Need more space

[Painterh52]

Hello, I have an LG G Stylo from Virgin Mobile which only came with 8 gb storage (much less usable). I am trying to figure out how to free up up some space, however, I cannot seem to move anything from the internal memory to the external memory card. Is this possible? If so, how? Thanks so much for any help (in advance).

 

[whoshotjr2006]

Hello, I have an LG G Stylo from Virgin Mobile which only came with 8 gb storage (much less usable). I am trying to figure out how to free up up some space, however, I cannot seem to move anything from the internal memory to the external memory card. Is this possible? If so, how? Thanks so much for any help (in advance).

May have to use a computer to do it unfortunately since bootloader is locked and root will bootloop your phone. Copy from internal to computer then to SD card.

Also look into the pm disable command using adb. You can disable more apps than what Android by default will let you. A disabled app will shed all it's extra data collected by the app thus creating more room in storage.

 

[svim]

Actually, any disabled app will remain in your internal storage. Disabling it does just that, the app is no longer usable (until you enable it again), but it does not remove it so disabled or enabled it will still be residing in the internal storage. Disabling does not magically make an app take up less storage space.

But getting back to the OP's original query and this is just my opinion, keep in mind you're always going to be fighting with this problem of not having enough internal storage memory, 8GB is simply not enough storage for an Android phone. You can either just accept this to be a big limitation and continue tweaking things to get a few MBs freed up on a regular basis (and most likely just getting irritated each time you need to do something on your phone), or start thinking about upgrading to a different phone with adequate system resources, one that will be much less of a hassle to use.

 

[n0tall0wed]

Actually, any disabled app will remain in your internal storage. Disabling it does just that, the app is no longer usable (until you enable it again), but it does not remove it so disabled or enabled it will still be residing in the internal storage. Disabling does not magically make an app take up less storage space.
But getting back to the OP's original query and this is just my opinion, keep in mind you're always going to be fighting with this problem of not having enough internal storage memory, 8GB is simply not enough storage for an Android phone. You can either just accept this to be a big limitation and continue tweaking things to get a few MBs freed up on a regular basis (and most likely just getting irritated each time you need to do something on your phone), or start thinking about upgrading to a different phone with adequate system resources, one that will be much less of a hassle to use.

actually you are only partially correct. If you disable an app it also will delete any updates to it and gives you that space back. so it can free up some space.

 

[svim]

actually you are only partially correct. If you disable an app it also will delete any updates to it and gives you that space back. so it can free up some space.

OK, but if you believe that the few MBs this amounts to is 'freeing up space' in a practical sense, this will need to involve a lot of apps (dozens) to actually amount to anything substantial enough to be useful for typical, day-to-day usage (taking into consideration this is a device with only 8GBs of internal storage). Also, this would also be a matter of a one-off situation, as the OP won't be able to disable several apps each day just to gain a few MBs of free space.

 

[n0tall0wed]

OK, but if you believe that the few MBs this amounts to is 'freeing up space' in a practical sense, this will need to involve a lot of apps (dozens) to actually amount to anything substantial enough to be useful for typical, day-to-day usage (taking into consideration this is a device with only 8GBs of internal storage). Also, this would also be a matter of a one-off situation, as the OP won't be able to disable several apps each day just to gain a few MBs of free space.

actually I do agree with you that for the most part it won't help. Just wanted to say it would free some space just not awhole lot. Also I agree that 8 gigs of space is kinda small considering that usually close to half of that is set to system files.

 

[JoeyMarie]

I was ecstatic when I read I could format my SD into internal storage when my maxpro ran out of RAM. It's not for everyone or every device, but it helped me get along until I could afford my s8 plus.

 

[whoshotjr2006]

OK, but if you believe that the few MBs this amounts to is 'freeing up space' in a practical sense, this will need to involve a lot of apps (dozens) to actually amount to anything substantial enough to be useful for typical, day-to-day usage (taking into consideration this is a device with only 8GBs of internal storage). Also, this would also be a matter of a one-off situation, as the OP won't be able to disable several apps each day just to gain a few MBs of free space.

trust me, there are enough bloat lg and google apps on the ls770 to disable to make a difference. i also went the extra mile on my old one and disabled most of the google suite of apps which update constantly and hog more and more space and used a lot of fdroid alternatives and found the phone to be much more enjoyable.

marshmallow was not a great update for this phone.

op, if you are feeling especially technical someday, asialove on xda has a downgrade tot to zv5 which is lollipop. your mileage may vary and do so at your own risk but about a year ago i downgraded to zv5 and rooted/disabled the google suite in favor of fdroid apps and still have over 1gb of storage left on internal with reddit is fun, lux, chrome, google keyboard, rom toolbox lite, facebook messenger, etc. still a nice phablet even with 1gb ram and 8gb internal storage.

xinternalsd will redirect all your downloaded files to sdcard instead of internal storage, and xposed modules will help tremendously.

clear your cache regularly, that should help too.

 

[mikedt]

op, if you are feeling especially technical someday, asialove on xda has a downgrade tot to zv5 which is lollipop. your mileage may vary and do so at your own risk but about a year ago i downgraded to zv5 and rooted/disabled the google suite in favor of fdroid apps and still have over 1gb of storage left on internal with reddit is fun, lux, chrome, google keyboard, rom toolbox lite, facebook messenger, etc. still a nice phablet even with 1gb ram and 8gb internal storage.

Think that depends on what your expectations are and what you do with said phablet/smart-phone. And quite frankly for me, a device like that would be completely unworkable.

 

[whoshotjr2006]

Think that depends on what your expectations are and what you do with said phablet/smart-phone. And quite frankly for me, a device like that would be completely unworkable.

Lg should have never released the cdma stylos with 1gb ram 8gb internal storage. The h631 would have been a better offering with 2gb ram and 16gb internal. But in it's time it was a decent low mid range phone for dirt cheap, one of the better offerings on boost and virgin in a sea of crap phones. I think I paid 50 for it on a sale at best buy. It was never intended to be a high end phone though and the price point reflected that.