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[PaulOBrien]

Potentially, we'll see...

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[PaulOBrien]

I'm really surprised to hit the full 130MB tho tbh...

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[megakid]

Paul, on Jun 29 2010, 19:08, said:

I'm really surprised to hit the full 130MB tho tbh...

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Why? Isn't down to the applications you have and where they choose to store stuff?  

Say you downloaded a mapping application that allowed you to download/cache maps from online, would that go into this data directory (I'm not sure on the APIs or any sandboxes that are available to devs when producing an android app)

[PaulOBrien]

Only if it was brainless... it would ideally store to the sdcard.

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[vitalijb]

Paul, on Jun 29 2010, 20:08, said:

I'm really surprised to hit the full 130MB tho tbh...

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I made a list of directories using the most and here they are:

143.000.000 /data/data
18.800.000 /data/data/com.navngo.igo.javaclient
18.500.000 /data/data/com.google.earth
17.600.000 /data/data/com.navigon.navigator
16.300.000 /data/data/com.google.earth/lib
15.800.000 /data/data/com.navigon.navigator/lib
7.300.000 /data/data/com.gameloft.android.GAND.GloftDUNQ.DungeonHunter/lib
7.300.000 /data/data/com.gameloft.android.GAND.GloftDUNQ.DungeonHunter
7.000.000 /data/data/com.google.android.youtube
6.900.000 /data/data/com.google.android.youtube/cache
6.700.000 /data/data/com.gameloft.android.GAND.GloftHAWX.Hawx
6.600.000 /data/data/com.gameloft.android.GAND.GloftHAWX.Hawx/lib
6.500.000 /data/data/com.gameloft.android.GAND.GloftNOHP
6.400.000 /data/data/com.skyfire.browser

[NeidRider]

Just did this on my SGS, with a /data/data of not quite 50MB.
And... MAN, THAT'S FAST! E.g. loading the monitoring history of SystemPanel App doesn't take a second, before it took 10s+...
Any side-effects to be afraid of?

[PaulOBrien]

Side-effects ONLY if you hit the capacity limit. I'm working on that tho obviously.

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[zenkinz]

Paul, on Jun 29 2010, 18:35, said:

Side-effects ONLY if you hit the capacity limit. I'm working on that tho obviously.

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hi paul,

maybe the idea is to identify the core processes, and create a symbolic link to the nand storage?

[PaulOBrien]

They've kinda done that already, if you have a look around dbdata. There's other partitions that seem to be unmounted, gonna look into what they are for...

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[PaulOBrien]

There's 30MB on /cache we could potentially do something with too...

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[Epedemic]

Hmm i got root. but i cant figure out how to activate busybox. I can't seem to do a adb remount. it just says "remount failed: No such file or directory"

[Arnon]

Epedemic, on Jun 29 2010, 22:36, said:

Hmm i got root. but i cant figure out how to activate busybox. I can't seem to do a adb remount. it just says "remount failed: No such file or directory"

once you are in the shell (i.e. after adb shell)
type busybox before the command e.g. busybox cp ...

Arnon

[Epedemic]

Epedemic, on Jun 29 2010, 19:36, said:

Hmm i got root. but i cant figure out how to activate busybox. I can't seem to do a adb remount. it just says "remount failed: No such file or directory"

Ah ok. Searched market for "busybox" that seemed to do the trick... And skipped adb remount... stuff seems to work anyways... Ill see if it helps

[lgkahn]

what did you use to figure the size.. i tried in busybox ls -R -k doesnt work..
thanks

[Arnon]

lgkahn, on Jun 29 2010, 23:39, said:

what did you use to figure the size.. i tried in busybox ls -R -k doesnt work..
thanks

I used  busybox du -h

Edited by Arnon, 29 June 2010 - 08:43 PM.

[Ash_786]

How easy is this to undo if needed ? I'd like to test, but also have a "PLAN B"

[lgkahn]

Ash_786, on Jun 29 2010, 16:06, said:

How easy is this to undo if needed ? I'd like to test, but also have a "PLAN B"

thanks figured it out b4 u posted and got the size 44 meg.. now just trying to determine if i want to do the change.. do you know if n1 and other
phones do it this way.. dont really want to do a reinstall if i go over.. and burn out the internal memory if it cannot handle too many writes etc.

[Ash_786]

Ash_786, on Jun 29 2010, 22:06, said:

How easy is this to undo if needed ? I'd like to test, but also have a "PLAN B"

Just read the first post again. The word "Wipe" was mentioned. Cool.

LETS DO IT !!!!!!

[PaulOBrien]

Completely reversible.

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[Ash_786]

Paul, on Jun 29 2010, 22:16, said:

Completely reversible.

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Shall we try ? Mines got some Serious issues. All data / most apps gone / com.android.phone FC ......

The price we have to pay for dancing with the devil ;-)

EDIT : My phone seems to have booted up in safe mode. I didn't even know it has a safe mode !!! Lol.
EDIT 2 : Everything is FC. Unable to adb to phone or go to settings or anything.

Time to wipe. I'm a casualty. This is what it feels like. Strange. I've never been a casualty before.

EDIT 3 : Got adb access !!! . Now if someone could assist in the reversal commands. Theres a point or two I don't get. Thanks.

EDIT 4 : Sorry if this is getting boring. Lost root access through adb for some reason. Permission denied

Edited by Ash_786, 29 June 2010 - 09:47 PM.