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Paid Apps on the Rooted\Dev Phone - TEST ONLY.

So, as we generally disscussed google is blocking downloading of paid apps from market.
1) It is NOT related to your firmware version (JF\Stock\ADP etc.).
2) It is related to your IP. Means, if you're not a US T-mo resident, you can't see any of those marvelous apps.
So, The Test:
1) Can we copy\upload some of the "closed" apps?? ( Could be done through the Terminal Emulator
2) Try to run them.
To clarify the spirit of experiment, I'll suggest the cheapest apps to be tested, though they are hidden from us to. Any contributors ready to hit the new Scene?)

Here's what going on.
If you're IP is not from the US you will not see paid apps.
If your running ADP or have a ADP phone you will not see protected apps.
If you moved your app-private folder to sd you will also not see protected apps.
"So, The Test:
1) Can we copy\upload some of the "closed" apps?? ( Could be done through the Terminal Emulator
2) Try to run them."
No, that's stealing.

im.l0ltn said:
If you moved your app-private folder to sd you will also not see protected apps.
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Unfortunately, I have pretty much proven to myself that this is not the case. Yesterday I moved app-private to my SD's ext2 partition and subsequently lost access to paid apps so I thought moving them caused the the loss of access. I ran some experiments (detailed over around post272 in LucidREM's modded image sticky) and finally, after 3 or 4 experiments, gave up trying to pin down the cause. I moved app-private back to SD yesterday afternoon and have generally continued to have access to paid apps, both new ones and updates to ones I've already bought. They still disappear and, while I still have a hunch or two, I'm not yet ready to blame any action in particular.
Just my $.02

my app-private is on the ext2 sd and NO PROBLLEMm

short/y said:
Unfortunately, I have pretty much proven to myself that this is not the case. Yesterday I moved app-private to my SD's ext2 partition and subsequently lost access to paid apps so I thought moving them caused the the loss of access. I ran some experiments (detailed over around post272 in LucidREM's modded image sticky) and finally, after 3 or 4 experiments, gave up trying to pin down the cause. I moved app-private back to SD yesterday afternoon and have generally continued to have access to paid apps, both new ones and updates to ones I've already bought. They still disappear and, while I still have a hunch or two, I'm not yet ready to blame any action in particular.
Just my $.02
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That's strange. The moment I deleted the link and remade the /data/app-private folder then rebooted, I could see protected paid apps again. I did this at least 3 times.
Smokuevo said:
my app-private is on the ext2 sd and NO PROBLLEMm
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Can you see protected apps such as bettercut and guitar hero on the market ?

I can't seem to figure this out. Sometimes apps are there, sometimes the ones that were there aren't anymore and its not developer pulling or any change on my phone. I'm unlocked on a dev phone on AT&T. I can see many paid apps (Task Manager, HelloIM) and the like, but I can't see things like the office one. One thing I've noticed is I have no app-private directory in /system. Just my $.02 but google you've shot yourself and developers in the foot here by basically making piracy a necessity unless we find away around it or you fix it.

im.l0ltn said:
Can you see protected apps such as bettercut and guitar hero on the market ?
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I have mine moved to the sdcard, and I can see, install, and use BetterCut just fine. Even moved it, and all apps, back and forth from the sdcard just fine, with no problems.

Phromik said:
I have mine moved to the sdcard, and I can see, install, and use BetterCut just fine. Even moved it, and all apps, back and forth from the sdcard just fine, with no problems.
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Weird, for some reason its working for me again. I guess it was just my phone.

I have an ADP1 phone, and I'm quite irritated that I can't access copy-protected apps on it
Google's reasoning is to fight piracy, but there's more rooted G1s than there are ADP1s, and in my personal opinion, since most of the ADP1s in the wild are Google's own employees, I think their fear of "piracy" from ADP1 users is *seriously* overstated, compared to the regular G1s that have been rooted. I'd be far less upset if they just blocked all rooted phones, but singling out their own employees and their devs, and accusing them of being potential software pirates, while normal end users who have hacked their phones aren't even considered, well, I find it *quite* offensive.

rc33 1.42 app & app-private on sdcard.. no credit card so havent bought any

im.l0ltn said:
That's strange. The moment I deleted the link and remade the /data/app-private folder then rebooted, I could see protected paid apps again. I did this at least 3 times.
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Yup, same thing happened to me. Other things I did made paid apps disappear too (like turning off my GSM radio and only using WiFi to access the Market), After spending most of an afternoon trying various scenarios to see which caused the apps to disappear, I gave up, moved apps back to my SD card and left them there. They still go missing every so often and I still can't figure out why or what causes them to disappear but I reboot and, generally, full access is restored.

why dont somebody just make a mod version of the app market or make another redesigned app market. im no expert btw.

sensimila said:
why dont somebody just make a mod version of the app market or make another redesigned app market. im no expert btw.
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I think this is because the market.apk is a close source program. I'm still a noob myself and I'm trying to learn a lot of new information.

