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Change 'Low on Space' threshold?

Is there a way to change when the phone starts complaining about low space?
I have 6MB free, which I think is reasonable, I
I used to be running apps2sd (on CM-4.2.14.1) with a 8GB class 4 (has the 4 in a circle) 'cause I was a total app whore and my phone was ridiculously slow, so I got rid of the ext partition.
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Also is there a way to reduce the numbers of 'home screens'(?)?

No it will continue and that is a feature of the andoid OS. You should upgrade to Super-D and get a EXT and it will be fast again. But your SD might be dying or is a low class so it would be slow. I'm pretty sure it could be changed to a lower amount though.

flayednim said:
Is there a way to change when the phone starts complaining about low space?
I have 6MB free, which I think is reasonable, I
I used to be running apps2sd (on CM-4.2.14.1) with a 8GB class 4 (has the 4 in a circle) 'cause I was a total app whore and my phone was ridiculously slow, so I got rid of the ext partition.
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nope just clear some of your cache from your browser via settings

Ace42 said:
No it will continue and that is a feature of the andoid OS. You should upgrade to Super-D and get a EXT and it will be fast again. But your SD might be dying or is a low class so it would be slow. I'm pretty sure it could be changed to a lower amount though.
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Super-D you say, I'll look into it.
zachattack052 said:
nope just clear some of your cache from your browser via settings
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I do, but it would it just comes back after some web browsing.

flayednim said:
Super-D you say, I'll look into it.
I do, but it would it just comes back after some web browsing.
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ya, thats all you can really do unless you flash to super d and get apps2sd

[Q] Should I be running my apps from my SDCard?

Hi all,
Wondering if my Dream does perform better if I move my applications over to the SDCard (Through the Applications Manager)?
Will it affect the performance of an open application itself? (Slow it down considerably)
What else can I do with the SDCard so it can help the performance of the device?
I just purchased a 16gig Class 10 Patriot SDCard and put it in and moved my pics and music over to it.
Using CyanogenMod 6.1.0-DS, The phone was rooted/unlocked before I put this new card in. It had a 2gigClass2 card in it during the root/unlock.
Thanks
Heeter

Anyone?
Thanks
Heeter

Moving your apps to sdcard frees up internal memory. Read up on swap. Should be good with that card. Again firerat's AIO patch has swap in it as well. Sounds like u need that to start running options to get u all fixed up
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Awesome,
Thanks for you answer, johnson8cyl
Will get that application.
Heeter

johnson8cyl tip should help!

Hey thanks, johnson8cyl
My Live wallpaper is working now, and I added my swappiness=100
Where can I tell how much swap do I have?
Thanks a million,
Heeter

Firstly swap is not advisable on a froyo rom if that is what you are running (this has been proven time and again) and setting the swappiness to 100% WILL kill your sdcard at a rather accelerated rate.
Firstly learn about CompCache and swap and the advantages of both (Personally never ever touch swap as CC is alot more controllable and easier to clean when the dreaded swap lag hits home).
Also to see what swap/cc you are running open terminal emulator and type -
free (hit enter)
I'd also look into the options of apps2ext and moving dalvik cache to sd-ext (Firerats All In One Patch - Beta 3) data should not be moved again Froyo does not play well if it is.

shadowch31 said:
Firstly swap is not advisable on a froyo rom if that is what you are running (this has been proven time and again) and setting the swappiness to 100% WILL kill your sdcard at a rather accelerated rate.
Firstly learn about CompCache and swap and the advantages of both (Personally never ever touch swap as CC is alot more controllable and easier to clean when the dreaded swap lag hits home).
Also to see what swap/cc you are running open terminal emulator and type -
free (hit enter)
I'd also look into the options of apps2ext and moving dalvik cache to sd-ext (Firerats All In One Patch - Beta 3) data should not be moved again Froyo does not play well if it is.
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Awesome, Thank You, Shadowch31.
I have 0 for swap right now & my swappiness is set at 60.
What do you mean "data should not be moved again Froyo does not play well if it is." which data are you mentioning?
Thanks again,
Heeter

Heeter said:
Awesome, Thank You, Shadowch31.
I have 0 for swap right now & my swappiness is set at 60.
What do you mean "data should not be moved again Froyo does not play well if it is." which data are you mentioning?
Thanks again,
Heeter
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If you go down the root of moving apps2ext (advisable on a G1) using FR's AIO then you will be presented with an option to move data to sd-ext, just say NO!

