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[Q] Vibrant 12.78 total storage versus 13.18 total storage Explain?

OK the Vibrant is supposed to have 16 gb of storage but after the OS and other stuff that is reduced. Why is it some phones are showing 12.78 gb of total storage while others are reading 13.18 gb of total storage? Is there a hardware difference, or is this a software glitch causing an error? What gives?

HIPPOLYTA6969 said:
OK the Vibrant is supposed to have 16 gb of storage but after the OS and other stuff that is reduced. Why is it some phones are showing 12.78 gb of total storage while others are reading 13.18 gb of total storage? Is there a hardware difference, or is this a software glitch causing an error? What gives?
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Yes, there is a hardware difference. Some Vibrants are shipping with larger NAND memory. I believe it was 300MB more.
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Just be glad we don't have the 4GB internal space that the G2 has with ~1.5GB left for the user.

I was wondering that also. Thanks for the info.

Is there anyway to get the hardware specs for the two different versions of the phone? I find all of this interesting because t mobile told me I must be mistaken that there were no hardware differences between vibrants.
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HIPPOLYTA6969 said:
Is there anyway to get the hardware specs for the two different versions of the phone? I find all of this interesting because t mobile told me I must be mistaken that there were no hardware differences between vibrants.
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When will people ever learn to not listen to most sales reps and customer service folk. Only a handful actually know what they are talking about.
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[Q] What microSD card should I get?

What class would you guys say is over doing it for a mt4g? I'm also thinking a 16 gb card for the size, but maybe 32, because I'm running out of space on my phone.
Requirements:
Good price
16 gb at least, but maybe higher
Good class, so it's not slow, but not over doing it
It would also be better if I can find it in stores, because I can't buy things online really, except for stuff off of Amazon, but it seems like too much work for that .
Thanks in advance!

16,should be more than enough.
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jr_718 said:
16,should be more than enough.
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I've filled up my 16gb...
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Got a 32 on Amazon for like $30
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I just went through this myself.
I opted for a class 6, 16GB card.
Class 6 was more than enough speed for anything my phone does. It might be a little laggy if I'm dumping 4GB of MP3's to it...but how often do I do that?
And I might fill a 16GB card eventually. But by the time I do that sometime next year they will have 64GB cards out so the 32GB cards will drop in price dramatically.

16 or 32. I have a 8gb sandisk class 4 but 8gb is not enough for me. I need all my music with me and enough room for roms, backups, and kernals haha.
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Yeah, my 8gb card is completely filled up, so I'm hoping for at least a 16gb card, but a 32gb would be better. So a class 6 card would be good enough though?

My personal opinion is don't go below Class 6 on anything 16GB and above.

Does the myTouch 4g accept microSDHC cards?

ANY 4GB or above card is SDHC. Since MT4G supports up to 32GB, the answer is obvious.

Steven, HC means high capacity which would be anything beyond 2GB as Jack stated. So yes our MT4G does accept microSDHC as it ships with 8GB SD card.
Now you may want to look in to Patriot LX 32GB Class 10. Which is decent for the price, I suggest you do a search on our very forum and find user review before you order over Kingston or SanDisk.
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steven-026 said:
say is over doing it for a mt4g?
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Sandisk is a good choice

64GB Samsung Galaxy SIII O_o

I think i just shat my pants.
http://negrielectronics.com/samsung-i9300-galaxy-s-iii-64gb-unlocked-marble-white.html

charlieb620 said:
I think i just shat my pants.
http://negrielectronics.com/samsung-i9300-galaxy-s-iii-64gb-unlocked-marble-white.html
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Suck your shat back up lol. It's only on preorder.
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No biggie; got the 16gb and put a 64gb micro sd in it. 80gb is sufficient for me ;-)
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Thats pretty damn costly, as mentioned why not just add a larger sd card?

