How can i expand my system storage? Because i want to instal chainfire 3d and it dont let me istall it , it says there are not enaught space in system.....
You can't expand the system partition. Do a full wipe (including system) and flash your ROM again, and this time save some space by not flashing mods, and using minimal gapps.
Or, for a quick solution you could delete certain system apps via root explorer
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In to system folder and delete unnecessary ringtones or system apps
With this little information it's a wild guess but:
If your internal memory is full, maybe you can check the /data/tombstones directory because it can take up a few GiB's. If your phone is rooted and you have root explorer, you can delete them all. If not delete something so you can install root explorer.
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My new desire says it is down to 18mb of memory.
I have rooted the phone and have access to the installed app folder if i delete some of these will i get more memory available to me?
Also i did try deleting quickoffice but it just keeps reappearing?
If you want to free up memory you need to uninstall apps that are installed in /data. This can be done via market or application management.
If you want to remove apps from /system (like quickoffice) you need to do it via recovery or S-off your desire. In your case i would wait with s-offing your desire and remove Quickoffice via recovery, just remember it won't give you more space since /data and /system are different partitions.
When downloading an apk to your sd. Is it best to move it to the app folder in system to install it (as opposed to installing it right on the sd card) or is there no benefit to doing so.
just install it from the SD card. When you do that, it leaves a backup of the app there (in case you need to wipe the phone) and it installs it into the data/app folder NOT the system folder. Some apps don't play well in the system folder (handcent comes to mind) and some programs exempt system apps from their function (task killers and the like)
I put it on root of SD(not required at all) then find it in astro and all goes well every time
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using mdjs 2.6 and sucessfully created the ext4 partition for a while.
But how can I check, if the apps are installed correctly on the ext4 partition?
If I check my phone storage it seems, that the phone storage is used for the installation...cause there are "only" 100Mb free.
Removing the sd card causes all apps to stop working.
Using Root Explorer shows me a folder "sd-ext"..with all installed apks...
BUT also in data/app are all installed apks.
I'm very confused...
any suggestions?
Suggestions as to what? They're obviously in your Ext4 partition if you can see them there with Root Explorer. Don't really know about the /data thing though. Maybe delete an .apk from there and see what happens?
I use titanium backup to see how much room i've got left on my ext partition.
After installing apps it's normal for the internal memory to drop, reboot to see effect.
apps will be auto installed to ext partition if you've got and rom that supports it.
My Phone's internal memory gets used up when i download some application from the android market(which is quite obvious) , but after it gets installed , the applicaion's setup file still uses internal memory along with installed files ..
is there any way clean up these downloaded setup files ..
Please please please help me .. i am running short of memory here inspite of APP2SD ..
i doubt it. its all in the apk file so i would assume that you couldnt separate the set up files from the actual application just because its really all one file. i mean you could use 7-zip and looked inside the apk file and you would see other files but you would still need the set up file to be able to install and set it up. right? besides i think this file would be very small anyway.
i agree with u that apk file can't be moved or deleted from mnt/asec/ ..
but i don't know why the downloaded setup file still uses the memory along with the installed files (apk and others) .. i mean either the setup file shud be moved to asec or it shud get deleted .. the application uses double space
and i have tested it too .. i used some apks stored in my SD card to install the applications .. and the space used by them was as much as expected .. (i didnt have ext 3/ext4 partition at that time to install them on SD card direct) ...
and when i downloaded the same app from market and installed it .. it used more memory!!
Now here's what i did to free up memory .. i downloaded all the required apks in sd card and used CWM recovery to factor reset and clean dalvik cache ,, plus i made a ext4 partition on SD card for A2SD+ ..
This way only nominal internal memory is used by apps ..
But this way i would never want to use android market to download and install apps .. thats why i need a way to clean my downloaded setup files and install the apps to SD card using A2SD+
When i Download something from the market the setup files often stay under the cache folder. You can delete them with root explorer or something like that to get more free space.
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When i Download something from the market the setup files often stay under the cache folder. You can delete them with root explorer or something like that to get more free space.
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thanks for the suggestion .. will try it
Ive found a way to install apps on my desire even if it says that im out of memory. When it says that its almost out of memory it means that it isnt so much space left in the data partition of the phone.
However i have seen that i have like 130 mb space left in my system partition.
The system partition is much like the data partition. The difference is that this partition holds the system apps like contact app, camera app, gallery app, settings app and so on...
Data partition unlike the system partition holds apps that are install/uninstallable. Still if you have root and have root explorer installed then you can see if you have much storage left in your system partition. I would recommend that you have about 100 mb storage left cuz then you can surely use this method.
NOTE:
This isnt garanteed 100% that it will work and for that i recommend that you do a backup of your current rom. And leave a bit space in system partition incase it needs some space. I leave 20 mb space and its working out for me fine.
So what we are gonna do is that we are gonna move our apps or games to the system partition as if it would be a system app and we are gonna use that extra space.
Requirements: Root, S-OFF, recovery, root explorer installed, the apk files of the apps you wabt to move (use a apk manager to make a apk file from your installed apps)
1. Backup your current rom using a recovery.
2. Open root explorer and grant the root access permission.
3. Go to sdcard/ and copy the apk files of the apps that you want to move
4. Go back out of the sdcard and go to system/app/
5. Here make sure you tap on the button in the upper right corner that says Mount R/W
6. Paste the apk files here and rename them to some simple name for example rename com.imangi.templerun.apk to TempleRun.apk
7. After youve done everything in the right order just reboot and your apps should appear in your apps list and you wont be able to move them to sdcard or uninstall them. Incase you have the apps that want to move already installed then uninstall them before the restart.
Only way to remove these apps is to remove the apk files from system/app folder using root manager while the system is mounted as r/w. After a restart the apps should be gone.
If anything goes wrong then just format the system partition and restore it using recovery.
Hope some of you find this helpfull
BTW: this does not work with viber so done even try or you will get unlimited crashes that wont stop viber from trying to start.
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Quick question:
I'm on a MIUI based rom, and my /system/app only has 11Mb free. I'm assuming that I can't increase that without losing some important apps?
Well i have never encountered a rom that has less than 50 mb space there. I assume that you have too many apps there. See if you can clean that folder up a bit by searching for apps that you think arent necessary. Like for example i have a app called adaway.apk. I dont need it nor does the system need it. If u cannot do that then change rom.
Btw more apps that donr work with this: SetCPU, Viber
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