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Help Internal Storage vs SD Card

molowry

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Nov 21, 2017
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Brand spanking new here, to the forums AND to Android so please go easy on me if I'm being dense.

I added an SD card for storage since the internal storage is crappy but I keep having specific problems and I can't find an answer that's more current that last year. When certain apps I've moved to the card update I have to go and put them back on the SD card. And I'm increasingly having issues where my phone is sooooooooo slow (apps freeze, and shut down, long pauses when opening or closing apps or web pages...) because I've not done that. It's turning into a frequent chore (more than once or twice a week) where I go to the storage on my phone, clear the cache, move the apps I can move and restart my phone.

Is this a functionality of my specific phone (LG Ariso), it not being a fancy one with more internal storage etc? Or is this an issue with Android operating system across the board? Is there a more permanent fix or is this something I'll just have to live with now being an Android user? If a better phone will solve this problem then updating could be worth it but if this is just "an Android thing" and better isn't really better then......that kinda sucks.

I have other issues that I don't know if they are the phone, the operating system or something else either but don't want to inundate this post or the forums with multiple posts. Is there a class or something? Or maybe some one here would be willing to let me pick their brain?
 

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