Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Clear the cache of an android Cellphone (Moto G Pure) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:47:44 +0100 Lines: 78 Message-ID: <09tlckxavs.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <0lkkckx987.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net rzAY5WCbaXNBe+3UwuoVhQpv0gsj2bF54rEQQtn0n3sJpYYs/O X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:RMSaiUkvsNngDnZo80Yo9hhahNI= sha256:sODM2XkMdOlpXhCtXdd88CSUFYKT0Wy6B3CeldKSQ7k= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4042 On 2024-03-18 05:21, VanguardLH wrote: > "Carlos E.R." wrote: >> On 2024-03-18 02:42, knuttle wrote: >>> I know how to clear the cache for each app on my cellphone.   I believe >>> that if I do a reset of my phone, all of the caches area cleared. >>> >>> Is there some why to clear the caches of all the apps on my cellphone >>> with out resetting the phone? >>> >>> ie Automate the routine to clean each app's cache, so that would go down >>> the list clearing each app's cache. >>> >>> The caches on the phone while individually are small collectively take >>> up a good chunk of the phones memory. >> >> There are tools for freeing up space that do that. I don't remember name >> just this instant; the one I remember is extinct, they did something bad >> are were banned. ES something. > > ES Explorer. Spyware. Also click fraud: their app pretended the user > clicked on an ad, so they could generate click-through revenue. Right. It was a very good tool before they did that. I still have it installed in some old phone or tablet. I don't understand why they did not revert what they did bad to continue business. But there must be some other similar tools that do that cleanup. I have another one, but it is part of a brand customization. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_File_Explorer > > Apparently you can use ADB to issue a command to clear all app caches: > > adb shell pm trim-caches > > where is how much you want to free up. I use ABD rarely, so > I'm not sure if trim-caches takes an argument to free all app caches. I > suppose you could specify a huge value that would encompass all of it. > Older versions of Android let you go to Android settings -> Storage -> > Cached Data to let you clear all app caches at once. Google giveth and > taketh. > > Unless you don't care about saving on battery and retrieval time, > caching will require an app to re-retrieve everything it retrieved > before. The app will rebuild its cache, and that consumes time (you > wait for the retrieve), bandwidth, and consumes more power. Unless an > app misbehaves (corrupted cache files, incompatible server-side changes, > buggy apps, or after an OS update), there is no reason to flush app > caches unless you really are running short on storage space. Right. Actually, recent Android versions do an automatic cleanup of apps that have not been used for a number of months. I have to go round ALL apps to disable this feature. It is a nuisance having to configure them again when I do need them. And some of them are tools that do things I need in the background, not having to open them for months. > App caching is not in memory. It is space in storage. Alas, most phone > specs reference storage as memory confusing their users. You might see > something like: > > Memory 32GB 4GB RAM, 64GB 4GB RAM > > The first number is for storage space. The 2nd number is RAM (memory). > Caches do not consume RAM. They consume storage space. Right. .... -- Cheers, Carlos.