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Help Trying to get some memory back

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mourningiistar

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I don't actually have that much apps on my phone, yet most of the memory on my s5 is used up. I'm even using an SD card to hold music and videos. So I went into settings and found out that most of my space is being used is labeled as miscellaneous files. The problem is that I don't know what is safe to delete in there. There is a 5 gig .apk file that I assume is an update for the phone but I'm not sure if its just the installer or if the file is still being used by the phone. Deleting files in that folder would be a big help, I just don't know if it will brick my phone or not.
 
I have yet to see a 1 GB apk file, much less a 5 GB one. That app would be bigger than the operating system - I don't think so.

Can you elaborate on what you saw in storage?

(Memory is RAM, just like on a pc.)
 
EarlyMon will no doubt have me taken out and shot at dawn for this suggestion... ;)

One quick method of cleaning is to install, free from the Play Store, Clean Master (Boost & AppLock) and let it scan and clean your phone.

Normally I would not recommend this app as it has become far to intrusive and a battery/performance drainer. However, the junk file cleaning element is quite useful in situations such as yours. I would advise uninstalling it or disabling it, after use. A much better, non intrusive, version has been incorporated by Samsung in the latest OH4 release for the worldwide, international model G900F, under the app title of Smart Manager.
 
Wanted to clarify that I'm not referring to ram but rather memory storage. I'm going to storage under settings and looking in miscellaneous.
 
mourningiistar said:
Wanted to clarify that I'm not referring to ram but rather memory storage. I'm going to storage under settings and looking in miscellaneous.
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Understood about storage - that's what it's called, storage. You don't call the thing in your pc the memory hard disk, you don't call this this thing memory storage, same reason. ;) :)

And back to the point, OK, no, let's get you a better way to look at things.

Check out "X-plore File Manager"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelycatgames.Xplore

Dual pane - you can make a storage map in the left pane, zoom, swipe for right pane with tree view, easy to find and delete unnecessary files

At no time do you ever want to use Clean Master. Never. Not ever. Except for never.

Check out "SD Maid - System Cleaning Tool" for something that works, isn't snake oil, and won't lie to you like Clean Master

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.sdm
 
The reason I asked is because I understand the task killer nonsense, but I don't see where they are advertising as a task killer. I know, I work with unix based systems and my number one issue is people powering down incorrectly (as a task killer would do) and have had no issue with clean master.
 
BB2DROID said:
The reason I asked is because I understand the task killer nonsense, but I don't see where they are advertising as a task killer. I know, I work with unix based systems and my number one issue is people powering down incorrectly (as a task killer would do) and have had no issue with clean master.
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If you have no issues with Clean Master then you really haven't gotten to the part of the thread with what it does with the app caches and what that implies. /proc/meminfo is your friend.

Or you do know that and just don't care. Which is fine, that's your decision.

If you want an outside opinion of Cheetah Mobile -

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...ought-by-cheetah-mobile-and-users-are-pissed/

Clean Master is snake oil, Cheetah Mobile peddles trash.
 
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