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[Q] Apps to SD

Refering to this post Apps to SD, I have some doubts.
1. Is this similar to the 2GB inaccessible partition on Nexus S ?
2. Is that partition ext3 ?
3. Do apps get installed directly on that and I don't have to install apps on sd as explained in that post ever ?
4. If no, will creating partition and installing apps on it slow down the phone ?
I installed lots of apps from market yesterday so thinking of these things as I have read that installing many apps may slow down the phone.
please clarify my doubts

Have you gone to Settings, Applications and checked how much of your internal memory you're actually using? There's a little bar graph at the bottom of the first screen.
I've got over 130 apps installed and still have almost 600mb free. For most users, on the NS, app storage space isn't going to be a concern. We've got 1gb internal for that.
Also, many apps can be pushed to your sdcard without any hacks required.
The old school apps2sd involves repartioning your sdcard, formatting part of it ext4, then creating symlinks to move apps to the sdcard.
Seems like a lot of work unless you're really short of space already.
All partitions on the internal storage space are ext4 or yaffs2...no ext3 on the NS stock,

Thanks. So I shouldnt be really about that
But will installing many apps slow down my phone ? How do I stop some apps from starting automatically in the background ?

suhas_sm said:
Thanks. So I shouldnt be really about that
But will installing many apps slow down my phone ? How do I stop some apps from starting automatically in the background ?
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I wouldn't worry about it until it becomes a problem, if you know what I mean. If you install a lot of BIG game applications that don't let you move to sdcard from the Applications manager, you might start to run out of room, but I've only seen one person in this forum state that he was filling cramped, and he has 300+ apps, including large games if I recall correctly.
Having a bunch of apps installed should not slow down your phone just because they're installed.
If a bunch of them are active in the background either intentionally or not, that might cause some slow down, but it's just not a real problem on Android 2.2+ in my experience.
Android's memory intentionally loads apps up in advance so they're ready and waiting when you want to use them. They usually just sit there using zero cpu until you give them something to do. It is best to avoid TASK KILLERS, they will screw you up more than help you in general.
If you really feel the need to stop certain apps from being loaded automatically at the phone's discretion, there's an app called AutoStarts in the Market that lets you block apps from loading automatically. There are other apps like that one. They require you to be rooted to use them.

Memory clearing widget?

Hey guys, just looking to see if an app exists.
I use SuperBox to 'clear/free' my memory. I like to keep it at around 230MBs free at all times or so. My question is this: is there an app that exists that does this same thing, in a one-click widget form? Someting I can set as a 1x1 icon on one of my screens to just tap and it will clear the memory? That would be quite convenient, as right now I need to open up SuperBox, navigate to the Memory pane, then click 'Clear Memory'.
Thanks for the suggestions!

es taskmanager.
By default it will clear all apps in the list except a few which are hidden.
You can unhide apps/services by accessing the options menu.
You can also set a kill list only, so when you tap the widget it will only kill apps in your kill list.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.estrongs.android.taskmanager&feature=search_result

Clearing memory doesn't really help your phone to much, it's just gonna restore in a second.
You can create shortcuts to your memory clearing App
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task killers as you all should know are not healthy for android phones. linux pools memory. it manages it on its own.
Here's a good article on this: Android Task Killers Explained: What They Do and Why You Shouldn’t Use Them
In Android, processes and Applications are two different things. An app can stay "running" in the background without any processes eating up your phone's resources. Android keeps the app in its memory so it launches more quickly and returns to its prior state. When your phone runs out of memory, Android will automatically start killing tasks on its own, starting with ones that you haven't used in awhile.
The problem is that Android uses RAM differently than, say, Windows. On Android, having your RAM nearly full is a good thing. It means that when you relaunch an app you've previously opened, the app launches quickly and returns to its previous state. So while Android actually uses RAM efficiently, most users see that their RAM is full and assume that's what's slowing down their phone. In reality, your CPU—which is only used by apps that are actually active—is almost always the bottleneck.
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Thus, killing all but the essential apps (or telling Android to kill apps more aggressively with the "autokill" feature) is generally unnecessary. Furthermore, it's actually possible that this will worsen your phone's performance and battery life. Whether you're manually killing apps all the time or telling the task killer to aggressively remove apps from your memory, you're actually using CPU cycles when you otherwise wouldn't—killing apps that aren't doing anything in the first place.
In fact, some of the processes related to those apps will actually start right back up, further draining your CPU. If they don't, killing those processes can cause other sorts of problems—alarms don't go off, you don't receive text messages, or other related apps may force close without warning. All in all, you're usually better off letting your phone work as intended—especially if you're more of a casual user. In these instances, a task killer causes more problems than it solves.
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Task killers are useless on anything newer then android 2.1. All they'll do is break some apps. I haven't used these on my phones and don't have issues. If your phone is slow its due to a rogue app.
Edit: somehow missed Norflynns post. That link sums it up perfectly.
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^^^ What they said
It's ok to have a task manager to keep an eye on processes and kill troublesome ones, but no point in constantly killing all your processes.

Incredible "must have" apps to get memory back.

