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Okay.... I'm very anal about the amount space being used by each application .... so tend to go alittle overboard.. lol... alot of the stuff I don't used so I get rid of them..... but for some reason... something I'm deleting is effecting my gallery app... and I don't know what it is..... I delete everything I need to delete and the gallery is fine ..... but a day later or few days later it start force closing and never opens back up..... I delete the calculator, amizon, twitter, the dell sync, the dell hello, all the keyboards cause I use betterkeyboard now ... lol.... the Google search, voice search, voice recorder... the market widget, ummm the stage launcher and all the Widgets, cause I use go launcher or launcher pro but basically I leave only one installed.... the email app .... cause I have all my emails set up threw my Gmail... do I can check AOL,yahoo,MSN, thru my Gmail... weather,umm what else................. normally I don't do the live wallpaper but yes that had to go too.... eat to much battery... .. oh I delete all the ringtones from the phone.... cause I use only the ones on my memory card...lol..... and I can't remember the names of the other stuff but I was down to one page..... calendar, camera,clock,Facebook,Gmail,gallery,market, messaging, music,Google talk, browser,and YouTube..... that's all that was left from the stock apps.... lmao.... but is there something that works together with the gallery???? Cause this is not cool... I love the stock gallery.... I tried the market ... but others is not as good..
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Wow that was painful to read.
Why don't you just delete less stuff? The streak has tons of internal storage plus the sdcard, and several of those things dont run in the background without first opening them (for example: live wallpaper, keyboards, and widgets).
Indeed. I still have 1.2GB left in the internal SD and have only deleted Dell Stage, Dell Sync, and several pieces of bloatware like Oovoo, Evernote, Pageonce, Amazon MP3, and Zinio Reader.
dotdevil, did I mention that I hate stream of consciousness posts? You don't have to be perfect but you DO have to make an attempt to post in full sentences so that we can read it. You'll be more likely to get help that way in the future.
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Okay.... I'm very anal about the amount space being used by each application .... so tend to go alittle overboard.. lol... alot of the stuff I don't used so I get rid of them..... but for some reason... something I'm deleting is effecting my gallery app... and I don't know what it is..... I delete everything I need to delete and the gallery is fine ..... but a day later or few days later it start force closing and never opens back up..... I delete the calculator, amizon, twitter, the dell sync, the dell hello, all the keyboards cause I use betterkeyboard now ... lol.... the Google search, voice search, voice recorder... the market widget, ummm the stage launcher and all the Widgets, cause I use go launcher or launcher pro but basically I leave only one installed.... the email app .... cause I have all my emails set up threw my Gmail... do I can check AOL,yahoo,MSN, thru my Gmail... weather,umm what else................. normally I don't do the live wallpaper but yes that had to go too.... eat to much battery... .. oh I delete all the ringtones from the phone.... cause I use only the ones on my memory card...lol..... and I can't remember the names of the other stuff but I was down to one page..... calendar, camera,clock,Facebook,Gmail,gallery,market, messaging, music,Google talk, browser,and YouTube..... that's all that was left from the stock apps.... lmao.... but is there something that works together with the gallery???? Cause this is not cool... I love the stock gallery.... I tried the market ... but others is not as good..
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Well my friend it sounds like you and I are very much alike. What I would suggest is flashing StreakDroid 1.9 but with the noapps option in the install.txt file and that will get rid of bloatware. As far as storage, I changed out my factory 2GB class 2 card with a hot 4GB Class 10 and it's a different animal, along with the bone stripped StreakDroid, the perfmod AND SetCPU at 1190 mhz, my Streak screams like never before....
That's my personal suggestion.... It would be pretty damn hard to install 4GB worth of apps
How did u replace the on-board memory?
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As far as storage, I changed out my factory 2GB class 2 card with a hot 4GB Class 10 and ....
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U did it urself? Was it easy?
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U did it urself? Was it easy?