Pants shat.
This + 64gb microsd = duh.
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This isnt actually that expensive. Its like +£80 on the 16gb here which is totally acceptable.
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hefonthefjords said:
This isnt actually that expensive. Its like +£80 on the 16gb here which is totally acceptable.
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Expensive for my broke ass....................
Wife would kill me if I spent that on a phone.

Jfree3000 said:
Expensive for my broke ass....................
Wife would kill me if I spent that on a phone.
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Yeah i know its still a chunk of change but i mean relatively. I was expecting it to run around £800.
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16GB is good enough for me, you can always upgrade it with a 64GB (+/-) SD Card

I know people always say put in an SD card, but internal storage is FAR superior to microSD. MicroSD is a great convenience, but I would take large internal capacity over microSD anyday.

ekjl said:
I know people always say put in an SD card, but internal storage is FAR superior to microSD. MicroSD is a great convenience, but I would take large internal capacity over microSD anyday.
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I wonder how many apps you keep in your phone in order to need 64gb

Totòòò said:
I wonder how many apps you keep in your phone in order to need 64gb
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It's not just apps. Videos and pictures. Pictures don't take up that much but some of the MKV videos I like to watch take a gig for each one. Thank goodness for microsd.

Totòòò said:
I wonder how many apps you keep in your phone in order to need 64gb
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Videos, music, pictures. Plus to could still put at 64 SD SD card and get 128 GB of storage, excluding what the system uses.
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64gb is crazy space with 16GB plus 32GB card plus my 50GB drop box I will struggle to fill it and I have a ton of music lol some people must have loads of uneccessary stuff lol
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i really don't see any practical reasons to have so many things that would amount to 80~ gb on your phone

A good read -
http://ancillotti.hubpages.com/hub/Cards-or-internal-memory
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16+ 32gb card is good enough for me. Was gonna go with 32+ 32 but I still haven't used my 32gb up so it would be pointless.
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Closed, all reorder/availability stuff goes here

Will The Nexus 4's storage(my case 8gb) ever affect OS updates.

I am getting kinda worried, that future updates of Android will run slow on my phone cause its only 8GB, doesn't each update become a bigger file and take up more space? I use alot of cloud and streaming services so I dont need much on board storage so I didnt feel compelled to pay 50 bucks for 8gb of storage when I know it too expensive to pay for just that amount of storage. So my question is am I safe with this storage considering future OS updates.

The OS is a few hundred megabytes. You've got nothing to worry about.

TheFiveDots said:
The OS is a few hundred megabytes. You've got nothing to worry about.
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Thanks for the reply, so why when i got my device was there only around 5.5 gb available to me?

Righteous Joe said:
I am getting kinda worried, that future updates of Android will run slow on my phone cause its only 8GB, doesn't each update become a bigger file and take up more space? I use alot of cloud and streaming services so I dont need much on board storage so I didnt feel compelled to pay 50 bucks for 8gb of storage when I know it too expensive to pay for just that amount of storage. So my question is am I safe with this storage considering future OS updates.
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The OS it's self is bigger than a few hundred megs, but updates do your device do not necessarily mean your OS is taking up more space. Just because your os is, say, 500 megs and you downloaded a 100 meg update your new total is almost certainly less that 600, depending on the update much of that code is replacing existing code.
Also, performance is not dependent on the amount of HDD space you have available, this is even more true on flash memory. If you max it out to a 100% you're going to have problems, but other than that it matters very little.

Righteous Joe said:
Thanks for the reply, so why when i got my device was there only around 5.5 gb available to me?
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Formatted capacity of an 8gb drive is probably closer to 7.5, less some space for the OS + recovery partition + included Google apps, and likely some additional space reserved for future OS updates (though this is just speculation).

