Galaxy S23 turns out to occupy more than 60GB with Android OS alone, equivalent to twice as much as Windows 11
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Bloatware pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS to an incredible 60GB | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/the-samsung-galaxy-s23s-bloated-android-build-somehow-uses-60gb-of-storage/
Mishaal Rahman, senior technical editor of Esper , a cloud platform for Android, called for information on other terminals because the system file occupied 22 GB on his Zenfone 9.
Alright folks, how much of your phone's storage is taken up by the system?
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) February 3, 2023
I'll start: It's 22GB of my 256GB Zenfone 9.
I've seen some wild numbers from other phones, so I'd like to see just how varied things are! pic.twitter.com/N3AQRgtZGP
On the other hand, Alex Maxham, editor of the news site Android Headline , showed a screenshot that 68.94 GB was used only for system files. The terminal is Galaxy S23 Ultra.
This is on the S23 Ultra ???? pic.twitter.com/SuhNSyCY3T
— Alex Maxham (@alexmaxham) February 3, 2023
When I checked with my Pixel 7 Pro, the system file was 14GB. Since the total capacity is 128GB, if the system file is 60GB, it will fill half of the storage.
Regarding this news site Ars Technica, Samsung's software department has low quality code, and even if the changes are small, they will issue update files that apply to the entire Android, and Samsung has its own ecosystem. The same app is installed twice in the Google ecosystem and the Samsung ecosystem because it is contractually obligated to include Google apps in the Samsung ecosystem. The reason given is that it cannot be deleted by
In addition to this, it is said that the space in the device is sold via an annoying app called 'crapware', and the amount of space sold via crapware varies depending on the country and operator. , resulting in different capacities used by individuals. Ars Technica's Ron Amadeo reports that the Galaxy S23 Ultra has up to 1TB of space reserved for crapware.
Although Samsung's system files occupy 60 GB on average, it has been pointed out that the function is inferior to Pixel 7, which is about 15 GB. For example, Samsung is the only major OEM that does not implement the partition function used for A/B (seamless) system updates introduced in Android 7 in 2016, so updating is usually done by switching to the background OS when updating the system. The downtime of the time is limited to 30 seconds restart, but the Samsung terminal will have 30 minutes of downtime including the restart.
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