Root How can I be low on space...

[cashmere_cat]

Wow, its been forever since I've been here. But being the best place on the net to get advice, here I am again
Running Mildwild am suddenly getting the Low on Space notification. When I look at info using 4ext it shows ext4 as 1024M, with 677M free. So where is the low on space coming from?

 

[nicka3200]

App data will still be on the 147mb /data internal partition assuming you have not changed hboot. Do you have many apps with large amounts of data?

If you really need more days space you could change your hboot for the CM7r2 one (your Rom supports that one) from www.alpharev.nl however you need to know what you're doing. Read the root memory faq & then ask if unsure. Getting it wrong could brick your phone.

 

[cashmere_cat]

Oops, I should have mentioned - I am S-off with CM7r2 hboot..

 

[nicka3200]

Well that's quite a lot of data you have there. Some ROMs do support data 2 sd but I've never tried any. Perhaps a little spring cleaning?

 

[cashmere_cat]

I'm confused -- do you mean that perhaps I have too many apps?

 

[shauny13]

I'm confused -- do you mean that perhaps I have too many apps?

not necessarily, just certain apps usuing a lot of data.

 

[cashmere_cat]

not necessarily, just certain apps usuing a lot of data.

Ah ok. Thanks.
Since I've not a clue which one(s) that might be, I am not really sure how to proceed now. I've flashed a bunch of roms since rooting and not run into this before. Been running this MW for the better part of a year and this is just a recent (couple months) development. I've cleared out a lot of apps, pretty much anything I haven't used in a long time, and all game type things, but still an issue. Maybe time to flash again and try something new....

 

[Hadron]

Wow, its been forever since I've been here. But being the best place on the net to get advice, here I am again
Running Mildwild am suddenly getting the Low on Space notification. When I look at info using 4ext it shows ext4 as 1024M, with 677M free. So where is the low on space coming from?

Only the apks and dalvik cache will be moved to sd-ext (I'm pretty sure Mildwild's ROMs move dalvik by default). Having said that, with the sort of app I use then using 347MB of your SD-ext should still leave plenty of space with the CM7r2 hboot. Some apps do use more data than others though. What sort of apps do you use? Modern games use a hell of a lot of internal space in addition to apk and dex (dalvik), so those could cause problems - but I'm not sure how well the Desire would run that sort of thing anyway .

There's a little app called "DiskUsage" which can be handy in seeing exactly what is using your space. Might be worth giving that a spin to see whether we can understand the problem.

 

[cashmere_cat]

Only the apks and dalvik cache will be moved to sd-ext (I'm pretty sure Mildwild's ROMs move dalvik by default). Having said that, with the sort of app I use then using 347MB of your SD-ext should still leave plenty of space with the CM7r2 hboot. Some apps do use more data than others though. What sort of apps do you use? Modern games use a hell of a lot of internal space in addition to apk and dex (dalvik), so those could cause problems - but I'm not sure how well the Desire would run that sort of thing anyway .

There's a little app called "DiskUsage" which can be handy in seeing exactly what is using your space. Might be worth giving that a spin to see whether we can understand the problem.

Thanks Hadron
The apps I use are pretty basic ones, a few mail apps, dropbox, flixster, photoeditors, bar code scanner, calendar, banking, a few root apps, couple note pads, blah blah. No 'modern' games - just scrabble type things.
Got DiskUsage - neat lil tool that shows the size of each app and how much data each uses -- but not sure how to use it to trouble shoot this issue. It appears to tell me that Data is 559M, and of that 524 is apps - still doesnt explain why the other 1/2 of the ext4 is not available for use....?

 

[Hadron]

It's not that it's not available, just that it isn't being used.

Select "root required" then "/data". That's your internal storage partition, so if you can see what's using that it might give you some clues.

 

[cashmere_cat]

/data 287M, all used except 34M free. But that isnt my ext.
Not really clear what I am looking for...
Maybe a new ROM is what I need...

 

[Hadron]

What does it say is using the space? That's what we need to know.

 

[cashmere_cat]

What does it say is using the space? That's what we need to know.

data 110
dalvik-cache 65
app 54
system 22
free 33

 

[Hadron]

Interesting - I thought all MW ROMs moved dalvik to sd.

Anyway, data twice the size of dalvik is surprising. Can you see which apps are the big data users?

 

[nicka3200]

Interesting - I thought all MW ROMs moved dalvik to sd.

All but Mildwild's Cyanogenmod if I remember correctly.

 

[cashmere_cat]

I am using MW 4.0 oxygen. I seemed to have no problems initially, maybe something 'stopped working' and is no longer moving dalvik...?

The biggest data user apps are
com.google.android.maps (13M)
com.mobisystems.office (10M)
com.android.browser (9)
com.android.providers.telephony (7)

and they get smaller from there....

 

[nicka3200]

If you think something has stopped working boot into recovery, wipe dalvik cache & reflash the ROM.