You're right...technically, it's not broken, but the current state is not useful to the customer.
I have an HTC EVO 3D, which I love because of the 3-D camera, but it has only 2G of main memory, which is fine...if you're HTC and you don't run any apps!
I bought a 64G SD card to get around that limitation.
[table="width: 500"]
[tr]
[th]Partition:[/th]
[th]Total[/th]
[th]Avail[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Main[/td]
[td]2G[/td]
[td]150M[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]SD Card[/td]
[td]64G[/td]
[td]32G[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
I have over 16 times the free memory on my SD card as the entire size of the "internal" memory, but most apps won't make use of it!
Only a handful of apps are made to run on the SD card. Most developers don't seem to take the time to make their apps work on either partition, so the customer is left with the hard choice of what to keep and what to throw away. Even that choice is made difficult with no good tools to show what space app uses on each partition, and how much of the app's storage is the program vs the user's useful data!
If I look in the Settings/Apps, Firefox is the largest, taking up 97.31MB (according to according to System/Apps/All) or 23.75MB (according to AppMonster Pro) or 25.44 (according to System/Apps/SD Card) or 123MB (according to System/Apps/All/press-for-details):
[table="width: 500"]
[tr]
[th]Category[/th]
[th]Size[/th]
[th]Percent[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Total[/td]
[td]123MB[/td]
[td]100%[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]App[/td]
[td]2.45MB[/td]
[td]2%[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]USB storage app[/td]
[td]25.44MB[/td]
[td]21%[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Data[/td]
[td]94.86MB[/td]
[td]77%[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]SD Card[/td]
[td]0.00B[/td]
[td]0%[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
Okay, none of Firefox' memory is on the SD card, and 94MB is data...but what data? If I trash the data, do I lose my bookmarks? passwords? certificates? useful cookies? harmful cookies? add-ons?
I have an HTC EVO 3D, which I love because of the 3-D camera, but it has only 2G of main memory, which is fine...if you're HTC and you don't run any apps!
I bought a 64G SD card to get around that limitation.
[table="width: 500"]
[tr]
[th]Partition:[/th]
[th]Total[/th]
[th]Avail[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Main[/td]
[td]2G[/td]
[td]150M[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]SD Card[/td]
[td]64G[/td]
[td]32G[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
I have over 16 times the free memory on my SD card as the entire size of the "internal" memory, but most apps won't make use of it!
Only a handful of apps are made to run on the SD card. Most developers don't seem to take the time to make their apps work on either partition, so the customer is left with the hard choice of what to keep and what to throw away. Even that choice is made difficult with no good tools to show what space app uses on each partition, and how much of the app's storage is the program vs the user's useful data!
If I look in the Settings/Apps, Firefox is the largest, taking up 97.31MB (according to according to System/Apps/All) or 23.75MB (according to AppMonster Pro) or 25.44 (according to System/Apps/SD Card) or 123MB (according to System/Apps/All/press-for-details):
[table="width: 500"]
[tr]
[th]Category[/th]
[th]Size[/th]
[th]Percent[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Total[/td]
[td]123MB[/td]
[td]100%[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]App[/td]
[td]2.45MB[/td]
[td]2%[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]USB storage app[/td]
[td]25.44MB[/td]
[td]21%[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Data[/td]
[td]94.86MB[/td]
[td]77%[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]SD Card[/td]
[td]0.00B[/td]
[td]0%[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
Okay, none of Firefox' memory is on the SD card, and 94MB is data...but what data? If I trash the data, do I lose my bookmarks? passwords? certificates? useful cookies? harmful cookies? add-ons?
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