Help Internal Storage?

[Murf1]

When I install apps, then it tells me how much I have left. Can I install apps until it is completely gone without slowing down the phone?

So when I use a Chrome, Facebook, etc. and it needs to cache data, does it have other space reserved for that or does it also need to use my "internal storage" where my apps/data is at?

 

[daffyducknj]

When I install apps, then it tells me how much I have left. Can I install apps until it is completely gone without slowing down the phone?

So when I use a Chrome, Facebook, etc. and it needs to cache data, does it have other space reserved for that or does it also need to use my "internal storage" where my apps/data is at?

First of all... It's not good practice to install apps until all memory space is gone! There needs to be at least a few hundred MB's free. Around 300 MB would be good, especially if the phone isn't rooted. If not rooted, all app data will be stored internally.

It takes rooting, partitioning your external SD card with two partitions (main FAT32, secondary as ext4), and using Link2SD or something like mounts2sd if you want to move apps and data off the phone. Even if a phone is rooted and has user apps linked with Link2SD, most system apps will still store data internally.

 

[Murf1]

First of all... It's not good practice to install apps until all memory space is gone! There needs to be at least a few hundred MB's free. Around 300 MB would be good, especially if the phone isn't rooted. If not rooted, all app data will be stored internally.

It takes rooting, partitioning your external SD card with two partitions (main FAT32, secondary as ext4), and using Link2SD or something like mounts2sd if you want to move apps and data off the phone. Even if a phone is rooted and has user apps linked with Link2SD, most system apps will still store data internally.

Thanks, but I know all that. I'm not rooted now because I just did the "Unbrick" to get V6 upgrade and waiting (hoping) for KitKat update.

My main question still is - Where is the cache for Chrome, Facebook, etc. stored (on stock phone)? Same place my apps go (and therefore space needs to reserved) or it has space already reserved somewhere else separate for that?

 

[daffyducknj]

Thanks, but I know all that. I'm not rooted now because I just did the "Unbrick" to get V6 upgrade and waiting (hoping) for KitKat update.

My main question still is - Where is the cache for Chrome, Facebook, etc. stored (on stock phone)? Same place my apps go (and therefore space needs to reserved) or it has space already reserved somewhere else separate for that?

You're not understanding my answer. I'll try to clarify further.

As I said before, if the phone isn't rooted, all data will stay in internal storage REGARDLESS OF THE APP USED. The emulated SD storage feature (/storage/sdcard0) that Google imposes on the newer phones has confused a lot of folks. At the end of the day, that's nothing more than internal memory. (There may be some apps that store data in the external SD when a device isn't rooted, but most will still depend on internal storage.)

If it is rooted, that will depend on how you have your linking app set up, especially for user apps. Typically, data stays internally. With the F3 (and many new Android devices), that still means it'll sit at /storage/sdcard0, unless it's explicitly linked to /storage/sd-ext or some other directory on the external SD card.

Hope that helps.