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YunaX
post Aug 4 2011, 11:31 AM

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Hi,
I have quick question.

1) I currently own an xperia neo, and according to the official page, this phone has a total of 512MB RAM. But when I access the application manager, after adding UsedMemory and FreeMemory of the RAM, it only sums up to about 295MB. Is this normal? Android is sucking up that much memory?

2) is it normal that whatever install from the android market is directly stored in the phone's internal storage? And I wonder why the size of the app reduced drastically when I transfer it to SD card?

Thank you
YunaX
post Aug 5 2011, 01:40 AM

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QUOTE(CyberKewl @ Aug 4 2011, 07:37 PM)
1) some parts are used by the OS itself and will not be listed. dont worry, its not missing or anything, just not shown.
2) yes this is the default behaviour unless the app specifies it or unless you root and do some modifications to force it to go to SD all the time during new app installs. Why the size of the app is reduced so much is because most of it goes to the SD card. a 20mb game may take up to 1-2 MB of internal space and the rest is stored on the SD card. The pros of this is increased internal storage space for apps (which is required to install apps, no internal storage = cant install any apps). The cons is that application load times *may* be longer although not noticeable and also during bootup, your application icons will take a wihle to load if you have a lot of applications in the SD because the OS will load these icons from the SD. This is completely normal,  you just need to wait a while longer and then your app icon should show up either in your homescreen (if you have a shortcut there) or in your app drawer.

hope this info helps.
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Thank you for taking your time to reply, it's helpful.
While this is still on the second question, I realised that after I moved some app (Evernote for instance) to SD card, the widget won't work anymore, what's left is just an ordinary icon with no extra features like the widget offers. I found this annoying but couldn't do anything but just transfer it back to the internal memory. Well that app is about 12MB so I presume it won't be a matter since I have another 150MB + left. I actually find the internal storage quite adequate though just having 150MB for apps, as most of them are just under 20MB each (some great and sophisticated apps are just under 1MB!)
YunaX
post Aug 5 2011, 09:23 AM

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QUOTE(CyberKewl @ Aug 5 2011, 07:15 AM)
for widgets you should not move them to the SD because the android OS seems to load up widgets only from the internal phone memory for some reasons, so if you want to use the application widget you'd have to bear the heavy space requirements that the app has.
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Thank you again. Guess I'll have to stick it to its Internal memory then.
Oh btw, here are two more quick questions.

1) I have this playstation official bluetooth headset (mono) and after pairing it with android phone, it doesn't give me an option to listen music through it, though it says "phone sound" or some sort, but can only transfer my calls to the headset, but not music. I heard that its because of my headset is mono and doesn't fully support A2DP, but I did make it work when i paired with an older SE phone (T707), listening to music worked fine there but not here. Is there an app to fix it?

2) Is there a way to silence the default camera shutter sound? I've tried the market place but there offers another camera app, but I want to stick with the stock camera app provided by SE, and just remove the shutter sound. Kinda like a patch or something. Anything I can do? thank you

 

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