No space left on my wifes phone! - XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Can someone help me?
My wife and I both have X10's.
I'm running a custom rom and she is running the stock 2.2 (I believe it's 2.2, could be 2.1).
I tried to install an app on her phone and it said that she was out of space! She doesn't have a lot of apps on the phone, nor does she have a lot of junk on it....she has about 4 games, and not a lot else.
I rooted it and took off a few of the dumb things like Moxier mail and such but I couldn't see any way to see how much space she had and I can't figure out why she'd be out of space and I've downloaded a LOT more stuff than she has and I haven't gotten any warning....

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Your wife is using stock 2.1 not 2.2 since its not out officially. There are lot of apps that can be removed from stock which i remember listed on a sticky thread (in app section u think) if you don't know what you are doing then id strongly suggest your wife to use erics Rom for 2.1
Its already fully optimized
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Link2sd off the market
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thanks guys....I'll look at erics Rom for 2.1
and also check out link2sd

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If you don't mind me asking, which app were you trying to install?
I tried installing plants vs zombies and peggle but both said my phone didn't have enough space. I easily had enough space for the install... It's possible it might be referring to amount of available ram.

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rpavich said:
Can someone help me?
My wife and I both have X10's.
I'm running a custom rom and she is running the stock 2.2 (I believe it's 2.2, could be 2.1).
I tried to install an app on her phone and it said that she was out of space! She doesn't have a lot of apps on the phone, nor does she have a lot of junk on it....she has about 4 games, and not a lot else.
I rooted it and took off a few of the dumb things like Moxier mail and such but I couldn't see any way to see how much space she had and I can't figure out why she'd be out of space and I've downloaded a LOT more stuff than she has and I haven't gotten any warning....
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You can also check the caches under each app and delete that. You be suprised how much memory apps take up.
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totalundone said:
If you don't mind me asking, which app were you trying to install?
I tried installing plants vs zombies and peggle but both said my phone didn't have enough space. I easily had enough space for the install... It's possible it might be referring to amount of available ram.
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Yes I also had that on 2.1. When I got enough space some apps still won't install because it thinks there is not enough space. After you've removed a lot of apps (that will free up memory) it gets installed. You could try installing with Flashtool the .apk, I think that that will work.

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Neo said:
... id strongly suggest your wife to use erics Rom for 2.1
Its already fully optimized
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can you link to this rom? I don't know which one you are referring to.

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rpavich said:
can you link to this rom? I don't know which one you are referring to.
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Look in the Android Development forum, you will find there the EWJET rom, that's what he means.
Goodluck!

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PlayGunsta said:
Yes I also had that on 2.1. When I got enough space some apps still won't install because it thinks there is not enough space. After you've removed a lot of apps (that will free up memory) it gets installed. You could try installing with Flashtool the .apk, I think that that will work.
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Or move the apk to system/app and change permissons
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rtblittlebrown said:
Or move the apk to system/app and change permissons
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Also possible, but if you say that tell him also what permissions !
You've to cross the permissions like this:
x x /
x / /
x / /

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just tell your wife to get rid of the justin bieber fart soundboards because they take up a lot of space.
what games does she have installed? plants vs zombies is rediculously HUGE.

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PlayGunsta said:
Also possible, but if you say that tell him also what permissions !
You've to cross the permissions like this:
x x /
x / /
x / /
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Oh sorry and thanks
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Angry birds also eats space and recent release of peggle ways in at 70mb before its even installed!
as above clear cached files ...inc browser caches if its storing to internal mem as opposed to sd card!
I use Diskusage from the market it shows all app data and sd card data along with their cache space used
DiskUsage provides a way to find files and directories on storage card which consume a lot of space.
Displays diagram with directories/subdirectories proportional to their size.
Press MENU for actions.
Integrates with OI FileManager and Astro.
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thanks for the good suggestions....I'm thinking about putting on erics rom...I just installed in on my phone and it flys....
Question: Since we have the same identical phone...could I take an Xrecovery back up on my phone...copy the file to her (soon to be) Xrecovery folder, and then recover her phone? that would save some time and hassle.

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rpavich said:
thanks for the good suggestions....I'm thinking about putting on erics rom...I just installed in on my phone and it flys....
Question: Since we have the same identical phone...could I take an Xrecovery back up on my phone...copy the file to her (soon to be) Xrecovery folder, and then recover her phone? that would save some time and hassle.
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Yes. It will work.

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rpavich said:
Can someone help me?
My wife and I both have X10's.
I'm running a custom rom and she is running the stock 2.2 (I believe it's 2.2, could be 2.1).
I tried to install an app on her phone and it said that she was out of space! She doesn't have a lot of apps on the phone, nor does she have a lot of junk on it....she has about 4 games, and not a lot else.
I rooted it and took off a few of the dumb things like Moxier mail and such but I couldn't see any way to see how much space she had and I can't figure out why she'd be out of space and I've downloaded a LOT more stuff than she has and I haven't gotten any warning....
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First thing:
Install Titanium backup *** root version from market.
Once you load it, it says how much space is left in every place of the phone.
4 games on a stock Froyo is quite a lot actually, rsrsrs, the stock rom is very BIG.
normal games may have 20MB or much more sometimes(like angry birds).
Yet the best would be to put a stable Froyo custom rom or eclair.
Womans(mine at least) doesn't want to much of the phone, just want it working, rsrsrs, so that would be enough for her.
She may have some app that is bloating the system space, google earth, some gps maybe?

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Well,
I tried to take an Xrecovery back up of my phone and restore her phone....all went perfectly....except that her phone had my information on it such as the google account.
I put her google account info in and it wouldn't let me delete mine out of her phone.... so I was stuck.
So then I tried to do a factory restore and things went bad...no signal apn info....no keyboard....it was horrible.
I messed around and messed around and restored her phone to a MIUI rom that she previously had, but then I couldn't make calls...no apn information!
I tried to import apn information to her phone via an APN back up/restore but it didn't work....
So then I finally, I just put the stock rom on her phone this morning so she could get to work and I could start again tonight.....
arggggg....