On Sunday, April 6, 2014 2:29:36 PM UTC-4, Danny D. wrote:
On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 08:37:32 -0700, trader_4 wrote:



I have a similar 4GB Android. It has all that came with it, plus

at least a dozen apps that I downloaded.

It still has 1.13GB avaialable.



Depending on your OS, you probably have far less space available

for apps on that phone than the 1.13GB indicates. For examnple,

on my LG Optimus L9 (P769), the Android 4.1.2 OS indicates there

is 1.8 GB, but, in reality, there is only half that, at 600MB.



How do you know there is only 600MB free, vs the reported 1.8GB free?




So, be careful when you read what "available memory" is in an

Android phone because the various versions of Android spit

out different answers to the same question.


Different versions are going to take up different amounts
of space. You probably don't have an apples to apples comparison
of the same phone, same apps, with one version vs another, anyway,
which would be difficult to do.






I can't tell you what that number is telling you without

you telling us which Android operating system you have.



For the gory (hundreds of posts) details, see this thread:

How do we get Android to spit out the true memory & storage situation?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...id/e6svmGS1M-E



All I see there are people saying that various utilities give differing
numbers. No one seems to be saying that their phones are unusable out
of the box, that they can't install a reasonable amount of apps, etc.



Assuming you neither have an older or newer Android, what you're

probably seeing is the available space after the OS is installed

but *before* any pre-installed apps from the carrier are installed.

I really doubt that.