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Need help with xperia mini missing memory

jgrantsfo — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:23:35 GMT

Hi,

I'm a new user of Xperia Mini and Android phones.

It seem that I am missing (?) a lot of memory.

My Xperia Mini can only hold 65 or 70 photos.

The 'Storage' function on the phone shows that I have very little memory on the SD card, which doesn't make sense.

1.85 GB is shown as the Total Space

Usage: 281 MB for Apps+ 76.54 MB for Pictures, videos+ 65.58 MB for Audio (=423MB)

It seems I should have about 1.5GB of available space, but it shows only:

17.31 MB Available

It seems that I should have a huge amount of storage space available to hold more photos. What is wrong here and what can I do?

Any suggestions?

Thank you.

Re: Need help with xperia mini missing memory

Uliwooly — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:36:24 GMT

mount your phone to a computer > and check the folders, while your phone its mounted to a PC empty your recycle bin (on your PC)

perhaps you have movies or videos or games taking up all the space

Re: Need help with xperia mini missing memory

jgrantsfo — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:02:48 GMT

Hi, and thanks for responding.

Yes, I've done that, but basically I cannot find anything taking up the memory space. (regarding the recycle bin, I only see a '.Trashes' folder, which is empty).

I am a very basic user. I have not downloaded any games or videos, and only 2 apps (wechat and OI file manager so I could try to figure out the problem).

I just use the phone for talking, texting and photos, and want to be able to hold more photos on the phone.

So I'm clueless as to the problem.

Re: Need help with xperia mini missing memory

Uliwooly — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:17:05 GMT

you could reformat the SD card and try again

Re: Need help with xperia mini missing memory

jgrantsfo — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:29:37 GMT

I'll try it.... but can you tell me how that is done?

Re: Need help with xperia mini missing memory

Samuel1 — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:52:28 GMT

When connected to the computer (connected in mass storage mode) you normally just right-click on the memory card and choose format/reformat.

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