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Yeah man, it took me about 20 minutes to cut into the Streak because I didn't have the tools to take it apart. I used one of those model knifes and was really careful about it. There's nothing left to do after that except replace your chip. You put it in and boot up and the Streak will take care of the rest, formating and partitioning. Then flashed a new ROM. Entire process took about 35 minutes. You can find the thread over at MODACO under something about changed the LCD screen. It begins with a guy taking his Streak apart but about the 5th post down another fella mentions exactly where to cut, although I was a little more precise with my cut and even was able to keep the little border that keeps the SD chip tight in its spot
EDIT: Here's the link!!http://android.modaco.com/content/dell-streak-streak-modaco-com/336477/lcd-replacement-and-internal-sd-upgrade/
Go down to the 7th post from Techneut and he mentions it and in post further down you get pics
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Yeah man, it took me about 20 minutes to cut into the Streak because I didn't have the tools to take it apart. I used one of those model knifes and was really careful about it. There's nothing left to do after that except replace your chip. You put it in and boot up and the Streak will take care of the rest, formating and partitioning. Then flashed a new ROM. Entire process took about 35 minutes. You can find the thread over at MODACO under something about changed the LCD screen. It begins with a guy taking his Streak apart but about the 5th post down another fella mentions exactly where to cut, although I was a little more precise with my cut and even was able to keep the little border that keeps the SD chip tight in its spot
EDIT: Here's the link!!http://android.modaco.com/content/dell-streak-streak-modaco-com/336477/lcd-replacement-and-internal-sd-upgrade/
Go down to the 7th post from Techneut and he mentions it and in post further down you get pics
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Do you have to program the card or anything.... just in stall and the streak will do the rest???
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Thank you very much for the detailed info
One question : do u find the 4gb card consumes more battery current than the original card?
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I don't see any difference in battery consumption with the new card.
ANd yes, the Streak will do everything.... At that same link he posts screenshots of what the Streak is doing as it's setting up the card. It used to be that with older versions of Android, special scripts had to be written to format and partition a card greater than 2GB but now you can go up to 4GB with no extra input.
You install the card and boot up and it starts the process on its own. When it gets done, you boot into recovery and reinstall your ROM, that simple
Question..... I can't find a class 10 in store..... I think there is only one other place to look... but is it a must that the card be a class 10??
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Question..... I can't find a class 10 in store..... I think there is only one other place to look... but is it a must that the card be a class 10??
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Honestly I wouldn't fool with it if you weren't going to class 10. Have you looked on NewEgg for the Patriot LX series, that's the one I used.
What I'm having trouble finding is the 16GB class 10 for the external memory. The best one is supposed to be the a-data and it's out of stock everywhere
Hey what's up...... I found the memory card... class 10 4gig..... and I swapped... n everything...... I cannot lye...... you was 100 percent correct....... this thing is fast now..... lol..... very fast..... I can tell by the responce time just by touching ... or typing.... that everything is faster...... this should be pushed more to be done..... this is awesome .... the only thing that go me nervous was taking of the top n bottom tabs off.... but that wasn't even a big deal..... soon as the screws come out... the rest pops off... and the card is right there in ya face..... I gently lift the card up over that rubber and wiggled it out.... and powered on..... configuration the card it self....done!.... after that it attempted to boot.... but I cut it back off and flashed the rom..... good to go...... I thought this was my baby before...lol..... I can't take it outta my hand as if I'm the father and it was born a minute ago....lmao
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See here:
http://www.androidcentral.com/google-chrome-beta-now-available-android-40-devices
Google released a beta of Chrome for 4.0 devices. It looks pretty awesome so far. Supports sync with desktop chrome and the UI is beautiful.
I like the Tab UI, very smooth too!
It is awesome.
Chrome for Android! Just installed it, it's really nice.
I like it as well. I have used Chrome Desktop for years, so I the integration is really handy. The biggest thing that is keeping me from removing Dolphin HD is flash support. Will have to keep it around for those legacy sites that refuse to switch to HTML5.
Is there a way to clear out the browsing history on exit like Mini Dolphin & Dolphin have? This is one of the reason I am not using this on a regular basis..
downloaded the first time, constant force closes. redownloaded, good to go.
What makes this better than dolphin browser? Just curious
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What makes this better than dolphin browser? Just curious
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it's google freaking chrome. supports sync with your desktop browser if you use chrome which most of us do. it's a very awesome UI, and just a good browser in general.
