i just bought and 8gb micro sdhc card and its kool and all but can someone please explain to me why i only see 7.6 in my computer and blackberry, and what is the best way to format it either through the computer or or let the curve handle the formatting i am currently running 4.5 tim italy release. thank you in advance.
Its the same deal if you buy a new HD for your computer, the box it comes in may say 250GB but once formatted and In use may only say 245GB total.(Or less)
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The problem is, to the guys selling the card, they measure gigabytes in by the 1000 megabyte mark. So 8GB = 8000MB. Whereas computers/blackberrys read a gigabyte as 1024 megabytes, so it reads in a bit lower. Added to the fact the blackberry actually does the math in kilobytes, so its 1000000kb to a gigabyte for marketing, and 1048576 (1024 * 1024) kb to a gigabyte to the computer
8000000 / 1000000 = 8
8000000 / 1048576 = 7.62ish, plus overheard and rounding errors and such and you get 7.6 gigabytes. That's totally normal.
