when i uninstall apps, im sure that there are remnant files left over from the app still remaining on my phone. how do i remove these extra files from the phone?
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Guys.... would appreciate if anyone can guide or help me on this. I am absolutely sure that even after removing / uninstalling a software some files are left behind and hence the storage space doesnt quite come back to normal.... Can anyone suggest as to how should i reclaim that space or use a good uninstaller?
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ok when an app is uninstalled will it leave orphan installation/program files hanging around like windows? is there any registry equivalent in android? i know probably stupid questions. what is the preferred way to uninstall apps?
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Yes, some programs do leave traces when you uninstall them. Others don't, at least I haven't found a trace of them. I have to go through my SD card every now and then and clean up folders and different files left behind by programs I uninstalled.
jodell22 said:
Yes, some programs do leave traces when you uninstall them. Others don't, at least I haven't found a trace of them. I have to go through my SD card every now and then and clean up folders and different files left behind by programs I uninstalled.
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+1. You may have stuff on your SD card, but anything not there will be wiped when you change ROMs anyway.
Does anyone know what system files are needed for those two apps to work?
I deleted one or two system files to get rid of the very annoying Orange Plus icon in the menu; that might be why those two apps don't work anymore.
Of course I have forgotten the names of the files that I deleted! Lol
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Hi, maybe a stupid question..
How do you make sure that deleting files and apps. on the Prime really removes everything?
In Windows you have CCleaner and so on.. is there a matching app. for Android to delete files and "remains" from programs uninstalled and so on..
Or is Android so good that really "removes" all garbage when deleting/uninstalling
I would like to go through and completely clean out my phones storage. By that I mean deleting all the old files that uninstalled apps created, empty folders, and other things that most ROMs don't bother to remove. I realize that it isn't really necessary, and why ROM makers don't really do it. I just feel compelled to do it.
For example;
At root there is the DATA folder but also a DATA_1, DATA_2, and DATA_3 folder that are just empty. Are these folders necessary? If I were to delete them and some system process needed them would they just be recreated? There are a ton of other empty folders throughout the file system that I would love to just delete.
Speaking of the DATA folder, it contains a DATA folder... It's great that all these ROMs remove the bloatware but within this secondary DATA folder sits old files related to these removed apps. Can't these be safely deleted?
The default wallpaper is easy enough to find and delete, but where are the other wallpapers that come preloaded? Seems to me like there may be a ton of little files out there that could be deleted to add up to a decent amount of space.
I supposed what I am really asking is what the best resources out there are for determining what's really necessary and what's deletable. Googling random file names only gets you so far. Heh. Maybe I should just flash a ROM and forget it, but I am just too OCD!
Delete what you will. Anything needed will be recreated. Some apps might store stuff there, but all core system data is stored on the data partition.
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/data/data is a valid partition. Also, you aren't gaining anything by deleting the stock wallpapers, etc except space that you cannot use- they lie on a reserved partition that is a set size.
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