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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ned4spd8874:
[Q] Will future versions of the Android OS fix this blasted "out of space" problem?

So I have been an avid fan of Google for many, many years. I was looking forward to the Google phone before any Android details came out. So I naturally jumped at the chance to own one. But lately, I'm starting to have a change of heart. These constant out of space warnings are really getting annoying.

So much in fact, I don't know that I want my next phone to be an Android device sadly. I really want to want another one. But this experience is starting to sour my taste for them.

I currently run a rooted (virtuous) Dinc. I have gotten the out of space notification many, many times. I have now started to get it again after installing the Google Music app after being invited into the beta. I have removed about 15 programs, but I still only have about 17MB free on that stupid 149MB partition!

This is beyond annoying. If the phone has something like 8GB of internal memory, why can't I use it? Why can't the apps install there? Why limit this massive amount of storage to a measly 150MB? What year is this, 1995?

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I am fed up. I don't know what else to do here and I'm ready to walk away. Someone please tell me that Google has saw the light and is going to fix this glaring bug of theirs in Gingerbread or Ice Cream Sandwich!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Theonew:
Why did you create a partition so small? You should create a larger partition to prevent these notifications so often since you'll have more space and use up the extra space not being used. Also, it's not the Android OS's fault that your phone has a small partition made. Since the partition is so small, and you have hardly any memory left (17mb) then it's just one of the phone's functions to notify you about this which should be a good thing to let you know.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ned4spd8874:
Umm...I didn't make the partition...Android did. Trust me, if it were my choice it would be bigger!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Theonew:
Android doesn't just make partitions by itself. Maybe the rom you have did that. try getting a new rom because this is not normal.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hgoldner:
Wrong. At least on the HTC Droid Incredible, ROM's have a standard 150 megabyte \data\data partition. For either odexed or deodexed ROM's space is taken in that partition by pretty much every installed application. I've seen contacts hog nearly 70 megabytes of that partition for some handsets, and Sense takes a lot of it, too. Odexed ROM's allegedly require less of the space.

I've run several Froyo ROM's and they all have that limitation. I cannot speak for AOSP ROM's, only Sense ROM's.

There is an app which I have used (but don't seem to be able to find in the Market any more, and the dev isn't responding to PM's here at xda, but I digress) called NotEnoughSpace which allows some portions of the contents to be shifted elsewhere. I found it was very helpful when I was on Froyo, but it does not appear to work on GingerSense. On the other hand, the partition appears to be bigger in GingerSense. The flip side is that the GingerSense ROM's are so fat, there's less RAM available for applications to run.

Pick your poison. I agree it's a stupid limitation that somebody should figure out a way to fix.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ned4spd8874:
Yes, thanks for explaining that much better than I could!

I do have NotEnoughSpace and don't use it for that purpose anymore. I just use it to see how much space I have available and to clean up the dalvik cache. When I was using it to get more space, my apps kept disappearing on me and I would have to re-install them constantly!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] darksideauto:
is this just a droid problem? i have an epic 4g and it allows me to use the entire 485mb for app storage. what about an apps to sd option? i know at least half of my apps have the option of being stored on the sd card. just wondering.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ned4spd8874:
Every app that can be moved to the SD is. But I still have only 17MB available.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Theonew:
This does not make any sense. If an app is moved to the SD Card, the space it took up on the device (some if not all) should be gained back since it's not there any longer. Whenever I move an app to the SD Card, I get back my space. There really must be something wrong with your rom/phone.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] darksideauto:
You sir have alot of apps then.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] pistolero0:
The small internal Storage is a massive problem. I agree to you.

But I know there are several ways to fix this. What I don't know is how...

There are several ROMs who support different kinds of app2sd scripts so you get more 'virtual' internal storage on the sd card.

As you can see on the pictures attached i have approx. 550 mb free internal storage but more than 40 apps that could be pushed to sd.

