4gb vs 8gb Devices

[mishtag]

When I bought my MK808b and MK802IIIs, I chose the 8gb thinking that I will have more storage for apps, picturs, and other files, but with all customs Rom, it leaves only 2gb for app which is good but what would be the advantage to buy 8gb over 4gb if at the end both of them will have same storage size 2gb?

[Finless]

Don't confuse APP space with SDcard area.

The available NAND memory is split into 2 parts.
/data
/sdcard

/data is where APPS get installed, user account info, etc etc etc.... This is the 2GB you are talking about. We increase this in custom ROMs so you can install more APPs and not get errors about no space left.

Since ICS /sdcard is now used for just media or "external APP data" if that APP supports putting large data files on /sdcard (like downloaded game data). For backwards compatibility all Android devices must have some kind of /sdcard.
Anyway /sdcard is for putting "media" on. Like music files, pictures, and movies.

If you insert a physical external /sdcard then you now have 2 /sdcard mounts
/sdcard
/sdcard_external

Again both are used for the same thing, media storage.


BOb

[mishtag]

Thanks Bob, I can see that now I have almost 2gb for apps and almost 3.37 for the internal Nand storage, so even I don't know where is the missing 2gb, at least I know that I have more the 4gb total.

[big10p]

Thanks Bob, I can see that now I have almost 2gb for apps and almost 3.37 for the internal Nand storage, so even I don't know where is the missing 2gb, at least I know that I have more the 4gb total.

The 'missing' ~2gb is taken up by the various Android system partitions. Android itself has to be stored somewhere, remember!

[mishtag]

Thanks for reminding me big10p.