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Data Storage on phone

  • 21-05-2012 03:19PM
    #1
    martyeds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭


    Perhaps someone on here can explain this to me.
    I have a 2GB sd card in my phone. I cannot view the pictures which i have taken on my phone (there are only 4 or 5) as it sats i do not have enough memory and i need to delete some items.
    At the minute i have 20 mb internal storage free on my phone though and 0 left on my sd. So i started to play about moving apps to see if i could free up some space on my sd. I tried to move an app from sd card to phone which claims to have total storage of 3.64 mb, but when i went to move it to the phone i got a message saying i did not have enough memory!!!
    Any ideas?


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  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,722 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Connect the phone to your PC such that you can see the memory card as an external drive, then use a utility like WinDirStat to analyse who is using all the space.....

    http://download.cnet.com/WinDirStat/3000-2248_4-10614593.html

    I suspect you have a lot of old photos and movies clogging up space.


  • #3
    martyeds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭martyeds


    Cheers for that. For some reason i have a load of stuff in a gps folder. Not sure why or what they are for but it is taking up a lot of space.


  • #4
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,722 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    That could be a cache for map tiles, or if you installed a free GPS app, it might hav downloaded a load of default maps.

    Open any mapping or GPS apps and clear out the cache.


  • #5
    martyeds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭martyeds


    coylemj wrote: »
    That could be a cache for map tiles, or if you installed a free GPS app, it might hav downloaded a load of default maps.

    Open any mapping or GPS apps and clear out the cache.

    Yeah i downloaded a GPS app and it seems to be downloading data 5 or 6 times per day. I have the phone since Dec and as you can imagine all that data was taking up a lot of space. I was about to fork out some of my hard earned cash on a new SD Card, but now problem solved. Thanks again.


  • #6
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,722 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    If you want to keep using the app, you can probably go into the app settings and put a smaller limit on the cache size so it will throw away map tiles for places you haven't been to recently.


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  • #7
    martyeds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭martyeds


    coylemj wrote: »
    If you want to keep using the app, you can probably go into the app settings and put a smaller limit on the cache size so it will throw away map tiles for places you haven't been to recently.


    I have now turned off GPS on my phone. I only use it for tracking my distance and speed if i go for a run.


  • #8
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Download disk usage from the market place, it can analyze disk space on the phone and delete the files from the graphic it displays.


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