Memory Hog

To advise you accurately I believe you will need to state the brand and model of your smartphone to help you out on this one. Also, a mention of which version of the Android OS is your phone using will do a great deal for you.

I laugh at everyone with apps. Why? Because I don't even text, let alone have apps. I am still in 1990, my friend.

heres a laugh for you I have not got a smartphone nor a facebook app nor do I have android apps nor really know what they are or an SG card so I would be lost for sure all I know is the smart phones are getting smarter than I am lol

I wonder if there is any way to get around that. Just one more reason I am glad I don't have a cell phone.

As soon as you log in? That kind of makes me think twice of getting an android myself. I think I would be satisfied with an android if I just use Facebook in their web browser. How many of those extra apps do you use though? If it were me, I probably would take out apps I'm not using to improve performance. Damn phones are just like a computer. The less applications the better they work.

hi dawn, I wonder if others have even given it any thought about how much memory FB and other apps use up..Even tho I don't have a smartphone but I do know people with one.. it is definately something to be aware of....

Two days ago I deleted my Facebook account, regrets? absolutely NONE, best thing I did, I wish I had done it sooner. I only have a basic phone, I am not up with the technology and all the gadgets and apps that are available. I just have my mobile on me when I am in the car in case I break down, it has a camera and I can text and that's all I need.

I have an ipad and iphone and I love photos of my new grandchildren and also love to have all my music on them. So I am forever deleting this program and that, to get more room for the photos and the music. Plus I have the novel I am writing through icloud, I do not know about android phones, but it sure is frustrating when I have to take something else to put more room for something else.

Stupid Facebook.

Hello Dawn, Thanks for the discussion. So far I have avoided the smart phone, but I do have Kindle Fire which uses Android. I noticed there was a specific app for Facebook specifically for Android at least from Amazon. Perhaps there is one for your device also. Since like a phone, Kindle Fire uses WIFI and has limited storage, it is limited also in how much it will handle. I did notice that the newest version of Fire allows for a larger capacity storage, lol...for a higher price. I'm not sure how much space the Facebook app for Android requires, but I'm sure it isn't as much as the full version on my desktop computer and I do not even try to play any of the games within Facebook on my Kindle Fire. I prefer the Android apps designed for Android devices. Hope you get some resolution to the problem.

What you need is a compressor to compress the 20megs of space that fb uses into something more manageable. To get this compressor that was especially designed for fb users you need to download the app called N.U.T.S. Now selct preferences and go to SEEDS. Then go to tools and press the delete button. There you are! Problem solved as everything has now been deleted from your smartphone so there is now room for FB. FB you note, has now expanded to 20 megs all by itself. Problem solved. Call on me if you need help again.

I don't really know anything about the facebook mobile app as I am the person that will typically get onto facebook from the internet as opposed to using a mobile app. However, one of the things that my friend and I discovered when it came to smartphones is that you really need to pay attention to the other things that are running in the background. Though we'd never told her phone to keep several apps running at all time but there were a number of apps that were always running in the background.

And it doesn't stop there... The app keeps getting updated for 'bug fixes' which you know surely takes more memory. As long as it doesn't take up my, I mean my kid's angry birds.

Well, the same problem, I reflected on smartfone I had before. Unfortunately there were applications that were unable to be installed on the SD card external memory. But now I have a phone that has more mass storage, so that I can install a variety of applications (including Facebook) simultaneously. Even when I was in store too many sms appeared an error message saying "low memory". To me it made ??me come to the exhaustion, nervous!