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Internal Storage Growing Overtime!Whats wrong?

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exprox

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Hi guys I new to the forums and i just bought my very first android phone,I have never own and Ios/android phone in the past,Alright it started last week when I have about 23 apps on my Phone and the total was about 461 mb and this week when i checked it has mysteriously grown up to 484 mb!!! what is happening here?

i remember clearly i have not downloaded a single app since last week but my internal storage is growing for no reason.and i have use clean master but i still cant reclaim the space:mad:

help!
 
Hello and welcome to Android Forums, exprox. :)

Without know what the apps are, we can't tell you for sure where the increase is coming from, but 23 MB is pretty benign. It could be from app updates, text/MMS messages or emails. Web browser caches, maps, sync'ed news items or even call logs. I don't know that I would worry about it.
 
so its actually pretty normal??
The apps i have downloaded are
facebook
vine
google play services
tapatalk
drive
whatsapp
glide
twitter
youtube
cleanmaster
shazam
nq mobile security
google play store
skype
quickoffice
viber
dubatterysaver
assistant
foursqaure
vault
instagram
pixlr express
waze
lastpass
RHB Now
Earth
 
"utilities" (and I put them in quotes because they are of questionable utility ;) ) like cache cleaners will dump app caches, but not system caches, unless you are rooted. And even then, randomly dumping cache files to save a few MB is simply going to slow down your device as the caches get rebuilt.

If you go to menu>settings>apps and then slide left to the "all" tab, you can sort by size and see the biggest apps. If you click on the app you can see the size of the cache. I just checked and Facebook is a biggie and alone has a 10MB cache ... and I am a very light FB user. A heavy or moderate user will have large cache files.

More importantly, since you are new to Android, you may have to adjust your thinking about resources and try not to micromanage RAM and storage like you might on a Windows system. It's like comparing apples and pheasants. ;)
 
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