jus got my sd card 64 gig scandisk.im a little confused tho it shows only having 59 gigs but i have not even used it were did those 4 gigs or so go?
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jus got my sd card 64 gig scandisk.im a little confused tho it shows only having 59 gigs but i have not even used it were did those 4 gigs or so go?
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Decimal vs. Binary:
For simplicity and consistency, hard drive manufacturers define a megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes. This is a decimal (base 10) measurement and is the industry standard. However, certain system BIOSs, FDISK and Windows define a megabyte as 1,048,576 bytes and a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes. Mac systems also use these values. These are binary (base 2) measurements.
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Hi
I bought a 128mb Secure Digital Card from Expansys but when I put it
into my device the Memory on Storage Card says 118.75mb so
where's 9.25mb gone!!!!!
TIA
Charles
The file allocation table (FAT) eats up the rest.
John
And something about..
Secure Digital - This requires space for the "secureness"
So a Multimedia Card may have given you a few megs back..
Its the old saying.
You just don't get what you pay for anymore!
MmF
Missing 10mb
Thanks for the responses.
9.25mb for the FAT, Jeeeez!
Why don't they build them 138mb, and give me what I've paid for!
Rgds
Charles
Actually the FAT does not eat up that much space, not even close. Here's the other part of the reason: A megabyte and a million bytes are NOT equal!
A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. A megabyte is 1000 of those.
The card and hard drive makers say that THEY measure a megabyte as being 1 million characters even. So your 256MB card can hold 256 million characters or bytes.
The computer and PPC however, measures in real megabytes and take that number, dividing it by 1024, to come up with its reported size. Therefore, your card has 256 million bytes, but not 256 megabytes.
They've redefined the word.
Ahh I see now. Thanks Carlos
Rgds
Charles
Teardown of the Xperia Play
This might be useful for the developpers and curious people like me
Just for you to know we have a great processor and the best RAM for performance
Follow this link for more info:
http://www.ubmtechinsights.com/teardowns/sony-xperia-play-teardown/?cid=137
1 gb internal ?? I wish -.-
We have only around 380
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It says we have 2gb ddr2 ram and an 8gb nand lol
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Gb != GB guys !
1Gb = 128 MB.
But the teardown is damn nice. IC decapping and stuff .... they take the term "teardown" damn serious xD
Regards,
iCEQB
I though 1024mb = 1gb lol
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1024 MB = 1 GigaBYTE correct !
But 1 GigaBIT = 128 MB !
GigaBIT (Gb) and GigaBYTE (GB) are two complete different things
Regards,
iCEQB
pay special attention to the "b".
1B = 8b
or
1 byte = 8 bit
which means
8 Gb = 1 GB
computers only deal with bytes, that is why you only see the lower value.
Fun fact: check the advertised internet speed from you provider, almost all of them use "bit", witch is 1/8 of the actual speed you get, witch is in "byte"
oh, and byte is used mostly because it represents one character, while bit is used to represent a 0 or 1,
Thanks guys, i never knew that lol
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What I find interesting on this is
Other major design wins include Micron’s MT29F8G16ADBDAH4 8Gb (1GB) NAND Flash (for storage) and Broadcom’s BCM4329 Bluetooth, WiFi and FM radio IC.
FM Radio, is this the same as the Nexus One, comes with the hardware but no application/kernel support?
I think I read somewhere that they left the FM-radio out cause of battery consumption and it really was a drainer on my htc desire hd.
Regards Dousan...
m3dteam said:
pay special attention to the "b".
1B = 8b
or
1 byte = 8 bit
which means
8 Gb = 1 GB
computers only deal with bytes, that is why you only see the lower value.
Fun fact: check the advertised internet speed from you provider, almost all of them use "bit", witch is 1/8 of the actual speed you get, witch is in "byte"
oh, and byte is used mostly because it represents one character, while bit is used to represent a 0 or 1,
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Not quite, they use bits, which is 8 times what you think you are getting...if they say 8 meg broadband, you're getting 8 megabits or 1 megabytes broadband.
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kenshindono said:
Teardown of the Xperia Play
This might be useful for the developpers and curious people like me
Just for you to know we have a great processor and the best RAM for performance
Follow this link for more info:
http://www.ubmtechinsights.com/teardowns/sony-xperia-play-teardown/?cid=137
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Just a quick question. Sony Ericsson spec for Xperia Play is 512 MB of RAM, but the Elpida DDR2 RAM is just 2Gb which means only 256 MB of RAM. Is there another 256 MB of RAM somewhere else?
According to the specifications the ram in LG Optimus One is 512MB, but in my phone its showing up 419 MB is that a problem, or is that same for all?
It's normal. I heard that some of RAM is used for graphic card unit.
charan315 said:
According to the specifications the ram in LG Optimus One is 512MB, but in my phone its showing up 419 MB is that a problem, or is that same for all?
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It's normal man. Sdcard 8gb but it's show 7,46gb
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my 4GB sandisk sd card , show's me only 3.19 GB's
Its normal, its the partitioned... Like mine is 8GB sdhc, and now is 6.91 gb...
