Not enough storage space

[deonholt]

Hi and thank you for your help.

This tablet is frustrating me enormously.

Spec: (NO extra Apps installed yet.)
OS: Android 6.0
Device Storage: 2.36 GB used of 10.99 GB
Internal Storage: 2.33 GB used of 3.70 GB
SD Card: 23.82 MB used of 7.29 GB

Since I do not have a whole lot of internal storage, I bought a 8 GB SD Card and formatted it is internal storage. Before I just formatted the SD card again, I had about 700 MB of internal storage free. So, I formatted the SD Card again and did a complete factory reset of my tablet.
So, with a clean installation and clean SD formatted as internal storage, I tried to move Flipboard app to the SD card. I then got the bad message, not true message again: "Not enough storage space". This message while there is a lot of free space on my tablet and SD card.
I have read almost everything on the net about what to do when this happens. I have tried to clean cache and who knows what else. As you can imagine this is VERY frustrating.
I have also, after the factory rest the first time, installed the free app to clean the cache. This has not helped.

What advice/fix can you please help me with to fix this very annoying problem?
Secondly, can I set the tablet to automatically store newly downloaded apps, photos and so on, on the SD card and not the internal story of the tablet?

Thank you very much. Looking forward to your help.
Deon

 

[Hadron]

Unfortunately I've no experience with formatting cards as internal, so can't really help with any quirks.

But it is /really/ wrong that some brain-dead manufacturer is dividing the internal storage into "internal" and "device" storage in 2017. Android abandoned that storage model in 2012, in favour of a unified model where those two areas share the same space. The level of stupidity needed for them to revert to Android 2.3 storage partitioning in 6.0 is astounding.

I know that doesn't solve your problem, I just wanted to let you know that this is not how Android devices normally operate, and that you should avoid that manufacturer, and any other who does this, in future.

Hopefully someone who has experience of using sd as internal storage will be able to advise on your current situation.

 

[SolApathy]

As Hadron already stated, the storage method on this tablet is really old and has not been used for years for this very reason. Unfortunately there is no real fix unless the manufacturer has an update available for it.