'Odex Me' application

[Guest Paul]

OdexMe is an application i've written for my Galaxy S II MCR ROM, but that should work on any ROM with init.d support and busybox in /system/xbin.

Basically, it's an APK you push to /system/app and when you run it, it...

• Reboots your device
  
• Odexes everything in /system/app
  
• Deletes the dalvik cache and it's own APK (as you only need to run it once)
  
• Reboots the device and rebuilds the dalvik-cache

As you may or may not know, the dex files for the system applications take a fair old chunk of space on data - this gets around that.

Of course, odexed /system/data means you can't make any /system/framework changes, but how often do you need to do that? If you DO need to, you can reflash your ROM, do the changes, then run OdexMe again.

As I say, this is written for and tested on MCR, so if you try it, backup first and use at your own risk.

You can check it's worked by looking at /system/app after reboot, it should have a bunch of odex files, plus /data/dalvik-cache will have shrunk lots.

You can grab it in this post and one last thing - the initial reboot and odex takes a while, so be patient. :)

ROM devs - feel free to include this if you like it in your ROMs, but please let me know (and give me credit) so I can contact you when a new update comes out (i'm working on the next release with a few other tweaks).

Enjoy! :)

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[Guest phunni]

I'm currently running it on the latest miui for N1. All the .odex files seem to have been created, but it just seems to run again on reboot. Or am I just not being patient enough? It's definitely rebooted at least once during the process - which I had hoped meant it was done. Should I wait longer or is it just not working properly?

[Guest Christian Engen]

As you may or may not know, the dex files for the system applications take a fair old chunk of space on data - this gets around that.

How much space are we talking about? Is this why my CWM backups are over 3Gb suddenly?

[Guest ratcom]

great tool, very useful thanks :)

[Guest vladnosferatu]

paul, is possible to odex the /system/framework/*.jar ?

because with a app dexopt-wrapper if we only do the system/app ite fails , right ?

but if we odex the jars, we have a lot of FC

[Guest desalesouche]

going to try it...will feed back...is there any update of this?

i think it is very usefull ... edit: i tried on 2 differents rom deodexed and both stuck on reboot(tested on huawei u8230/ cm6 and cm7)

Edited November 7, 2012 by desalesouche

[Guest Zoplor]

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Edited September 2, 2014 by Zoplor

[Guest illingd]

I'm running CM7 on my HTC Legend (there being no Gingerbread MCR for said device!) --

Will odexme work on this configuration?

Would it benefit me (by getting me more free space in the internal memory)?

[Guest razzmataz1478]

I'm running CM7 on my HTC Legend (there being no Gingerbread MCR for said device!) --

Will odexme work on this configuration?

Would it benefit me (by getting me more free space in the internal memory)?

It could work, just back up first :)

[Guest desalesouche]

hi all...as paul o brian is not answering , i think he has a lot of to do...i found an alternative to reodex my rom... http://www.mediafire.com/?105wnp8saysklyw put it on sd...enter cwm mode just launch odex cwm let it make his work....and once this is finish don't forget to wipe dalvik cache ( i do it twice) and reboot so system/app and system/framework are reodexed ....it has been working for me on huawei u8230 and also samsung galaxy y with gingerbread....i know there are other zip like that who add another reodex feature: data /app odexed too......it is in samsung galaxy y tread on xda with androbot tweak...good day to all..

Edited December 19, 2012 by desalesouche

[Guest poludeli_kaktus]

is this working on cm7?