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[Q] 16 GB internal storage...?

Hi guys.....got my new Note 2 which i love. 16GB internal storage only shows as 10.46GB available to use on phone, is this right ?
I know storage is kept for system etc but nearly 6GB.......seems a lot to me.
Wish downloaded games could be moved to my 64GB removable card as all my internal now full, if 10.46 available out of the box is right its a bit misleading to sell it as 16 GB.
Cheers Paul

On Og note, 2 gb of '16gb' was reserved for apps, 10+gb were for user storage and rest for system/ what nots . Not sure what the amount is on note2 but most likely the same.
from a galaxy far far away....

tall-android said:
Hi guys.....got my new Note 2 which i love. 16GB internal storage only shows as 10.46GB available to use on phone, is this right ?
I know storage is kept for system etc but nearly 6GB.......seems a lot to me.
Wish downloaded games could be moved to my 64GB removable card as all my internal now full, if 10.46 available out of the box is right its a bit misleading to sell it as 16 GB.
Cheers Paul
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Mine has the same storage size as well..

its not quite misleading...
its a standard. pick ANY android in market, if it has 32 gb space, the user available space will be 25 gb. and 10 or 11 gb on a 16 gb device...
its not even an android-only limit. even iPhones have that...

[Q] Storage space?

I got my (allegedly) 16GB Note 2 on Saturday and installed loads of stuff, including some pretty big Gameloft games. When I go into Storage from the Settings it says that my device memory has total space of 10.36GB with 2.98GB of it left. The fact that 7.38Gb is used up is probably about right given all the large games I've got on there, but why is the total space only reporting as 10.36GB when it's a 16GB model I bought? I'd expect some space to be used up by the OS itself and the various protected system partitions that come with it obviously, but does Jellybean really consume the GBs of space that make the difference between the 10.36GB reported and the 16GB that should be on there?
I used a disk info app to see what was going on and have attached a screenshot of it's output. I'm not sure what the difference is between the Data and SD card partitions there. Note that I do have a proper external SD card in the phone but it's only 2GB and so isn't any of those partitions. Anyone know what I'm seeing here and where my 16GB has gone?

Yes, this is the available amount of of space you get in this phone.
Its not just this phone! Any phone you get from market will have less user-available storage.
One X is said to be 32 gb but you can use only 25 gb
Here is a mod whoch can increase your space to around a bit above 11 gb http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1931500
Any 16 gb phone made has around this much user available space rest is OS and other stuff.
HINT: buy a 32 gb memory card? it will replace your internal memory card need exactl as if it was internal memory storage.
How? You can transfer all apps to SD Card using titanium backup so your phone memory and SD card memory is basically unified.

Read this: http://compreviews.about.com/od/storage/a/ActualHDSizes.htm
Partitions of the SGS III (I assume pretty much the same in Note II):
/system: 1G
/data: 11G (shared with /sdcard)
/cache: 1G
Add to this space required by OS and installed apps.

Kiahnlliya said:
Partitions of the SGS III (I assume pretty much the same in Note II):
/system: 1G
/data: 11G (shared with /sdcard)
/cache: 1G
Add to this space required by OS and installed apps.
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The 'Advertised vs actual' factor as described in that article would take just over 1GB away from a 16GB start (70.3 MB x 16 = 1.12GB).
Adding in the Cache, System and Data/SD Card values from my screenshot would take us up to 13-and-a-bit GB. (1.12 GB + 1GB + 1GB + 10GB = 13.12GB)
The System partition hold the OS and any other baked in stuff (as I understand it) so where's the other 2-and-a-bit GB?
I'm sure it's all explainable so I'm just curious to know how this works. I thought I remembered having more free space on my previous Note and the GSII before it (both of which were advertised as 16GB) but perhaps I'm misremembering.

Medulla said:
The 'Advertised vs actual' factor as described in that article would take just over 1GB away from a 16GB start (70.3 MB x 16 = 1.12GB).
Adding in the Cache, System and Data/SD Card values from my screenshot would take us up to 13-and-a-bit GB. (1.12 GB + 1GB + 1GB + 10GB = 13.12GB)
The System partition hold the OS and any other baked in stuff (as I understand it) so where's the other 2-and-a-bit GB?
I'm sure it's all explainable so I'm just curious to know how this works. I thought I remembered having more free space on my previous Note and the GSII before it (both of which were advertised as 16GB) but perhaps I'm misremembering.
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It would be interesting to get a clear answer for sure... I have a 64GB SDXC with 30GB free space on it and I can't think of anything else I would need that isn't already on there, I couldn't fill it up even if I tried. Also I still have 8GB free on my internal...
I don't listen to music on my phone, I have a dedicated player for that, so that's why I don't need tons of space... and that's why I don't really reflect on these things, but am a bit curious indeed about why the available space is so much less than 16GB.

Kiahnlliya said:
It would be interesting to get a clear answer for sure... I have a 64GB SDXC with 30GB free space on it and I can't think of anything else I would need that isn't already on there, I couldn't fill it up even if I tried. Also I still have 8GB free on my internal...
I don't listen to music on my phone, I have a dedicated player for that, so that's why I don't need tons of space... and that's why I don't really reflect on these things, but am a bit curious indeed about why the available space is so much less than 16GB.
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My usage is pretty much the same as yours (external SD card with a few things on it and separate dedicated mp3 player) so it's not something I'd usually notice either. The only reason I've clocked it this time is because I bought a few GB and bigger sized games in the recent 25p Google Play store all of which I've installed as soon as I set the phone up on Saturday; whereas usually I'd install one 'proper' game and only install a new one when I'd finished the last one. So, as such, this is probably about as full as my phone will ever be and not something that'll cause any problems, but it would be good to understand what's going on here.

[Q] Actual storage on 16GB version???

If there is anyone out there who has the 16GB version, how much of the storage is actually left for apps to be installed as apps2sd hasn't been included in Jellybean and I don't really want to do any rooting or directory binding.
I know that the 32GB AT&T version has only 23GB left over and I'm hoping that at least 1-2GB of that is special AT&T features and apps as I don't think that having only 7GB left on the 16GB version would be enough, especially because I want apps like GTA etc.
Thanks

My E986 has about 10.1GB left for apps and data, I don't know about other models.

Thanks
The model I'm probably going to buy is the E988 but I can't see them being that much different.

Same internal allocation on E988...10.1Gb

10,1 Gb too , e989
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