Google has updated the storage page with Android 15 Beta 2. The “System” option has been turned into a header. The OS and temporary files have been separated. During Google I/O 2024, the Mountain View ...
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Update: The original version of this article glossed over the fact that Android's storage screen starts with the advertised storage space, not the actual storage space, and then fudges the "system" ...
Android 15 now requires 32GB of onboard storage, enforcing this requirement by leveraging GMS licensing. Technically, phones with less than 32GB of storage can still run AOSP builds of Android 15.
Facepalm: While embedded storage in modern smartphones has grown considerably, the software side of things still tends to make weird or outright incorrect calculations about available space. This ...
It's the start of November, and that means a new Android security patch. Google claims this one is fixing a high-profile Android 14 storage bug that was locking some people out of their devices. The ...
In context: Just like Microsoft and other major software companies, Google releases security patches and bug fixes for Android every second Tuesday of the month. November 2023 marks the first "Patch ...