LUMIA 510 - Not Enough Space - Solution

If you have bought a Nokia Lumia 510 recently, and are a little perplexed as to where all the space has gone. Here is a reality check and quick guide for you to understand.

Phone Memory Solid State - 4GB

OS - 1.5GB

Balance -2.5GB

This 2.5 GB can be kept for external storage like copying music/videos into the phone using ZUNE. The standard setting in the device, keeps maximum of the available 2.5GB free for application installations and application storage.

The method of getting this resolved is explained by the step by step method and snapshot given below.

Step-by-step procedure -

Install ZUNE, download it from here.

Once installed connect your Windows Lumia phone with cable to the system.

When ZUNE starts -

Click Settings -

Find reserved space -

Reduce the reserved space -

Set space available upto to 1.5GB for usage storage.

Find the reserved screen below -

Spent some time in figuring out the above.

Most of the blogs and discussion forums show comments where customer have complained about the phone being bad. There is nothing wrong with the device. It is only the method in which packaging has been done.

All Nokia had to do was draw a visual step-by-step guide for customers to figure this out, or better yet they should have packaged the OS, in such a way, that the customer gets free space to use for something as basic as transferring music/ videos.

Hope this screenshot helps you set the right space in the phone.

Please feel free to drop me a message in proloymitra@gmail.com in case the above is not enough.