[Q] Memory Space - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

How much memory does the system, apps, and everything else use up?
I'm not sure if I'm going to get the 32 GB yet, and I'm trying to figure out how much space is taken up by everything so i know how much space I would have left if I by the 16 GB

PaRaNoidNeM said:
How much memory does the system, apps, and everything else use up?
I'm not sure if I'm going to get the 32 GB yet, and I'm trying to figure out how much space is taken up by everything so i know how much space I would have left if I by the 16 GB
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Approx. 3GB...I have over 100 apps and some files/music stored on my N4 16GB, and have 6GB remaining. More than enough space.

PaRaNoidNeM said:
How much memory does the system, apps, and everything else use up?
I'm not sure if I'm going to get the 32 GB yet, and I'm trying to figure out how much space is taken up by everything so i know how much space I would have left if I by the 16 GB
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If your gonna be storing movies, I'd get the 32gig, On a 16gig N4 and have 2 gigs left, with 3 movies a few albums and around 20 apk's.
The space fills up fairly quickly

Im on 16GB N4 and still have enough space. Have ~3GB.. have music and videos stored on my phone.

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Internal storage is low, even though only a little bit of it is used up

I just installed CM9 on my One S. It says my internal storage is almost used up, even though its 2.4GB, and I've only used 99 MB of it. How can I fix this? Should I just wipe?

Actual HD size only 11.66GB?

I understand that hard drive sizes are somewhat less than advertised, but 25% seems excessive. Mine is reporting as only 11.66GB instead of 16GB. Is that the same for others of you?
Thanks, JCHP
jchammerpants said:
I understand that hard drive sizes are somewhat less than advertised, but 25% seems excessive. Mine is reporting as only 11.66GB instead of 16GB. Is that the same for others of you?
Thanks, JCHP
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I'd be willing to guarantee, the reason it reports as 11.66GB is because the remaining internal memory is being used for android itself and of course, touchwiz.
My Note reports something similar, as I believe the last time I looked at my applications manager, it showed about 9-ish GB free with 2-ish used. That's about 11 and some change in total.
There's 16GB total storage. kernel, recovery, system, cache all take chunks from that.
Every mobile device is like this - All Android devices, iDevices, etc.

[Q] Free space ?

Trying to decide on 16 vs 32Gb. Any able to provide details on how much storage is available once the OS etc is considered ?
16GB does have 12.5GB available space available.
32 GB not sure, haven't seen anyone mentioning this, probably around 27GB
Thanks. That's not bad on the 16Gb - although it will soon fill with music and movies. Hope USB OTG mass storage works OK.

Storage

Hey everyone I had a question. Does anyone have issues with lack of storage or is 16 or 32 enough? I'm wanting this phone but im wondering if the lack of SD card will be ok. Thanks everyone.
Space required is your personal preference.
its all up to your personal needs, i skipped n4 for the 32gig n5 and honestly i haven't used up anything more than 20gigs of my phone. Heavy gamer so i needed the space, also I do use my phone as an entertainment hub instead of a communication device, tones of songs and 4-5 movies fill up my phone.
16 wasn't enough for me. 32 may have been OK.
I have the 16GB and a Meenova USB OTG micro-SD card reader. Works nicely with Lollipop so far. (I have StickMount Pro; not sure if it's necessary but I bought it for KitKat.)
How much space does lollipop take up on the phone?
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How much space does lollipop take up on the phone?
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It takes nothing out of storage. Storage refers to the /data partition. ROM sits in /system partition. They're fixed sizes so it.doesn't matter how.much lollipop takes up
If you genuinely want to.understand, you can go to sticky roll-up in my signature then look for the storage thread.
Ok will do, thanks a lot!

[Q] Is 16 GB enough

Hey guys,
was wondering what you all think about 16GB as internal space being enough or not? The problem that I'm thinking of is that "/sdcard" will get mapped to the internal memory (and not the external SD Card), and a lot of apps just go there to write stuff. Things like downloads folder etc., which default to /sdcard/download and may fill up the 16GB partition very soon.
What are your experiences in this direction?
thanks
Personaly for me its far too litle ,cuz i have got a lot of differents app ,also 4K video and timeshift video eat unimaginable amount of space
I believe Lollipop will allow you to save app data to an external storage.
Well there's at least a decent amount of onboard memory. I got by with a 32gb card for the past 3 years. Just noe upgraded to 64gb heading into my Z3v. I really only use it for old pics (from phone to phone) and keeping my entire music library on me at all times, which is like 12 gbs.
It's nice to know I'll never be worrying for space.
abhinav.tella said:
I believe Lollipop will allow you to save app data to an external storage.
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Even then, the difference of write/read speeds is massive between internal memory vs external SD card. I believe 32 GB should be the bare minimum for today's smartphones. Glad T Mobile thought so as well, at least for the Z3.
Artood2s said:
Even then, the difference of write/read speeds is massive between internal memory vs external SD card. I believe 32 GB should be the bare minimum for today's smartphones. Glad T Mobile thought so as well, at least for the Z3.
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If you get a good card like the Samsung Pro or SandDisk Extreme you won't notice much difference (40-50 MB/s Writes). The internal flash (made by Samsung) is obviously faster due being soldered and more inter connects (like RAID).
Cheap cards like the Sandisk Ultra are slow.... (10-15MB/s Writes)
abhinav.tella said:
If you get a good card like the Samsung Pro or SandDisk Extreme you won't notice much difference (40-50 MB/s Writes). The internal flash (made by Samsung) is obviously faster due being soldered and more inter connects (like RAID).
Cheap cards like the Sandisk Ultra are slow.... (10-15MB/s Writes)
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The internal memory is like 200+ MB/s, so there is still a BIG difference. Also, I don't believe the memory controller can read the full potential of the Pro and Extreme cards. I have a 64 GB Ultra (advertised at 48 MB/s read), and I only get about 39 MB/s read. I have read the same for the Note 4 in that it cannot use the full speed available from those cards.
Artood2s said:
The internal memory is like 200+ MB/s, so there is still a BIG difference. Also, I don't believe the memory controller can read the full potential of the Pro and Extreme cards. I have a 64 GB Ultra (advertised at 48 MB/s read), and I only get about 39 MB/s read. I have read the same for the Note 4 in that it cannot use the full speed available from those cards.
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True on both points, the card controller max is like 40-50MB/s. What I meant was I don't think you will notice much difference because, for most apps it should be fast enough and caching is still generally in the internal card. Loading big games like Asphalt may load a little slower but in use, it should not be too bad. Internal is ~240/40(R/W) Max for the klmag2geac-b001 (16GB) and 240/60 (R/W) for the 32 GB version in the D6616.
The reads are not the problem as most ops are reads anyway, but its the writes which are really low ~15 MB/s max, hence the cost of the Extreme/PRO 35-40 MB/s.
Basically what I am saying is you are right but this is your best bet.
Here is the specifications for the internal NAND if you are interested:

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