If you guys want protected apps on your ADP just flash an RC build on it.

maxdamage2122 said:
If you guys want protected apps on your ADP just flash an RC build on it.
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That's a really piss poor solution, FYI. The whole point of ADP is having an unlocked and unbranded OS.

uberingram said:
That's a really piss poor solution, FYI. The whole point of ADP is having an unlocked and unbranded OS.
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flash the RC version, download your app, place it on your SD card, flash back to ADP, and re-create links for apps on SD, your app will still be there

uberingram said:
That's a really piss poor solution, FYI. The whole point of ADP is having an unlocked and unbranded OS.
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Could you please elaborate? Last time I checked T-mobile isn't branded ANYWHERE in the OS. Your "whole point" of having an ADP is slightly flawed.

maxdamage2122 said:
Could you please elaborate? Last time I checked T-mobile isn't branded ANYWHERE in the OS. Your "whole point" of having an ADP is slightly flawed.
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*cough* myFavs *cough*

haitiankid4lyf said:
rc33 1.42 app & app-private on sdcard.. no credit card so havent bought any
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Looking at the screen shots you have a lot of apps us uk users don't.
I've even put my phone back to standard just to see if having a rooted phone was stoping
Me from getting paid apps. Where left with all the crap ones now lol.

Su File Manager removed from phone? WTF?

I just looked at my phone, and saw 'Su File Manager has been removed from your phone. You will receive an email with details.' No email yet, and I'm wondering WTF is up. I bought this app several days ago, checked my bank account and the payment for it has cleared, so it's not an issue of payment bouncing or something. Anyone else have this happen, or know what's up?

heldc said:
I just looked at my phone, and saw 'Su File Manager has been removed from your phone. You will receive an email with details.' No email yet, and I'm wondering WTF is up. I bought this app several days ago, checked my bank account and the payment for it has cleared, so it's not an issue of payment bouncing or something. Anyone else have this happen, or know what's up?
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And this is why it is a good idea to keep a backup.
Seriously... huh?
Can you reinstall from the market?

lbcoder said:
And this is why it is a good idea to keep a backup.
Seriously... huh?
Can you reinstall from the market?
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Went to the market, reinstalled with no problem, which makes it seem even more weird, cos presumably if the app was malicious they'd pull it from the market as well as deleting it from phones. None of my backup programs seem to have the capability to backup paid apps (MyBackup, Backup for Root, or Astro).

heldc said:
Went to the market, reinstalled with no problem, which makes it seem even more weird, cos presumably if the app was malicious they'd pull it from the market as well as deleting it from phones. None of my backup programs seem to have the capability to backup paid apps (MyBackup, Backup for Root, or Astro).
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If you're rooted you can just use ADB pull to back it up over usb, and then use ADB install to re-install it over usb if anything happens.

bahnburner said:
If you're rooted you can just use ADB pull to back it up over usb, and then use ADB install to re-install it over usb if anything happens.
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My cats have chewed through every mini-usb cable I own. Was planning to go to microcenter this weekend to buy more, but in the meantime, no ADB for me. Anyway to backup app-private from in phone, using the terminal? I have root of course.

heldc said:
My cats have chewed through every mini-usb cable I own. Was planning to go to microcenter this weekend to buy more, but in the meantime, no ADB for me. Anyway to backup app-private from in phone, using the terminal? I have root of course.
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EDITED to protect the Devs.
to restore just install via astro.

bahnburner said:
mount -oremount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mkdir /sdcard/backup
busybox cp /system/sd/app-private/NAMEOFAPP /sdcard/backup
to restore just install via astro.
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Ah, of course. Thanks!

do not abuse that command please. support the devs.

hiroots said:
do not abuse that command please. support the devs.
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There was no mention of warez anywhere in the above posts that i noticed. She purchased the applications.

