Hi guys, it's my first post here and I apologize if I'm wrong place to write
I updated my LG G2 mini to Android 5.0.2 (stock with OTA) and unfortunately I noticed that now my system data occupies approximately 5 GB of memory (and my phone has 8GB of internal memory)
The problem now is that I have no more space to update all my applications, so I ask here if it was possible to eliminate something, or if it was necessary to install a ROM.
I notice that I've never done any kind of mod to the phone, so I am a complete novice .
I'd rather have still Android 5.0.2, but I would be fine also a modified ROM, also to reduce the use of space, battery and more.
Finally, I add that I still have one year warranty, and if it were possible I would like to preserve it, but if you say that applying a mod the phone will get better, then accept all your tips
A lot of thanks in advance and sorry again
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Hello to everyone;
To start with I suppose I must introduce myself:
My name is Manu from México and I am a proud owner of a Samsung Galaxy Ace since three months ago.
During this time I had played with it and its stock ROM with 2.3.4 from carrier Telcel, I rooted it and removed bloatware from the carrier, the result was really nice; even thou after some apps the internal space run out, and therefore the responsiveness of my phone also got cluttered.
About a week ago or so I decided to go beyond and flashed "CyanogenMod 7.1-cooper-KANG-RC1 Android 2.3.7" so I tested it for a while and even thou I found many improvements, many bugs were unbearable for the phone use I’m used to; so I switched back to a Stock Rom and flashed "S5830SERKPO" with 2.3.5. and my regional modem.
In addition I did this process to Deodex + root "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118048&highlight=DEODEX” the result in my personal opinion is very good, but I’m back to the beginning. IM RUNNING OUT OF SPACE FOR INTERNAL STORAGE AND THE PHONE STARTS TO ACT LAGGY
I have read about s2e, link2sd and darktremor a2sd; where is require to partition your SD (which I already have also done with CMW at no avail) and I have finally ended up with a program called Install Manager 3.5.1 which promises to do move apps to SD (as far as they are executed locally from an .apk file and not market)
So... after this entire intro, and to avoid any flaming against me: I have read many many posts and have ended up overwhelmed and more confused.
¿Can someone please help me into the best way (in terms of stability and performance) to manage my apps to the SD card with a stock ROM?
(If possible a detailed explanation please, remember I have Stock "S5830SERKPO" with 2.3.5. and my regional modem)
Thanks a lot.
Also let me say I had read this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1172684
But I get lost into "make sure the rom supports it" and therefore not sure if this applies to S5830SERKPO 2.3.5
Well, seems that my post is getting to much attention yet... still, I have an update; today during the course of the day, two times the phone screen turns off and it does not come back until I remove the battery.
The phone continues to work... (the radio still plays, calls continue, etc) just the screen turns off without any means to turn it on.
Hope someone can guide into how to find a better solution for my need.
Probably the easiest way to fix that is to install a ROM from the dev section (make sure it supports A2SD) Cyanogenmod is not official for our Ace, wich means lots of bugs, but other Customs Roms should be ok for you.
Create a ext4 and swap with CWM in your sd card (reboot into recovery, advanced, create sd partitions) Open the A2SD app and turn the swap on, move applications.
Hey all!
Today earlier I was reading some topic when looking for a fix to the /system low space problem, and then someone said to use this program and/or this program.
I have a few questions about this, since I'm sort of noob in these details.
1) Is this the only thing I can do to get throught this /system problem? (removing unwanted APKs, etc)
2) Do I have to use both of the programs above or they do the same thing?
3) Is there any list of safe-removal APKs for Jelly Bean? I found lists about it, but for other phone models.
4) I'm watching this thread very close. I already use Rashed's CM10 and he is promising an update to the next 48 hours. When this new build comes, am I going to remove all those APKs and that blablabla to reduce the ROM size again?
Thanks in advance!
1. Yes its the only thing you can do (freeing up space in system partition)
2. Use one program which can move apps from system to data partition
3. Phone model doesn't matter, all phones have almost same core applications
4. Yes before flashing try to reduce size of your ROM, if not already done by Rashed
Hi,
I am an owner of one Moto E XT1021 first gen phone. Right now it has Android Kitkat 4.4.4 on it.
