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Something I have noticed about our app space.....

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SoupAssassin

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So according to Samsung our Galaxy Tabs are rocking a generous 2GB of application storage. This is excellent, and far far more than most any other Android device on the market.

Except we don't have 2GB of app space. We have more like 1,256mb. This is as reported by System Panel, as well as the storage section in the Android settings. This is still excellent, don't get me wrong; however clearly that is not 2GB.

Now I know that as far as RAM/ROM/Storage specs go - the Android platform hasn't always been exactly....honest. And much debate is had whether these commonly mismatched specs happen because of a software issue on Google's part, or flat out lies from the hardware manufacturers. For example, many Android phones with 512MB of RAM (Incredible, Evo, etc.) report as actually having about 444MB of RAM. I believe this has since been found to be a software issue.

So where is our other 3/4 a gig of app space? Is it a software issue? I kind of doubt it this time around. Instead, I believe it is one of two hardware issues - and sadly both entail Samsung kind of lying. Either the rest of the 2GB is used for ROM/Cache and such, meaning Samsung lied about the separate 512MB ROM memory supposed to be onboard. Or, Samsung just flat out lied and decided to advertise 1.25GB as 2GB.

I absolutely love my Tab, it is sick as hell. However I have to say I am a bit upset about this, because unless someone knows something I don't (which by all means, tell me), then Samsung has unnecessarily lied to us about something really not worth lying about.

Mine is a VZW Tab, btw. If yours is reporting something different, please state your carrier.
 
Which tab do you I have the Sprint and I had 1.5 free to start with... Obviously the rest being dedicated to system and preinstalled apps. This is normal.
 
I have the T-Mobile tab and this is what the SD card and tablet storage settings says:

Internal Memory: Total Space 12.66GB, Available space: 12.40GB
Internal Tablet Storage: 1.66GB
 
ladyc0524 said:
I have the T-Mobile tab and this is what the SD card and tablet storage settings says:

Internal Memory: Total Space 12.66GB, Available space: 12.40GB
Internal Tablet Storage: 1.66GB
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And to think, I thought Windows used too much drive space for formatting. Jees
 
I would agree that it is where our system files lie, however that shouldn't be the case. According to Samsung (and even posted on their own website in the Tab's specs) the Galaxy Tab has a dedicated 512MB ROM which is used for system files.

While, through the way data is measured, post formatting storage mediums usually report a small loss (though technically, the actual amount of storage is still the same, again it has to do with the way it is formatted and how the system reads it); I can not see how a 2GB medium would report 1.25GB after formatting. It just doesn't make any sense.

What I think happened is that that 512MB of ROM for system files is actually just ripped from the 2GB. My issue with this lies with the fact that Samsung is advertising the 512MB as separate from our 2GB of user storage.

So, in short, Samsung lied.
 
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