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What makes this better than dolphin browser? Just curious
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And it has super fancy animations that are completely unnecessary but totally super cool!
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downloaded the first time, constant force closes. redownloaded, good to go.
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Had the same problem, removed, and installed, and still have the problem.
I have Fascinate ICS build 6
Your /datadata partition is probably getting filled up, try moving chrome to the SD card and see if that works.
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Your /datadata partition is probably getting filled up, try moving chrome to the SD card and see if that works.
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Lol, yes, I started getting "You are getting low on space" but my "Storage" said I was only using about 600MB of over 1GB [internal, /data/ partition].
So, can you please tell me... why is /datadata/ only 100-something MB? Can I increase it?
Does moving an app, move it's data to the sdcard too? [into .android_secure/*.asec, right?]
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Lol, yes, I started getting "You are getting low on space" but my "Storage" said I was only using about 600MB of over 1GB [internal, /data/ partition].
So, can you please tell me... why is /datadata/ only 100-something MB? Can I increase it?
Does moving an app, move it's data to the sdcard too? [into .android_secure/*.asec, right?]
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/datadata is only 158 MB because of hardware limitations, but it's much faster memory. You can increase it by symlinking it to /data/data, but your phone is going to get slow. THS has a fix for this, it will make its way to the other ICS ROMs soon.
I figure I should also say the fix isn't 100%, but as long as you don't have multiple apps taking up huge amounts of data it should work pretty good. (Having two browsers installed both taking up 40MB of data would be considered "huge amounts of data")
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/datadata is only 158 MB because of hardware limitations, but it's much faster memory. You can increase it by symlinking it to /data/data, but your phone is going to get slow. THS has a fix for this, it will make its way to the other ICS ROMs soon.
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Ohh, so /datadata isn't just another partition, it's a separate faster flash storage?
And I guess that means, moving apps to SD makes them go faster, eh?
What is the difference between app2sd, and ICS's "move to SD card" feature?
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Ohh, so /datadata isn't just another partition, it's a separate faster flash storage?
And I guess that means, moving apps to SD makes them go faster, eh?
What is the difference between app2sd, and ICS's "move to SD card" feature?
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I believe that's true, although I'm kind of just learning all of this so I'm not positive.
I'm not sure if it's faster, test it and let me know though.
And those are both the same thing I thought...they just move the app data that's stored in /datadata to the SD...I'm not 100% on that.
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Your /datadata partition is probably getting filled up, try moving chrome to the SD card and see if that works.
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Okay so I redownlaoded Chrome on wifi, and the "Move to SD Card" is disabled.
[greyed out]
I tried rebooting, still the same.
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Okay so I redownlaoded Chrome on wifi, and the "Move to SD Card" is disabled.
[greyed out]
I tried rebooting, still the same.
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That's because not all apps have Move to SD support, this is where the 3rd party apps like Titanium Backup and Apps2SD probably come in handy. I know I can move any app I want to the SD with Titanium Backup Pro, I've never tried Apps2SD though.
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That's because not all apps have Move to SD support, this is where the 3rd party apps like Titanium Backup and Apps2SD probably come in handy. I know I can move any app I want to the SD with Titanium Backup Pro, I've never tried Apps2SD though.
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ohh.. so should I get the "app2sd" app in the market?
edit.. I moved skype, and some big games to my sdcard, the the "low storage" message isn't there. And chrome still force closes.. :\
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ohh.. so should I get the "app2sd" app in the market?
edit.. I moved skype, and some big games to my sdcard, the the "low storage" message isn't there. And chrome still force closes.. :\
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Like I said I've only ever used Titanium Backup Pro, so I couldn't tell you if Apps2SD works.
The warning only shows up when you have 15MB or less of free space, chrome beta takes up roughly 40MB of space.
How can this be? 16g Nexus, only 7g used. Only 3 free?
Mine did the same thing. Any clues out there ?
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Install DiskUsage to quickly go through your storage by size. If you have root, you can use it for your system partitions as well.
That's a great app ! Been using it for years it seems... In the OP there's a picture. The picture shows a gray bar that's supposedly only 3 GB's. The visual representation of space available is incorrect in the picture and on my device also.
