I apologize in advance for the length of this post.
Disclaimer: Some or all of the steps mentioned here may/will damage your phone. Follow my instructions at your own risk. This post does in NO WAY SHAPE or FORM guarantee a fix on your phone.
When I first got the phone, everything was good. I installed over 50 apps!!! But as time went on, I had to delete several apps. After almost a year with my Triumph, I was down to the basic apps a normal human can't live without: Facebook, iTunes, and Y! Mail. By this time I had cleared the cache on a daily basis and deleted hundreds of text messages. I moved as many apps as I could to my 32 Gig SD card.
Problems I experienced with my phone:
* it would power down/power up for no apparent reason.
* phone battery life would be at most 2-3 hours on standby. My phone was continuously plugged (at the office and at home).
* could not receive text messages as I would continuously get low memory
After many hours of investigation, it turns out that my Motorola Triumph was filling up log files. These log files kept growing and growing. I have before and after screenshot of my phone showing the amount of memory released by the steps below.
Steps I took to fix my phone.
The first step was to root my phone.
* Settings --> Applications --> CHECK Unknown sources (Allow installation of non-market applications)
* Settings --> Applications --> Development --> CHECK USB debugging (Debug mode when USB is connected)
* download the Gingerbreak 1.2 (google it) on your computer
* Connect your phone via USB to your computer
* copy Gingerbreak 1.2 apk on the root of your SDCard
* disconnect your phone from your computer
* You may have to download a file manager application to go to the SDCard on your phone and Install GingerBreak.
* I may be missing some steps in this process. Just google or youtube "root Motorola triumph" and you will find out how to do it.
Next Steps:
* download the Superuser App
* Superuser allows you to run in superuser mode.
* download Terminal Emulator App
* Run the terminal emulator -(for those who are familiar with Linux or Windows 3.1) you can run commands from the prompt.
* Some basic commands that you may want to learn.
cd <--- this command allows you to change your current directory.
ls <--- this is a command to list the files on the specific director.
pwd <--- this command tells you your current directory location.
su <--- this command makes you superuser. with the superuser app installed when you hit enter on your onscreen qwerty Superuser app will have you verify if you truly want to change to superuser mode. Just tap the "uh hu" button. (yes button)
* now at the command prompt traverse to the system/data directory. I found that "alog_events" file was huge. Close to 90 Megs.
* Download another application called SManager. I'm sure there may be others but this is the one I got. I am able to execute shell scripts. (see below)
* Download another application Screenshot UX trail (just for fun) I took a before and after picture with this app.
I was able to put together a shelll script to view the log files
I looked for a way to attach the different files but couldn't. I can email them to you. Just hit me up.
showlogs - it is a shell script that traverses to the Data directory under systems and displays all the log files.
killlogs - it is a shell script that traverses to the Data directory under systems and removes all the log files.
Before.jpg - You will see that I only had about 2-3% of my memory available.
After.jpg - After killing the log files. I got back over 74% of the memory available.
create the file showlogs using a regular text editor on your computer and paste the following commands. Save, exit, and load on your SDCard.
#!/system/bin/sh
pwd
cd /system
cd /data
pwd
ls -l *alog_*
ls -l *logcat*
ls -l *pmlog*
exit
create the file killlogs using a regular text editor on your computer and paste the following commands. Save, exit, and load on your SDCard.
#!/system/bin/sh
pwd
cd /system
cd /data
pwd
rm *alog_*
rm *logcat*
rm *pmlog*
exit
If you are using the attached files remove the ".txt".
Using the SManager app find the showlogs and using SU mode run the script. Hit the back button twice to get out of shell mode.
You should see a list of all the log files on your phone.
Using the SManager app find the killlogs and using SU mode run the script. Hit the back button twice to get out of shell mode.
Reminder: it is important you use SU mode. otherwise you will get an error.
Hit me up if you have any questions. ja25921 at Y!.
-Enjoy
-Ja
It was not an internal storage problem, but a memory problem.
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