solaris9123
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I have recently bought a Motorola Moto G, XT1028 on Verizon.
When I bought this phone, I was told It had 8 GB total of internal memory.
Now I understand that includes space for the operating system and all of its components, but I'm getting screwed!
My phone has 8gb of memory, but in reality I have access to about half that. I don't even have enough room for the basic things I want on here because of the way the disk is partitioned and I want to know how I can fix it?
First of all, out of the 8 GB, Android has 5.5gb available to the user. That means the operating system is using nearly 3 damn gig. How is this? When the entire Android .ISO image is only 700mb AT MOST? The OS only needs roughly 1-1.5gb of space for itself and its taking twice that. On top of the OS taking 2 and a half gig of my very limited rations; the apps are reportedly using 1.75gb. This also doesn't make sense as I know that can't be true. I have nothing installed apart from the stockware that Motorola shipped, and even still, apps are megabytes in size. If there were 300 apps on here at 30mb apiece, it'd only be using 900mb.
One thing I have done was I switched from the dalvik runtime to ART in hopes it would lighten up its memory consumption, but perhaps a lot of that app data is files left over from dalvik? Or the ART just takes unruly amounts of memory?
The OS is using nearly 3 GB, the app data is using nearly 2, so all-in-all, I have 3 gigabytes available for MY files? what do I do about this?
Out of an 8 gig SD card, the OS, all its data, bootloader, recovery and all apps should not use more than 2 GB. how can I repartition the disk, or delete some of that outrageous app data to gain back my memory card?
When I bought this phone, I was told It had 8 GB total of internal memory.
Now I understand that includes space for the operating system and all of its components, but I'm getting screwed!
My phone has 8gb of memory, but in reality I have access to about half that. I don't even have enough room for the basic things I want on here because of the way the disk is partitioned and I want to know how I can fix it?
First of all, out of the 8 GB, Android has 5.5gb available to the user. That means the operating system is using nearly 3 damn gig. How is this? When the entire Android .ISO image is only 700mb AT MOST? The OS only needs roughly 1-1.5gb of space for itself and its taking twice that. On top of the OS taking 2 and a half gig of my very limited rations; the apps are reportedly using 1.75gb. This also doesn't make sense as I know that can't be true. I have nothing installed apart from the stockware that Motorola shipped, and even still, apps are megabytes in size. If there were 300 apps on here at 30mb apiece, it'd only be using 900mb.
One thing I have done was I switched from the dalvik runtime to ART in hopes it would lighten up its memory consumption, but perhaps a lot of that app data is files left over from dalvik? Or the ART just takes unruly amounts of memory?
The OS is using nearly 3 GB, the app data is using nearly 2, so all-in-all, I have 3 gigabytes available for MY files? what do I do about this?
Out of an 8 gig SD card, the OS, all its data, bootloader, recovery and all apps should not use more than 2 GB. how can I repartition the disk, or delete some of that outrageous app data to gain back my memory card?
