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[Q] can't install apps ! (desire , Cm7 V7.0.2.1)

Rom: CyanogenMod-7 for Desire GSM V7.0.2.1
Also did the simple2ext(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=917377)
i have clicked the following:
Application
Private apps
Application Data
Dalvik cache
(because still not enough space for just clicking Private apps..)
Setting:
Advanved mode
Mount as ext4
i can sure that i have enough free space for new apps,
but when i tried to install apps, it said there is not enough space on my phone.
What happen?

i rebooted my phone, and successfully installed one apps,
but when i tried to install another apps, it said the apps have not been installed.
and it didn't install the apps for me.
What happen??

can anyone help?

After you've rebooted, how much space is free (look at "info" in s2e)? Enough?
I've had a couple of instances where apps have downloaded but not installed. Normally changing between WiFi/mobile data and/or market/appbrain seems to fix it. Haven't really paid much attention, but I think I may have been on WiFi when it hasn't worked.

[Q] storage problem/free space -- what is taking up so much??

So starting off with this phone I know it doesn't have the best internal storage. When apps are moved to the SD some of the app stays behind on the internal storage, I know that. I have had 2 shifts. My first one i dropped, cracked the screen, and the insurance gave me a new one. On my first shift at the time I had about 70mb of free space left when I sent it in. Before sending it I made a titanium backup and restored that on my shift I have today. When I restored it I had about 120mb of free space. (NOT THE PROBLEM READ ON)
So the point is something in the system is causing massive storage to fill up over time, and its not apps. I have force moved apps and that only helps a little. Is it a certin cache that I can clear? please help!
At the moment I have 60mb of free storage, that is with the app cache cleared through App2SD

Right I have the following : System ROM 219MB , Internal 222MB , SD Card 8.32 GB . When you long press on an app in TB it should give you the option to move to SD card. You shouldn't have to force move an app. When you restored all your apps did you restore apps and data? Or just the app? Also after restoring with TB you need to make sure the app was restored to the correct place. There's an option I usually check in the preferances before I restore all my apps. It restores to the previous location you had the app. Hope that helps.

I restored the apps and data... This isn't a problem with tb, its a problem with some storage/cache something building up in the system
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My email took up a lot of storage on my old hero because everytime I deleted something it still stayed on a new folder called imap/trash... it was taking up about 50mb so you might want to look into that
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In your sd card or internal? There was a folder on my sd called .trashes and it had everything I had deleted on my sd. Where exactly is it located? Ill look in root explorer.
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Don't know if your restoring SMS with something. But if your are sometimes that takes up hella space. Did a phone that had over 25MB of SMS messages restore back onto it on internal mem.

i will see, i also use a tool called disk usage. you have probubly heard of it but it maps out everything and the amount of space it takes up. you can narrow the results to a certin cache or whatever. ive seen that apps like pandora are taking up space in the dalvik cache. Its only like a mb or 2 but still. do you know anything about apps storing things in the dalvik?
what is the dalvik even for anyway?

I've been trying to go back to stock today, so I've wiped a few times, but I've got 430MB total space internal, with 366MB free

and.....
i dont understand what this has to do with this thread

im.nick.hello said:
i will see, i also use a tool called disk usage. you have probubly heard of it but it maps out everything and the amount of space it takes up. you can narrow the results to a certin cache or whatever. ive seen that apps like pandora are taking up space in the dalvik cache. Its only like a mb or 2 but still. do you know anything about apps storing things in the dalvik?
what is the dalvik even for anyway?
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I beleive dalvik cache gets recreated everytime you reboot. But, about Pandora is it on the SD Card? Or internal mem? I listen to a TON of music. When I had Pandora on internal it was up to 12MB .So I moved it to the SD card, only 536KB on internal now.

My app is on the SD but it is storing over 1mb on internal
If you have DiskUsage go to the [root required] section and press 'App Storage'
if you can find pandora you will see that most of it is stored in the dalvik cache

Sorry I don't use DiskUsage app. Your right about how much is on internal. Mine reads 1.28MB.

any idea what it is storing there?

Drawing a blank on this, I'll keep looking. See if I can come up with something. But I'd probably head on over to theMikMik and see if somebody there can help.

