Strange how VZW touts "40gb" space, but 5gb of usable space is missing. We all know that "40gb" is not truly 40gb, but the 8gb internal is really odd.
Where as the Droid X has about 7gb of space out of box, the TB has 2.5gb for app space and no accounting of the 5GB balance that should be left. The SD card correctly show 29.7gb, but the 8gb amiss.
Seems the TB has the mega ultimate record of gigabytes of bloatware that needs to be purged with a modded rom to free the space up. Will end up being app space, but free none the less.
Yes, there are a few games, but those should only take up a few hundred megs- not gigs. Unless Guitar Hero is doing it......
The 8gb they speak of is storage space built in to the phone.
Yep and it appears to be taken up by bloatware.
2.5gb space for apps- where is the 5gb balance? Rhetorical, since it is taken up by preinstalled junk (for the most part).
Point is the consumer does not even have the 37.5gb of usable space they should have with the TB and "40gb". Actual usable space is 32.5gb, courtesy of bloat.
I have been wondering about this... 5GB in bloatware is borderline irresponsible. Why the he'll do we want this much **** oh our phones? F that... I want it gone.
The main culprit is the VZW Navigator. The map for all of NA is stored there and that is a few gigs by it self. The second culprit is the Let's Golf app from Game Loft. Rock Band is not preinstalled on the phone that's downloaded as an .all on first run.
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Where are the VZ maps found?
Htc rep I spoke with at launch stated some space is bloat but there's more space for future proofing the phone. Androids OS keeps growing and htc wants the bolt to be able to update past gingerbread to ice cream and so on.
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newtsevo said:
Htc rep I spoke with at launch stated some space is bloat but there's more space for future proofing the phone. Androids OS keeps growing and htc wants the bolt to be able to update past gingerbread to ice cream and so on.
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That is hilarious... considering that 2.3.3 is less than 200MB. Sounds like an easy line of BS to sell though. I would be much more inclined to believe that a lot has been used up for VZ Navigator...
And what about the "768mb of ram". Where has that gone? If advanced task killer is accurate I have the same ram left over with no tasks running as my rooted incredible.
..not sure of that has to do with the rom on it.. I was using miui.
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I'd assume the internal has been partitioned using the SLC configuration (similar to the Vision)
More reading: http://tjworld.net/wiki/Android/HTC/EMMC/UnderstandingUserCapacity
And, I'm totally guessing here
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That is hilarious... considering that 2.3.3 is less than 200MB. Sounds like an easy line of BS to sell though. I would be much more inclined to believe that a lot has been used up for VZ Navigator...
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Does VZ NAvigator hold maps internally/locally on the phone? Even so, 5gb seems like an awful lot. CoPilot and Navigon for the whole US don't use more than a couple IIRC.
It must be something like that, though, because there's no way the apps themselves could use up so much space; I've got 150 apps on my Nexus S and it's only using 1/2 of its internal space.
This is my first VZW phone since a Palm Treo several years ago...the amount of bloatware (crapware IMO) is shocking.
As someone else mentioned, the "missing" space is taken up by the system partition(most likely for future updates, the same way an online video game says it requires X gbs on the hard drive when it only takes up Y gbs).
Download Root Explorer or any other app that will let you look at the system files and go into each folder. You'll see that there is a lot of empty space reserved for the system. And before anyone asks, no, its highly unlikely that the space can be reclaimed for storage. Greater minds than myself will have to explain why, but the short version of it is the internal eMMC can only be partitioned once. Finally, before someone starts hollering about false advertising, note that most places that talk about the storage capacity usually include an asterisk regarding the "formatted capacity" being less.
On the 768mb memory, lets keep in mind that the first thing that lays claim to the RAM is the system hardware. What does the Thunderbolt have that a Dinc doesn't? The LTE antenna.
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The thing is, there is no EMMC folder on the phone like there was on my Dinc. I like to have certain things on my phone versus my SD. When rooted, would it be as simple as just adding that EMMC folder in? Doubt it, but anyone know?
