I bought the nexus 4 8gb. too small i know buts thats what i can afford.
any way can some one explaine why the storage capacitiy is only 6 gb?
thats a real let down.
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It's because the system takes about 2GB of storage. So no "math problem" but some irritating advertisement.
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This is no different than any other device. The same is true for any other android device and yes even the iPhone. The system ROM will always require a small portion of available space
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As above plus have you ever seen a HDD that was advertised as e.g 500gb and actually had that 500 as usable space
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MattSkeet said:
As above plus have you ever seen a HDD that was advertised as e.g 500gb and actually had that 500 as usable space
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<pedantic>Every 500GB HDD I've seen has at least 500GB of user-addressable space. Though not 500GiB.</pedantic>
marnel47 said:
This is no different than any other device. The same is true for any other android device and yes even the iPhone. The system ROM will always require a small portion of available space
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No. On the iPhone the nand is larger than what is advertised. If you buy a 16GB phone there is a 20GB+ nand in there so that the user can access the 16GB that was advertised.
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AW: [Q] A math problem with the storage size?!
Where did you get this? There was a 20+ NAND built in but I could only use 14 in my 16 gig version.
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MarcPlusTwo said:
Where did you get this? There was a 20+ NAND built in but I could only use 14 in my 16 gig version.
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I am talking about the iPhone 5/4/4S
Users that use iDevices get the full space as advertised, probably because it costs more anyways.
Android devices are cheaper so they couldn't care much about delivering whats advertised.
Any how, you shouldn't have any issues with an 8GB N4.
Considering DropBox (You can get 18GB of Dropbox space for as little as $5. I've personally bought it from here http://www.ebay.ca/itm/160943243088?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
I don't play games on my phone so that wont waste space either.
I just have about a gig of music on my phone.
Hello. Why people buy this phone? It very low storage (16gb). I buy note 2 16gb internal 32gb sd, why people get nexus 4?
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Price, cloud storage.
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Yep agree with above and below posts, silly me
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Why even bother
But why? Dont understand, 16gb is very old device? New device more space.
Mine show 13 gig, why it does not show 16 gig instead?
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Mine show 13 gig, why it does not show 16 gig instead?
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OS takes 3 GB.
Because we don't want a massive 5.5 inch display, we want something more portable that we can use one handed. And 16GB is more then enough. Unless you have like 20 GB of music (I only keep 3 GB of music or so my my phone), you really don't need an SD card slot. And Nexus updates and AOSP really top it off for us on XDA, not to mention the price without a contract. You can't even put apps on the SD card anymore, so SD cards are pretty much useless now. On a tablet though, I understand the need for an SD card for movies and whatnot. 16GB also does not make a device outdated. People don't look at 16GB iPhone 5s and think its outdated (Well the hardware at least...).
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But why? Dont understand, 16gb is very old device? New device more space.
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Because to some people space is not the first reason why they buy Nexus 4. They dont want to store entire music collection, or whole library of videos, or lifetime of pictures on their phone. If you lose it; good luck finding it with all your precious personal data.
Its common sense not sure why its a hard question for you.
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But why? Dont understand, 16gb is very old device? New device more space.
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Talk proper language troll,..and I'll kick a Samsung note 2 off a cliff
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Why? Why u put many many dirty files in ur note 2? Why u compare compare 2 phones with such different prices? I no understand.
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svtln said:
Hello. Why people buy this phone? It very low storage (16gb). I buy note 2 16gb internal 32gb sd, why people get nexus 4?
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U need huge storage to store your indian porn?
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You can't even put apps on the SD card anymore, so SD cards are pretty much useless now. On a tablet though, I understand the need for an SD card for movies and whatnot. 16GB also does not make a device outdated. People don't look at 16GB iPhone 5s and think its outdated (Well the hardware at least...).
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That is pretty much it. I realy don't feel like I'm lacking any space on my nexus 4 and I barely even use cloud services. The only cloud service I actually use is google drive but that's just to back up my pictures and documents in case I lose my phone.
I remember when I had my Nokia 8 with 16gb onboard storage and a 32gb SD card and I barely used half of the total storage space that was available. So 16gb on the Nexus 4 is more than enough.
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It's $250 off contract, nuff said
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I didn't even notice that having a more limited space (by that I mean cant-be-expanded space, not the 16gb, 16gb is well enough) would work that nice for my own organization.
I'm one that still have a 500gb desktop, a 320gb laptop and some SD cards for data transport. And not really because I can't afford more. It's just that, every time I almost fill up a drive/device and think on expanding it, I happen to see how much useless clutter I'm keeping in life. I'm happier since I took the detachment path.
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Why You need more than 13Gb of space?! Really... for what?!
I only have one response for threads like this...
*FACEPALM*
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beerope said:
U need huge storage to store your indian porn?
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By far the most awesomest reply EVER! :'D
He must be mesmerized because of that "big screen" on the note 2 for private purposes.
*Ifuknowwhatimean*
one of the more stupid threads I've read in a while.
Doesn't a note 2 have Google to find out why a nexus 4 is one off the top dogs ?
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My 16gb nexus 4 is only showing as having 5.67gb of internal storage space instead of what should be around 12gb for the 16gb version. I'm running cm10.2. Has anyone come across this before and knows how to fix it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2033692
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Thanks I'll give this a go
Hi,
I have installed the official CyanogenMod 11 build on my Nexus 10 32 Gb (Manta) from February 15th.
But it is only showing 1 Gb of internal RAM memory instead of 2 Gb.
Is this something because of CyanogenMod?
Thanks
Its something because of your screen, the nexus 10 dedicates much ram its amazing screen (and to a few other things as well) leaving the user with about 1gb ram available for "normal" usage
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Hi guys,
We knw that a nexus 4 with 16gb has only 12 gb user usable memory. After almost 6 mnths with my nexus 4 i admit 12 gb is not enough. I had read in some forums about repartioning the internal memory.i just want to know if there is a way to repartion nexus 4 such that we can atleast get 14 gb useable memory and spare rest for OS.
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There's no way an average user can do that. And for some one very advanced it'll probably brick the device. So, to answer your question, no
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With no expandable memory I think ur only choise is cloud storage.