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Old 12-02-2011, 10:12 AM   #21
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Amazon did a poor job in the Fire Menu options (Settings --> More --> Device) of showing the user the storage breakdown on the Fire. If you want to get a clearer picture of your Fire's App storage including how it is being used and what you have left, I highly recommend you download a FREE App called Quick System Info Pro from the Amazon App Store.


Here is the storage breakdown from the Basic Info Tab in Quick System Info Pro:


SD card storage (aka External Storage): 5.00 GB (User and App data is stored here).



A2SD storage: 220 MB (Apps that support Apps 2 SD will be installed here if space is available).

I was surprised to find Amazon included some App storage in External Storage. If an App can do so it will automatically attempt to install itself to the "SD Card".



Internal Storage: 1.09 GB (Most Apps are installed here). When you add this to the A2SD storage the Fire actually has 1.3 GB of App storage.



System Storage: 504 MB


System cache: 252 MB


Memory: 446 MB



Quick System Info Pro will continue to run in the background after launched and will provide basic system information in the Notification Bar (e.g. CPU Usage, Memory Usage, Wi-Fi Transmit (TX) and Receive (RX) statistics and rates).


If you want to shut down Quick System Pro, in the App select the Processes Tab, find and touch Quick System Info Pro, and select End Task.


A lot of users say they have to restart their Fire many times after clearing cache in order to install an App. The reason could be because many Apps like to conveniently start themselves when your tablet starts and some may not have had an opportunity to reestablish their claim of the Fire's resources before you installed another App.


If you look under the Processes Tab of Quick System Info Pro you will likely see some Apps there that you didn't launch. To limit the amount of Apps that "launch" processes at startup and conserve even more of your Fire's valuable resources, I recommend you download an App called Startup Cleaner 2.0. This App allows you to control which Apps you want to allow to "launch" at startup and which ones you don't. This helps conserve system resources as well as improve startup time.
Thanks. Very good explanation. Very helpful to us Android noobies.

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