How To Free Up Internal Memory Space On Android Phone

Is your Android phone internal memory space running low? Dont worry, there is a fix for it and its pretty easy. 

Having experienced it myself, I looked for solutions to it and I got a few tricks that works. 

The steps to fix this issue are highlighted below. 

1. One of the ways to free up space is to move apps to SD card.  You can do this in the simplest way or in a more cumbersome way.

The simple way is to download App2SD (App Mgr III) app on Google Play Store (it needs your phone to be rooted for it to work).

Once installed, it will show you various apps installed on your phone internal storage and SD card storage. It will also show lists of apps that can be moved to SD card, those that cant be moved and the percentages of free space left on both memory types as indicated in the images below.

Now all you have to do is tap on any apps listed in the "Movable" section and move these apps that are movable to your SD card. This will free up space on your internal memory.

The cumbersome way which would bring you finally to the place to move apps to your choice storage is to go to Settings/Apps, click on individual app to see if you can move it to SD card. If you can move to SD card, just tap on Move to SD storage or Phone Storage as applied to your device.

Its cumbersome because you have to check each app one after the other to know if its movable or not. If its not movable, it would be greyed out and you wont be able to click on "Move to Phone Storage" button.

2. Another thing that eats internal memory space is apps cache, especially those apps that arent movable to SD card, high volume SMS messages, voluminous call logs and browser history and caches. 

To fix this, just download an app called 1 Tap Cleaner (free in Google Play Store). Once its downloaded, launch and click on History. This would bring up a window which you can then clear history etc. 

You can do same for Call log/text message or just click on Clear All to allow the app automatically work its magic. Once this is done, you would notice a sizable space on your internal memory. 

3. Finally, we are all in the habit of installing apps that we hardly use or dont use at all.

Try and uninstall apps you dont need, especially those apps in internal memory alone. Apps in external memory also have ties and data in the internal memory. Therefore, having too much apps on the SD will tell on the Internal Memory too. You should remove apps that are  not too useful.

Now assuming you have done all the steps above, you should have some space on your internal memory. But, if you still have serious issues on your phone internal memory, your final step is to reset the phone. This would return the phone to factory settings so that all the junks clogging the internal memory are wiped out. 
Ideally, only the internal memory files would be removed, all SD files will remain.

In other to reset, go to Settings, scroll down and click on Backup & Reset and then click on Factory data reset, finally, click on Reset phone.

Once the device is reset, you phone will reboot and be as new.

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Drupal on Google App Engine

Todays guest post is from Felipe Rubim, Head of Technology at CI&T. A Top Google Cloud Platform Partner, CI&T builds scalable predictive applications and custom software for fortune 500 companies. As far as PHP and Drupal applications, CI&T has built and maintains more than 400 Drupal enterprise websites globally with an army of 300+ Drupal developers. In this post, Felipe introduces a white paper detailing a test CI&T conducted on Google Cloud Platform and the potential for Drupal Enterprise apps running on Google App Engine PHP. The link to the complete methodology and findings can be found here.



Is Google App Engine ready for Drupal and if it is, can it be used for enterprise class applications?



Based on our experience working with Drupal and Google App Engine, we felt confident that the combination of the two would have the potential to cause a major shift in the content management portfolio of enterprises. Our goal was to test to see if App Engine was indeed ready to run Drupal for world class Enterprises. First, we tested features frequently requested by our customers, especially in the digital marketing arena: consumer-facing websites, portals for sales teams, doctors and healthcare professionals and intranets.



Methodology:

We evaluated the last three major releases of Drupal, and determined that Drupal 7 was optimally suited for use with App Engine and suitable for enterprise workloads. Drupal 8 was assessed as promising but at present not sufficiently mature, and Drupal 6 deployments on App Engine were not recommended as detailed in the white paper.



Findings:

• Scalability - We determined that Drupal websites running on top of App Engine scale beautifully. This is especially useful for digital marketing campaigns.


• Security - We found App Engine to be in good shape for web portals handling sensitive data.


• Versioning - We determined having different versions of your site without going through extra infrastructure set up to be a big game changer.


• Drupal Multisite - We concluded this was easy to set up and that it works as expected.


• Drush - We found that in order to make Drush work with App Engine, some tweaks are needed when connecting to CloudSQL from another set up (e.g. Google Compute Engine - GCE).


• Search - We concluded that installing and configuring Apache Solr in a GCE instance is the way to go for implementing enterprise Drupal search. We created a tutorial for that.


• SSO - We also tested SSO with Google Apps and provided a code snippet/tutorial

Is Google App Engine ready for Drupal and if it is, can it be used for enterprise class applications?