To get this it is necessary to re-partition your sd-card and install the correct scripts.

Unfortunately, as i said, i'm not able to tell you exactly how to get this work. I just followed a step-by-step guide somwhere in this forum.

The ROM i use, uses D2SD automatically, if the SD-card is partitioned the right way.

I'm sure you will find something that fits to the ROM you use.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ned4spd8874:
I have 75 non-standard/included apps. I've read where other people have hundreds!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ned4spd8874:
I've used the app2sd and notenoughspace programs in the past, but it seems they have done more harm than good. Apps would stop working. They would disappear completely. The system would crash, etc. I kinda gave up hope on using those approaches.

I was hoping the Google Android team would wake up and just fix this instead of us paying users have to perform work-arounds just to use our devices.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] pistolero0:
Then you are pretty unlucky. I never had problems with this stuff. All works just fine as it should.

But, of course you are right, i can't understand why they don't give us a GB or so as internal storage either.

Damn scrooges. :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kfuzion:
Try using a cleaner ROM for your DInc (ie "stock Android"- no Sense UI). I just got a DInc yesterday, switching from an Aria. Did a factory wipe, rooted, and installed the CM7 nightly 100. I believe I currently have s2e on my 8gb MicroSD (just swapped it from my Aria, which had s2e and CM7). Anyway, I have 118MB used, 630MB free internal storage space for apps. This clearly isn't a Google/Android problem. Could be an HTC Sense problem, I suppose.

edit: My Aria even has 185MB available for apps. Not a huge amount, but considering it has a lot less internal space than a DInc, yeah, OP something is wrong.
[Android Themes] asherdroid123:
step one download launcher pro from the market

step two download nexus revamped from the market

step three download attachments and put in folder on sd card

step four install nexus s adw theme from attachments

step four go to launcherpro preferences and go to appearence settings and then go to dock background and coustom then look for dock.png and use that

then after restart on the dock go to the far left icon and hold it then click change shortcut then click homescreens and then previous screen on the next one hold it down and click change shortcut again then applications then scroll to dialer or phone when that is done choose icon will pop up click coustom icon and look for the call icon in the folder you kept the attachment in on the next one hold it then click change shortcut then app drawer then click coustom icon and look for the app drawer in the attachments then on the far right one hold it and click change shortcut and then homescreens then next screen next go to launcher pro preferences and click theme settings then click icon pack and nexus s gingerbread now all your icon will look like gingerbread now go to the icon next to the app drawer icon hold it and then click change shortcut then applications then browser or internet

to add the finishing touches go to wallpaper then live wallpapers click nexus revamped then settings then go to background then image then the grid then go back and click particles then particle appearence the turn all settings up

then click ok and then click particle scaling and turn that all the way up

then go back and click physics then click spawn density then turn that all the way up then apply the wallpaper im sorry this is so long but thats the way i has to explain it hop you like will upload picture of this in a minuite
[General Questions and Answers] Choonsung:
Dear Android developer,

I'm going to update my HTC Android phone which has 2.2 version.

I want to update it to 2.3. Please let me know how I can do it.

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Maximilian Mary:
What phone do you have?
[EVO 4G General] TeknoJnky:
for those with a completely stock rooted rom (I used unrevoked forever), I downloaded and it automatically applied the OTA successfully with RA 2.3 recovery.

Everything seemed to go fine, of course after it finally finished updating and rebooted back into sense, I had to reload RA (via bootloader) and then reload SU (via amonra).

The only thing bad I've noticed/confirmed so far is that netflix no longer will play movies.
[EVO 4G General] kingakuma:
ive been telling everyone the same thing all day today about reflashing amon to regain full recovery control

netflix is messed up and so is the Voice commands sometimes the mic doesn't hear you
[EVO 4G General] tempe38:
How do I do this?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patass:
Prior to the riptide kernel, I was seeing benchmarks of something like 4200+ @ 1.5ghz on my wifi xoom. Emulators ran amazingly well and I had no issues

Now with the latest kernels, my system speed seems fine, but I'm getting benchmarks of like 2700 and my emulators are very choppy. FPSE is nigh unusable.

