Why do people still fall for the more than 8GB meme?
Pic related is my phone with 40 apps installed, and over 1000 images from WhatsApp in my storage (shown by the purple section).
I don't have any music on my phone but even if I wanted to store it locally I've still got 1.7GB to do so (aka over 200 8MB MP3's).
Also just remembered I still have a 250mb cyanogenmod rom in my storage I haven't deleted, that's even more space.
Why would you need any more than this anon?
b-but my c-chinese c-cartoon..
>>55422312
Because not everybody is you.
Rather than making up excuses about keeping linux distros on your phone and watching anime on it, let me tell you what I do.
My current phone has 4 gigabytes of usable memory, and I:
>Have 1500 photos (I have to frequently back them up)
>about 60 wallpapers
>a couple of screenshots
>half a gigabyte of music (that's about 6 or 7 albums)
and I have just 100 megabytes left. Eight gigabytes would be more than enough for me, but..
I have never really made CWM backups. Okay, I did do one, just one single time.
A backup of my phone can easily take more than 800 megabytes.
Let's presume you have two backups, just in case. Add in some backups made from TiBu, and you could easily have at least 2 gigabytes of backups taking up space.
This is a technology board, so I am pretty sure there are people here who do backup things.
>>55422312
But but... My Chinese Cartoons
>funny thing is they show under Others instead of Videos
How does it feel to not having enough space for even one vr porn?
>>55422312
>almost 4000 photos
>32 gb of music on sd card
>>55422312
A 5 minute QHD video takes around 1.5 GB
>>55422312
You have no music. I have ~20gb of music on my pc wich I want to transfer onto my phone but cant because of lol8gb
Because fuck you...
My phone is my music player. As it's a Phablet I also use it to consume media on the go. I like taking photos with my phone. I have an LG G4 a with 128GB SD card and its almost full. 60GB is just music.
>>55422312
Because I can look at this
What manufacturer makes phones that have just 8GB?
I'm a cheapass with an 8GB LG D415 and a 64GB card
Life is good
>>55425254
Do you experience any slow downs with the card and Music. I also have a G4 and was hoping of getting a bigger card as my current 16 GB one doesn't cut it out anymore.
Androidfags are so poor it's hilarious
> what is swapping?
My memory is fine
>>55422312
Because I had around 10gb of pics and vids last time I emptied. Had 1 or two games, about 1gb just for those. At the moment I have 5.5gb apps(no large games).
Then I have my 32gb SD for media.
>>55422312
I have 17GB of FLAC, and 12GB of pornography. Go fuck yourself OP, get a job
>>55427288
>12GB pornography
>telling me to get a job
Ok anon.
>>55422312
OP is a faggot.
By the way no anime, no movies/series or FLACs.
>>55422312
>Why would you need any more than this anon?
high-res pictures
music
Besides, 128gb cards are now cheap as fuck
>>55422312
My sister (normie) takes way too many videos and fills up her phone (applel)
Watching anime on mobile must be a pain.
>>55427330
What the hell do you do with your phone? How can anyone fill more than 16Gb?
>>55429890
>What the hell do you do with your phone?
The same shit i do on my computer but when i'm outside or too lazy to use my laptop since i have unlimited data, i can also SSH to my desktop on the go if i need to.
Dumbphones were phones, smartphones are computers.
>How can anyone fill more than 16Gb?
My music folder alone in .opus is 10gb.
>>55422312
>Why would you need any more than this anon?
Because I'm not poor.
>>55422312
Because no computer.
>>55422312
>aka over 200 8MB MP3's
>8mb mp3
fucking bloat, also 200 files is like 13 albums only
Basically op has no social life. I took a video yesterday, 4k res and only a minute long. 600MB file size. Took about 20 photos too at 4MB a shot. Shit adds up. Bit torrent running on my 4g always because no bandwidth limits and in can stream the via to my tv when I get home. 32gb galaxy note3 with a 64gb micro sd card that cost 18 euro bucks. Lifes good famalam
>>55431666
But anon 8MB is a 3 and a half minute 320kbps mp3
>>55422312
Audiobooks
>>55431799
Opus 128kbps vbr is half that size and transparent too also it has no compatibility issues in 2016.