My biggest space hog when I had problems was email... Try clearing data for email or gmail to see what happens (maybe back up first)
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Mail or gmail app..
I have both, a aim on the mail app and my gmail on the gmail app
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i cleared my cache partition, not sure what was stored there but it doesnt matter cleared up 20mb... is there any other ways i can get more space??? why are apps storing data in the dalvik??

Any other suggestions here? My wife's Shift is having this problem. Constant notification about low storage space. Can't even download any new apps. I have not rooted her phone yet, and not sure if I will; I don't want to have her have to go without for any length of time, and I don't think she wants things changed around so much as she just wants the thing to work, not to have to tinker or troubleshoot.

Captain Spectacular said:
Any other suggestions here? My wife's Shift is having this problem. Constant notification about low storage space. Can't even download any new apps. I have not rooted her phone yet, and not sure if I will; I don't want to have her have to go without for any length of time, and I don't think she wants things changed around so much as she just wants the thing to work, not to have to tinker or troubleshoot.
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Did you download a lot of apps? Try moving the apps to the SD Card. The path is Menu-Settings-Applications-Manage applications-Downloaded. Then just click on the applications one at a time. If the button says Move to SD card, and isn't greyed out press it. That should free up some space. If that doesn't work since your not rooted, I would just try a factory reset.

clear the folder /data/tombstones. App crashes and such create rather large files that can eat up quite a bit of space. Also check the cache folder at the root, failed market installs will have file fragments in there as well.

[Q] Widgets vanishing after reboot.

sorry to make my first ever post a lengthy question, but i haven't been able to find a solution anywhere else on the forums (or google, for that matter). Here's the rundown:
Recently moved over to the Infuse from an iPhone 3GS (jailbroken within one week of purchase) and couldn't be happier. I had it rooted via Superoneclick a few days after i got it and decided to get in on the fun with a different ROM. Tried Infused, Refuse and Bionix but had the same issue each time...after rebooting into the new ROM, everything behaves normally. I can restore my apps via Titanium Backup, re-add my widgets manually, and everything works great. Then i reboot the phone for whatever reason and the Foursquare widget and Tripit widget are gone from the launcher (doesn't matter which launcher i use...tried LP, stock and TW). Not only that, but they also don't appear in the widget selection list if i try to re-add them. The apps are still in the app drawer, and seem to run normally, but the widgets are gone. I have other widgets in use that seem to survive the reboot, but these two vanish every time.
I've followed the instructions for rooting, modded 3e, CWM, and the individual ROMs to the letter. I even tried using Odin to return to stock and wiping cache, etc. before my last attempt, only to get the same result.
Also tried installing the apps fresh from the market without using Titanium Backup at all, but to no avail.
The apps are installed to the phone, not the external SD.
can anyone help shed some light on this? i'd love to be able to take advantage of the features in these ROMs, but if i can't trust the phone to hold on to a couple of widgets, then i don't know what else it could forget.
thanks!

Try moving Foursquare and Tripit to the internal memory. I had issues where wallpapers installed to my SD card would disappear on every reboot because Android would try to load the wallpaper BEFORE the SD card was mounted, and the wallpaper wasn't available. You may have the same thing happening with your apps and their widgets.

Move all Widget apps to phone. For some reason the infuse move then automatically to the SD card.
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Dxtra said:
Move all Widget apps to phone. For some reason the infuse move then automatically to the SD card.
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Yup. Widgets not working when installed is a known issue with, at the very least, Android System Info. For whatever reason the Infuse defaults to installing to the SD card.
Settings->Applications->Manage Applications
Choose the widget app and move it from SD to internal mem. You may need to reboot after that

wow you guys, thanks for the help!
apparently the apps were returning to the external SD after restoring via TiB, even though they were in the right place (on the internal memory) when i originally backed them up. my fault for not checking after the fact, i suppose.
everything is running as it should now, and the extra speed/reduced bloat of the custom ROM are fantastic. XDA rocks, and i'm happy to be a part of it!

[Q] Insufficient Storage to install/update apps...

