yellowcake
Newbie
A general question here guys: Is it better to install apps to the phone itself or SD card? I have a Samsung Galaxy S2.
Many thanks
YC
Many thanks
YC
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- Thread starter yellowcake
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chanchan05
The Doctor
Its not like you have much trouble anyway, there's 2-3gb phone memory for apps on an S2. You can have 200apps there and not even use all of that up.
chanchan05
The Doctor
@916x10
A Samsung Galaxy S-series phone (doesnt matter if S2, SL, S Plus, whatever), or basically any phone from Samsung with internal storage has that. The Galaxy S2 has a 16 or 32gb internal storage versions, if you go to the default task manager and go to storage tab, you will see 4 labels.
Internal Phone Storage - this will amount to about 1.87gb (could be larger on S2 than on my SL though). All your app installation goes here.
Personal Data - 72.27mb usually. This is where all your sms, mms (if not moved to gallery), emails, contacts etc. get saved.
Internal SD - could range from 1.52gb on a 4gb version of an SL to 29gb on the 32gb version of an S2
External SD- this is your external SD card.
As you can see, a Samsung phone with onboard storage has access to almost 2gb worth of app storage. I have about 170apps on my phone now(deleted some I stopped using), and I'm only used about 1.3gb of my internal app storage. Note that that amount already contains about 600mb worth of data for games, as apps generally are about 2mb in size or less. Its the game data that eats up space.
EDIT: Didnt you notice that no one owning a Galaxy S series phone has been complaining anywhere about too little app storage space?
A Samsung Galaxy S-series phone (doesnt matter if S2, SL, S Plus, whatever), or basically any phone from Samsung with internal storage has that. The Galaxy S2 has a 16 or 32gb internal storage versions, if you go to the default task manager and go to storage tab, you will see 4 labels.
Internal Phone Storage - this will amount to about 1.87gb (could be larger on S2 than on my SL though). All your app installation goes here.
Personal Data - 72.27mb usually. This is where all your sms, mms (if not moved to gallery), emails, contacts etc. get saved.
Internal SD - could range from 1.52gb on a 4gb version of an SL to 29gb on the 32gb version of an S2
External SD- this is your external SD card.
As you can see, a Samsung phone with onboard storage has access to almost 2gb worth of app storage. I have about 170apps on my phone now(deleted some I stopped using), and I'm only used about 1.3gb of my internal app storage. Note that that amount already contains about 600mb worth of data for games, as apps generally are about 2mb in size or less. Its the game data that eats up space.
EDIT: Didnt you notice that no one owning a Galaxy S series phone has been complaining anywhere about too little app storage space?
yellowcake
Newbie
Thanks guys. I just wondered in terms of performance if there were any gains to be had from either approach!
Cheers
YC
Cheers
YC