Been reading the forums here for a while, finally got around to signing up.
Phone is one of the original Optimus M's, I got it the first week they were available back in 11/10. Android 2.2 and VZ3 firmware. I've been very happy with this phone and haven't had any of the freezing or other issues so I haven't had any need to apply the LG updates.
Anyway after all this time I finally decided to try a temp root just to get rid of the Metro bloatware that's been hogging space since day one. Did the temp root with z4Root and it seemed to work, Superuser was installed and I was able to explore the root files. However I wasn't able to delete any of them, perhaps this was because I wasn't using Root Explorer. I tried a bunch of different explorer apps that said they could delete files but none of them actually did. They would give the delete option but when selected it would not remove the file. Now don't think that I'm cheap (ok maybe I am a bit), it's more a matter of convenience since I never bothered to set up a payment method through the market.
Anyway I chose to call it a day at that point and reset the phone, uninstall z4 and try again another time. So after doing so and putting everything back the way it was previously (as far as I can tell), I've noticed that my available internal storage is down about 5MB from what it was before I started all this. I used to have about 57MB free, now it's 52MB. Is there something left behind even after uninstalling z4Root that is holding that memory?
I will probably try the root again but first I'd like to get some insight from those who know more about this than I do. If the consensus is that Root Explorer is the only explorer app that will actually allow for deleting those files, I'll certainly install it. And I'd like to know where my 5MB went.
Phone is one of the original Optimus M's, I got it the first week they were available back in 11/10. Android 2.2 and VZ3 firmware. I've been very happy with this phone and haven't had any of the freezing or other issues so I haven't had any need to apply the LG updates.
Anyway after all this time I finally decided to try a temp root just to get rid of the Metro bloatware that's been hogging space since day one. Did the temp root with z4Root and it seemed to work, Superuser was installed and I was able to explore the root files. However I wasn't able to delete any of them, perhaps this was because I wasn't using Root Explorer. I tried a bunch of different explorer apps that said they could delete files but none of them actually did. They would give the delete option but when selected it would not remove the file. Now don't think that I'm cheap (ok maybe I am a bit), it's more a matter of convenience since I never bothered to set up a payment method through the market.
Anyway I chose to call it a day at that point and reset the phone, uninstall z4 and try again another time. So after doing so and putting everything back the way it was previously (as far as I can tell), I've noticed that my available internal storage is down about 5MB from what it was before I started all this. I used to have about 57MB free, now it's 52MB. Is there something left behind even after uninstalling z4Root that is holding that memory?
I will probably try the root again but first I'd like to get some insight from those who know more about this than I do. If the consensus is that Root Explorer is the only explorer app that will actually allow for deleting those files, I'll certainly install it. And I'd like to know where my 5MB went.
