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I have very annoing problem with internal storage in my Xperia Z1. It has 12gb of memory. I have free +- 500 mb free space. Apps, photo, movies, music etc. are eating +-3,5 gb space. Where's the rest of 12 gb? There should be more free space, something about couple of gb's. Tell me, what's going on? I know, I can use link2sd, but wait.. If everything will be okey - It'll be not necessary to do that. I hope that somebody will lend a hand and help me. Peace & Love.
p.s. I tried to upload screenshot from my phone but.. I don;t have 10 posts so I can't post outside links..
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Hi,
I'm considering about IS purchase but wonder how much free internal memory does this phone have for user apps after the first power on? Original Desire's free memory for the user apps was total crap, how is the situation with IS? Thanks.
1.1GB Internal and mine came with a 8GB microSD card
LeanNSupreme said:
1.1GB Internal and mine came with a 8GB microSD card
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Are you saying that there was 1.1GB FREE internal memory for the additional apps installations? Am I right?
rimvydukas said:
Are you saying that there was 1.1GB FREE internal memory for the additional apps installations? Am I right?
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Yes that is correct. There is 1.1GB free internal memory for apps.
What Is The Free Ram In this HTC ...? Can it has more than 350 MB free just like GALAXY S........ i think Galaxy is the Best Phone till date..... it can also Challange Tegra2 Processors Handsets....
I know there are 512MB RAM in Droid 3, in addition to 16G internal storage. However, I don't know what go to the RAM. Are the bloatware going to take part of it, or they are simply stored in the 16G internal storage? What about the OS?
Hope I can get some insights on this. Thanks.
i dont understand. your post sounds as if you think programs are installed on the RAM. they arent. RAM is random access memory, programs arent stored on here, they use RAM to run commands. The 16gb is what your programs will be installed to
Not all 512MB will show as total memory its around 370-380 I think that is because the graphics use some of the RAM. Some bloatware will preload into the RAM as well as some of your apps. But when RAM is needed for the program you are currently running lower priority apps preloaded will close. So even if you see bloatware running in the background it cannot take away RAM when you need it.
The 16GB is flash memory for installing programs, etc. Android is not like older versions of Windows Mobile where apps were installed directly to the RAM so the 16GB of memory and the 512MB of RAM are for two totally different tasks.
Thank you.
After I posted the question, I did some research on google. Basically your replies are pretty in line with what other say. The 512MB RAM is used when running program, and OS too. Motorola says there is a 1.5 secured storage space in the phone. I guess that is where the app are stored physically. When being run, the app will be loaded into RAM.
Yes, the sum of used RAM and free is less than 512MB. I guess the difference goes to the OS and graphics. That's what I learn after posting the question. If there is anything you think might help understand these terms, please share.
Thanks for all the feedbacks.
newshook said:
Thank you.
After I posted the question, I did some research on google. Basically your replies are pretty in line with what other say. The 512MB RAM is used when running program, and OS too. Motorola says there is a 1.5 secured storage space in the phone. I guess that is where the app are stored physically. When being run, the app will be loaded into RAM.
Yes, the sum of used RAM and free is less than 512MB. I guess the difference goes to the OS and graphics. That's what I learn after posting the question. If there is anything you think might help understand these terms, please share.
Thanks for all the feedbacks.
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The ram is memory, the internal storage (both the 16gig and the secured partition/the 1.5 gig) are hard drives
Hello running Teamhacksung ICS 15 with ICY GLITCH v14-
I need some help understanding this....I have 2 gb internal storage? 13.03 gb USB storage? 4 gb external micro-sd card? I have 1.85 available Internal 11.74 USB ...all that being said...why is my memory being so taxed? please see attached screenshot
The Captivate has 512 MB of RAM, 16GB of NAND flash memory (partitioned for different parts of the OS), and you have a 4 GB NAND flash Micro SD card.
RAM is different from flash memory or a hard disk. RAM is what your phone uses to run software and hold temporary data for quick access.
Lol because our phones ram sucks.... at best i get ~ 125MB free ram. I avg 40-80 MB with all my widgets and a few apps open.
