Hello, I about to buy Motorola Defy+ in the next 2 weeks and I'm curious about few things that I didnt clearly understand about the phone.
I've been looking around and I found it's specs.
The most confusing thing in it's specs was "2 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 1 GB ROM". As far as I could understand it and explain it to myself was it has 512 ram, 1 GB memory to install custom roms and 2 GB internal storage for games/movies/pictures/music. Am I right?
One more thing that I'm curious about is the storage. If I was right about the internal and rom storage do you guys have any problems with 2 GB storage?
Thanks in advance. I'll be happy to join Defy's community.
Mavasilisk said:
Hello, I about to buy Motorola Defy+ in the next 2 weeks and I'm curious about few things that I didnt clearly understand about the phone.
I've been looking around and I found it's specs.
The most confusing thing in it's specs was "2 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 1 GB ROM". As far as I could understand it and explain it to myself was it has 512 ram, 1 GB memory to install custom roms and 2 GB internal storage for games/movies/pictures/music. Am I right?
One more thing that I'm curious about is the storage. If I was right about the internal and rom storage do you guys have any problems with 2 GB storage?
Thanks in advance. I'll be happy to join Defy's community.
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Do not worry about anything, just buy the phone if you don't really need secondary camera. We have the best developers working for the development of defy. So you'll be more than happy. We have stable gingerbread, ics, jb builds, also 4.2 in the making. So go for it.
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Thanks, mate! The good devs is a huge fact that made me like the phone even more. This device seems immortal thanks to Quart.
Your answer really encouraged me to buy it. Actually, I'm going to try the phone in two hours. I will join the community in like 2 weeks.
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Just wondering, once we get these options, will anyone use them?
Coming from a G1, I knew swap and apps2sd were definitely needed.
But seeing as we have 768 MB of RAM, 1.2GB of data.
Since internal memory is faster than micro sd cards, would we use apps2sd?
If anything, could we just use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717874 that mod?
Since we have so much RAM, would swap/compcache be necessary ?
Just a few questions, thanks for your replies and thoughts. :]
I don't really see the need for them, this phone is flying.
Bet money we will not even see those coming. Ablsolutely no point with native apps on sd card and that much ram.
Please post questions in Q&A section.
The Mytouch 4g vs a lot of others phones has a whole 4GB of rom.
After I rooted it and installed Royal Ginger 2.1 on it, I saw I only have a little over 1GB for all my apps. Meaning that the OS takes up 3.6GB(formatted) - 1.2GB(Around) = 2.4GB ....
Is there anyway to get more user space? Some phones only come with 512MB of Rom so how are they able to load so much into 512 when we have 4GB and most of it not usable.
Honestly, I think 1GB is fine, just does not add up for me
I think when you see manufacturers talk rom size it's the amount available to the user. So 512MB after os allocation.
so when mytouch 4g says 4GB it means? 4GB to user?
the 4 gigs are supposed to be for the system and any read only data, or apps that don't like being on the SD Card. Even with a hundred apps, it should still be enough. What you'd really want is a larger SD card, and you'll be living in harmony.
No 4GB total of which 1.1 available.
Desire for 512MB of which 100 or less available to user.
Rest is storage + cache.
Desire canbe changed VIA hboot. If same can be done to glacier, im sûre u'll find the remaining space.
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nicbrownn80 said:
so when mytouch 4g says 4GB it means? 4GB to user?
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Had that backwards, sorry
I have the 8gb model Nexus 4, and it comes with 5.67 gb available to the user. My concern is what that other space is being used for, which I assume is the OS, and why then does the phone need 2.3 GB for the OS when we flash whole ROMS that are a couple hundred MB's. And will new rom upgrades in the future not work on my 8gb because of storage issues I assume everytime Google puts out a new version of Android its gonna require more space on the phone, and my question is how long till my 8gb phone cant support those upgrades anymore?
Righteous Joe said:
I have the 8gb model Nexus 4, and it comes with 5.67 gb available to the user. My concern is what that other space is being used for, which I assume is the OS, and why then does the phone need 2.3 GB for the OS when we flash whole ROMS that are a couple hundred MB's. And will new rom upgrades in the future not work on my 8gb because of storage issues I assume everytime Google puts out a new version of Android its gonna require more space on the phone, and my question is how long till my 8gb phone cant support those upgrades anymore?
