saying my sdcard is only 14.91 gb??? - HTC EVO 3D

i have a pny class 10 16 gig sdcard.. when i go into sd & phone storage it says its only 14.91 gb??? why is that??? i just downloaded the app sd tools and it says the same thing!! 14.91!!!!!!! ?????????

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I'm pretty sure you are missing space because it is necessary for an sd card that size to have in unallocated partition of about 1gb. You *might* be able to resize it. All sd cards don't allow the user to use up the amount of space they claim to have.

bloodrain954 said:
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This.......

so its normal.. im all set? is there anything i can do to make it better??? yes im still a noob!!!

evod3 said:
so its normal.. im all set? is there anything i can do to make it better??? yes im still a noob!!!
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No and whatever you do DON'T LISTEN TO BLOODRAIN!!!

Use maid sd card
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Its normal. Leave it how it is. My 16 gb came 14.xx gb do your good.
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There is a difference between bits and bytes, when you buy something ie 16GB card you are getting 16000000000 bytes, that translates to 14.91gb. You will NEVER buy something that says x amount of GB and it show up as that amount usable
. So multiply any advertised amount by .923 and you get the usable amount

NewZJ said:
There is a difference between bits and bytes, when you buy something ie 16GB card you are getting 16000000000 bytes, that translates to 14.91gb. You will NEVER buy something that says x amount of GB and it show up as that amount usable
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cool i thought something was up with me sdcard.. thanks for geting back

I'm too late for this but may help for future doubts. Every GB has 1024 MB and don't 1000 as we usual say, in that order, 1 MB has 1024 KB and 1 KB has 1024 B. After this short explanation we got: 16,000,000,000 B/1024(in order to get KB)= 15,625,000 KB/1024(to get MB)= 15,258 MB/1024(to get GB)= 14.90 GB you get in your card.

I was wondering why you haven't complained about the 8GB card that you got with your phone (or any other that you had before ) , lol

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Ext Partition

Guys, i am having a one gb Ext 4 Partition on SD. Currently it has 800mb free. Can I use this space in emergency. As I am always living on the edge with my 8gb card. Its always about 98% full. So I always have to delete something to download something new. I think I can use this without harm via root explorer and I will try it. It might also be good for private stuff.
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Though the trick is working, it would be better for me to get a 16gb card. Or may be 32gb...
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lekhwani said:
Though the trick is working, it would be better for me to get a 16gb card. Or may be 32gb...
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32 gb may get you into some performance issue 16 gb is good enough

4 gig internal storage?

So since some of us have root would anyone like to share what was in the 3 gigs that we unrooted users can't get to?
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The OS LOL, I think is just advertising no ROM that i know of has 3 gb free
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Yes this is very misleading and shouldn't be allowed. They tell you 4gb and you only get 1gb. The photon advertised the same things 16gb internal and you only get to use 8.97gb. It's false advertising to me but it seems to be allowed since they are using it on the OS so that makes it ok. I was dissappointed by the low amount of internal memory when I switched to the Evo 3d. 1gb is a lot but it's still not enough if you are a appaholic.
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Yes this is very misleading and shouldn't be allowed. They tell you 4gb and you only get 1gb. The photon advertised the same things 16gb internal and you only get to use 8.97gb. It's false advertising to me but it seems to be allowed since they are using it on the OS so that makes it ok. I was dissappointed by the low amount of internal memory when I switched to the Evo 3d. 1gb is a lot but it's still not enough if you are a appaholic.
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Yup that's right , that's why I only got like 100 apps , sad thing I got more for my iPhone and iPad almost by tripple ha ha
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No different then a pc. It will say 500GB hard drive..windows will the 30 gig, then another 30 for the real size. So you start will 440 free.
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The android system and sense take up a whole 3 gigs?!?? That just seems outrageous.
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Not just sense. There is a partition that is a backup of sense. Remember when we were first temp-rooting? Any change we made got reverted on reboot. How do you think it did that? It copied over from the "backup sense" any changes that were made to the system or data partitions. That **** takes up space.
Is there a way to get that space,or are better off leaving it alone?
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todah09 said:
Is there a way to get that space,or are better off leaving it alone?
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I hope theres a way we can get it back!. I wonder if we could use it to dual boot too
Since we now have root, can we Firerat the partitions like we did in the Hero?
well this is an easy fix if you have a large SD card.
i have my sd card partitioned out 2 extra gigabytes for data. makes up for the false advertising... which i totally agree, by the way, is utter bull****. they should tell you what you are getting in NET storage, not gross.
cobraboy85 said:
well this is an easy fix if you have a large SD card.
i have my sd card partitioned out 2 extra gigabytes for data. makes up for the false advertising... which i totally agree, by the way, is utter bull****. they should tell you what you are getting in NET storage, not gross.
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Yeah I've done the dt before.it would be cool to use the system ROM....
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I'm not that worries about app space bit I also don't put them on the SD I was just wondering if there is like 2 gigs sitting completely unused. I only say that because 3 gigabytes is gigantic for sense sense and android. Unless sense really is that big. I'm not rooted I was on my hero but I applied the ota too early.
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[Q] Isn't this phone supposed to have 32GB of storage?

