i just got my nexus one for about 1 week, tried many different roms, kernels, and apps.
it is rooted, with 2.2 rom.
today, when i checked out about my phone, it shows i only have 22.8mb left on my internal phone storage?
i am just wondering is this normal? do i have too many stuff on the phone, and i should move them to the sd card?
thanks
I think it's very normal, me myself have 27MB left internal storage. i have a bunch of apps installed, i think around the 90.
even with the help of app2sd,my internal storage only has 40MB.
folder of data/data takes a lot of space.
Unused storage is wasted storage. Enjoy your phone and stop worrying.
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I have read about Memory Leakage and I think that is the best way to describe what is going on with my Hero. I am Running Damage Controls last ROM and my memory keeps going away until I get the low memory icon. This has been going on for a few months now. Three months ago the problem first showed its head. So I start cleaning everything out. I do not store ANY email, texts, SMS or anything that I have control of on the phone. I do not sync with facebook, Gmail, Twitter or any of those other services. But my memory keeps "leaking" away. I got a cache cleaner, I have dumped all but three programs that I put on off the phone and while I first beat this back to 40mb to 30mb to 20mb and now I can't get it above 18mb. It's like every time there is a program up date from the Market it loads a whole new program and the old one stays. At least that is what it seemed like. I have been told to dump DC's rom and move on to something else but I like the phone and what it does when it works. I have the usual problems with slow dialing and bluetooth connection problems and that kind of stuff but all in all the phone works pretty good except for this memory problem. No I don't have apps2sd working but I don't think that would matter at this point as I have mentioned I have had this phone back up to 40mb and that memory over time just leaks away. Any idea's??? Is there another rom like Damages where the phone looks pretty stock? I am really used to the way it works and hate the idea of setting it up again. But if that is the recommendations I get from this forum I gather this is where I will have go.
Any help or idea's will be greatly appreciated. As I mentioned installing a new ROM is a last resort for me and if that is where I have to go then some suggestions would be appreciated too.............
Thanks so much.........
Lisa
That's not memory leakage, that's just from apps. Install apps2sd... then you won't have to deal with that problem.
Or use Firerat's custom partitions to free up a ton of space in data.
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
Okay, aps2sd is the way to go. Being I'm not a total computer wiz I have to study how to do this. So, Firerat was mentioned and how do I do the apps2sd thing? I realize I have to back up my sd card to my PC and that is no problem and the Damage Control Rom that I have has a toggle that I can check to move the apps to the SD card so I think I'm okay there. But I have to partition and reformat my SD card. I have never done that before. Could you give me a link that I can go to so I can read all the instructions on how to do this. I have Titanium so I am well backed up there and I have recent Nandroid backups but partitioning the SD card is the trick I haven't done yet. Can I take the card out of my phone and do it with a card reader on my PC or do I have to do it through the phone? You can see the kind of help I need here and while I have resisted doing any more to my phone I think if I can free up this internal memory ALL my issues with the HERO and Damage Controls last ROM will go away for me.
As usual I appreciate the links and all you help............
Lisa
To partition your SD card:
BACK UP SD CARD CONTENTS TO YOUR PC
boot into recovery
partition sdcard
partition sd
follow instructions
i personally set the data partition to 256 MB, but even with ~100 apps i still have like 100 MB free. there are many other size options.
i forgot the other numbers it asks for (like cache or dalvik partition), but you can leave them at zero.
back in the Partition sdcard menu, choose SD:ext2 to ext3
reboot
now you can enable a2sd and retransfer your backed up sdcard contents from your PC. you will probably need to reboot for a2sd to move your apps and take effect
Were you using Damage Controls ROM?
You're instructions are very straight forward and that is kind of the way I saw the process too. I'll back up everything before I start and I'll give it a go when I get a chance.........
I was not using DamageControl ROM, but I have a hunch that's how it will work.
Interesting thing, I was just looking through Damage Control's "control panel" and apps2sd is checked already. Looking at Titanium Backups "control panel on their latest version it shows memory or storage usage for Phone Memory, Apps2sd and SD card usage and it shows that I have stuff in there already even though I have NOT partitioned my SD card. How can that be??? I guess these are the kind of things that come up when you use a ROM that has been abandoned by the developer. I really like everything about this ROM But this memory thing has gotten to be a real problem. I guess if I partition the SD card I will get it working faster? Or working completely? But this is an interesting question I think..........
Any feed back on this discovery would be helpful too..............
I am coming from Vibrant in which when i mount the sd card, in my computer it would show 2 disks, one was internal and one was external, but in nexus one, even though i have external 16gb, but it only shows on which looks like it combines them
anyway in any custom roms, i have about 15 to 20 apps with not lot of data, but after than i get the low space notification. how to solve that issue, nothing seems to be going in my external 16gb at all.
i am sure there has to be a way, i heard something like app2sd but i dont know how to do that, or what is that mean.
can someone point me to the right direction thanks
Sorry, I don't get any "noticications".
A2SD/app2sd is basicly putting the apps on the SD card, instead of phone internal ROM.
Read my signature, go to Wiki, it'll point you to the relevant thread.
Ok, for some reason my ROM thinks its an awesome idea to store crap(Apps data) on my external sd card while having 2GB of dedicated internal storage left untouched. I dont quite get why people love this App2SD bulls*** but I loathe it. Apps performance suffers because external sd cards are never quite as fast as system ones, and a whole load of reasons more.
I like to format my external SD quite a lot and find that 30-40 of my apps are now useless, and I have to reinstall them. How do i stop this from happening? I dont want my system to install ANY app on my SD card, EVER. And if it must, let it be the internal one, not the external. I'm on 2.3.4 Thanks in advance.
I'm also interested in this. Dunno why it can't be switched off especially with the huge amount of free storage on the SGS....
I would really like the answer to this, since I have yet to find a fix. Please anyone, this is a very annoying issue! And it should be simple to tweak, since its just a command probably.
I'm using TurboStock. A few days ago, I started having this issue were my Gallery, Camera, and basically any other app that involved me using my internal or external memory, say that I don't have any more memory available on my phone, when I have at least 3 gigs of external SD space and 2 gigs of internal space. I found out that the issue has something to do with the Google Frameworks Services process, if I clear the data and reset the phone, it all starts working again, but after a few minutes, the issue comes back again.
I'm pretty sure this had something to do with me transferring songs over Songbird. After I made the transfer and disconnected my phone, I started having this issue. Any ideas on why the issue might be coming up again?
This has been going on for a while throughout a good deal of updates and roms. I've dirty flashed every update of Bad Boyz and ran into no issues except this. Right now I have ran out of storage for apps. My phone seems to think I have 19GB of pictures and videos stored on the internal storage when in fact all of my pictures and videos are stored on the external sd card. My external sd is working fine. Is this simply the amount of pictures and videos within these roms now. It doesn't make any sense considering the rom sizes are about 1.25GB. I've checked all the internal folders and found nothing. I don't know where this is coming from. Is anybody else seeing this or should I do I complete wipe. I would hate to have to do it.
I ended up doing a complete wipe including the internal storage and it seemed to fix the problem.