Originally Posted by
adymarsh I've just received an update today, that initially asked for 300mb or so. It is now requiring an extra 1024mb/1G. I've moved everything I can to the S.D card. There is still not enough space. I've had to uninstall Skype, WhatsApp and Messenger. Basically everything else is used by the system. I'm at my wits end. Any ideas anyone? From a desperate, considering Android, frustrated Lumia 640XL owner. ������
8gbs isn't a lot of internal space, on any OS. Androids no better. The OS might take less space I maybe?, but the partitioning system eats plenty (android has a cache partition, system partition, recover partition and so on - so you get a small portion of the total space to use for apps. Plenty of hair tearing goes on over on the other side of the fence trust me, when your dealing with smaller internal space. Not fun.
Not being yet a windows 10m user, I have no suggestions (I'm switching to windows 10m soon), but perhaps there is a cache you could clear, or unneeded system files you can delete somehow.
There might also be another way to push the update, like from a PC or disk? If there is, that would be preferable, and there'd be less worry about space.
To be fair though, you might consider a new phone of some sort. 8gb doesn't cut it these days, on any platform. You might not want to hear that, but there it is.