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[MOD] Make your Eclair run much SMOOTHER!!

hmmm..I guess this can be called a mod because it modifies your ROM so yeah...anyways ...
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Ok so first off sorry but its not my fault if your phone crashes or gets messed up after you do this.
This is just a little guide that worked for me and now my phone is running much smoother. This will require some very minor sacrifices.
1. Use the launcher2.apk (I guess its just me but I think its much better than the normal home performance wise.)
2. Delete the Launcher.apk, GenieWidget.apk, YouTube.apk. I usually do this via terminal emulator:
Code:
$ su
# mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# rm /system/app/Launcher.apk
# rm /data/app/GenieWidget.apk
# rm /data/app/YouTube.apk
# mount -o r,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# exit
$ exit
if there are any other apps you wish to delete then you can follow the method above where you change the apk name depending on what you want to remove.
Make sure to check where the apk's are first so you dont get frustrated or anything.
3.Go to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=625477
4.Get the latest LiveWallpapers modification and push it onto the Phone. (usually the /system/app directory)
5.Get a file manager, task manager, app manager, and cache clearer (i.e What I have is: Advanced Free Task Manager, Astro File Manager, AppManager, and cachecleaner)
6. Keep perfomance up by clearing your caches and ending random processes. (Damn you processes -.-)
7. Dont overload your phone with apps, installed or otherwise. will cause SERIOUS LAGGING (unless you have a good sdcard).
Hope this helps people out.
BTW all those apps in step 5 are free in case anyone is wondering.
If anyone else has some mods they would like to post feel free to do so. Any help is welcome

I really need to find a terminal command walkthrough or ADB somewhere soon.. every single time I use these commands word for word, I get the same invalid responses.
Curses!

Lol what happened?
EDIT: if it was the mount -o rw command, I made a mistake sorry I fixed it now though

Which Eclair rom runs the smoothest for everyone? I've only played with OpenEclair and decided it wasn't ready for everyday use.

After modding it, OpenEclair. I tried kingklick's eclair but i didnt like it too much.

engagedtosmile said:
Which Eclair rom runs the smoothest for everyone? I've only played with OpenEclair and decided it wasn't ready for everyday use.
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Complete Eclair is the fastest and most stable by a margin in my experience. Bear in mind no eclair rom (or any rom for that matter) is truly bug free.

i second Complete Eclair as the current best of the bunch.

Complete Enclair is BY FAR the smoothest enclair rom available for the G1. I am not using linux-swap or compcache and its just as fast as the official Tmobile rom on a non rooted phone. Infact when I compare it to my wife's phone which is non rooted and running 1.6 via OTA, Complete Enclair is in most instances actually quicker than her phone which has about 40 applications installed on it.

lol I dont know what you guys see in complete eclair. it starting ticking me off the second I flashed it. I am gunna pull the battery png's and put em in my OpenEclair though lol

To make openeclair fast I have done following:
1) I turn off windows animation.
2) I do not use nexus launcher.
3) I have compcache/swap disabled.
4) I do not have live wallpapers or widgets.
5) I do not have anything that leaves a background process running.
These settings work for me and my usage (Phone, Email, FeedR, Web)
Openeclair appears to run as fast as Super-D with these settings. In fact for my usage faster in FeedR performance.
Dale

[Q] Removing apps that came with CM6

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this. Feel free to move it.
I am wondering how to remove some things that came with CM6 when I installed it. When I go to applications > manage applications I cannot delete anything other than the things I've installed. Here is a list of things that I want to delete.
Amazon mp3
The stock browser
Stock Camera
stock messaging
stock music player
Google Talk
Google Voice
All the wallpapers
Home screen tips
I don't have a use for any of these and would rather free up the space and keep down the clutter from things I don't use.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=735255
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Removing some of these may cause instability/FC issues with your phone. Just fair warning.
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After reading that thread; the files you need to delete are... (located in System/App)
com.amazon.mp3.apk
Browser.apk
Camera.apk
(Not sure about messaging - might be mms.apk)
music.apk
talk.apk
I'm not totally sure about the others.

deleting mms.apk will remove your ability to receive texts. i know cause i tried to replace it with handcent at one point. removing music and amazon should be fine.

