Hi, I was wondering if anyone know what else I can delete safely in WM5 to save some memory cause I'm really running low on the main one,
I already did move PIE cache and temp files to storage and profile and documents etc.
I notice JVLite2Demo folder was in Aka 3.3 V2 Faria and Co. I was wondering if that folder contents is needed if not I want to delete it but wanted to know if it's safe and does it effect or programs or windows mobile.
Thanxs. for reading this post and responsing. Awesome forum.
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Hi all,
Any steps necessary to move the HTM help files in the \Windows folder to my SD card, other than just moving them? Will I need to hack the registry?
Has anyone tried this before?
Thanks!
Yom said:
Hi all,
Any steps necessary to move the HTM help files in the \Windows folder to my SD card, other than just moving them? Will I need to hack the registry?
Has anyone tried this before?
Thanks!
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Which help files are ya looking to move?
Pretty much all *.htm files that are not in ROM and have application names. Around 500KB worth.
Yom said:
Pretty much all *.htm files that are not in ROM and have application names. Around 500KB worth.
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I see. I'm pretty sure that individual apps would be hard coded to look somewhere specific for the related help files, or each app may have the location specified in the registry - which would make for some tedious editing.
You could try installing the apps to your storage card and see if the help files are also installed there. I have seen apps though that despite being installed on a storage card insist on putting config and other files into device storage.
Thanks for your replies! I'll move them, and if any apps complain, then I'll put 'em back on a case-by-case basis. Do you know of any other files that could be safely moved to SD to free some precious space on main storage?
Off topic, are you planning to enhance the new Cingular ROM once they get their act together and release a non-corrupted file?
Yom said:
Thanks for your replies! I'll move them, and if any apps complain, then I'll put 'em back on a case-by-case basis. Do you know of any other files that could be safely moved to SD to free some precious space on main storage?
Off topic, are you planning to enhance the new Cingular ROM once they get their act together and release a non-corrupted file?
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It depends on what they release. If it really is going to be the 2.25 release that leaked a few weeks back, then I plan to stay as far away from it as I can.
However, I am working in tightening up an AKU 2.3 ROM for Cingular users. I'll be testing out an AKU 2.5 ROM this week as well.
Unlike the last few times I flashed, this tie I had purchased a memory card and installed some programs to it. So I flashed a new ROM, but now the programs are not showing up on the device. They are all games. so I would liek them in the Games folder. How do I create shortcuts or whatever so that the phone knows they are on the memory card.
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Copy.... Paste as Shortcut...
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Copy.... Paste as Shortcut...
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Paste to where? I tried going to programs but it won;t let me paste so I tried pasting in TC to the program folder in the main memory but no joy.
Make a shortcut for your game then move the shortcut to your Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Games\ folder.
Brian
Some programs won't work specially if you installed them in your Storage Card then re-flashed a new rom because your Main Memory was reset, please repeat the installion of the games because some games would dump required files to the Phone Memory to run the game..
Some games wouldn't work but some would..try what bjevers suggested..
Hello everyone, I just wanted to know if there is a way to find out what programs are installed in the device's main memory and which ones are installed on the memory card. I am running out of device memory and would like to uninstall some programs but I need to know where they are first in order to see if I need to keep them where they are or not. Thanks
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Hello everyone, I just wanted to know if there is a way to find out what programs are installed in the device's main memory and which ones are installed on the memory card. I am running out of device memory and would like to uninstall some programs but I need to know where they are first in order to see if I need to keep them where they are or not. Thanks
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Browse the devise using File Browser and look under Program Files or /Storage Card/Program Files
Hey guys,
some time ago I've tried to free some space from my internal memory, so I've chosen several files to remove in my \windows directory, like ringtones, 007 trailer and some .cabs of default installed programs. Overall size was about 90MB, what is pretty nice while I had like 100MB free space on internal. I know these files can't be just deleted, so I've prepared fake files with the same name, but zero size and I did these steps:
1. backup of chosen files
2. rewrite old files with new files of zero size using Total Commander
!! BUT !! when I did so, free space of internal memory was always the same (even after restart)
3. so, when I saw it had no effect, I restored original files from backup back to the \windows folder and I was shoked when I saw 10MB of free memory
4. as a last step, I've changed these files again with those zero sized and I had the free space back
Now I have the same amount of free space as I had at the beginning, but with zero sized fake files instead of original files.
I want to ask:
a) why my method did not work??
b) how can I really free up some space?? (by removing those useless files)
c) where is the "ROM image" located?? I mean .. if I'll change those original files with fake files and I'll do hard reset, what will happen? Will be those original files restored from some hidden ROM image or are they necessary to keep (for any reason) in \windows folder?
Thank you for any ideas.
FYI I am using stock R3A ROM.
C'mon ... I am sure somebody knows the answers. I've already read several threads about deleting files in windows folder, but all of them were about overwriting files with new, fake files. There were nothing about free memory. And also I can't find the answer on my third, probably most important question
c) where is the "ROM image" located?? I mean .. if I'll change those original files with fake files and I'll do hard reset, what will happen? Will be those original files restored from some hidden ROM image or are they necessary to keep (for any reason) in \windows folder?
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Any help is appreciated.
on wm there is a flash area
devided into 2 places 1 is storage
1 is rom
rom is read only after one flash the firmware
you can overshadow files in the rom flash with empty files
but they don't mean they are not still there
but it's don't matter because files on rom don't take up storage space at all
they take up rom space it's 2 seperate "partitions" if that makes something you can understand better
only way to truely remove files from the rom flash is to cook a rom without them
and even if you do that that will not give you more storage space as it's 2 seperate spaces
so basicly you're barking up the wrong tree for more storage
Thanks man. This answer is absolutely enough for me, now I understand it much better.
I'm a bit out of space on my Diamond with only 14. Mb of memory on the Main memory so i got tired of receiving Low memory notifications every 30 seconds whenever i browsed the internet ,so i went and looked what can be deleted and found under :My Device/Windows- a Tom Tom navigation install file 11.mb in size which must have been there since i got the phone .........which obviously i can't delete .
So my Question to you is what program should i use to delete that file and others (like PvP Player.exe which is useless....).
Move Tomtom.
You should be able to run tomtom from storage. I copied to storage and run from there.
Shouldn't need to use the main memory storage for tomtom..
Can't do that ,either the file is only copy/beam /send and it's stored as i said above . I can't cut it .
I WANT TO DELETE IT. please tell me a way/ or a program that can delete files from the Windows directory.
most files in windows dir are not located in storage but in the rom itself and can only be removed by cooking a custom rom but mind you storage space and rom space don't share MB's so freeing rom MBs don't add MBs to storage