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01-21-15 07:19 AM

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tinochiko

Large chunk of my memory still being used up for no apparent reason, gone through the files on a pc and nothing to indicate where the memory is?.. Anyone found a fix yet?..

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04-07-13 06:37 AM

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polytan02

Would this be your operating system and some software to automatically install?

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04-07-13 06:52 AM

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tinochiko

10.5 gb? Then it should be illegal to advertise it as 16gb usually like iPhone and when I first got the Z10, it left me about 13.5 gb free which is reasonable, so I'm reluctant to believe it would use up 10.5 leaving me just 6 :/

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04-07-13 06:59 AM

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HartfordWhalers

Something is way wrong. My z10 shows 6 gb of other data which is still too high

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04-07-13 07:04 AM

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pandapurple

Originally Posted by tinochiko

Large chunk of my memory still being used up for no apparent reason, gone through the files on a pc and nothing to indicate where the memory is?.. Anyone found a fix yet?..

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Have got to be Apps. How many do you have?

04-07-13 07:07 AM

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kidmac13

"Other" on my memory card is 87mb, but on my phone is 8.5gb cuz it be apps or things that have to do with them? Since it doesn't fall into any of those other categories?

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04-07-13 07:07 AM

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Grumblegrumble

Originally Posted by tinochiko

10.5 gb? Then it should be illegal to advertise it as 16gb usually like iPhone and when I first got the Z10, it left me about 13.5 gb free which is reasonable, so I'm reluctant to believe it would use up 10.5 leaving me just 6 :/

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That sort of marketing isnt anything new..
Be happy it isnt as bad as something like this is..
32GB Surface tablets ship with just 16GB of usable disk space - TechSpot

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04-07-13 07:15 AM

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tinochiko

I've checked through the size of all my apps and altogether under 1gb, deleted some I thought might be loading offline maps etc but didn't make a difference, I don't have a lot of apps to be honest and they don't come up to anything near as 13gb

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04-07-13 07:19 AM

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Bdot-1

Anytime you get A computer or even just a standalone hard drive its always the same. It's how all companies advertise which for us consumers is sad because it's stretching the truth.

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04-07-13 07:21 AM

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tinochiko

Originally Posted by not taken

That sort of marketing isnt anything new..
Be happy it isnt as bad as something like this is..
32GB Surface tablets ship with just 16GB of usable disk space - TechSpot

Hmmmm I see but still other people with similar problems have different Gb being taken up by 'other data' plus even a few days after I got the phone it was a reasonable size, it was only sometime later when I checked when I started getting memory warnings... so my question then would be why it wasn't like that when I first got it, another option I can think of is one of the two updates caused it, if that's the case then hopefully the next one will fix

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04-07-13 07:22 AM

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Grumblegrumble

What apps do you have installed currently?

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04-07-13 07:22 AM

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xamdam

10gb other data has to be apps sideloaded somewhere or maps or something ...........
Non BlackBerry App related.

Where u seeing info from as under hardware I don't even see a Other Data field?

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04-07-13 07:26 AM

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tinochiko

Originally Posted by xamdam

10gb other data has to be apps sideloaded somewhere or maps or something ...........
Non BlackBerry App related.

Where u seeing info from as under hardware I don't even see a Other Data field?

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Settings > storage and access > device storage access

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04-07-13 07:32 AM

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tinochiko

Originally Posted by not taken

What apps do you have installed currently?

I'll print screen all my apps, note I haven't side loaded any apps at all.

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04-07-13 07:35 AM

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xamdam

Originally Posted by tinochiko

Settings > storage and access > device storage access

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Wtf cb app not let me attach image I tried, but it come up blank here.

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04-07-13 07:40 AM

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xamdam

Ok well mine is at.

8.9gb other data.

Free Storage is 6.2gb

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04-07-13 07:43 AM

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nomi1978

I did a security wipe on mine because I thought it was to high as well. My apps added to about 2 gb. When I started playing my games I saw the number balloon to 5 gb. So there must be some app data or game data that gets added once you start using the apps. The initial download is probably just the raw size for the app and then maybe it adds or decompresses files.

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04-07-13 07:43 AM

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tinochiko

Originally Posted by naila_nc

I did a security wipe on mine because I thought it was to high as well. My apps added to about 2 gb. When I started playing my games I saw the number balloon to 5 gb. So there must be some app data or game data that gets added once you start using the apps. The initial download is probably just the raw size for the app and then maybe it adds or decompresses files.

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Is there any way to delete these files without wiping the phone?..

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04-07-13 07:48 AM

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Grumblegrumble

Originally Posted by naila_nc

I did a security wipe on mine because I thought it was to high as well. My apps added to about 2 gb. When I started playing my games I saw the number balloon to 5 gb. So there must be some app data or game data that gets added once you start using the apps. The initial download is probably just the raw size for the app and then maybe it adds or decompresses files.

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I believe you are onto something!

I went through the screen shots and noticed a couples I have installed as well...

Deleted Jetpack joyride, and rebooted. Went from 5.7GB of "other data" down to 5.4.

04-07-13 07:50 AM

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xamdam

Tino

Mine seems Ok do you see what I posted.

6.2 gb Free

8.9 gb Other Data, this is probably my side loads or app data being saved from games, maps and so forth.

Add that up = 15.1 gb out of 16 gb

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04-07-13 07:51 AM

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Grumblegrumble

Originally Posted by tinochiko

Is there any way to delete these files without wiping the phone?..

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Single files- no probably not without wiping the game/app settings, or even the game/app itself (think core components on the SW level). More than likely, the other data is used for cached application settings for reference.

The rest is maybe as Naila had mentioned, once you download the app. itself, it probably decompresses, and referenced as "other" on the OS level.

04-07-13 07:55 AM

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crohns

Wow something seems very odd!!

04-07-13 08:02 AM

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xamdam

Just start deleting apps you not use and go from there.

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04-07-13 08:04 AM

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potatoguy

here's mine

04-07-13 08:11 AM

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tinochiko

Originally Posted by xamdam

Just start deleting apps you not use and go from there.

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After deleting a few apps...

I hear all your points, but 10gb????...

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04-07-13 08:15 AM

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