This morning warned me of system update available to Android Lollipop 5.1. (and this in Romania).
I know many of other people like to update to the new OS. But I doubt in Moto E first gen is good this. And previously read on different articles about the main problem with the storage for this Moto E fist gen because of the 4GB available on main storage.
I open this thread because I didn't found some other thread treating only this subject (pros and cons about Lollipop update on Moto E firstgen).
I wait for opinions especially from those already making the update and if there is a good life or bad life after the update.
What are the pros for updating, what is working and what is maybe wonderful ... and what are the cons, what is not working and maybe even blocking and annoying about Lollipop on Moto E firstgen?
Thanks.
Well... I had just over 500MB of internal storage free. Went ahead with the update. After restarting, the internal storage was full. So I've performed a factory reset and it's downloading updates to the stock apps... 277MB left after that! Cleared caches... 520MB left... That's with no apps installed other than the stock stuff, updated. Forget Facebook etc...
I wouldn't recommend it at all! Updated it today and it's terrible. You just don't have any free space at all, not even able to update apps... Only have WhatsApp on it, and still it whines about out of space when trying to update an app....
It's ridiculous actually, that they release an update like this
Im on this situation also. What can we do now? Root and install a custom rom?
Thanks for your responses.
What I supposed seems to be confirmed. The main memory storage problem... .
But... is there a Pro reason for updating that maybe is worth the annoying continuously warning about 'out of space'? ...or not?
RevengeFNF I think you responded to yourself.
marx77 said:
Thanks for your responses.
What I supposed seems to be confirmed. The main memory storage problem... .
But... is there a Pro reason for updating that maybe is worth the annoying continuously warning about 'out of space'? ...or not?
RevengeFNF I think you responded to yourself.
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Do not update. Updating from KitKat to lollipop via official ota is gonna make the phone suck a hell lot. You'll be out of memory as lollipop has the $hitty ART runtime which will eat up all your storage space as the dalvik cache is gonna be huge. Only update if you plan to root and have a huge sd card. Or simply unlock bootloader (I think you're out of warranty now so no worries) and flash cyanogenmod 12.1. It's the most fluid lollipop rom out there right now.
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nilanko said:
Do not update. Updating from KitKat to lollipop via official ota is gonna make the phone suck a hell lot. You'll be out of memory as lollipop has the $hitty ART runtime which will eat up all your storage space as the dalvik cache is gonna be huge. Only update if you plan to root and have a huge sd card. Or simply unlock bootloader (I think you're out of warranty now so no worries) and flash cyanogenmod 12.1. It's the most fluid lollipop rom out there right now.
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So there is also a possibility to update and after ... to root.
Because actually I have a 32GB sd card on it.
What would be the next steps to do after the root in order not to have so big problems with storage, even if is this lollipop eating so much with his runtime and cache... ?
Because sometimes I prefer the OS developed by the producer, in therms of stability etc, etc...
marx77 said:
So there is also a possibility to update and after ... to root.
Because actually I have a 32GB sd card on it.
What would be the next steps to do after the root in order not to have so big problems with storage, even if is this lollipop eating so much with his runtime and cache... ?
Because sometimes I prefer the OS developed by the producer, in therms of stability etc, etc...
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Update first. Then upon unlocking bootloader, your phone will factory reset. After that you can root it simply by flashing supersu zip. Then you can use link2sd to link your apps to sd card 2nd partition. There are many guides on xda for that purpose. I too have stock right now and I have loads of free space on internal as all my 250 apps are linked to sdcard.
PS. You need link2sd plus to be able to fully link your apps to sd card. It's very cheap, less than $2.
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Has anyone really managed to root 1021 on 5.1 stock?
I had it already unlocked,
I can't boot TWRP recovery or even flash it.
Tried also CWM recovery from here around, same thing.
Any infos please?
after many tries and ways I managed to push TWRP recovery and supesu.
The way varies a bit from the usual.
Turn off phone manually,
execute:
fastboot.exe flash recovery twrp-2.8.1.0-condor.img
or whatever you name the recovery image.
