Help I'm new to android and this site

EarlyMon said:

http://androidforums.com/threads/qu...ruth-read-me-first-now-with-ram-truth.906249/

Your pre-installed apps are in a separate, secure partition from the one where your apps, app updates, and private app data goes.

You can possibly gain administrator access through a process called rooting and remove some pre-installed apps - but it's going to have zero effect on your available storage.

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EarlyMon said:

Android is a real-time version of the well-known Linux operating system available for PCs.

Just like when you buy a PC with an xyz sized hard drive, you get less than xyz for your addons because the system (usually Windows or OS X) takes a good sized chunk.

Here, Linux has been put on a diet, so it's really compact compared to the desktop counterpart.

But the operating principles and marketing are the same as with a desktop - you buy, say, 16 GB of storage, and that's what you get - and you're actually using all of it, one way or another.

Just not all for addons (more apps, pictures taken, and so forth).

I see from your list that you have a Samsung, and at 16 GB, it came with an SD card option - and that's the kicker on the other side of the balance sheet. Your personal media storage isn't limited to what came on the phone out of the box. You can add more for that, very efficiently and at relatively low cost.

If you follow my link on the storage truth, you'll find some compact, safe, helper apps to give you more insight into your phone's memory and storage use.

Because the included apps are in the same protected area as the operating system, they're not part of your addons storage equation.

The point of rooting (kinda like jailbreaking, kudos on the correlation) would be to freeze any that misbehave and waste your battery - but not to change your storage balance sheet.

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