I tried to update an app today and the play store was giving me an insufficient storage error message. Clearly this shouldn't be the case as I have several gigs free on the phone. I've tried several things indicated online for other phones that people had problems with including the following:
Retry the update several times
Reinstall the app, I can't even fresh install the app as it gives me the error too....
Reboot phone
Clear unused apps/junk
clear data/caches for download manager + play store
Pretty much at a loss here for what else to try.
I did notice that there is a clockworkmod folder taking up 800MB, its apparently used for backup purposes. Whats the best way to view the actual partitioning of the phone to see what the real storage usage is?
EDIT: Even stranger... I can install other apps that are much larger apks.....
EDIT2: Sorry.. I figured it out, I cleared out the odex file for the app and installed it again.

[Q] Possible to recover sd-ext (lost very important app)

Main question:
I was wondering if there is a way to recover/undo the sd-ext formatting and restore it.
How it happened:
first i changed the status of many apps via link2sd, i chose create link, apparently at this point i had no damn idea how to use link2sd correctly. I then rebooted the phone, and all of those apps i did that to poofed out of existence (became generic andy icons and were unable to be opened, even link2sd) except for a few. then today i formatted the sd-ext in recovery mode and the phone basically went and got reset to the base rom i installed, cyanogenmod 7.2 rc0-lg-vm670-bobzhome-11182011. I did not CREATE LINK my IOU app or NOTES. these are the 2 apps i need back, i am having problems recovering iou, as notes had a recent auto save file.
after i wiped the sd-ext, i went into app management in the android settings menu and saw an entry for the app im trying to recover, but it was 0.00 bytes. so i went on my phone browser and downloaded the iou app. it didn't look like it was doing anything but when i came back to it an hour later it installed the iou app successfully, but with none of my data, the 0.00 entry also disappeared. Reinstalling link2sd, didn't do anything. I haven't done anything further.
I also have no market app icon to open, i had an old google play version on the sd card (Play v3_5_19.apk) but it keeps crashing, and my screen won't lock.
I'm only making a a big deal about this because the iou app was keeping track of about $400 worth of transactions between me and my girlfriend.
TL;DR: I need to restore an app's data, because i deleted the data when i wiped the sd-ext.
IOU - debt manager by S. Tubin

same ad HD drive recovery, if you didn't write some other things on SD card it might be done, use with your PC some software for recovery and and an SD reader

i tried r-studio. it couldn't see the 2nd partition. is that where sd-ext is located? or is it on the primary?
next time im going to remove the sd card and place it in a card reader instead.

Try linux recovery from disk internals
there are several app to see 2nd partition too,, like linux reader, ext2explore, etc

Main problem not solved but this other problem was: ok. ive gotten a new sd card. 16gb sandisk 4class.
partitioned it with 2048mb / 16gb. no swap file.
installed gapps: "CyanogenMod 7.1-2.x 2.3.5-7 20110828 (Google Talk with Video Chat Add-On)"
still cant get incoming calls (was a problem when i posted OP but i wasn't aware) or screenlock. and i can't shopkick anymore UNLESS i connect to the store's wi-fi (Target guest wi-fi), I am guessing this is a GPS problem? Google maps works tho.
about me not being able to get incoming calls: i can see their call in the call log after the call. my phone does not ring. i may get a vmail if they leave one. they get the vmail message immediately after 3 rings.
final edit: did a recover reset. can get calls and lock screen, now i just need to restore IOU.
here is what I have:
I recovered some files from my 4gb sd card:
Root\data\tubin.debts\database\debts (9 kb, last modified on the day I accidentally formatted my phone) This files seems to be the one that has the data. There are some other ones that say webview-XXX.
The author of the app said this:
This looks like the database file. This is where android apps store data. The apps never directly have access to this file though.
The only thing I can think of -- try replacing this file (new one) with the recovered one. Not sure this will work. Otherwise, you can try accessing in with some sqlite application on the pc.
Sorry, it's not about getting a pro version, I really can't help you on this one.

Decrease sd-ext partition to less than 1024mb ... and keep atleast 5mb free on system partition
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anaknin said:
Decrease sd-ext partition to less than 1024mb ... and keep atleast 5mb free on system partition
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what problem will this solve?
wtf, everything was fine, i rebooted bc my screen wouldn't do portrait and now the app store is gone completely. and there is no recovery mode.