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reason
The difference is due to the difference in the calculation parameters. We take 1024 in calculation but the manufacturers takes 1000 as their calculation unit.
1024 * 8 = 8192
1000 * 8 = 8000
You might be thinking that this is not a big difference. The other factor is the file system information and files which are stored along
I have a 16gb card with a 1gb partition and my phone is telling me I have 13.77 available. If 1gb is 1024 MB then where is the rest of my storage at?
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The manufacturer uses a conversion factor of 1 mb = 1000 kb (and same for GBs) while manufacturing the card and the computer/phone uses the factor 1024 to calculate the size. Thus it seems that you lose storage. This happens in all storage devices.
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mihir287 said:
The manufacturer uses a conversion factor of 1 mb = 1000 kb (and same for GBs) while manufacturing the card and the computer/phone uses the factor 1024 to calculate the size. Thus it seems that you lose storage. This happens in all storage devices.
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OK, Thanks. I did the math using 1024MB=1GB / 16GB=15.62GB and I'm still coming up almost 500MB short but, I guess that's used for formatting or something.
My question is about the user available internal storage. According ot GSMArena the device has 4GB of internal storage, but I see only 1.78GB available. Why is this so? I'm new to the whole smartphone/android thing and I don't know if the other ~2.2GB are some system reserve or something like that.
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My question is about the user available internal storage. According ot GSMArena the device has 4GB of internal storage, but I see only 1.78GB available. Why is this so? I'm new to the whole smartphone/android thing and I don't know if the other ~2.2GB are some system reserve or something like that.
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Most of the internal storage is occupied by the ROM itself and by the then by installed applications. Now LG, being a company that develops the stock ROMs for its devices on top of Android, sadly produces ROMs that are pretty bloated in terms of unnecessary services and applications, something that has a huge effect of on the consumed space of internal storage. If you buy your device from a cellular operator, you will often get some additional bloatware from your operator as well. Only solution is to use a custom ROM like CM 10.2, which consumes much less resources comparing to the stock one. However, as it's still Android, it will consume considerable internal storage space.
I think you didn't fully understand my question.
Internal 4 GB, 768 MB RAM
This is from gsmarena. Now, how exactly is it that we only have 1.7 GB of internal storage and 588MB of RAM available to us?
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I think you didn't fully understand my question.
Internal 4 GB, 768 MB RAM
This is from gsmarena. Now, how exactly is it that we only have 1.7 GB of internal storage and 588MB of RAM available to us?
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its what digdis said.2 of 4 gb are occupied by the system partition.and when every manufacturer says 4 gb,its never exactly 4gb.its about 3.6.just like the pc hard disk.if you have for example 320gb hard disk,the actual size is about 298gb.
the same for the ram.if you have a 2gb ram phone,it actually has about 1.7gb.
our phone with stock rom has 619 mb ram.cm 10.2 has 588.i dont know why exactly(neutrondev knows),but i think it has to do with allocation.
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just like the pc hard disk.if you have for example 320gb hard disk,the actual size is about 298gb.
the same for the ram.if you have a 2gb ram phone,it actually has about 1.7gb.
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I disagree on the hard disk statement. Hard disk driver are simply made with a rounded capacity. 320 gigabytes of hard disk space is 320 000 000 000 bytes, which is normally incorrect since 320 gigabytes = 343597383680 bytes.
343 597 383 680 bytes / 1024 = 335 544 320 kilobytes
335 544 320 kilobytes / 1024 = 327 680 megabytes
327 680 megabytes / 1024 = 320 gigabytes
Manufacturers make hard disks by the following formula:
320 000 000 000 bytes / 1024 = 312 500 000 kilobytes
312 500 000 kilobytes / 1024 = 305 175,78125 megabytes
305 175,78125 megabytes / 1024 = 298,0232238769531 gigabytes
There is no locked/hidden space on hard disks, because there's nothing to lock/hide(if you apply the actual correct calculations). The only exception to this are hidden partitions on the hard drive used for recovery, but people who actually understand computers never use hidden partitions on the hard drive for recovering data, but rather use software to make an image of the system and store it on external storage(external HDDs, flash drives, cloud, etc).
The case with P710(and a number of other devices), I think, is much different, since I don't actually see these "hidden" or "missing" ~2.2 GB anywhere(or if we apply the correct calculations - ~2GB).
RAM memory is always manufactured with the correct calculations. 512MB is real 512MB. 1GB is real 1024MB. With that said, out of 768MB of ram on our device we only see 588MB. So my questions are:
"Where are the other roughly 2GB of storage? Are they used for pure system purposes and are made unaccessable by manufacturers or Android developers?" and "Where are the other roughly 180MB of RAM? Are they also used for addressing hardware or system purposes and are made unaccessable by manufacturers or Android developers?"
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I found the answers I was looking for. The "invisible" space from storage is taken up by the OS.
This can be locked.