hiroots said:
do not abuse that command please. support the devs.
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Warez-hunt and Witch-hunt start the same way. This is actual help, not theft.

sha.goyjo said:
Warez-hunt and Witch-hunt start the same way. This is actual help, not theft.
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Exactly. I had every intention of helping someone retain something they have already purchased. I do no steal applications, and refuse to help someone else do the same. I wouldn't want people doing it to me, so I don't want to see it happening to them.

bahnburner said:
mount -oremount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mkdir /sdcard/backup
busybox cp /system/sd/app-private/NAMEOFAPP /sdcard/backup
to restore just install via astro.
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You do NOT need to remount the /system partition.
1) You are copying files OFF, not on,
2) Those files are NOT EVEN on the /system partition. They're on the SDCARD (in your example) which is mounted within the /system path (but is not actually part of it), but are more likely in the /data partition (for those not using apps2sd).
*** IN THE EVENT that the apps are installed to SDCARD, you can simply turn off the phone and move the card into your computer to copy them directly to your hard disk for permanent backup.

heldc said:
Went to the market, reinstalled with no problem, which makes it seem even more weird, cos presumably if the app was malicious they'd pull it from the market as well as deleting it from phones. None of my backup programs seem to have the capability to backup paid apps (MyBackup, Backup for Root, or Astro).
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The irony in this situation is that SU file browser will back up (copy protected apps) itself just fine.

Moving anything onto a fat partition that is protected is a grey area. If a mod comes across this post it will be edited. I know its only help, but xda has to cover their ass. This topic should be helped through PM's instead of being public broadcasted. The poster that helped with the commands and the person who quoted them should edit their posts now that the OP fixed their issue, the mods already got their hands full, we should help when we can.

if the devil was on earth he would wear all white and work for unicef!
Too many people allow the information of copying protected apps, so therefore people abuse this info anyone with a simple curiosity could find the info on there phone without people having to teach them like myself, but once I found the information I shared it with nobody and assume they could figure it out themselves!!! So please do not PLEASE DO NOT! Inform people how to backup paid apps! I don't know how many people read the comments in the marketplace but its full of people who steal and trade these apps blatently without regard for repercutions, leaving there email addresses and everything! So believe me intelligent people will figure this out themselves this is not information that should be googled I am personly trying to pass this information around to all moderators to ban this information so please help me in stopping this, root is a gift for people who understand not thos who follow the bandwagon to just steal apps (most of which don't cost more then 5$), strangley the people who need the help only have one thing in mind.
So please treust me if we don't stop this the idiots will win and the marketplace will crumble only the honest people keep it afloat only the intelligent should be able to obtain this precious info and they won't have to ask for the process they are smarter then that! They will find they file and already know the commands to do what they see fit for the application. This should not be easy! It should be protected by devs and moderators for the sake of the community knowledge is power unless you give a simple walkthrough to a thief or idiot or power hungry moron with no respect for others or creative artists and they use it for there personal benefit not the furthering of progress infact just the opposite!

It's only fair (as described in fair use) that users have the ability to backup their own purchases and downloads. As far as what they do with them, that's up to their own conscience. It's not ours to judge.
If they decide to illegally share it, then report them and be done with it.

The discussion on piracy is taking this thread off topic; please cease immediately.
I'd like to know more about the circumstances in which this app was removed, specifically whether it was "kill-switched" by Android Market or something else entirely.

jashsu said:
The discussion on piracy is taking this thread off topic; please cease immediately.
I'd like to know more about the circumstances in which this app was removed, specifically whether it was "kill-switched" by Android Market or something else entirely.
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I doubt that it was kill-switched. If it was, then it would have coincided with the app being pulled from the market and it is unlikely that it would allow such simple reinstall. This is, of course, assuming that they even *can* kill-switch an app like that. I have heard discussion about it, but nobody has offered even a shred of proof, so I really doubt it.