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Can we even access that? I remember on my Incredible I could access the internal memory by USB but that doesnt seem to be the case here
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Okay i just got my hands on the new 3vo coming from the EVO 4g and wanting to compress a 3D movie i have to a smaller size that will best fit the 3vo. Can someone please tell me whats the best way to compress the movie. I have the IMAX Hubble Telescope movie that is about 4gigs and need it to be around 2gigs
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Split the movie...files that are movies are already compressed thru their algorithms. There are a few programs that will reconvert it..but movies that big..needs to be split.
Hiya,
Yes I am a noob so apologise in advance, but when I purchased my UK Evo 3d i noticed a distinct lack of ANY apps that were in 3d!...the only thing that i can see in 3d are the preloaded 3d photos
Also as I am in the UK I think that I sadly can not download all of the apps that are released in the US atm, but I was hoping to build a thread naming all of the apps that you can actually use in 3d on the device so if/when they are released over here I will already know what to get
thanks!
Hello rajanm1 if you are looking for 3d apps/games you can take a look at my thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1217024 i know there are not so many games on the list but i will update it when i find more 3d games and/or apps
Am I the only one who can't watch the green Hornet 3d that came with the 3vo.. It keeps saying downloading lisence and does not do anything.. Is there a way to get past it
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Trust me. You're better off not ever watching that movie.
AND it takes up almost 4 Gigs of data. Delete that as quickly as possible.
There are a jillion better ways to use that space.
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I saw the movie, not all that great and a great waste of space if you ask me.
(its been on HBO and not all that great in 3D)
In order to answer you question though, I did not have any issue watching the movie but I had to register w/ htc etc... some user name and bs like that in order to watch it.
but what I just did was find some 3d movies and added them to my card, only took up half the space and didn't require htc watch in order to view them to watch in 3d.
What I'm wondering is that it could be your ROM that your running? if so, which one are you?
Also, I have some movies that are great on 3D but there not your hollywood types. The ones I have were open source and ready for everyone but did make it 3D with a nice conversion. Let me know if interested. The one that I currently have on my SD card is a sweet documentary about sea life and it looks really sweet on 3D.
OK cool.. Can I get the download links for the 3d movies and where would you download 3d movies from like new 3d movies??
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Oh yea I'm running stock 3vo rom right now
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I would go to ur favorite torrent site and type in evo 3d, I always get a list of movies that have been converted for the evo in 3d. Im pretty sure we cant list torrent sites on here...
What file type is the 3d movies?
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Mine are in the normal mp4 format.
Lol thanks
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Whatever site you want to visit, just search for "sbs" which is "side by side", that's the format our phones use for 3d. However, doing it this way will get results for any 3d movie, so they might not be in the correct resolution. And they might be bigger in size. But then you will find Handbrake is your best friend.
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hey i discovered a new cloud storage app today that gives you a intial 5 gig upload space and a additional 5 per refferal giving you ten and also another important note this one gives you a upload limit of 1024 mb which i a lot more than the usual ones thought i would share if you sign up it gives you and me more space here is a invite link thanks guys
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hey i discovered a new cloud storage app today that gives you a intial 5 gig upload space and a additional 5 per refferal giving you ten and also another important note this one gives you a upload limit of 1024 mb which i a lot more than the usual ones thought i would share if you sign up it gives you and me more space here is a invite link thanks guys
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If you don't mind my asking, what benefit have you seen to using this over something like Google Drive or Dropbox? Considering you can easily get 50gb free on dropbox via a hack.
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If you don't mind my asking, what benefit have you seen to using this over something like Google Drive or Dropbox? Considering you can easily get 50gb free on dropbox via a hack.
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well for one its a new service so you can easily get lots of storage fast via invites i am up to 25 gigs with 4 invites seems more fluent and the upload limits are a lot higher up to one gig vs like box and some others only give you like 300 mb limit and the dropbox hack goes away over time this a service that won't take you storage away i used to have 100 gigs with db but now only have like 8 you can send emails without the hitch of email attachment limitation and much more