, what is the reason for this and how to solve this problem?

As a rule, such a problem appears after a while after you purchased the device. It may appear even if you have an additional 2 GB or higher memory drive installed. The solution depends on the type of problem itself, and, oddly enough, there can be many of them! But we will analyze them all so that in the future when such notifications appear, you will not have fear in your eyes!

Not enough space in the memory of the Android device

The main list of possible problems:

• The internal memory of the device is full (all applications from Google Play are loaded initially into the internal memory);
• You do not have a flash drive in your phone;
• Google Play old cache.

To understand this problem, you need to understand the principle of operation of the device itself, which will be described below. In the Android operating system, by default, all applications will be installed on your phone's internal storage. It's really only for standard installation programs and games from Google service play. Do not forget about simple copying apk files to the memory of a flash card or smartphone device.

In the Android settings you can always view full list programs and games that are installed in the internal memory of the phone, on the SD card, how much space each application takes, how much is the cache and much more.

Attention! Standard programs provided by default with the operating system from Google cannot be removed or moved to the SD card. This includes various widgets, mail, weather, music services, the same Google Play and much more.

Let's say that there is not enough memory on your Android. What will be the actions? The solution depends on the type of problem!

Filling the phone's internal memory: browsing, cleaning, transferring applications

This is the first reason that you should consider when you experience such problems and notifications on your smartphone.

We go to "Settings", select the "Applications" tab and look at the list of programs that we have installed in the phone's memory. Moreover, at the very bottom of the screen, the total amount of memory and the occupied space will be displayed. If you switch to an SD card, the system will automatically display the data already for the flash drive.

In addition to transferring, we advise you to remove programs that you never use or run very rarely! To your account on Google Play, even those applications that have already been deleted will be linked, so you can safely delete rarely used ones. You can download them again at any time.

Removing garbage in Android

In addition to applications, a ton of unnecessary information accumulates on your phone (program cache, a large number of messages, downloads, logs, and much more).

Go to the Download folder and delete all previously downloaded files if you don't need them. Do you often use a browser to view websites? Uploading a lot of files? Then go to all browsers, see the paths of the directories for saving data and delete all garbage from your phone through the file manager.

Be sure to clear the CMC, if there are a lot of them, delete the read letters from Email, because most emails are stored locally on your device.

Professional junk cleaner in Android

To remove excess garbage, you can use specialized programs that will automatically find all temporary files, analyze the cache of each program and game, clear browser history, etc. To do this, use the program Clean Master. The program is distributed free of charge, available in Russian. To install, go to Google Play, enter the name of the application and install it on your phone.

To delete unnecessary files, select the "Junk" item, to optimize the performance of your phone, click "Acceleration". In addition to the application cache, there is also shared cache operating system, which can also be cleared to free up memory.

Programs are not installed on Android, although there is memory

Another common problem occurs among Android users. There is free memory in the phone and the flash card, but the applications are not installed and the system constantly writes that there is not enough memory on Android. In this case, the problem is solved by clearing the cache in google app play.

Go to "Settings", select the "Applications" tab and find Google Play there. Click on it and clear the cache. Uninstall all updates there. Now restart your device and try installing programs. In 99% of cases this method helps solve the problem.

conclusions

We told you and described everything possible problems, why there may not be enough memory space on Android, as well as ways to solve them. One of the described methods will definitely help you!

And remember that all applications are best stored on an SD card. For smartphone on Android based the best option is to use an SD drive of 8 GB or more. Considering that the photos of the same Samsung weigh from 2 MB or more, the memory fills up pretty quickly. For the correct and stable operation of the phone, applications installed in it, purchase only SD-cards of class 10 and above. This will provide you top speed operation of the device with memory and stable work for a long time.

How to clear phone memory on Android? is a question of interest to many smartphone users. Lack of memory is one of the most common problems, as it can appear even on smartphones with large amounts of storage. Typically, a "Memory Full" system message indicates a problem. At the same time, there really may not be free space on the device, and sometimes there is enough of it. This problem leads to a ban on downloading, updating, creating photos and videos. The phone turns into a useless device, devoid of most of the functions.

The way out of the situation is to free up space or change settings. We will show 5 effective ways to eliminate the lack of free space on your smartphone.

Cleaning your phone of junk files

If your Android phone's memory is full, the first thing we recommend is deleting apps, downloads, and system junk. The download folder takes up the most space on your smartphone, and installed applications. An effective way to free up enough memory is to remove all unnecessary.

