Storage memory

[Guest logiktoy]

If i 've a smartphone (eg. htc s310), with no memory card installed where my device store files?

The question seems stupid but : ram is volatile and rom is only read memory...

thank

[Guest]

If i 've a smartphone (eg. htc s310), with no memory card installed where my device store files?

The question seems stupid but : ram is volatile and rom is only read memory...

thank

It stores it on you're available ROM.

[Guest Neil5459]

If i 've a smartphone (eg. htc s310), with no memory card installed where my device store files?

The question seems stupid but : ram is volatile and rom is only read memory...

thank

The previous reply is correct- your persistent user data is stored in ROM :( So, the ROM on our devices isn't Read-Only. It is a special sort of addressable ROM; writing to this can take a little time, so data is stored transiently in the RAM area and written over a few processor cycles, which is why program updates, and saves need to be given time to write before soft resetting a device.

This change came in with WM5- previously all data was held in the faster, but volatile RAM, so if the battery ran out, or became disconnected, all data was lost. In the current model, user data and programs survive a power loss, apart from any unsaved data in RAM.