Thanks a million, shadowch31!
This is so cool, learning a lot with my G1.
Is there a good place to read and learn about compcache?
Thanks again.
Heeter

Hey shadow. I have run swap on my mt3g every time. My phone doesn't seem to like compcache. You maybe have a reason why or ideas? I can't ever seem to get it to play nice. Always have swap file at 32 swappiness at 30. Don't have many apps. Always been ok for me
$free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 112700 106136 6564 0 404
Swap: 31428 15464 15964
Total: 144128 121600 22528
$
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Heeter said:
Thanks a million, shadowch31!
This is so cool, learning a lot with my G1.
Is there a good place to read and learn about compcache?
Thanks again.
Heeter
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http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Swap_and_Compcache

Another link with brief easy explanation.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=558637
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johnson8cyl said:
Hey shadow. I have run swap on my mt3g every time. My phone doesn't seem to like compcache. You maybe have a reason why or ideas? I can't ever seem to get it to play nice. Always have swap file at 32 swappiness at 30. Don't have many apps. Always been ok for me
$free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 112700 106136 6564 0 404
Swap: 31428 15464 15964
Total: 144128 121600 22528
$
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Well if it works for you fella then cool, don't forgot that all opinions and views here are from a personal stand point, and for me Swap and me just don't get along so CC it is and as I have written a script that can stop, clean, resize (if needed) and restart CC cutting out the annoying lag problems ALL swap enabled phones run into, and thats fact not opinion meant for me CC was the best option.
What had you set the CC to? What is your sdcard as in class? Anything below a class 6 and I could see why it would cause problems and why swap would run better. As I have never touched or even seen an MT3G in real life I have no idea about the phone or its performance when matched against the G1. I know it holds more internal memory and am pretty sure thats where the difference ends.
Come chat in my irc channel, link in sig if you want to try a few things to see if we can't get it working properly for you if you wish to experiment but the old saying does go 'If it aint broke, don't try to fix it'

johnson8cyl said:
Another link with brief easy explanation.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=558637
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Just to add on to that see this post from the link provided by Johnson.
The greatest laymans explanation of CC
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4933785&postcount=9

shadowch31 said:
Just to add on to that see this post from the link provided by Johnson.
The greatest laymans explanation of CC
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4933785&postcount=9
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Haha, LOLOL
Heeter

Well ill have to catch u when I'm home to chat sometime. Maybe this weekend. I'm always interested in learning from others more educated than myself. Just tried turning off swap and using CC on laszlo 5.1 and couldn't even get it to boot back up. Still have stock sdcard from T-Mobile if you'll believe that. Lol. Gotta order a class 6 probably transcend SD.
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[Q] Running CM7 on EMMC seems slow...

I have been hacking my Nook with Cyanogenmod for a couple months now. I have tried running Froyo and CM7 on an SD card but I prefer to just have it flashed to the EMMC. However, it always seems that my nook runs choppy, laggy and slow. This when I overclock it as well. Am I doing something wrong to install it?
All I simply do is flash the newest Clockwork, boot into it, wipe System, data and cache, then install CM7. Once I get booted it seems like there is considerable lag in opening the App drawer, scrolling in just about anything.
I was watching some youtube videos of people showing there CM7 Nooks and mine doesn't even seem close to as quick... All EMMC installs should be the same right?
Thanks for the help!

I have noticed this as well.. I wonder what is it they do to get such snappy responses? Are you running 1300 mhz overclock? I also wonder if they have a different lag fix of some sort.

My understanding is that the eMMC is basically a soldered in microSD and it stands to reason that if you're using a better/faster external SD card, it should appear to be faster in most respects.

Kadin said:
My understanding is that the eMMC is basically a soldered in microSD and it stands to reason that if you're using a better/faster external SD card, it should appear to be faster in most respects.
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But I guess I am looking at videos like this one where they are running the OS from the eMMC and it is running like butter:
Sorry can't post link: but the name of the video is "B&N Nook Color Running Rooted Android Froyo 2.2 @ 1.1Ghz"
Mine does not go this quick at all...

arkiledotcom said:
I have noticed this as well.. I wonder what is it they do to get such snappy responses? Are you running 1300 mhz overclock? I also wonder if they have a different lag fix of some sort.
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I have not done 1300mhz, but I cant image that would fix the problem.

alias747 said:
But I guess I am looking at videos like this one where they are running the OS from the eMMC and it is running like butter:
Sorry can't post link: but the name of the video is "B&N Nook Color Running Rooted Android Froyo 2.2 @ 1.1Ghz"
Mine does not go this quick at all...
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Yeah I have to admit, that definitely appears to be very smooth. When I'm scrolling through my various apps, it's nowhere near that. Then again I'm running CM7 off a 2gb SD card. Up until now, I've been under the impression that the performance was very similar between eMMC and external installs. Now I'm not so sure...

I had the same problem but I was installing wrong. I took wiping as just wipe data factory reset. When I reflashed I went to mount and formatted everything except boot it worked flawlesssly
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lilgrass71 said:
I had the same problem but I was installing wrong. I took wiping as just wipe data factory reset. When I reflashed I went to mount and formatted everything except boot it worked flawlesssly
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I always do that too. In fact I usually wipe everything, then reboot back into CWM and then wipe everything again, then install. Seems like overkill I know, but I am at my wits end here...

damn me seeing those videos. I was happy and now I am going to have to figure out how to get my nook running that smooth.

Kadin said:
My understanding is that the eMMC is basically a soldered in microSD and it stands to reason that if you're using a better/faster external SD card, it should appear to be faster in most respects.
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Ug.. not really. The eMMC is basically an SSD memory chip; no hack jobs about this.

