hmm how much bloat is on the Samsung GSIII?

[waggy]

i was err..on the toilet and messign with my phone. i just noticed out of the 16 gigs i have i have only 9 gigs free.

all i have installed are the 4 angry birds, glucose buddy (for diabites),carhome ultra, GPS status, and amazon kindle app.


wtf


heh should a got the 32 gig

 

[RockinZ28]

Been shooting video or something?

Im not on stock anymore, but dont remember it being that bad. I have over 12gb free on some CM10 rom. Get a microsd card, 32gb for under $20.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Put in a 32GB MicroSD memory card. problem solved!

 

[WelshBloke]

Put in a 64GB MicroSD memory card. problem solved!

FTFY

 

[dagamer34]

Man, you missed an awesome sale. 64GB microSDXC card for $50. Only problem is that Android isn't really designed to take advantage of having an microSD card installed without micro-managing your storage space. Google really doesn't want to support microSDs in Android anymore, with the last "Google" phone to support it being the Nexus One.

So while you can expand on storage with most Android phones, always get the most internal storage possible.

 

[waggy]

Put in a 32GB MicroSD memory card. problem solved!

i put in a 16 gb i had in my camera. might snag a 64 when the go sale again.

 

[shabby]

Samsung went cheap on internal memory recently, with the original galaxy s phone you had 16gb of internal memory and 2gb of extra memory for the os+apps. Now they take a 16gb chip(14.7gb usable) and take 3gb from it for os+apps and leave you with around 11.5gb. You have a microsd slot, might as well use it.

 

[SilthDraeth]

 

[Dari]

lol@OP.

 

[wirednuts]

thats funny

 

[rcpratt]

The glory of micro SD expansion.

 

[waggy]

LOL pwned!


hey..wait!

D:

The glory of micro SD expansion.

yeah gotta get a 64 when woot or something has them.

 

[Yuriman]

Yeah basically your 16gb of internal storage is actually 14.7gb after formatting and is further partitioned, with around 3gb set aside in a partition you (probably) can't see without rooting, as a previous poster mentioned.

 

[Oyeve]

Samsung went cheap on internal memory recently, with the original galaxy s phone you had 16gb of internal memory and 2gb of extra memory for the os+apps. Now they take a 16gb chip(14.7gb usable) and take 3gb from it for os+apps and leave you with around 11.5gb. You have a microsd slot, might as well use it.

I dont know about 3gb for apps as I am at 6gb for my installed apps.

 

[Zaap]

Non-issue for me due to the microSD slot. Have all the apps I need and use, quite a few games, and I've got 6GB left. Doesn't really alarm me, as I have little need to fill that additional 6GB unless I'm just installing a lot of crap beyond my needed stuff.

I wonder if the OP switched the camera app to record to SD and not internal? That's where a lot of space gets used up quick, specially with video.

 

[shabby]

I dont know about 3gb for apps as I am at 6gb for my installed apps.

Large apps are stored on your sd card and not on the internal app partition.

 

[Oyeve]

Large apps are stored on your sd card and not on the internal app partition.

I think apps will fill up the internal first. Excluding apps that specifically dump extra stuff to external. Hence app2sd doesn't work on the s3.

 

[waggy]

Non-issue for me due to the microSD slot. Have all the apps I need and use, quite a few games, and I've got 6GB left. Doesn't really alarm me, as I have little need to fill that additional 6GB unless I'm just installing a lot of crap beyond my needed stuff.

I wonder if the OP switched the camera app to record to SD and not internal? That's where a lot of space gets used up quick, specially with video.

i haven't done video.

though i did switch it to save to the SD card (16gig t hough its almost full since i also put on some music)

it solves my problem. i was just amazed how much stuff came with the Phone. also i noticed a TON of Verizon shit i don't use.

 

[zerogear]

i was err..on the toilet and messign with my phone. i just noticed out of the 16 gigs i have i have only 9 gigs free.

all i have installed are the 4 angry birds, glucose buddy (for diabites),carhome ultra, GPS status, and amazon kindle app.


wtf


heh should a got the 32 gig

The Android system (OS) shares the space as part of the 16GB. I wouldn't say there is too much bloat, unless AT&T/Carriers added a lot on. On my I9300, I have around 11GB OOB.

 

[Oyeve]

The Android system (OS) shares the space as part of the 16GB. I wouldn't say there is too much bloat, unless AT&T/Carriers added a lot on. On my I9300, I have around 11GB OOB.

My TMO sgs3 came with 73mbs of crap. Not a lot at all.

 

[PowerYoga]

about 10 gigs of bloat OOTB for verizon. I used a slimmed down rom that took out about 1-2 gigs of stuff but I guess the rest is just OS stuff.

 

[shabby]

I think apps will fill up the internal first. Excluding apps that specifically dump extra stuff to external. Hence app2sd doesn't work on the s3.

I guess it depends how the app is programmed, most large apps put majority of the data on the external sd.
I did notice a couple 100mb apps on my phone are on the internal parition, but some smaller ones are sent to the external.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I guess it depends how the app is programmed, most large apps put majority of the data on the external sd.
I did notice a couple 100mb apps on my phone are on the internal parition, but some smaller ones are sent to the external.

well you have to remember it's like 1gb internal now and the rest "SD". That SD portion includes internal storage that acts like an SD card.

You can then have additional stuff on an external SD card.

My SGS2 comes with 16gb. You get 1gb of space to install apps onto. Large data from apps usually gets pushed on to the SD card which is part of the 16gb internal.

The SD card is completely untouched unless you force installation there. That's because not all phones come with an SD card or even use an SD card.

 

[Raduque]

The GS3 doesn't have a unified internal storage?