By installing many applications on your gadget every day, you run the risk of a problem that has already struck many. "Not enough space in the device’s memory", - Google Play may one day give out just such a message. What to do? We present to your attention several methods for solving this problem.
Disk space
Before continuing to read our article, make sure that your gadget generally has free space. Perhaps you just didn’t notice how they filled the entire memory of your device with information.
To do this, go to the main menu of the phone. Then select "Settings." After that, find the line "Memory" and tap on it. A window will open in front of you, in which in graphical form you will see all the memory on the phone. After that, you have two options for dealing with the Google Play "Out of memory ..." problem.
- Cleaning up. Just delete old and unnecessary data. Move photos and videos that you would like to save to your computer. Clean apps that have been unused for a long time.
- The default entry. If you have an additional memory card on the gadget that still has plenty of space, you can simply change the position of the “checkmark” and specify the removable memory as the main one. After that, the phone will download and install applications already on it, and not on the completed internal one.
If you checked everything and there is still enough memory on your device, but Google Play writes “Not enough memory”, as before, then most likely an internal error has occurred. Let's try to deal with her.
Soft way
The first thing you need to do is delete the temporary application files . “Not enough space in the device’s memory” - Google Play displays this message if it reaches the cache limit. Despite the fact that the amount of data stored in the application’s memory is unlimited, failures can occur if a certain number is exceeded.
Go to your phone’s settings and go to “Applications”. Select Google Play from the list and go to it. Stop this program, and then erase the data and cache. The same procedure should be repeated for the Google Service Framework utility.
After all the operations done, reboot the device. Sometimes you may need to remove all installed updates for Google. This is done in the same menu as deleting the cache. If the whole procedure does not help, proceed to the next method.
Phone reset
The following method includes several techniques at once. The fact is that this instruction is not suitable for everyone. So-called root rights are extremely useful to you.
So, if the message: “There is not enough space in the device’s memory” - Google Play displays exactly on your gadget, then you can try to reset all temporary data from the memory.
- To do this, you will have to enter the engineering menu of the device. To do this, turn off the phone completely, and when you turn it on, simultaneously hold down the power and volume (+) buttons. You need the item "Wipe cache partition". From there, go to "Advanced." The last thing you need is the Wipe Dalvick Cache. After that, restart the gadget and check the operation.
If this method also did not help you, then there is nothing left but to reset all the parameters to the factory settings. There are two ways to do this.
- Go to the phone settings. Item "Recovery and reset." And select the function "Reset Settings" we need. After that, the phone will return to its original state, as it was immediately after purchase.
- If you cannot start the gadget (forgot your password, for example), then you can use the engineering menu again. Only this time you will need the item "Wipe data" or "Factory Reset".
Conclusion
Regardless of which way you choose to solve the problem, be sure to follow all safety measures. Create backups so that later, if something goes wrong, you can always restore the original state.
However, be careful when using a factory reset. After recovering from a copy, all problems may come back, and again you will get an error with the classification "Not enough space in the device’s memory". Google Play in this case will have to be reconfigured.