jashsu said:
I'd like to know more about the circumstances in which this app was removed, specifically whether it was "kill-switched" by Android Market or something else entirely.
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It seems pretty clear it wasn't kill-switched, since I was able to re-download it right away, and it's still available. I wish I'd thought to screenshot the alert that it had been removed, but I was so surprised to see such a thing I just didn't think about a screenshot until after I'd tapped ok.
The only explanation I can imagine, and this is purely hypothetical I've got no evidence for it, I'm just guessing, is that there was a server hiccup someplace when google went to actually collect the payment for the app. (The pre-auth for buying apps always hits my account immediately, but the money doesn't actually get taken from my account for 2-5 days.) So, google got told 'no moniez for you', and told my phone 'no app for you!', but then the server hiccup resolved itself, google got the payment for the app and I was able to re-download the app.
Since there wasn't a rash of people posting saying this happened to them, it seems clear this issue was somehow specific to me and my phone, and since I had bought the app a few days prior (well over 24 hours before the incident tho), the only explanation I can think of is the above. I wish I had some way to know what it was, but since I never did get an email about it, I'm stuck guessing.

anybody else???
has anybody heard of an instance of this happening since this original post?? anybody? or does it seem she is the only person to experience this? just for my curiosity and interests...
"fair use" huh, i wonder if that has a 24hr return policy on it?

so i have a lot of questions

so to start off, ill say i know absolutly nothing about linux, but i managed to root and flash modacos custom rom to my phone. i have no idea what any of the commands i used to do it mean, or how to use any of them to do anything else (other than removing a bunch of the crap that sprint puts on the phone, i managed to do that with the help of one of the other threads on here). anyways, ive got that done and am wondering what to do now. i came from a titan and am used to when im done flashing things, everything is totally different. like going from stock rom to having m2d and it being super sweet. with the new rom it seems like there isnt a lot of new stuff going on or a lot of changes. wifi tether works amazingly though. anyways, im done with the pointless ranting and heres what im trying to figure out....
1. are all of my contacts really saved to gmail? like all of the stuff from all of them? so if i hard reset, and just sign into my gmail account, will it reload all of my contacts? im used to pim backup and knowing that its all gonna be there after im done doing stuff (ive never used gmail before and am not sure how it works)
2. if i do a hard reset, do i need to redo everything like root and re-flash the custom rom or will all of that stay intact? will all of the sprint garbage like nascar be back on there after doing the cmd propmt remove of it or will i have to do that again? im not nessicarily worried about the apps that i have installed already so im not worried about that at all, i can find them later.
3. is there anything usefull that i can do with root that will increase performance or anything. like i said earlier, i dont know anything about linux , so is there like a list of comands somewhere to look through that might help me out?
4. does a2sd see your programs and automatically move them to the sd with the proper formatting of the sd card? i did the fat32, ext2 and swap. since i didnt know if it moved them over, i manually uninstalled everything and reinstalled them. after uninstalling everything i had 104 free and after reinstall i had 101.
5. would it be benificial to go ahead and do a hard reset, if the sprint crap is back on on all of that other **** that can be erased is back, get rid of that, and start from scratch to install all of my stuff i want. i dl a lot of **** that i uninstalled before. i hear linux is really good at installing and uninstalling things, but if ive dl'ed 75 things then uninstallled them, is there gonna be any garbage left on my phone from it? i know there was a lot of garbage left on the sd before i formated. actually, there was **** on there (on the sd) from progs i dl'ed and uninstalled awhile ago, even after formating so im thinging a hard reset would be helpful.
im sure ill have a lot more questions about this whole linux/android stuff sooo.....if people are trying to be helpful and help me out that would be awesome. if your going to be an asshole and blast me for my nubbish questions, dont bother.
thanks in advance
ix3u

The super-custom ROMS are on their way, they just take some time (we only got root this past weekend afterall!)
1.) Some contacts are saved to your phone, but I believe the default is to save it to gmail. You can check by going into the People App, click menu->View and the numbers should show you how much is on google and how many are on your phone.
2.) I'm afraid I'm not sure on a hard reset...I use Nandroid and if all else fails, the RUU to recover (Nandroid is just a snapshot in time...it will be however it was when you backed it up when you restore....while the RUU puts it back to true "factory", as if you just pulled it out of the box).
3.) There's a few things you can do to the UI settings that can increase performance, but the real performance gains are pending the release of the CDMA Kernel by HTC for us to play with and port some of the performance changes that were done to the GSM Kernel (Google for Teknologic's Kernel 1.8...it's included in MoDaCo 2.9). Teknologic kept a very good changelog and site describing some of the things he did and why.
4.) I have no experience with A2SD, but there's a bunch of threads about it...hopefully one of them will have teh answer you seek?
5.) I suppose a hard reset couldn't hurt...it would certainly rule a lot of things out when troubleshooting. I download a lot of apps too only to find I didn't like them enough to keep them and removed them. From what I can tell, it does clean up the application files pretty thoroughly on the OS partitions...the SD card I believe most apps leave alone on uninstall just to be careful not to delete too much because the SD card is designed for people to access and drop files onto, whereas the OS is meant to be managed by the OS...so it's just being careful to leave data on the SD card to play it safe rather than risk deleting someone's favorite picture of their kid or something.
Xda has been one of the more gentle forums I've seen in a long time. You're in good hands here. Hopefully some of that info was useful...if not, someone else will likely be along shortly to give better/more complete answers. ^_^