Edit: that 512MB is a lie... THE CAKE IS A LIE! lol
But thats with all apps running at startup? If you have less apps running shouldnt you have less stress on RAM? Man it sucks someone hasnt developed an app similar to readyboost in I HATE WINDOWS...doesnt it use flash memory as ram? Ok...so with reference to my screenshot my memory usage is normal?
Why do you want free RAM? If it's unused, it's wasted. Another tidbit that no one seems to ever mention is that resources in Android are memory-mapped. If things like images and other binary objects are aligned properly, they will not be copied into RAM at runtime, but read directly from their stored location.
This is true. But android doesn't always manage its memory perfectly. I usually close apps out of habit, but if I let it I can have alot of apps open and I won't notice. Then again I've been using since 2.1 and that REALLY sucked with memory management.
prbassplayer said:
Lol because our phones ram sucks.... at best i get ~ 125MB free ram. I avg 40-80 MB with all my widgets and a few apps open.
Edit: that 512MB is a lie... THE CAKE IS A LIE! lol
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True. 340MB is free for user space. The rest is for kernel, video, audio buffers, etc.
340MB(Galaxyian) is on big MEM kernels(truly 344MB on others, but he found a way to keep HD recording!) On any stock ROM's it is 329MB available...
Image above says he has closer to 355mb
Sent from my ICS powered Captivate using Tapatalk
Ohh well I was talking about STOCK roms haha well we all know how well MTD ROM's compare to STOCK in performance
prbassplayer said:
Image above says he has closer to 355mb
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LOL. That's because 1MB = 1048576 bytes, so 340 x 1MB = 356,515,840
TalenDEV bigmen is 352MB, but no HD recording and I think it messed up HD playback as well. I don't worry about it too much.
I know, was pulling your chain
CuriousTech said:
LOL. That's because 1MB = 1048576 bytes, so 340 x 1MB = 356,515,840
TalenDEV bigmen is 352MB, but no HD recording and I think it messed up HD playback as well. I don't worry about it too much.
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I know I know, was kidding And no it shouldn't mess with playback.
when i read at this page.... gsmarena.com/htc_desire_c-4759.php
at the storage it has "4GB include" but the device has 90MB rom and 940MB memory...
anyone please explain that
p/s this is my first post and i'm from vietnam, sorry for my bad english.
hello all you guy :good:
Welcome to XDA
I don't exactly know how it works but you only get around 1GB of space you could actually use!
Sent from my TF300T using xda app-developers app
Usuasable memory..
You are right. Both the websites and the box in which the phone is shipped shows the internal memory to be 4GB. But in reality this storage space is also used to store the phone's software. So the 4GB is actually partitioned into two parts, one storing the software and another part as the actual usable memory which can be used by the user. So you get a little less than 1GB of internal memory.. around 935mb or something. To know more.. go to HTC's website.
actually its split in three parts
1 part for the OS,sense,etc
2 0.94 gb for apps
3 ~90mb for storage (media,pictures etc)
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actually its split in three parts
1 part for the OS,sense,etc
2 0.94 gb for apps
3 ~90mb for storage (media,pictures etc)
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so part 1 take for 3GB??
apparently ICS+Sense 4.0+bloatware=3gb
it's like the galaxy s4, from 16gb you get ~10gb of user storage
imo this is just a marketing scheme something like internet speed ads. they say "internet speeds up to 150mbps" not 18mBps(even though it's the same thing) because ppl like big numbers ;the difference is you still have the same internet speed while with the phone the 4gb mem is a lie ....unless you format the whole internal memory and use the phone as a throwing weapon....
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apparently ICS+Sense 4.0+bloatware=3gb
it's like the galaxy s4, from 16gb you get ~10gb of user storage
imo this is just a marketing scheme something like internet speed ads. they say "internet speeds up to 150mbps" not 18mBps(even though it's the same thing) because ppl like big numbers ;the difference is you still have the same internet speed while with the phone the 4gb mem is a lie ....unless you format the whole internal memory and use the phone as a throwing weapon....
