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Installing custom roms and "low on memory" warning

I decided to try my first custom ROM... (installing virtous) and have a few questions/issues:
1) I started with a Nandroid backup.
2) I did a full titanium backup
3) I used ROM manager to install Virtous (did a full system swipe)...
Ok.. here is where I am having my issues
After the install, I went back to the marketplace and installed titanium backup.
What option should I restore? I would like to get all the widgets and data restored. I tried restore all apps+system data but I am wondering if that is reinstalling the bloatware that virtous removed. If so, what are the correct options in Titanium backup I should use?
Next, I tried to reinstall everything but I got that dreaded low on storage and then out of storage space error. My phone has lots of storage both internal and on the SD card - so the restore (I am guessing) failed at some indeterminate point. Most of my widgets were not loading properly (beautiful widget, pure calendar, multi-icon etc) after the attempted restore.
Regardless, even if I clean-up the widgets, the low memory message persisted so I was left with no choice but to revert to my previous nandroid backup .
So... how do you install a custom rom and easily reestablish your previous state/settings without getting the low/ out of storage warning?
Also, one of my goals is to get a deodexed rom so I can install custom themes (e.g., battery mods, etc). Can I just flash the deodexed stock rom over my current rom (I did not understand deodexed when I first upgraded to froyo) without having to do a swipe? Will I run into any issues?
Thanks

I tried again with less apps/ data and still have no luck.
I did a restore all apps and system data from titanium, got a low storage than out of storage error (the phone has over 60% of its storage available so I know I am nowhere near close to actually using all the storage).
When titanium completed, most apps forced close (gmail, rom manager, etc) so I assume the storage error is impacting the restore.
Back to my nandroid backup again.
If I am running stock Froyo, can I just flash a new sense based froyo without wiping? (trying to find a way to experiment and really want to get a deodexed rom installed)

When new ROM is flashed, in TB, try reinstalling only user apps, not system apps.
Why?
The new ROM you flash and the ROM you are coming from should both have system apps already in them, so why reinstall system apps from the old ROM that most likely exist in the new ROM?

But how do I reestablish the previous settings? Or do I have to reconfigure all my accounts, etc each time I install a new rom.
Thanks

Me too. How to correct?
uncommon 1.1 on my phone is doing same thing. 1.0 had no problem.

Just a theory as I haven't tried to install another ROM...
I noticed the touchdown data file on my phone was quite big (>70mb) - it appears that when touchdown's data file gets very large, the message appears more often (looks likes there is a bug in Android with large data-sets). I cleared touchdown's data and resynced which shrunk the data file to ~12mb. I reinstalled all the apps I removed to try and eliminate the memory error and so far have been running smoothly.
When I have some time, I am going to try another ROM and see if I can restore without any storage issues. I still am curious how everyone resets their settings from ROM to ROM (or do they manually configure everything each time)

After poking around in astro file manager, contacts(cross-linked mess), and uninstalling some rarely used programs all to no avail......
I fixed my "low on program memory" notification by emptying my deleted items in the mail app- a hotmail account that is rarely used.
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siteexperts said:
But how do I reestablish the previous settings? Or do I have to reconfigure all my accounts, etc each time I install a new rom.
Thanks
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To be on the safe side, just reinstall only apps, with or without data. There is no real point in wiping days, and yet reinstalling system apps and data. Kind of defeats the purpose. And yes, manually add accounts. Takes more time, but minimizes conflicts. Shouldn't take more than 30 minutes, which is a small price to pay to eliminate potential headaches.
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I've run into this as well. In fact it was the original reason I decided to move forward with rooting my phone since I had to wipe it anyway. Has anyone looked into what program monitors this and flags the error? Is memory not being reported correctly, or is there a tolerance that maybe we need to tweak in the code somewhere?

unable to format sdcard in cwm

I'm basically trying to move to the dalvik cache to my sd card for space reasons. I'm trying to format my sdcard for use with link2sd and other programs like it but I'm unable to do so in cwm. whenever i choose partition sdcard, it gives me the dialog like it does it correctly but nothing actually happens. I tried to partition the card on my pc but none of the link2sd programs recognize it. its as if the only thing those programs recognize is the internal storage and to my knowledge I can't do anything with that. if i can do it manually and avoid using the programs that'd be awesome. can anyone point me in the right direction?