Transfer of paid apps between accounts

In the process of migrating to a new gmail account and would like to retain my purchases. Has anyone figured out how to do this?
I figured I could retain a nandroid of this account, but that is beyond inconvenient.

bubonik said:
In the process of migrating to a new gmail account and would like to retain my purchases. Has anyone figured out how to do this?
I figured I could retain a nandroid of this account, but that is beyond inconvenient.
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Why dont you just back up your paid apps?

That isnt the issue specifically, because I have already done that and installed it on the new account. The issue is arrives when updates come along and I cant download them via the account I am logged in under. Hence why I have retained a nandroid of my previous log in so I can update the paid apps.
As anyone who is imagining the process can see that it is inconvenient to do it in this fashion.

bubonik said:
That isnt the issue specifically, because I have already done that and installed it on the new account. The issue is arrives when updates come along and I cant download them via the account I am logged in under. Hence why I have retained a nandroid of my previous log in so I can update the paid apps.
As anyone who is imagining the process can see that it is inconvenient to do it in this fashion.
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Ah I see. Well im not sure if youre gunna be able to do that or not but you could always just search up the apps on the internet to see if you can download them for free.
thats just an alternative though until you actually do find a way to retain your purchases.
Sorry I couldnt be of more help but im sure someone else can

SwitchRom
I dont think a nandroid backup saves your apps... maybe if you dont have an ext* partition... Im not sure... You want to use the switchrom script to really back up everything... It backs up data and all
to backup your apps.. find out where they are in your phone..
/system/sd/app and system/sd/app-private is where mine are..
go to terminal and type: hit enter after every line--
mkdir /sdcard/backups
cp /system/sd/app/* /sdcard/backups
cp /system/sd/app-private/* sdcard/backups
then just use linda file manager to install them
Mods I dont think its against the rules to tell someone how to back up thier own stuff but if this borders piracy let me know..

junkdruggler said:
I dont think a nandroid backup saves your apps... maybe if you dont have an ext* partition... Im not sure... You want to use the switchrom script to really back up everything... It backs up data and all
to backup your apps.. find out where they are in your phone..
/system/sd/app and system/sd/app-private is where mine are..
go to terminal and type: hit enter after every line--
mkdir /sdcard/backups
cp /system/sd/app/* /sdcard/backups
cp /system/sd/app-private/* sdcard/backups
then just use linda file manager to install them
Mods I dont think its against the rules to tell someone how to back up thier own stuff but if this borders piracy let me know..
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I think what he wants to do is keep the purchase information that he has on his old gmail account and move it to his new one.

Thats exactly what im searching for. The rest of the discussion I have already taken care of. Nandroid does the same as switchrom, if your using RAs newest recovery. It handles ext as well.

why dont you try using your new Gmail and connect to the old one via the email app?
Maybe google has some sort of instructions on how to redirect all your purchases to your new Gmail account?

Yea I've been browsing Googles "support" forums, but failing miserably. If there is a method, its not well known.

bubonik said:
Yea I've been browsing Googles "support" forums, but failing miserably. If there is a method, its not well known.
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agreed. Im looking as well but cant find anything. I'll keep searching and let you know if I find anything about it.
This might help.
http://knol.google.com/k/changing-your-gmail-username-or-email-address#

Thanks for the link. I have taken care of all that already. Last thing I need to take care of is GV balance and Checkout history over. GV is easy, but checkout is turning out to be a chore.

Well im sure you'll figure it out dude =)
and no problem

Database full: how to solve this probem?