Isn't the space for the OS set aside from the usable storage?
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For this phone (8 GB model), there's only ~5.5 GB available to user for sdcard-like storage.
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co.ag.2005 said:
For this phone (8 GB model), there's only ~5.5 GB available to user for sdcard-like storage.
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Is there anyway to recover more available free space? it seems a bit ridiculous that the the OS would take up 2gb....

vinceyin89 said:
Is there anyway to recover more available free space? it seems a bit ridiculous that the the OS would take up 2gb....
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No. On older devices you could change mtd and assign size for system, cache, and data(user storage) but, that is not available for the newer devices. You'll have to deal with what Google/lge gave you or switch to 16gb.
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Ace42 said:
No. On older devices you could change mtd and assign size for system, cache, and data(user storage) but, that is not available for the newer devices. You'll have to deal with what Google/lge gave you or switch to 16gb.
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Why isn't it available for newer devices?
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Eric-1987 said:
Why isn't it available for newer devices?
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It was for the older mtd devices like n1, g1, my touch, hero,etc. I haven't seen recent attempts for emmc support for newer devices, could be that the partitions aren't modifiable anymore. Fire rat stated the cmtd patch on xda but I don't think he does anymore hacks here.
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Ace42 said:
It was for the older mtd devices like n1, g1, my touch, hero,etc. I haven't seen recent attempts for emmc support for newer devices, could be that the partitions aren't modifiable anymore. Fire rat stated the cmtd patch on xda but I don't think he does anymore hacks here.
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I thought partitions are made by the software? If that's the case then it's modifiable.
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Eric-1987 said:
I thought partitions are made by the software? If that's the case then it's modifiable.
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You'll have to do some research on custom mtd on Google, it's been awhile so I've forgotten most of the details. However a custom SPL or bootloader were used to allow custom partitions to be made via a text file.
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By the time a Android gets that big (in Gigabytes) you would have a different phone with about 128 if not 256 gb of storage

Our system partition is in the mid to upper 800s mb.
It is the same for both the 8gb and 16gb models.

Actual Usable Storage of Nexus and Other Phones
Hi Guys,
I put together a list of the actual usable internal storage of different phones so that we can compare and see which one has how much. This can be found on:
http://icethreads.com/actual-usable-storage-of-mobile-phones/
Let me know if you found it useful!
Regards,
- Harris

Micro sd card

What's the max size micro sd supported on the note 3? My note is in the mail on the way...thx in advance
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64GB is what I've heard.

Thx...I gotta get one ordered
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I'm using 64 on my note2, I don't see why the note3 wouldn't allowed 64 or even 128 when it comes out. I use paragon to mount it. they always say max 32 on their specs, I don't know why they do this..

Maybe you have 128Gb???

Check out eBay. I lucked out and bought a 64gb for $11 w/free shipping (I know you get what you pay for but $11!?). They usually go for $20 minimum. I'm putting it in my spare phone (s3) which I'm only going to use at the gym when I get my hands on this beast. I have a Sandisk ultra 64gb I'm going to use for the note 3.
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Its 64GB Max
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Got Kingston 64GB in my Note 3 and it works flawlessly

I Just picked up the 64GB Samsung on Amazon not too long ago. I can't wait to put it in my Note 3 :fingers-crossed:

xbmoyx said:
Check out eBay. I lucked out and bought a 64gb for $11 w/free shipping (I know you get what you pay for but $11!?).
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Be careful, there's a lot of fake cards on ebay. People don't find out until they start filling them up and start getting errors.

dscline said:
Be careful, there's a lot of fake cards on ebay. People don't find out until they start filling them up and start getting errors.
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Agreed but @ $11 I wouldn't care if it was only a 32gb. The seller has great feedback as well.
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dscline said:
Be careful, there's a lot of fake cards on ebay. People don't find out until they start filling them up and start getting errors.
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Happened to me long time ago. Bought a 16GB way back in the day when memory was much more pricey and thought I got an amazing deal,....card showed 16GB with 15GB of invisible data on it I formatted it with various file type formats to remove whatever mystery files were on there and ended up with a 1GB card,...
Jokes on me though,..I order 3 of them.