How to manage your Android’s Memory and Applications

As a disclaimer to begin with, the Android Operating System also consumes space on which it runs on. Therefore, on the available storage space speculated by the phone manufacturer that the phone contains; part of it is taken by Android OS. You can also check out what is using up much space on your device by selecting the storage tab on ‘Menu>Settings>SD and phone storage’ or ‘Storage’ tab depending on our device.

On your smart phone there are two kinds of memory that applications use; that is, the storage memory and RAM, Apps mainly use internal storage memory for themselves as well as any other data when installed. Also, when you take pictures or download items, some of that space gets used up. When the apps are running, they use RAM for temporal storage and speedy access.

There are direct and indirect ways with which you can manage how applications use the storage available. These ways include:

Downloading files through browser or Gmail among other apps.Installing needed apps and uninstalling those you no longer needMoving files to or from your device to a PCDeleting downloaded files and others that you no longer require.

To recover some of the space used up in memory, at the ‘settings’ tab go to ‘Application Manager’ where you get an option of uninstalling the applications you no longer need. Also you can clear data relating to an application only if you are sure you no longer need them least you erase important things.

Moving items to the SD Card is also a good way of managing the memory space on your device but should be done with precaution especially if you regularly interchange the SD Card.

The cache is a library where installed apps store files to retrieve later on. Deleting the cache for apps that take up more space is another way of managing memory and applications. This move enables you to unblock apps that fail to work

The Android operating system manages how you use RAM. However, at the ‘Applications” tab on ‘Settings’ you can view how the apps use the RAM and stop them if need arises.

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