Hello all, new to the forum and smartphones in general. I recently switched carriers from straight talk to Cricket for reasons in the sake of brevity I won't go into here. So when I ported my number and made my switch I was offered the Samsung Galaxy Amp 2 for free when I switched over and ported my number. I promise I won't complain much since the phone was free. But it came with 8GB of internal storage and I added a 32GB SD card. However, right out of the box there was already over 7GB of internal storage used. All of the pre installed apps cant be moved or deleted.
I don't know what is hogging up all the memory on the phone. But it's gotten to the point where I can't even open up the gallery due to the lack of storage. I lurked here and read as much as I could for tips on how to free some of it up to not much avail. I cleared the system cache, disabled some of the pre installed apps, moved what few apps I've installed and anything else I could to the card and gained me a little room. But not very much unfortunately.
So it looks like I need to start researching phones which brings me here. My wife has a BLU Studio Energy 2 that she really likes. But for some reason since the switch to cricket she hasn't been able to send or receive picture messages. And I guess the cricket support team hasn't been much help to her. So I'm in need of suggestions for another phone. Something that's not going to break the bank because I'd hate to break a phone that costs hundreds of dollars which is the reason I kept my dumbphone so many years. I'm an HVAC technician. So it's a lot of climbing ladders, and other things that are rough on phones. So I need something as durable as possible. Perhaps something that I can get a screen protector and good case such as an otterbox for extra protection. Thanks in advance for any advice!
I don't know what is hogging up all the memory on the phone. But it's gotten to the point where I can't even open up the gallery due to the lack of storage. I lurked here and read as much as I could for tips on how to free some of it up to not much avail. I cleared the system cache, disabled some of the pre installed apps, moved what few apps I've installed and anything else I could to the card and gained me a little room. But not very much unfortunately.
So it looks like I need to start researching phones which brings me here. My wife has a BLU Studio Energy 2 that she really likes. But for some reason since the switch to cricket she hasn't been able to send or receive picture messages. And I guess the cricket support team hasn't been much help to her. So I'm in need of suggestions for another phone. Something that's not going to break the bank because I'd hate to break a phone that costs hundreds of dollars which is the reason I kept my dumbphone so many years. I'm an HVAC technician. So it's a lot of climbing ladders, and other things that are rough on phones. So I need something as durable as possible. Perhaps something that I can get a screen protector and good case such as an otterbox for extra protection. Thanks in advance for any advice!
