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[Q] How much room is there for applications?

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.

ALuton said:
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

nxt said:
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.

[Q] RAM?

can somebody tell me how much ram the sensation has? i was playing with the phone in t-mobile today and it said that the phone has 558MB Total with 120MB free. i was under the impression that it was 728MB RAM. Can someone please clarify? cause if its only 558MB RAM than i will just stick with the G2X.

Per HTC's website, 768MB.
http://www.htc.com/www/product/sensation/specification.html

howetechnical said:
Per HTC's website, 768MB.
http://www.htc.com/www/product/sensation/specification.html
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Thanks but i already saw that. Its known that Europe phones are sometimes different to U.S. phones so i am trying to find out if the U.S. version really does have 768MB RAM. Cause like i said the Sensation in the t-mobile store only had About 120MB free & about 580MB TOTAL

they are the exact same damn phone. seriously, why not just go to the HTC site & look the info up?
http://www.htc.com/us/support/sensation4g-tmobile/tech-specs/

It got 768mb of ram indeed. Some of it reserved by android, this is pretty common i think, at least on my previous htc phones.
The task managers show the wrong info of ram tho, head into "running applications" and look at the bottom to see how much is used and available.

Part of the ram are reserved for the hardware such as graphic chip.
Also to find the TRUE amount of ram available, goto Setting --> Applications --> Running Services, it will tell you how much ram is avalibe at the bottom. You can also create a short cut for this on the home screen.
Edit: there should be more than 300mb of free ram when the phone boots on.

Bigmille said:
Part of the ram are reserved for the hardware such as graphic chip.
Also to find the TRUE amount of ram available, goto Setting --> Applications --> Running Services, it will tell you how much ram is avalibe at the bottom. You can also create a short cut for this on the home screen.
Edit: there should be more than 300mb of free ram when the phone boots on.
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The PS3 has 256mb total ram.............so all the people saying the ram is slowing it down, GET REAL, its' a non-issue.

Bigmille said:
Part of the ram are reserved for the hardware such as graphic chip.
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Sorry for pushing this old thread. So it is normal to "only" have 580 MB total RAM?
thx,
uxu
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uxu said:
Sorry for pushing this old thread. So it is normal to "only" have 580 MB total RAM?
thx,
uxu
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As stated before (all you had to do was read the thread) some ram is reserved by the OS for GPU and other processes so yes it is normal to see this

I always wondered wich ram did I have because in the setting and software info it says 768mb but with task manager it says 568mb
Sent from my Sensation Z710e using xda app-developers app

It doesn't matter. On a PC, it might matter how much ram you have depending on what you do. Just use your phone and Android will take care of everything else for you.

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[Q] Is This System ROM "free space amount" normal?

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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 ....
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Why such low ram?

Why do I get such low RAM?
On my Sensation I get around 160 MB free with no apps running. On my iPhone 4 with 512 ram I got around 330 MB~ with everything closed.
I disabled sense and uninstalled some bloatware yet that doesn't seem to help. What's hogging my memory???
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Don't mean to sound like a smart ass but that's HTC sense for you...

ungraph said:
Why do I get such low RAM?
On my Sensation I get around 160 MB free with no apps running. On my iPhone 4 with 512 ram I got around 330 MB~ with everything closed.
I disabled sense and uninstalled some bloatware yet that doesn't seem to help. What's hogging my memory???
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if you have a trawl through all the information in XDA (Painful i know) you will see that its no bad thing to have things in RAM. Android works differently to iOS and Windows and works best when its applications are held in RAM.
It will also auto-kill your apps when it needs to and so you dont need an task killer. in fact, using a task killer can use more battery and slow your phone down - If you kill something that doesnt want killing it will re-open and use battery and resources doing so.
Thanks

alexguitar said:
Don't mean to sound like a smart ass but that's HTC sense for you...
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I checked Sense in Settings --> Applications, and it's showing that it's only using 5.3 MB. ?? What gives

Hi again,
I really wouldnt worry about it. Mine has 610MB, used 396MB and only have 214MB free with nothing showing in task manager
Cheers

ungraph said:
I checked Sense in Settings --> Applications, and it's showing that it's only using 5.3 MB. ?? What gives
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Sense is not just one app, it's built into the entire rom, so you haveany things that get loaded into ram, even though you can't see them.
Plus, android likes to actually use free ram, since unused ram is wasted ram. There are some kernel memory settings that will cache apps in the memory for quick access, and when you load an ap that needs a lot of ram, say a game, it'll close some least used cached apps until there is enough free space, and when you close out of the game, it loads those apps back into memory when they are called again.
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RAM Hog?

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.