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[Memory] Deal of the Day - 32GB Class 10 for $39

It is the deal of the day on Amazon. A nice treat I woke up to (supposedly $79 off normal price).
I do not need more memory, but perhaps some of you do?
http://goo.gl/HjtHo
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Is Lexar a good brand? I usually stick to Transcend.
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s15274n said:
It is the deal of the day on Amazon. A nice treat I woke up to (supposedly $79 off normal price).
I do not need more memory, but perhaps some of you do?
http://goo.gl/HjtHo
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Lexar's not bad.
I saw this, too. But if you're trying to save money check the Amazon link below.
Edit: Comment retracted. Apologies.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004G60AD6/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=

A class 10 will always blow out a class 4 when performance is involved (manufacturer branding aside of course). I have had a 32gb c10 for about a year now and love it. Before I had a 16gb c6 which was way better than the garbage that phones come with as stock.
Here is a nice little app that I use from time to time to check my r/w speeds. Pretty accurate for an in-phone-sdcard speed reader. Best tests are done on PC but this one is close.

Class most certainly makes a difference. That said, 32GB cl 4 for $30 is also a great deal. I'd step up to Cl 10 for another $10 though.

Wow awesome price! Noobb question would the vibrant support it? If so im ordering it now
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Yes. I am rocking a 32gb right now with about 200cds, 4 movies and a bunch of other stuff and only have 14gb used, plus that extra 9gb I have free on the internal.
Seriously with +/-16gb internal and a 32gb sdcard, that is almost 50gb of storage. Remember when PCs had 30gb hd drives and that was huge?

^ Another MAJOR reason why I am SO glad to have the Vibrant back. The GS4G only had a 1GB internal... wooptie doo for the next generation Vibrant.
I can recall my first mp3 player with 256MB space. Ouch.

s15274n said:
^ Another MAJOR reason why I am SO glad to have the Vibrant back. The GS4G only had a 1GB internal... wooptie doo for the next generation Vibrant.
I can recall my first mp3 player with 256MB space. Ouch.
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Lol, I had a 50 mb player, it basically only held one album tops, and it had to be low quality too.

Woodrube said:
Yes. I am rocking a 32gb right now with about 200cds, 4 movies and a bunch of other stuff and only have 14gb used, plus that extra 9gb I have free on the internal.
Seriously with +/-16gb internal and a 32gb sdcard, that is almost 50gb of storage. Remember when PCs had 30gb hd drives and that was huge?
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How long it takes your phone to scan the card on booting/mounting?
I had a 16GB class 6 it worked fine on reading/writing, but everytime phone took long time on scanning, so switched back to 8GB class 6, much faster on scanning

Maybe 2 minutes max. With strategic .nomedia files it only scans what I want it too.

Finally got this bad boy in the mail and I love it. Well worth the buy and I had an Amazon card that i didnt use for Christmas so it was free. Good find id thank you unfortunately I can't on the app
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seedofchaos said:
Finally got this bad boy in the mail and I love it. Well worth the buy and I had an Amazon card that i didnt use for Christmas so it was free. Good find id thank you unfortunately I can't on the app
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Big fan of mine as well. Great card.

Same price at Tiger Direct
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...PWATCH&cm_mmc_o=2mHCjCVybgwczfgtCjCVqHCjCdwwp

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Same price at Tiger Direct
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...PWATCH&cm_mmc_o=2mHCjCVybgwczfgtCjCVqHCjCdwwp
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You are a few weeks late. This was 30$ when I bought it
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[All Carriers] Internal Storage Partitioning

EDIT (2012-06-27):Great news! Android Central was wrong and internal storage does not appear to be partitioned! Although it's strange that it's not closer to 28GB. Thanks to aznmode for posting the first screenshot in another thread.
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just got mine woot. Heres the memory. I guess its not split?
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To those of you with the 16GB phone in hand, could you post a screenshot of the Storage screen? Androidcentral's review of the 32GB model says that the 32GB is partitioned into 12GB of "phone storage" (for apps) and 12GB of "internal sd". I was all set with getting the 32GB version, but this has now given me pause. Can it be re-partitioned to be one single large partition for apps? If not, I would just go for the 16GB version (assuming it has similar amount of space for apps) and spend the $50-saved on a 32GB MicroSD card.

Yea it is a buzz kill on 32g it saves 12 to USB storage and 12 to internal sd card im getting the 16 gb

Any chance the Dev's will come up with something that will allow us to change this?

