Help insufficent storage problem

[Raj Khadgi]

My device doesn't have "move to sd card option". Instead it has " move to phone storage option". My device has internal storage of 1 gb and phone storage of 5gb and external sd of 16gb.i cant move apps to external storage. Apps can br moved from just internal to phone storage. Neither can i set my default storage to phone storage and not internal storage. Its annoying.the apps can't download and it always says insufficient storage.i have tried rooting my phone but it didnt work. Now it doesnt even have space to save the screenshots eventhought the internal storage shows 243mb left. Everytime it says storage in use. Please help

 

[Bg260]

Yep, it is annoying. Unfortunately with Android you can't expect a low end device to perform like a high end device. It's true with just about anything I suppose.

 

[lvt]

Yes most of low end devices are intended to use as a phone so they have limited hardware capabilities. Those devices usually have pattitioned storage, it means that you only have a fixed amount of storage to install apps and its data. It's almost impossible to use big apps like Facebook on such devices nowadays.

 

[Hadron]

That storage model of partitioning the internal storage into a small area for apps and a larger "internal sd" was dropped by Android with version 4.0, which was introduced in 2011. However some low-end Chinese manufacturers carried on doing that for many years, perhaps still do. Since this must be more work for them (as it's not the default option) as well as worse for the user it's very hard to explain why they do this.

If you can't root it then all you can do is try to free up as much space as you can in the /data partition. Clearing app caches will help temporarily, but only temporarily. Uninstalling apps you don't use, disabling and clearing data for unused system apps (which you can't uninstall) are probably about all you can do.