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Root Whats Taking Up All My Phone Space

Mega Optimus

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So I my optimus m has most apps moved to sd card using app2sd. I also rooted my phone and got link2sd, so i could move the apps that were unable to move to sd using app2sd. I've moved remaining apps to sd using link2sd. I only got less than a dozen apps on the internal phone storage and they are apps that use the system and widgets that need to stay on the internal phone. I was able to store a lot more apps on my phone this way, but now im still getting the storage low notification that doesn't let you download more apps or use texts or even store a new number. My question is what is taking up my internal space and how do i get rid of it? I am clueless to whats taking up space. I only see about 18mb worth of apps on my phone using android assistant and thats rounding up. Anyone know whats going on?
 
So I my optimus m has most apps moved to sd card using app2sd. I also rooted my phone and got link2sd, so i could move the apps that were unable to move to sd using app2sd. I've moved remaining apps to sd using link2sd. I only got less than a dozen apps on the internal phone storage and they are apps that use the system and widgets that need to stay on the internal phone. I was able to store a lot more apps on my phone this way, but now im still getting the storage low notification that doesn't let you download more apps or use texts or even store a new number. My question is what is taking up my internal space and how do i get rid of it? I am clueless to whats taking up space. I only see about 18mb worth of apps on my phone using android assistant and thats rounding up. Anyone know whats going on?


I didn't notice if you said you were rooted. Also, if you are, are you running a custom ROM? If you are using a custom ROM, there's another way to get apps to the sd card. Search on dark tremors a2sd and you will find wealth of information. Basically, it's a flashable zip that will move all (even the widgets) to the sd card, and it fools the phone into thinking that it's all still on the phone thru the use of symbolic links. I don't know what version it's up to, but I was using a beta 4 of some version (can't remember now, but if you're interested pm me and I can send you the information). We had difficulty getting the beta 5 version to work. I can send you a link to a very good thread for the Optimus M and how to install and use dt a2sd. When I used it, I had lots of room left on my phones internal memory.
 
@alfick3
It would be best to post in this thread as well on how to do it. It can help others who Google stuff like this and come across this thread and find they will have to look elsewhere because the info is not here...
 
@alfick3
It would be best to post in this thread as well on how to do it. It can help others who Google stuff like this and come across this thread and find they will have to look elsewhere because the info is not here...

I can certainly do that; later when I'm near my computer.
 
I don't know if it applies with a custom ROM, but when I rooted my M and deleted a bunch of bloatware I had to manually clean up the Dalvik cache. That freed up a lot of additional memory (something like 20-30 MB IIRC). This can be done with Titanium Backup.
 
Ok, here is the thread on the OM all things root forum for DT A2SD: How 2 A2SD (via DarkTremor and Joneidy's Custom Recovery)

Here is a link to the version that works for the OM: http://www.darktremor.info/files/a2sd/dtapps2sd-2.7.5.3-beta04-signed.zip

Now, since you have a ROM already in use follow the steps in the first link to install it. You will want to have a partitioned SD card. Depending on the size of your SD, will determine the best size for the ext3 (or 4) partition. For example, if you have an 8GB, you might want 1GB for your ext. It also depends on how much "internal" memory for apps that you want. This is where your apps will reside once a2sd is installed. If you usb hook up the phone and then you can copy any and all stuff you have on the sd card to your computer. Use the custom recovery to format and create your ext partition. You won't need to create a swap partition; Our ROMs don't take advantage of it. Now, once you have the partitions created, re-copy all the stuff that you moved to the computer, back to the sd card (you will be copying the stuff to the fat32 partition since that is the only partition that windows will see (if you are using linux, it will see the ext partition)).

Next you will use the custom recovery to flash the dt zip file. After it's flashed, you can reboot. It will take a considerable time (maybe 5 minutes max) to reboot, and even look like it's rebooting a couple of times. That's ok. If it takes much longer, than pull the battery and try to power it on again once the battery has been replaced.

Once you are powered on, open the terminal emulator. The instructions say to use ADB, but the commands can be run from the emulator. That's typically how I do it. Type su, and allow the app, if you haven't already. Once you have the # code the following:

#a2sd cachesd
let it do what it does, and it will reboot. It might ask you a question and want a y or n answer, just answer y and it will continue.

Once it has rebooted, open the terminal again and code:

#a2sd zipalign

The 2 things I said to type you don't need to type in the # since it's already there. If you see the $ that means you can't run the command line commands. You don't need to, but after I run the zipalign, I usually reboot again, just for the heck of it. The last thing I do is to go into the terminal again and code:

#a2sd check

Scroll through the output and you will be looking for three things: you want to see that apps run from sd, cache runs from sd, and that zipalign is set at boot.

It is a little involved, but it's not hard. If you have command line experience you shouldn't be stumped by it. If you don't, I hope that I was explanatory enough. You can check it all by opening Titanium Backup. On the 1st screen it will show you how much space you have used and left on your internal memory, sd card, sd ext and so on. Let me know how it goes for you.
 
Can we see a pic of your screen of apps when you go to manage apps at the bottom it will show how much space you have used and what's free.
 
great thanks im going to try this, however im still curious what took up my space. I mean i have like less than 20mbs of apps on my internal. I would like to show you a screenshot but i dont know how. On android assistants list of phone apps i only have 14 apps
 
just go to play store and look up app names like screenshot and pick one of those

great thanks im going to try this, however im still curious what took up my space. I mean i have like less than 20mbs of apps on my internal. I would like to show you a screenshot but i dont know how. On android assistants list of phone apps i only have 14 apps

Like ghost.rider says there are plenty of apps. Also, if you are using CM7, you can long press the power button and it'll give you an option to take a screen shot.
 
So, now it says I have 179mb free on internal storage, 308mb free on ram. I set aside 2 gigs for sd-ext.. Thanks for the info!! I was getting tired of getting "No enough room" b.s. :) thanks!
 
ok im trying this now, ive been so busy with college havent had the change. One thing im running into is that directions say to toggle usb-ms on and off. i can only turn it on because when i hit the button it say enableing then i cant go back. it prompts me to disable it then hit menu to go back. so, in essence i can only toggle it off, because after toggling it on i can only hit the button to turn it back off....frustrating
 
nevermind got it all working, i just always kept usb-ms off and it worked, dont know how importatnt this is but looks like it will always be off. terminal emulator i found in the apps sotre. so far so good, checked on titanium back up and everything looks ok, i just wiped my phone and sdcard so im starting from scratch, i will download a ton of apps just to double check. thanks for all your help everything was pretty straight forward.

by the way, is there a way to keep apps saved so you dont have to dl again everytime you flash a new rom. i like the rom im using except you tube videos come up with a green bar on top and some have the colors like not aligned. thanks again
 
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