How to clean the phone system. How to clean your Android phone from unnecessary files

If you think that only viruses can harm the device, then you are deeply mistaken. And all because the presence of unnecessary files on it can play a cruel joke with the system. Therefore, in this article, we will look at several simple but effective ways to clean Android from unnecessary files manually and using special applications!

UPD! Added a video instruction, added answers to your questions that came to the drug and checked the relevance of all data - 03/29/2018

For example, you had an application, and then you deleted it as unnecessary. All the same, it will not be possible to remove all its files, there are residuals that are stored in the smartphone's memory. In this case, files of this kind are not cleared, but accumulate like a cache in a browser, clogging up the device's memory. By the way, you also need to clean the cache.

And in general, the cash can play a cruel joke with you, falling into the hands of an attacker. In addition, the RAM will be loaded by installed and unused applications. If you compare your smartphone in the first months after purchase, and a year after using it, then of course the difference will be extremely noticeable. Such a device, to put it mildly, “ slows down”And refuses to work at full capacity.

We will talk below about how to clean your smartphone from garbage and not harm it.

Of course, these tips will not save you from a number of problems not related to "garbage" in your smartphone, but they will be useful if it has not been cleaned for a long time. And if you keep an eye on your device, you won't have to strain too often because of its lags.

Device optimization

Think first before installing any application on your device. The fact is that even after removing it, tails will still be saved on the device, and this already loads the system additionally.
These can be mainly system applications that are embedded in the device's firmware. Of course, in most cases it will be impossible to do this without root rights. So if you intend to free up RAM, then try to get them). First, read the information on how best to uninstall applications built into the system. This must be done in order not to ruin your device by deleting some system file.
Large applications can be ported to external storage. Of course, not all applications can be migrated, but most are still possible.
If your apps have ads, it's best to turn them off. In the bulk, free applications litter with advertising. If you use the program Adblock Plus for Android, then you can get rid of ads without paying a penny for it.
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There are many ways to get rid of unnecessary junk on your phone / tablet and there are tons of apps for that.

Clean Master Phone Boost Is the most popular application. This is due to the fact that it is completely free, and at the same time the most functional. It not only cleans your phone of junk, but also serves as an antivirus and a way to optimize the system.
Smart Booster - Free Cleaner Is another program that helps you clean your smartphone from garbage. It can be either paid or free. The application can clean the smartphone from all sorts of junk applications and activate the entire device.
App Cache Cleaner - 1TapClean Is a functional program that has the greatest possible functionality. It removes debris at a high speed and makes the device work faster.
History eraser - a small program that clears the history of browsers, calls, etc.

Manual cleaning

Removing duplicate photos, or rather their reduced copies for the standard Gallery.

Download (open) the file manager with
Open it, look for folders sdcard0 or sdcard1
Go to DCIM / .thumbnails
We delete all files, leave the folder empty

We delete application files, their logs, cache, residual files after cleaning.

In the same sdcard0 / 1 we are looking for the folder Agent
Open the folder Cache, delete the content
After in the folder Agent find another directory Preview, also clean
If you use applications such as VK or Viber, then you can clear the cache of pictures, audio.

Video instruction

Answers to your top 4 questions about cleaning Android

The smartphone has a preinstalled utility for cleaning files, but there is no sense in it. Does it make sense to install third-party applications, or do they all only partially remove garbage?

Of course, the programs will not be able to completely clean the clogged phone, but the main elements: duplicate files, cache, it deletes without problems. So there is a need for such applications.

As you can imagine, getting rid of unnecessary files is quite simple. Don't forget about optimization and you will be fine. Well, by resorting to the help of the described applications or a couple of simple tips for manual cleaning, you will save yourself space on Android.

Just remember not to have more than two cleaning apps installed on one phone. If the program is good, then it alone will cope with everything without problems, and a large number of tools will only take up additional precious space on the device.

Over time, using a mobile device, its internal memory gets clogged, as a result of which there are quite noticeable malfunctions. In addition, the gadget can prohibit the subsequent saving of photos, downloading additional applications. To restore functionality, you need to figure outhow to clear phone memory on Androide, clean up soon. Today there are several ways to solve the problem.

How to clear phone memory on Android with a special program

One of the most popular programs today is Clean Master. Its functionality has been appreciated by more than 8 million users. This is an impressive figure, which confirms the justification of the choice. Sort out,how to clear memory on Android with the help of special software is not difficult. You need to install and run the program. Next, you need to do the following:

open the program;

on the main page, find the "Garbage" tab;

start determining the amount of free space that can be obtained;

check the marked files. Perhaps you still need some of them. From such files, you must uncheck the box indicating subsequent deletion;

start the cleaning procedure. Upon completion, a corresponding system notification will appear.

