would this free up space I am using VR Kingdom and is it advisable
Yes, it can, however, if your device is performing sufficiently as-is, I wouldn't move the dalvik. Do a little bit more research. I haven't heard of anyone claiming huge performance increases by moving the dalvik to SD.
dougjamal said:
Yes, it can, however, if your device is performing sufficiently as-is, I wouldn't move the dalvik. Do a little bit more research. I haven't heard of anyone claiming huge performance increases by moving the dalvik to SD.
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Thanks will do
Only IF
I am trying to move my dalvik or upsize the folder (which is limited to 160MB on mu EVO 4G) because once the dalvik threshold has been acheived you will receive the dreaded "There is insufficient room on the device" error message when trying to install applications
dougjamal said:
Yes, it can, however, if your device is performing sufficiently as-is, I wouldn't move the dalvik. Do a little bit more research. I haven't heard of anyone claiming huge performance increases by moving the dalvik to SD.
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You don't move dalvik to the SD card for performance increases. If anything, it slows it down (particularly on boot). The only reason to move it is for extra space.
Mine has shown zero performance loss on MIUI and better performance when I was on Blazing Roms Fusion. MUCH better performance. Moving Dalvik on Fusion freed up 200MB of internal space, which would ONLY result in better performance.
It's like Windows after a temp/cache file cleanup and defrag.
Can anyone chime in on wether my used/free memory amounts look normal? I have 181 apps in total and a2sd running, an 8gb card. I do have navigon installed which the maps suck up 1.5gb of my SD card. I am not having any issues, just want to make sure I didn't screw anything up.. Thanks for any input/advice.
ROM
367MB (total)
147 MB (free)
Internal
446 MB (total)
309 MB (free)
SD
7 GB (total)
3.9 GB (free)
SD(a2sd)
959 MB (total)
672 MB (free)
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Disregard, looks like I'm in good shape. Thanks.
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Ive read through dozens of threads asking this very question. Is there anyway to avoid having all of your internal memory sucked up by the great unknown? Im running defrost with all my apps installed on the microSD card.
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Don't think this is possible because some application data is partially stored in the phone in /data/data/* too. Nothing moves /data/data to SD card, because this would result in instability and generally poor performance. You could move the app and dalvik-cache to SD with less trouble, but /data/data is buggy, so that stays on the phone.
Download Cache cleaner like CacheCleaner or CacheMate from the Marketplace, this will free up some space for you.
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Thanks for the tip!
Freed up about 4 MBs. Hmm... Maybe I've adopted Android a wee bit too soon. Figured they'd have something as fundamental as this solved by now.
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Freed up about 4 MBs. Hmm... Maybe I've adopted Android a wee bit too soon. Figured they'd have something as fundamental as this solved by now.
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It is a common misconception that this is somehow Androids "fault".
Quite simply - it isn't. It is the hardware manufacturers who are not building enough physical storage into the device. There's absolutely no reason, other than cost, why someone couldn't build a phone with more memory available for apps etc - in fact, the Dell Streak has 2gb space for apps which is likely to be more than enough.
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Good point. I was too quick to stack all the blame on Android. What would be SUPER cool is a phone with dual MicroSD slots. That way, one could be dedicated to apps and one to mounting, unmounting / whatever.
Can we repartition the mtd like the g1 users can?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7061471#post7061471
cause i think for those who are not using sense ui, there is a lot of space unused on the system partition that can be transfered to data partition for our apps.
Hello, I am a total noob and could not find a similar problem listed. I just rooted mt3g slide and can't install more apps due to insufficient memory. Seems I have 416mb dedicated to ram and very little left for use to install apps. I moved as many apps as I could to the sd card yet the amount of space I have is really low. I am running CM6.1. Any help would be appreciated and thank you.
Are you using DarkTremor's apps2ext or Froyo's built in apps to sd feature?
I'm using the built in feature of froyo. I don't have any issues moving the apps just not enough room to install new ones.
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mcm123 said:
I'm using the built in feature of froyo. I don't have any issues moving the apps just not enough room to install new ones.
