- 03-03-2012, 06:50 PM
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2 gigs worth of apps taking up more then 4 gigs?
Fresh install, no contacts, no email, no facebook nothing and I mean nothing installed on this fresh install of 2.0 except the following
Air browser-501kb
Asphalt 6 -516 mb
Modern Combat- 400mb
Need for speed- 291 mb
Star front 551 mb
Should be 1.8 gigs let's say 2 gigs
However after the fresh install 12.3 gigs avail after the install of only these apps I have only 7.7 gigs available. Sup with that? I have tried 3 fresh installs in a row and get the same result. Call me clueless what can I say! - 03-03-2012, 06:54 PM #2
Have you tried restarting it since installing those apps? rather then doing a whole re install of everything?
Usually solves my storage issues. - 03-03-2012, 07:07 PM
Thread Author #3
Yes infact on my last install I restarted after each individual install. Crazy thing is as I uninstall each app it uninstalls the amount of data it should as if everything is normal but those extra 2 gigs are still used up. It almost appears as if its installing the apps x2 but uninstalls only 1 copy. Its really weird,
Thanks - 03-03-2012, 07:11 PM #4
Bar files are compressed to reduce download size, therefore App World file sizes represents compressed size. Files are expanded when installed and therefore take up more space.
- 03-03-2012, 07:21 PM
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- 03-03-2012, 07:32 PM #6
Have you given it some time to see if the space is returned to free? I vaguely remember a post saying the OS temporarily reserves more memory then needed after installing apps. I may be wrong, just thought I would mention.
- 03-03-2012, 07:36 PM #7
You don't actually get the stated GB in actual space on any drive due to the difference in manufacturers math. See this link for a better explanation Gigabyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Go down to Consumer Confusion - 03-03-2012, 07:52 PM
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