• Analyze all applications on the smartphone desktop. Most likely you will be able to find a few unnecessary or few useful applications which have not been used for a long time. It is better to remove them in order to free up memory;

• Another common reason why the phone memory is full is that it stores a lot of videos and photos. We can filter out bad photos and useless videos. This may already solve the problem. If all the media data is needed or deleting it did not help free up enough memory, all that remains is to transfer the files. We recommend moving the data to a USB flash drive or transfer it to a computer;
• Clear downloaded files from messengers. By default, they download sent photos to the phone. Because of this, various postcards, congratulations, photos of strangers and so on accumulate in the smartphone’s storage. The easiest way to clear this section is to use a computer. Through the explorer, we can open the folder of the same name from the messenger and remove its contents;
• Check the folder where the browser downloads all files. A lot of data accumulates here, clearing it will help free up a lot of space.

These are the most effective ways to free up space on the phone, but they do not help everyone. Is there a problem with the lack of memory? - Read on.

Removing information from the .thumbnails folder on Android

Probably few people know, but when viewing the gallery android system creates thumbnails - these are small snaps of pictures. Their main task is to increase the speed of the next download of files. It is easy to guess that these sketches take up space and have minimal practical use.

1. We connect the smartphone to the PC and turn on the “File Transfer” mode.
2. Open the "DCIM" section in the phone section.
3. Go to the ".thumbnails" directory.
4. Click keyboard shortcut+ A and delete all content.

Over time in this section data is accumulated on 1-2 GB. Only removing them will help the phone, perhaps it will even stop slowing down.

Important! This action is recommended to be performed with a certain frequency. Depending on the activity of using a smartphone, this is 1-3 weeks. If we forget to clean up, the same number of files will accumulate in the partition again.

Clearing the cache

Another way to painlessly free up space on your phone is to delete the cache. Cache are temporary files designed to speed up data processing. Actively used data is placed here. Instead of re-processing the data when the application loads, it is simply taken from the cache.

As in the previous case, in small amounts the cache is useful, and in large quantities it can slow down the smartphone. Such a procedure is ready to give from 500 MB to 2-4 GB of free space and even more.

How to clear phone storage by deleting cache:

1. Open the Settings app.
2. We are looking for the section "System and device" and click on the item "Storage".

1. After counting the data occupied by the cache, click on the "Cache data" item.

1. In the "Clear Cache" window, select "OK".

By the way, due to an incorrectly formed cache, there is a situation when the phone's memory is full, although there is nothing there. Usually, the utility for accessing the official Google Play store reports that the memory is busy. This notification appears when you try to install any application.

How to remove the cache from Google Play:

1. In the "Settings" menu, look for the "Applications" section.
2. Select "All Applications".
3. Find the line "Google Play Market"and click on it.

1. Click on the "Clear" button at the bottom and select "Clear Cache".

Healthy! Often used to clear the cache special applications, they do not require root access and do everything in a couple of clicks. To do this, we can use CCleaner or Clean Master.

Changing settings on an Android smartphone

Now let's learn about a method that is ready to give more free memory than any other method. it radical way how to free up memory on the phone, the essence of which is to the factory state. Formatting will take place local storage. As a result, we get a completely clean smartphone.

1. We enter the "Settings" menu and find the item "System and device".
2. Open "Advanced settings" and at the end of the page click on "Backup and reset".

1. At the bottom of the list, select "Reset settings".

1. Click on "All files on the phone" and confirm the action.

We left one last good way which requires a small investment.

Memory card replacement

We can just buy a larger microSD card. Modern smartphones usually support 128 GB drives. With this amount of storage, there should not be a shortage of space.

Important! Many smartphones have a combined slot. This means that we can install either a 2nd SIM or a microSD card in the second slot. You have to prioritize correctly.

Brief summary: lack of memory is easily eliminated by deleting temporary and useless files. If you want to save all the data, we can simply install a more capacious flash drive. If many data from the phone are outdated, it makes sense to transfer everything you need to your computer and format your smartphone. Factory reset frees up the most space.

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How to clear android internal memory when android internal memory is full. In this article, you will learn effective ways to clear the internal ROM (internal) memory of an android device and get rid of the "phone internal memory is full" message.

Using mobile device sooner or later the question arises: how to clear memory on android. This problem can occur when you want to install an application, download something from the Internet, receive files via bluetooth, or just your phone or tablet displays a message: the phone's internal memory is full - we will tell you what to do. Cleaning your phone of debris has a positive effect on the speed of the entire device and applications.

We will analyze how to clear the internal memory of an android smartphone or tablet in stages. Where possible and makes sense, we will use several methods so that you can choose the most convenient one.