Thanks for the replies. I'm gonna try to remove the Amazon mp3 and Music now. What do you think would happen if I move the apps to my SD card and then access and delete them from my computer? Does this run the same risk of instability issues? In theory, I should be able to back them up on my computer and restore them if things go wrong, agree?

Anthony1s said:
Thanks for the replies. I'm gonna try to remove the Amazon mp3 and Music now. What do you think would happen if I move the apps to my SD card and then access and delete them from my computer? Does this run the same risk of instability issues? In theory, I should be able to back them up on my computer and restore them if things go wrong, agree?
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Ya. You can back them up to your SD card or PC, whichever is easier.
Sent from my Liberty using XDA App

Here's what I did along with some instructions from attn1. (he's the best!) Maybe this information will be helpful to someone. I am running CM6 A012 on my phone.
I booted up the Ubuntu LiveCD that I used to root my phone.
Rebooted my phone into Clockwork Recovery... power & volume down > wait for system check > Recovery
Once in ClockWork Recovery I linked my phone via USB to my computer and clicked 'partitions menu' then 'mount /system'
I accessed the terminal in Ubuntu and I couldn't get permissions to access the phone's files
In terminal, attn1 had me type the following commands before I could access the app list.
1) echo $PATH
2) sudo su
3) cd /opt/android-sdk-linux_86/tools
4) ./adb kill-server
5) ./adb remount
After that, to list the apps type: ./adb shell ls -l /system/app
To remove apps type: ./adb shell rm /system/app/filename.apk
To check if they're removed type: ./adb shell ls /system/app/filename.apk
I removed Music.apk, com.amazon.mp3.apk, and Browser.apk. When trying to remove Gmail.apk, Ubuntu wouldn't let me do anything else. I am assuming that the LiveCD has a time limit on it for the trial version. I then unmounted my phone on ClockWork and the rebooted it. The apps that I removed are gone from my phone and everything related to them still works fine.
Here is a link I used to find out which .apk files were safe for removal. http://forum.sdx-developers.com/android-2-1/(list)-apk's-and-odex's-safenot-safe-to-delete/
I will do some more research and try to remove other .apk files in a couple hours. I didn't try the 'move to SD' method that I mentioned above and would still like someone's opinion on it.

I forgot to mention. It's probably best to do a nandroid back up before doing all this. I didn't do one that time and will do it next time. I will also leave a list of everything I removed for future reference. If anyone else has a list, I would appreciate seeing that. This is my first time doing all this so I am constantly bugging attn1 for knowledge.
It didn't seem right to complain about AT&T bloatware, but still have to deal with the apps cyanogen installed.

Correct me if I am wrong. I did it this way and so far haven't found any issue YET. BTW, I didn't delete mms.apk though. Use Winrar (or other programs, not tested) to open cm6-liberty-A0xx-signed.zip. Navigate to system/app and then remove the apk files from there. Close winrar and install the modified cm6-liberty-Axxx-signed.zip like normal. It saves me a lot of time dealing with adb.

penpower said:
Correct me if I am wrong. I did it this way and so far haven't found any issue YET. BTW, I didn't delete mms.apk though. Use Winrar (or other programs, not tested) to open cm6-liberty-A0xx-signed.zip. Navigate to system/app and then remove the apk files from there. Close winrar and install the modified cm6-liberty-Axxx-signed.zip like normal. It saves me a lot of time dealing with adb.
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You know, that's a much easier idea. Even testing by taking one .apk out at a time would be faster, I think. And my Winrar is expired and it still let's remove files! I would just have to remember to save a backup on the .zip before and after removing each .apk.