...I'm kind at a loss for why you would want a virtual machine cache on an sd-card and not emmc. Perhaps I am 'not getting it'...care to explain?

i've had this problem for a couple of weeks now...downloads from the market over a certain size just won't go through. "insufficient space" "invalid package file" errors like those would pop up. i went to term. emulator and to check the mount sizes and my dalvik cache was 98% full. in titanium backup i saw an option to "integrate sys dalvik into ROM". i enabled that and it moved over 150 items from the dalvik to someplace in the system. that cleared up some space and now i'm only using 82% of the dalvik and i'm able to download and update from the market like normal. i know this problem is gonna come back and i'm trying to avoid it by moving the dalvik to the sd card where the space is plentiful.

hobomusashi said:
i've had this problem for a couple of weeks now...downloads from the market over a certain size just won't go through. "insufficient space" "invalid package file" errors like those would pop up. i went to term. emulator and to check the mount sizes and my dalvik cache was 98% full. in titanium backup i saw an option to "integrate sys dalvik into ROM". i enabled that and it moved over 150 items from the dalvik to someplace in the system. that cleared up some space and now i'm only using 82% of the dalvik and i'm able to download and update from the market like normal. i know this problem is gonna come back and i'm trying to avoid it by moving the dalvik to the sd card where the space is plentiful.
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I've never encountered this problem...I flash like crazy...I also migrate over all of my apps via TB...so...I have like 4 or 5 phones worth of apps following me around from rom to rom.....I don't have many big apps, so, of course YMMV--and likely will--but....perhaps this isn't, in fact, the actual problem but a symptom of another problem.
Have you had this issue with multiple roms? When was the last time you did a full wipe? On every phone I have either the stock rom or my favorite rom that I always go back to, no matter what, more than any other rom.....via nandroid....and I have never encountered this problem....any other customizations we should know about?

I've never had this issue before. I'm on the latest Calkulin ROM since I've switched from my HD2. This is the first time I've had this error pop up and I resolved it by moving some things around in the dalvik and freeing up some space. As stated earlier TB moved around 150 items and afterwards I was instantly able to download/update from the market. I don't really customize my phone other than the random theming here and there. I've switched ROMs back and forth to see if it was in fact the ROM and not something I did but the issue came back as soon as I restored my backed up apps via TB. I'm guessing the cache filled up with the data from the apps that are backed up with TB.

Here's one solution/quick fix: manually delete your dalvik cache with a file manager and then just flash an odexed Rom: Then your space issues would be solved, and there's not the issue of Dalvik taking up any room in the first place.
["hip", "hip"]

mazook98 said:
Here's one solution/quick fix: manually delete your dalvik cache with a file manager and then just flash an odexed Rom: Then your space issues would be solved, and there's not the issue of Dalvik taking up any room in the first place.
["hip", "hip"]
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...and I have always preferred odex'd roms. makes sense.

so there's no way of installing the programs mentioned in the first post?

CM supports init scripts, right? Download Calkulin's ROM from the Dev section, extract it and check system/etc/init.d for a dalvik2cache (going by memory here, might not be the exact name) script. Might be able to use that.
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[Q] Low Space icon w/ 750mb partition, help?

