Samsung A3 mobile factory reset question.

Sonic ZS · 13th May 2021, 14:50

I have an 'old' (about 4 years) Samsung A3 mobile phone which has given good service. However, recently it's been regularly warning me that about 15Gb of it's 16Gb memory have been used up and it's now running short of space.

I only had a few basic apps added to what was there originally (ebay, Gumtree, 2 banks, 2x email accts, Dorset Explorer, and a couple of well known eateries - at most I'd guess these may have added up to 1Gb), photos & videos were automatically saved to an SD card.

So with the storage issue in mind, I decided to do a factory reset, before considering the possibility of buying something new, as it works well and still does what I need.

My question is that since doing the reset, the memory used has dropped to less than half, about 6.7Gb, so what was the other 8.3Gb (15 - 6.7Gb) being used for ???

I did look into the phone's storage settings but it didn't give any specifics, just an overall amount used

13th May 2021, 14:50	#1
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