What is the total amount of space that is showing in the 16 GB version?
For Me (Stock Rom - Rooted - Clockwork Recovery)
It shows 12.96GB, which seems a lot less than it should be.
4gb is reserved for android os
12.96 is right.
kinda like how RAM is advertised as 2GB
it is really ~1.8GB of RAM
It's the correct amount, everyone gets the same. Android system reserves way to much in my opinion.
KyraOfFire said:
It's the correct amount, everyone gets the same. Android system reserves way to much in my opinion.
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it counts bootloader, recovery, internals, etc.. not just android
zephiK said:
it counts bootloader, recovery, internals, etc.. not just android
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Still, 3GB is a bit over-reserved?
/dev, for example, is 936MiB and only 32KB is used :-/
Remember that the advertised storage capacity is in decimal notation, whereas the figures given by the device are in binary notation.
1 decimal GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes
1 binary GB is 1,073,741,824 bytes (can be written as GiB to avoid confusion)
So 16 GB advertised capacity is 14.9 GiB so there's only about 2 GiB in use by / reserved for the OS.
zephiK said:
kinda like how RAM is advertised as 2GB
it is really ~1.8GB of RAM
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RAM is usually advertised in binary notation, so 2 GB means 2 GiB.
zephiK said:
4gb is reserved for android os
12.96 is right.
kinda like how RAM is advertised as 2GB
it is really ~1.8GB of RAM
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Where exactly are we looking at the amount of GB's in settings under storage? Or under 'Internal Storage' ?
Not sure if my 16gig is showing up as 8
tarroyo said:
Where exactly are we looking at the amount of GB's in settings under storage? Or under 'Internal Storage' ?
Not sure if my 16gig is showing up as 8
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Settings->Storage, the "Total Space" shown at the top under "Internal Storage". Mine shows 12.92GB.
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The hard drive space shows 13 gig and memory if I add used and free totals to 550. Is this normal?
It sounds about right. It has 1GB of RAM, however some of it is devoted to the GPU. And after formatting and the OS, 13GB is about what's left to the user on a 16GB model.
Ravynmagi said:
It sounds about right. It has 1GB of RAM, however some of it is devoted to the GPU. And after formatting and the OS, 13GB is about what's left to the user on a 16GB model.
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Thanks for the explanation.
Hello all,
did anyone calculated memory in our Notes?
2Gb - / "system disk"
11Gb - /mnt/sdcard
But we should have 16Gb. So, 3Gb is missing. Where is it ?
When 16 GB is indicated it's never the full 16GB, the same goes for 32GB...64GB....ext, they always round up to the nearest increment. It is deceptive, but that's just how they do it with solid state memory.
Spartan2x said:
When 16 GB is indicated it's never the full 16GB, the same goes for 32GB...64GB....ext, they always round up to the nearest increment
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Rounding ?! 13Gb <> ~16Gb
pavelbor said:
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Rounding ?! 13Gb <> ~16Gb
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Yep. When the last time you saw increments other then 4,8,16,32,64,128...for solid state memory.
when manufactures advertise 16gb, theyre going as in 16,000,000,000Bytes. but most OS will read it in terms of binary, and the nearest number to 1000 is 1024 (i suck at phrasing).
so 16,000,000,000bytes divided by 1024bytes per kb = 15625000kb divided by 1024kb/mb = 15258.8mb divided by 1024mb/gb = 14.9 gigabytes. now subtract the 2gb for the apps partition and thats 12.9gb. now i dont know too much about the little things to do with android/linux, but i would assume that maybe 1gb or so would be reserved for the android OS itself, or some of it is used as virtual memory.
I have T-Mobile HD2 with T-mobile logo and colored buttons. But ram size and device memory size shown low in hardware info. I have 2.0.8 HSPL.
Is this a fake T-Mobile..
Hardware info:
RAM: 403 MB
Device Memory:663MB
SD:14,2 GB
running android? all hd2's show around 400 - 411 meg ram when running android.
Also, the first 128 meg is taken by the graphics hardware, so it is only showing 40meg lower than expected, not 160+
Yes andoroid is running on it, I read about 128MB ram but still 40 MB is lost. and why device memory is 663MB . mgldr and clockwordmod is also installed , is it related with them. Is there a way to see the physicall memory from android .
thanks for the replies
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Yes andoroid is running on it, I read about 128MB ram but still 40 MB is lost.
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yep, same for us all.
and why device memory is 663MB
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only the data partition gets counted towards internal storage memory
Shows around 1.85GB of RAM on my Nexus 4.
1.85gb ram available or total?
spitefulcheerio said:
1.85gb ram available or total?
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Its normal. It's similar to how your system data takes up a set amount of space so the phone says you only have ~13gb total when the internal storage is 16gb. The system is holding that RAM hostage (lol) for its normal processes
spitefulcheerio said:
Its normal. It's similar to how your system data takes up a set amount of space so the phone says you only have ~13gb total when the internal storage is 16gb. The system is holding that RAM hostage (lol) for its normal processes
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Exactly. The difference between calculating between 1024 and 1000.
Not really being held hostage more like the memory is being reserved for system processes. But yeah same thing similar to internalized storage
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Hey guys I was looking at my storage space today and i noticed I only have 111GB useable. I know that several GB are consumed by the system image and that the whole 128GB is not available, but 17GB used by the system image seems excessive.
you usually get 119GB after format, 128 x 7%, 119GB remains then OS partition and then more since its 64bit.
My 64gb has 54gb free
They define GB by 1000 where it's really 1024 so formatted capacity is less,
http://www.ussscctv.com/harddrivesizecapacitiescalculator.aspx
Mine had 111 GB free straight out of the box.
Mister-B said:
Mine had 111 GB free straight out of the box.
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Same here!
The larger the amount of storage, the larger the system partition. Dunno why, but it has been this way as long as I can remember.
Ok cool. Thanks for the replys
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