If I just uninstall it without clearing data and cache will it leave any data behind that will take up space on my sd card/internal memory?
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You MUST wipe your phone before going back to stock or changing any ROM unless stated otherwise.
It won't take up space on your SD card but if you don't wipe, it will take up space in your internal memory.
If you're talking about uninstalling apps, I would just uninstall it. In assuming the cache and data will be deleted as well. It doesnt hurt to experiment
My Galaxy SL has 2GB internal memory and 32GB External.
When trying to set up avast! anti-theft I ran into a problem with lack of space in the system partition.
What I'd like to do is to make as much use as possible of the external SD for applications etc and use the internal storage just for system stuff and anything else that needs to be in the internal storage.
I would welcome any advice on how best to go about this.
Thanks in advance.
Eventually freed up space in system partition by moving audio stuff out.
The space allocated for the partition is 322MB.
Need to find a ROM that gives a larger partition or find some way of increasing the size.
try moving your few apps to sdcard.
I dont think we can increase the size of app partition.
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Have used Apps2SD and Link2SD but didn't gain very much.
There are something like 140 unmoveable apps on the phone, quite a few of which cannot even be uninstalled.
Guess I'll have to weed out unused apps.
Strikes me as strange that so little is allocated for SYSTEM partition.
install the titanium backup and goto apps section in it.
look for those apps which are in red color (means they are on system partition) long press on them and then use convert to user app. (make sure you don't convert all apps just covernt apps like live wallpaper, swype, etc)
make sure to takw backup before converting it.
I too have system partition of 337 mb only.
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abhisal said:
install the titanium backup and goto apps section in it.
look for those apps which are in red color (means they are on system partition) long press on them and then use convert to user app. (make sure you don't convert all apps just covernt apps like live wallpaper, swype, etc)
make sure to takw backup before converting it.
I too have system partition of 337 mb only.
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Thanks, I'll give that a try.
Problem: Widgets wont load after every reboot. Message: Problem loading widget appears in places where widgets should be.
I can recreate widgets, though. But appwidgets.xml file size is changing every time after reboot, from 1,25 kb to 250 bytes. I have tried everything which I could find online: manual backup and restore of original xml file, titanium backup, even nandroid restore, nothing helps.
I am using launcher pro plus (as system app), sd-ext and swap partitions. All apps with widgets are on internal memory.
Obviously, problem is in appwidgets.xml file size change. Why is this happening, how to solve this?
This is driving me crazy...
Do all apps with widgets have to be on internal memory, even though their widgets are not active in the moment?
I have apps with widgets which are linked to sd ext via link2sd.
When I pull out SD card, all widgets are loading properly.
if u use app move app installed to SD card move widgets,widgets will error.
I have finally found out what was the problem. It is moving dalvik cache to sd ext partition via a2sdgui. I think that the same is with linking dalvik cache files to sd-ext via link2sd, but am not sure.
User dalvik cache has to be on internal memory, whilst system dalvik may be integrated into ROM (and therefore moved to rom partition) via titanium backup (no problem with that). Now i have plenty of free space in /data (I have also moved majority of user app files and app data via TB to sd card).
Widgets are now loading as they should.
Hope someone will find this useful.
@condandatcang
Thank you for answering, but I figured it out long time ago.
As the tilte is saying, whenever there's less than 100 mb of internal storgare the performance just dies. Even scrolling is laggy. I've used multiple ROMs (CM 11, 10.1, 9/SlimKat/SlimSaber/BeanStalk) but no luck. I've also used Greenify and it hasn't helped. I only install the apps I really need : Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Shazam, Hangouts, Youtube, Viber. That's it ! I even uninstall wallpapers and ringtones, plus all the apps that could be moved to the SD card are moved.
Does anyone have any suggestions ? Maybe increasing the internal storage on KitKat ? Or are there any tweaks I'm not aware of ?
Thanks in advance.
First backup your SD card. And then create external partition type ext4, using TWRP recovery and only TWRP (If you use any other tools, you will not be able to backup sd-ext using TWRP, and this is from my experience).
Next, get Link2SD app, and create mount scripts, reboot, set Auto linking checked and (also App, Library, and Dalvik checked). And link App, Library, and Dalvik files to sd-ext. If you paid for Link2SD+, you will be able to link internal data too. A warning though, keep important apps that starts up with android on internal memory such as launchers to prevent lag. Depending on what class your SD card, you might not notice any lag at all. I still have the 16GB that came with the phone, and it is not really fast, it is laggy but not much.
I know I will be lashed for saying this, but get Lucky Patcher (use it for legal stuff only, lol) and ODEX all your system files. Custom roms are unoptimized due to the need to have resource hooks and hacking the system files or debugging them. Creating Optimized dexs, they will occupy less memory and become faster. You will notice a significant improvement in speed.
Currently, I have SlimKat 4.4.4, 2.5GB sd-ext ext4 partition (~1.5GB used) and have 204MB free on internal. And around 143-145 apps installed ranging from few hundreds of KBs to tens of MBs. And the system is snappy.
Another warning if you use Titanium Backup, if you batch restore many apps at once, Link2SD might not be able to catch up linking apps as soon as Titanium Backup finish restoring the apps with data, causing memory go low or Titanium Backup freeze. A solution to this, only restore chunks of 10 or 15 apps at once, and wait till Link2SD done linking all of the apps.