Anthony1s said:
1) echo $PATH
Not required. Only had you do that because I knew shad0wf0x put the tools in the path, but didn't know exactly where. Just made it easier for moving there once you did the next step.
2) sudo su
3) cd /opt/android-sdk-linux_86/tools
Required.
4) ./adb kill-server
Not required - only had you do it because the server was initially started from the regular user account and wasn't connecting properly.
5) ./adb remount
After that, to list the apps type: ./adb shell ls -l /system/app
To remove apps type: ./adb shell rm /system/app/filename.apk
To check if they're removed type: ./adb shell ls /system/app/filename.apk
This is fine....
I removed Music.apk, com.amazon.mp3.apk, and Browser.apk. When trying to remove Gmail.apk, Ubuntu wouldn't let me do anything else. I am assuming that the LiveCD has a time limit on it for the trial version. I then unmounted my phone on ClockWork and the rebooted it. The apps that I removed are gone from my phone and everything related to them still works fine.
Here is a link I used to find out which .apk files were safe for removal. http://forum.sdx-developers.com/android-2-1/(list)-apk's-and-odex's-safenot-safe-to-delete/
I will do some more research and try to remove other .apk files in a couple hours. I didn't try the 'move to SD' method that I mentioned above and would still like someone's opinion on it.
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FYI there is no expiration on the Ubuntu LiveCD. If it stopped working for you, it was for some other reason.

Thanks for correcting that attn1. I haven't tried to do anything further yet, but will after a nap. Does anyone know if you edit the ROM in Winrar, do you have to sign it or w/e?

Anthony1s said:
Thanks for correcting that attn1. I haven't tried to do anything further yet, but will after a nap. Does anyone know if you edit the ROM in Winrar, do you have to sign it or w/e?
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When I modified both of N1 and Aria CM rom, I don't have to sign it again.

Ok here is the basics of what I did. I didn't modify the CM .zip from my computer because I thought it would take more time to nandroid backup and reflash the ROM. If I install a new ROM, I am more likely to do that. I loaded the Ubuntu LiveCD and proceeded with what I was doing before. I still had to put in every command that attn1 taught me.
Here is a list of everything I removed.
- Music.apk Successful. No problems.
- com.amazon.mp3.apk Successful. No problems.
- Browser.apk Successful. No problems.
- Gmail.apk Successful. No problems.
- CMWallpapers.apk Successful. No problems.
- LiveWallpapers.apk Successful. No problems.
- MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk successful except the 'Many' live wallpaper option doesn't load without this. I didn't care cause I was getting rid of all of them.
- LiveWallpapersPicker.apk Deleting this changes some things. When you go to menu >wallpaper it takes me directly to Astro File Manager instead of the wallpaper menu. I can still access and change my wallpaper though the Gallery app
I didn't remove Camera.apk because I read somewhere that it will mess up your camera even if you have another app install. I also didn't remove any Google apps yet. I might try those any other day. They aren't bothering me right now.
I was thinking about moving my nandroid backup to my computer to save space, but I didn't. I realized that if my SD is full, I won't have space on it to move it back when I needed it.
Thanks for all the tips.

what are the apps you upgraded to after deleting these?
i dont want to delete the stock once i've been using if there alternatives arent any better.

dh4645 said:
what are the apps you upgraded to after deleting these?
i dont want to delete the stock once i've been using if there alternatives arent any better.
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For Music, I'm using Mixzing. For Browser, I'm using Dolphin HD. For E-mail, I'm using K9. For Messaging, I'm using Handcent. For Camera, I have a bunch of different apps.
I heard that your camera and messaging won't work without the 'Camera' and 'Messaging' that are currently on the phone. I'm assuming that your email won't work without the 'Email'. I deleted Gmail without any problems though. All the rest that I removed were just Wallpapers that came on the phone. I can pull up the wallpapers that I want from gallery still.
I don't think I freed up much memory space. My main concern was to get all those 'Music' widgets off my widget list and make everything else less cluttered.

So you can still get and send email from your email account after removing gmail or do you have to buy/download another email client. I am trying to figure out the differences between the gmail and email apps at the moment. The email app seems to have changed in Froyo to something less than it was. Are you using the standard "email" app after you delete gmail app?

anika200 said:
So you can still get and send email from your email account after removing gmail or do you have to buy/download another email client. I am trying to figure out the differences between the gmail and email apps at the moment. The email app seems to have changed in Froyo to something less than it was. Are you using the standard "email" app after you delete gmail app?
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I use k9 mail. Everything worked after i removed gmail.apk
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What I did before I installed the addon apps is opened the zip file and just deleted the apk files I didnt want.
I forgot to delete Twitter tho. Doh.