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Open termnial emulator and type the following as it appears:
su
df
And paste the output here. It should show the sizes of your different partitions, although if you are still s-on these should be normal. Try clearing your app caches and stuff, how many apps do you have installed anyway?
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There are 57 apps in the app drawer and a total of 110 (system apps included) apps. I attached the SS requested.
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There are 57 apps in the app drawer and a total of 110 (system apps included) apps. I attached the SS requested.
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That shouldn't give you low space, but it could I suppose. You have 148 mb for memory, I have 320 or something, since I repartitioned my phone. Since you have less than half the space I do, and I have 159 app elements, (77 user apps). That gives me about 80 mb of free space. I suggest you hop over to this thread to repartition your phone. If you are running cm6 or cm7, just follow the 140mb system 1.5 mb cache scheme, it gives you BOATLOADS of room for user apps, as you can probably gather by the fact that I have 77 user apps.
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That shouldn't give you low space, but it could I suppose. You have 148 mb for memory, I have 320 or something, since I repartitioned my phone. Since you have less than half the space I do, and I have 159 app elements, (77 user apps). That gives me about 80 mb of free space. I suggest you hop over to this thread to repartition your phone. If you are running cm6 or cm7, just follow the 140mb system 1.5 mb cache scheme, it gives you BOATLOADS of room for user apps, as you can probably gather by the fact that I have 77 user apps.
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Thanks. This worked out really well. Have CM7 RC1 running with tons of space. Did have to play around with the cache setting - I'm using 140mb system 20mb cache. Thanks again!
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Thanks. This worked out really well. Have CM7 RC1 running with tons of space. Did have to play around with the cache setting - I'm using 140mb system 20mb cache. Thanks again!
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No problem, glad it worked out
Hi,
I wonder where is the truth about moving apps to SD card. I have HTC Desire which has really low space for apps. I used to use Darktremor A2SD script with CM7 but according to some users this can really slow down my phone while opening apps when I have slow SD card (I have 4class Kingston) and it probably does, becuase I experienced this issue very often. It was horrible and I decided to use different partition table. Now I have dalvik cache on internal storage.
Today I read that the more space I have on my internal storage, the faster the device is. The question is: Is this true? And is true that apps moved to SD (not using A2SD script) are slower?
On a very slow (cheap class 2) it can be true.
I have class 6 and not noticed slowdowns.
Theoretically - the internal NAND is faster than the SD Card, but if the ROM is set up correctly, it is unnoticeable.
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On a very slow (cheap class 2) it can be true.
I have class 6 and not noticed slowdowns.
Theoretically - the internal NAND is faster than the SD Card, but if the ROM is set up correctly, it is unnoticeable.
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So where is the problem? When I used A2SD script I experienct heavy lags while opening apps (Handcent, gallery, etc.) sometimes 2-5 seconds. It was really bothering. Full wipe helped everytime but after two days lags were back.
Now I am trying have dalvik on internal to see how it behaves.
I believe that class4 is not so slow and I also read that Kingston cards are sometimes much faster in tests, sometimes similar to other class6 SDs.
AFAIK, it depends on the ROM, too. For example I had no lags with AOSP ROMs, just Sense ones.
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AFAIK, it depends on the ROM, too. For example I had no lags with AOSP ROMs, just Sense ones.
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Ok. And do you think that the more free space on internal I have the more speed I can get while using the apps?
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Ok. And do you think that the more free space on internal I have the more speed I can get while using the apps?
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You might. Again i Think it is affected by many factors. For instance, when I was using Gingervillain 2.7 the phone was fast even with 20 MB left on internal - then I moved internal & stuff to the SD and had around 96 MB free - but did not notice that it was running faster.
Try using s2e app from market, I'm using that and it works very well
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I'm having issues now with CM10 running out of internal storage. I did enough digging to find that it was a change in CM10 that caused this. The solution is to move some of the larger apps to the SD card.
