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Re: Clear cache Partitions (S24 FE)

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On Sat, 2 May 2026 01:07:05 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

>croy <croy@spam.invalid.net> wrote:
>
>> On my Samsung S24 FE, while investigating problems with GPS, I came across
>> many web pages illustrating how to get to a screen where one can choose,
>> "Clear cache Partition".  In the illustrations, a half-dozen or more
>> options are shown on that screen.  But on my phone, there are only 3:
>> "Reboot System Now", "Wipe data/factory reset", and "Power off".
>> 
>> I don't want to do a factory reset, but I'm wondering if selecting, "Wipe
>> data/factory reset" would then take me to "Clear cache Partition", or
>> simply drop me off the cliff.
>> 
>> A photo of the phone screen is here:
>> 
>> https://postimg.cc/p98wKrfJ
>
>https://www.reddit.com/r/samsunggalaxy/comments/1rj2a5x/its_official_samsung_is_removing_wipe_cache/

Thanks!

>The unidentified GPS "problems" cannot be corrected by wiping the cache
>for whatever app you are using for GPS?

If that is actually a question, I'm using two apps for GPS track recording:

Geo Tracker
Gaia


>
>The unidentified app might also be using A-GPS to augment GPS.
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS

Wow.  Thanks for that--I had never heard of it.  That's probably part of
the reason for the phone and app to be so much more reliable than my old
Garmin hand-held.

>I have the GPS Status app by MobiWIA on my phone.  I paid $2.14 back 6
>years ago to get its Pro version, so I cannot check if the free version
>has the option to refresh the A-GPS data.  When you open its menu (swipe
>in from left-side of screen), there is a "Manage A-GPS state" option.
>
>If A-GPS is not your issue, you'll have to divulge it if you want help
>here on whatever are your GPS problems.  I'm not a wizard on this.  Just
>use the apps that incorporate GPS.  While the GPS Status app has an
>option to refresh A-GPS data, not all apps do.  You may have to go into
>the Apps list, find your unidentified app, and flush its cache.  Looks
>like Samsung took away the global wipe option across all apps, and went
>to making users clear per-app caches.
>
>The reddit article mentions Galaxy App Booster discussed and found at:
>
>https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=Galaxy+App+Booster&cId=24f646ca-c44c-43c2-bb4a-742207ae87a3&iId=f8088691-9d88-42c7-a107-5b0db2a1f844
>https://galaxystore.samsung.com/detail/com.samsung.android.appbooster
>
>Samsung's app page gives almost no information on their app.  By reading
>the reviews, seems this is more about moving and prioritizing
>executables than of cleaning a cache.  Most users run it after a
>software update.
>
>An option in my Samsung Galaxy A56 on Android 16 is to periodically
>reboot the phone.  Auto optimization is used during [re]boot.  In
>Android settings, search on "auto optimization".  You get to pick a
>day-of-the-week and time-of-day for the reboot.  It lists under which
>conditions the reboot will happen: screen is off, phone isn't being
>used, battery is over 30%, and SIM card lock is off.  I have it
>scheduled to reboot on Mondays at 5 AM.  Instead of a schedule, there is
>an option "Restart when needed - Your phone will restart automaticall
>when performance issues are detected".  I'd rather schedule the reboot
>rather than get surprised to find my phone is rebooting when I reach for
>it.  I have been awake at that time to notice my phone (while screen
>locked) started to reboot.  Of course, I haven't touched my phone in
>hours.  If I'm up that early is because I haven't yet gone to bed, like
>I'm engrossed in playing a game (on my desktop PC, not on the phone).
>
>I haven't felt the need for the Samsung Galaxy App Booster app, but my
>apps load quickly, anyway, so maybe the scheduled reboot (and auto
>optimize on reboot) is helping.
>
>https://www.samsung.com/latin_en/support/mobile-devices/how-to-automatically-optimize-your-galaxy-device/
>
>Not sure what auto-optimize all does, but obviously it gets rid of apps
>you left running in the background.  Unlike Windows and Linux, when you
>exit an app, the app actually unloads from memory.  Not with Android.
>To make the OS appear faster than it really is, apps stay loading in
>memory even if you thought you exited them.  They don't unload until a
>newly opened app needs memory, so the OS unloads the least-used app in
>the background to make room for the newly loaded app.  
>
>I've seen users (and I tried this, too) that use task killer apps.
>Those will unload all backgrounded app unless whitelisted.  Those apps
>can be either manually run on demand, or be scheduled.  The problems
>are: users don't know the correct app to kill, or keep trying to kill
>apps that immediately reappear.  In some cases, the obvious app is not
>the one you want to kill, but some ancilliary or controlling app that
>may be a system app that you don't normally see.  The apps that reappear
>after killing them have a sticky bit set (always run), or a service.  If
>the OS see them missing, it restarts them.  There are plenty of time
>when I don't need to be using my phone, and restarting it flushes out
>all those lingering background apps.  I used to manually reboot my phone
>every Sunday night, so my phone would be more speedy on Monday when
>stating my work week.  Now I have the phone do a scheduled restart.

Thanks for all of that--I'll be keeping it for reference.  If my recent
"discovery" of "Device Care|Memory..." doesn't provide good results, I'll
come back to this.

-- 
croy

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