On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:57:08 -0700, trader_4 wrote:

Maybe it's time to ask what your 600MB number is based on. I think
most of us here are assuming it's what shows up when you look at it
in the system settings, where the phone reports the free storage space.
What does the phone show? And if it's based on that, then why shouldn't
I believe my 1.3GB?

You should *not* believe that you actually have 1.3GB!
You seem to also have fallen for that trick (as did I).

What shows up on my 600MB LG Optimus L9 is 1.8GB (which I have said all along).
What's ACTUALLY available is about half that, at 600MB.

I suspect you have a similar reduction in what you "think" is available.
You *probably* have something more like 600MB available user storage.

Even after reading all 200 posts in that "how to get android to tell the
truth about memory" thread, I'm still not sure WHY they do this.

To delve deeper, depending on your VERSION of Android, what you're
probably seeing as 1.3GB is what appears to the Operating System as
the available memory *before* the carrier-added bloatware and
certainly before you added any apps.

But, what's nearly certain (depending on your version of Android),
is that you have *much* less than 1.3GB of available space for apps!

The only way to arrive at the 600MB number (that I know of) is
to add up the sizes of all the "stuff" that is in that 1.8MB.

Bear in mind, I'm (clearly) not an Android expert, so, I would
ask those who know better than I how to arrive at that number
of truly available space for apps.