CsonkaBear
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Amen, Brother.
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Amen, Brother.
CsonkaBear
Member
You're probably correct.
Here's the tweet I got from @TeamAndIRC the ones that rooted the damn thing...
"@JonKYU via @scotty2walker it's an 8gb emmc chip that is formatted in SLC mode, giving you half the space, twice the reliability."
So technically it is 8gb, just 4gb is usable. So technically its not false? I dunno...
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"@JonKYU via @scotty2walker it's an 8gb emmc chip that is formatted in SLC mode, giving you half the space, twice the reliability."
So technically it is 8gb, just 4gb is usable. So technically its not false? I dunno...
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Thanx, I'll give it a look and try it if it sound good.
BigMcGuire
Active Member
Amen, that's false advertising on a huge scale. I bought 8GB of Internal storage. I see 2.5GB. WTF...... When the **** is this update coming out?
People are turned off by facts on this board. They'd rather go with their own assumptions and opinions.
jaycemiskel
Active Member
It's still a little shady. Just say it's only got 4 gigs if that's how you intended for it to be. Don't tell people its got 8 if they're going to get to use less than half of that.
Your logic seems invisible to me, lol.
I thought it would be obvious.What if a new hard drive is manufactured, sold like every other hard drive on the market, but the space you get is only 50% of what is advertised? "Technically" it has space for 32GB but instead of getting the 30GB or so storage that every other drive on the market gets sitting on the shelf next to it, you only get 12GB of storage for various reasons. You don't think that it's a deceptive practice not to alert the user that the common way of determining user available space is completely wrong?
How about salespeople in the store insisting that a software update will recover the other 18GB? Is that deceptive or are 99% of the population just not smart enough to have figured this out?
Let me guess -- someone at HTC and Verizon may have known about this. Do you think they would have gotten panned for putting out a new, top of the line, flagship phone that has less than half of the fast internal memory than an old phone it put out more than a year ago?
There will be no update for this, I think. As far as I understand, eMMC can be partitioned once, at the factory. Perhaps it can be reformatted, but sounds like something that cannot be done OTA.
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BigMcGuire
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Wow that's great news. I'd be rich if I could sell 3TB hard drives that only have 1TB of space. Hmmmmmm <cough> If Verizon and HTC can get away with it....
Hey everybody! I've got a ... 5TB hard drive I'd like to sell you for $400! Contact me! (PM)
Hey everybody! I've got a ... 5TB hard drive I'd like to sell you for $400! Contact me! (PM)
Yeah... I highly doubt it. Perhaps some think it's a good idea to calm people down during launch time and wait until it has died down to make a statement. Perhaps it's wishful thinking by techs (some of them know less than many of us and are just trained to do minimal tasks.) This is just a big mess at Verizon Wireless.