Sort out,how to clean an Android phone using the Clean Master program is a snap. This is a very useful app and shouldn't be removed from your device. It will allow you to keep your smartphone at the peak of its functionality without much difficulty.

If the phone memory is full, then you need to free up space. Removing cached data filling space will help keep your Android running smoothly. You can clean Android from garbage manually or using special cleaning applications.

Manual cleaning

If the phone has not been cleaned for a long time, then the user faces a number of tasks:

How to free up system memory.
How to free up RAM.
How to clear an SD card.

If you run out of free space, then the first question that needs to be solved is how to clear the cache on Android. Deleting the cache frees up system memory quickly and for free. If you do not understand where the free space is going, clearing the cache will give the answer - the memory on the phone is running out due to the large volume of temporary files. To get rid of them, you need to clean your Android.

Open the settings, section "Applications".
Go to the settings of applications that create many temporary files - Play Market, games, browser, instant messengers, social media clients. Don't forget about the built-in applications like "Gallery". Even if you delete photos and videos from your phone, the information about them will remain in the cache.
Click on "Clear Cache".

Manually clearing the internal storage of an Android device isn't limited to deleting the app cache. To completely clear the memory of your Android phone, you need to examine the contents of the system folders. This can be done manually through file managers. Let's see how you can free up memory on Android by deleting temporary files through the File Manager.

You can also clean the folders of individual applications - VKontakte, Viber, WhatsApp. You won't clean the RAM on Android like that, but you will understand how to clear the internal memory of the phone. Plus, knowing how to clean your phone can help you get rid of viruses that periodically enter your system.

After deleting the cache and unnecessary files, it will become clear where the phone memory on Android or tablet has gone. The memory is gone because the system has accumulated a complete set of temporary data. The storage device cannot delete them on its own, hence braking and other problems arise. Knowing how to clear memory and freeing up system memory, the user extends the operating time of the device.

Using cleaning apps

We figured out how to independently clear the internal memory of Android. Now let's see how to completely clean your phone using dedicated apps. In the Play Market, you can find a large number of programs in Russian and English. Pay attention to the following applications:

Clean Master.
Cleaning wizard.
History Eraser.
Smart Booster.
1Tap Cleaner, etc.

They work according to the same principle: you launch the program, choose which files to delete, and wait for the optimization procedure to complete.

If you know how to manually clear the memory on Android, then this will not be enough to completely delete unnecessary files. Using 2 methods, manual cleaning and optimization through applications, will help you figure out how to delete all unnecessary data that takes up space.

RAM cleaning

We figured out how to quickly clear the system memory on Android, but the question remains, how to clear the RAM? RAM on Android is also filled with data, the release from which allows you to answer the question of how to increase the speed of the phone.

Most cleaning programs can optimize RAM on Android and increase performance. If you do not understand where the performance has gone, then after the application is running to clear the RAM on Android, you can again use it in full.

Modern smartphones and tablets are increasingly equipped with built-in storage of 16, 32 or even 64 GB. However, there are budget models with a more modest storage space - 8 GB or less. The place quickly ends and the question arises - how to clear the internal memory of the phone on Android?

Using built-in device functions

The first method does not require the user to download third-party applications from the Play Market, because the Android system has everything it needs to analyze and optimize the space used. Fine tuning will not work, but in 70% of cases, such cleaning helps to identify and remove the main memory eaters.

The first step is to clear the cache - this action will not affect personal information in any way and will free a couple of hundred megabytes in memory. But before you erase the data - remember:
If you erase application data, you will be signed out of your accounts and the photos and videos saved in the phone memory will be lost. This is especially true for instant messengers - Viber, WhatsApp and Telegram.
The application itself will not disappear anywhere, therefore, if a lot of unnecessary photos have accumulated in the folders of social networks, the data can be safely erased.

The procedure can be carried out for several applications, as a result, freeing up from 200 to 600 MB of space.

Clean up memory completely and delete all files

If the task is not to clean the smartphone of "trash", but to completely delete data, including photos, music, videos and applications, another method will help.

These methods are suitable for freeing memory on LG, Lenovo and most manufacturers' devices.

How to clear internal memory of Samsung?

For tablets and smartphones of the Korean giant running Android 6.0 and newer, the instructions are slightly different. The reason for this is the built-in resource optimizer, created in cooperation with Clean Master.

