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[Peter1]

I compared the SD card in the phone with the drives in the pc for content and thereby located the SD card. All photos etc. are on the SD card.

Also I found the caches and cookies to clear as you do in a pc by clicking browser >menu>more>settings.

I hope others can benefit from this and hi to you again Alan.

Peter

[8210GUY]

I had to ask as it's unusual to see 3 cards on a phone, I would be interested how they break that down, there would only be 1 physically removable card I'd imagine, so it's figuring out if it's the OS breaking it down this way, or if it's the way the makers have gone about making the phone, if you wanted to find out the easiest way is probably remove the card, then see what the PC shows without a card in there.

 

I can only think of 2 possibles, they are either using flash memory (as you would add a card), and have included a storage area built into it, so the phone + mass memory + memory card, OR, the memory card has been broken down into 2 elements, looking at the manual it talks about using it as mass memory, and as such is not accessible by the phone directly if I recall, so it could be the phone + memory card + mass storage on the memory card.

 

Clearing the browser, or anything on the phone via the phones\applications menu's is perfectly safe, and the way to do it, I was warning about going in via the PC and removing such files, as you would have no idea what effect it could have on the phone, and if you deleted the wrong files\folder, you could end up messing up the phone, but via the phone if it's an option then thats the only way to do it safely.

[Peter1]

Hi Alan

I have it running pretty good right now. Once I found the way to clear the browser cache etc. it ran faster.

As I said, I found which drive was the SD card by comparing the phone to the pc. I would look at the phone to see what is on the SD card then go to the pc and see which drive has the same contents. I believe it was the H drive but have forgotten now. I can find it when I need it anyway. I love paying with the guts just like a pc.

I think, b/c, it was an entry level phone we got for emergencies that there are limitations to it. One is the processor which is puny, I would love to get a nice phone some day with a data plan but I am content at the end of the month when I pay my bills. I get 1000minutes of talk and text. If I want internet I need my home network or a wi fi spot some where. I keep track of minutes so I am not losing any.

[arulkaruppannan]

If apps are stored in SD card memory, definitely affect the apps when you remove the SD card from mobile. Apps stored in device memory won't get affect. If your device have not enough memory you can execute the apps by keeping the apps in SD card memory.

You can take a screenshot by using power off + volume down buttons at a time.

[Peter1]

This is a rather elementary phone and the volume and power don't do anything. it is a pay as you go my wife uses in a pinch. I have since gotten a Galaxy S5 which I am familiar with. It is a nice phone but I am not an android person.

You cannot beat the phones security and integrity compared with a Windows phone so I got it.

I would prefer a Windows phone if it had the guts this one does - and I can take it apart. There are days I exchange batteries. I am currently waiting for the 5.1 download that follows the Lollipop 5.0. The phone came with KitKat 4.4 and Google supposedly relented and gave back permissions to a degree so more can be sent to the external card. I find very few things can be transferred however. Most of the apps have the "tranfer to sd"  grayed out.

I do not want to root as I just read that Big Red has blocked all rooting of this device.

Towel root etc. were enticing and becoming easier and easier,  until Verizon pulled the plug.

So I live with restrictions like a child at 76.

For an unrooted phone it is functional, albeit, bloated, another set back not rooted.

Among Verizon, Samsung and Google infusing the phone with nonsense apps it is hard to keep up. I only have 16 GB deviceand 2 GB ram. I have a 64 GB card but hardly anything can be transferred, as I said.