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
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ok so this is my first smart phone and i hate that i feel like such a noob! i am accustomed to having control of everything win7.
i have astro installed on my rooted phone. just downloaded an app from amazon. i have not installed it yet and have no idea where the dang app is temporarily stored.
is there anyway to take control of the default file location for downloads? i would like to save the apk to my pc prior to installing it on the phone.
additionally im guessing that when an app is installed it creates folders and file locations that the app needs to function on the phone. so when apps are installed and uninstalled over time will there eventually be orphan files and folders that just take up space and cause performance issues?
Most market apps are stored in data/app. No. It wont cause performance issues.
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?
Im also interested in this question, so if anyone can help about this one it would be awesome!
Hello,
i wanted to backup my progress in jetpack joyride (and other games), but when i look to /data/data/ i don't see com.halfbrick.jetpackjoyride . Other games seems like don't have any save files at all. I have nexus7.
Thanks for guidance.
Is it called something else? That happens to me all the time. It confuses me sometimes...
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Try searching in the Android/data folder or use titanium backup and take a backup of your data. Its sometimes more efficient if you don't know in which folder the data is stored.
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I also looked in Computer\Nexus 7\Internal storage\Android\data and the folder is not there. It seams to me like permission issue. Also i'm suffering from media server issue and cannot find file that is causing the trouble and i think it might be on the device just not visible to the world, just system or something like that.
Same thing with MLP i have folder Computer\Nexus 7\Internal storage\Android\data\com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftPOHM\files with files, but non of these files are save games, but the game on the device saves so again this would lead me to believe that this is security issue.
Savegame files are present in titanium backup output, so again - permissions i would guess. How can i make all of files on storage visible?
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I also looked in Computer\Nexus 7\Internal storage\Android\data and the folder is not there. It seams to me like permission issue. Also i'm suffering from media server issue and cannot find file that is causing the trouble and i think it might be on the device just not visible to the world, just system or something like that.
Same thing with MLP i have folder Computer\Nexus 7\Internal storage\Android\data\com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftPOHM\files with files, but non of these files are save games, but the game on the device saves so again this would lead me to believe that this is security issue.
Savegame files are present in titanium backup output, so again - permissions i would guess. How can i make all of files on storage visible?
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I think some Root Explorers might have an option to show hidden folders, not so sure though.
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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Hello,
I was browsing stuff in internal memory and I noticed a lot of folders. Excluding folders I created and apps created, wchich ones I MUST PRESERVE and cannot delete to get system running? Well, I asked because I like to keep it tidy and I guess less stuff in memory means faster phone. I use few apps that have "cleaning" options like RootAppDelete (it has Clean Junk option) and GoPowerMaster (system trash clean option). Does these clean all what is unnecessary or should I manually clean something from time to time?
Those folders could have been created by applications. If you deleted them, the folders stay there if the folders are empty and aren't system ones with a dot in front of them, you can delete them. In my opinion, the best way to clean the folders is manually
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