Managing memory

Checking how much phone memory is available for use

Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
Tap Storage. The available phone memory is displayed in the Internal storage section.

Checking the available storage card space

Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
Tap Storage. The total and available storage card space is displayed in the storage card section.

Making more storage space (internal storage)

Easily free up space in internal storage by cleaning up the application cache, moving or uninstalling apps, and deleting old mails and messages all in one go.

Important: You cannot move or uninstall preinstalled apps.

Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
Tap Storage, and under Internal storage tap Make more space.
On the Clear caches screen, choose whether to clear the cache of rarely used apps only or all apps, and then tap Next.
On the Application storage screen, choose to move apps to the storage card or to uninstall apps that you'd like to remove.
Tap Next.
On the Mail & message storage screen:
- Set fewer days of mails to download so that older mails will be removed from the storage automatically.
- Lower the number of text and multimedia messages per conversation.
On the Content storage screen, choose what content you want to delete from storage.
Tap Finish.

Clearing application cache and data

You can delete the data or clear the cache per application.

Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
Tap Apps.
On the All tab, tap an application.
On the screen, tap Clear data and/or Clear cache.

Uninstalling an app

Important: You cannot uninstall an app that's preinstalled on HTC Desire V.

Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
Tap Apps.
On the Downloaded tab, tap the application you want to uninstall.
Tap Uninstall.

Moving an app to or from the storage card

Important: You cannot move an app that's preinstalled on HTC Desire V.

Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
Tap Apps.
On the Downloaded tab, tap the application you want to move.
Choose to move the application to the storage card.

Stopping running applications using Task Manager

Use Task Manager to free up memory by stopping running applications that you're not currently using.

From the Home screen, tap > Task Manager.
In the Applications list, tap to the right of the application name to stop it.