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no space at all???

Ok i just went from jfrc33 to 5.0.1H i love the look but I only have 43mb free??? any reason why because I havent even installed any apps?

samrozzi said:
Ok i just went from jfrc33 to 5.0.1H i love the look but I only have 43mb free??? any reason why because I havent even installed any apps?
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did you wipe???

yes I did alt + w then alt + s idk why its saying this. is their a big difference in
5.0.1H-appstosd-signed.zip
and
5.0.1H-signed.zip
and I just noticed theirs a 5.0.2?

help? i just wiped but have like 43mb?

You guys' heads would explode if you were using some BlackBerries. When I had my Curve, having 15-17MB of free space was "great".
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Is there a big difference between 5.0.1H-appstosd-signed.zip and 5.0.1H-signed.zip? Yeah, one is Apps-to-SD, the other one is not.

samrozzi said:
Ok i just went from jfrc33 to 5.0.1H i love the look but I only have 43mb free??? any reason why because I havent even installed any apps?
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Why do you need so much space? Use apps to sd and 43MB is WAY more than enough.

xyrcncp said:
You guys' heads would explode if you were using some BlackBerries. When I had my Curve, having 15-17MB of free space was "great".
Is there a big difference between 5.0.1H-appstosd-signed.zip and 5.0.1H-signed.zip? Yeah, one is Apps-to-SD, the other one is not.
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By the way. Why have two versions one with the apps to sd ability and other without and not just one with apps to sd ability?

al74 said:
By the way. Why have two versions one with the apps to sd ability and other without and not just one with apps to sd ability?
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Haykuro gave the reason for this when he first released 5.0H and 5.0H apps to sd, but I don't remember what he said. Had something to do with some people not wanting apps to sd and it made it worse for them or something?

[Q] Why isn't Google Talk working? The application starts, but then closes itself.

My problems are exactly the same as the ones that can be found in this thread.
http://androidforums.com/incredible-support-troubleshooting/85756-gtalk-wont-open.html
The app pops up for a second, i see the icon and the words "signing in..." for about a second, and then it returns me to the home screen.
This is the log got by plugging the phone to my computer.
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The thread seems to suggest a memory problem, but I've got 29MB free. Oh, and I'm running 2.2.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

davorb said:
My problems are exactly the same as the ones that can be found in this thread.
The app pops up for a second, i see the icon and the words "signing in..." for about a second, and then it returns me to the home screen.
The thread seems to suggest a memory problem, but I've got 29MB free. Oh, and I'm running 2.2.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?
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Well, I had the same problem, and I suspected memory as well, since I have been getting the low memory error for a few days now.
I uninstalled flash, which takes an enormous amount of space! 12 MB. But I also changed the Gmail policy for syncing. I had few very large folders set to sync 7 days worth, and one of those had a ton of inline images. I actually think that is what was causing the trouble, but I am not certain.
Either way, I freed up enough memory so that GTalk could turn on. I guess that sucker needs space, too! I wish more apps would use the install to SD card option. Especially giant ones, like Yahoo Fantasy Football (another 12MB one).
Oh well, I hope that helps.
P.S. I am on an original Droid running Froyo.

For me was the memory problem. I"ve uninstalled a 20 mb. prg and that solved the problem for me. I also needed to reboot my device after so the temp files will be erased along to. Now i have like 30 - 35 mb. free on the phone memory.

[Q] How much room is there for applications?

How much room is there to install applications on the nexus S?

1GB
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Anyone who is complaining about 1gig to store apps please go away
But really this isnt an iPhone apps are not 500 megs 1gig is plenty for the average person

ive never ran out or room on 512mb. plus you also have apps 2 sd storing 50% or more of the data on 14gb flash

on my i9000 i had 130 mb from 1,85 gb used. so i think the 1 gb would be enough space for me!

I also suppose it comes down to what type of user your are. If you are into games, I have read that there are some impressive looking games on the horizon. These games could end up eating up a lot of space. That being said I am sure there will be a workaround developed to the 1GB limit.

