Greeting all, I’ve only ever been an android user, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk about this. My Galaxy S21 is starting to have performance issues and I’m curious if a clean install would breath new life into it?

Does this help with android devices like a fresh install on a PC, or do android devices just get bogged down with updates? Would it be worth the trouble to back things up and do a factory reset?

Thanks!

  • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    it still leaves stuff around sometimes. I’ve seen it plenty.

    You still haven’t declared what this “stuff” is and, more importantly, where it leaves it.

    App data folders left behind

    What kind of “app data folders”? In /data/data/? I doubt it.

    downloaded files left behind

    Duh. If the user downloaded files through the app and explicitly told the app to put those in downloads, those should remain. It’s user data at that point, not app data.

    Downloads are also just inane user files. They won’t slow anything down (again, excluding excessive storage use; causing free space issues).