Hey, tried running Skyfire browser after uninstalling the default browser?? Cause all I am getting is a black screen when trying to run Skyfire.Other browsers work fine, but no Skyfire.
Know of any way to reinstall the defautl browser???

mharrissmith said:
Hey, tried running Skyfire browser after uninstalling the default browser?? Cause all I am getting is a black screen when trying to run Skyfire.Other browsers work fine, but no Skyfire.
Know of any way to reinstall the defautl browser???
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I think I read somewhere that Skyfire is meant to run on top of the default browser, kind of like an add-on.
For the stock browser, download cm6 and unzip it. Then go into the unzipped file >system>app>browser.apk. Just push Browser.apk to /system/app on your phone via adb and you're good to go.
EDIT: just realized you might not be running cm6. Not sure if theres a difference between the browser in cm6 and the one from the stock rom. If there is a difference you just follow the same procedure from whichever rom you're running.

[Q] Getting past the "Read-only file system"

Ultimately... All I'm trying to do is put my custom ringtone on the internal memory so that it still plays correctly when the sd card is connected to my computer. (Though I certainly wouldn't mind removing the obnoxious "boot_att.ogg" file as well.) But I keep getting thwarted. First by the discovery that there's no /home directory (which kind of weirds me out, but that's a whole 'nother story).
Anyway, my phone is rooted with z4root, and I'm trying to do this by two different methods. [Correction: It would be better to say that I've tried this using two different programs] I've tried using "adb shell," and I've tried using "Android Terminal Emulator". I can successfully use su in both of them (but if I can't rewrite anything, then I don't see what the difference is). Then I go to the directory on my sd card where the cell ring is and I type
cp cell\ ring.mp3 /system/media/audio/ringtones/​
And it replies
cp: /system/media/audio/ringtones/cell ring.mp3: Read-only file system​
So, I found these instructions that say to use "mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3" (though I think it needs to be "mtdblock7" for mine) or "mount -o rw,remount -t rootfs /" But when I do either of those, it returns
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory​
Which I take to mean that the "mount" command isn't being used correctly (and my experience with the mount command on desktop bash is limited, so I don't have any clue how to correct it).
It's worth noting that I have the exact same results in both adb shell and Android Terminal Emulator.
So, I found another thread (I think one on XDA) that said that I need to be in recovery mode to write to /system, which kind of makes sense. But I have no clue how to do that. And Google is not helping. The only instructions I could find said to turn the phone off and hold down the camera and volume up button. Which did nothing. And it's a good thing nobody was watching because I'm sure I looked like an idiot.
So... I guess I'll have to ask, how do I get into recovery mode? But at this point, I keep coming across so many absurd things keeping me from this that I wouldn't be surprised if next I get an error.
Therefore, my question is this: Is there a way to get into recovery mode, or, alternatively, is there a way to keep my ringtone working even while my sd card is connected to my computer?

Do you have busybox installed?
Have you tried Root Explorer? It has a button to toggle read-write and read only in a folder.

I do have busybox installed. I have no idea what it does, but I installed it in an attempt to enable sideloading (which I have yet to successfully do; apparently the file isn't in the same place on the Flipside as the Captivate and I was going by a Captivate guide).
I have not yet tried Root Explorer. I know this sounds stupid since it's just four dollars, but I tend to shy away from mobile programs that cost money. (Don't know why, I've been that way since my black and white palm pilot.) But, that's just something that's weird about me, lol. I'll get Root Explorer tomorrow and come back.

Busybox is a set of command line utilities. More Info. The link in my previous post is to an installer for Busybox. Busybox provides a set of commands that can be used and many of the tutorials on modifying an android phone use them. Some don't clearly state Busybox is required.
If you are using this thread as a guide to enabling installation from unknown sources be sure to read the whole thread. In particular this post.

