Internal vs expandable phone memory question

[steelrain82]

Are you sure about that? I dont think that is right. Looking at my Galaxy S5, 4.51Gb is being used by system, 2.46Gb is used space(apps?), 189mb cached, 291mb miscellaneous files and have 8.56Gb free. I have several apps installed but was only able to move some of them to my memory card.

You are right. Pre release it had 8 gb of available memory. Released has 10Gb of available memory. Stil not much memory

[SNCaliber]

My LG G2 has 32 gb of internal storage, but I think that's all I need since I don't put music on my phone

[glock_this]

Are you sure about that? I dont think that is right. Looking at my Galaxy S5, 4.51Gb is being used by system, 2.46Gb is used space(apps?), 189mb cached, 291mb miscellaneous files and have 8.56Gb free. I have several apps installed but was only able to move some of them to my memory card.

You are right. Pre release it had 8 gb of available memory. Released has 10Gb of available memory. Still not much memory

I think the greater point still stands. Whatever internal gb of memory you get, a portion - often a pretty significant portion - is taken by the OS and preinstalled nonsense. AND, how much is taken up also depends on the provider. For example, VZW is known to jam so much bloatware onto their phones, they might actually take 7-8gb whereas ATT might only take 4-5gb.

Either way, in this day and age with all of the apps people load and data they collect, I think 16g is laughable as a base start. Kind of like phones that only do 1gb or less of RAM. Please.

[glock_this]

Thanks glock_this. I'll patiently wait to see if/when a 32gb s5 is released and I'll jump right on it.

Cool.. ping me if you need more info. 32gb is the way to go for sure, make the rest up with an external card for media and such. The more apps you run on the phone, and not move to the SD, the better as the transfer speed from SD card to phone is a bottleneck so I try to leave most apps on the phone and shunt media and downloads such over to the SD card.

Just FYI.. I have a 32gb SGS3 (I am waiting to see what comes after the SGS5 actually). I only have 7.5gb left internally and I keep a very, very clean phone: have moved some apps over, deleted some bloatware, don't store endless media on my phone. So the point is, on a pretty clean bloat free phone, I have already accounted for 24.5gb usage of internal mem! If I had a 16gb, I would be screwed or really have to watch my storage even closer. A 32gb gives nice breathing room.

[Bastard]

forget the Galaxy & get a Nexus!!! though I really like the Samsungs their build quality - fit & finish is a bit lacking.

[Bumslie]

forget the Galaxy & get a Nexus!!! though I really like the Samsungs their build quality - fit & finish is a bit lacking.

I really want a phone with a removable battery this time around.

[glock_this]

Phones should simply not be made without removable batteries. Period.

- pulling batteries can do a soft reset if issues arise
- spare batteries for travel
- replace batteries, on your own, after 1-2 years, without sending a phone in to a manufacturer and the loss of use, time and risk and cost associated with doing so

[Bumslie]

After having to charge my stupid iPhone in the men's bathroom while I was at shotshow this year, yeah I want a spare battery for events like this.

[ToxicWaste]

Adding memory to your phone probably will not affect its performance, consider it as adding a bigger hard drive to a computer. You will have more storage, but probably nor increased performance.

[Bastard]

After having to charge my stupid iPhone in the men's bathroom while I was at shotshow this year, yeah I want a spare battery for events like this.

you mean that you don't carry around one of those hand crank cell phone chargers with you where ever you go... yeah I don't either.

[e90bmw]

I make a living on a Mac. I have for 15+ years. I think they are the best computers made.

I ONLY use Android phones and always have. Android is open platform so I can root and mod and sideload and tweak it as I like.

I have zero issues marrying the 2 so.. that is a non issue.

What he said.
Same here. Only Mac's but I have owned plenty of Android phones.
Never an iPhone.

Internal vs MicroSD card.
With Android 4.4 it's a little tricky since applications get walled access to the card. Apps will only be able to write where they have created the directory/folder. They should be able to read other places though.
This will create an issue if you use multiple camera apps and they all want to store in the root area of the SD in a place called "DCIM".

As long as you don't use multiple apps that want to write the same place on the SD you will be fine.

[glock_this]

If you learn to "root" your phone, a whole different topic, you can rectify and address virtually any app being on the SD card and where it stores/read/writes data from.

I have rooted every Android phone I have ever had and many for many people. It changes the whole landscape of what you can do with an Android phone and opens a whole new world and allows features and functions not native to the OS - like freezing apps (system of 3rd party), deleting bloatware apps, blocking apps that use data, moving system apps to an SD card, changing locations of where data by an app is saved.. rooting opens up a virtually endless set of customizations and functions never cooked into the Android OS or turns on functions and abilities cooked in but never turned on.

[Bumslie]

I've rooted androids for my friends years ago, I used to jail break every iOS I had too until recently. I never utilized it enough to put in the effort, which is minimal I know.

[2DoorImpala]

I use different camera apps and they all save on my SD card, I haven't ran into same folder name. All the apps I use create a folder with the app name.
I just bought 2 extra batteries and a charger for $30 bucks for my note 3. it lasts me on each battery 2 days with minimal use or a day with heavy use. I keep a charged battery at work and the other one I carry on my pocket