So, I'm a bit stumped as what to do here. I have an LG Optimus V, running on Virgin's network. I have rooted my phone through IHO (using CM7.1). The guide I used to root the phone I would link but since I'm a newbie I can't...
My problem is the system cache is slowly diminishing. I've noticed this when I try to go and install an app on the market and it says I have insufficient space on the device. Well, I have around 100mb free on the phone, and around 7gb free on my SD card. So, after some research I found how the market install apps through the cache.
Every post and guide I've read to fix this issue says to wipe the market cache and data, or wipe the phone's cache and dalvik cache. I have done both. Still, I have insufficient space on the device. I got a system stat app that displays info about the cache. For system cache, it says I have around 110mb total, but only about 12mb free.
So, I recovered a backup of mine (it still had IHO running). This time it had 20mb free, even after wiping all the cache. I tried wiping the cache through Titanium Backup, with no luck.
At this point, I'm unsure how long I've had this problem. I wonder if I had it from when I first flashed IHO (which was sometime early January) and the cache has just slowly decreased over time, and it's gotten so low I'm now having issues. I didn't have this before I rooted my phone. But this is obviously a problem, because if it continuous to decrease, not only will I not be able to install hardly any apps, but I won't even be able to download updates, to my understanding.
So, after that backup failing I went on to flash my other backup, rooted but without cm7 flashed. However, before I tried recovering this backup I wiped the entire phone (data, cache, dalvik cache). Then after trying to restore I got a MD5 mismatch! error.
I've scoured the internet and can't find anything relating to my cache issue. I feel helpless! And I have no idea what to do. Any ideas?
EDIT: I don't know if this matters or not, but I forgot to mention that the recovery I'm using is called "Xionia CWMA" v1.2518.6. I'm assuming this is a modded version of ClockworkMod.
I think you are getting the system and data partitions mixed up.
When you install apps from the market, they take up space in the /data folder in your phone. I believe this folder can also be looked at as your internal memory.
The system folder is a whole other folder that the market does not touch at all. The apps in the /system folder are your system apps (pretty much all the apps that cannot be uninstalled through settings).
When the market says you have insufficient space on your device, it is saying that you need to free up some room in your /data folder, not your /system folder. One thing you can do is start moving all of your apps to the sdcard. There are two ways:
1. Go to settings>applications>manage applications. Under each app, select the option "move to sdcard."
or
2. Using titanium backup, you can do a batch operation that automatically moves your apps to the sdcard for you (menu button>batch>move user apps to the sdcard).
This should free up a lot of space if you haven't done this already.
As for your md5 error, I have no clue about that.
Hmmm. OK. Well I have most of my apps moved over to my SD card. I would barely have much space to do anything if I didn't move them to the SD; this phone has a pathetic internal space.
I'm looking at the app list and it says I have 72mb used, but 107mb free. I'm pretty sure that this is enough space to install an app at 20mb! As for my SD card, I've used 7.06gb and have 7.9gb free.
Thing is, before I rooted I didn't have the insufficient space error, and I had WAAAAY less space free. I would have around 40mb free maximum. Even when I first rooted the phone and put cm7 on it, this problem didn't appear. It started popping up maybe two weeks ago or so? And it seems to be getting worse.
EDIT: Ok, so I went and tried using Titanium Backup to move the rest of my apps to the SD card. I moved everything except my theme (LunarUI) and LauncherPro. I think I read somewhere you shouldn't move those apps. Anyways, I now have around 130mb free of internal space. And I still have the insufficient space error.
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I've been having problems with the internal memory on my hero getting very low, and my phone seems to be slowing down a lot as a result.
I have apps2sd set up, and that seems to be working fine, however looking through the folders on my phone, the /system/xbin one seems very very large (582,031,812 bytes according to Astro).
What is this folder, and is there anything I can do to free up space? Would deleting the contents be a good idea?
if i'm not totally wrong that would be around 580mb, which just can't be true. besides that the internal memory is in /data, while /system/xbin is in /system, so totally different partitions (it is like asking "my space on d:\ is getting low, should i delete c:\xyz?"). last but not least you will most certainly break your system if you delete stuff from there. and the contents of everything inside /system ususally doesn't change, except you do it manually or use any kind of update.zip (new rom, theme, etc).
try wiping dalvik-cache from recovery, that might free a few mb.
