Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Manage Internal Storage

Once you've known the differences between internal memory and internal storage and what's the function on each of them, now we'll learn about how to manage internal storage or ROM in order to keep the storage has some space enough to support the device works properly and not encountering error caused by the low internal storage.

See also: The Differences Between RAM and ROM


5 things to do to manage ROM
Here are some steps that you can do to manage your Samsung Galaxy SIII internal storage:

1. Check the internal storage availability from time to time.
   Check the ROM availability regularly by going to Settings> Storage, then see if the storage space is running or if necessary do some steps as listed below to free up some space on the ROM and avoid the ROM being filled quickly.
2. Clear the internal storage regularly.
   Make sure the internal storage has some space enough or at least over 150MB for Android 4.0 by clearing the storage at least once a week to keep the operating system work well. Delete some files is the possible way to do, such as:
• Delete unnecessary text or multimedia message.
• Move pictures, video or other files to your computer or other external storage.
• Delete call logs.
3. Set the phone to automatically clear the storage.
• Set the text message limit to delete old message.
• Decrease the frequency of the email sync to download only for past three days.
4. Manage Applications.
• If you encountering errors after installing apps, then you may have to consider to uninstall them.
• Clear apps cache and data.
• Uninstall unused apps.
• Move the stable apps or apps that not use the notifications bar or apps that sync online to the SD card.
5. Set some apps default storage to the SD card, such as set the pictures have been taken by the camera to the SD card or set to save downloaded files to the SD card.

These things mentioned above is the basic steps you may have to do to ensure the internal storage on your phone always has space enough to runs properly and avoid you encountering error when save or read saved files and apps can't work well because the low internal storage. Also, if you have your own tips to manage ROM and it's not listed here, then I'll appreciate if you willing to share them through the comment below :)