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Storage headache

SAMSUNG j2 2016 is giving a lot of memory to 'other'. The question is pretty simple, how to access 'other'. I checked by selecting all the files info and found out the the space they were taking is nothing in front of the space which is causing problems.
 
My interpretation of your post is that you are looking at the Storage menu in Settings, and seeing quite a chunk allocated to something called "Other", and you want to know what that is and whether you can reduce it?

If so, it's probably dominated by your system software (actually by the size of the partitions the system software is stored in). Different phones use different names for this in the Storage menu: I've not met "Other" before, but my previous phone called it "System and Other". Many phones just call it "Misc" or "Miscellanious", which is equally as unhelpful as "Other". My current phone actually calls it "System". But in all cases it's either completely or mainly the system partitions, which is also why you can't access it(*).

The problem is that your phone only has 8GB storage in total, and after you take out the operating system, drivers, baseband firmware, system cache partition etc I would guess that leaves you 4GB at most. There is nothing you can do about that, apart from move apps to SD where you can, keep all of your media on the removable SD card, and next time buy a phone with more storage. 8GB is really too little unless you are only going to use the phone very lightly.

(*) Actually you could access it if the device was rooted, but it wouldn't help: the storage your files and apps can use is the /data partition, and that wouldn't get any larger if you removed files from the system partitions. However removing stuff from the system partitions, unless you know what you are doing, is very likely to break the phone, which is why Android does not give the user that access.
 
My interpretation of your post is that you are looking at the Storage menu in Settings, and seeing quite a chunk allocated to something called 'Other', and you want to know what that is and whether you can reduce it?
If so, it's probably dominated by your system software (actually by the size of the partitions the system software is stored in). Different phones use different names for this in the Storage menu: I've not met 'Other' before, but my previous phone called it 'System and Other'. Many phones just call it 'Misc' or 'Miscellanious', which is equally as unhelpful as 'Other'. My current phone actually calls it 'System'. But in all cases it's either completely or mainly the system partitions, which is also why you can't access it(*).
The problem is that your phone only has 8GB storage in total, and after you take out the operating system, drivers, baseband firmware, system cache partition etc I would guess that leaves you 4GB at most. There is nothing you can do about that, apart from move apps to SD where you can, keep all of your media on the removable SD card, and next time buy a phone with more storage. 8GB is really too little unless you are only going to use the phone very lightly.
(*) Actually you could access it if the device was rooted, but it wouldn't help: the storage your files and apps can use is the /data partition, and that wouldn't get any larger if you removed files from the system partitions. However removing stuff from the system partitions, unless you know what you are doing, is very likely to break the phone, which is why Android does not give the user that access.
Thankyou for the response.
I tried to root my phone with the help of kingroot. I tried the process several times, but it didn't helped me.
I would really like you to guide me.
How to root my phone without using computer.
 
So what exactly are you trying to do in "other" storage? If you're trying to delete or reduce what's stored there, just repeat clearing out your cache and data. By doing this repeatedly you will start to see your 'other' storage diminish. NOTE: BY PROCEEDING WITH THIS WILL REMOVE ANY AND ALL STORED LOGIN, PASSWORD, SAVED ACCOUNT INFORMATION DOWN TO THE ANDROID SYSTEM LOG INFORMATION THAT CAN'T BE REMOVED.
 
Thankyou for the response.
I tried to root my phone with the help of kingroot. I tried the process several times, but it didn't helped me.
I would really like you to guide me.
How to root my phone without using computer.

If it's on Android 6.x Marshmallow or above, you can't root it without a computer and proper custom recovery etc. So called "one click" app only exploit roots don't work with recent Android versions
 
Thankyou for the response.
I tried to root my phone with the help of kingroot. I tried the process several times, but it didn't helped me.
I would really like you to guide me.
How to root my phone without using computer.
What do you want to do using root? As I said, it can't solve the problem you were asking about.
Personally I've never rooted a phone without a computer, and as Mike has said that's unlikely to be an option for you. I've also never rooted a Samsung, so am not really the person to advise on how to do that.
 
What do you want to do using root? As I said, it can't solve the problem you were asking about.
Personally I've never rooted a phone without a computer, and as Mike has said that's unlikely to be an option for you. I've also never rooted a Samsung, so am not really the person to advise on how to do that.
Thankyou for the advice.☺
 
I don't know what that emoji was supposed to be (it's just a string of numbers and characters to me), but what Mike was saying is that these "rooting apps" rely on security holes in the operating system, and Google of course close these holes when they learn about them. The holes that most of these apps relied on were closed in Android 6, so if you are using Android 6 or later it's unlikely that you can root without a computer.
 
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