>>55431796
Didn't realise a social life was required to take 4K video.
I already mentioned I've got 1000+ images i've taken/ been sent on whatsapp, and I'm still far off 8GB.
If I need to take pictures properly I'll just use my actual camera anyway, which uses 35mb per picture.
>Used to have a 8 Gb phone.
>worked very well,, around 6Gb filled. Not many images cause im not a fucking normie. Most of it was music and Ps1 isos.
> All i wish was 4 extra gigs for some heavier game like GTA ports or hearthstone.
>Getting a nexus 5x with 32 gigs this week
>WAY WAY more than i will ever use
>/spg/ keep bashing me for getting a phone without SDcard slot and wont answer my questions about hardware and build quality.
>>55431958
The only thing I don't like about the 5X is its low amount of RAM. 2GB isn't really enough for serious multitasking these days. Expect background apps to have to reload after opening two or three more after it.
>>55422312
Because some people like music and don't want to get cucked by streaming cancer. 200 tracks is absolutely ridiculous in 2005+11. There are thousands of artists and hundred thousands of albums to listen to, why would you limit yourself so much?
Also in times of Google Photos, I don't get why anybody would store more than 50 on their phone.
>>55432046
>Android ram management
>>55431920
That's awesome anon. Your camera got a wifi connection or sim card for 4g so you can send those photos too? Because imo the industry is Jewing people out by lacking those features and is not like they're expensive to implement. Wifi backup is handy af
like 10gb from spotify extreme quality, and a 10 minute 4k video of nothing but black and rain falling sounds so i could give my boyfriend samples for making ambient shit that takes up 3gb. yeah, shits getting big these days. half of my meme collection is on the sd card im too lazy to move the other half
>>55422312
Im guessing you researched the specs of your phone and bought something powerful enough to run games that you can't/won't store in that useless 1.7 remaining GB.
I don't understand people who spend money on a new phone and even download a new OS just to use it for Facebook and Chrome.
Anyway, I've been away with work for a little over a month so far and I gotta say, having >100gb of TV to watch has been the only thing keeping me sane.
Enjoy slaughtering your data every time you're bored.
>>55432323
Do they still make Eye-Fi cards?
>>55422334
/thread
>>55422312
Two of the band's I listen to have 100+ songs (with one live album each).
>>55432323
Nope, because it's a DLSR, but that doesn't bother me because I take pictures more for art purposes and shoot RAW so all my pictures need editing before sharing anyway.
If I need to take a picture of something interesting to instantly send someone where quality doesn't matter I'll just use my phone's subpar camera instead.
Wifi/4G is pretty much useless to pro photographers so that's why you only see it on consumer grade cameras. Although I guess a 4G connection for backups incase of SD card failure would be nice, but then paying for a contract is extra expense.
>>55432390
David Lynch has something to say to you
>>55431796
why the hell would you torrent on a phone? doesn't that destroy your battery life?
Because fuck you, that's why.
>>55432396
They're after market, not built in. And slow, really really slow
>>55432495
OK...
I don't know what you're getting at
>>55432509
Downloading torrents because I want high quality thrones, veep and silicon valley. All which finished last week. I don't let the torrent seed when it's done. But my 4g speed is nearly 40mbs so the even the best hd rips don't take long. And god bless whoever is uploading silicon valley in x265
>>55432390
My phone is a 3 year old budget/midrange (Moto G 2013), so no, I don't use it for hardcore gaming. It's still running fine though.
When I was still at Sixth Form I had a few 2D games downloaded I used to play at lunch / in free periods, but nothing that took up GB of space.
Now that I don't have hours to kill away from home I'll just browse 4chan/reddit when I'm out and bored.
At home I mostly just use it for YouTube and whatsapp, neither of which require tonnes of storage either.
>>55432572
>leech
i see
>>55422334
this
people want different things when they buy a phone
>>55432547
I forgot what board I was on
>>55432572
But why not doing it on a pc like everybody else? At very best it saves electricity but if you don't even seed it's a minimal benefit.