Wifi xoom, upgraded to 3.1 via the method that didnt involve a wipe. What's up?
[HD2 General] colaicee:
Hello i have a HD2 with Android 2.3.4 CM7 Hyperdroid.

Im having problems connecting wireless tether app, i notice that the Built-In Portable hotspot app opens when i turn on wireless tether app. When i try to connect with my computer it just says limited service. and when turn of wireless tether for root users and just use the built in service i encounter the same problems. I tried Barnacle wireless too. cant get wifi tethering to work

please help
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mathiase:
Hi,

I found several ways to access the files of a Xoom via MTP from a Linux (in my case Ubuntu 11.04) machine. The most comvenient seems to be gphoto2 way with gvfs. To do this, you need to have the following UDEV rules:

When you plug in your device, it is recognized and mounted automatically. Unfortunately, there is one major problem: I _can_ upload files to the device, but _not_ see them after that. I can perfectly see and browse the directory structure, but I will never see a file. I know the file is there as Android can see it, but from Linux's point of view it is not there.

Does any have experience with this and have a solution?

For the moment, I decided to use the mtpfs way - but I'd prefer the integrated automated way. I myself can live very well with typing commands to mount and unmount the device, but other people probably can't ;)

cheers

mathiase
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tha_neo:
Hi guys,

I´ve tried most of the cooked JVH roms for SGS i9000 and also the stock roms.

Is it just me or is the Gingerbread JVH rom slower and less stable than the Froyo roms?

Why should I use Gingerbread when I Froyo is faster, more stable and the battery life is better.

What is your experience?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raider0001:
On my phone gingerbread is faster but very unstable, drains my battery, apps rebooting system, wifi sometimes cant reconnect after reboot just useless i have a feeling that ginger is in beta state and was never finished by samsung

i have also tryied almost every rom modyfied and untouched - all having different or same symptoms of instability funny fact is - most developers saying that everything works fine
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woops?:
I must admit that I've never (yet...) had any of those problems you read about all over the forums ... Speed is similar (or even better) to what I had on Froyo, and battery life has certainly improved with GB.

I'm currently on GingerReal 5.1 and although I've only used it for a couple of days, it hasn't let me down yet. Guess I'm one of the lucky few ...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aljosko:
I am going with GB, cuz of battery life and performance (i think it's slightly better than Froyos) :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] {Angel}:
That is my feeling also. Although i had no really big problems with gb i went back to froyo. The current gb roms have nothing on the latest froyos. I like to have a rock solid phone and right now jsd is it for me. No advantage running the gb roms right now, in fact its a step backwards.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tha_neo:
Cool, so Im not the only one having these issues. Well I guess I will go back to Ultimate or darkys running froyo then. Worst part is that SwiftKey is not working in the email client
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mossy1963:
"less stable" meaning what?

for me GB is infinitely better including battery life

@Raider0001....have you tried factory reset?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jojotots:
i had no problem since i was started using 2.3.3 gb room and its getting my phone looks so nice, rockn' and thanks for GB costum room!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mialwe:
True, almost nothing to add. GBs theme is very nice, had not many problems with JVO - but I like to sleep knowing that battery is not empty when it's alarm time in the morning :) That is the main reason for me switching back to a customized JSD which runs without problems - except a camera freeze after taking a picture sometimes (not very often so that's ok for me).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sergiish:
+1 - checked almost all gb ROM. Always problems with battery life or FC. Today I flashed back Darky 9.5 with Crysis Revolution theme and now have no problems. I like MIUI but there is terrible battery drain.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raider0001:
Oh man i did everything to get rid of the most annoying bug which is battery drain (spent 2 weeks searching for stability), factory reset 10 times or more. Maybe not all i9000 are same in hardware because there are many without problems and many with.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buntoo:
I installed GB stock (JPJV6) yesterday to give it a try.. (Have already tried all GBs).