Dear all,
first of all I wish to thank everyone in XDA that with his contribution helps us to make our devices blazing fast and really snappy.
Since I installed JPY firmware and I backed up every application I had the warning "Database almost full, please delete messages, contacts etc..." and in fact I have only 20Mb free.
I saw that Samsung to perform this big improvement in the software moved some application data in dbdata partition that is formatted to have only 128Mb!!
The problem is that at moment the maximum number of installable applications is limited due to dbdata space and this could be a big problem.
In other posts I read that other people had my same problem but no possible solution to fix it has been find out.
Is there any chance to fix this limitation?
Thank you for your awesome support

paky79 said:
Dear all,
first of all I wish to thank everyone in XDA that with his contribution helps us to make our devices blazing fast and really snappy.
Since I installed JPY firmware and I backed up every application I had the warning "Database almost full, please delete messages, contacts etc..." and in fact I have only 20Mb free.
I saw that Samsung to perform this big improvement in the software moved some application data in dbdata partition that is formatted to have only 128Mb!!
The problem is that at moment the maximum number of installable applications is limited due to dbdata space and this could be a big problem.
In other posts I read that other people had my same problem but no possible solution to fix it has been find out.
Is there any chance to fix this limitation?
Thank you for your awesome support
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yes, it can be fixed by:
1/. remove/relocate the files under /dbdata
2/. disable the disk full warning (it will show u the prompt if the free space is under a certain percentage)

I still have over 90 MB left. Just how many apps do you have? 100+?

I have ca 80 applications.
Is it safe to move the app data from dbdata? If yes, where do I move the data?

80 applications!?! you a collector?

Any solutions
I've had the problem also till recently when I installed Darky's 9.0 and did a wipe for the sake of cleanness.
I am sure I'm going to encounter it again and I would gladly take some measures now when i have the time to do it before I am constrained by it.
At a rough search I did find some info about it, some even here on XDA, but nobody had a definitive solution.
Is there a way to increase this partition size or keep some info stored there in another place ?
Is there an app that will tend to put big chunks of data there, more than usual?
Hope somebody with better kung fu than us drops by and enlightens us

Every Smartphone has limited space. Every Computer has limited space.
Everything has limited space.
It's a smartphone, not a huge trash container where you can put everything you find at market into.
Only install apps which you are using often and not apps which you're using once a year.

segun_aduba said:
I've had the problem also till recently when I installed Darky's 9.0 and did a wipe for the sake of cleanness.
I am sure I'm going to encounter it again and I would gladly take some measures now when i have the time to do it before I am constrained by it.
At a rough search I did find some info about it, some even here on XDA, but nobody had a definitive solution.
Is there a way to increase this partition size or keep some info stored there in another place ?
Is there an app that will tend to put big chunks of data there, more than usual?
Hope somebody with better kung fu than us drops by and enlightens us
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There was a discussion in the cache bug thread about increasing partition size. No one knows for sure because none of these problems popped up until quite recently. Cache is even more troublesome since it means we might not be able to download apps in the future.
But your usage is still unusual. I would suggest going through the app manager and see if any app is hogging up data.
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I also have this problem, using right now 45mb of 96mb, that is with only 44 downloaded apps installed...
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I have 109 apps installed and have 105mb free in dbdata, go figure.

peachpuff said:
I have 109 apps installed and have 105mb free in dbdata, go figure.
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Do you have lagfix activated? Are you on 2.2.1 version?

I may be talking rubbish here, but shouldn't it be possible to move some of the folders to another partition and symlink them? This is Linux after all...
I'd try something like:
(THIS HAS NOT BEEN TESTED AND IT MIGHT BREAK SOMETHING)
- Move some of the biggest folders from /dbdata to another partition (if you're lagfixed and care about speed, you should move them to another partition with ext4 or whatever your lagfix uses). In a terminal emulator you could move them with:
mkdir /data/dbdata2; mv /dbdata/databases/com.whatever /data/dbdata2
- After moving them you should be able to symlink them with something like:
ln /data/dbdata2/com.whatever /dbdata/databases/com.whatever
Like I said, this isn't tested and might awfully break something (I'd do a backup and try with non-system programs first), but I'd guess it's worth a try if you really want to have more dbdata space.
EDIT: I just noticed that /system has limited space too, so you'd be better of moving them do /data, which seems to be the biggest partition on the SGS.
If anyone is interested I could try and create a shell script that would move all of the stuff from /dbdata to /data/dbdata and replace the stuff with symlinks automatically. Let me know...