Thanks.
I thought it didn't make any sense, and that it must be in a different place to the internal memory. Ok, I'll look through data to work out if anything is taking up more space than expected.
What will I lose by wiping dalvik-cache?
Why would my memory keep on shrinking? My apps are on my sd card, so it shouldn't be them...
Sausageman said:
What will I lose by wiping dalvik-cache?
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nothing, it is recreated on boot. the problem is that when you uninstall an app the optimized "copy" of the app is not deleted from dalvik-cache.
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Why would my memory keep on shrinking? My apps are on my sd card, so it shouldn't be them...
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for once through dalvik-cache, everytime you install an app it takes some space in dalvik-cache, though not as much as the app itself. besides that the app data (settings, savegames etc) is stored in /data, as well as system settings.
Hmm, deleting the dalvik-cache didn't make any difference.
I created a partition of 512 MB on my 16GB card to install LINK2SD but eventually ended up formatting my whole data. I did install Link2sd and then moved up all the huge apps like Yahoo Messenger with the plugin and other games and stuff. I had free internal space of about 77MB, I switch off my phone and I turn it on and its 33MB. What to do?
have you do titanium backups or nandroids before using link2sd? it is possible to damage your system severely and you shall have done that.
second, for ur issue, try checking the memory displays in link2sd
are you sure the app "link2sd" is placed in the phone storage? it may have moved back the apps after a reboot
did you note down what was the internal memory space before performing link2sd? was it 33mb?
hope i helped and good luck
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have you do titanium backups or nandroids before using link2sd? it is possible to damage your system severely and you shall have done that.
second, for ur issue, try checking the memory displays in link2sd
are you sure the app "link2sd" is placed in the phone storage? it may have moved back the apps after a reboot
did you note down what was the internal memory space before performing link2sd? was it 33mb?
hope i helped and good luck
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Yeah I restored my titanium backup. Before installing link2sd it was around 28 MB. After moving the apps it was around 77MB and now after a restart its like 33MB. Yes I did check from the storage info option of link2sd.
I heard [Read rather] somewhere that Link2SD sometimes unlinks the libraries after a reboot, If you had cleared the dalvik cache, the dalvik cache of all the linked apps would have also been unlinked. So, if you link all the apps again, It will again free the space on your Phone memory. I have to do it everytime I clear the dalvik cache or I reboot my phone for some reason. It is irritating because I have 93 apps and It is time consuming to do all manually everytime.
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I heard [Read rather] somewhere that Link2SD sometimes unlinks the libraries after a reboot, If you had cleared the dalvik cache, the dalvik cache of all the linked apps would have also been unlinked. So, if you link all the apps again, It will again free the space on your Phone memory. I have to do it everytime I clear the dalvik cache or I reboot my phone for some reason. It is irritating because I have 93 apps and It is time consuming to do all manually everytime.
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ahaha, true true
so i recommend app2sd+ instead of link2sd or whatever2sd, of course only if your rom supports it
I've never had Link2SD unlink anything. If you have any apps on the sdcard prior to use, it screws up, and if you move widgets it will as well, but I've been using Link2SD with stock LGP509T rom for months now with 0 issues like what you're describing.
If you wiped dalvik cache, you need to relink it. For libraries, do not bother, they will just get extracted back no matter what, so...
New user here. Recently rooted my HTC EVO to Cyanogenmod 7. This may have been asked before, but I didn't find anything in a search I did. I used to have all the apps that I could onto my SD card, so I know my save files are there.