Mine says Total space 11.36GB...
16 gb total
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dayv said:
16 gb total
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Interesting, stuff I read on the web said 32GB...
http://geekaphone.com/compare/Samsung-Galaxy-S-II-vs-Apple-iPhone-4
I may as well of kept my Infuse at this point. ;/
My phone's internal speaker doesn't work so I can't make calls...sucks. Gotta return it tomorrow.
Drew489 said:
Interesting, stuff I read on the web said 32GB...
http://geekaphone.com/compare/Samsung-Galaxy-S-II-vs-Apple-iPhone-4
I may as well of kept my Infuse at this point. ;/
My phone's internal speaker doesn't work so I can't make calls...sucks. Gotta return it tomorrow.
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Nah, it came with a dual core processor instead of single core. Infuse just came with double the storage.
Dual core > storage. You can always add to the storage, you can't add another core.
It comes with 16Gb of internal memory, and you can add an additional 32Gb MicroSD.

[Q] Pictures not saving suddenly

My coworker is stock rooted gingerbread with a 32GB sd card (with 25gb still available for use). He's been that way for about 2 months now, and uses stock camera and gallery.
For some reason now, his pics aren't saving. I just tried myself with his phone, and the pic was saved to ext_sd/dcim/... I saw it in the folder using root explorer. Within 5 min, the pic was replaced with the triangle error sign.
Any thoughts?
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few things to try...
clear gallery data
change save location to int sd
format ext sd
ive gotten those on rare occasions, but couldnt pinpoint it down to anything in particular
mrmako777 said:
few things to try...
clear gallery data
change save location to int sd
format ext sd
ive gotten those on rare occasions, but couldnt pinpoint it down to anything in particular
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I will have him try... I told him to let me throw ics on that shiz and call it a day
Side note, you've been one of the most helpful people here man... For that, I publicly thank you :beer:
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update?
andy55 said:
update?
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It didn't bring the pics back obviously but pics are saving (idk where... Can't find using root explorer) but they are saving.
He has to xfer media to int sd before formatting
And I told him to get a sandisk
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Possible bad sd card. If its from ebay, it may be a fake 32 gb. Test the card with H2testw.
pbcal said:
Possible bad sd card. If its from ebay, it may be a fake 32 gb. Test the card with H2testw.
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My thoughts exactly! I hate eBay, and that is where he got it (for cheap... Go figure ). I didn't know there were cards that read 32 but were only 8. It makes sense since he has used 6gb of space (and we all know 8gb isn't really 8gb)
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Why claim 8gb?

This makes me crazy. Why do they claim 8gb when there is not even 5gb usable? Be honest, say 5gb so we are able to gauge what we are getting. At least when you get an SD card almost all of it is there.
You forgot 2 gb internal storage for apps..yes its not full 8 gb ..its 7 point something but it never is.
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It is the same reason for your hdd on your pc. The drive does have 8gb total but some of it is used up by the system's OS. Your usable space is actually 5.5gb with 1.3gb being used for apps. Any storafe medium does this. If you notoce on sd cards it may say 16gb but the user only has access to 14 gb
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-sigh- because there really is 8gb of memory and they would be lying if they said 5gb. Think about it; all tech companies list the memory as the total amount of internal memory, not just available memory. If Samsung had a guilty conscience and said the galaxy player had 5gb, how could you compare to the iPod, that still said 8gb? There really is 8gb, but only 5gb available. Life tends to not be perfect.
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-sigh- because there really is 8gb of memory and they would be lying if they said 5gb. Think about it; all tech companies list the memory as the total amount of internal memory, not just available memory. If Samsung had a guilty conscience and said the galaxy player had 5gb, how could you compare to the iPod, that still said 8gb? There really is 8gb, but only 5gb available. Life tends to not be perfect.
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I didnt understand why there is 2gb od system storage,why when i install an app the size storage is taken from the usb storage and the system storage?why do we need the system storage
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kfirbep said:
I didnt understand why there is 2gb od system storage,why when i install an app the size storage is taken from the usb storage and the system storage?why do we need the system storage
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System storage is for apps..some aps can be instaled on sd (usb) but you can move and them to system..be happy that SGP has a lot of system memory..i had phone with just 200mb of system memory and 8 gb card and that was nightmare.
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DZonikg said:
System storage is for apps..some aps can be instaled on sd (usb) but you can move and them to system..be happy that SGP has a lot of system memory..i had phone with just 200mb of system memory and 8 gb card and that was nightmare.
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but what is the different if i have 2 GB of system storage and 5 GB of usb storage?i prefer that it will be 7 GB of storage that apps will be installed because right now when i install an app it takes place in the system storage and the usb storage i think that it just make things more complicated.
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but what is the different if i have 2 GB of system storage and 5 GB of usb storage?i prefer that it will be 7 GB of storage that apps will be installed because right now when i install an app it takes place in the system storage and the usb storage i think that it just make things more complicated.
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Most apps can not be instaled on usb storage so you want be able to install them at all with out it ..also almost all aps have some librarys and they all go to system storage..also dalvic cache is on system storage..and every app that is on usb storage you can move it to system..just go to menage aplications in settings ..click on app and click on move to device
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caseyatbt said:
This makes me crazy. Why do they claim 8gb when there is not even 5gb usable? Be honest, say 5gb so we are able to gauge what we are getting. At least when you get an SD card almost all of it is there.
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Just buy a 64gb MicroSD and swap the internal with the external, then you'll have 64gb for apps to be installed on.
Simple fix.
ZaIINN said:
Just buy a 64gb MicroSD and swap the internal with the external, then you'll have 64gb for apps to be installed on.
Simple fix.
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I agree,i have done it with 32 gb.
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DZonikg said:
I agree,i have done it with 32 gb.
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I have 32gb too,how I do it?
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kfirbep said:
I have 32gb too,how I do it?
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Modify your hold.fstab file in /system/etc
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