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2023 calling - According to this Ars article from 3 days ago the Galaxy S23 install size is 4x that of stock Android. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/t

2023 calling - According to this Ars article from 3 days ago the Galaxy S23 install size is 4x that of stock Android. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/the-samsung-galaxy-s23s-bloated-android-build-somehow-uses-60gb-of-storage/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/the-samsung-galaxy-s... It's not that comforting just being able to uninstall/disable things after paying ~$1000 for hardware loaded with apps that benefit everyone but the customer.

roneythomas6 4y ago
That's because Ars didn't do proper investigation into how storage is computed. One UI reports storage conversion losses associated with representing 1,024 bytes per KB as 1,000 bytes per KB. For example, a device advertised with 512 GB of storage actually has closer to 476 GB (GiB) of usable space. Likewise, a 128 GB model has approximately 119 GB of storage, with 256 GB yielding 238 GB of space. Basically, higher the storage size, more the inaccuracies and more number of ghost storage will appear in system. It does this because [Android basically computes](https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1622706823940698114?s=20&t=wkJP0D2paCpJnt0Kzkr-mA https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1622706823940698114...) all files 'f' and empty size 'e' separately and finds the difference of given total size and (f+e) and assigns that to system. https://twitter.com/Golden_Reviewer/status/1622851534563471360 https://twitter.com/Golden_Reviewer/status/16228515345634713... https://www.notebookcheck.net/One-UI-5-1-bloatware-is-not-consuming-60-GB-storage-on-new-Samsung-Galaxy-S23-Galaxy-S23-Plus-or-Galaxy-S23-Ultra.692149.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/One-UI-5-1-bloatware-is-not-co...
jamiek88 4y ago
SIXTY GIGABYTES? Holy moly that’s crazy. That’s three full 64bit win10 installs! It doesn’t even have the a/b partitions! Which is just as well at 60GB!
- satvikpendem 4y ago
  That's because the article is wrong, as the sibling comment shows.

roneythomas6 4y ago

That's because Ars didn't do proper investigation into how storage is computed. One UI reports storage conversion losses associated with representing 1,024 bytes per KB as 1,000 bytes per KB. For example, a device advertised with 512 GB of storage actually has closer to 476 GB (GiB) of usable space. Likewise, a 128 GB model has approximately 119 GB of storage, with 256 GB yielding 238 GB of space. Basically, higher the storage size, more the inaccuracies and more number of ghost storage will appear in system. It does this because [Android basically computes](https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1622706823940698114?s=20&t=wkJP0D2paCpJnt0Kzkr-mA https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1622706823940698114...) all files 'f' and empty size 'e' separately and finds the difference of given total size and (f+e) and assigns that to system. https://twitter.com/Golden_Reviewer/status/1622851534563471360 https://twitter.com/Golden_Reviewer/status/16228515345634713... https://www.notebookcheck.net/One-UI-5-1-bloatware-is-not-consuming-60-GB-storage-on-new-Samsung-Galaxy-S23-Galaxy-S23-Plus-or-Galaxy-S23-Ultra.692149.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/One-UI-5-1-bloatware-is-not-co...

jamiek88 4y ago

SIXTY GIGABYTES? Holy moly that’s crazy. That’s three full 64bit win10 installs! It doesn’t even have the a/b partitions! Which is just as well at 60GB!

satvikpendem 4y ago
That's because the article is wrong, as the sibling comment shows.