Mission accomplished: Root explorer worked perfectly. I saw it in the marketplace before, but I didn't know it can change read/write privileges. (I didn't get it because I thought it was going to have the same effect as Android Terminal Emulator, just without the GUI. Obviously, I am pleasantly corrected.)
And I have a correction: I did not have BusyBox installed; I had the installer installed. But it is installed now.
Thanks also for the links; sideloading is on my to-do list, after removing AT&T bloatware.
And I have one quick question: Do you (or anybody reading) happen to know if it'll be ok if I remove that boot_att.ogg file in /system/media/audio? I don't know if AT&T designed it so that the phone will crash without it, so I thought I'd ask before removing it.

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And I have one quick question: Do you (or anybody reading) happen to know if it'll be ok if I remove that boot_att.ogg file in /system/media/audio? I don't know if AT&T designed it so that the phone will crash without it, so I thought I'd ask before removing it.
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I have not tried any mods of the boot sound. I would suggest that you replace the file with one that is the same name but just silence if removing it does not work.

Mounting file system as Read/Write
I too can affirm that the "Root explorer" app works perfectly for toggling the Read Only File System to Read Write.
I have a Samsung Captivate from AT&T that I upgraded to Froyo (2.2) using the official release from Samsung via the Kies Mini interface. First, I can say that was very worth it. Love 2.2 much better than stock 2.1
I rooted the phone with SuperOnceClick1.7 (had to have a Windoze OS to run that though) that I got from XDA developers and it worked like a charm. I then removed all the bloatware that AT&T likes to inflict upon its users by using "Titanium Backup." Finally, I added "Terminal Emulator" and verified that the su command was working and then "cd" to the "/etc" folder where the "PowerOn.wav" file is for the annoyingly loud startup sound is to delete it. When I issued the "rm" command to delete the file, got the dreaded "can't delete dueo the Read-only file system" or something very similar. Tried using the Android SDK via adb and that gave exact same results.
What to do?...Found this thread that gave great advice that "Root explorer" does work to toggle the R/O to R/W so the file could be deleted.
Thank you marvin02 for the great lead!!!

I have removed the "boot_att.ogg" file without any problems and went as far as swapping out the "bootanimation.zip" also without any problems. Now using CyanogenMod 5 boot animation but... haven't had any luck replacing the .ogg file for a custom startup sound. Tried encoding audio to the same specs as the original but keep getting this strange noise at boot time instead. Just thought I'd throw that in.

Quick question...
I just downloaded the free explorer from Speed which makes Root Explorer.
don't see any button to change read only to read/write. Is that a feature only in the paid Root Explorer?
Thanks from a Noob.
Edit: Just so if there are any other noobs asking... Yes, need to get the paid version to be able to write in system folders.
The free version is not able.

**Insufficient Space Available**

So I've searched around and found that others have had this issue as well but no resolution yet. I am on a T-mobile Galaxy Tab 7 running Overcome 7 Series v 4.0 and I am unable to download apps larger than what appears to be about 25mb or larger. I keep getting an error saying that I have insufficient space available though I still have over 1gb of storage available. I ran into this issue while running Overcome Kratos as well.
Is anyone else still having this issue? If so, post here which version tab you have and what rom your running.

The problem lies in the new Android market place app. It is quite buggy from what I hear. A work around is to uninstall the update via the settings -> applications menu. This will revert you back to the old market place version.
Alternativly, I hear there are updates that you'd have to install manually that patch the bug.
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I have tried both to no avail.

You can fix if you have root in you tab.
First download and install Bloat Freezer Free from the market.
With this you can freeze the Market Updater.
Later uninstall the new Market app.

Maybe it's something completely different.
I had quite the same problem ("database full, please delete some contacts/messages") and couldn't find anything.
UNTIL ... i got the idea to check the trash of the Samsung email client.
I used email via POP3 and "delete" doesn't delete a mail, it pushes it to the trash bin (which isn't shown by default).
So I found out that I had one year's email and SPAM blocking my database (which did not show in any tool.
Unfortunately (again) there's no "empty trash" option, so I deleted the POP3-user and am now using IMAP without any problems.
Perhaps this helps someone.