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Any chance the Dev's will come up with something that will allow us to change this?
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I would think so. The guys in the Nook Tablet forum provided a way to repartition that thing from it's miniscule 1GB of user space.

12 + 12 = 24. Where is that last 8GB? O/S reserved space or something?

Sleestax said:
12 + 12 = 24. Where is that last 8GB? O/S reserved space or something?
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I would think so, but that sounds high
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I would think so, but that sounds high
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I think so too, but if it is, then the 16GB crowd will only have 8GB divided between apps and data (before adding a micro SDHC card), that blows.

Totally sucks on the 32gb version which I switched to and ended up waiting longer for. I do hope there is a way to repartition them to one.

This is where I'm at now. Just a few essential apps and a few pics. Haven't put me sd card in yet
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Thanks tkemack! Seems like without re-partitioning, both 16GB-models and 32GB-models will run out of app space at the same time. That's assuming that Android Central really does have the 32GB version...

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12 + 12 = 24. Where is that last 8GB? O/S reserved space or something?
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I was expecting the 32GB version to have 28GB (12GB+16GB) in a single partition. There's really no reason not to have exactly 16GB more than the 16GB-model. I guess we'll see next week when people get the 32GB-model in hand. Hopefully someone will post a screenshot in this thread.

ken830 said:
I was expecting the 32GB version to have 28GB (12GB+16GB) in a single partition. There's really no reason not to have exactly 16GB more than the 16GB-model. I guess we'll see next week when people get the 32GB-model in hand. Hopefully someone will post a screenshot in this thread.
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I'm hoping the website is wrong as I see no point to partitioning it. Isn't the GNex on Sprint 32GB? Maybe someone who has one of those can shed some light on if theirs is partitioned.

is this something we errrrrrr (the devs) can change ?

This makes me glad I got the 16gb! I was having a hard time deciding, but I figured I could just throw in a 32gb sd card if I start to run out of space. I doubt I'll actually use 16gb just for apps.

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I'm hoping the website is wrong as I see no point to partitioning it. Isn't the GNex on Sprint 32GB? Maybe someone who has one of those can shed some light on if theirs is partitioned.
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Yeah... Epix4G posted a screenshot of the Galaxy Nexus in another thread showing a single large partition.

Now that people are taking delivery of the 32GB-model, could someone post a screenshot of the Storage screen?

aznmode said:
just got mine woot. Heres the memory. I guess its not split?
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[Q] Ram

I was wondering why my nexus 10 only shows around 1.6 gigs of ram this shows with the widget I use and also under setting>apps>running the total is again around 1.6 gig. Is some of the ram reserved for the JVM or similar?

It's said that the other 400MB or so is strictly for the GPU

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It's said that the other 400MB or so is strictly for the GPU
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Thanks for the info. Anyone know of a widget that shows both the system and gpu ram usage ?

I have only 1.2 gb of RAM... Stock 4.2.2
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Capture from few days ago (4.2.1)
What is happening?
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Pre-4.2.2, out of the 2GB, 400MB was reserved for the GPU. 4.2.2 gives an additional 380 or so MB to the GPU (totaling close to 800MB reserved for the GPU) in order to prevent userspace RAM fragmentation.

Thanks for the info
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espionage724 said:
Pre-4.2.2, out of the 2GB, 400MB was reserved for the GPU. 4.2.2 gives an additional 380 or so MB to the GPU (totaling close to 800MB reserved for the GPU) in order to prevent userspace RAM fragmentation.
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Thanks a lot that really helped. I have just got my Nexus 10 a couple of hours ago and was **** scared that I would have to send it back!!!
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espionage724 said:
Pre-4.2.2, out of the 2GB, 400MB was reserved for the GPU. 4.2.2 gives an additional 380 or so MB to the GPU (totaling close to 800MB reserved for the GPU) in order to prevent userspace RAM fragmentation.
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What does userspace RAM fragmentation mean? Sorry for being noob...
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Basically it means when the gpu needs more it doesnt take away from userland aka launcher apps etc. Instead they reserved an extra 400mb for the gpu to help with performance on the crazy hifh resolution
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Well, **** I think that they should have let it take away RAM from the user, I keep like 15 tabs open at all times and only having 1.2gigs free causes the browser to run out of memory and crash.

