Often, when downloading applications from the “Play Store”, users see an error that says: “There is not enough free memory for Android.” But do not worry, as this problem is solved quite simply.
Why is there not enough free memory for Android?
All users of smartphones based on the Android OS download games and utilities from Google Play. However, the time comes when, when installing an application, it is interrupted and the inscription “Not enough free memory of the Android” appears. And such a story is repeated with all programs. Fixing this problem is trivial: you need to clean the device’s memory. This is done in the following ways:
- get rid of temporary files and cache;
- clear program data;
- Uninstall updates for some applications
- to fix the error in Google play.
The first and one of the easiest ways to free a device that comes to mind is to remove unnecessary utilities and games or transfer them to a memory card. In the latter case, the phone will only have a register of these programs and temporary files. To crank this up, go to Settings || Applications, go to the “Everything” tab and sort by size (for convenience). We find any program that can be moved, open information about it, where we select "Move to SD card".
However, if there is essentially nothing to delete, and all programs are needed or are already based on a USB flash drive, you can use other methods.
Clear the cache
In the case when there is not enough free memory of Android, the first thing you need to do is to clear the cache. Special applications such as Clean Master and Ccleaner will help us with this. By the way, they are not only able to clear the memory of temporary files, but also speed up RAM, as well as delete unnecessary data from the memory card (music, photos, etc.).
Clean master
Open the application, click on the "Garbage". After the scan is completed, check off what we want to delete with checkmarks, then click clear. In addition, Clean Master will help to remove installed programs and speed up the processor (that is, stop utilities running in the background).
C C leaner
Run CCleaner, click "Analysis". After the analysis, we mark what should be deleted, then “Clear”. It is also possible to delete unnecessary files on the memory card.
Delete application data
If after cleaning with special utilities there is still not enough free memory of Android, you can delete the data of some programs (for example, the dictionary of searched words in dictionaries, a saved account and a cache of downloaded pictures in social networks, saves and accounts in games, etc. .). Sometimes this data can weigh 20-50 MB, which does not hurt at all when downloading new programs.
We also go to the "Applications", which in the settings, select everything and sort by size. We open information about a utility and see how much space the data takes. If a couple of megabytes or more - feel free to clean (if less, then pointless). Click "Clear data" and "Clear cache" (if any, of course). There should be enough memory now.
If there is still not enough space and Android writes “Not enough free memory”, then you can easily “tear down” the updates of some utilities, for example, the same Google play. However, it is worth remembering that all of its settings will be deleted, so he will immediately put updates on everything.
Problems on Google play
Errors often occur in Google play itself, when the error "Not enough free memory for Android" pops up, although in fact it is abundant. To do this, you need to clean the cache in the "Play Market" itself and some of its components. However, this must be done manually, as specialized utilities will not cope with this.
We pass in "Settings" and, as usual, in "Applications". Open the Google Play Store utility, go into it and click on "Clear Cache", and then on "Clear Data". We perform the same actions with the components "Google Play services", "Downloads" and "Google services Framework".
Reboot the device. Then we try to download again.