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Google promises support for Nexus devices, small or large storage. They will stop updates when they stop updates for the 16 gig version
To answer your ROM question, you'll notice that ROMs are .zip files which means all the files are compressed into a couple hundred megabytes but are really more
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So what's the deal if I have a 16 gyg phone and my storage says total space= 9.62gyg.....is it bloatware? that's a lot of bloatware, dont you think? WTF!!!
Any help is appreciated, I want at least another 4 gygs back!!!!!!!!! this is BS, pure and stinky BS!!! X-(
Thanks in advance
jmartinezg said:
So what's the deal if I have a 16 gyg phone and my storage says total space= 9.62gyg.....is it bloatware? that's a lot of bloatware, dont you think? WTF!!!
Any help is appreciated, I want at least another 4 gygs back!!!!!!!!! this is BS, pure and stinky BS!!! X-(
Thanks in advance
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This has been discussed many, many times. Please use the forums search feature or look through the existing threads and you can find discussion about the issue.
And Yes, it does suck.
Here is a good place to start...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2269591
But there is a whole bunch of more on this issue throughout the forum. Good luck.
Oh, and you posted this question in the wrong forum. (fixed)
Here we go again...
IBTL
Switch to AT&T and purchased a 32 gigabyte model and you shouldn't have a problem anymore. That's why there was so much heat on samsung for not releasing the other models with more internal space. However, I was speaking with AT&T rep and he told me that sales for the 32 gig models was extremely low and they never ran out of stock so I don't know if people are really that annoyed with the limited internal space because after all that pressure on Samsung they finally released a model with more internal space and people aren't buying it so maybe Samsung was right all along to not release anything but the 16 gigabyte model.
AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 32 GB Model
Dear All,
I know what I'm asking is also personal preference.
Currently I own a Z1, but due to the bootloader issue when unlocking the bootloader your camera function breaks and very small rom community, it crossed my mind to buy a LG G2 (and what also helps is the terrific battery life).
The thing which is currently me holding back to buy a LG G2 is regarding the the 16GB. In The Netherlands they don't sell the 32GB version.
My questions are:
1. How much space does a custom LG stock rom software needs?
2. How much space does AOSP normally rom needs?
Thanks guys
JayantSparda said:
The thing which is currently me holding back to buy a LG G2 is regarding the the 16GB. In The Netherlands they don't sell the 32GB version.
My questions are:
1. How much space does a custom LG stock rom software needs?
2. How much space does AOSP normally rom needs?
Thanks guys
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I don't know how closely this will apply to your version, but my stock T-Mobile USA 32GB model shows 24GB of space, of which I've already used up 8 GB just loading up all my usual apps and such.
Seems like 16GB is likely to feel cramped.
Got the phone yesterday...so far, 1st impression, love it. Best phone I've owned...and I've owned quite a few
Zanthexter said:
I don't know how closely this will apply to your version, but my stock T-Mobile USA 32GB model shows 24GB of space, of which I've already used up 8 GB just loading up all my usual apps and such.
Seems like 16GB is likely to feel cramped.
Got the phone yesterday...so far, 1st impression, love it. Best phone I've owned...and I've owned quite a few
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Thanks for your answer Zanthexter.
16 GB's feels definitely cramped yeah..
JayantSparda said:
Dear All,
I know what I'm asking is also personal preference.
Currently I own a Z1, but due to the bootloader issue when unlocking the bootloader your camera function breaks and very small rom community, it crossed my mind to buy a LG G2 (and what also helps is the terrific battery life).
The thing which is currently me holding back to buy a LG G2 is regarding the the 16GB. In The Netherlands they don't sell the 32GB version.
My questions are:
1. How much space does a custom LG stock rom software needs?
2. How much space does AOSP normally rom needs?
Thanks guys
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I think I asked somewhere. Since there it's no repartitioning. The roms take the same space.
Had before a 32GB hox. That was enough with USB otg.
Now this 16 having only 10 GB left. With one backup almost 3GB compressed. Some pics and one big game Asphalt and I can't do a second backup....
Without USB OTG a 16 would be for me unstable unusable....
Still waiting for my meenova
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LG customers (along with many others) get 50gb free space on box for lifetime at the moment.
No effing way. The OS/ROM holds 9 GB ransom. I suppose 16GB would be OK for a casual user, but casual users wouldn't register for an XDA account.
Flipping ridiculous, man. I don't need, or particularly want, all the fancy animations and stuff. 9 gigs for a phone OS? The Linux instance on my HTPC is half that... Shoot, I can trim Windows 7 down to within spitting distance of that.
Can't wait for true skinny stable AOSP 4.4 on this device.
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