The only problem I'm facing with it is the lag in flyover movement in applications menu... It was very smooth on Froyo 2.2.1 (JPJPM, JPJPY).. That is really annoying :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phzi:
Gingerbread, because CM7 is gingerbread =]

If I was still on Samsung roms, I'd probably still be using froyo tho, it's stability is peak.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mossy1963:
If someone honestly tells me that they have these issues when following best flashing practice, i.e. ensure they don't install a clean GB rom over debris from earlier roms and I'll start to listen.

Honestly...format internal SD, factory reset, flash with PIT and repartition, factory reset (again)...then NOT restore apps AND DATA from an old rom.

If all the above is done and the installation is truly clean and there are still issues I'll start to believe*

*in the tooth fairy at least :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] christian5916:
Froyo All Tha Wayyyyyy!!!!!!

JSD 1432 vs JVO 1025 benchmarks both without lag fix, no os bug on jsd 40% os bug on jvo sure ginger theme looks awesome but for what do you want a great looking car that does 15 miles per gallons???????:D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] christian5916:
Well I actually did that on JVO factory and usb erase but the bug came back the third day
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] necropedofile:
Im having a lot of issues with VPN and also with usb audio while docked on GB on Froyo those features were working fine
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaksheytalwar:
Speed is faster, at least twice as fast on gingerbread out of the box.

For battery, take out the battery for a few mins and then reboot, then gb battery is at least twice as good too
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neilbantoc:
hey guys, I'd like some feedback on this if you're experiencing the same..

it seems that the TV out quality deteriorated a bit on gingerbread than in froyo.. i flashed stock froyo DXJPA and stock gb XXJVH to compare and there really is a difference.. sorry i don't have a pic to demonstrate, but an apparent deterioration i noticed is that a list divider (the line in the list menu like settings) is not shown when it is in the dead center of the screen.. but when i scroll it just a bit, it shows..

also, still an issue with tv out, the video controls overlay on the video player is seen on the phone but not on the screen.. this happens on gb but on froyo, it is exactly what you see on the screen.. it is also apparent in other video players like mVideoPlayer

lastly, subtitles don't appear on the TV in gb but they do in froyo.. tried in stock video player and mVideoPlayer..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FiRe || TeaR:
GB Best in ever thing
[Droid Pro Themes and Apps] clifference:
I know development is kinda sparse here for the droid pro...but anyway someone can modify the camera.apk to allow the side button to work for taking pictures?
[Droid Pro Themes and Apps] stupidchicken03:
yea that would be kinda nice.

Ive got it set up now so that the single side button opens the camera, but it doesnt take pics :(
[Droid Pro Themes and Apps] Jersey846:
Had that feature on my old BB Tour before I switched to the Droid Pro. Really miss that feature. Don't miss much of anything else though.
[Droid Pro Themes and Apps] el6006:
I posted this on droidforums.net. works with stock GB camera as well as MIUI camera apk which i like a bit better.

I have been wanting to use the side button as a shutter button since I got the Droid Proand it can be done using Button Re-Mapper

You must be rooted to use this app so.... First go to settings>applications>Quick Launch and press/hold side button to clear the assigned app, this setting will no longer work once we remap the button. Open button remapper and scroll all the way to the bottom of the list and click on 246 (Side) and change it to Camera with Wake_Dropped state, apply changes and reboot. This way, along with No Lock app installed, your side button will now wake the phone. Once the phone is awake, press/hold the side button and it will bring up the camera. Now press the side button while the camera app is active and it will snap the pic. Yay.

