Do programs have to be installed to /device? - Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General

Or can I install to the "internal storage"? It seems like sometimes when I try to run an program installed to the internal storage it gives some kind of error. I'm not sure if it's the program or what?
For example, I'm installing the weather db editor thing and it says "file write protection of database couldn't removed"...something to that effect.
Thanks

i usually install system tools to /Device and games etc to /Internal Storage.
I dont think it should make a difference tho.

ok cool, thanks!

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Prevent Cab installation to main memory?

I searched. I really did.
Is there a registry key that would allow or prevent installation of cab files to main device storage memory? I have users in Turkey who have the local version of the Kaiser and we can install cab files on the storage card but not on main device storage memory.
golfer_boy said:
I searched. I really did.
Is there a registry key that would allow or prevent installation of cab files to main device storage memory? I have users in Turkey who have the local version of the Kaiser and we can install cab files on the storage card but not on main device storage memory.
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i dont get your question. you said that you can install them on storage cardd and you also asked how to prevent it from installing on device.
if you are installing on storage card, then what do you need to worry about the deviced?
golfer_boy said:
I searched. I really did.
Is there a registry key that would allow or prevent installation of cab files to main device storage memory? I have users in Turkey who have the local version of the Kaiser and we can install cab files on the storage card but not on main device storage memory.
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dude anytime you install anything and you have a storage card in the device the Kaiser will ask you where to install the item. If this prompt doesn't appear you may have issues with your storage card.
In that case, put the microSD card into a converter and format it on your pc and try again.
If i am wrong then I have no idea what you are saying...
Let me try again.
We attempt to install a program via cab file to main memory. The installation fails with a message saying the installation is unsuccessful.
We then repeat the installation only this time we choose to install to the storage card. This time the installation is successful.
Question: Is this a registry key setting, or something else.
We need to install the programs to main memory. I suppose I should also validate that the program actually installed on the storage card as I've seen some that let always install to main memory no matter what you select.
Sorry for the poor wording last time.
golfer_boy said:
Let me try again.
We attempt to install a program via cab file to main memory. The installation fails with a message saying the installation is unsuccessful.
We then repeat the installation only this time we choose to install to the storage card. This time the installation is successful.
Question: Is this a registry key setting, or something else.
We need to install the programs to main memory. I suppose I should also validate that the program actually installed on the storage card as I've seen some that let always install to main memory no matter what you select.
Sorry for the poor wording last time.
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What program are you attempting to install?
I am going on the assumption you are running a stock rom since I have no information to go from on your previous posts. Have you tried the certificates cab?
http://www.4shared.com/file/44361714/8baeab2a/sdkcerts.html
We are attempting to install a cab file related to an Oracle app. We have no problems like this with any of our other PDAs: US, Canada, France, Germany, etc...
We are running a stock ROM. It is a Turkcell Qtek S200
We do not want to disable the certificate checking due to security issues.
So far I would guess that there is no registry key that could cause this problem.
the guy has a point,there are some cabs that will still install to the device even if you chose storage card
golfer_boy said:
Let me try again.
We attempt to install a program via cab file to main memory. The installation fails with a message saying the installation is unsuccessful.
We then repeat the installation only this time we choose to install to the storage card. This time the installation is successful.
Question: Is this a registry key setting, or something else.
We need to install the programs to main memory. I suppose I should also validate that the program actually installed on the storage card as I've seen some that let always install to main memory no matter what you select.
Sorry for the poor wording last time.
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This seems like a obvious question , but here goes. Are you sure you have enough main memory space? Oracle isn't known for their " lite " apps.
Here might be your answer:
http://freewareppc.com/utilities/cabinstl.shtml
I used to use this app for Dell Axim x50v which doesn't ask for location to install cab like the kaiser does when you have an sd card in.
denco7 said:
This seems like a obvious question , but here goes. Are you sure you have enough main memory space? Oracle isn't known for their " lite " apps.
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Sorry for the delay in responding as I do appreciate the responses from others.
There is plenty of memory available but it is a fair question. The Oracle app we are installing is not that large.