For example, Angry Birds was moved onto my SD, and I know that my saves were there as well. Is there anyway to recover them to my current apps so I don't lose my progress?
app data (your saves) is not held on your sdcard. they are held in the directory /data/data
when you switch roms, you wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache in recovery (at least this is how it goes for me). when you wipe data, you are wiping everything in the /data directory, which means you also wiped your app data.
if you used titanium backup to make a backup, you can restore all of your app data.
for games like angry birds, if you made a backup of the file "highscores.lua" you can restore your game progress.
if you did not make a back up of anything, then you lost all of your progress
Ah okay, I didn't realize I needed to explicitly back it up. I thought once the app was stored on the SD card, the saves were there to. Oh well, you live and you learn. Thanks for the help.
Need some help. I have a Dell Venue with 2.2. I have rooted the phone and installed ClockworkMod so I can get to the root directory. I frequently get low memory warnings and even warnings that an SMS message was rejected due to low system memory!
I have moved all of my downloaded Apps to the SD card (and deleted quite a few). I have set my email app to store email on the SD card. I have gone through the root directory and removed system apps that I do not ever use. I have even cleared the cache and the dalvik cache. All of this has helped, but only briefly. After doing all of this, the phone will be ok for maybe a day or two, then the warning returns. When I 1st got the phone a year ago, I had no problem having tons of apps stored on the phone, now I can't hardly have anything.
The warnings start at about 53M of internal storage available. Is there any way to free up more internal storage? Are there unnecessary files that can be deleted?
I really liked this phone when I 1st got it, but now I absolutely hate it and I am stuck with it for another 6months! HELP Please!
/cache and /system are seperate partitions: cleaning them won't give you any more space on /data.
you could move some apps into system if you understand some of the risks:
You have to manually update the copy in /system or you will end up with an old copy in /system and the new one in /data
modifying /system can lead to bricks if you don't understand what you're doing
Thanks!
TheManii said:
/cache and /system are seperate partitions: cleaning them won't give you any more space on /data.
you could move some apps into system if you understand some of the risks:
You have to manually update the copy in /system or you will end up with an old copy in /system and the new one in /data
modifying /system can lead to bricks if you don't understand what you're doing
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Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, something else has happened and my phone may actually be bricked for some reason. I decide to just factory reset the phone and reload everything from scratch hoping this would clear up the problems. As it goes through the start up, I connect to WiFi, connect to my google account, and when it attempts to start the Dell Stage, it just locks up. I have factory reset it 3 or 4 times with the same results every time. Not sure what happened.
Going to search on here to find a fresh copy of the factory ROM or maybe someone has posted a Nand backup that I can load from the SD card. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Edit #1: Sorry, the question form didn't save the "This is a question post" tick after I previewed, I hope that doesn't mess up things.
Edit #2: I should also point out that I backed up everything previously, so I don't care about saving any data on the phone, I just want it working again...
Edit #3: I keep forgetting some small details, the phone wouldn't boot even when removing the SD card.
Hello,
Two days ago I decided to try the SD Link feature from Link2SD on my Galaxy S2, because I was tired of running low on internal storage space when I had a 32gb SD card just for photos.
I was only linking games and other apps that were not important to the phone's normal functionality, but on 3 our 4 occasions Link2SD would hang on the linking process and I'd wait 10 minutes before force quitting the app each time. This wasn't causing any problems, until the last hang. I restarted the app and saw that it couldn't compute any of the other apps internal size. So I rebooted the phone and got stuck on a boot crash.
Sometimes the boot would go beyond the Samsung logo and into the Cyanogenmod loading, but the phone would shutdown before leaving that screen.
I had CWM on my phone, so I tried a bunch of stuff:
to wipe data/factory reset
wipe dalvik cache
wipe cache
reinstall Cyanogenmod from a zip (either from internal, sdcard0, sdcard1, and even Odin)
After so many attempts, my searches started pointing me to the fact that some system files could be bad, so I tried:
format /system
format /data
I didn't format /boot but it's reaching the point that it's the only thing I haven't tried.
So next I used Odin to flash back to stock ROM, and in the process lost CWM.
Since that didn't work, I flashed a stock Kernel too.
I should point out that the phone was working perfectly before this Link2SD mess, and also that each time I flashed with Odin, I would get a glimpse of the app optimization process, that would reach around 39 of 42 apps before the phone would shutdown.
I'm running out of ideas and search keywords.
Please help.
Thank you for your time.