Cross post from [HOW TO] Fix the "Low on space" problem (in plain English)
I'm still having the issue after the format. I have 312 mb free and still get the low space.
(See attached image)
Also, whenever I run Facebook, it pops up saying "This device is low on freek disk space..." and that it may be unstable, blah blah.
I'm running IceCream Senseless ?.?.? (1.1.1 or maybe 1.0,I'm not really sure now). I'm pretty sure when I installed the rom that it made the 750mb partition. I don't remember installing any other mods other than adrenaline.
Side story: I thought I had ICSenseless 1.0 -- so I tried to update to 1.1.1. Cleared Dalvik, and cache, ran rom. After boot at the home screen a message popped up that said the UID inconsistent, and the "I'm feeling lucky" button (which was a nice addition.) Then I looked up that error on xda -- but decided to just go back to my backup before I installed 1.1.1. I Noted that even in 1.1.1 the low space icon was still there....
Anyway...
Root, yes; s-off, yes.
Did a nandroid backup, then cleared dalvik and cache partitions to see if that would help at all -- no, not really.
I don't think I have EXT4 installed. I ran a query in the console and it didn't come back with anything.
Please let me know if you have any ideas, or if I should post this in IceCream Senseless' thread, or if I should just make a new thread.
Cheers

The low space is due to /data/data partition being filled up. CM 7.2 has a good workaround to free space. Though if you want another fix, the no data limit normal dalvik linked in that thread can help. It will move everything from /data/data to /data and use only /data. This will take up more space on /data but the 750 MB will be shared.
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tiny4579 said:
The low space is due to /data/data partition being filled up. CM 7.2 has a good workaround to free space. Though if you want another fix, the no data limit normal dalvik linked in that thread can help. It will move everything from /data/data to /data and use only /data. This will take up more space on /data but the 750 MB will be shared.
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Yeah, that worked.
Thanks lots!

lag and program problems
So I installed the "no data limit normal dalvik" and then my phone didn't like it I suppose.
The phone started having lots of lag. It would take a bit to register my touch -- even the hepatic feedback was delayed. Loading programs, swiping on anything, or un/locking my screen would be slow and jerky. Programs would be closing by themselves, or would prompt to force close. Even connecting to an incoming call would take upwards of 5 seconds.
I'm not sure what to do except roll back to a nandroid backup.
Any ideas?
Also, should I do a factory reset before installing a rom? (that won't wipe my sd card will it?)
Will factory reset wipe out ClockworkMod? What about root permissions?

Storage space

I have just flashed a new rom (CyanogenMod) after backing up everything through titanium backup (backup all user apps + system data).
Upon restoring all the user apps data, I realized that my storage space only has 1 GB left ( 8 GB before I flash the rom). I used the app DiskUsage to look into this problem and found out that system data is taking up 7 GB of space. I connected my phone to the computer and dig around the folder to see if I can find anything: nothing. I installed Astro File Manager and looked around as well, but I wasnt really sure what I'm supposed to be looking for.
I guess right now I just want to free up space on my phone (even though I dont need it at the moment) and I don't really care about the backups anymore. Does anyone know how/where I can delete the files from System data? I have tried emptying out my titanium backup folder, which helped a bit and got me 1-2 GB of space. But the 7 GB is still bothering me very much.
Any help would be appreciated.
Andrew

Read this, it may help. I suspect its what's causing your problems.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2158466
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Stock latest 6.0.1 on my Nexus 7 2013, over 7GB taken up by System Data

Here's my situation... I've had the 32GB 2013 N7 nearly since it's launch. I've rooted it and unrooted it numerous times to update it to the latest OS versions. I've never done a full system restore all the time I've had it. Nor have I installed a custom ROM.
I noticed the other day that a whole 7GB is being consumed by "System data" in the DiskUsage app. This seems overly excessive, right?
I'm currently not rooted, so I can't look into what's taking up all the space, but I might root it if that might be the quickest solution. I'd also REALLY like to keep from doing a system restore, as I don't want to reconfigure everything, but if that's the only solution, then so be it.
So, any ideas? Thanks!
Here's a screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/3QLS0pv.jpg

I don't know what that apps saying I'd delete it. You sure that's not your free space left as it says?
The system partition is only 1gig so it's not possible to be using 7. Look at Settings > Storage. Delete **** with Solid Explorer to free up space.
If you think it is your system you can flash the system.img and it won't wipe anything but also won't fix your problem.. not sure you have one.