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This worked! Thanks a lot!

Question about storage as I can't get my head around why ive run out of storage space. I have a big card in my moto g. Im getting "storage space running out". I look in storage and I have internal and external. All apps I can are on external. Why is the 4.5 GB of internal getting rinsed? Shouldn't it all be one big block of fun?

It doesn't work quite like that http://www.lfgss.com/comments/12931565/ You can choose which apps to install to SD card but not all apps have the option.

I've moved what I can. Why am I still running out of space?

Fucking much easier when I just had a burner.

Other half has bought a Wileyfox Swift.

It only charges to about 80% then stops. Highest it has gone is 86%.

Any idea why? Is it broken?

Occasionally you need to calibrate the battery https://www.androidpit.com/how-to-calibrate-the-battery-on-your-android-device

Updates to apps that were included with the phone take up space and don't release the space taken up by the bundled version.

I'm having the same issue. Let me know if you work out a fix. Wondering if rooting might allow more to be moved to SD.

You did used to be able to but looking at Titanium Backup on Marshmallow I'm no longer seeing the option to copy to SD.

Worth looking at cached data, this can easily get up to 1GB or so.

How big is the phone memory. My 16GB Moto X Play only has 11GB available internally.

You might still be able to nuke the bloatware app and install your own version of it from the play store.
@Silly_Savage, if you're rooting then why not throw cyanogenmod on and cure the bloat problem for good?

Because lazy/scared I'll brick it. Never rooted before and apparently on the 2nd gen Moto G it's possible to brick it by usual method. Need to read up some more.

Xposed has a module that allows you to move data / obb files to your SD card

You will need to root your phone. Luckily, the MotoG is easily rooted.

There's also probably plenty of bloaty system apps that you can either freeze and move to SD, or just uninstall.

And don't forget to clear your caches.

If you want to find out what is taking up all of the space, mount the phone to a desktop PC and use something like xdiskusage

My other half's moto g is dying. Struggling to make / receive calls, crashing, etc. It's the 8gb one, which I guess means a ver 1.(?)

A while a go I was looking at the WileyFox Swift as a cheap alternative, but a colleague slated WileyFox so much that I'm a bit reticent.

I'd suggest the new one plus two, but I think it's over budget.

Does anyone have any suggestions for the cheapest non-shit Android smartphone?

Second hand is probably fine. Ideally something with an OK camera.

Cheers.

Oneplus two isn't new. Oneplus three will be out in a couple of weeks if you can wait for reviews etc.

Honor 5x?

Very annoyingly my moto X play is playing silly buggers.

It's on marshmallow and has the SD card as internal storage. In the past day or two the SD card initially works fine but, for no reason, it suddenly isn't recognised. As it is down as internal storage the apps installed on there disappear.

Rebooting fixes it and the phone recognises the card again. But then in an hour or two it stops recognising it again until I reboot.

Google isn't casting any light on this. Anyone else had this problem?

Honor 5x

Never hear of them. But that actually looks pretty good.

@TurtleRecall - good to know. Maybe it's worth looking for a 2nd oneplustwo once the three comes out.

OK so some more search and the choices in rough decending order are:

Oneplus X
Moto G4
Moto G (3g)
Honor 5x

I think the cheapness of the 3rd gen Moto G pushes it above the Honor 5x.

My screen does not rotate if turned landscape nor does loudspraker wirk - no one can hear me. Hardware issue? Ive done the cache clearing. Soft reset. Checking sensitivity etc

Worth rooting? If so how? S5

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Ok, so I think I just rooted my phone, still running android, but I still can't delete the Motorola bloatware apps. How do I go about that?

Titanium backup might allow this. But if they are baked into the ROM and you want to free up space, you need a new ROM.

adb shell into the phone and delete them

used a root checker app and it looks like I didn't have root access, trying again, can't get it to show up under 'adb devices' at the moment. yellow warning next to phone in device manager when booted but driver says it's up to date.

edit, I've flashed TWRP recovery again and got 'mismatched partition size' message again. Is that normal?

Try starting adb server on your desktop as root / elevated user

Try adb shell via recovery