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I 've purchased Karbonn Titanum S5 Plus. In that, It is showing TOTAL STORAGE SHOWING as (1 GB + 1.42 GB) ie 2.42 GB But in the features it is written as 1 GB RAM and 4 GB ROM ie Total 5 GB

INTERNAL STORAGE 1.00 GB

PHONE STORAGE 1.42 GB

Total 2.42 GB

OS is Android 2.2 . How to find the RAM size?. can anyone able to explain this?

thnx senthil

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Your calculation is based on some misconceptions:

  • is no storage. It's the memory used to run active apps (see our ram tag-wiki for details)
  • ROM is a misleading term here (and in many other places). What's actually meant in this context ist . So these 4 GB is what you're looking for.

Now, storage on Android devices is devided into multiple s. Typical partitions are /data for the user data, and the read-only /system partition for the actual OS files. The latter is usually not included in "storage summaries". I don't know your device, but from the data given can assume:

  • 1 GB "internal SD-Card"
  • 1.42 GB "internal storage (/data)"
  • remaining storage devided into:
    • /system: probably about 1 GB
    • /boot: files for system start
    • /recovery: for the
    • and maybe some more small partitions

So there's nothing wrong; specifications have just not been given in a way clearly understandable by the end-user.

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  • Spot on. It is a practice I don't like. I buy a 16 Gb Galaxy S4 and have 9Gb storage left out of the box. I understand the partitioning, but really the AVAILABLE memory should be what they are obliged to give as the figure. Otherwise you get this situation, time after time. Desire X: 4Gb, actual space free 1 Gb and so on. It's frustrating.
    – RossC
    Commented Dec 17, 2013 at 9:25
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    Full ack to that: manufacturers should be more transparent. But big numbers are better sellers, obviously. To create a precendence, some thousand users should buy such a device and then return it as "not matching the advertised specs", after having used the devices for a few days. This way they cannot re-sell the devices as "new". I'm afraid they only learn when it hurts them :( </rant>
    – Izzy
    Commented Dec 17, 2013 at 10:03

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