I am considering buying this phone, upgrading from the original mytouch 3g that I have rooted and loaded many a custom rom. I am not an app hog, and I tend to keep my system clean with apps I do not use. However I have heard troubling news from some people on here that the internal memory that is supposed to be at 512 mb, is actually much smaller. A poster said they called TMO tech support who supposedly told them that a fix is in the work and that this is a software issue. Please post your internal memory stats, if you can. I would like to know if this is an issue with all galaxy s 4g's or just some.
P.S. while 512 is not that great it is roughly twice as large as my current phone and I have never come close to using up all of the mytouch memory...so the 512 MB is fine for my uses.
Vibrant
This is with a ton of apps installed
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I don't think I installed anything. If I did it was one or two small apps. I can double-check tomorrow.
Yea, I did a factory reset on mine and had about 200MB free afterwards. If its rooted and you don't mind repartitioning your sdcard, theres ways to help the problem
I like the phone, I get 10mbs with 4G, but the small internal memory has me seriously thinking bout returning it. Its like a step back to the Evo and Nexus One. Especially when compared to my MT4G and vibrant. I probably have 250 apps on my MT4G and still have around 300mbs left. I got bout 30 apps on my GS4G and I'm down to 50mb, and that's with moving the big ones to SD.
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glitch?
Yeah...it does look like a glitch in the storage. Either the phone is full of bloatware, which I think is actually at a minimum, or there is a coding error that makes it so that phone does not recognize a part of that storage partition.
If you have not, I would suggest that you report it to t-mobile, if you have this issue so that they can raise a stink with samsung to fix it.
here's a quick fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=975496
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My problems are exactly the same as the ones that can be found in this thread.
http://androidforums.com/incredible-support-troubleshooting/85756-gtalk-wont-open.html
The app pops up for a second, i see the icon and the words "signing in..." for about a second, and then it returns me to the home screen.
This is the log got by plugging the phone to my computer.
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The thread seems to suggest a memory problem, but I've got 29MB free. Oh, and I'm running 2.2.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?
davorb said:
My problems are exactly the same as the ones that can be found in this thread.
The app pops up for a second, i see the icon and the words "signing in..." for about a second, and then it returns me to the home screen.
The thread seems to suggest a memory problem, but I've got 29MB free. Oh, and I'm running 2.2.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?
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Well, I had the same problem, and I suspected memory as well, since I have been getting the low memory error for a few days now.
I uninstalled flash, which takes an enormous amount of space! 12 MB. But I also changed the Gmail policy for syncing. I had few very large folders set to sync 7 days worth, and one of those had a ton of inline images. I actually think that is what was causing the trouble, but I am not certain.
Either way, I freed up enough memory so that GTalk could turn on. I guess that sucker needs space, too! I wish more apps would use the install to SD card option. Especially giant ones, like Yahoo Fantasy Football (another 12MB one).
Oh well, I hope that helps.
P.S. I am on an original Droid running Froyo.
For me was the memory problem. I"ve uninstalled a 20 mb. prg and that solved the problem for me. I also needed to reboot my device after so the temp files will be erased along to. Now i have like 30 - 35 mb. free on the phone memory.
How much room is there to install applications on the nexus S?
1GB
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Anyone who is complaining about 1gig to store apps please go away
But really this isnt an iPhone apps are not 500 megs 1gig is plenty for the average person
ive never ran out or room on 512mb. plus you also have apps 2 sd storing 50% or more of the data on 14gb flash
on my i9000 i had 130 mb from 1,85 gb used. so i think the 1 gb would be enough space for me!
I also suppose it comes down to what type of user your are. If you are into games, I have read that there are some impressive looking games on the horizon. These games could end up eating up a lot of space. That being said I am sure there will be a workaround developed to the 1GB limit.
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I also suppose it comes down to what type of user your are. If you are into games, I have read that there are some impressive looking games on the horizon. These games could end up eating up a lot of space. That being said I am sure there will be a workaround developed to the 1GB limit.
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Well the maximum space allowed for any app is 50megs. Google recently raised it from 25megs.
It should be a market requirement that if your app is over 10MB that it must support apps2sd
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Well the maximum space allowed for any app is 50megs. Google recently raised it from 25megs.
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Didn't realize that, well than there should be plenty of space.
What games can do however, is have the basic install small, but when you launch it first time, it'll download whatever data it needs and save to SD.
That's what happens for Pocket Legends and Dungeon Hunters. The latter from Gameloft downloads around 250-270 MB to your sd card, which is required for the game to work.
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Is the system ROM supposed to be almost filled to capacity like that??
