Have I reached the S2's limits?

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I have around a strange persistant problem.

I have around 250MB of internal app storage space left and used about 650Mb of storage of apps on my external 32Gb SDHC card.

I am using autostarts and task manager to manage the start up of apps and stop things running which works really well at prolonging battery life to the point where I reach a good 14 hours with heavy use on battery (I have five e-mail accounts pushed all sorts of widgets and use the phone fairly heavily on an average day, admittedly I get a little less if I use multimedia to any extent) I am using a stock 2.3.5 build from which I have removed some bloat stuff so I have about 35MB of rom storage left. It's rooted and has CWM installed etc.

In total I have something approaching 650 app elements in Titanium Backup depending on what I do or dont have installed at any given point.

Without the SD card the phone boots fine everytime. With the SD card in depending on the amount of .asec files in the .android secure folder the phone will often boot up and then during the processes after boot semi crash. By this I mean it will boot up then about 2-5minutes during the afterboot it will stop working and drop in a loop where it is still trying to run after boot process like scanning for media and stuff but loses connection with the carrier and then loops. Removing the sdhc card and moving some of the .asec files out of the the .androidsecure folder usually fixes this. It does not come up with safe mode or anything like that.

Has anyone else experienced this? Have I simply reached the limits of what the phone can do? My guess is that the problem lies with the process of copying/unpacking the .asec files into the /mnt/asec structure?

Can anyone offer any useful advice the 32Gb SDHC card is only class 2 (all that was available when I got it) I am thinking a faster one MIGHT solve the issue but that seems only a possibility and investing in a new card simply to find out it doesnt fix the issue would be a relatively expensive mistake. Has anyone else found similar limits?

You realise that's intimidatingly long to read right? Please write in shorter forms.

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Originally Posted by ionious

You realise that's intimidatingly long to read right? Please write in shorter forms.

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Not exactly helpful... Its far better to have a decent descriptive long post than people who writes "I have tons of apps but I get problem with connection".

@op I also have a tons of apps, fairly close to the amount you have, but still have quite a bit of space left, do you make a lot of backups and such? Check your SD card, because I remember a post here saying that deleting files within the lost folder can save space. (some people lost GBs, some just a few MBs) Best if someone here can confirm its safe to delete the files within though.

A known problem with some phones is 32GB cards some work well others dont some phones play up others dont .64GB even worse .

jje

Hmmmm seems like you are stressing the filesystem's/IO scheduler's timeout limit to the max with a class 2 card.

I would recommend you doing two things:

a) You have your phone rooted, try installing SiyahKernel, Voltage Control and change the I/O schedulers - thru set on boot -> init.d script (try alternating between noop, sio, bfq and VR), if that still doesn't help, try adding Thunderbolt Scripts as well - especially the remount script via script manager (links in my sig).

b) Try a different rom perhaps? Stock ROMs are not the most optimized things under the sun in terms of SGS2... back up your media to your PC, do a nandroid/titanium backup to your external sdcard and try flashing another rom. If it doesn't work, you can always restore the nandroid.

Hope it helped somewhat ^^

Thanks for the advice guys, think I might see if I cant test a faster card off a mate see if that helps.

Otherwise I will try that syrah kernel and scripts, not too keen to go for custom roms my experience of them with the galaxy s was they all seemed to have a major bug that I couldn't live with I always ened up back on stock with mods. Haven't really tested any on the s2 but if I were to I would need to be very stable with very few bugs. I also kind of like some of the samsung stuff? for example I'm using a hack versions (fragg0rs) of TW4 with it I can run the buddies now widgit from the original galaxy s and I love that. nearest thing I can find to the carosel I used to get on the samsung omnia i8910 (great phone badly let down by symbian)

To the guy that criticised the length of the original post on top of what else that has already been said, do you have the first clue about troubleshooting? especially an issue that is not referenced anywhere else? The golden rule is the more information the better. This is an issue I have been working around now for several months, I have been searching for similar (on and off not obsessively) issues posted anywhere and found nothing that helps but thanks for your rather pointless input stick to helping with the noob posts eh?

This is known problem. I have this problem too.
Several threads already talked about this since long time ago.
Here are some of threads exactly describing same problem with OP:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1285844
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1102920
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1328191
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1446961

That last one is the thread I created last month and still active until now.
So here is the summary:
- This problem is side effect since ROM version 2.3.5.
- Version 2.3.4 and earlier does not have this problem.
- This problem still exists in ICS LPB leak
- It seems that Samsung does not know about this problem.

The only workaround solution:
- Downgrade to version 2.3.4 or below

For us who have this problem, please add your post to the thread I created above (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1446961) and rate high to keep the thread alive so it will get attention from many users and hopefully from Samsung.

you just saved me money buying a new card thanks for that.