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I've seen the same thing on mine, it's neglecting certain files/folders when making out what's using the storage, but the free storage number is usually correct.
I think in my case, my titanium backups weren't added in the equation. I moved them to an external mSD and since then it's been accurate.
Having the same problem since installing 4.1.2. Went from 5.5 gb free to 791 mb. Searched for a while but I can't find anything causing it. Glad you posted this, I was thinking of resetting back to stock and setting everything up again.
Ok, I hooked up to my computer and confirmed 13g and 3 free on Win 7.
The problem is I dont have 10g of files. I have one movie @ 4g and and 2g of music. I have checked the size of all folders on the sd and the numbers don't add up.
13-6=7 not 3 thats being shown. A significant difference!
I just found 2g in the clockworkmod folder. I did a backup prior to the 4.1.2 install. The blob folder is 2g. Can I delete it safely?
Yup, you could also move it over to pc just in case you'd ever need it.
Like I said, backups don't tend to get recognized by storage use, but DiskUsage shows em nice and clear
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Yup, you could also move it over to pc just in case you'd ever need it.
Like I said, backups don't tend to get recognized by storage use, but DiskUsage shows em nice and clear
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Thanks!
Evening all. Just wanted to report that I've had good results using the Forever Gone app from the play store to improve lag on my non rooted xt925. It had gotten a bit sluggish lately.
The app essentially "formats" the free space on your ROM memory which seems to restore performance pretty significantly. Made a big difference on my nexus 7 too. It doesn't touch any of your files.
No affiliation, it just got recommended to me and I'm happy with the results. Especially since it doesn't require root.
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nice! thanks for sharing.
will try to use this app too
Good app the only thing is that it takes forever to process all your data..
But thanks for the post
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Good app the only thing is that it takes forever to process all your data..
But thanks for the post
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Yeah, it does take a bit of time to do it's thing. Especially if you have a reasonable amount of free space. But it's definitely worth the wait IMHO.
I started it before I went to sleep one night and just let it do it's thing. I'm not sure how long it took on my Razr, but it was probably about 20 minutes on my Nexus 7. Again, definitely worth the wait though.
It takes for my razr hd with 9GB free space about ~40 min
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Giving this a try. Hoping for similar results
Someone tell me how it goes!
What I read from description in playstore: This app cleans already free space on your SDCard similar to writing Nullbytes into the sectors of the SD. No defragmentation.
Every scriptkidd should be able to write an app like this. The purpose of this app is to *hide*/destroy files that were being deleted from your SDCard so that they cannot be recovered by Undelete-/Recovery-Software.
I wonder how someone comes to the conclusion that this app would format and defragment rom memory or increases performance or decreases lags?
Also: Is this app 100% trustable? Nobody can ever know what happens to the data that is being scanned; maybe exaggerating a bit, but who knows if your sdcard-data gets sent to north korea?
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What I read from description in playstore: This app cleans already free space on your SDCard similar to writing Nullbytes into the sectors of the SD. No defragmentation.
Every scriptkidd should be able to write an app like this. The purpose of this app is to *hide*/destroy files that were being deleted from your SDCard so that they cannot be recovered by Undelete-/Recovery-Software.
I wonder how someone comes to the conclusion that this app would format and defragment rom memory or increases performance or decreases lags?
Also: Is this app 100% trustable? Nobody can ever know what happens to the data that is being scanned; maybe exaggerating a bit, but who knows if your sdcard-data gets sent to north korea?
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It works on the theory that when a file is deleted or moved off your memory it retains data that allows it to be recovered at a later date by a data recovery app. This retained data may slow down the I/O of your memory, creating lag. Remember that solid state memory works differently to optical storage. On an optical HDD or a DVD this type of thing wouldn't have much (any?) benefit. SSDs work differently though.
So what if every "scriptkidd" could write an app like this? How is that helpful to this discussion? I don't understand that comment...
If you don't trust it or don't believe the theory behind it, don't use it. Personally I don't keep stuff on my phone that I would be terribly worried about the North Koreans getting hold of, but I can't speak for others...
Look, at the end of the day, it's not my app. I couldn't care less if you install it or not. I used it and it improved my lag. It's that simple. I thought others might like to hear about that.