How do I download programs directly to internal storage?

When I download stuff it goes to main storage. I copy and paste to internal storage then erase main storage. There must be a easier way?
Thanks
May I suggest a couple of programs that may help
1) HTC4_Inbox A program that saves BT transferred files to storage card Start -> Settings -> Connections -> OBEX Inbox to choose where u want to recieve files.
2) Advance Config 3.3 a useful tool that allows you to specify the mapping of folders like;
My Documents
My Videos
Etc
Thanks
Yes I've tried adv conf but didn't like it.
However this other program is perfect, thanks so much
Why doing it the hard way? When you're downloading something on your Touch Diamond you can choose where to save the file. When downloading you will see a windows where you can choose from: 'Yes', 'Save as...' and 'Cancel'. When you choose 'Save as...' you can choose between Main Memory and Internal Storage. When choosing Internal Storage you can even choose the map where you want it to be stored.
d12bn said:
Yes I've tried adv conf but didn't like it.
However this other program is perfect, thanks so much
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Glad the Bluetooth option work for you.

Can't install any application

Since about two days ago I'm not able to install any application. Whenever I run the install I get the following message: Installation of [ApplicationName] was unsuccessful.
I've switched the phone off and on and cleared more storage space but I'm still getting them same message.
This happens with every application I try to install, even ones that I've installed successfully previously.
Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?
If you go to the setting - system - remove program, did you see anything listed there. If nothing there, your system db could be corrupt. You will need to restore at least the system db backup portion using your sprite backup. In my case, the active sync corrupt my database when I connect my ppc to my deskyop. I have to uninstall and reinstall active sync.
You're right I'm not seeing anything listed there.
How do I restore the system db backup? Is this something that comes standard with the phone?
I am having exactly the same problem.
I have tried 3 roms (Shaks, Nataly, AZTOR) but almost every cab I try to install either says "Installation was unsuccessful" or first it says "AppX" cannot be installed. To try installing to a different location, choose a location:
I have done hard resets, hard with clear nand (lost all my pictures!), format internal storage, dl'ed new cabs from 3 different browsers on two different connections. copied to the device with "Disk Drive" mode and Activesync.
I do hope someone can help!
Update: I can install the same failed apps if I use the CABviaActivesync util. I think my internal storage may be f***ed.
Update2: I can install the same cabs from / but not from internal storage.
Update3: I tried copying a cab to the internal storage and then move it to / and again it did not install. Copied the same cab to / and it installed ok.

[Q] Storage Space Running Out

Guys,
Recently i have received a notification from my galaxy note says, "Storage space running out".
I see in the application manager in the "All" tab, the memory usage is 1.8GB used and 200MB free.. The interesting part is, if i sum all of the application listed, it hardly reach 800MB. So there are arround 1GB lost space.
I opened the Setting>Storage there is also a surprising thing. Under Device Memory there are 1.9 GB Total Space, Application 860MB, and the available space is 200MB !!!.. So where is the 1 GB lost? i believe its being used by some sort of logging program. Because the space is keep decreasing by time, even when i don't install anything new.
Do you guys experience the same thing? Or how can i list the usage of this 2GB Device storage space? or what is the folder to check?
I'm running on RR JB v3
Thanks in advance..
Regards
Try to check if you have corrupted files in the lost+found directory (if it exists). Your SD card might be going bad. Other option is to use another file explorer like ES File Explorer, which has lots of options. You can use it to calculate the usage, and if it matches, investigate each directory. One tip: with ES, you can long-press over a directory and select Properties, to get the usage for that particular directory. It can help you narrow-down the investigation.
dbolivar said:
Try to check if you have corrupted files in the lost+found directory (if it exists). Your SD card might be going bad. Other option is to use another file explorer like ES File Explorer, which has lots of options. You can use it to calculate the usage, and if it matches, investigate each directory. One tip: with ES, you can long-press over a directory and select Properties, to get the usage for that particular directory. It can help you narrow-down the investigation.
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thanks for the reply. But ES file explorer is not helping. it can't detect circular dependency. For example, in the /system/xbin there is a folder called "bb" this folder has no physical memory. Its just a pointer to /system/xbin which in this case is his parent. This create circular dependency, when i click properties in that xbin folder, it show me like 8GB of data and keep increasing.. its impossible right? because the xbin is mounted on a 2GB partition.
yesterday after learn about android partition, i have an idea to monitor /data partition using x-terminal. But i can't find the problem, because i have factory reset my device.. ahahah... lets see.. if this problem happen again, i already know where to start..