If you are a happy owner of a Samsung gadget, follow these steps:

Clearing memory using third-party programs

There are 2-3 dozen applications available in the Play Market designed to optimize the used space. Let's analyze the top three:

Using a memory card to store data

If you have a memory card in your device, you can transfer photos, videos and music to it. To do this, go to the memory section in the smartphone settings (how to do this is shown above), and select the item to transfer data to the SD card.
You can also move some applications to the memory card. To check if the application supports this function - go to the smartphone settings, open the application tab and select the one you need. If the button to transfer the application to the SD card is highlighted and highlighted, the selected program can be removed from the internal storage to the external one.

Advice! Don't forget to back up your device data. To make a backup of your phone or tablet, just select the appropriate program and.

Other ways to clear memory

If ROOT rights are obtained on the phone, you can remove unnecessary applications installed at the production stage and free up some of the internal storage. Below is a table comparing three tested utilities for such purposes.

Program	Root Uninstaller	Root App Deleter	Root Cleaner \| System Eraser
Price	Is free	Is free	240 RUB
Removing system programs	Yes	Yes	Yes
Application recovery	Supported	Absent	Supported
"Freezing" bulky software	Yes	No	No
Backup.apk to SD card	there is	there is	there is
Filtering the list of programs	Yes	Sort only	Yes

Another easy way to optimize your internal storage is to stop saving your photos and downloaded files from the Internet to it. The function of automatic saving to the SD card is available in most popular browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera.

In this article, I will consider all the ways to clear memory on Android phones and tablets. In other words: we free up memory for important things and speed up the device.

In this case, we will learn to clear both RAM (will speed up the operation of the device) and physical (will free up space for new programs or data).

This article is suitable for all brands that produce phones on Android 10/9/8/7: Samsung, HTC, Lenovo, LG, Sony, ZTE, Huawei, Meizu, Fly, Alcatel, Xiaomi, Nokia and others. We are not responsible for your actions.

Attention! You can ask your question to a specialist at the end of the article.

Types of memory on Android gadgets

Android phones, like a computer, use two types of memory:

RAM (RAM) - random access memory device. It contains data only during the direct operation of the gadget. Included applications, tabs in the browser, running games - all these processes consume part of the RAM.
ROM (ROM) - permanent storage device. All information is in memory until you delete it yourself. This category includes all files on the phone, application cache, etc. (read)

ROM memory in Android devices is divided into built-in (initially located on the device and used to store files, like a hard drive on a PC) and a storage device (memory card, built-in memory).

When these types of memory run out, the phone starts malfunctioning and. To eliminate the error, you need to clean the ROM and RAM from the "garbage".

Phone memory usage statistics

First, you need to check how much of what memory is left in the device. We carry out the following steps:

Open the phone settings.
Go to the "Memory" menu.
Here you can find detailed information about external and internal memory. The user has access to data on the built-in and external memory. The list is divided into sections, which describe how much memory is in total, what it is busy with and how much free space is left.
To see what part of the ROM and RAM is free, you need to hold down the "Menu" button on the phone panel.
The displayed window shows a list of running applications. At the bottom there is a button labeled "Available ... MB from ... GB". There, the second digit means the sum of RAM and ROM, and the first - how much is currently available from the shared memory.

Video how to clear / free up memory on Android

How do I clear memory manually?

If you do not want to resort to the help of third-party software, or you do not have free space to install it, then you can clean it manually. By following the procedures below, the phone will work significantly faster:

Delete messages.
Cleaning the application cache and browser.
Cleaning files (videos, photos, etc.) stored on the gadget.
Removing unnecessary and old applications.

Such cleaning will take longer than working with applications, but the results will be much more effective.

Application cache

The cache is an intermediate buffer with data that can be requested in the near future. After clearing it, time can be saved on problem solving and calculating tasks, which will increase the performance of the gadget.

The file cache is accumulated, storing data for each used and installed application. If a blockage occurs, then you need to free the entire cache.

Instructions for clearing the cache:

Go to the phone settings menu.
We find in the settings menu "All applications".
The manager will open, where you can find data on third-party and system applications, cache memory. Sort the list with all programs by size.
We open any program. In the window that appears, you can select "Erase all data" (information on the hard disk will be deleted) and the option "Clear cache". Click on the second button.

You can repeat this procedure with existing applications to completely clear the cache memory.

Removing garbage in the browser

We open a working browser, launch the side menu. There we select the "History" section.
In the window that appears, select "Clear history".
Set the acceptable settings (what exactly to delete, which time period to choose, etc.), click on "Delete data".

This instruction is given on the example of Google Chrome, since it is the standard browser in the Android system. In other browsers, the process for cleaning up garbage is slightly different.

Delete messages

If you are using a relatively new phone, then this item is optional. A gadget that has been in use for several years contains several thousand messages.

