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Ok when I look in settings>sd card and phone storage it says:

Internal SD Card
Total space 5.78 GB
Available space 879MB

How come I only have that much free I have looked and cannot see what has filled it all up?

its doing my head in.....

Could be a wide range of things, mount the SD card to a computer and browse through the contents of it. See if you have large pictures in the DCIM folder, if you have a lot of music on the phone, how large are those files? Do you save or backup apps to the SD card? If so how big are those? On the other hand, certain apps create their own folders, so if you find yourself regularly accessing news apps or surfing the internet enough the cache might be retaining a lot of stuff. Movies will also obviously take up a ton of space. Check that stuff out first, if you notice anything that pops out at you and you need a little more advice on how to clean it up, let me know. Also use some of the generous 16gb of internal storage for things that are a bit more permanent.
 
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ok had a look saw nothing tried a factory reset still shows
Internal SD Card
Total space 5.78 GB
Available space 789MB

I only have an 8Gb internal not 16 BTW


Sorry I haven't checked in on this in a while.

If you have tried to do a factory reset, and that didn't solve anything, it comes down to a few more serous things:

- There's memory allocation errors. Best way to fix that is excercise your warranty and have them replace it.

- There's a program or file that is literally eating up space where it shouldn't. Best way to fix that, download the app, Android System Information and check out the size of the apps on the system. As a matter of fact, download the program anyway to check out the health of your phone, you might even find something there.

-If your phone is rooted, make sure there are no rogue programs eating up space. Also, if your phone is rooted, are you using anything like Titanium Backup and storing multiple backups on your phone?

All that said, I no longer have the Vibrant. Up until about 2 weeks ago I dropped it. I'm also not going to speak ill of it. I will however encourage you to get the most out of it. If the issues of a $500.00 device are rendering it useless or not user friendly, you owe it to yourself to call T-mobile and have it fixed ON YOUR TERMS. If that means insisting a replacement, so be it. Hopefully another member of this forum will have another view on your issue now that it's been bumped.

Good luck, and happy holidays.
 
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