Hi all,

Been unsuccessfully trying to figure this out for the last few months, and ordered a s23+ in early September that seems like it won’t come any time soon, so checking ti see if anyone here can make my phone usable again.

Got my S8+ in 2017 and haven’t had really any issue with it until this year where my storage has been glitching a lot. I have had to delete apps as their code has shown as astronomically large (one example, uber eats code once showed as 1.5 gigs, not data and cache, the app itself).

I recently downloaded DiskUsage, and it is showing my phone with 25.4 gigs of apps/data etc, and 26.9 gigs of system data.

My phone consistently has between 400-600 mb free and I’ve deleted every app I don’t use regularly, and have been just using the web browser for some that I do use frequently.

Any help would be great, I use app mgr III to clear caches and move apps to my SD card, AVG Cleaner to clear caches for redundancy, greenify to force close my apps, and I clear the cache manually with the restart, Bixby and volume up button daily.

  • why_no_salt@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    27GB of system data seem reasonable, 25GB of apps are the only thing you can manage. You need to delete more apps, not much else you can do honestly.

  • USCTrojans780@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Why would it take a S23+ well over a month to be delivered? Might want to consider other avenues to get one and get your $ back from the original point of purchase.

    I’d back your important items to the cloud and MicroSD, then factory reset the phone to use in the meantime. Sorry, but sounds like the phone is really on its last legs and you need to find an alternative asap.

    • fgsfsfbbbrd@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah its super frustrating. They gave me a delivery date in September, and then it’s been almost a month from my initial delivery date.

      • USCTrojans780@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Hmm, if it’s not feasible to get your $ back, ask for additional compensation in a form of a partial refund or something to make it worth more of your time and troubles.

        If not, I’d see if you can get the S23+ elsewhere or pivot to another model in stock, like the S23 base.

        • fgsfsfbbbrd@alien.topOPBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          So far they have offered me $50 to the Samsung store which I declined since I don’t think I’ll purchase through them again. Might just cancel and try to buy outright at Verizon.

          • USCTrojans780@alien.topBEnglish
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            1 year ago

            $50 is a putrid “offer” on Samsung’s end. Verizon could offer some deals for something as old as the S8 too, but I am not quite sure. Challenge is if you buy outright, you’d have to wait to get it unlocked.

            Check out Best Buy for a fully unlocked version of the S23+ as another option. Same with Amazon. Best Buy offers price matches for about 14 days I think, so you might be able to get in some early holiday pricing too while not having to wait to get a good working phone.