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lunatic59 said:
Two jump out at me right away. Advanced task killer and clean master. Task killers have been discussed to death and are patently unecessary, IMO. ANYTHING from Cheetah mobile is bad news. They do a boat load of nonsense in the background.
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i understand the duiscussion aboutthe effectivenes of those apps, they usually do mor harm than good, BUT advance task killer, i have it more because sometimes an appfreezes and i got to ATK and just killiot faster than going to app manager.. but ok, i can live with ATK
and cleanmaster... i recognize its a incredible bloated stufffed app, incredible hughes buggy and slow, but THAT version in specific is from a year ago, i keep that version because recent ones are incredible defficient, waste a lot of resourses

but the main rerason why i keep clean master is because IS THE ONLY APP that clean the temp files that are created when i pull a pic from apps like k9 or skype or couple of others, when i pull a pic with those apps, those apps remain (the thumbnail) in the "recent items" list of OTHERs apps and THERE IS NO WAY to delete it! i have tried SEVERAL (i mean several) apps to clean thos thumbnails wiht no success clean master is the only one that clears that, neither the cleanmaster lite works, and it happens in all my others android devices

but something to notice here...

i have years with ATK and CM installed... i hardly think they are the cause...
in this case, advance task killer was instaleld, but not running its automatick kill ... was off
ALSO i never let Clean Master do aanythin automatically all the optios of ANY automatic action is disabled inclean master, so its puirelymanual it only acts when i open the app and i choose to clean
 
i am sorry but almost every app is justified, and the phone even it is an old phone (i mean not cuttign edge) is perfectly capable i could describe the use i give to each app
 
I did see Quickpic in your list, FYI that's also Cheetah Mobile, spying on you, phoning home your private stuff to Beijing, showing you ads. Which is why it's "free" of course. Personally I choose another gallery app. You might want to check some of your other apps as well, especially if "free" and Chinese. Could be where some of your storage is going, from their ad caches. Someone last week was enquiring about a 10MB folder and files they found called "appsponsors", which was full of cryptically named files that wouldn't open.
 
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mikedt said:
I did see Quickpic in your list, FYI that's also Cheetah Mobile, spying on you, phoning home your private stuff to Beijing, showing you ads. Which is why it's "free" of course. Personally I choose another gallery app. You might want to check some of your other apps as well, especially if "free" and Chinese. Could be where some of your storage is going, from their ad caches. Someone last week was enquiring about a 10MB folder and files they found called "appsponsors", which was full of cryptically named files that wouldn't open.
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curioustly, for some reason for a short time quickpick was in my list of suspiccious apps

AND i havent update the app because the last 3 updates the changelog mentios the same and sometimes he updates are for pure trash..., for example they had a promo of... "now you cant get your cloud transfered to dro[pbox... something like that and i say i dont trust on cloud backups neither use dropbox so that update means nothing for me
 
a curious thing
i have only 80mb left, this phone turns the low space notification when about 140mb

i cant install new google play aps because of the "low space" situation BUT i dont have the low space triangle warning in the upper bar!?

whats that then?
 
so, nobody knows which app is creatinan error or bug that it sucking all the space with a probably hidden file so is nto in the size count....
 
no, definitely something is very wrong, now i have 40mb left!
help, nobody here who has that brain to brick phones and is unable to help me with this!? which to my knowledge its very simply to diagnose for som
 
Beyond the basic troubleshooting suggestions we've already given you, it's going to be very hard to pinpoint this sort of thing without the actual phone in hand. I really do think it's got more to do with the limited resources on the phone than a misbehaving app. There could very well be a service that is caching or logging something that will grow it's size to fit available space without regard to memory limits, or you could have a hidden update file downloading but can't complete because there isn't enough space and it leaves the temp file behind.
 
Harder things have bee done here

i am a use with a problem and if i am begging for help its because i am able to spend several hours if someone wats to waste those ours with me asking for test procedures or any steps that person want me to perform in orderto get with the problem

YOU self mentioned two very very posbible causes (the temp file that never finish) and the log or cache file that is hidden..
thats a point!

listen i now uninstalled ALL apps, all of them (the downloaded ones..) and now the problem is dramatically clear, there is only 280mb free of almost 800 that should be available
 
Kharl said:
listen i now uninstalled ALL apps, all of them (the downloaded ones..) and now the problem is dramatically clear, there is only 280mb free of almost 800 that should be available
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Before you uninstalled them, did you open each one and clear the cache and data for each? Uninstalling an app doesn't necessarily remove all traces of it. If however, after a factory reset, and no installing anything it still does this, then it's either something in your system (which flashing the stock firmware *might* fix) or it is simply a combination of a new OS on an older device.
 
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