ALuton said:
I also suppose it comes down to what type of user your are. If you are into games, I have read that there are some impressive looking games on the horizon. These games could end up eating up a lot of space. That being said I am sure there will be a workaround developed to the 1GB limit.
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Well the maximum space allowed for any app is 50megs. Google recently raised it from 25megs.

It should be a market requirement that if your app is over 10MB that it must support apps2sd

nxt said:
Well the maximum space allowed for any app is 50megs. Google recently raised it from 25megs.
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Didn't realize that, well than there should be plenty of space.

What games can do however, is have the basic install small, but when you launch it first time, it'll download whatever data it needs and save to SD.
That's what happens for Pocket Legends and Dungeon Hunters. The latter from Gameloft downloads around 250-270 MB to your sd card, which is required for the game to work.

Internal Storage...What's the deal?

I am considering buying this phone, upgrading from the original mytouch 3g that I have rooted and loaded many a custom rom. I am not an app hog, and I tend to keep my system clean with apps I do not use. However I have heard troubling news from some people on here that the internal memory that is supposed to be at 512 mb, is actually much smaller. A poster said they called TMO tech support who supposedly told them that a fix is in the work and that this is a software issue. Please post your internal memory stats, if you can. I would like to know if this is an issue with all galaxy s 4g's or just some.
P.S. while 512 is not that great it is roughly twice as large as my current phone and I have never come close to using up all of the mytouch memory...so the 512 MB is fine for my uses.

Vibrant
This is with a ton of apps installed
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I don't think I installed anything. If I did it was one or two small apps. I can double-check tomorrow.

Yea, I did a factory reset on mine and had about 200MB free afterwards. If its rooted and you don't mind repartitioning your sdcard, theres ways to help the problem

I like the phone, I get 10mbs with 4G, but the small internal memory has me seriously thinking bout returning it. Its like a step back to the Evo and Nexus One. Especially when compared to my MT4G and vibrant. I probably have 250 apps on my MT4G and still have around 300mbs left. I got bout 30 apps on my GS4G and I'm down to 50mb, and that's with moving the big ones to SD.
Sent From My Galaxy S 4G

glitch?
Yeah...it does look like a glitch in the storage. Either the phone is full of bloatware, which I think is actually at a minimum, or there is a coding error that makes it so that phone does not recognize a part of that storage partition.
If you have not, I would suggest that you report it to t-mobile, if you have this issue so that they can raise a stink with samsung to fix it.

here's a quick fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=975496

Salvage internal memory?

Today I got an idea: move my pictures and videos to /tmp, so I can salvage a lot of free space
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. I only use about 1.x GB for apps
Is this a good idea, is it safe?
Will the system sometime clean up that dir?

PhoenixNghi said:
Today I got an idea: move my pictures and videos to /tmp, so I can salvage a lot of free space
. I only use about 1.x GB for apps
Is this a good idea, is it safe?
Will the system sometime clean up that dir?
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Bad idea!
/tmp is cleared on every reboot.
If you want to use the internal storage, then use root explorer or similar and create a dir in /data and call it pics or something then store them there. The issue will be though that most gallery apps do not work with internal storage, you will not be able to look at them on the phone.
I don't get why everyone really wants to use the internal apps storage for personal storage, the issue is that any internal storage gets wiped on either a reboot if it is /tmp or if it is /data then a factory reset will wipe it.
Just go get a class 4 32GB sdcard for pocket change now, and be done with it.
Just my two cents, pence, etc...

Yes, I agree. 32 gigs are very cheap these days. If you look for a deal, you could get one for as low as 10 bucks. I've got one and I'm not close to filling it up.

WORD JIM!!! I DONT KNOW WHAT ID DO WITHOUT MINE!!
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I'm gonna be hard headed and try this 64GB MicroSDXC out......
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820313310

Since I created the topic, my files in /tmp have not been deleted.
Not really about the sdcard, it's about doing some tricks against the system
Furthermore, QuickPic loads images and vids in internal mem faster than my sdcard.