>>55432606
Yeahhh but torrents have no up loading limit while running and leaving the torrent on will kill battery
>>55422312
I have an 8 GB phone and I had to factory reset it because there wasn't enough space to install anything, so I decided to start over from scratch. This is what it looks like not even a week later. I have no local music or games installed.
8 GB is NOT enough.
>>55432627
I can download them immediately anywhere on my phone. Last time I was in a plane waiting for take off for 30 mins. Got to watch latest thrones ep a full day before it aired in Europe in 5.3gb 1080p. Had phone plugged into laptop and watched it on the fight. Guy sitting next to me was genuinely amazed and pretty jealous. But hey that's cos he's on a shitty contract with data limits. I only pay 20 euro a month
>>55429890
I have 4GB of apps alone.
>>55432700
4G with no limit for 20 euros? The guy on the plane isn't the only jealous one. Though sounds like prices in some eastern european country, guess that balanced out the envy.
>implying this many GiBs aren't amazing
>implying I had to spend all my good boy points to get them
You're the one who fell for the meme OP
>>55422312
16GB is the perfect amount m8. Also, use opus instead of mp3.
>>55432737
Republic of Ireland bro.
8gb sure isn't enough
>>55422312
Holy fuck this thread is making me sad and depressed.
Pic related my phone.
LG L 65, 1.5gbs of internal memory
I have some trash tier class iv sd card 16gb formated in mixed mode, 70 as public storage 30 as private in the new marshmallow option.
Having that extra memory helps nothing for apps because unlike linking them, which doesnt work in marshmallow, it launches apps from sd card class iv and they take ages to fucking start so i've only have two massive apps there, skype and wps office which I use infrequently.
I pay for the phone and service with 160 mins, sms and 2gb internet plus free deezer account and extra 2gb for it about 12e for a contract of 24 months.
I would like to buy a class 10 card 16gbs dont need more, or uhc 1, but too fucking poor.
Rate my life anons.
>>55433078
Note, complete internal storage of 6.66 gbs was completely unintended and just kinda goes to showy life.
>There are people in this thread who can't even afford a <$15 64gb SD card and are trying to justify it.
>>55433078
get a shark from /csg/
>>55433149
Yeah, well, my country is in europe just in a geographic sense.
Over 40% unemployment rate doesnt do us any favors.
It has been theorised that our gray market handles about the same amount of the money as the state so we got that going for us.
>>55433157
I dont visit csg, so i've no idea how to do thay.
>>55433210
>I dont visit csg, so i've no idea how to do thay.
gearbest.com/memory-cards/pp_337823.html
sharks are a meme there because they work, have good speeds and are dirt cheap
>>55433210
>I dont visit csg, so i've no idea how to do thay.
Don't fall for the shark card meme. You'll be keeping it inside your phone at all times so spend the extra for a good brand-name card and spare yourself the headache when your cheap meme card decides to shit itself with all your stuff on it.
>>55433289
I keep my stuff backed up on the pc.
Besides even if i didnt i only have about 30 pictures that i have that i would be sad for losing, but they are backed up to skydrive.
>>55433289
SD cards are kinda hard to fuck up, and sharks/mixza sds are tried and proven.
I had a no name chink 8gb microsd that I bought back in 2009 only die on me last month, lots of heavy usage too across multiple devices over the years
>>55433272
This actually does seem okay if it is really free shipping.
Well the 16gb one
Do they really work ?
If they work normally for at least a year i could buy it.
>>55433407
Yeah they work, i'm using a shark as internal storage here >>55427330
16gb is too small imo though
>>55433149
>there are people in this thread who can't even afford a <$500 64gb iPhone SE with NVM storage and are trying to justify it.
>>55433454
I barely have 4 gbs of stuff on it to be honest.
>>55433500
>There are people in this thread who even consider iPhones.
>>>/lgbt/
>>>/toy/
>>>/trash/
>>55433584
>year two thousand and sixteen of the lord
>using lagdroid
That's just sad.
>>55433600
>Thinking Android still lags.
It's not 2010 anymore. On the other hand your iToy still requires a shitty piece of software to transfer music and videos and doesn't have expandable storage.
