[ROM] B 0.8.4 based on stock HTC FroYo (04/13/2011)

odioilbrodo

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Removing System apps and freeing internal memory without cooking new rom

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@thugzie: Removing system apps won't solve your userdata partition storage problem. After removing those apps, you won't have more storage space on your disposal.

@powerpenguin: Nope. Neither would removing them from system partition for real. What I practise is actually disabling unneeded system apps via pm.
I did this to cancel a system app (NEWS in this case, 400k size), using Titanium Backup latest version with PRO key (don't remember if needed functions are available in the free version)

1. Used the 'force remove' option of the app (with recovery exploit)
2. Cleaned the Dalvik Cacke

and voilà! 400k found, cleaned and available for other programs...
and size of free memory increased accordingly.

To expert users: Is this an hallucination of mine? Does this make sense to you?

I didn't try yet with more apps
 

BlaY0

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Good question...

You're right to some extent. But this could be also achieved by disabling the app too. Lemme give you a short explanation. Every apk package (which is in fact a zip package) has dex binary inside which is extracted to dalvik cache directory after installation (or 1st boot). If you disable that app or delete it somehow, that dex binary is not being extracted to dalvik cache directory thus you gain some space on data partition. So there's a quick solution for guys not needing a bunch of system apps... after 1st boot you disable them (via pm script) reboot into recovery and clear dalvik cache. You can actually gain some space that would othervise be needed for extracted dex binaries in dalvik cache directory on data partition.

Sent from my HTC Legend
 
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roeylee

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I like this ROM. I use it for months now. However, lately, the WIFI is driving me crazy. Sometimes it works fine but sometimes it try to connect but then disconnect itself.
 

shezaad879

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I like this ROM. I use it for months now. However, lately, the WIFI is driving me crazy. Sometimes it works fine but sometimes it try to connect but then disconnect itself.
Been getting the same problem with the lady's legend too. Hope there's a fix. I thought it was the router but my desire hd connects fine...

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lexen_

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Great ROM! The best available for Legend currently!
About the Wi-Fi issues I can offer a solution:

1. Install the Wi-Fi test patch.
2. Install Wi-Fi manager /https://market.android.com/details?id=org.kman.WifiManager&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5rbWFuLldpZmlNYW5hZ2VyIl0.. With this App I have no Wi-Fi issues.

Note: First I have installed Wi-Fi Analyser+ connectivity library, but could not connect to any network so decided to remove it and try the already mentioned manager.
 
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Bricolo_fr

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Hi,

I'm running B 0.8.4 and I have an issue about the low disk space message on the data partition (and it has happend to me before)

The thing is: apps2sd is enabled!

According to the system pannel app the data partition is 185MB (this looks normal for the legend) and 13MB is currently available (the warning message appears when less than 10% is available)

There's also a /mnt/aesc/sd (which I assume is the apps2sd partition)
Size: 504MB, 346MB available


Now, according to ES file explorer, here's what is in my data partition

/data: 223MB
/data/app:140MB
/data/app-private:2MB
/data/dalvik-cache:61MB
/data/data:19MB

other folders in /data/ are less than 1MB in size

so if apps2sd works properly, data/app and data/app-private are located on the SD card's ext3 partition. This is 142MB, while there is 158MB used on the ext3 partition (504-346)

then, the only space used on the internal /data partition is dalvik and /data/data (where app store their data), summing to 80MB. I should have more than 100MB left on the /data partition then! But it's not the case!

Can anyone help me on this, or explain me where I am wrong?

Thanks!
 

BlaY0

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There are 2 things you can try 1st... fire up adb shell and do:

cd /data
du -sh *

...to see exact usage of all the subdirs in /data and:

a2sd --free

...will show you the status of userdata and sd-ext partitions.

Sent from my HTC Legend
 

Bricolo_fr

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thanks!

the problem is solved. it was facebook and the phone contacts app which took a h*ll lot of space. I cleared contact and facebook data, synched again, and it works now

I don't know why, but after a few months of use my contacts app needs almost 20MB of data...
 

TheGrammarFreak

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thanks!

the problem is solved. it was facebook and the phone contacts app which took a h*ll lot of space. I cleared contact and facebook data, synched again, and it works now

I don't know why, but after a few months of use my contacts app needs almost 20MB of data...
How strange...

I once saw Facebook take up over 100MB though. Bad coding I say ;)
 

nemphis

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There are 2 things you can try 1st... fire up adb shell and do:

cd /data
du -sh *

...to see exact usage of all the subdirs in /data and:

a2sd --free

...will show you the status of userdata and sd-ext partitions.

Sent from my HTC Legend

When using data2ext, what would be the command to check?