Our tests showed that App Engine PHP is a powerful alternative for Drupal deployments and is moving fast towards being a solid platform for Drupal Enterprise class sites and portals, particularly with Drupal 7.



In our experiments we identified that components from Drupal, App Engine, GCE and Google Apps could be synergically valuable in several scenarios, like:

• Google Drive and Drupal Workflow - leveraging Drupal custom workflows and auditing/logging capabilities vastly improves Google Drive and Drupal Content/Files Workflow/authoring with automatic publishing of approved documents,


• App Engine Task Queue - to replace scheduled cron tasks with App Engine Task Queue, and then execute background work (export data from a Drupal user table, campaign/contest registration, etc.) and leverage App Engine interface for management, debugging and logging;


• Flexible and extensible stack with an integrated Google Compute Engine approach - The usage of Compute Engine as a complementary component of the solution allows better flexibility to add more features and integration, as well as increased automation for the site management. More details on these features and benefits described below;

We believe Enterprises can reap multiple benefits by moving their Drupal sites to Google App Engine/Google Cloud Platform. Here are the key features and benefits, higher value first:



Auto-scale: By far, the number one benefit. This is particularly critical for Drupal digital marketing/campaign web sites, where unexpected traffic can easily break ill-prepared hosting setups.



Worry-free infrastructure: No need to remove/add servers, configuration or load balance management. Big headaches averted.



Integration with Google Apps: The potential to leverage the integration with Google products family in a number of use cases, is a big plus.



Application Management: By leveraging the Google SDKs along with its simple but powerful application configuration and management dashboard.



Potential cost savings: Considering you pay only for the resources you use, this is a great benefit. This is especially true when moving from an IaaS or traditional hosting model, where resources are needed to maintain the infrastructure portfolio.



Enterprise to Enterprise: GCP/App Engine are based on Google’s infrastructure, which also host Google Products. That means all the features and measures applicable to Google Products (such as security requirements) will also apply to your Drupal Site.



For the complete study, please see the link below:

http://www.ciandt.com/us-en/card/is-google-app-engine-PHP-ready-for-drupal



-Contributed by Felipe Rubim, Head of Technology at CI&T

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The Lumia 900 receives a healthy price cut now 49 99 on AT T

If you thought that buying into a Lumia 900 isnt worth it without the WP8 side-salad you might want to read on. Nokias WP flagman has received a healthy price cut and is now available for only $49.99 on a two-year deal with AT&T.



The updated price comes in time for the pink version of the Lumia 900 too.

The Lumia ran into some turmoil when Windows Phone 8 was unveiled because it was deemed unfit to support it. This spurred a logical backlash within Nokias faithful fans because they felt cheated into buying a destitute product. But the Lumia 900 will receive some WP8 goodies via the WP 7.8 update. Add that to the competitive pricing and things are looking good.

The Lumia sports a gorgeous 4.3" ClearBlack AMOLED display of WVGA resolution, LTE (for the US), 8 MP snapper, a single-core 1.4 GHz Snapdragon processor and a beautiful polycarbonate body. If you like you could brush up on the Lumia 900 in our full-fledged review.

If you live in the US and are interested you can buy the phone here.Source

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Solution » Connectivity problem on WhatsApp for WP 8

For several months WhatsApp functions incorporated error notification to exit the application, Usually due to connectivity problems with our 3G data or Wi-Fi networks.

Today we will give you some of the best solutions that circulate on the Internet to solve these problems. It is not worthy that we have served us perfectly in a terminal with Windows Phone 8 . It is also expected that the WhatsApp  technical team implement a new update to correct these faults.

As I have reported the problem of connectivity is given by the continuous check channel connectivity, the function that allows you to receive notifications even if we run the application in the background . As I imagine you can, if you do not have this connectivity fully operational, will not receive anything.

Then we leave an image illustrating the fatal error . As you can see, the image itself is reported error push notifications.

We will explain now how to fix these connectivity issues WhatsApp for Windows 8. This method is very simple and works in 90% of cases . Just trying to return the terminal to load your network connections to overcome these major problems.

By the time receive a message, click on the Windows Start button to exit the application. We turn now to the settings of the terminal and we activate airplane mode. wait a few seconds for all the changes are applied successfully.

Then disconnect this way and wait for your device to connect to the WiFi network coverage or lame enough to receive calls or use mobile data. WhatsApp launched the application again and found that by giving the start button the message disappears.

Performing these steps will save us having to restart the device each time you jump error. But as I already discussed above, does not always work.

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