The next coolest thing would be an app that can reprogram button actions the buttons are pressed/held like on BlackBerry. This would allow press/hold button shortcuts from homescreen without using the search soft key as we have to use now.
[Droid Pro Themes and Apps] #G#:
THANK YOU for posting this, should be made sticky in a mods page. ButtonRemapper http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=850464 and no lock from the matter go straight in my howto on this phone.

Another thing on my 3.8... verizon latest rom on settings, applications, quick launch you can do something similar to what you are saying pressing search + letter are keyboard shortcuts, like on BBs!

I'll also share that Toggle 2g/3g

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=739530

works great and with widget it extends my battery even more.

Needs resigning of system apps on droid pro, be very careful and do things step by step adding pause in the batch file..

I added this comment http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=17626210&posted=1#post17626210 for procedure with droid pro.s

The app ROCKS!
[Droid Pro Themes and Apps] astaroth1990:
Thank you, that worked great!
[Droid Pro Themes and Apps] sidgallup:
thanks for this
[Droid Incredible General] renzo.olivares:
Well the HTC EVO 4G received their official OTA yesterday from sprint and we are scheduled to get it by the end of this month as well which means custom gingersense kernels will come soon after. Just putting this out there for people who want to know the news about the update and yes the OTA will break root.
[Droid Incredible General] RMarkwald:
Right on, which also means that the Unrevoked team will have to work on their root exploits AFTER the OTA to once again achieve root. Hopefully it won't be like the last OTA (or 2 OTA's ago?) where it broke root, and there were nothing but threads about not having it...you'd a thought people were going to die, and all they had to do was wait about a week or so.
[Droid Incredible General] Deleted member 2776902:
My question is, can it put you S-ON? Because even the RUU can't do that. So even if you were on a stock rom, with S-OFF, and received the OTA, you could still root through CWM.
[Droid Incredible General] badogg:
What does that mean for us that are rooted and running custom Rom's? If I were to just let it run the OTA with root and custom Rom? Would it just overwrite the whole phone with new update and replace everything on my phone with updated stock gingerbread/Rom? Or will I need to restore my stock Rom backup and then unroot the phone to s-on and then let it OTA?
[Droid Incredible General] Deleted member 2776902:
If your already on a custom rom, you wont get an OTA notification.
[Droid Incredible General] renzo.olivares:
if you want the official ota and youre rooted you'll have to wait for one of the devs to get a rooted rom out
[Droid Incredible General] vonhinkle:
It's just mean inc development is gonna go crazy soon....woooopyyyyy!
[Droid Incredible General] renzo.olivares:
its already pretty crazy with the gingerbread leak all gingerbread official will do is give us oc kernel
[Droid Incredible General] 1107963:
but this still will have sense 1.0 right???
[Droid Incredible General] renzo.olivares:
yea :( that sucks
[Droid Incredible General] Deleted member 2776902:
Sure, Sense 1.0 is kinda lame. But its probably for the best. It's definitely lighter on resources, and the phone manual would still apply. Not much of an issue since the Inc isn't shipping anymore. But the EVO is. So they might have had to rewrite some of the manual for sense 2.1. But I think it has more to do with available memory. All these gingersense roms are great, but they sure do use a lot more.
[Droid Incredible General] todd3835:
I don't care what people say about Sense 2.1 on the Inc. It's working great for me. The bottom line is that the Inc isn't being made anymore, so there is absolutely NO incentive for HTC to put 2.x Sense on it. If your Inc broke for instance, and you could get an official 2.x Sense'd phone, you'd be more likely to pick up a used Inc as opposed to a newer phone. I've had my Inc going on almost a year, and I can honestly say I don't really need to "upgrade" my phone. I typically upgrade to a newer phone every year..... If I last that long! I had my ATT Fuze (aka HTC Raphael, aka Touch Pro) for like 3 or 4 months before "upgrading". Bottom line is, the Inc is a great phone, it's capable of running Sense 2.x, but HTC wouldn't be doing themselves any good to go through the effort of putting it on the Inc since it's an EOL product.....