Fidelator said:
Well, **** I think that they should have let it take away RAM from the user, I keep like 15 tabs open at all times and only having 1.2gigs free causes the browser to run out of memory and crash.
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Weird, Android should keep all tabs open and reload them if you want to see them. My phone does exactly that.
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Fidelator said:
Well, **** I think that they should have let it take away RAM from the user, I keep like 15 tabs open at all times and only having 1.2gigs free causes the browser to run out of memory and crash.
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15 tabs open is considered excessive on a laptop and low end desktops. Let alone a tablet. As is the case though when it was allowed to rob from the userspace RAM is it was fragmenting it.. Which in a lot of cases probably left you with less usable RAM then you get now.
Fragmented RAM = There is free RAM but because it isnt a contiguous block the OS can't use it. It's sits there completely wasted until x-y-z happens.
Two great pictures showing what fragmented memory is and why it's a problem. These are about Netware servers but the same principles apply.. Fragmentation = Bad and a waste of space.
External Fragmentation
Internal Fragmentation

styckx said:
15 tabs open is considered excessive on a laptop and low end desktops. Let alone a tablet. As is the case though when it was allowed to rob from the userspace RAM is it was fragmenting it.. Which in a lot of cases probably left you with less usable RAM then you get now.
Fragmented RAM = There is free RAM but because it isnt a contiguous block the OS can't use it. It's sits there completely wasted until x-y-z happens.
Two great pictures showing what fragmented memory is and why it's a problem. These are about Netware servers but the same principles apply.. Fragmentation = Bad and a waste of space.
External Fragmentation
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I usually keep at least 25 tabs open in my first gen i5 laptop without problems (I have 6gbs of RAM though).
And damn that sucks, but would the the unusable RAM ever reach 400mbs?

Fidelator said:
I usually keep at least 25 tabs open in my first gen i5 laptop without problems (I have 6gbs of RAM though).
And damn that sucks, but would the the unusable RAM ever reach 400mbs?
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That I can't answer.. I just would be illogically guessing at that point.
Yeah, extra RAM helps on the PC end of things with browser tabs.. It can start bogging down on the CPU though with ads, flash, and scripts running. :laugh: My ADD can't deal with more then 4 tabs at once.. I'd go nuts with 25. :laugh:

I would also suggest a lighterweight browser. I use lightning browser mostly. And chrome beta only when a page doesn't render something properly in lightning.
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LG G2 RAM problem?

Hello guys, what's going on?
So, i bought a new brand of LG's G2 amazing phone and I've noticed something that bothers me
my G2 version is the D802 and i bought it from orange in israel
so right now i have total of 1856 RAM available and the odd thing is that it should have 2046 RAM in total?
is there something wrong with my device?

Sevenz said:
Hello guys, what's going on?
So, i bought a new brand of LG's G2 amazing phone and I've noticed something that bothers me
my G2 version is the D802 and i bought it from orange in israel
so right now i have total of 1856 RAM available and the odd thing is that it should have 2046 RAM in total?
is there something wrong with my device?
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nothing wrong, the OS used some of the RAM to operates..
all other phones/computer does the same..

Nothing is wrong. It is normal.
The rest is use by the system.
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I think some RAM is reserved for the graphic chip.
This could get much worse: For example, the "Samsung Galaxy Note 3" has 3GB of RAM, yet it shows only 2.3GB...

Noam23 said:
I think some RAM is reserved for the graphic chip.
This could get much worse: For example, the "Samsung Galaxy Note 3" has 3GB of RAM, yet it shows only 2.3GB...
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Note 3 has a ridiculous amount reserved for the hardware.

Thanks for the quick answers now i can live peacefully with my LG G2 with no worries at all. :victory:

Well seeing this idk if its just the Verizon variant but I only have made 1gb to use. Is that supposed to be right?
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curly9 said:
Well seeing this idk if its just the Verizon variant but I only have made 1gb to use. Is that supposed to be right?
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Same here, I'm on the international D802 model though. I have approx. 1GB available for use and my free RAM is usually around 700+ - 800mb.

curly9 said:
Well seeing this idk if its just the Verizon variant but I only have made 1gb to use. Is that supposed to be right?
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Yeah, that's standard.