Strange storage free space issues

I'm very confused about the storage on my Moto G 2nd Gen 2014, running stock KitKat.
If I look at System Settings - Storage, for the Internal Storage it shows Total 5.51GB, Available 1.08GB, Apps 6.06GB (what!), Pictures 7.09MB, Audio 220KB, Downloads 24.49MB, Cached data 389MB, Misc 316MB.
Link2SD - Storage Info shows the same 5.51GB Total, 1.08GB Available for Internal /data and SD Card /storage/emulated/legacy.
When I look with ES File Explorer, it shows 5.51GB Total and 4.43GB Used for my internal SD (/storage/sdcard0 or storage/emulated/0). However, checking the properties of the folders, they don't add up to anything like that and if I run SD Card Analyst with Root Explorer and Show Hidden Files enabled and tap Directory Analyse it finds a total of 735.78MB, with Apps being only 42.30MB, Others 460.79MB, Audio 194.90MB, Picture 15.19MB, Document 17.79MB and Video 4.82MB. In the folder view sorted by size it shows Android 402.12MB, Recordings 109.34MB, voix 82.82MB, TunnyBrowser 50.58MB, com.alk.copilot.mapviewer 27.20MB, Download 24.41MB, six more folders under 10MB and 40 more under 1MB, with about half of those showing 0.00B.
So can anyone explain what's going on here, as I'm completely baffled?
Just bumping in the hope someone will see this who can help me.
Depending on how an app works when it stores it's data on the microSD it can still show in the Settings>Storage as on the internal memory (WoT Blitz did this when I had that installed) so that can make your apps look like you have 6.6GB on the internal memory, also in a file explorer the directory in which Android, DCIM, Music, Ringtones ect. is not the 'top most' directory, in ES File Explorer you can hit the '/' (also called Device) in the top bar and there are a load more files there. If you do a 'Select all'>Properties does that come close to the 4.4GB space used?
jay2the1 said:
Depending on how an app works when it stores it's data on the microSD it can still show in the Settings>Storage as on the internal memory (WoT Blitz did this when I had that installed) so that can make your apps look like you have 6.6GB on the internal memory, also in a file explorer the directory in which Android, DCIM, Music, Ringtones ect. is not the 'top most' directory, in ES File Explorer you can hit the '/' (also called Device) in the top bar and there are a load more files there. If you do a 'Select all'>Properties does that come close to the 4.4GB space used?
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Hmm, I am using Obb2SD to move all my game data from Android/Obb to the external SD card, so maybe that's confusing it but that seems like it could be a problem as if it think the internal storage is full even when there's really plenty of space free, I imagine it will start throwing up errors and won't allow me to store anything else on it, which rather defeats the point of moving the games in the first place.
If I do select all->properties from / that includes my external SD as well and totals 46.42GB. Even if I unselect /mnt and /storage it still comes to 8.03GB which can't be just the internal storage as that's only 8GB in total and I supposedly have 1.43GB free on that. Just /data is 6.21GB.
You do know that your internal storage is a combination of your phone storage and internal storage right?
In case you didn't know just open root explorer and go to data folder (long press and select properties) and calculate how much storage it use...then do the same things with systems folder...then combined data storage + system storage + internal storage used and you will get almost the same amount like in settings/storages show you...
Sent Using My Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G
When I say Internal storage I simply mean that which is not the external SD card. I don't know what the difference between phone storage and internal storage is though, as far as I'm aware there's just 8GB internal storage.
