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Freeing up space on an Android Phone (or other device)

By Christopher Mendla

March 21, 2014


Last Updated on December 1, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla

The storage on the phone side of my Samsung Galaxy S3 was almost full. The phone was slowing down dramatically for even the simplest tasks.

I tried some space freeing apps, tried to deleting the cache and tried to move the as many apps as I could to the SD card. Even so, the most I could free up was 500MB.

I searched the phone drive for files 1 MB or larger. I had the phone connected to my PC and did a windows search. I found that there were hundreds of .apk files that were taking up space.  I found the folder with the .apk files by doing a ‘show containing folder’ command.

It would probably be safe to delete these files. However, I decided to cut and paste them to my NAS. That took about 15 minutes for the cut and paste. When I was finished I had freed up almost 75% of the phone’s storage.

NOTE – This appears to be a safe procedure. Use caution and make sure that everything is backed up.

Christopher Mendla

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