Guest kenship Posted March 5, 2011 Report Posted March 5, 2011 Thinking removing stock docstogo plus others like urfooz, roadsync, splinter etc., I wonder if the free up space can be used at all for other apps.
Guest o2mike Posted March 5, 2011 Report Posted March 5, 2011 It will do that. By the way - don't remove "Acer Sync", as it will also remove all of your contacts stored under "Phone". To clarify: You can store contacts under your [email protected], [email protected], any other account AND/OR Phone. If this is what you do, then don't remove Acer Sync (even if you don't use it's sync function) as your contacts will be gone and you won't be able to store new contacts under the category "Phone" anymore.
Guest siggey Posted March 5, 2011 Report Posted March 5, 2011 Thinking removing stock docstogo plus others like urfooz, roadsync, splinter etc., I wonder if the free up space can be used at all for other apps. Yes good idea. I have used titanium backup, free on market. But i think your phone must be rooted..
Guest Dario93 Posted March 5, 2011 Report Posted March 5, 2011 Thinking removing stock docstogo plus others like urfooz, roadsync, splinter etc., I wonder if the free up space can be used at all for other apps. This is not completely true.. In fact,removing stock apps will free up space in /system partition,wich CAN'T be used for other apps. But on the other hand you will free up RAM usage,making your phone a lot smoother :( And yes,you will need root to remove stock apps :(
Guest o2mike Posted March 6, 2011 Report Posted March 6, 2011 But you can copy apps into /system using root explorer.
Guest kenship Posted March 7, 2011 Report Posted March 7, 2011 Thks to all! I eventually used the app root uninstaller to do the job instead of titanium backup. o2mike, can you tell me more about moving app to sys. partition using root explorer? I know a few file explorer can see the root but wonder the work flow.
Guest o2mike Posted March 7, 2011 Report Posted March 7, 2011 I read it on this board somewhere, tried and it worked. However apps is system partition won't be updated. You need root access to use the root explorer. You can select [appname].apk and choose the move command from the root explorer. You have to manually navigate to your sys partition, change the rights from "read only" to "read and write" and then paste your selection.
Guest fpbasilio Posted March 12, 2011 Report Posted March 12, 2011 This is not completely true.. In fact,removing stock apps will free up space in /system partition,wich CAN'T be used for other apps. But on the other hand you will free up RAM usage,making your phone a lot smoother :D And yes,you will need root to remove stock apps :( are you saying having a lot of free space in the system/ partition would make the phone run smoother? cause i generally try to move most my apps to system/ partition from the /data folder thinking that more free space on the /data would make the phone smoother. so which is better? free space on system? or free space on data?
Guest Thmz159 Posted March 12, 2011 Report Posted March 12, 2011 are you saying having a lot of free space in the system/ partition would make the phone run smoother? cause i generally try to move most my apps to system/ partition from the /data folder thinking that more free space on the /data would make the phone smoother. so which is better? free space on system? or free space on data? No he doesn't say that. Dario means that apps like urFooz and SocialJogger automaticly starts themselfs in your RAM (to start faster when you need them) but if you never use them, they're in the RAM and they are wasting RAM space that other apps can use.
Guest fpbasilio Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 No he doesn't say that. Dario means that apps like urFooz and SocialJogger automaticly starts themselfs in your RAM (to start faster when you need them) but if you never use them, they're in the RAM and they are wasting RAM space that other apps can use. oh ok. so im right in thinking that moving most of my apps to my system partition instead of keeping them on data or sd card would make my fone run faster?
Guest xdxdxdxdxdx Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 oh ok. so im right in thinking that moving most of my apps to my system partition instead of keeping them on data or sd card would make my fone run faster? obviously,not.
Guest Dario93 Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 No he doesn't say that. Dario means that apps like urFooz and SocialJogger automaticly starts themselfs in your RAM (to start faster when you need them) but if you never use them, they're in the RAM and they are wasting RAM space that other apps can use. Yeah,you got it :D
Guest fpbasilio Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 obviously,not. huh? im really confused right now
Guest sss_ddk Posted March 14, 2011 Report Posted March 14, 2011 huh? im really confused right now You're mixing two different things. 1-Storage space: freeing storage space does not have a direct impact on your RAM.If you copy your programs into the /system partition,it will free storage space on the /data partition allowing you to install more apps (apps are usually installed in the /data partition). The downside is,that if you try to update (through market) an app that exists in /system, since the market cannot delete /system apps, it will only install the new version in /data (which is why you get "uninstall updates" instead of "uninstall" in market for system apps.eventually, you have a "duplicate" of that app both in system and in data 2-RAM the more programs you load into memory,the less RAM you have available for other programs.Furthermore, Android preloads certain apps in memory for faster access times. The fact that you delete a /system app does not directly free memory.It just means that your application got uninstalled, and thus will never be loaded (or preloaded) into memory (whether it is set to start at phone boot, or whether the android system preloads it) Hope it helps.
Guest fpbasilio Posted March 15, 2011 Report Posted March 15, 2011 You're mixing two different things. 1-Storage space: freeing storage space does not have a direct impact on your RAM.If you copy your programs into the /system partition,it will free storage space on the /data partition allowing you to install more apps (apps are usually installed in the /data partition). The downside is,that if you try to update (through market) an app that exists in /system, since the market cannot delete /system apps, it will only install the new version in /data (which is why you get "uninstall updates" instead of "uninstall" in market for system apps.eventually, you have a "duplicate" of that app both in system and in data 2-RAM the more programs you load into memory,the less RAM you have available for other programs.Furthermore, Android preloads certain apps in memory for faster access times. The fact that you delete a /system app does not directly free memory.It just means that your application got uninstalled, and thus will never be loaded (or preloaded) into memory (whether it is set to start at phone boot, or whether the android system preloads it) Hope it helps. thanks. i guess was under the wrong impression that the internal storage is shared by RAM and whatevers left of it is what is used by apps. i installed "mini info" from market and found that my liquid a1 has 200MB internal storage and 185MB for RAM. Thought A1 is 256MB RAM? sorry for being noob
Guest gateaublaster Posted March 17, 2011 Report Posted March 17, 2011 You're mixing two different things. 1-Storage space: freeing storage space does not have a direct impact on your RAM.If you copy your programs into the /system partition,it will free storage space on the /data partition allowing you to install more apps (apps are usually installed in the /data partition). The downside is,that if you try to update (through market) an app that exists in /system, since the market cannot delete /system apps, it will only install the new version in /data (which is why you get "uninstall updates" instead of "uninstall" in market for system apps.eventually, you have a "duplicate" of that app both in system and in data 2-RAM the more programs you load into memory,the less RAM you have available for other programs.Furthermore, Android preloads certain apps in memory for faster access times. The fact that you delete a /system app does not directly free memory.It just means that your application got uninstalled, and thus will never be loaded (or preloaded) into memory (whether it is set to start at phone boot, or whether the android system preloads it) Hope it helps. An alternative way to free up apps that are being preloaded pointlessly is to install an app called auto start that help you remove apps that start with the phone, kinda like the startup folder in msconfig in Windows. You need root access to use this app I think
Guest fpbasilio Posted March 17, 2011 Report Posted March 17, 2011 An alternative way to free up apps that are being preloaded pointlessly is to install an app called auto start that help you remove apps that start with the phone, kinda like the startup folder in msconfig in Windows. You need root access to use this app I think Can't find "auto start" in the market. Any link?
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