>>55422312
>next to no audio
What do you do if you want to listen to music on a plane, subway, or someplace you don't have service? How much do you stream?
>>55433650
>thinking a frankenstein of software won't lag in any year
The issues are too deep rooted anon and throwing cores at it won't solve them.
Sure iTunes is a mess but expandable storage on a phone isn't necessary, specially given how much faster NVM is.
>not having a phone with 64 GB built in + 200 GB external
>>55433584
I keep forgetting /trash/ is an actual board
>>55433694
At least give people the choice to elect for additional storage that might be slower. This is why Apple will never be taken seriously. Their products look nice on the outside, but use them for more than a week and you'll realize how restrictive the shit known as iOS is. No downloading files from the Internet, no filesystem, and not even the ability to select third-party apps as default. Good hardware marred by laughably walled software.
>that guy who has a phone with 16 GB non expandable storage
>>55433078
Linking would be equally slow as adaptable storage since both launch apps from the SD card, but adaptable storage uses encryption which takes a major performance hit on pretty much every Android device
I really don't know what was Google thinking, they should had used the internal storage as a cache
Some custom roms still mount the SD card as the data partition
>>55433735
>This is why Apple will never be taken seriously.
It has a pretty decent market share in first world countries and very widely used in business and generally by the more wealthy and successful people. Besides, Apple makes over 90% of the profits from the entire market and devs prioritise it. Try to look beyond your own navel sometimes.
>At least give people the choice to elect for additional storage that might be slower.
Just like Google did with the Nexus series? Oh right. The variations between microSD cards make them a bad option for a mainstream device like a phone. Idiots buying cheap ass cards would bitch about the performance, which in turn would affect the image of the corporation making the phone. A gamble not worth to take. Giving everyone a great experience out of the box is more comfortable for both parties.
>>55433828
>very widely used in business
Businesses like them for how restrictive the software is. This is generally a good thing.
>by the more wealthy
So people with more money than brains.
>and successful people
[citation needed]
No, celebrities don't count because they're either paid to endorse Apple or see my point above.
>>55433863
>Businesses like them for how restrictive the software is.
Exactly. Less waifus customizing and more reability/security. I'd say these are aspects that are preferred by most people for a reason. Freedom is only nice until the negative consequences of it hit you.
>So people with more money than brains.
So you rate their decision to get iPhones stronger than their decisions that lead them in the position of wealth and power?
>No, celebrities don't count because they're either paid to endorse Apple
That's what Samsung or Microsoft does. Apple may nigger they way to get hardware contracts with schools and colleges but they never had to pay people to use their shit.
>>55422312
>Audio: 256KB
Because you literally have one second of audio on your phone.
>>55422312
Pleb
Because im not poor so I have a 128gb 6s
>>55422312
VR shit takes up a lot of space on my phone, as well as installers and shit for when I'm at someone else's PC. How about you stop falling for the one size fits all meme?
>>55422312
I run circuit simulations and I've seen memory errors with 32G. For personal use it's unnecessary unless it's limiting something. Also even though the hardware limitations have changed not every programming paradigm has changed. Like not using empty ram for something given the chance or efficiently using multiple cores.
>>55424968
>QHD
>On phone
I see you fell for the meme
Meh
>>55432046
>MFW my i(diot)Phone can multitask 15+ apps with only 2GB of ram
>>55436665
>Multi task
>iPhone
Sure buddy :^).
Poorfag reporting in
>>55436684
>using the smiley with a carat nose
>>55432046
I have not encountered a single problem with 2 gb so far
>>55422312
I have like 16 GB of music alone
>>55435895
>tfw broken SD slot
4 gigabytes are nowhere near enough; I'm tired of backing shit up to my computer every month!
>>55436784
What DPI is that? Looks nice!
>>55437257
200 on qHD
Not all of the storage is what you use
>>55437265
Thanks mate, I have a screen that's almost the same resolution and I'm with 220 DPI instead.
200 looks nice, so I'll try it.
>>55422312
>What is Virtual Memory
Most of the apps are probably stashed to disk as they haven't been used in a while.
