Upgrading to W10 Mobile .420 space issues

[poken1151]

Hello All,

So just wondering if anyone's been able to finagle an install on the Lumia 640 with the space issues. It's asking for some temporary space from the Phone memory (why it can't use the SD card as temp space, I've no clue) and it's asking for 1.2GB. Deleting some non system apps and maybe wiping all email and messaging, I'd only be at maybe 900MB freed up.

How were others able to upgrade? Or rather, does anyone else have any way to clear up say the system reserve fir space?

Best

 

[Chintan Gohel]

Hello All,

So just wondering if anyone's been able to finagle an install on the Lumia 640 with the space issues. It's asking for some temporary space from the Phone memory (why it can't use the SD card as temp space, I've no clue) and it's asking for 1.2GB. Deleting some non system apps and maybe wiping all email and messaging, I'd only be at maybe 900MB freed up.

How were others able to upgrade? Or rather, does anyone else have any way to clear up say the system reserve fir space?

Best

You could try moving apps to the sd card
Try to copy the photos and music to another storage so you can free up more space

If that doesn't work
you'll have to do a hard reset since your storage use is high due to system using a lot of storage - only a hard reset will solve it

 

[poken1151]

Yea I've tried moving the photos, most of the apps I can't move, and the ones I can delete only add up to about 300 or so megs.

Not sure I can convince the owner to do a system wipe... so I guess they're stuck on this version. Thanks for the input though.

 

[aybarrap1]

Under storage, how much storage is the system using. Mine is under 3.5GB

 

[KarateDad]

My daughter's 640 has the same issue, the system takes almost 6GB of space, email and the few apps that won't move leave it with like 600MB free. Windows update claims it needs more space. There is nothing else I can delete using the storage app. Been considering a hard-reset to see if there is garbage being saved in there.

 

[Chintan Gohel]

My daughter's 640 has the same issue, the system takes almost 6GB of space, email and the few apps that won't move leave it with like 600MB free. Windows update claims it needs more space. There is nothing else I can delete using the storage app. Been considering a hard-reset to see if there is garbage being saved in there.

hard reset would do it

 

[Wan Firas]

Try to move maps to SD card. And rather than a hard reset, un-sync the emails for a while and delete the existing emails.