Checking the properties for /data shows it as 6.21GB (6.31GB Used), so I suppose with 1.08GB available that totals 7.39GB which could be close enough to 8GB to be correct. /system is 1.17GB. Still doesn't make any sense that Settings - Storage and Link2SD shows Total 5.51GB, 1.01GB Available but Apps as 6.06GB. Nor does it make any sense that the Homepage in ES File Explorer shows 4.28GB used on 0 but tapping that, which takes me to emulated/0 and selecting everything, Properties only shows 700MB used.
Doing directory analyse on /data shows the majority in Others 3.70GB, then Apps 1.95GB. It's a pain there's no way to see how much storage is used by each folder without checking Properties for each one individually but if I untick all the folders starting with a then the total is 4.06GB (4.15GB used), so there's about 2.15GB in those folders. Unticking all the folders starting with b through d drops it down to 2.07GB (2.12GB Used) so they account for another 2GB. Digging deeper I can see that /data/app uses 1.73GB, /data/app-lib uses 432.15MB, /data/data uses 1.25GB, data/dalvik-cache uses 717.77MB, /data/media/ uses 554.41MB, /data/sdext2 uses 272.20MB, /data/user uses 1.25GB and everything else is inconsequential. Adding those up comes to roughly 6.2GB, which exceeds the Total 5.51GB that Settings - Storage shows, even without adding the 1.17GB from /system.
None of this helps me understand what in those folders is using up all the space though, so does anyone know of an app that will show the space used by folder, like Treesize for Windows?
Can no-one help me make sense of this? The weirdest thing is that 0 (Internal storage) in ES File Explorer's Home screen shows 4.28GB but opening that folder and selecting all the folders gives a total of only 700MB, which doesn't make any sense.
I see that Titanium Backup can produce a list of apps sorted by space used, so I'll try adding those up manually and see what they total. I have linked a few large apps to the external SD with Link2SD though, so they shouldn't be using any internal storage and I'll have to subtract their amounts from the total.
Well I decided to wipe data and dalvik-cache (i.e. factory reset) from TWRP and start again, to try and get to the bottom of this.
TWRP showed about 370MB out of 5.51GB used after wiping. After booting, this was about 560MB (I guess due to the dalvik cache repopulating, currently 258.98MB) and by the time Google Play had finished updating the pre-installed apps, this had risen to 1.27GB.
The majority of this, 1.17GB, is in /Data. Settings - Storage shows 4.24GB out of 5.51GB available. ES File Explorer is a bit stupid, as it shows the same in the Homepage the same for 0 (i.e. 1.27GB used out of 5.51GB) but tapping that links to emulated/0 (which is just an alternative path to /storage/sdcard0), which only has a total of 4.32MB in it. What the Homepage shows is actually the used space from root (i.e. /) so it should show and link to that, not /storage/ emulated/0.
Another anomaly is that /data/data and /data/user are alternative paths to the same place, containing 230.99MB, which results in it getting counted twice, so really there's only a total of 965.51MB of files in /data, not 1.17GB. Obviously as /data/data grows, that's going to result in even more space being doubly allocated and thus unavailable, i.e. if I have 1GB in /data/data, it's going to reduce my free space by 2GB.
I also notice that /data/app contains all the apks for the apps that are installed. I thought apks were just install packages, like Windows msi or exe installs and that when installed they unpacked to somewhere, so isn't it just wasting space keeping all of the apks here? It's only 357.19MB at the moment but when I checked it before I factory reset it was 1+, maybe 2+ GB, so that's obviously a lot of space to waste out of 5.51GB.
Hopefully someone can help me clear up these questions, as I don't want to start reinstalling all my apps yet if I might need to wipe it all again to reset it. I've backed up everything with Titanium but it's still quite a hassle, as there doesn't seem to be a way to make a list of installed (as opposed to backed up but not installed, or frozen) apps before wiping and then restore just those afterwards, so I'll have to go through the list and try and remember what I didn't have installed before and de-select those.

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