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My phone is 3 days old and is showing 19 gigs storage systems that I can't access or delete cannot factory reset phone and get rid of any options

What I have tried:

Factory reset it won't wipe data it will only go back to win things were side-loaded to my phone and not back to the original Android software from the factory
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Updated 19-Aug-20 4:38am
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jeron1 19-Aug-20 10:44am    
I have to ask, how did you come to tag this with c++ and JSON.NET tags?

This is not a technical support site for phones: start with the people you bought it from and / or the phone manufacturers.
 
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Unfortunately that is something all mobile vendors do nowadays: pack the phone full of apps no matter what, and make it hard to impossible to remove them. I've read the mobile vendors make deals with the app vendors to earn some extra cash because they can't make enough profit from mobile sale alone - that's why they're so hard to remove: it's part of the deals they make!

To add insult to injury, while it's possible to e. g. use root account to remove most of these programs, it's often not documented what these apps are good for, and you may end up destroying part of the base functionality of your phone!

I recently bought my Android phone, but apart from Facebook and a handful of other apps, none could be uninstalled from the normal UI. there are still 109 apps left! I did disable most of them or at least restrict their access rights, but when i was done a number of things had stopped working - e. g. I couldn't connect to my email account any more and I didn't get notified of new calls or SMSs. I decided to revert to factory settings and live with what's left - it's not that my handy isn't working or short on memory.

If you think you know what you're doing, are willing to invest some time and effort, and still want to get rid of this stuff, try googling for advanced methods of uninstalling apps. But be warned: in the end you may end up like me, with a phone not fulfilling the functionality I want, and not knowing which of the changes or uninstallations caused that!
 
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