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thank bro
bogdy5 said:
apparently ICS+Sense 4.0+bloatware=3gb
it's like the galaxy s4, from 16gb you get ~10gb of user storage
imo this is just a marketing scheme something like internet speed ads. they say "internet speeds up to 150mbps" not 18mBps(even though it's the same thing) because ppl like big numbers ;the difference is you still have the same internet speed while with the phone the 4gb mem is a lie ....unless you format the whole internal memory and use the phone as a throwing weapon....
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and even though it has 512 MB RAM, we just get only 414 MB
Actually it is 512 or 414 mob of RAM..?
akashgartia said:
Actually it is 512 or 414 mob of RAM..?
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Our phone has 512mb RAM but the android system itself uses ~100mb so we get to use only 414mb
Hi,
I'm a bit surprised that if I add free memory and used memory from the Settings app the total is about 1.7 gb. Ain't we supposed to get 2gb? I hope sony didn't do the hdd trick (see wikipedia page on Kibibyte, I cannot post link as a junior member) and even so 2000000/1048576 = 1.907 ... where's my ram?
Under CPU-Z that show : 1.732Mb.
Your OS doesn't need RAM to function right?
Dsteppa said:
Your OS doesn't need RAM to function right?
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yes it does but I thought it will be included in the "used memory"... if the OS takes 300 mb that's ok but why I only got 900 mb free when I kill all apps? I used to have a nexus 4 and with the same amount of memory on chip there was a *LOT* more available in the settings menu.
Geolm said:
yes it does but I thought it will be included in the "used memory"... if the OS takes 300 mb that's ok but why I only got 900 mb free when I kill all apps? I used to have a nexus 4 and with the same amount of memory on chip there was a *LOT* more available in the settings menu.
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That 900MB figure is about the same I normally have free. Various apps and services take up about 800MB on my phone, which seems excessive but I've turned off all background stuff that I can (some Google and Xperia services just won't go away, however). The only good news is that Android will free up memory if it's needed so that 900MB is not a finite figure (at least that's what I assume).
Hmm. I generally have no more than about 300 mb free memory at any given moment. Even just a few minutes after reboot. No weird apps or excessive widgets. Do you guys really have 900 mb free? You can check your memory on the fly using Cool Tool from Google Play.
The Z3C has 2GB of RAM, don't worry. What you are missing is used by shared graphics memory. BTW: This is exactly the reason why the Z3 has 3GB of memory (instead of 2GB) for its screen resolution is full HD opposed to "only" HD on the Z3C.
Anyhow, is it really necessary to start another thread on the same topic if there already is one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3-compact/general/ram-2gb-1-69gb-t2941487
sxtester said:
The Z3C has 2GB of RAM, don't worry. What you are missing is used by shared graphics memory. BTW: This is exactly the reason why the Z3 has 3GB of memory (instead of 2GB) for its screen resolution is full HD opposed to "only" HD on the Z3C.
Anyhow, is it really necessary to start another thread on the same topic if there already is one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3-compact/general/ram-2gb-1-69gb-t2941487
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I have never had any doubts about the two gigs. But how much free memory do you have on your Z3C after a reboot and after a few hours of typical usage? My other phones with this much ram have generally had a lot more memory available at any given moment. Not that *free* memory is of any particular use in android, but I'm still curious to see whether your Z3C's are the same.
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I have never had any doubts about the two gigs. But how much free memory do you have on your Z3C after a reboot and after a few hours of typical usage? My other phones with this much ram have generally had a lot more memory available at any given moment. Not that *free* memory is of any particular use in android, but I'm still curious to see whether your Z3C's are the same.
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When I boot up the phone and immediatly check it shows some 800MB of free memory. About 500 to 600MB after a couple of days, fluctuating though. However, don't think these numbers have any meaning for Android keeps as much in memory as possible in order to increase responsiveness. It also depends on the Apps installed and the bloat disabled/blocked. Further, comparing it to other phones you had earlier might also be misleading since the version of Android could be a different one, hence comparing apples to apples would just not be possible.