Phone storage issues

[Firetastic]

I have an LGK10 which is about 5 years old. My storage is full. I have deleted videos which brings it down a bit. Yesterday I uninstalled my Yahoo mail app which brought it down from 15.94 to 15.25. Brilliant I thought. Then I charge phone and it reboots. Does this once in while. I look at storage again and it's back up at 15.60. In the red again. I don't understand how it could go from 15.25 to 15.60 just by a reboot. Any ideas would be gratefully appreciated.

 

[Disco_P]

Some of the storage is used a temporary cache and will fluctuate in size.

Seems rebooting made the cache bigger for some reason.

I wouldn't worry about this 0.35GB and try to clear out the rest of it. It probably needs a factory reset as Android likes to fill storage over the years. I have a 16GB tablet that is nearly full with basically nothing installed.

 

[Firetastic]

So I've got a question. How do I properly back up my Whatsapp messages, some text messages and QuickMemo's that I have got? I've seen people lose their Whatsapps when going on to a new phone. Is there any software that can back up text messages and Quickmemo's? That's the only thing that is putting me off formatting it.

 

[tom_e]

WhatsApp has backups built in so check the settings. Check play store for SMS backups, generally they just save a small XML file which you can then reimport using the same app afterwards.

Not sure about quickmemos it's not one I've used.

 

[TheVoice]

I'm not familiar with LG phones but the Apps section in the settings should let you sort apps by size so you can see which ones are taking up the most space; as Disco_P says apps will keep a cache and often this can become enormous, especially where those apps rely on lots of images, video etc. You can safely clear app caches without affecting your data.

 

[Firetastic]

I've seen in my settings about Cached Data. When you press it it comes up and says Clear Cache Caches for all apps will be cleared. Clear? Cached Data is taking up 9.55mb. Is that quite big?

 

[TheVoice]

9.55MB is tiny, I'd expect it to be bigger than that. You can try Ccleaner for Android, I haven't used it in a while (and I used to install it, use it and then uninstall it so it wasn't running in the background) but it can be useful for clearing space.