my god, what a load of ****e!
im trying to setup 25 XDA Mini S's so im trying to save some space on them, the O2 Active CAB is a whopping +4MB! the largest file is an XML file with hotspot locations (+1MB!). one of the larger files is a file called funny.gnp at 225KB... rename it to funny.png an its this useless waste of space (attached)
seriously, why so many large and pointless files! i could easlily just remove the whole cab and save some space (in the ExtROM and when installed) but theres some stuff i would like to keep... i think!
anyhooz, rant over.
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I have a Wizard (Cingular 8125) and poked around my \Windows folder. I found 11 T9 files for different languages, called T9EnglishLdb for example. I guess I need to keep the english one, but I'd like to remove the other 10 (totals about 800K). They can't be deleted or cut and pasted to another folder (like in my storage card!).
Are these needed in my \windows folder? How can I get 'em out?
Thanks!
You can't and you shouldn't.
These files are part of ROM, so there is no way to get rid of them. There is no reason to do it, since it won't give you additional memory.
I have a Tilt with wm6 and I am running low on space. I noticed in my windows folder that I have several wma files in there that I did not put in there. They are taking up around 12mb of space but the system will not let me remove them! I have Total Commander and even after changing them to a non-system file, it still won't let me remove them. Do I need them for some odd reason? If not, how can I get rid of them and recover some much desired space?
For example, there is a Gin Blossoms song, a Stylistics song?, Ted Leo Pharmacy song, Communique song, the Oranges, Ray Charles, Frightened something, Assembly of something, and I want to delete the 3G up wave file and video since I have them disabled.
Thanks loads for any help!
you'll need to cook your own rom, or find another rom to install that has all those files removed...
rom files are locked and must be removed before the rom is flashed onto your device.
I was feeling like that was the case. Oh well. Which ROM seems to be the best out there? I have read several posts about Dutty's and how good it is. Anyways, thanks alot for you response.
what i did before was to create a blank file using notepad and then save it as a wma file with the same filename as the ones i wanted to remove. then using Resco Explorer, i copied it over the original file.
i know this will give me more storage space, will it give me more ram too?
no flash ram cant be used as app ram
and for at least most devices not using all the os flash dont even yeld any
storage ram for usage
oldsap said:
what i did before was to create a blank file using notepad and then save it as a wma file with the same filename as the ones i wanted to remove. then using Resco Explorer, i copied it over the original file.
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Oldsap! I hope you realize that by doing this, you actually accomplished NOTHING. Files in ROM can be "covered" with a different version, but they are still there, taking up the space they already did. You merely supplanted a newer version with a smaller size (maybe "0"), covering the one that was there already.
Test my theory, try deleting the 0-byte file you copied there, and miraculously, the old file will appear again, untouched, and the same size it always was.
Test my theory again ... "cover up" one of the files that's 1MB with a file by the same name, but 0 bytes. Then check your storage space, and you will see that you did not save a single byte.
This is just the way that ROM files work. The only way to get rid of them is to cook them out - period.
-pvs
Hi, I really need to get some of my space back on my Verizon Diamond. In the windows directory i've noticed many duplicate files and the original opera cab and other files that are just taking up space. (For example: Theres a folder for rings and then there are copies of the same rings just laying around in the windows directory.) Ive tried using Total commander to delete the extra files and they won't delete. Does anyone know how i can remove these excess files.
Hello dear HTC fanatics,
I am an happy owner of an HTC Touch Diamond since 4 months. I noticed that between the month of April and now a lot of files appeared into Windows folder which were not existing or not displayed before.
These files seems related with TouchFlo (manila). These files are not saved with a backup tool like Sprite Backup. These files seem to be Read only files and cannot be moved or deleted from the desktop XP. It sounds strange to me that they would be placed in Flash because they were not existing at the beginning... These are more than 1500 additional files displayed into Windows folder which were not at the begining! Now my Windows folder has more than 4000 files!
Here are some file names I found into Windows folder which are part of very big lists of files of the same kind:
0_0409.dat 00da6601-75e2-44b8-bd9d-54fa4fcbf331.dsm
01_480x640.gif
002726c9_manila
CallLogFrameInLUp_Port.png
ha_slideshow_play_dn.bmp
I-camera-resolution-1M.bmp
LQwerty0c0b.txt
MP3TrimmerProgressMarked_P.png
mxipupdate_office_100.provxml
mxipupdate_PACKAGE_Diamond_BTFtp_main.provxml
spd.5x4.English.kdb spd.5x4.German.kdb
YT_GuideBtnUp_mask.png YT_Home_Dn.png
Is this possible that there has been a system silent update during a connection on one of HTC server?
Did I tap on an EXE located into Windows folder that I shouldn't and which has uncompressed all this material by error?
