With ICS on the SGS2, the /system partition is rather full. Roms may remove some of the samsung or ancilliary packages to fit stock AOSP , or other cool apps.
My question is which of these "stock" apks are ok with being installed as a user app, and which MUST be installed in /system
I know google maps works ok as a user app, which can free up a bit of space, but what else.
For example I may take a rom with AOSP apps, and want to readd the samsung apps (calendar, address book).
Is there a list? Of any that definately work ok as user apps?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069924 will show you what's okay to remove, but not what is okay to move.
(I really don't see the point of your request, as everything will fit in /system and the more which is left in there, the better)
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hi, well... i was wondering if i put an apk in /system/app, tht means this apk will be a syste application right? but is there any advantage else then this? if this app will consume more battery if i install it like any apk? thksssssssssss
/system/app is the folder when all system apks are stored here and it means that you can't delete it via launcher or manage apps.
There are no differences between putting app to /system or /data in battery drain.
tarekboukaf said:
hi, well... i was wondering if i put an apk in /system/app, tht means this apk will be a syste application right? but is there any advantage else then this? if this app will consume more battery if i install it like any apk? thksssssssssss
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One advantage is as my friend told above.. For ur second doubt, let me clarify it.. U know the concept, less apps more performance.. Some or most apps hav a ability to start themselves with user intervention!! So use an app like System Tuner Pro where u can freeze some system apps(careful not to stop systemUI and other imp apps!!) which u cant stop the svc they started!! So before pushing apps think whther they r essential. system apps process cant be stopped easily..
One more thing is that system apps have access to things that regular apps don't. For example, in ICS, non system apps do not have the ability to directly access things like APN configurations, as those are system level stuff. It's generally a good thing, but if you want to do stuff like backup and restore an APN in ICS, you cannot do so unless the app you are using is a system app.
well, thanks for ur reply, kind from u, its clear now, thks a lottttttt
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For anyone who likes as light as possible: you can go into system/vendor/srec and clear out anything past 1mb. Also, you can delete system/usr/folder that contains face unlock information. Mine was named PittPat for whatever reason. Also, system/usr/icu/dat is another useless 8mb. I deleted 50 mb of system data that way... Faster backups, more space for your device.
You can use adb u to see what in your system is huge and go after it. That's how I found this neat little trick.
My backups went about 20 seconds faster. I'm the type of person to slim down as much as possible. one This depends on data, etc, but my cm 10.1 system size is 235 mb... If anyone would like info on system apps you can delete, let me know. I use no bloat pro. It remembers your settings and you can just click delete.
I'm the type of person to get rid of everything I don't use. Vpn dialogs? Pico tts? One time in it? Gone!
Hello,
I am new to the forums but not to android, i have been using android since the original google G1. I've always tinkered, installed cyanogen, etc but never gotten very deep into messing with my operating system other than flashing it. Until that is, i got a chinese mtk6589 phone. My phone had a pretty terrible stock rom with fake antutu specs, and a bunch of sketchy chinese apps, among other things. So far i've made some great strides but im still a few steps away from being completely happy with my phone.
I started with the stock rom. Rooted it. Built and flashed a custom CWM recovery. Removed all the fake and/or sketchy apps. flashed current gapps for jellybean (This was an ordeal. kept crashing while connecting to wifi on first boot after flashing gapps.) I feel like i've made great improvements. I now have a stable rom with no fake or junk apps, CWM recovery, current gapps, all of my apps now working properly. There is still a problem which has been present since the beginning which bugs the hell out of me.
Under settings -> accounts, there are no accounts listed although i've added my 2 google accounts and everything works. Mail, contacts, calendars, sync, etc. I just have no dialog or way of controlling them, other than deleting my accounts.db file and settings up again from scratch. Accounts work, just the accounts page under settings is broken. There is an add accounts button, cloudy, and reset and backup.
How can i repair this section of the menu? I apologize for my lack of knowledge. I have made it this far by reading, and lots of trial and error. I would love to one day successfully port cyanogen to my device. Obviously i have a long way to go and lots of learning to do.
Also, another thing i would like to fix is my false 32GB storage capacities under settings -> storage. As far as i can tell the phone actually has 4GB, 2 for internal storage, and 2 for phone storage. So far all my efforts to move apps to my sd card have been unsuccessful, i can however move them between phone and internal storage.
I've been using android for a while, and I'm not afraid to fiddle with my phone, so generally I root, remove bloatware and install ad blockers and stuff.
My motivation in this situation is that I'm low on storage space.
However, my current phone isn't remotely as ubiquitous as the HD2 I had previously and I can't just shrink down the system partition to make more room for internal user apps (at least not with confidence I won't brick my device).
So, I tried moving all my google apps back onto the system partition (I only like having apps I know I use regularly on system, so my OEM apps, Google apps, Skype and Facebook) and only half of them work.
I'd like to understand why this is and if there's anything I can do to fix it, because most of these apps were installed as system apps originally and worked fine (I moved them to user because pushing updates to system caused this same issue, and having duplicate installations is redundant).
A secondary part to this question is whether odexing is required or not on system (I thought this might be the issue, but odexing all system apps didn't work. I've read it's better to deodex and zipalign, so I will do that if odexing isn't important.
All good questions, I am in the same boat. Upgraded from an S3 to an S4, addicted to the CM themes and the best of them are quite large but require system space usage so even though I have loads of space on my ExtSD I have run out of space on my internal and now am having an issue with pushing simple updates to my system apps. Hope you get an answer to this question soon
Hi,
I noticed a change in the File Manager app on my S8+ - it shows not only photos docs etc - now there's a dedicated APK button in the main page.
So today I clicked on this button and I received a single line that says APK with the number 423 beside it.
I clicked on the icon and the screen showed all the apps I have installed on my phone. The vast majority were apps installed by me, some of them were apps bundled with the OS (eg Facebook).
But the interesting part is that I could see the previous versions of the vast majority of the apps.... Taking about 11.5 GB of RAM. Some of the apps had 5-6 previous versions.
So I deleted all previous version of one of the apps I had installed, checked that everything was OK - and then proceeded to delete all the other duplicates.
My question is, why does this happen? Did I change some setting?
Note that I don't back the apps to the cloud and that all of these duplicates were in the device RAM (not on the SD card).
Thanks
Hi, if you don't have some important data on it do Factory Reset and Wioe Cache Partition.
wisniak said:
Hi,
I noticed a change in the File Manager app on my S8+ - it shows not only photos docs etc - now there's a dedicated APK button in the main page.
So today I clicked on this button and I received a single line that says APK with the number 423 beside it.
I clicked on the icon and the screen showed all the apps I have installed on my phone. The vast majority were apps installed by me, some of them were apps bundled with the OS (eg Facebook).
But the interesting part is that I could see the previous versions of the vast majority of the apps.... Taking about 11.5 GB of RAM. Some of the apps had 5-6 previous versions.
So I deleted all previous version of one of the apps I had installed, checked that everything was OK - and then proceeded to delete all the other duplicates.
My question is, why does this happen? Did I change some setting?
Note that I don't back the apps to the cloud and that all of these duplicates were in the device RAM (not on the SD card).
Thanks
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Seems a drastic measure...
Surely there's something else.
Everything's backed up but it's a time consuming process.