It works on the theory that when a file is deleted or moved off your memory it retains data that allows it to be recovered at a later date by a data recovery app. This retained data may slow down the I/O of your memory, creating lag. Remember that solid state memory works differently to optical storage. On an optical HDD or a DVD this type of thing wouldn't have much (any?) benefit. SSDs work differently though.
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Hmm. I guess there is something getting pretty mixed up. Everything that this App is doing is cleaning up some bytes/pointers on either the internal or the external sd card memory (by stuffing the sdard's free space with Nullbyte datafiles).
(Strongly simplifying in nearly 99% of "roms" the Android OS system files reside on the system partitions of *internal memory* and most apps reside on the internal "apps"/"data"-partition. Those partitions are not reachable for "Forever Gone" since it doesn't use root privileges, so these partitions (and it's "empty" memory space) cannot be "optimized" by this app. Therefore it *can not* reduce lag for system-apps like e.g. launchers or standard apps. "Performance Improvements" for whole systems are to be regarded as simple placebo effect - no matter how many fivestars this app achieves on playstore.
There's a *slim chance* that it maybe "kind of" works for Apps that make use of Apps2sd, when those Apps (and their data-files/databases e.g) get stocked/moved unto internal or external sdcard space. Or Apps that make frequent permanent use of internal/external SDCard space like games or navigation programs with offline map files on internal/external SDCard. So that those apps "start faster" or "feel more responsive".
Until there's no empiristically satisfying performance measurements ... it is of course allowed for everyone to "believe" in the magic this app is doing ... but only that.
I tried it too and didn't really see a noticeable difference. Theory being that flash memory has to do a wipe before write which slows it down. By wiping the card ahead of time, checksum would already be zero. As someone pointed out it only does the SD card and not the data partition where most writing happens. It would only help someone with specific SD card issues I think. It could actually make things worse if the app isn't wiping correctly. I would imagine that Android does garbage collection and TRIM but I've never looked to see if any partitions have the discard flag enabled.
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Hmm. I guess there is something getting pretty mixed up. Everything that this App is doing is cleaning up some bytes/pointers on either the internal or the external sd card memory (by stuffing the sdard's free space with Nullbyte datafiles).
(Strongly simplifying in nearly 99% of "roms" the Android OS system files reside on the system partitions of *internal memory* and most apps reside on the internal "apps"/"data"-partition. Those partitions are not reachable for "Forever Gone" since it doesn't use root privileges, so these partitions (and it's "empty" memory space) cannot be "optimized" by this app. Therefore it *can not* reduce lag for system-apps like e.g. launchers or standard apps. "Performance Improvements" for whole systems are to be regarded as simple placebo effect - no matter how many fivestars this app achieves on playstore.
There's a *slim chance* that it maybe "kind of" works for Apps that make use of Apps2sd, when those Apps (and their data-files/databases e.g) get stocked/moved unto internal or external sdcard space. Or Apps that make frequent permanent use of internal/external SDCard space like games or navigation programs with offline map files on internal/external SDCard. So that those apps "start faster" or "feel more responsive".
Until there's no empiristically satisfying performance measurements ... it is of course allowed for everyone to "believe" in the magic this app is doing ... but only that.
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Look, you're entitled to be skeptical. No dramas. I would agree with your comment that the app obviously can't access the restricted areas of the internal memory. That's pretty clear. But it doesn't claim to do that. The way I see it, any app that accesses free space in the internal memory could potentially see an increase in performance. Anything related to the photo gallery, music, movies, books etc which are all stored in accessible area. Also, I don't know about you, but when I look at the accessible area of my internal memory, most of my apps have created their own folder in there. I don't move any apps to SD, I don't see any point. So I can only assume each app is accessing the accessible internal memory of it's own accord. So whether it makes sense to you or not, many apps are clearly accessing the area of memory in question.
Secondly, of course the Android system and launcher would access the accessible area of the internal memory. They need access to images (wall papers etc), sound files etc etc.
I'm not sure what sort of empirical evidence you're looking for? Should one of the Universities begin a research project on this app? Are there many apps that come scientifically proven?