When files can be stored in the device memory

• you create a photo, video, melody
• exchange files via email social networks or messengers (Viber, Skype, WhatsApp, etc.)
• record on a voice recorder
• do not use or have not used before external memory or cloud storage
• receive files via bluetooth, Wi-Fi, NFC...
• all applications are installed in the device memory

Before clearing the internal memory of an Android device, you need to prevent further littering with debris internal memory. To do this, specify saving to a memory card in the settings:

1. cameras
2. voice recorder
3. browser loader which you are using
4. applications, with which you create or edit documents, pictures, videos, music files
5. messengers in which you share files, if possible
6. downloaders, with which you download music, videos or pictures
7. GPS Maps and navigators.

If you need to specify in applications the path where to save files, create the appropriate folder on the memory card and specify its location. After these steps, new files will not cause problems such as the internal memory of the android is full.

After you moved the necessary files to the memory card, you managed to partially clear the internal memory of the android. But that's not all, and if you want to free up even more space and forget about the error: android internal memory is full, read the article to the end.

Launch Android Assistant, go to the tab " Tools" and choose the item App2Sd.
The tab opens a list of applications that can be transferred to a memory card. After selecting applications, you are thrown into "Application Details" click here "To SD memory card".

You can clean up android internal memory if you uninstall unnecessary applications. For convenience, we recommend a tool in Android Assistant - "Batch Delete"- it allows you to select multiple applications to uninstall at the same time and will show in which memory it is installed.

Launch the Clean Master application, select "Trash" and "Clear". After that, the application offers to do another advanced cleaning and warns that this section may contain the necessary data, so carefully choose the files to delete.

Now you know how to clean your android phone from junk, how to transfer applications to a memory card (if possible) and how to move files on android when the android internal memory is full. In addition to a memory card, there is another way - storing files on the Internet.

So, in this article, you have learned how to clear the internal memory of your android phone when the internal memory is full. We solved this problem by analyzing the questions: how to move files on android (pictures, videos, music, documents), how to transfer applications to a memory card, how to clean your device from garbage and learned about storing files on the Internet - Cloud storage.

There is also a way for the "lazy", if you urgently need to clear all personal data and delete applications with their settings - try it. This will clean the device completely and format it.

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This article is a more in-depth continuation of the one in which we described. If you are wondering how to clear the internal memory on Android manually or using third-party applications, we will help you find a solution.

Let's analyze an example of cleaning on a smartphone. Let's say we bought new phone with built-in memory in 32gigabyte, but in fact only 26 are available. We will not immediately run to the store and return the goods, but will begin to figure out what the matter is.

You can see how much free internal memory the system has by going to "Settings" in the item " Memory" or " storage". It is important to note that each phone model reserves a different amount of memory for the system.

In modern models, the size depends on the brand (Samsung, Lenovo, LG) and android versions(6, 7), about 2-5 GB on average.

Please note that on devices with their own proprietary firmware installed (for example, Xiaomi, Meizu), the memory will be initially occupied even more. The same goes for: normal functioning such smartphones require a minimum of 3 GB.

How to completely clear the internal memory of Android

If you do not have SuperSU rights, then cleaning a smartphone or tablet in full, of course, will not work. The absence of this feature seriously limits your actions. After reading our article on how - you can completely remove all garbage from the device. But if you do not want to lose the official guarantee, then you can do about half of the following.

To free up system memory, follow these steps:

1. Go to menu item "Settings";
2. Find a section "Applications";
3. Go to point "Third Party Applications";
4. Click on the ellipsis icon in the upper right corner;
5. Sort the list by size.

Uninstalling an app or app updates

After you have completed the above steps, after a few seconds you will see the largest applications stored on your Android device. If among the list there are those programs that you do not use, you just need to remove them.

If item "Delete» no - then without root rights it will not be possible. In this case, you can select " Uninstall updates". They are quite voluminous and will help free up some space.

But if you are determined to remove system applications that do not benefit you, we recommend that you familiarize yourself. For example, you installed a third-party excellent alarm clock, the built-in one is no longer needed, but it does not want to be deleted by the standard method. Also, do not forget that the desire to free up more space can lead to the fact that you delete files necessary for the operating system, and this increases the risk of .

Application stop

Other in an efficient way is to force the application to stop. But again, you need to use this function carefully, because this can only be done if the application is not a system one.

It is worth remembering that the Android system itself occupies a fairly large part of the memory, and nothing can be done about it.

Efficient cleaning of built-in memory on your phone and tablet

The cleaning process is almost universal and does not differ much for smartphones and tablets. It is important to take into account the version of Android and the brand of your device.

If you have cleaned everything up, removed unnecessary applications and you still have little memory, the choice is small. you need to get root user rights. If possible, some apps are better.

Frequently Asked Questions/Answers

How to stop the Maps application?

The process is similar for all programs and games. To do this, please login "Settings", you take necessary program and at the top instead of a button "Delete" will be "Stop".