I have a Moto G, which as you may know only has a few GB of storage, with no option to expand. Twice so far, I have gone into each individual app in the apps list to clear extraneous data. The major flaw I've discovered is: every time I do the data clearing, it Really clears the data, like makes it as if you never opened the program before. Really inconvenient, bad programming idea.
Yes, I read the prompt that pops up that says "do you really want to delete all etc etc" but I would have never assumed from that info that it would seriously undo all my settings as well. So my question is:
Why? WHY would you ever design a "clear data" option that clears out unnecessary data, but also resets settings that the user obviously would not want to have to switch back every time Android claims their device is "running out of storage"?? At least this time I understand why it happened, but now once again I'm going back trying to figure out how to (for instance) make the phone stop vibrating when I'm using the keyboard.
I get the impression that there are data management apps, but I don't like the idea of spending 18 hours setting that up, trying to figure out what deletions will undo my settings, etc. And I'm only assuming that's how such an app would work. Maybe it doesn't even work that way. And then, I have to add yet another app to the very limited storage on my phone, using who knows how much battery...
Not looking for a solution here, just dreaming that this post will be seen by some Android developer, who will go "duh, that is kind of a stupidly broad way of clearing temporary data".
Yes, I read the prompt that pops up that says "do you really want to delete all etc etc" but I would have never assumed from that info that it would seriously undo all my settings as well. So my question is:
Why? WHY would you ever design a "clear data" option that clears out unnecessary data, but also resets settings that the user obviously would not want to have to switch back every time Android claims their device is "running out of storage"?? At least this time I understand why it happened, but now once again I'm going back trying to figure out how to (for instance) make the phone stop vibrating when I'm using the keyboard.
I get the impression that there are data management apps, but I don't like the idea of spending 18 hours setting that up, trying to figure out what deletions will undo my settings, etc. And I'm only assuming that's how such an app would work. Maybe it doesn't even work that way. And then, I have to add yet another app to the very limited storage on my phone, using who knows how much battery...
Not looking for a solution here, just dreaming that this post will be seen by some Android developer, who will go "duh, that is kind of a stupidly broad way of clearing temporary data".