Huawei internal storage help?

[NafeesAhmed]

hello dear android users, i have a huawei ascend y300 phone and it has a 4gb built-in storage but where it is?
1 gb for apps and 1 gb for other data where is the rest of the storage ?
please help me i am very confused

 

[eugenerudenko]

First of all, 4 Gb internal storage doesn't mean that you'll have exactly 4 Gb at your disposal. Then, check "Settings - Memory". How much internal memory does it display?

 

[SiempreTuna]

As Eugene says, you won't see 4GB of storage. I'm surprised you actually see as much as you do!

Some of the 4GB is 'lost' in formatting - just like on your PC - but the biggest space hog is Android itself, which takes up quite a chunk of space.

On my 16GB Nexus I have 12.92GB available which suggests that the version of Android on my phone effectively takes around 3GB (I believe, strictly speaking its less, but 16 minus 13 is 3 )

 

[bubkusjones]

Yeah, that's an advertising "trick" that all storage devices use. The 4gb is the total unformatted space. Once it's formatted, a portion is used for the filesystem data (to tell programs where files are located on the drive). After that, a portion is used for the OS.

Between those, can lose up to a gig of space. My Huawei is set up similar. Four GB total, 2gb set aside for the emulated "SD Card", 377mb for the "system" partition, 882mb for the internal storage/app space (/data), 128mb for the cache. That's around 3.4gb total.