Again, whether it makes sense to you or not is irrelevant to the whole argument. I can 100% guarantee that this app made a significant improvement to lag issues on my Nexus 7 (not rooted). The difference was very obvious. If you believe it's placebo, great. But I'm happy that my Nexus 7 is performing how it used to in my placebo world. It had become frustratingly laggy lately. The app also made a difference on my Razr HD. Not as much of an improvement as the nexus, but then again, the nexus was much laggier than the razr before hand. If this app is magical, where can I find more magical apps?
I'm not a scientist and I'm not going to perform a peer reviewed experiment on this app. So if you're not keen on apps that aren't scientifically proven, it's probably best to give this one a miss...
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I tried it too and didn't really see a noticeable difference. Theory being that flash memory has to do a wipe before write which slows it down. By wiping the card ahead of time, checksum would already be zero. As someone pointed out it only does the SD card and not the data partition where most writing happens. It would only help someone with specific SD card issues I think. It could actually make things worse if the app isn't wiping correctly. I would imagine that Android does garbage collection and TRIM but I've never looked to see if any partitions have the discard flag enabled.
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It definitely accesses the accessible partition of the internal memory.
You'd be better off with this to fix lag but you must be rooted.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmonkey.lagfix
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You'd be better off with this to fix lag but you must be rooted.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmonkey.lagfix
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There are plenty of solutions for rooted devices. I hadn't come across anything for non rooted devices that actually made a difference until I used this.
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Giving this a try. Hoping for similar results
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Gave it a try, no noticeable difference unfortunately.
For anyone interested, it seems like Android 4.3 has a feature built in which is very similar to the function this app performs. The article refers specifically to the Nexus 7, but it's obviously relevant to pretty much an Android device.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7185/android-43-update-brings-trim-to-all-nexus-devices
I tested this app, and it's really great. But as lobie81 said, android 4.3 do the same thing with the implementation of TRIM
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So I am cleaning up my phone when I notice I have these two folders that are identical.
Main question is, which one is safe to delete without making my phone go crazy?
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So I am cleaning up my phone when I notice I have these two folders that are identical.
Main question is, which one is safe to delete without making my phone go crazy?
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Definitely not. Leave it alone; everyone has those folders and I assure you they do not exist twice.
What makes me scratch my head is that both folders are the exact same size with the same content so I just don't understand why my phone needs double since it shows my storage at 17GB and want to free up some more space
One is a link to the other. They are not duplicated, they are one and the same files
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What makes me scratch my head is that both folders are the exact same size with the same content so I just don't understand why my phone needs double since it shows my storage at 17GB and want to free up some more space
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Alright, think about it this way. Open your file explorer and check the size of either of the folders by looking at their properties. For instance, mine both show that they add up to 10GB. I've also got about 3-4GB of space being used for backups and my system partition, and even more for apps. So my guess? Probably using at least 20GB of my storage. Keep in mind that I have a 32GB phone. Now if I go to settings > storage, it shows that I have 12GB of free space, so it all adds up. If you do the math, I couldn't possibly be using 20GB total for both of those folders, so they have to just be different paths to the same location, and yours probably is, too.
My conclusion: if you delete one of those folders, nothing good can come of it. Look elsewhere and account for your system itself (I see you are using the stock firmware, which is quite large due to LG bloatware) and the apps you use. Check Settings > Storage and see what's using so much space.
Thanks for confirming everyone. I guess I need to browse my phone system with my PC to find where the real bloat is at. Yes the LG apps do take up a bit of space.
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Thanks for confirming everyone. I guess I need to browse my phone system with my PC to find where the real bloat is at. Yes the LG apps do take up a bit of space.
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You might consider finding an AOSP ROM that fits your needs if you're looking for a bit more space. They tend to be a lot smaller than stock roms. Also, try clearing your cache.
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You might consider finding an AOSP ROM that fits your needs if you're looking for a bit more space. They tend to be a lot smaller than stock roms. Also, try clearing your cache.
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Cant live without Knock on or even the remote app since I stopped buying batteries for my remotes
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Cant live without Knock on or even the remote app since I stopped buying batteries for my remotes
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Knock on and the remote app have been ported and work very well. Check out Mahdi ROM, it works great on my G2. You can find the ported remote app in the Themes and Apps forum. Good luck!
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