FIRST: A WARNING
These apps require the phone to be rooted to be able to reach their full potential. And as they give you complete control over what to do, it's easy to get your ChaCha f****d up. So a backup with CWM Recovery is highly recommended.
We all know that the internal memory of the Chacha is low, and we are always struggling to have it controlled. Custom roms can make that memory to be really low when just installed, but continued use and trying apps make the memory to be filled with many files that are still there, even when you delete the app and the data associated to that app.
Many people likes to once a month or two, delete data and cache and start again, but for many of us, that's not an option because of the level of customization we have and must be repeated every time that operation it's done.
Enter these three apps, that well used can make you lower the used memory. They allows you to do a mix of regular manteinance and 'once in a while' operations.
AppCache Cleaner Makes easy to clear every day the cache files used by many apps like Market, Maps, Shazam!, and many others. Those cache files are secure and safe to be deleted. The app is easy to be set up and more easy to use. Also, an automatic clean every N time can be set.
SD Maid - System cleaning tool Makes the work of the previous app but with added functionalities, aimed to a less regular manteinance and deep clean. It can find corpses: data files of uninstalled apps that are there wasting space and many other things like log files, duplicated files... that are there making your ChaCha life harder. Some attention is required here because some operations, it not rightly done, can make you have a bad time because of deleting files you wanted not to delete, or that are essential files for your apps or system to run.
SystemCleanup This app is the most powerful of all and also the most dangerous. It has many of the features of the paid version of Titanium Backup, but for free. You can move apps from /system to /data, from /data to /system, odex and deodex them, move from/to sdcard, edit the autorun events they receive, freeze them, make backups... You can get rid of many of the bloatware the ChaCha comes with, and also decide what to do with those apps. The app itself give you directions on some apps that are safe to remove of required not to remove, but you are free to do what you want to with it, so attention must be put on what to do when using it.
I my self was able to remove about 60MB of useless stuff and the free memory jumped to a whopping 92MB of free memory after using them.
Take a look and have luck.

Titanium Backup ★ root - it allows You to "integrate app update to ROM" and save space in user storage.
Also it allows you to remove unused app from ROM and move "integrate" some aplications to ROM.
Most important would be app for recording Calls (both side), do Enyone know that software?

Too much Google

My Galaxy A6 Tab is rapidly running out of memory because it's full of Google Play Store etc apps which I don't use.
Is there anyway to get rid of those?

enable ADB then remove all bloatwares, you can search Google with these keywords: How to Uninstall Bloatware and System Apps without Root in Android

Mike McGinnis said:
My Galaxy A6 Tab is rapidly running out of memory because it's full of Google Play Store etc apps which I don't use.
Is there anyway to get rid of those?
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You need root in order to do that, once you have root use any root app manager to uninstall unwanted apps (be careful when doing this)
duongcuong96 said:
enable ADB then remove all bloatwares, you can search Google with these keywords: How to Uninstall Bloatware and System Apps without Root in Android
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Actually the adb method only hides the app from the user, so the apk is still here, and the space still filled. You answering his question was definitly appreciated tho, keep doing this

For preloaded ones you can remove any updates to cut down space used if not able to uninstall.
Blocking them will free up cpu cycles and bandwidth from these parasites.
Uninstall any Playstore crap you don't want.
If you uninstall a lot a reload a good idea.

Raiz said:
Actually the adb method only hides the app from the user, so the apk is still here, and the space still filled. You answering his question was definitly appreciated tho, keep doing this
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But since the (system) apps are on /system anyway, and the space are therefore inaccessible regardless, surely this doesn't matter much unless you're system-ising apps?
Just want a confirmation for this thought; years ago I used to outright delete system apps but after some reading it's probably of no difference space-wise and I just disable in adb instead

Pact said:
But since the (system) apps are on /system anyway, and the space are therefore inaccessible regardless, surely this doesn't matter much unless you're system-ising apps?
Just want a confirmation for this thought; years ago I used to outright delete system apps but after some reading it's probably of no difference space-wise and I just disable in adb instead
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Um no, AFAIK erasing the apk is freeing up space, they're under /system/apps and are counted as apps. I'm not particularly sure which partition it has an impact on
(wether the "Android system" or storage itself) but they take space regardless, and this space will decrease when erasing apks, oats, ...
Edit: Some research made me learn something, no gained space when erasing apks lads
Edit#2: Explaination in the post down there
Edit#3: Forgot to ping you @Pact

Directories as /system/apps & /system/priv_apps are part of /system partition what itself is of fixed size. Hence you gain no disk space what an other partition is automatically added when removing apps in /system partition.
IMO the only meaningful method to debloat a phone is to freeze unwanted apps thus any background activities triggered by them get suppressed.
App Freezer for Android - APK Download
Download App Freezer apk 1.0.6 for Android. Freeze unwanted app or package on Android (Samsung, Sony, Xiaomi, Huawei, etc)
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Take note that physically removing an app from /system partition can cause a boot-loop, unless verified-boot got disabled.

Storage limit for apps

Hey, I remarked the excessive use of storage from many apps on my phone, such as Instagram (1.2GB), Tiktok (1GB)...
Does someone know how to limit the use of space for specific apps ?
I know that somehow, android tells the apps when there's no space left
Maybe someone can clone this functionality to fool the app

Why would you install those junk apks at all?
It's just asking for trouble... security risk.
If it can't run in the browser, ditch it☠☠☠

blackhawk said:
Why would you install those junk apks at all?
It's just asking for trouble... security risk.
If it can't run in the browser, ditch it☠☠☠
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Well... I need them to keep in contact with my friends, that's why, and they are taking much place for nothing

Every app allocates itself storage space it needs to get first run, then it may increase this storage space at any time.With regards to so-called Social Media apps: The more you use such an app, the more space the app takes up on your phone, unless you clear the cache of such an app.