After you are satisfied with the results, go to TWRP and backup EVERYTHING including sd-ext. EXCEPT "EFS" partition (if it does show up), which you might get bad IMEI number if you restore EFS again. You can enable compression to the backup, which helpfully compressed the ~2300MB files to ~1300MB for me.
Good luck. :good:
Thanks mate ! Gonna try ASAP !
Rebel_X said:
First backup your SD card. And then create external partition type ext4, using TWRP recovery and only TWRP (If you use any other tools, you will not be able to backup sd-ext using TWRP, and this is from my experience)....
Good luck. :good:
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First, thanks for writing this. Now, just a quick question, did you have had problems with apps disappearing after a update?
This begin happening like a month or so ago. After an app auto-update, it disappear, and I have to recreate the mount script on Link2SD and reboot for it to appear again. Now I disable auto-update, android only notify me of updates. Then I remove the links of the app to update on Link2SD, then update the app, and then I create the links again.
I have my device set up exactly how I like it, but I'm thinking about erasing my phone and starting up again.
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First, thanks for writing this. Now, just a quick question, did you have had problems with apps disappearing after a update?
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I believe this happened to me long time ago when I used an older version of Link2SD. The newer version promised that it fixed Apps disappearing after booting. But, if that happens to you, you can fix this easily by "Relink all app files" from Link2SD to find any unlinked apps that are supposed to be linked and then reboot or soft reboot from Link2SD. Or you can "Clear 2nd Partition" and/or Dalvik cache to delete the apps that disappeared and reinstall them again. But an answer to your question, I didn't have any apps disappear on me when I started clean.
Also, for anyone deciding on ODEXing system files. Choose a ROM that have enough free space in system partition to do so. Some roms have less than 8MB in system partition (CM11!) which can cause problems when doing so. SlimKat 4.4.4 is really slim, you have over 40MB free in system partition. If you want to keep the ROM you are using, you can free more space in system partition by converting the Keyboard app to a user app, that is another 40MBs free (and if you did that, you have to reselect the Keyboard from Language input in settings, by un-ticking/re-ticking the checkbox, also don't link the Keyboard app to 2nd partition, it can cause lag). I noticed if you have less than 5MB in system partition, the performance of the phone suffers greatly.
From using Link2SD to view storage information, you will notice that Data partition and Cache partition are the same (I could be wrong here, but that what it seems to be). So it is important to have more free space in the Data partition.
Rebel_X said:
First backup your SD card. And then create external partition type ext4, using TWRP recovery and only TWRP (If you use any other tools, you will not be able to backup sd-ext using TWRP, and this is from my experience).
Next, get Link2SD app, and create mount scripts, reboot, set Auto linking checked and (also App, Library, and Dalvik checked). And link App, Library, and Dalvik files to sd-ext. If you paid for Link2SD+, you will be able to link internal data too. A warning though, keep important apps that starts up with android on internal memory such as launchers to prevent lag. Depending on what class your SD card, you might not notice any lag at all. I still have the 16GB that came with the phone, and it is not really fast, it is laggy but not much.
I know I will be lashed for saying this, but get Lucky Patcher (use it for legal stuff only, lol) and ODEX all your system files. Custom roms are unoptimized due to the need to have resource hooks and hacking the system files or debugging them. Creating Optimized dexs, they will occupy less memory and become faster. You will notice a significant improvement in speed.
Currently, I have SlimKat 4.4.4, 2.5GB sd-ext ext4 partition (~1.5GB used) and have 204MB free on internal. And around 143-145 apps installed ranging from few hundreds of KBs to tens of MBs. And the system is snappy.
Another warning if you use Titanium Backup, if you batch restore many apps at once, Link2SD might not be able to catch up linking apps as soon as Titanium Backup finish restoring the apps with data, causing memory go low or Titanium Backup freeze. A solution to this, only restore chunks of 10 or 15 apps at once, and wait till Link2SD done linking all of the apps.
After you are satisfied with the results, go to TWRP and backup EVERYTHING including sd-ext. EXCEPT "EFS" partition (if it does show up), which you might get bad IMEI number if you restore EFS again. You can enable compression to the backup, which helpfully compressed the ~2300MB files to ~1300MB for me.
Good luck. :good:
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dude? what if uninstall my lucky patcher? is the odex file still there?
DerPuGNa said:
dude? what if uninstall my lucky patcher? is the odex file still there?
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I don't think that will affect ODEX files at all.
LoL, every time I read your username I read it as "Danganronpa" (Japanese word for bullet time) as the great Anime show (an adaptation of the PSP game). Please don't take that offensively :good:
Thanks !!!! Gonna report back with the performance !
Intial thoughts : *Very* good.
So upon installing CM11.0 I do a wipe and after that I notice that my internal storage is having a 1.32gb free, that it looks like 3.3/4.6GB Is this normal? It is because of the OS fies? I dont have any heavy apps, So I tried exploring my internal storage and look for each folder that is big and not necessary so I can delete it to free up space. What can I do about this? I want to install some app too I tried cleaning up dalvik cache and cleaning cache
Thank you for help
Do you have any NANDROID backups? these can take up alot of space, these can be stored in side your system folder so may not be removed in a wipe