Camera - SD card is running out of space

[Eleanor_Tomlinson]

When I try to use the camera it says “your SD card is almost running out of space. change the quality setting or delete some images or other files”. I have deleted photos and files but it hasn’t solved it. How do I delete things off the SD card? Are there any other solutions? Thanks

[Alex.A]

Do you use an SD-card in the phone? Is it formatted as internal storage (the default option when inserting the card)?
Otherwise, android can sometimes reference the internal storage of the phone as “sdcard”, due to historical reasons. So that means your storage may be full, to be on the safe side you need at least 10GB free on your internal storage for the phone to work properly.
Could you show a screenshot of the settings→Storage?

[Eleanor_Tomlinson]

Thanks for your help. Here is the screenshot.

[urs_lesse]

@Alex.A

So that means your storage may be full, to be on the safe side you need at least 10GB free on your internal storage for the phone to work properly.

@Eleanor_Tomlinson 94% full is definitely too full. As Alex suggested, free up space and permanently stay well under 90% (better: not much over 80%). You can move files (especially photos, videos, music) to a computer or get an SD or better SDXC card to add a lot of extra storage in your phone.

[robbert.f]

List of compatible micro SD / SDXC cards for FP3

ATTENTION!! This wiki is just a list by FP3(+)-users. It is there to share experience with MicroSD cards. It is nothing official by Fairphone. Fairphone does not sell any of these cards. This topic is closed to avoid replies, so that the topic can be bumped on the top of the recent topic when edited. Please open a new topic in case of questions or to start a discussion. Which MicroSD cards do work and which do not? Fairphone does not have the capacity to test MicroSD cards and is not in…

[Alex.A]

@Eleanor_Tomlinson

I have deleted photos and files but it hasn’t solved it.

As suggested by @urs_lesse, you would probably need to delete even more photos and files or move them.

[yvmuell]

Should the issue persist when you have enough free space it nicht help to clear the cache of the Camera App

Camera says SD card full

I’ve tried clearing cache as the previous topic suggested, and my phone has over 10GB of storage left, however I still keep getting this message.

[yvmuell]

Thanks for the correction @urs_lesse

[Eleanor_Tomlinson]

Thanks very much for your help. I have deleted a load of stuff and the camera is working again