Root How to determine app size ?

[heywood]

Yesterday morning i removed some apps from my rooted 2.1. Nothing exotic, i'm not at that level of exploration, just the common ones recommended like the stock widget & apps (all 3 instances & their .odex) and the visual voice mail.

later in the evening i felt the phone wasn't performing as it should. Taking an xxl image with my fav photo app vignette cause the phone to freeze & i had to remove the battery, the same happened with meebo.

so i did both wipes & re-flashed the official 2.1 rooted rom and all seems well.

So i began to wonder, how much space iod the stock widgets & apps really take up ? if it was miniscule then why bother to remove them at all.

how can i see an apps size from the command prompt ?

 

[xstackedx]

App size is displayed in market.

Another way to see app size is to run a couple comands.

adb shell (android sdk must be installed)
su
(then hit allow on your phone)
cd /system/app (to go to the folder of system apps)
(or)
cd /data/app (to go to the installed app folder)
ls -al (This will list all files in said directory in a table. The column left to the date column displays the size of the file in bytes.)

 

[heywood]

thanks much, apps from the market i wasn't worried about. Since i back them all up & can just browse the backups folder.

It's the preinstalled apps like the stock market, visual voice mail, peep, twitter etc i was wondering about