Need help fixing /datadata in 4.4.3

[PoXFreak]

Hey guys and gals!
Is there any quick fix to increase the size of /datadata, or could it be symlinked to a partition on the SD card?
Here's my issue thus far:
Anytime I've ever installed/flashed 4.2 and up on the Infuse, I get continuous force closes after about 24 hours. I've traced it to the fact that /datadata fills way too fast, and I don't know of any "quick fix" other than formatting the partition in CWM and starting over again.

Any help or info would be greatly appreciated!
PoX

 

[Ainz_Ooal_Gown]

Hey guys and gals!
Is there any quick fix to increase the size of /datadata, or could it be symlinked to a partition on the SD card?
Here's my issue thus far:
Anytime I've ever installed/flashed 4.2 and up on the Infuse, I get continuous force closes after about 24 hours. I've traced it to the fact that /datadata fills way too fast, and I don't know of any "quick fix" other than formatting the partition in CWM and starting over again.

Any help or info would be greatly appreciated!
PoX

hmmm...thats strange i normally just switch apps to the sdcard and i get no force closing after.....unless an app i installed doesn't want to work ie the sense 5 music player on CarbonRom for infuse

 

[asdfghjklronne]

Hey guys and gals!
Is there any quick fix to increase the size of /datadata, or could it be symlinked to a partition on the SD card?
Here's my issue thus far:
Anytime I've ever installed/flashed 4.2 and up on the Infuse, I get continuous force closes after about 24 hours. I've traced it to the fact that /datadata fills way too fast, and I don't know of any "quick fix" other than formatting the partition in CWM and starting over again.

Any help or info would be greatly appreciated!
PoX

Yea, the size of /data/data is way to small. Help please

 

[PoXFreak]

hmmm...thats strange i normally just switch apps to the sdcard and i get no force closing after.....unless an app i installed doesn't want to work ie the sense 5 music player on CarbonRom for infuse

My issue here is that I want to utilize as much internal storage as possible before attempting to use SD card space.
I'm running the latest nightly of Carbon 4.4.3, have only about 100 apps total, including the Gapps package (BaNkS full, about 90mb), and I've already uninstalled the "data hog" apps like G+ and Bitstrips.
This has been going on for a long time and has been the #1 reason I've stayed with 4.2 or earlier ROMs.
If I could get help figuring out how to fix this hurdle, it would make KK a lot more usable to me.

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[scmfxt]

I have same issue right off the bat once I leave GB stock for one of the game I was playing.. such a data hog (250-300MB). I end up installing new rom to test then revert back to GB stock to play the game. I don't want to bother with symlink to external sdcard since mine is a class 2. Using it to backup stuff only. Would love to see this issue fixed or easier remedy to do it yourself. I tried JoyOS rom which got nice feature for symlink to sdcard int/ext built in which solved the issue. The rom got some other issues for me to use it and not being work on anymore. Definitely would love to see dev for other rom to add symlink feature.

 

[PoXFreak]

I think I've found something that works....maybe.
App is on play store and is called "Cache Apps to SD".
So far it seems to be doing what I need it to by moving data from /datadata to my external 4GB SD card.
Why external? Idk... can't be very secure in the case of someone stealing your phone and getting private data from the external SD... but it seems to be doing something good.

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[scmfxt]

Cool.. thanks. Will check it out once I get better SD card for this method.

 

[PoXFreak]

I only have a class 4 4GB SD card, and it seems to be working so far.
Will post screenshot of current partition amounts shortly.

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[PoXFreak]

Cool.. thanks. Will check it out once I get better SD card for this method.

I would think you could use a half gigabyte card if you wanted to, it's more than the 350mb allocated.
And so far so good, no decrease in speed or smoothness that I can detect yet, and it's slowly moving all the stuff from /datadata to a folder on the SD. :thumbup:


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[PoXFreak]

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[asdfghjklronne]

Guys, can you tell me on how to use this app? Thanks.

 

[PoXFreak]

Guys, can you tell me on how to use this app? Thanks.

It's straightforward in theory, but setting it up might be a little tough.
First pic shows my setting. I have it set up to use /storage/sdcard1, which is a class 4 4gb card... Nothing fancy and it works really well so far.
Second screen shows any extra settings, which all I have is to hide the notification when it's done starting up.

Fairly simple to use.
You'll notice that it will make a folder on the SD for itself and start putting data into it.

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[Ainz_Ooal_Gown]

It's straightforward in theory, but setting it up might be a little tough.
First pic shows my setting. I have it set up to use /storage/sdcard1, which is a class 4 4gb card... Nothing fancy and it works really well so far.
Second screen shows any extra settings, which all I have is to hide the notification when it's done starting up.

Fairly simple to use.
You'll notice that it will make a folder on the SD for itself and start putting data into it.

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about the class of the sdcard.....whats the internal sdcard class...cause my external 32gb is class 10.....

 

[PoXFreak]

about the class of the sdcard.....whats the internal sdcard class...cause my external 32gb is class 10.....

Class 10 is perfectly fine. It won't use the entire 32gb, of course...
I'm just using the class 4 card and I notice no loss in performance.

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[PoXFreak]

So, after a few days of use I realized it's not working as well as I'd hoped.
I got ballsy and decided to reinstall G+.
Big mistake!
I saw /datadata dwindle to a heart breaking 11kb right after install.
Then a SuperSU update took SU away from the app...

Not pleased at this point, but I can't blame the developers.

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[PoXFreak]

I'm thinking of trying something different:
Symlink /data/data to /data and make it use that partition, then maybe give the 350mb back to /system, allowing more breathing room for Android.
What say you?

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[scmfxt]

I think the stuff in /data/data used to be in same place as /data itself since I don't see it in GB stock version. The apps and games I installed wouldn't take over 900MB. 300MB would be a reasonable size for them all and the rest has to be data the app and game generate. This would explained why my memory hog game was able to install w/o out issue but has trouble in new rom when those data got split to it own folder partition.

 

[PoXFreak]

OK, fresh install of Carbon 6/22...
Typed "df" in terminal and took a screenshot.
Haven't started any real apps yet, but I'll post a screenshot when I do.

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[OfficerJimLahey]

There's this:

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/39718-workaround-for-small-datadata-partition/

This brings the contents of /data/data back into the fold (not it's own partition). I guess it was split originally (not sure when) to avoid lag, but it doesn't really make sense for this phone because it's all on the same internal SD card.

EDIT: There is also the Ext4All app that (supposedly) does this for you:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/in...ks/147112-app-extend-data-data-partition.html

 

[scmfxt]

There's this:

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/39718-workaround-for-small-datadata-partition/

This brings the contents of /data/data back into the fold (not it's own partition). I guess it was split originally (not sure when) to avoid lag, but it doesn't really make sense for this phone because it's all on the same internal SD card.

EDIT: There is also the Ext4All app that (supposedly) does this for you:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/in...ks/147112-app-extend-data-data-partition.html

Thanks for the links. Will be checking it out since I hate having to revert back to GB to play the 1 game I liked.