Help Internal Storage Question

[_-Jay-_]

Hey all. New to the photon. Everything i read tells me the Photon has 16gb of internal storage. However, when i go to the storage menu, it only shows 8.91gb of total storage and 2.8gb of application storage. Whats the deal? I would hate the fact that i bought a 16gb phone and cant use half the storage.

 

[floorguy]

unfortantly I think they did a stinker to us on this one....

cuz you read it right, the other half is "phone use"

the + to it though, is you can add up to a 32 gig card in it, which gives you 40...yay

 

[_-Jay-_]

Well that sucks

 

[drexappeal]

Hey all. New to the photon. Everything i read tells me the Photon has 16gb of internal storage. However, when i go to the storage menu, it only shows 8.91gb of total storage and 2.8gb of application storage. Whats the deal? I would hate the fact that i bought a 16gb phone and cant use half the storage.

It's been discussed several times, but the 16gb internal storage is partitioned accordingly:

8.92GB - Internal storage (apps moved to SD, files that user chooses to move there)
3GB - Apps storage only
4.08GB - OS and other apps directly connected for the phone's use and functionality.

Take for instance microSD cards. They don't have the full capacity available, after they're formatted. Usually, there's 1-2GB's taken away for the card to function properly. That's similar to where the extra 4.08GB is taken up.