Internal Phone Storage 2.5 gb

[Fhiz]

its not like they gave us a 32gb card or anything...

 

[RkyMtnHigh]

Yeah, it does have Rock Band and I think "Let's Golf 2".

Ahhhh. I smell a root coming on if I decide to keep one. I'm telling you though, this Desire 4G is ****ing nice. I guess the TB is closer to one of these than the Evo spec wise. TB is better though. If we can get ours to work.

 

[jcastag]

no, they didnt GIVE us a 32GB card, we paid for it in the price of the phone. and the point is that they advertise 8GB memory, so thats what is should be (or close after formatting). 2GB is not even close to 8GB.

The main problem here though is that if we could remove all the VZW bloatware then I would not care, but the fact that they lock all of it in makes it unacceptable!!

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

Ahhhh. I smell a root coming on if I decide to keep one. I'm telling you though, this Desire 4G is ****ing nice. I guess the TB is closer to one of these than the Evo spec wise. TB is better though. If we can get ours to work.

Actually Rock Band doesn't take up that much space. Let's Golf 2 does, but the items that take up a ton of space are VZ Navigator, BlockBuster, and Quickoffice.

 

[asianrage]

no, they didnt GIVE us a 32GB card, we paid for it in the price of the phone. and the point is that they advertise 8GB memory, so thats what is should be (or close after formatting). 2GB is not even close to 8GB.

The main problem here though is that if we could remove all the VZW bloatware then I would not care, but the fact that they lock all of it in makes it unacceptable!!

So, ideally, you will have the same problem with Apple advertising 16GB iPhone and not delivering 16GB of storage, right?

Point is that 8GB of storage came with the phone for use with everything. Important thing to notice is that the 32GB card came to you INSTALLED in the phone (right?), not as something that you had to load yourself. So in away, you did pay for a 40GB phone.

 

[MannyZ28]

The reason why people should care is because you can't install Apps directly to the SD card, only parts of the apps can be moved to the sd card. Every app will take up room on the internal memory, luckily they don't use that much. I would be jumping for joy if my Evo had 2.5 GB of memory, that's plenty for app storage, I have to make due with only around 300, and of that, after a major cleaning, I only have less than 100 left!

So yeah, in a way you should care about how much internal memory is available, but then again, considering how little of it needs to be used for apps, 2.5 gb should go a long way.

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

The reason why people should care is because you can't install Apps directly to the SD card, only parts of the apps can be moved to the sd card. Every app will take up room on the internal memory, luckily they don't use that much. I would be jumping for joy if my Evo had 2.5 GB of memory, that's plenty for app storage, I have to make due with only around 300, and of that, after a major cleaning, I only have less than 100 left!

So yeah, in a way you should care about how much internal memory is available, but then again, considering how little of it needs to be used for apps, 2.5 gb should go a long way.

And I came from a Storm one which had 128 MB for apps, so even 2.5 GB is absolutely ridiculous for me.

 

[RkyMtnHigh]

Actually Rock Band doesn't take up that much space. Let's Golf 2 does, but the items that take up a ton of space are VZ Navigator, BlockBuster, and Quickoffice.

Quick office is only 4mb on all the other phones here, and Google nav and Telenav are in the 2mb range. How big is the verizon nav and quick office on the Bolt?

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

Quick office is only 4mb on all the other phones here, and Google nav and Telenav are in the 2mb range. How big is the verizon nav and quick office on the Bolt?

VZ nav is 3.46 MB and Quickoffice is 5.06 MB. Then you have V Cast Apps that takes up 1.02 MB and V Cast Media Manager that takes up 1.93 MB.

 

[dubge]

I have no problem with them putting things on the phone, hell, use up all 8 gig if you want BUT let me uninstall what I dont want/need on my phone, plain and simple! I have never used nor will I EVER use VZ nav, V cast and I would have to lump V cast media manager into that as well now. Do they think by locking it on the phone people will be like, oh well I might as well use it.....that would give me more of a reason NOT to use it!

 

[SoraKy]

And I came from a Storm one which had 128 MB for apps, so even 2.5 GB is absolutely ridiculous for me.

Give this man a cookie.

 

[htowngator]

I would bet that its just provisioned that way and there's not really 5-6 GB of used space for bloatware.

 

[gunmetalgr3g]

Did not want to go through the whole thread but first page you guys act shocked like VZW was going to give you all 40 gigs lol we knew this was going to happen ...

 

[asianrage]

I would bet that its just provisioned that way and there's not really 5-6 GB of used space for bloatware.

Wouldn't it be possible for them (HTC/VZ/Google/whoever) to reserve those 5-6GBs for operation/temp files and such? I'm a noob when it comes to Google and Android in general, so edumacate me, please.

 

[Mapex]

The internal memory is heavily partitioned. I assume once we get adb access we'll (hopefully) be able to undo a lot of the mess:

I would not be surprised if the partitions were done like computer OEMs do; that is, the partitions are there to keep a copy of the original factory software and default settings in case things go wrong, keeping you from needing to have to get the device serviced by VZW.

 

[inline6power]

how are you guys getting your pc to recognize your internal drive? all i can access on my computer is my sd card.

 

[akira751]

And I came from a Storm one which had 128 MB for apps, so even 2.5 GB is absolutely ridiculous for me.

I know I'm in haven

 

[androidburn]

Not a big deal, in my opinion. That's still 34GB to play with. Far more than any phone out of the box.

Too bad that the Incredible I used to have had 40 GB to play with and all 8GB to record videos without having to worry about stutter recording to the SD card. Big step down.

 

[O.G Incredible]

Actually Rock Band doesn't take up that much space. Let's Golf 2 does, but the items that take up a ton of space are VZ Navigator, BlockBuster, and Quickoffice.

Actually if u go to manage applications u will see that's not the case...Quick office is 5.06MB ......b-buster is 2.00MB and vz nav is only 3.46MB... Wheres the other 5.** GB?
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[moosc]

what is nice with DroidX we have 512 for OS 8gb for apps nothing else and my SD card 32gb

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