Well I have loaded Nookie Comb and it seems to be the quickest ROM that I have had on my Nook yet. I still think that it could be faster than what I am seeing but I am happier now.
Still can't get over the fact that people say that Cyanogen is smooth and awesome on the Nook and I haven't seen that to be the case at all. Either I am doing it wrong or I am just incredibly picky or something!

Divine_Madcat said:
Kadin said:
My understanding is that the eMMC is basically a soldered in microSD and it stands to reason that if you're using a better/faster external SD card, it should appear to be faster in most respects.
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Ug.. not really. The eMMC is basically an SSD memory chip; no hack jobs about this.
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Actually, Kadin is essentially correct. Embedded MMC (eMMC) is not a raw flash memory chip. It's is a flash chip with built-in controller that interfaces to its host using the standard MMC Plus interface. Replace "MMC Plus interface" with the very similar "SD interface," package it a little differently, and you have an SD card.
That said, an eMMC device very well could have controller and/or organization optimizations that make it better at hosting an operating system than most SD cards.

The EMMC is very slow unfortunately. I've seen a write speed of only 2mb/s. That's worse than most SD cards. Class 2 level.

swaaye said:
The EMMC is very slow unfortunately. I've seen a write speed of only 2mb/s. That's worse than most SD cards. Class 2 level.
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Would I be better running everything off a SD card?

RAM managment

guys i know you all heard for this app (Ram manager pro)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartprojects.RAMOptimization&hl=en
but, i bet lot of you didnt notice a biiiiiig update...now you can swap your RAM on your internal, the fastest partition in our device (not even close to sd card class100)
but, im not sure about it, and i ask for help from developers or android wizz that know this method...
i noticed that this thing works, but, after you swap, you dont have space left...so, iv got partitioned my sd card, only to 256mb, just to check...and it really works again!
Again, but, you need to create swap file right after flashing fresh rom, so it (swap file) occupy internal memory at once! Cause, if you instal some apps, it will use sd ext, and probably go to sd card, wich doesnt make any difference in performance...
Once again, im asking for opinion of expert, to confirm this...
Im using latest jb4.2.2, and best way to check this is to play some game and to listen a music at same time : DIDNT GET FC OR ANY LAG!
tnx in advance
NOTE: don't create swap bigger than 128mb, thats our max internal

Does it really works? Because i used to swap too but it didnt make any difference in performance. The only thing i notice is my phone got hotter alot.....
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Nixoman said:
guys i know you all heard for this app (Ram manager pro)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartprojects.RAMOptimization&hl=en
but, i bet lot of you didnt notice a biiiiiig update...now you can swap your RAM on your internal, the fastest partition in our device (not even close to sd card class100)
but, im not sure about it, and i ask for help from developers or android wizz that know this method...
i noticed that this thing works, but, after you swap, you dont have space left...so, iv got partitioned my sd card, only to 256mb, just to check...and it really works again!
Again, but, you need to create swap file right after flashing fresh rom, so it (swap file) occupy internal memory at once! Cause, if you instal some apps, it will use sd ext, and probably go to sd card, wich doesnt make any difference in performance...
Once again, im asking for opinion of expert, to confirm this...
Im using latest jb4.2.2, and best way to check this is to play some game and to listen a music at same time : DIDNT GET FC OR ANY LAG!
tnx in advance
NOTE: don't create swap bigger than 128mb, thats our max internal
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Tried this last year .....the script was made by custdroid.....
Unfortunately the constant read and write on ROM is not so good for the hardware.. ...so I deprecated the project for mini also with such low internal memory I could create only 32mb swap on internal and the phone soon started yo take its toll ...you may try this but I am sharing my experience cause it may feel smooth for sometime but it reduces the life of your mini considerably cause ROM is supposed to non-volatile unlike RAM which is volatile...
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but isnt everytime you start app you writing and reading with data and cache? on internal?

Nixoman said:
but isnt everytime you start app you writing and reading with data and cache? on internal?
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But is that really as frequent and as comprehensive as RAM?
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hsay said:
But is that really as frequent and as comprehensive as RAM?
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i don't know, only way is to test it by myself, ill report behavior of my mini in one week, iv got nothing to lose, already out of warranty, almost 3 years old, got new nokia n9, i gonna take the bullet for that

Nixoman said:
i don't know, only way is to test it by myself, ill report behavior of my mini in one week, iv got nothing to lose, already out of warranty, almost 3 years old, got new nokia n9, i gonna take the bullet for that
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That was a rhetoric question ....sarcasm if you may ...anyway you may try it....
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hsay said:
That was a rhetoric question ....sarcasm if you may ...anyway you may try it....
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why to be rhetoric when can be (or not) usefull if no harm causing to device? :fingers-crossed:

low free memory on internal SD

Hi. I just want to ask how much free memory do you have on your internal SD. On L90 there is 8GB and 4 Gb from these are for the user. I have free only 1,11 GB and used 2,67 GB, but I do not know where are all the files (2,52GB)..please take a look at the screenshot.

Download Clean Master from Google play and run cleaning, and search for big files

Tried. Nothing interesting found..
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milan*SK said:
Tried. Nothing interesting found..
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Weird. In Solid Explorer you will see top 20 biggest files, you might want to try it out.

They are beeing used as other partitions