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[azzido]

Hi, I notices that in settings, memory the system says I have 100GB available, but when I open Cinema Pro app it says my internal memory availability is 93.1GB. 

Where is remaining 7 gigs?

Anyone knows why there is such difference?

Which one is correct? System or Cinema Pro?

Thank you in advance.

[azzido]

[Jonas · Accepted solution]

Hi @azzido2, sorry for the late reply. I had to request some additional information.

You may experience that the displayed free storage in Cinema Pro differs from the free storage displayed under Settings > Storage. This is because Cinema Pro looks for free blocks of space that are available to apps, which is different from the overall storage information.

I hope that answers your question and have a nice weekend!

[RottenFoxBreath]

Much simpler than that @Jonas, Storage is measured in the 1000's for a GB, but RAM is actually 1024GB/1024MB/1024KB/1024bytes, so for every 100GB, you lose around 7GB, so for example, 500GB would read as 465.66GB, hence his missing 6.9/7GB, every 100GB.

500,000,000,000 / (1024*1024*1024) = 465.66 GB

So the phone is 128GB(according to Sony), but the actual storage is 121GB, roughly.

"Storage" reads the normal 1GB = 1000MB way but the app reads it correctly.

Nothing to do with checking avaiable space for apps.    

[Jonas]

Hi @RottenFoxBreath!

Yeah, that is the more in-depth explanation as to why it shows a different value!

There is at least not something that is wrong, it just that the app reads it a bit different compared the "normal" way of checking the free storage. That is the answer I got when I requested the information at least!

I guess you can always use a third party application to check it as well, but some of them won't display the amount of storage occupied by the Android system, so it will look very strange.

Thanks for helping out and have a nice weekend!