On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote:
> 30% is "much of" 50% :) Also, looking way way back at > http://andblogs.net/fastboot/: > *userdata*: 76 megs, Holds all the user applications and data. Reset the > phone to factory by erasing it. (Sometimes referred to as ‘data’) > *cache*: 70 megs, supposed to be temporary storage (/cache) but actually > never used except by T-mobile OTA updates. > Ah, okay, I misread you as blaming the cache for taking 50% of the space. Sorry about that. To properly rephrase: > Literally 1/3 of the onboard flash was reserved purely for OTAs, although > later OS versions used it as scratch space for downloads and such. (Nearly > the same amount as was available to the user to begin with.) > Cache has *always* been used for other things. It's not like the browser and Market had some other magical place to put their downloads. Anyway, this is a silly discussion. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.
