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Root This is how I saved TONS of space on my phone’s internal memory

This is how I saved TONS of space on my phones internal memory, more specifically the /data partition.

1 - Phone is rooted, running stock rom.
2 - I used NoBloat to get rid of all the unnecessary bloatware that came on the phone.
3 - I used App 2 SD to move all available user apps to the SD Card and set the SD Card as the default installation location
4 - I used Ultimate Backup to force all the remaining user apps that were installed on the phone onto the SD Card (Warning: If you utilize a widget that is part of an app, you will have to keep that app on the internal memory)
5 - There were then several system
 
This is how I saved TONS of space on my phone’s internal memory, more specifically the “/data” partition.

1 - Phone is rooted, running stock rom.
2 - I used NoBloat to get rid of all the unnecessary bloatware that came on the phone.
3 - I used App 2 SD to move all available user apps to the SD Card and set the SD Card as the default installation location
4 - I used Ultimate Backup to force all the remaining “user” apps that were installed on the phone onto the SD Card (Warning: If you utilize a widget that is part of an app, you will have to keep that app on the internal memory)
5 –There were then several “system” apps (ie: Maps, YouTube, etc) left on the internal memory, I used NoBloat to remove those system apps entirely. I then went into Google Play, and downloaded them one at a time. This seems to trick the Android system and it reinstalls it as a “user” app. You can then go back into Ultimate Backup and force move them to the SD Card. (Warning: Make sure, before you delete a system app, that it is on the Google Play market to redownload, not all system apps are there)
6 – After doing this, I used Root Browser to delete everything in /data/dalvik-cache/ and pulled the battery after. Then I restarted it and allowed the dalvik cache to rebuild during boot.
7 – Then I used Root Browser to move parts of the dalvik cache to the SD Card by doing the following:
First, go into data/dalvik-cache/ and look for files that start with “mnt@asec@”, it is then followed by the app developer name and will have a .dex extension
Select one file and cut it Go to mnt/asec/, look for it’s corresponding folder in there
Open that folder and paste the .dex file
Then rename that file to “pkg.odex”
(Warning: There is a size limit for this trick, it seems that it only works on files under 2MB)

Doing all of this took me from daily “Low Disk Space” notifications to having 50+MB of free space internally all the time, which may not seem like much, but on low end phones like my Samsung Admire, every MB counts. Hope these tricks help others!

i dont know where you copied and pasted this from but you might want to edit all the signs and symbols that appeared from it. hint hint mate ;)
good guide but very few people would probably be able to understand it
 
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