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Memory conundrum and solution

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Hi to all you knowledgeable people. Some assistance and general clarification would be great on this, please.

The story starts with my wife's phone. I don't think that the model etc is important for this question, but it is an LG F60 (or something like that) and it is nearly new. The phone only has 4GB of memory so I made sure that I bought a good size SD card to go with it and I have set the OS to use the card for all media files. This seem to be working as all photos and music etc. are on the SD and there is nothing memory hungry on the internal mem. She has had the unit for a week or so and added perhaps 3 apps + those that were there as part of the out of the box config and now the thing is full - really! So I have a look at the memory usage and see - total 4GB - some apps and some bits and bobs 1.4GB - 'other' 2.44GB. When you drill down 'other' is almost all something called
 
Yes, unfortunately the OS typically uses over 2GB of storage. Most people don't recommend getting phones with less then 8GB of storage because of this.
 
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