The problem I have is that the highest offenders of space are all the google apps. My top offenders are:
Chrome: 60mb
Amazon App store: 28 mb
Media Storage: 28 mb
Google Search: 22 mb
Google Drive: 16 mb
Google Maps: 16mb
RssDemon: 15 mb
Google Play Store: 12mb
Android System: 10b
MoboPlayer: 9mb
Document Viewer: 9mb! (WTF is that?)\
HDR Camera+: 8 mb
Google Play Music: 9mb
Google Play Services: 8mb
Titanium Backup: 8mb
Gmail: 8mb
I'd love to move some of my apps to the SD card, but most are the Google Apps. And the others I'd rather have internal if I had my preference.
Is anyone else seeing the same thing? Do any of these mb sizes look ridiculous? These numbers are before any data or cache wipe for any of these apps.
I'm having the same issues on my TF101 and it's really starting to erk me.
CM10 did alter the size of the system partition accommodate the rom size. However, not a huge amount. That being said, we have a reduced amount of memory compared to more modern devices. Consider moving apps to sd that don't need to run at max performance. Maybe a clean data wipe would help some as well. It's amazing how much a clean start can help. But that's the beauty of root and custom roms, do a backup and try it out. If it doesn't work out, restore your backup image and try again.
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CM10 did alter the size of the system partition accommodate the rom size. However, not a huge amount. That being said, we have a reduced amount of memory compared to more modern devices. Consider moving apps to sd that don't need to run at max performance. Maybe a clean data wipe would help some as well. It's amazing how much a clean start can help. But that's the beauty of root and custom roms, do a backup and try it out. If it doesn't work out, restore your backup image and try again.
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Thanks for the response. I've moved what I wanted over to the SD card and I still only have 96mb available and get low space errors quickly.
What about when I scroll lower and it says I have 6.65gb available? I'm guessing it's referring to the SD card, but how the heck do I make a folder that utilizes this? My intention is to create a folder where I can save images that I've downloaded from browsing.
How do I differentiate between the onboard memory and the SD card?
Pics and downloads should automatically be sent to SD. In settings-storage, it should have headers that show weather or not its internal or SD storage.
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I'm using the stock kernel and, of course, facing issues with the small internal memory. I'm using link2sd, but it still leaves a fair amount of data in the internal memory (ie, 16 mb for Asphalt 6, 14 mb for Facebook, 13 mb for Flash, a couple of mb for many other apps), so I'm always with a somewhat limited space for applications.
So I wonder if there is something capable of moving far more data to the SD card, so I don't need to worry about having enough room for apps. I was looking at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spazedog.mounts2sd but it mentions init.d support, and googling about all that stuff doesn't really explain it in more layman terms.
Thanks in advance
You cant be using Link2Sd properly then. It leaves virtually nothing in the internal memory. I had a 32gb SD card full of games and still had about 200mb free internal memory. When you create a link are you trying to move the apps to SD afterwards as they should show as being on internal?
Well, I have it set up to link automatically on application install, and to link application, dalvik-cache and libraries. The install locationis set to external and I have ticked the check boxes to relink libraries and dex files at startup.
To test it, I've unistalled Facebook and reinstalled. Once the app finishes installing, I get the link2sd notification that it's linking it to the SD. I login to my account and once I go to the application settings to check the app size, it reports a total of 31,33 MB, of which 23,56 MB correspond to the aplication and 7,77 MB to data. And has the option to move to the SD so it's certainly in the internal memory.
Link2SD storage info reports the internal memory (380 Mb total, 15% free), the Sd card (12% free) and the sd card's second partition, at /data/sdext2, with 712 MB total, of which 390Mb are used.
Sorry for bumping, but is the link2sd behaviour I'm describing normal behaviour then?
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Sorry for bumping, but is the link2sd behaviour I'm describing normal behaviour then?
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Yes, it does appear to be normal behaviour. Try going into the Link2SD app and see if it says whether the app is linked or not. I've had instances where my apps don't get linked even after running the process. When you check the application size in settings (not in Link2SD), the application size will remain unchanged as I think Link2SD treats your partition as internal storage and therefore it still shows the application as it's full size as opposed to how much of it is actually on your internal storage
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