r2d20758 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 When I check my Sd card space, which is 1.86 GB it says I have 1.46 GB avaliable space. When I check SD card storage used by apps. it says 467Mb used and only 52.29MB free. Any ideas??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abby Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 You must have something else other than the apps stored on the card. Maybe you have pictures videos or mp3s which are taking up the other 500MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Have you tried to format the card and see the results? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2d20758 Posted February 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 You must have something else other than the apps stored on the card. Maybe you have pictures videos or mp3s which are taking up the other 500MB. Â I only have maybe 10 pixs and about 30 mp3s! i don't understand why storage space says only 52MB free when card is 1.86 GB. 467(used) plus 52(free)this equals a little over 500MB. There should be over 1.8GB free?? Thanks 4 advice guys, any other ideas?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2d20758 Posted February 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 When I check my Sd card space, which is 1.86 GB it says I have 1.46 GB avaliable space. When I check SD card storage used by apps. it says 467Mb used and only 52.29MB free. Any ideas??? Â I just got from my carrier to see if they had an explanation and heres what they told me. The way the Android system works is that it allocates 500MB for apps and operating system and the others 1.44GB are free for pixs, videos, mp3s etc. I only have about 20 apps on phone leaving me 52MB for extra apps which isnt a hell of alot of space for apps. Kind of a @#$%*!ed up system if you ask me!! You would think that a 2GB card would be able to use the whole friggin thing as 1 storage device. Next phone will be an iphone!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Abby Posted April 2, 2012 Solution Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 I don't use Android but spoke to a friend who does. He explained that confusingly android refers to internal memory as SD storage. So when you check the SD card space and it says 1.46GB available you are checking the external SD card that you fitted. when it says only 52.29MB available android is referring to the internal memory. He has never heard of allocating 500MB for apps though but he has heard of some apps that write cache files all over your SD card using up and wasting the space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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