Hi all,
I'm struggling with storage and performance, and would like to learn about the relationship between the two.
The details: droid4 running stock verizon Jelly bean 4.1.
My performance has become abysmally slow, and I frequently have messages that app updates have failed due to insufficient storage, can't sync gmail, etc.
From what I can tell, there is about 3GB for apps storage, and of that I currently have about 250MB free. I get errors starting at about 300MB free for failed app updates and failed installs due to insufficient storage.
So, perhaps some of the terrible performance comes down to the apps area being too full. but how is this too full? 250 to 300MB free prevents apps from installing when they are a meg or less. how do they not fit?
Gmail can't sync because there is no space. 250MB free, and gmail apps info says data is a couple MB, and cache is far smaller. If I try to clear data then I get a warning that this will delete all account info etc., not just stored email data. So how do I make more room without toasting the accounts themselves?
Yea, filling up 3GB may be a lot, but I've got electrical engineering and programming apps up the wazoo to play with, plus games for the kid.
With a lot of apps, does the sheer number crush overall performance? I spent a lot of time today disabling notifications on a lot of this that I don't expect or care about notifications for. does this help performance, or do notifications not matter?
Other than the 3GB apps area, internal storage is mostly empty. Most everything else is on my 64GB uSD card. Pix, videos, downloads are moved there etc.
Why do things I haven't used show up as running? Is that due to notification checking, or other aspects?
Would I benefit from getting a recent 128GB uSD card (reformat as I did for my current 64GB one) and change to Cyanogenmod or something, put apps on uSD card, etc? Or should performance not change much with such a change?
I do of course have antivirus, which does not complain about anything.
I'm struggling with storage and performance, and would like to learn about the relationship between the two.
The details: droid4 running stock verizon Jelly bean 4.1.
My performance has become abysmally slow, and I frequently have messages that app updates have failed due to insufficient storage, can't sync gmail, etc.
From what I can tell, there is about 3GB for apps storage, and of that I currently have about 250MB free. I get errors starting at about 300MB free for failed app updates and failed installs due to insufficient storage.
So, perhaps some of the terrible performance comes down to the apps area being too full. but how is this too full? 250 to 300MB free prevents apps from installing when they are a meg or less. how do they not fit?
Gmail can't sync because there is no space. 250MB free, and gmail apps info says data is a couple MB, and cache is far smaller. If I try to clear data then I get a warning that this will delete all account info etc., not just stored email data. So how do I make more room without toasting the accounts themselves?
Yea, filling up 3GB may be a lot, but I've got electrical engineering and programming apps up the wazoo to play with, plus games for the kid.
With a lot of apps, does the sheer number crush overall performance? I spent a lot of time today disabling notifications on a lot of this that I don't expect or care about notifications for. does this help performance, or do notifications not matter?
Other than the 3GB apps area, internal storage is mostly empty. Most everything else is on my 64GB uSD card. Pix, videos, downloads are moved there etc.
Why do things I haven't used show up as running? Is that due to notification checking, or other aspects?
Would I benefit from getting a recent 128GB uSD card (reformat as I did for my current 64GB one) and change to Cyanogenmod or something, put apps on uSD card, etc? Or should performance not change much with such a change?
I do of course have antivirus, which does not complain about anything.