Any news on this? Just installed Overcome today and is experiencing this issue.

If you have clockwork recovery clear dalvik cache
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The problem lies in the default cache partition, which is small. If you're rooted, here's a fix that worked for me.
prerequisites:
root
Script Manager (ads version works ok), or any Terminal app
1. run script manager and bring up the Console
2. Type ’su’ (minus the quotes. approve root permission request if it pops up)
3. Type ‘cd /’
4. Type ‘umount /cache’
5. Type ‘mount -o rw,remount -t rootfs rootfs /’ (set read write permissions)
6. Type ‘rmdir /cache’ (delete cache folder)
7. Type ‘mkdir /sdcard/cache’
8. Type ‘ln -s /sdcard/cache /cache’
(to link cache folder to /sdcard/cache for a bigger partition size)
now your cache will sit on the /sdcard/cache folder, so your cache size is as large as your sd card's free space. I just found this fix somewhere, i forgot where exactly but props o whoever came up with it.
This doesn't seem to stick after a reboot, so maybe you can write a script file and run that at boot using Script manager. I prefer to do it only before I have to install something big, which is not very often anyway, so just run the script when you have to so you can keep default settings at bootup.

How do I find out what is taking up all the space on my SM-N900V internal drive?

I am running out of room on the internal drive (available only 1.5 gig of the 32 gig available) and I wish to find the offending program(s) or file(s) that are taking up so much space. When I use an explorer type program, nothing is showing up as very large at all. But something(s) are just eating up space.
Is their an app that would allow me to see which folders or files are the largest ones?
I do know that for a Windows computer, there is a program called Disk Pie that shows in a pie chart which file or folders are taking up space. This program only looks at hard drives though. I tried to navigate the program to my phone's internal drive but it doesn't allow it. Any help would surely be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

are you rooted or stock?
for root (in a terminal app or using ADB)
su
cd /data
du -sk *
summarizes by folders (in addition to any individual files which are at the top level of the /data folder).
From there you find the biggest (folder), "cd" in to it, and repeat until you located the folder using the most amount of space.
If you are not rooted, you can do the same thing in "/sdcard" if that is what is taking up the greatest amount of space., e.g.
cd /sdcard
du -sk *
etc
The built in Android stuff (Settings -> Apps -> etc) will tell you how much *private* data storage is being used on an app-by-app basis, but if your apps downloaded a ton of stuff to the (internal) /sdcard area, it won't show up in that summary.

Thanks for your quick reply! I am rooted but I am not very good with a terminal app or for that matter ADB . I was hoping for an app from the Google play store. I guess I have to bone up on both a terminal app and ADB.

laserbiz said:
Thanks for your quick reply! I am rooted but I am not very good with a terminal app or for that matter ADB . I was hoping for an app from the Google play store. I guess I have to bone up on both a terminal app and ADB.
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The du command is harmless (it only reads, never writes), so you should be able to use what I showed you above in a terminal emulator with confidence. The only commands you need to understand are "cd" (change directory) and "du" (disk usage).
Solid Explorer (w/ root privileges) seems to summarize storage usage by folder (top down, everything under that folder) with a "long-press -> Properties". But it's hunt-and-peck like you were trying rather than "give me the (top-down) storage used underneath of all the folders in the current directory right now". I'm using the paid version, but there might be a trial or free version that does the same thing.
As is typical, the command line will give you the answer you want in about 1/100th of the time of hunting and pecking.
There might be an app to do what you want though if you want to do things the slow way.

laserbiz said:
I am running out of room on the internal drive (available only 1.5 gig of the 32 gig available) and I wish to find the offending program(s) or file(s) that are taking up so much space. When I use an explorer type program, nothing is showing up as very large at all. But something(s) are just eating up space.
Is their an app that would allow me to see which folders or files are the largest ones?
I do know that for a Windows computer, there is a program called Disk Pie that shows in a pie chart which file or folders are taking up space. This program only looks at hard drives though. I tried to navigate the program to my phone's internal drive but it doesn't allow it. Any help would surely be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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There's an easier way. Settings->General->Storage and then tap on the Misc storage line.
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