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How I found more ROM memory

Pinmac1

Pinmac1

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I was getting fed up of constantly hovering near the memory limit at around 21 Mb. I had thought of hanging on until Gingerbread but it had got a lot worse lately and I decided to factory reset and reinstall. Just before I did, I had a look under Settings>Applications>Manage Applications and looked at all my downloaded programs. I have Apps2SD installed so most programs are on the SD card with only a small part in the phone memory.

There seemed to be some programs with a lot of data so I ordered them by size and went through methodically deleting data that I thought was safe to delete. There were some I was amazed were so big. The worst culprit was Miren Browser which had 9mb of data. When I deleted it, it did reset completely and lost all my favorites but I reset them easily. When I re-opened Miren it asked if I wanted to clear data on exit which I ticked.

After I'd finished I'd gone from 21 Mb to 38Mb which is way more comfortable and lets me wait until Gingerbread is out before I decide whether it's worth factory resetting.

I was surprised that so many of the apps had so much data as I run Quick Cache Cleaner several times a day and I had thought that this would have deleted any unnecessary data.

I hope this helps somebody else with memory issues.
 
Pinmac1 said:
I was getting fed up of constantly hovering near the memory limit at around 21 Mb. I had thought of hanging on until Gingerbread but it had got a lot worse lately and I decided to factory reset and reinstall. Just before I did, I had a look under Settings>Applications>Manage Applications and looked at all my downloaded programs. I have Apps2SD installed so most programs are on the SD card with only a small part in the phone memory.

There seemed to be some programs with a lot of data so I ordered them by size and went through methodically deleting data that I thought was safe to delete. There were some I was amazed were so big. The worst culprit was Miren Browser which had 9mb of data. When I deleted it, it did reset completely and lost all my favorites but I reset them easily. When I re-opened Miren it asked if I wanted to clear data on exit which I ticked.

After I'd finished I'd gone from 21 Mb to 38Mb which is way more comfortable and lets me wait until Gingerbread is out before I decide whether it's worth factory resetting.

I was surprised that so many of the apps had so much data as I run Quick Cache Cleaner several times a day and I had thought that this would have deleted any unnecessary data.

I hope this helps somebody else with memory issues.
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I also did the recently and also gained about 20MB, deleted data from the likes of facebook and dolphin browser HD, just have to be careful with what your doing.

Here's a big one tho, if like me you use HTC Mail and forget to delete your emails then you will be losing a lot of space, I didn't know but those old emails were taking up 15MB.

If you want to check go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications> All

Find Mail and see the size of the data, if you delete the data you will have to set up your email again, but I don't see that as a problem, also this might work with Gmail but I don't use it so I cant be sure.
 
If you delete emails in HTC mail, they go to a "Trash" folder or something which also needs emptying. No need to clear data for that one
 
I've never used HTC Mail having used Gmail from the start. It's showing 1.07Mb data and 0Mb application. Am I safe to delete the data - I assume it has no connection to my Gmail data?
 
It will wipe your emails from phone only. It will then resync and re-download the emails. I presume the data will end up about the same level. Its not really worth doing IMO
 
Deleting the cache is the safest option here.
Deleting data is a problem, since you can't selectively delete things. For browsers, this will not only delete browsing history (OK to remove), but also the favorites (not OK for me).
 
I would (and did) normally just delete the cache but I just couldn't afford to have 9Mb tied up in data for the Miren browser. Luckily I don't have that many favourites so could afford to delete the data. Since I ticked the "delete cache on exit" I don't seem to be having a buildup of data any more.
 
SUroot said:
It will wipe your emails from phone only. It will then resync and re-download the emails. I presume the data will end up about the same level. Its not really worth doing IMO
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Not on the HTC Mail app, that only downloads new emails you receive, so if you have some emails sitting in your inbox on your PC then add this account to your phone the emails in your account wont sync, any emails you get after after this point will sync, also if you delete an email on the app, it wont sync back, so it is an effective way to remove a large amount of emails (in my case 100+).

PS. This is how it works with Hotmail with default settings.
 
On of the worst for me is the Facebook app. Often over 20mb of data. Everytime I view pics or people's walls, it increases. So once a week I delete the data, and all you have to do is re-sign in.

NB: I also go in to the Facebook setting to turn off notifications and auto refreshing, as these setting reset when you delete the data.
 
I've been having a lot of problems with space recently, too. (The phone memory keeps getting lower and lower and I had to keep deleting apps to keep it above 15MB)

I took your advice and went through the big data users. Dolphin HD did it for me. It was it's HTML5 cache I think. Now I'm back to 21MB.

So when is Gingerbread due out on the Desire??

Thanks for the tip.
 
pav4n said:
Not on the HTC Mail app, that only downloads new emails you receive, so if you have some emails sitting in your inbox on your PC then add this account to your phone the emails in your account wont sync, any emails you get after after this point will sync, also if you delete an email on the app, it wont sync back, so it is an effective way to remove a large amount of emails (in my case 100+).

PS. This is how it works with Hotmail with default settings.
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No idea. Never used it.
 
erehwon13 said:
Oh! A quick search shows Gingerbread is available now. Shall I take the plunge??
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There are several other threads in this forum discussing the official GB release and what the differences are. I suggest you read those and decide.

Note that at present there is no way of undoing this update - you can neither reload an official Froyo nor root it. So if in doubt, keep reading.
 
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