Their number over time (including MMS with multimedia data) on the internal memory may take up some space. You can completely delete messages like this:

Removing applications

If you cannot install new games or programs, then the permanent memory of the gadget is full. To clear it, you need to uninstall unnecessary applications through the Android menu.

If your device has firmware that does not have a full-fledged menu (for example, Meizu or Xiaomi phones), then applications should be deleted right on the desktop. Hold the application icon with your finger, then drag it at the top of the screen to the basket.

If the shell of the Android system in use has a full menu, then deletion from the desktop can only lead to. To perform a complete removal, go to the menu, also click on the program icon, then move it to the trash.

Deleting files

You can get rid of garbage from the internal drive using the standard file manager. On different phones, the interface of such applications is different, so we will consider the process of cleaning files using ES Explorer as an example:

On the Android phone, go to the Play Market, enter the name of the application in the search bar and click “Install” on the page with information.
Launch ES File Explorer and learn the initial tips. At the top of the screen are the data about the occupied / free space on the internal memory (1), the "Analysis" icon, which is responsible for the analysis of the required cleaning (2). It is necessary to click on the "Clean" button (3).
Then the program will analyze the unnecessary information and display a list for you. Click on "Clear" at the bottom of the screen.
Now go to the side menu in the "Local storage" section (1), then select "Device" (2).
You will see a window with all the available folders on the built-in storage. There you can check their contents, delete all unnecessary ones. To do this, hold the file for 2 seconds, then click on "Delete" in the pop-up menu in the lower panel. This also cleans up the SD card.
With ES Explorer, you can clean your library with music, pictures, etc. To do this, go to the menu, select the "Libraries" section and go to the required tab (3).
To empty the trash on Android, go through the menu to the "Trash" tab.
You also need to check for hidden files that can occupy a large amount. To do this, you must activate "Show hidden files" in the menu, and then go to the folder to check their presence.

We looked at how manual debris removal is performed using an ES guide. Now let's look at examples of clearing memory with other software.

We work with third-party applications

There are many free applications available in the Play Store that allow you to clean your phone in a few clicks. Below we will explore the most practical and popular ones.

Clean master

It is one of the best known applications in its category. In Clean Master, you can perform a complete cleaning of the gadget from the cache, temporary files, empty and damaged folders, browser history and other debris.

The utility also includes a built-in antivirus and automatic closing of unnecessary programs. The application has a convenient and pleasant interface that allows you to clean the gadget by two clicks of the buttons "Analysis", "Clear".

System monitoring in Android Assistant

This program is included in the top Play Market and has a fairly wide list of functions:

A process manager that lets you manage running applications in a couple of taps.
Continuous monitoring of the system. The option provides the user with information about the state of memory, system load, battery temperature and other useful things.
The App 2 SD option allows installed programs to be quickly moved from internal to external memory.
The ability to view a list with applications that start automatically when the gadget is turned on, as well as disable them.
Cleans phone memory from unnecessary files by pressing one button.

Total Commander

This utility allows you to organize all the files that are on the gadget. Total Commander and rar. Its capabilities also include transferring and editing the contents of the device from place to place or to another gadget.

Transfer files from Android phone

Transferring files to a flash card

This method is suitable for gadgets that support SD cards. To free up the phone memory, all possible files can be transferred to a flash card. This feature must be specified in the settings:

Dictaphone.
Cameras.
Messengers.
Browser.
File loader.

The list goes on and on. Particular attention should be paid to applications that work with "heavy" files. For example, an audio, video or image editor.

When saving files to a memory card, you need to create (if this is not done automatically) a folder for all applications there. Then you can avoid problems with overflowing phone memory.

You cannot use this option to clear memory for system files. Because of it, problems with the performance of the device may appear. To move existing files, you can use the ES Explorer discussed above.

Moving files to Android using a PC

Synchronizing your phone with your computer has many benefits. File exchange will become available, and the amount of free memory can be kept at the desired level.

It's easy to connect your Android device to your computer. It is enough to connect these devices via a USB cable. This does not require downloading drivers and additional programs.

On modern computer OS, the type of connected gadget is easily determined. Its memory can be entered using standard conductors.

A more modern solution is to use the AirDroid program, with which you can move files from Android to PC and vice versa remotely. When you are away from home, you can download music or a movie from your own media library and run this file on your gadget.

You don't need any wires, just have a stable Internet network. Both the phone and the PC must be connected to the Internet.

Cloud services

Today there is no need to download the files you need to your phone. You can upload them to special cloud services and use them if necessary. Almost all leading companies provide users with the opportunity to use cloud services for free.