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memory full no matter what?

lyllola — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:14:58 GMT

Hi. Whenever I try to take a video my memory says it's full. I've deleted videos and pics to a skeletal minimum. Way way lower than a few months back when it was fine. My sd card keeps saying it's nearly full yet when I hook it up to my pc there just seem to be loads of empty folders. What's going on?

Re: memory full no matter what?

_alexdon_ — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:19:24 GMT

Try settings-apps-all-media storage,force stop and clear data.Restart your phone.

Re: memory full no matter what?

Danial-mach1 — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:25:19 GMT

Are you sure it say your sd card is full???

I never get notifactions for low memory on sd card...i receive just for internal storage

Beside what alexdon said also check camera setting and see what is storage location

Re: memory full no matter what?

lyllola — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:36:00 GMT

Alexdon - I've tried that. Can't take a vid Right now to check, though did look in storage and it looks the same.
DaniAl- no, it tells me memory is full. When my pc links to the phone the sd storage is shown In red and I can see that it's nearly full. Also, almost every day I get an alert that internal storage is almost full and can I transfer to sd, then when I try the sd says there's no room

Re: memory full no matter what?

Danial-mach1 — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:38:34 GMT

Goto setting>storage erase sd card or format your sd card by pc

Re: memory full no matter what?

_alexdon_ — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:40:07 GMT

You could try to format your sd card.

Re: memory full no matter what?

lyllola — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:46:54 GMT

I have no idea how to format my sd card, I am not technical at all and often feel phone companies expect a level of knowledge not many of us have. It took me ages just To Get my pics onto the pc, and that's still not right, my pc and phone can't ever find eachother to throw things, not ever. One isn't told how to do these things

Re: memory full no matter what?

_alexdon_ — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:49:06 GMT

You can format from settings-storage.

Re: memory full no matter what?

Danial-mach1 — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:51:01 GMT

Well do this

First goto setting>xperia>usb connectivity>usb connection mode change it to "mass storage mode"

Then connect phone to pc then a new drive will appear on my computer windows..then right click on it and click on format..after a new window opend then click on format button

But formating will erase all of data on SD CARD so if you have anything on sd card copy them to pc before format

Re: memory full no matter what?

lyllola — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:52:38 GMT

That's the thing, I don't want To delete everything, Just the things I don't need

Re: memory full no matter what?

lyllola — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:53:54 GMT

Alex there is nothing in settings/ storage that says format

Re: memory full no matter what?

_alexdon_ — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:56:11 GMT

Under SD card,what options do you have?

Re: memory full no matter what?

Danial-mach1 — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:59:41 GMT

It's name is"erase sd card" not "format"

Re: memory full no matter what?

lyllola — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:16:37 GMT

Yeah, I don't want to erase it, there are videos my kids like watching, I don't want them erased

Re: memory full no matter what?

_alexdon_ — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:17:02 GMT

Yeah,sorry.If you do not want to format your card,you should try the option which I have given,followed by a forced shutdown:

http://userguide.sonymobile.com/referrer.php?region=global-en&product=xperia-sp#!Turning-on-or-off-the-device---heading-only.html

Re: memory full no matter what?

lyllola — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:17:24 GMT

Alex, unmount, erase, transfer data

Re: memory full no matter what?

_alexdon_ — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:22:19 GMT

Yes,I said I was wrong,it is erase not format.But take a look at my upper post.

Re: memory full no matter what?

lyllola — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:23:02 GMT

But I want all the weird stuff that isn't my videos and photos off. I did the thing you suggested, followed by a shut down

Re: memory full no matter what?

_alexdon_ — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:28:07 GMT

And did it help?How is it after a forced shutdown?

Re: memory full no matter what?

lyllola — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:29:12 GMT

Yes, sorry, I'm replying to both of You. I did that thing followed by shut down