My Steak comes along with 1.6G phone memory but now my phone memory has only 159M left behind.
I have moved all the apps that are movable to the SD card and clean up the cache all the time.
I wonder if there is a way to see what are saved to the phone memory?
Many thanks
Take a look at https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage - I think it does exactly what you're looking for
You're not confusing internal SD memory with RAM are you because 1.5 gigs worth of apps is like unworldy unless what you have is a bunch of games on there. I have almost 200 apps on my Streak and they don't take up but 900 MB
So I noticed it says this phone has 16gb of memory, but when I look at the phone storage it says 9.75gb total and internal store 2gb. Is this another memory thing like the desire z / g2 having 4gb of memory but only 1.5gb user accessible?
Same here.
yep it is blocked off to OS and stuff
mine say the same. not sure how they keep getting away with this.
Theoretically it's 16... Then they partition for the OS and read only files. All storage devices are the same way.
They could have advertised 10 gb and be a little more realistic
I remember there was a method to partition part of the external sd card and use it as extra RAM.
Can anyone explain how to do that with the GS3?
I seriously doubt there is a way to do that. Even if there is, why would you want to!? The SD speed will be horribly slow when compared to the RAM, it'll just not be useful in the slightest.
I don't remember how but you can set up a swap file. It would be better to mount it to internal storage but that is still going to be slower. I screwed around with this quite a bit on my N1 and never was able to get better performance than not using the swap file at all.
This was useful and a major feature in the early device custom rooms G1/Hero etc. There is simply no need for it on the handsets nowadays. It was used due to the limited ram in early Android handsets to cache apps to free up main memory for the running apps. Which up until the N1 the was at Max 128MB of in built ram. You have nowt to worry about with 1/2GB of ram.
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Hey there.
I'm a little confused regarding the internal storage of my VZW Note II. It has 16gb, which I know is less when formatted... there's around 10gb available for apps and files. Isn't that the partition sizing for Samsung's massively bloaty ROM? I'm running AOSP; is there any way to reclaim some of that space? Or I've seen some stuff about dual-booting, but there are way too many disparate GNoteII forums on XDA and I can't find any specific font of information. Is that a way to more efficiently use space? I'm just consistently crunched for space since nothing can use the external SD really, and 10gb goes away quickly nowadays.
Thank you kindly.
I would like to know the same thing. Just flashed and rom and set everything and now I only have about 700MB free space. I don't even run lots of apps. It's the miscellaneous that takes up majority of the space.
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tee00max said:
I would like to know the same thing. Just flashed and rom and set everything and now I only have about 700MB free space. I don't even run lots of apps. It's the miscellaneous that takes up majority of the space.
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Thats 700mb freespace for the system partition which is plenty...apps reside on the internal sd which you should have 10-12gb free.
droidstyle said:
Thats 700mb freespace for the system partition which is plenty...apps reside on the internal sd which you should have 10-12gb free.
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Exactly. That's 700mb to /system, then the rest goes to app storage and the emulated internal SD card. My phone reports that at 10.33gb total; 10.33gb + 700mb = 11.03gb total known storage across all known partitions. Doesn't that seem a little low?
I know my phone has 2gb of ram but what I am speaking of is the 16gb internal SD storage.
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tee00max said:
I know my phone has 2gb of ram but what I am speaking of is the 16gb internal SD storage.
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That's what we're speaking of as well. Your phone has 16gb of internal storage which is split across system files and app storage. Any space left over is your "internal SD card". It's how Android works post-Ice Cream Sandwich.
no its not low thats normal...
Well, I know our "16gb" cards are only 14.9gb, marketing considers 1gb = 1,000mb's, but it's really 1024 mb's. So really if you do the math, 16gb by marketing definition equals 14.9gb in reality (16*1,000^3/1,024^3). That explains 1gb at least.
I'd imagine the rest is the baseband and radio software, all that? Is the touchwiz framework always left on the phone even after a full internal format?
How much available space does a "16gb" Nexus 4 have on first boot?
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no its not low thats normal...
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Ah. I did not realize that the RAM was part of that 16gb as well, I thought it was dedicated. That explains it. Thanks
ieAnd said:
Ah. I did not realize that the RAM was part of that 16gb as well, I thought it was dedicated. That explains it. Thanks
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Where'd you see that?
Well according to the email notification I got from XDA, droidstyle's response was:
"no its not low thats normal... The rom is 2gb + 2gb of ram + all of the apps leaves arouns 11gb free."
then when I went to reply that second part wasn't there anymore? But I assume droidstyle is right? 14.9 - 2.0 - 2.0 = 10.9, so... closer?
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Well according to the email notification I got from XDA, droidstyle's response was:
"no its not low thats normal... The rom is 2gb + 2gb of ram + all of the apps leaves arouns 11gb free."
then when I went to reply that second part wasn't there anymore? But I assume droidstyle is right? 14.9 - 2.0 - 2.0 = 10.9, so... closer?
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yea i edited that because I was not sure that was 100% correct...which I do not think it is.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21573600&postcount=3
It seems weird, but I think you're right. It's not only the most logical and mathematically accurate solution, but thinking back on it I believe that's how my poor old Galaxy Nexus functioned as well, it was just far less noticeable since the Gnex had 32gb of memory and only took 1gb of RAM, vs. 16 - 2.
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It seems weird, but I think you're right. It's not only the most logical and mathematically accurate solution, but thinking back on it I believe that's how my poor old Galaxy Nexus functioned as well, it was just far less noticeable since the Gnex had 32gb of memory and only took 1gb of RAM, vs. 16 - 2.
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just add a sd card
I have 16+64.
droidstyle said:
just add a sd card
I have 16+64.
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This definitely solves the problem
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I have a 32 ultra SD, so I'm pretty set. Currently I have 4.9 GB available on the internal drive. I like to keep a clean drive. If you download music, most if not all will go to the internal. I've looked for mp3 apps that direct the DL's to the ext.SD, but have only found one, and that one didn't work. I believe cache goes on the internal too. Every time you download a ROM like meanbean, liquid smooth, they place a folder on the internal drive. They're empty, but they take up space.
I think the ram is part of the internal.
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Oh I have a 32gb Class-10 µSD card in my phone right now. The problem I'm facing is that any sort of app storage can't be moved to external SD... I have one or two pretty massive games and a lot of apps that love to cache reserves of data, and it adds up. I only have about 1.2 gb free storage after clearing all caches, without really any other files to speak of besides a few pictures. Oh well, I can deal. I was just spoiled with storage on the GNex.
I have a rooted HAM2 device. Can someone tell me why does my /system folder has 1gig but the phone has 16gigs (12gigs usable)? Right now, it's almost maxed out. Would it be practical to extend the partition?
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I have a rooted HAM2 device. Can someone tell me why does my /system folder has 1gig but the phone has 16gigs (12gigs usable)? Right now, it's almost maxed out. Would it be practical to extend the partition?
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You actually have about 12 GB free space on your internal memory after all the overhead. It's not maxed out by any means. I added an external SD and set it up as the default storage.