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limited storage space is something we're having to deal with more and more on our smartphones I'm Taylor Martin this is PocketNow and here are a few ways you can free up storage space on your Android phone after the first boot when you boot your Android device for the very first time you are taken to a relatively simple and quick setup process once you get through that the floodgates are open for personalization and customization but over the last few years two things have happened the Android operating system has grown nearly tripling in size custom strains of Android such as TouchWiz and since or up to five times larger than that in fact TouchWiz atop 4.2.2 on the Galaxy s4 was found to be 1.5 gigabytes in size versus the 328 megabyte stock 4.2.2 image on the Nexus 4 the problem is built-in storage has only slightly increased two years ago two gigabytes and four gigabytes was all some phones had inside now 16 gigabytes is standard but many manufacturers have decided to move away from expandable storage meaning those 16 gigabytes are more important than ever yet manufacturers continue to add more and more bloat to their system images making storage space a bit cramped for anyone who loves to store content apps games movies music podcasts and pictures fortunately there are some things you can do to free up space after your first boot mini phones come with samples in the form of high-res pictures and possibly a video to show off how great the display is I'm not talking about wallpapers either but pictures that are preloaded in the gallery application most of the time these are easily removed long press select all and delete just in case I ever need them again though I generally send them to Dropbox first demonstration videos can be removed just as easily these won't save a whole lot of storage space but every bit counts especially if you're never going to use any of the pictures of videos chances are you won't some devices also come with documentation how-to guides and other information stored on PDF files like the pictures is not a bad idea to send those to the cloud and free up onboard storage a lot of the Android devices these days come with a horde of pre-loaded applications or bloatware these come from both the carrier and the manufacturer some of these pre-loaded applications overlap built-in apps or services making things a bit redundant depending on carrier and manufacturer preferences however some preinstalled applications can be removed simply navigate to application manager in the Settings app locate the application you want to remove and hit the uninstall button you may notice that when you hit the uninstall button on some applications they still appear to be on the device what this means is the application itself wasn't uninstalled but the last update was unfortunately not all these applications can be removed without gaining root access in my last video I explained that with root you can use an application called titanium backup to remove pre installed applications that couldn't otherwise be removed but since not everyone is quite so gung-ho about rooting their device the best thing you can do in this situation is disable the application once again navigate to application manager locate the application and hit the disable button well it doesn't free up storage it prevents the application from running and likewise prevents it from accruing any more data in the background a precautionary measure if you will some phones come with desktop software install files on the internal storage when you plug the device into a PC the file will run and install sync software on your computer you can simply move this file over to your computer if you don't want to delete it or install it first then delete chances are the software is available for download online and it's probably a newer version anyway by leaving on your device it's just another one of the hundreds of random unused files taking up space another option to try and save space is to uncheck the Google restore option after logging into your primary Google account by default assuming the manufacturer or carrier didn't disable the restore process Google will load all the applications you had installed on your last android device automatically over time it's very likely that you acquired a handful of applications that you only used once if ever by disabling this sure you will have to download every application manually but you can pick and choose what you have on the device if you already let the restore process run however you can simply go through your applications and remove any restored apps that you don't think you'll need there are a ton of ways you can save storage space through learning new habits for instance you can set up an automatic upload of pictures on your device to a cloud account so you can free up onboard storage or you can simply get into the habit of deleting anything and everything as soon as you're done with it like apps and games sadly until 32 gigabytes of inbuilt storage becomes the standard low device storage will be a constant battle we all have to fight so that's all for now if you like the video be sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel you can also find us on your favorite social networks Google+ Twitter and Facebook at PocketNow or you can find me on twitter at casper tech I'm Taylor Martin and I will see you next time