Strange Issue - Device does not show "free space left" when installing apps. - help?

[Shadamehr]

Strange Issue - Device does not show "free space left" when installing apps. - help?

Bit of a strange one this, but can anyone shed any light.

With my other WM5 devices, a Vario, and a MDA Pro (Wizard and Universal), whenever I install applications to the device via the .cab file, I am asked where I want to install to, Device or Storage Card, and it shows the amount of memory required for this install, and the free storage remaining for that location, which obviously changes as you press the relevant radio button for Device or Storage Card.

However, as best I recall since day one of owning it, on my T Mobile Vario 2, whenever I install applications, it never shows me the free memory remaining bit, so I simply have to make a guess as to where to store it.

Is this a known bug for the Hermes with the standard T-Mobile ROM... or can other normal T- Mobile ROM users state that this behaviour does NOT occur for them, adn that it DOES show all the necessary information whilst installing...?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Shadamehr]

Ok, let me put it another way...

Can ANYONE tell me if on their Hermes based device, they DO get an indication how much free space is remaining, when they install an application...?

If so, what ROM/Operator...

Almost this entire forum has a Hermes, if you are reading this, likely...

If so, can you do me a quick favour and try this by going through the motions of installing an application, and see.

You don't even need to install the application (any application cab file will do to test this). Simply CANCEL the install, once you ascertain whether it does or doesn't show you how much free space you have, whilst it tells you how much room it will need.

Come on, help me out here - you all have Hermes' - is this just me with this issue...?

 

[marisa4755]

Well, just for you I re-syncd my pda and no, it doesn't tell me on my Vario II how much space I have left, only how much space the app will take up.

I don't think it ever has told me.

Hope that helps

 

[PhonePhun]

On mine it shows spaced required and space available.

I think my sig shows what else I have.

 

[Shadamehr]

Thanks both...

It sounds to me like it's a ROM issue then... Marissa, is yours T-Mobile or what?

Curious that the AKU 3.3 and thus possibly cooked rom (or the beta one that got released semi-officially), DOES work properly in showing the space required AND space remaining...

That's what makes me think it's a ROM issue...

So can anyone else contribute...?

 

[Shadamehr]

Well, just for you I re-syncd my pda and no, it doesn't tell me on my Vario II how much space I have left, only how much space the app will take up.

I don't think it ever has told me.

Hope that helps

Er Marisa, having re-read your message, I'm now a bit confused...

Not sure what you mean by "having re-synced my pda"...

Can I clarify, this has nothing to doing with a sync...

I merely mean that if you go to install software on your PDA, usually by way of clicking on a cab file using File Explorer on the device, the device will then sometimes prompt you with a warning, do you wish to install untrusted source etc etc.

If you say yes, the next thing that will happen, is that you will be asked by the pda, where you want to install, if you have a storage card inserted, and have a radio button choice of Device, or Storage Card.

And as you tick one or the other, the text below this will tell you how much space is REQUIRED, and the killer>>> on all previous devices, also how much is REMAINING on whichever storage type you tick - device or card.

But on my Vario 2, it DOESN'T show any info at all about how much is left remaining...

On a vario 1, and a universal, and all my previous windows smartphones, it DID tell you this.

So were you meaning something else, as this is what I was referring to. Or did you just mean you installed an application initially via a PC .exe file, with your device connected, so it then triggered a normal install as above, on the pda...

Just not clear where the bit about PC sync came in.

This has got me a little frustrated, as all I am doing now is banging everything on card, as I now have no indication of how much free memory is on my device, while I install.

(I can go in to check via System Tools from time to time, but this is not the solution...)

Cheers all.

S.

 

[marisa4755]

Hi I always install software if possible through an exe file through activesync, most people do.

It does just the same thing, and you get the same messages when you install, and on my install message, it asks on the pda where I want to install the app, main memory or storage card, and how large the app is. But nothing about how much space is left.

It's a T-mobile with the original rom, radio etc etc.

Hope this helps.

 

[mousey_]

I Found That It Doesn't Show How Much Room You've Got Out Of The Box, But When I Unlock My ExtRom Or I Must Enable Some Other Tweak Using HTweakC, Then The Amount Of Free Space Gets Shown.

Cheers

 

[Toleraen]

When I install cabs directly from the phone (not activesync), it always shows the required space / remaining space for each medium. I haven't done any ExtROM or CID unlocking, just SIM. Sounds like a rom thing...see sig for details.

 

[Shadamehr]

Hi I always install software if possible through an exe file through activesync, most people do.

It does just the same thing, and you get the same messages when you install, and on my install message, it asks on the pda where I want to install the app, main memory or storage card, and how large the app is. But nothing about how much space is left.

It's a T-mobile with the original rom, radio etc etc.

Hope this helps.

Hi Marisa - yes that's great thanks, as what you describe is just another way to trigger the installation - using activesync etc - it just copies the cab across and triggers the install itself, as I do manually.

So you have confirmed that T-Mobile ROM has this problem. Cheers.

 

[Shadamehr]

I Found That It Doesn't Show How Much Room You've Got Out Of The Box, But When I Unlock My ExtRom Or I Must Enable Some Other Tweak Using HTweakC, Then The Amount Of Free Space Gets Shown.

Cheers

Cheers mate - so it sounds like the base Orange ROM also has this issue too.

Unless you do some magic -jiggery pokery...

Don't suppose you can have a better think what it was you did to fix it...?

But cheers - another confirmed issue.

 

[Shadamehr]

When I install cabs directly from the phone (not activesync), it always shows the required space / remaining space for each medium. I haven't done any ExtROM or CID unlocking, just SIM. Sounds like a rom thing...see sig for details.

Again, another Cingular user with an updated ROM, that is NOT having this issue.

So it's more and more sounding like an early ROM issue...

Cheers mate.