robinbrum

Hello all,

I am a relative newbie to the Android scene so I am just getting used to how everything works. I recently rooted my Huawei Ascend g300 after being told of all the supposed benefits this brings. However, I have yet to notice any difference in the way the phone operates and its overall performance is no better than it was before.

The main problem I have is constantly being told I have insufficient storage. This means I can no longer download apps from the Google Play store, can’t download email and am unable to upload via Google Plus. I am mystified why I can’t download apps as the default storage is set to the SD card which has over 17gb of free space.

From what I can gather from reading various forums, the problem seems to lie in a partition on the internal storage which appears to be about 756mb in size. The internal storage is 2gb I seem to recall. However, there always appears to be no more than 36mb free space even after I have cleared the cache and stopped running apps. I reclaim a small amount of space which is quickly eaten up again.

My question is, is there a way I can delete this partition safely? Would it require a reset? I can’t even seem to access the files on the drive or see what is taking up so much room. I have various utilities on my phone but I am unsure how they work and fear bricking my phone if I have to flash it or something. One of these is Android Partition but I thought I would seek the advice of other users before I did something potentially risky.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Rob.

TheDroidYALF

Did you move all the apps you downloaded to the SD card? Even if you set the SD card as default for storage, all downloaded apps are installed in the internal memory. Press the menu button when you are on the homepage to go to the app manager. You will need to check all the apps to see if they can be moved (not all apps can be moved, but this should help).

robinbrum

Thanks for the reply. I did as you suggested and installed App2SD utility which certainly helped at first as I had no idea there were apps still on the internal storage. However the problem soon returned and I have no idea what is taking up up so much room although a lot of it appears to be bloatware that I can not get rid of, despite the fact that my phone is rooted. Getting quite frustrated as the device is getting slower and slower and is prone to randomly crashing. If I reset it I know it will work fine to begin with then the problem will start again. Really don't know what to do...