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Sepulture said:
Same here, I'm on the international D802 model though. I have approx. 1GB available for use and my free RAM is usually around 700+ - 800mb.
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I'm on my 2nd G2 and I'm not about to get on my third but I notice on both device both get rather low on ram with regular use.
Could anyone on the T Mobile version verified how much RAM they constantly having after opening up a couple of apps?
I got as low as 300mb free one the regular.
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Guys, till you have Free ram available it is all good. The Free ram is just sitting idle and doing nothing, you paid the price for RAM, make it work
If something needs more ram then what is available, OS memory management will take care of it. So sit relax and push the phone to it's limits.

shook187 said:
I'm on my 2nd G2 and I'm not about to get on my third but I notice on both device both get rather low on ram with regular use.
Could anyone on the T Mobile version verified how much RAM they constantly having after opening up a couple of apps?
I got as low as 300mb free one the regular.
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Free RAM is wasted RAM. Just use it all up and when an app needs some RAM android itself will flush some apps you haven't used in ages to compensate for it via set adj and oom values.
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About the claming 2GB ram of the Samsung Galaxy S5

Hi folks!
pretty new to the forum and for now I am not knowing much about the android. But here got some basic question that hinders my daily use of my cellphone:
The device I am using is samsung Galaxy S 5, and the model is G9008v, for those you know is the version with the China Mobile carrier.
SO, the ram is claimed to be 2GB, right?
bUT WHEN I am using it, the available ram is only about the 300mbs....
Here I've attached the ram status so that I could get some help. As you could see here only THREE programs ar erunning but the total ram is 1.6GB and there are 1.3 GB taken, For no use?
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Free RAM is 300MB (Which will change depending on usage)
Actually installed RAM is 2GB
Some is reserved for GPU so will only show about 1.7GB~

*Detection* said:
Free RAM is 300MB (Which will change depending on usage)
Actually installed RAM is 2GB
Some is reserved for GPU so will only show about 1.7GB~
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Thank you Detection!
e well no, actually the thing I am concerned about is the abnormity of the ram taken.
Only three programs are running as shown in the picture and they took like 300mbs adding up, however where is my other like 1.3 GB ram..?

user7269464 said:
Thank you Detection!
e well no, actually the thing I am concerned about is the abnormity of the ram taken.
Only three programs are running as shown in the picture and they took like 300mbs adding up, however where is my other like 1.3 GB ram..?
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There is no image in your post
The System uses the rest of the RAM, Android is a RAM hog
With nothing else running, I get about 600MB free
Check your PC task manager, with no programs running, Windows uses about 1.5GB RAM, similar reason with Android

*Detection* said:
There is no image in your post
The System uses the rest of the RAM, Android is a RAM hog
With nothing else running, I get about 600MB free
Check your PC task manager, with no programs running, Windows uses about 1.5GB RAM, similar reason with Android
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oh yeah, that's a good analogy. Thank you!
and how come, I posted the public link pf the pic that I uploaded into my google drive.
btw how did the folks in the forum post the pictures?

:good:
Might need more posts - but normally you upload to an image hosting site, then click the little picture icon above the reply box, and paste the direct image URL into there

user7269464 said:
Hi folks!
pretty new to the forum and for now I am not knowing much about the android. But here got some basic question that hinders my daily use of my cellphone:
The device I am using is samsung Galaxy S 5, and the model is G9008v, for those you know is the version with the China Mobile carrier.
SO, the ram is claimed to be 2GB, right?
bUT WHEN I am using it, the available ram is only about the 300mbs....
Here I've attached the ram status so that I could get some help. As you could see here only THREE programs ar erunning but the total ram is 1.6GB and there are 1.3 GB taken, For no use?
Thanks!
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2 GB ram is not enough, android system itself eats more than 1 GB sometimes
so the solution i use is
If u want more ram, then use XtreStoLite 2.2 rom, which is extremely lightweight, i managed to free up ram upto 1.2 GB (Wow), tweaking like Freezeing, greenify etc. now Free Ram is ALWAYS more than .90GB when not using any app, even after hours of use
only downside is that, its 5.0 lollipop not 5.1
but for me Multi tasking is more important to me than android version
Good Luck

Sam7777777 said:
2 GB ram is not enough, android system itself eats more than 1 GB sometimes
so the solution i use is
If u want more ram, then use XtreStoLite 2.2 rom, which is extremely lightweight, i managed to free up ram upto 1.2 GB (Wow), tweaking like Freezeing, greenify etc. now Free Ram is ALWAYS more than .90GB when not using any app, even after hours of use
only downside is that, its 5.0 lollipop not 5.1
but for me Multi tasking is more important to me than android version
Good Luck
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thanks！！