For some time now you have been realizing that you have to carefully measure what each image, file or app that you have been downloading to your smartphone occupies. More than anything, because the space on your mobile is getting smaller and smaller and you don’t want to overcrowd it. However, it’s quite possible that you’ve started getting the ‘ Error: insufficient space ‘ message, or something similar.
As much as he warns us, it’s something we already knew. Although, it is still annoying that, from time to time, this message appears on the phone screen. However, the positive side of all this is that there are different solutions that are in our hands so that we can definitively put an end to this terminal alert. In addition, it will come in handy, since it will encourage us to clean the mobile.
Why does it appear?
Although over the years we have been seeing how phones are coming onto the market with more and more available memory, the truth is that the files have also been weighing more over time. Especially the photos and videos that we take with mobile cameras.
For this reason, it is normal that we have problems with the internal space of the Android mobile. But it is not the biggest of our headaches, the real pain will begin when the phone begins to alert us with a message that there is not enough memory left on the smartphone. Every time we try to download an app, update one of the mobile or even when we want to download any type of file, this message will appear.
At that time, you have probably gone on to delete all those applications that you no longer use, use an SD card (if your mobile has an inbox), empty your phone of multimedia files that you do not need… However, the error. Why does it happen then? Who is to blame? We already warned you, it’s the cache.
You have to clear the cache
As we have just clarified, the main culprit is this memory that accumulates in any Android mobile. No matter how much we restart the phone, it is not certain that this smartphone failure message will disappear. For this reason, we are going to explain how to clear the cache of the phone .
of each app
We will start with the simplest, clearing the cache of an app individually. In this case, we must go to Settings > enter the Applications and notifications section > go to the menu where you will see all the ones you have installed > select any > click on Storage.
Within this section, we will see two options, clear cache or application data. In this case, we will only have to press on the first function. In this way, we will ensure that all the data of this type of memory that has been stored by this software disappears from the Android mobile. So it will leave free space so that you can update, download more photos or videos.
Delete it from the whole terminal
This changes a bit depending on the version of Android that we have, in addition to the customization layer. In all smartphones with a higher version 9.0, we find that, in order to delete temporary app files, we must resort to Google Files. However, some software layers have their own manager to clean these files.
If this is not your case, you should try Google Files . Once inside this app, you will have to click on the Clean tab > tap Clean again > tap Delete to confirm. In this way, the process that will clean the cache of your smartphone of a few MB or even GB of garbage that you did not need and for which the problematic message of insufficient space in Android would appear will start.
Also, this system will not delete all temporary files, for example, it will not completely delete an application’s cache. More than anything, because the intelligent file manager of the company of the great G will only empty the temporary files that have not been used for a while, of those apps that we do not use as much. This prevents you from being able to delete MB or GB that is still being used by a software.
However, as we were saying, this method will change depending on the version of Android. For example, from 4.2 to 8.0 , the system for emptying the phone of temporary files changes significantly. Basically, because it is not necessary to resort to any app to clear the cache of the apps and the smartphone.
If you have in your possession a terminal with this version of the Google operating system, you must go to Settings > Storage > Cached data and touch the Accept option. With these steps, we will be able to empty the device of temporary files. The negative side is that this action does completely remove this type of memory from applications.
Is it useful to format the phone?
The truth is that there have been not a few users who have come to take this step to leave their smartphones at the factory. However, in some cases it has been found that after executing this action, the Android error message continued to appear for no reason. For this reason, we recommend that you do not do it, at least, until you try the previous methods to empty the mobile cache .
More than anything, because clearing the cache frees the terminal from the storage of all those temporary files that have been accumulated and created by the different applications that we have been using on the Android device. Therefore, when you open the app again, it will create the new temporary files that it needs at all times.
And, best of all, is that by following the methods that we have explained to you, the user’s data or any important file that we had stored on the smartphone will not be deleted, it will only delete those temporary files that the app is capable of recovering and creating as soon as you need them again at a certain time. So there will be no fear of losing all our data.