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Android app is on the market. Note it eats 8MB of phone memory and can't be moved to SD.

cryptoz 15y ago
Are you really concerned about 8MB? Are there even Android phones on the market today that ship with less than 8GB of space?
- ben1040 15y ago
  By default, Android phones store apps on an onboard storage location that is separate from the SD card. On some older phones there is not a whole lot of space here. For example it didn't take a whole lot at all for me to fill up my Nexus One's app partition. It wasn't until 2.2 that the option to move apps to a encrypted location on the SD card was added, and even then it's an option that has to be enabled by the developer who released the app. Newer phones these days have more onboard space and this shouldn't be nearly as big an issue. I upgraded to an HTC Thunderbolt on Saturday and it has roughly 2GB available for onboard apps.
  - pohl 15y ago
    Wow, why do they make the user manage this at all? The distinction sounds like an enormous misfeature to me.
    - afterburner 15y ago
      It's one of the things that dissuaded me from getting an HTC Android phone two years ago (got an iPhone with 32GB instead). I'm glad they're moving towards fixing it.
- dpcan 15y ago
  That ship? Maybe not, but my 1.5 year old G1 is full and I'll have it for a while still.
- Lewisham 15y ago
  My Optimus V has a tiny amount of on-board space, so 8MBs is actually a big deal. Some apps can't move to the SD card, moving there means things like notifications from that app won't work any more. It's a terrible architectural decision, but my understanding is that it is a limitation of the VM, so they're stuck with it now.
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- mikemaccana 15y ago
  > Are you really concerned about 8MB? Are there even Android phones on the market today that ship with less than 8GB of space? I have a brand new Samsung Galaxy S II. It's a 500 GBP (800 USD) phone. It has 2GB of memory. The first gen and second gen android phones (which may be less than a year old) typically have 128 and 512 MB. So yes, having 8MB x (amount of apps that can't be stored on SD) taken from memory until you uninstall the app is huge.
wccrawford 15y ago
I love how the ratings are all about being able to download it, but not use it.
- dpcan 15y ago
  +100 I just hope that Google will see this and internally realize what's ACTUALLY broken in the Android Market and solve the real problems that exist. I REALLY hope they see these comments and think "I sure wish there were a way to communicate with my users...." Which is a problem all of the Market publishers have been complaining about for over a year.

Are you really concerned about 8MB? Are there even Android phones on the market today that ship with less than 8GB of space?

ben1040 15y ago
By default, Android phones store apps on an onboard storage location that is separate from the SD card. On some older phones there is not a whole lot of space here. For example it didn't take a whole lot at all for me to fill up my Nexus One's app partition. It wasn't until 2.2 that the option to move apps to a encrypted location on the SD card was added, and even then it's an option that has to be enabled by the developer who released the app. Newer phones these days have more onboard space and this shouldn't be nearly as big an issue. I upgraded to an HTC Thunderbolt on Saturday and it has roughly 2GB available for onboard apps.
- pohl 15y ago
  Wow, why do they make the user manage this at all? The distinction sounds like an enormous misfeature to me.
  - afterburner 15y ago
    It's one of the things that dissuaded me from getting an HTC Android phone two years ago (got an iPhone with 32GB instead). I'm glad they're moving towards fixing it.
dpcan 15y ago
That ship? Maybe not, but my 1.5 year old G1 is full and I'll have it for a while still.
Lewisham 15y ago
My Optimus V has a tiny amount of on-board space, so 8MBs is actually a big deal. Some apps can't move to the SD card, moving there means things like notifications from that app won't work any more. It's a terrible architectural decision, but my understanding is that it is a limitation of the VM, so they're stuck with it now.
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mikemaccana 15y ago
> Are you really concerned about 8MB? Are there even Android phones on the market today that ship with less than 8GB of space? I have a brand new Samsung Galaxy S II. It's a 500 GBP (800 USD) phone. It has 2GB of memory. The first gen and second gen android phones (which may be less than a year old) typically have 128 and 512 MB. So yes, having 8MB x (amount of apps that can't be stored on SD) taken from memory until you uninstall the app is huge.

wccrawford 15y ago

I love how the ratings are all about being able to download it, but not use it.

dpcan 15y ago
+100 I just hope that Google will see this and internally realize what's ACTUALLY broken in the Android Market and solve the real problems that exist. I REALLY hope they see these comments and think "I sure wish there were a way to communicate with my users...." Which is a problem all of the Market publishers have been complaining about for over a year.