How to Free Up Space on Android Phone?

“Android internal storage full”

I have a Samsung Galaxy phone with Android operating system, and now the Android always tells me that my device is almost full. How do I free up space on my Android phone’s internal memory? Any advices are appreciated. Thanks a lot.

In most cases, you are likely to meet the internal storage full on the Android phone after a long time of use, especially the fast increasing quantity of installed program, user’s files, program caches, system settings, and other data. You can’t install any other applications for your Android phone. Besides, you probably encounter the insufficient storage available error message on Android phone, how to fix it?

Quick ways to free up space on Android phone

When your Android storage is full, you will not be able to store any new data. Thus, it is necessary to learn how to free up space on Android internal memory. Here we share 3 quick ways you can have a try.

1. Clear all cached app data

In the Apps storage setting screen, tap on each app and you will find each one has its own “cached data”, which can be a few kilobytes to hundreds of megs or even more. These caches data are just junk files and you can delete them to free up Android storage space. Just click on the “Clear Cache” button and wait for it to be done.

2. Remove unnecessary apps

If you have downloaded many programs or apps, you can try to uninstall some of them you don’t use usually in weeks or months. Some apps always take up a lot of space and deleting them can help release much storage space. You can sort your apps on your Android phone in size and decide which one to remove.

3. Transfer media/photos to the cloud or a computer

If you have stored a large number of precious videos and photos on your Android phone, you can transfer them to a cloud drive or a computer as a backup, and then delete them from your device permanently to free up space on Android internal storage.

Best method to free up space on your Android phone

The above quick ways such as deleting unused applications, all the history and caches might be helpful to release Android internal memory. But they cannot solve the problem totally and the internal memory on Android phone will get full soon or later. What is the best solution to getting more space on your phone without deleting anything?

Apart from trying to delete unnecessary data to free up space, you can also attempt to get some extra space from external memory card or SD card. How to make some space on SD card or memory card available and readable on Android phone? The critical step is to partition the SD card or memory card into two parts: a FAT32 partition, an Ext3 partition for internal storage. For this task, you can use the free partition manager named AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard.

1. Free download the software, install and run it. Connect your SD card or memory card to computer. Before partitioning, you have to backup all the data and delete all the partitions on SD card or memory card.

2. Right click the SD card or memory card, select Create Partition at the drop down menu.

3. Choose FAT32 file system for SD card or memory card, adjust the partition size to the proper position.

4. Press Apply to create a FAT32 partition for SD card or memory card.

5. Right click the left unallocated space, choose Create Partition.

6. Select Ext3 file system for SD card or memory card.

7. Click Apply to create an Ext3 partition for SD card or memory card.

Tip: Windows can only recognize the first primary partition on removable drive, so the second partition on SD card or memory card has no drive letter.

After these operations, you will get a partitioned SD card or memory card, then insert it to your Android phone (Note: make sure your Android Phone has been rooted.), use Link2SD (please install first) to move apps to SD card to free up space on Android internal memory,

Conclusion

This article has listed 3 quick methods to free up space on Android phone, plus one method to get extra free space from external storage device. The introduced AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard software comes with many other amazing functions, such as removing write protection for SD card, formatting SD card, converting file systems between NTFS and FAT32 without losing data, restoring full capacity for SD card showing less space and fixing SD card not working problem, etc.

If you upgrade to Professional, you can enjoy more advanced features: split a large partition into two smaller partitions, allocate free space from one partition to another, convert primary partition to logical without losing data, convert disk to MBR/GPT without deleting partitions and more.