Where is all the memory.?

[Rippley05]

Every phone I buy always has less than the advertised storage space, I understand some will be taken by the rom and apps.

What I wanna know is what the heck is eating almost 8 gigs? That's a retarded high amount.



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[drsfinest72]

the phone OS i believe, i could be wrong though.

 

[TorxT3D]

what about the 2gb of ram?
theres always about 600-700mb free. wtf?

then when you free it up with a task killer, theres only about 1gb of free ram.

 

[EtherealRemnant]

Every phone I buy always has less than the advertised storage space, I understand some will be taken by the rom and apps.

What I wanna know is what the heck is eating almost 8 gigs? That's a retarded high amount.



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It seems to be system reserved storage. The size gets larger as you go up in storage size. Considering the benchmarks on the I/O being chart toppers, it's possible that it is being reserved as a performance booster of some sort.

what about the 2gb of ram?
theres always about 600-700mb free. wtf?

then when you free it up with a task killer, theres only about 1gb of free ram.

You have to factor in reserved RAM (my S3 has 2GB but only 1630MB is available to apps. Part of that is dedicated to the graphics chip and the rest is system reserved.

That said, you will not have RAM issues with 6-700MB free. I run a ton of apps at the same time on mine and with the exception of some huge games, I rarely have run out of RAM and had a background app killed by the OS.

512MB phones only had like 384MB available total because of the other 128 going to the GPU.

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[greengoldmello]

It seems to be system reserved storage. The size gets larger as you go up in storage size. Considering the benchmarks on the I/O being chart toppers, it's possible that it is being reserved as a performance booster of some sort.






You have to factor in reserved RAM (my S3 has 2GB but only 1630MB is available to apps. Part of that is dedicated to the graphics chip and the rest is system reserved.

That said, you will not have RAM issues with 6-700MB free. I run a ton of apps at the same time on mine and with the exception of some huge games, I rarely have run out of RAM and had a background app killed by the OS.

512MB phones only had like 384MB available total because of the other 128 going to the GPU.

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My browser is constantly killed regardless to what app I use in between...and this isn't only on one handset

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[david279]

I think he meant storage....not memory like ram.

 

[Rippley05]

I think he meant storage....not memory like ram.

Yea my bad.

It's a 32 Gb phone, and you can see by the pic that almost 8 gigs is being eaten up by "other". That's about what the LTE came with. That's just an insane number. They shouldn't be able to advertise a 32 gig phone when all you're really getting is 24-25 gigs.

 

[felacio]

Every phone I buy always has less than the advertised storage space, I understand some will be taken by the rom and apps.

What I wanna know is what the heck is eating almost 8 gigs? That's a retarded high amount.



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For one thing, it's measured differently. When ANY manufacturer of Memory based ANYTHING (except RAM for some reason.) says "this-many-gigs" they are actually measuring the bytes. So, they really mean 32,000,000 bytes. When converted to Gb this is only 29.8 GB.

False advertising? Kind of. But seriously every storage manufacturer does this so it's common practice at this point.

So then we see that the OS and all the other stuff is taking up around 7GB. That still seems ridiculous given a Windows 7 install can take up as little as 8GB.

 

[Rippley05]

For one thing, it's measured differently. When ANY manufacturer of Memory based ANYTHING (except RAM for some reason.) says "this-many-gigs" they are actually measuring the bytes. So, they really mean 32,000,000 bytes. When converted to Gb this is only 29.8 GB.

False advertising? Kind of. But seriously every storage manufacturer does this so it's common practice at this point.

So then we see that the OS and all the other stuff is taking up around 7GB. That still seems ridiculous given a Windows 7 install can take up as little as 8GB.

Yea I know it's alway gonna have some side twisted story..I do understand that.

8gb is just flat retarded and I'm surprised nobody is making a big deal of it.

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[Petropavlovsk]

You think our phones are bad check out the amount of usable storage on the s4.

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