Is this normal, does it harm Windows Mobile functionality as well as TouchFlo functionality (it seems it is still working fine)?
Can I live with that or should I hard reset my Diamond?
Could anyone please help me to determine if my device is working correctly or not?
Did anyone else ever noticed this?
I thank you very much in advance for your help.
Teknasia
More details:
I didn't install any system themes or other system customization else than GProfile and GScroll, GAlarm, Pocket Informant, PocketClock, Skype, Sprite Backup and a lots of games (EA, Gameloft, HeroCraft, Astraware etc.).
My ROM is the latest standard HTC one: 2.03.401.3 WWE (02/05/09)
I am wondering why my Windows folder now shows 4282 files where in the past month there wasn't all these files displayed. I just tried to move some of these from the PPC to the PC to see the result. There was no result at all as they are not able to be moved or removed. But anyway all these files where not visible in the past.
That is my question, what are they and do they limit the RAM memory that is available for me?
After a soft reset I have: 62 % free space indicated inthe top menu of the TouchFlo. And in Settings\System I have:
Storage
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Total: 82.56 MB
In use: 47.83 MB
Free: 34.73 MB
Program
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Total: 107.02 MB
In use: 70.36 MB
Free: 36.66 MB
So I don't know if these small free amounts have to do with all these additional files discovered into Windows or not?...
Strange... It seems that we have the best WM hackers around here but people are more chatty at PPCGeeks!
Code:
0_0409.dat 00da6601-75e2-44b8-bd9d-54fa4fcbf331.dsm
01_480x640.gif
002726c9_manila
CallLogFrameInLUp_Port.png
ha_slideshow_play_dn.bmp
I-camera-resolution-1M.bmp
LQwerty0c0b.txt
MP3TrimmerProgressMarked_P.png
mxipupdate_office_100.provxml
mxipupdate_PACKAGE_Diamond_BTFtp_main.provxml
spd.5x4.English.kdb spd.5x4.German.kdb
YT_GuideBtnUp_mask.png YT_Home_Dn.png
Seem all native files to me.
These should be present in the \\windows\ dir.
eg.:
*.dsm Digital Signature Manager file, always present in a "package", is present in all ROMs (there are a lot of them in most ROMs)
002726c9_manila , a manilla file, present in all ROMs containing Manilla (also loads of them)
CallLogFrameInLUp_Port.png, a part of the dialer (this is the "portret version, so also a landscape version is present, and so there are lots of those for lots of things in the dialer..)
spd.5x4.English.kdb keyboard file
spd.5x4.German.kdb dito (multiple languages, multiple files..)
*.provXML provisional XML file, they overide some reg settings, file placements etc..
etc etc
Nothing strange, just your basic WiMo ROM files
Regards,
EqX
Thanks for your reply the-equinoxe.
I received a confirmation from HTC that these are ROM files.
The strange fact is that they were not visible into Windows XP Explorer via ActiveSync in the past... I tried to hide and display protected system files but this didn't change the PPC Windows displayed content.
Hi guys, hopefully a stupid noob question that I can't seem to figure out.
I'm a bit of an organizational freak (as I'm sure many of you are), and like having sub-folders within main folders.
For example, I have some e-books on my Fuze and like having sub-folders with the author name.
So, folder structure looks like
\Storage_Card\ebooks\Edgar_Allen_Poe\...
When I go to open an ebook in MobiPocket, I cannot see that sub-folder (only the main path to ebooks).
The same issue plagues me with other programs, such as PocketNester...I'm assuming it has something to do with the Windows Mobile method of scanning directories in the file open dialog.
Anybody else have this problem?
I have noticed this in other apps, but never used mobipocket, so I think it's the behavior of the WinMo file manager as well. Maybe you need to put your directories on the root of the storage card. Have you tried shortcuts? Doubt it will work and it would probably drive you nuts that your shortcuts arent neatly organized in subfolders...
I don't think you can use sub-folders with mobipocket (or ereader). If you want things organized, then I would do something like put #'s or letters at the start of each author's books to keep them organized together (1-xxx, 1-yyy for the 1st author, 2-aaa, 2-bbb for the second, where the xxx's are the book names).
I find the file explorer in some apps pretty annoying, too. Like in pocket rar, you can create an archive for things like cab files. If you want to add to the archive, then it has to be on the storage card and in the root of any of the main folders on the storage card. That is annoying as crap. There are other situations where you can save a file in either main memory or storage memory, and you'll only have access to root folders, or sometimes in the main memory only to the folders in \my documents. It's like the person who designed this crap was auditioning for a job with apple to work on iphone development. I wish I knew a work-around (other than cutting-and-pasting after saving things), but I don't.