Super wipe basically formats the device and well most of the scripts of it's kind checks for errors in the memory and repairs them, not leaving a trace whatsoever behind, there anything that would've caused any error would be removed and leave a nice brand new house for the new rom to move into. If it was that you were pointing at, I assume, lol.

Originally Posted by ringochan

I think I wasn't clear when I commented. My bad. What I wanted to say was that there may be a bug that prevents some app related files, such as .dex and/or database, to be deleted when you delete your apps. So what I really wanted to hear is something like, "Oh yes, I've installed like 500 apps and removed 400 of them since I last factory-resetted it. So I only have 100 apps installed right now." More importantly, I know of no method of checking and fixing such a bug in un-rooted Amaze.


If you, in fact, has orphanated files/data on your /data partition, one way to look at and remove it may be to re-install some exact same apps you have deleted in the past. Old data may show up when you run the app. Worth a try, I guess.

Actually, I've only installed maybe 40-50 apps over the phone's lifetime, so that probably rules out the bug which prevents files from really deleting.

Haha, good idea / test! But I don't have enough memory space to install a new app

I wonder if this will work to dump the partition:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1630902

I'd like to make a backup of my stock recovery (I know I can download it, but would like to make a backup myself). I'd imagine if this works, then we could have someone that has a full /data partition make a dump of it, and then mount it on the desktop and have a look around.

From a heads up post over on the official T-MO forums

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...nVieUNsZWFyIl0.

an app by "HTCDev" called Amaze Memory Clear. I'm not sure if it really is develped by HTC, but I'd be curious to take a look to see what all it does. Are there APK decompilers out there? Only permission is storage, so doesn't seem like it'd be shady. I don't have GB anymore, but I'd really have liked to have tried this app.

Originally Posted by oryan_dunn

From a heads up post over on the official T-MO forums

an app by "HTCDev" called Amaze Memory Clear. I'm not sure if it really is develped by HTC, but I'd be curious to take a look to see what all it does. Are there APK decompilers out there? Only permission is storage, so doesn't seem like it'd be shady. I don't have GB anymore, but I'd really have liked to have tried this app.

Wow that does look pretty interesting -- I've upgraded to ICS as well and the memory thing is no longer a problem (At least not yet...). Will def give this a shot though should the problem ever pops up again.

Wow, they have screenshots now, and a single review that said it worked. The screenshots shown mirror exactly what mine looked like.

I really need to get the apk and take a look to see what it's actually doing. I'm curious as to what it was that was misbehaving.

Apparently, it is legit:
http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-4492

It seems if you didn't completely do a full factory reset (clearing internal storage as well as phone storage (internal SD)), then the stuff that was filling up the memory was causing all kinds of issues on ICS. Good on HTC for making an app to fix this issue.

I still need to get the apk and decompile it to see what it's doing.

Originally Posted by oryan_dunn

Apparently, it is legit:
http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-4492

It seems if you didn't completely do a full factory reset (clearing internal storage as well as phone storage (internal SD)), then the stuff that was filling up the memory was causing all kinds of issues on ICS. Good on HTC for making an app to fix this issue.

I still need to get the apk and decompile it to see what it's doing.

Yeah I'd like to know as well, look forward to your findings

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Originally Posted by fcpelayo

Yeah I'd like to know as well, look forward to your findings

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Ok, I got the apk de-compiled back to smali code. I'm no smali code expert, but luckily, this is about the most simple app you could ask for. There isn't even any UI, just when you run, it runs.

So, it looks like all the app does is clear this file "/data/data/com.android.htcprofile/anr_history.txt"

Googling for that, other people who have rooted other HTC GB devices have had it fill up their memory as well. I guess for the Amaze it just filled up to a much larger extent.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1286279

From the Desire forum, but with much smaller memory available, the file must have could only have been much smaller. The report there was it was growing about 300k a day. If it took 6mo to grow to ~1.8GB, that means ours was growing about 10MB a day!

Originally Posted by oryan_dunn

Ok, I got the apk de-compiled back to smali code. I'm no smali code expert, but luckily, this is about the most simple app you could ask for. There isn't even any UI, just when you run, it runs.

So, it looks like all the app does is clear this file "/data/data/com.android.htcprofile/anr_history.txt"

Googling for that, other people who have rooted other HTC GB devices have had it fill up their memory as well. I guess for the Amaze it just filled up to a much larger extent.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1286279

From the Desire forum, but with much smaller memory available, the file must have could only have been much smaller. The report there was it was growing about 300k a day. If it took 6mo to grow to ~1.8GB, that means ours was growing about 10MB a day!

Sounds like a temporary fix and that if or every time we have issues we have to run it to clear?

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