I'm rooted, stock running ADW Launcher Pro, flashed CWM community kernel, (voodoo lagfix), all AT&T Bloatware frozen, and phone is running good, Quadrant (for what its worth) is averaging the normal 1700, but battery life is not so good.... Can get all day use if i'm at work, but if i'm playing with it constantly battery life no more than 4 hrs or so....If thats avg then thats ok, but i think i was getting a lot better BEFORE i "voodoo'ed" : )
Don't want to flash any ROM if i can help it - so many different builds/versions/tar/pit/ i'd rather just leave it the way it is UNLESS anyone can point me towards a STOCK ROM that requires little or no "thinking"...lol
I have 3x extra batteries so i guess its not a HUGE deal, but i like to conserve wasted energy when i can... Also does Juice Defender really HELP? All those settings completely befuddle me, i prolly wind up using MORE cuz i'm like "nooooo, i need that, and that and that and that, don't limit that, omg i can't live without THAT!!!".... lol
thanx y'all,
Ms D
I have a little more left than you. Dont know if its normal though.
I'm not a developer but I try to play one on XDA. Seriously I'm not a developer. DlevROM Yo!
I have a little more than BigFau but not much, "27.5". Besides, this is just the space that the Rom is occupying it doesnt affect the internal sd or external sd from my understanding.
It's normal.....especially if you are mostly stock which you are.....and while you may have bloatware frozen, it is still installed.......ans yes voodoo being enabled takes IP a little more .....that is merely the storage capacity for ROMs or your phone operating system....
A stripped down aosp ROM like mine as you can see will have more space left ....
Sent from my Samsung Infuse 4G - 1.6ghz
I have a question for everyone.
Are you guys having problems with the internal sd card on your one s?
My sd card gets filled up really quick. I dont have alot on it. Only About 2.6gb of Music & 1gb of Videos
Thats all... The MAX I have is about 4GB with some roms and gapps etc.
If you guys had this issue before how did you guys fix it?
I just barely re-formated my sd card to fat 32 on my mac.
Thanks in advanced
Spider_Pig27 said:
I have a question for everyone.
Are you guys having problems with the internal sd card on your one s?
My sd card gets filled up really quick. I dont have alot on it. Only About 2.6gb of Music & 1gb of Videos
Thats all... The MAX I have is about 4GB with some roms and gapps etc.
If you guys had this issue before how did you guys fix it?
I just barely re-formated my sd card to fat 32 on my mac.
Thanks in advanced
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I've been in the same spot. I didn't think I put much stuff on my phone and kept running out of space. Then I found an app from the playstore called "Disk Usage." It's a graphical representation of your phones storage so you can actually see what's taking up space. In my case it's almost always forgetting to delete old back ups. You should try it.
Check it out.
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I've been in the same spot. I didn't think I put much stuff on my phone and kept running out of space. Then I found an app from the playstore called "Disk Usage." It's a graphical representation of your phones storage so you can actually see what's taking up space. In my case it's almost always forgetting to delete old back ups. You should try it.
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Cool Thanks will do
Is this normal RAM usage? I just got my phone today and have a minimum of apps installed on it. Also, what is the icon next to the 4G LTE icon?
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normal for a samsung lol
0dBu said:
Is this normal RAM usage? I just got my phone today and have a minimum of apps installed on it. Also, what is the icon next to the 4G LTE icon?
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Pretty much every Android device ends up essentially allocating nearly the maximum amount of a device's RAM to the OS itself. The OS then manages your various apps by utilizing that allocated RAM as well as scaling up or down its use of the RAM as necessary. So although it seems strange, there's actually more RAM available to apps than it appears.
Perfect normal.
As for the icon I don't know... NFC icon maybe?
There is a saying that goes a little like this "Free ram is wasted ram" and for the most part it is true.
Android is smart enough to deal with ram all on its own and unless you are noticing tab reloading or other issues with multitasking, you shouldn't care about the amount of "free" ram you have.
Also, icon next to your LTE icon is for NFC.
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I get that free RAM is wasted RAM and I'm not am Android noob, that just seemed excessive.
In my LG G2 before with 2 GB Ram I get 900mb user free and with my Note 3 before with 3 GB ram I get 1.9 GB user free RAM. I think this is excessive. Though I always root my device and use greenify with it but still.
If you know that free ram is wasted ram, instead of thinking it's excessive, you should be thinking "Why is there still 13% not being used?"
I have no issue with the phone using a ton of RAM, but I'm finding that when I'm in the car using Google Nav (foreground) and Pandora (background) together, will usually cause Pandora to close. The only time I've seent his before was when the memory leak was first introduced on my Nexus 5. Really odd stuff.