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2 GB Internal Storage Android Phones & Issues

Growth of Android phones was majorly due low pricing and during early 2012-13, most of the phones that were sold was having 1 or 2 GB as internal storage and running in Jelly Bean version of Android OS.

But around mid-2013, many mobile manufacturers started introducing phones with internal storage with 8/16 GB, while users fumed on it, as it didn’t come with SD card slot. However lately (2014) we have phones with 8/16/32 GB as internal storage and SD card slots with 32/64/128 GB capacity.

Now why did they increase internal storage suddenly from 1 GB to 8+ GB?

These pre-2013 phones were having an issue, which manufacturers or say even Google recognized lately that most of the app was getting installed on the phone storage and these apps like FB, G+ or any app started consuming lot of cache / data space which displayed ‘storage issue’ whenever we try new app as there was no space in the phone. This started making the phones unusable or not able to experience new apps and features.

Many users either changed phones or were using old features. Instead of changing your mobile or rooting it, I am going to list few steps that might solve this issue, to an extent.

Tips:

Clear the cache of the apps that you are using in your device. You can search for App Cache Cleaner in your Play Store. Do them at regular intervals or schedule it.
Move the apps to SD card, if the developer has given an option during install. You can use App2SD or Move2SD apps for this.
Usually apps working from phone storage are faster, but now that we have Class 10 SD cards available in the market, apps running from SD card (class 10) has also similar experience.
There are some apps, which is not required to be in the Phone Storage, but still gets installed and occupy space, as the developer makes it with his program. These can be moved by doing the below steps.