Let it waiting
Insert usb cable
boot into bootloader menu manually, volume down and power
Then the comand executes
Shows the usual Mismatched partition size, its ok for custom recovery
Now select Recovery mode manually with buttons
after a while, I think little less than a minute, finally TWRP recovery starts, yolo follows etc..
guess you know the way to install SuperSU then
I booted, installed link2sd, rebooted., linked my apps etc normally works till now
:good:
Wanted to just boot recovery.img but then I decided that probably 5.1 is the last update and got me down on it.
Try with boot recovery and please comment if so
Hello everyone.
I am very new to all of this so I figured I ask first before I accidentally do some stupid things to my phone.
I was thinking of rooting the phone since a while because of the constant storage issues. It was advertised as a 4gb model but since it is my first smartphone of the newer generations I haven't thought of it having only a couple of megabytes storage left after all the system files and bloatware. Now I am regretting not buying an 8gb dual model.
At first it was somewhat manageable, but now after the 6.0.1 update I can barely somehow hold my everyday social media apps updated, let alone be able to have any utility apps or games installed, despite having a 16gb sd card. Since the phone requires some files to be installed on the device itself it makes it rather unusable. I have now come to a point where I cannot install a new very needed app because of storage insufficiency so I came to search for help on how to remove all these useless preinstalled apps.
I searched a bit trough the forum but all these apps and roms... are confusing me. As I don't which of those I would need just to get rid of the bloatware. I don't really need any other changes to my phone. Just something that makes me able to remove the bloatware and has the least amount of risk bricking my phone.
What would I need to do to be able to remove the unwanted apps? Just the root? Some app after that? Or a new rom?
And if you could point me in a direction of a detailed or low risk guide I'd be grateful.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
emaciop
You have several solutions but of course, root is the best way to be able to to the more.
A lot of solutions need your phone to be rooted.
But it is not so simple to do, look at the different tuto on this forum.
Hi, i'm running a Moto E with android version 5.1, and since updating to this version of android I have had constantly so little space on the internal memory that I can't even update the pre-installed apps even though I have as good as as no other apps installed on the phone as well as zero images, videos, music or any other media files.
Therefore I've spent a few days trying to figure out how I could move the pre-installed apps to my SD-card.
So, I've rooted the phone, installed the program called Link2SD and I tried using that program to move the apps. Yet it gave me a warning:
"Failure
pkg: /data/app/com.google.android.apps.maps-1/base.apk Failure
[INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_INSTALL_LOCATION]"
Then I found that it seems I also need to create a so-called "second partition" on my SD-card, but I've not yet managed to find a tutorial on the internet that worked for me.
Since then I've tried 6 or 7 other similar programs with no luck, in the process reading somewhere that it actually couldn't even be done on android versions 4.0 or later. Is this true? Could someone be a kind gentleman (or -woman) and guide me through this? That would make me very happy indeed.
Thanks in advance
Simon
wormple12 said:
Hi, i'm running a Moto E with android version 5.1, and since updating to this version of android I have had constantly so little space on the internal memory that I can't even update the pre-installed apps even though I have as good as as no other apps installed on the phone as well as zero images, videos, music or any other media files.
Therefore I've spent a few days trying to figure out how I could move the pre-installed apps to my SD-card.
So, I've rooted the phone, installed the program called Link2SD and I tried using that program to move the apps. Yet it gave me a warning:
"Failure
pkg: /data/app/com.google.android.apps.maps-1/base.apk Failure
[INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_INSTALL_LOCATION]"
Then I found that it seems I also need to create a so-called "second partition" on my SD-card, but I've not yet managed to find a tutorial on the internet that worked for me.
Since then I've tried 6 or 7 other similar programs with no luck, in the process reading somewhere that it actually couldn't even be done on android versions 4.0 or later. Is this true? Could someone be a kind gentleman (or -woman) and guide me through this? That would make me very happy indeed.
Thanks in advance
Simon
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It's better to install custom rom of android 6.0 + and flash gapps pico or nano and in android 6.0 + you can format your external SD card as internal so, it'll help to use all on external storage and gapps pico also takes minimum space so you definitely saved you internal storage to be full
if you don't know how to do that stuff then you can ask...!