Storage Limits on 640XL

[Kanishka]

My 920 has given me the black screen of death ( sim error), and rather than pay to fix it I am now in the market.
I was trying to maintain this phone until the new flagships are out but I may just have to cough up and get a new one.

I have been eyeing the 640xl mainly because the dual sim + lte + camera will make it a solid travel device and back up phone for the future. One thing that concerns me is the storage limitations. Looking at my storage sense, I have about 4gb system and 6 gb app memory. With the final total at 18gb being used.

For those of you who have switched , how has the 8gb + MicroSD worked for you?
Does the SD ever perform slowly when accessing apps?

Thanks for your input

 

[garvitmiglani97]

I am using this device from day 1 it released in India
I am currently using a 16 gig UHS class 10 memory card there's a bit delay in some apps but that's just in only some big games.
I have installed Asphalt 8 and Gta Sanandreas in the SD card. Asphalt 8 opens with a delay of about 3-4 secs but runs fine.
There's no such problem in case of sanandreas. So its not a big deal
This is a powerful device and handles everything smoothly
Go for it without any second thoughts

 

[Woodman1914]

I came from a Lumia 1520 and was worried about this too, the speed of the sd card can make a difference probably (currently using a SanDisk 64GB Extreme). Most light apps (eg. weather, rss reader, etc) load fairly quickly, within a few seconds or less. For heavier apps, for example Castle of Illusion, on the Lumia 640 XL, first, I restarted the phone to start "fresh". Then I downloaded to phone memory, launched and timed it. After that, I un-installed, restarted phone, and downloaded to sd-card, launched and timed it. Here are the results:

- phone memory, Castle of Illusion launch to main menu: 30 seconds
- sd card (SanDisk 64GB Extreme), Castle of Illusion launch to main menu: 39 seconds

Result: in this test, phone memory app load time is about 23% faster than sd card. That's a noticeable difference, so if the 640 XL came with more onboard memory, one could install heavier apps on the phone, and lighter ones on the sd card. With only 3-4gb free though, it's not really an option since you probably don't want to get anywhere near the limit on the phone memory.

Hope this helps.

WW

 

[Kanishka]

you have no choice but to install many of the apps on the sd card.
So for those of you loading up your SD Cards, I bought a Samsung EVO with 50x read.

have you been disappointed with the speed of apps and loading because its on the SD card?

 

[jonahtrav]

The 8gb storage level on 640lx is what's keeping me from picking one up... coming from a 920 ... it seems like going with16gb and a increase in price would have been a better idea.

 

[Intense Soul]

I am using 32GB of Samsung Evo class 10. As said, the apps takes time installed on SD card and when you restart the device, the apps takes time to get loaded. I don't play games, I am using this as productivity tool. This satisfies me through out the day.