LG Thrive Root, Customize, and Maximize Local Storage Memory

[kevinm10]

Thought I'd contribute in the spirit of everyone that has posted and help me to root etc.

Here's a list of things I've done to the LG Thrive to, in my opinion, maximize it's capabilities.

Most of this was found by searching various forums, and again thanks to all who came before.
I likely won't be answering any questions per say. Just thought the steps I've taken would make it simpler for others.

Thrive Customizations

the following changed free local storage memory from 6M to 120M!

Hidden Menu to allow install of unknown sources
http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-lg-thrive/95690-easiest-way-root-lg-phoenix-thrive.html
Dialer
Go to your dialer, type 3845#*505#[Phoenix] or "3845#*506#"[Thrive]
then scroll down to "Unknown Sources Test" and check the box

enable usb debugging: menu>applications>development

install usb drivers for access via adb
How to install USB Device Driver for LG Thrive Android Device? - Stack Overflow

install android sdk for adb
What Is ADB And How To Install It With Android SDK

update to system-tools to get adb (moved)

gingerbreak root app with superuser

gemini app manager can move apps to sd even if not marked as moveable with long keypress(superuser)
most still work

adb change to set default install location as sd not local
adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2
How to Install Apps to Your SD Card on Android Froyo | Gadget News
still seems like the downloads go to local not sd

es file explorer settings set system folder as rw

adfree (seems to work even when non-rooted)

droidwall (not sure it works when non-rooted) caution may block access on whitelist if rooted until changed

bac lite - change startup animation

autorun manager - change receivers for autostart also disable autostarts (tries)

fast reboot - clears memory after startup or after use without actually rebooting

titanium backup - backup apps to sd etc also allows deletion of "stock" apps.

keep at&T radio for local tuner capability other apps can stream without subscription, app has setting reset for 7 day repetitive use?

How to delete "stock" apps to free up space
How To: Remove (Almost) Every Trace of AT&T
Titanium Backup
(AT&T Application Manager)
AT&T Navigator
AT&T Radio - might keep for local tuner access
AT&T Maps
AT&T Music
AT&T Mobile Hotspots
Mobile Banking
Mobile Video
Where
YPmobile
AT&T FamilyMap
Mini Diary
MobiTV
Write and Go

 

[lowdrewl]

Thought I'd contribute in the spirit of everyone that has posted and help me to root etc.

Here's a list of things I've done to the LG Thrive to, in my opinion, maximize it's capabilities.

Most of this was found by searching various forums, and again thanks to all who came before.
I likely won't be answering any questions per say. Just thought the steps I've taken would make it simpler for others.

Thrive Customizations

the following changed free local storage memory from 6M to 120M!

Hidden Menu to allow install of unknown sources
http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-lg-thrive/95690-easiest-way-root-lg-phoenix-thrive.html
Dialer
Go to your dialer, type 3845#*505#[Phoenix] or "3845#*506#"[Thrive]
then scroll down to "Unknown Sources Test" and check the box

enable usb debugging: menu>applications>development

install usb drivers for access via adb
How to install USB Device Driver for LG Thrive Android Device? - Stack Overflow

install android sdk for adb
What Is ADB And How To Install It With Android SDK

update to system-tools to get adb (moved)

gingerbreak root app with superuser

gemini app manager can move apps to sd even if not marked as moveable with long keypress(superuser)
most still work

adb change to set default install location as sd not local
adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2
How to Install Apps to Your SD Card on Android Froyo | Gadget News
still seems like the downloads go to local not sd

es file explorer settings set system folder as rw

adfree (seems to work even when non-rooted)

droidwall (not sure it works when non-rooted) caution may block access on whitelist if rooted until changed

bac lite - change startup animation

autorun manager - change receivers for autostart also disable autostarts (tries)

fast reboot - clears memory after startup or after use without actually rebooting

titanium backup - backup apps to sd etc also allows deletion of "stock" apps.

keep at&T radio for local tuner capability other apps can stream without subscription, app has setting reset for 7 day repetitive use?

How to delete "stock" apps to free up space
How To: Remove (Almost) Every Trace of AT&T
Titanium Backup
(AT&T Application Manager)
AT&T Navigator
AT&T Radio - might keep for local tuner access
AT&T Maps
AT&T Music
AT&T Mobile Hotspots
Mobile Banking
Mobile Video
Where
YPmobile
AT&T FamilyMap
Mini Diary
MobiTV
Write and Go

Thanks for the info. I did similar steps with my Thrive, removing ATT junk. I am not sure which app it was but after I removed one of threm (one of the ones on your list) the phone started acting flakey and my application icons started disappearing. Only half my app icons would show up on subsquent reboots. I tried battery removals, reboots etc and nothing. The only way I could get my icons back was to erasse cache on the lg.menu app. It could have another app conflicting with the lg.menu or home or whatever, but is sucked erasing lg.home cache asfter every reboot.

 

[n2alltheworld]

I read somewhere that Titanium Backup causes Icons to disappear. I had a similar problem as you lowdrewl with Icons just disappearing. I uninstalled Titanium Backup and it seems to have corrected the problem.

 

[kevinm10]

Hopefully this isn't a dual post...

I found that some applications moved to SD that aren't "flagged" to be installed to the SD card don't show their icons during startup but then later they exist (maybe after the sd is mounted etc. One sticking point was widgets don't populate the selection list if they are on the sd but not flagged as sd installable. For the ones I wanted to use, I just moved them back to the phone memory.

 

[David420]

worked great, helpful stuff/root apps (lg thrive 2.2.1)

 

[kevinm10]

Thanks for the info. I did similar steps with my Thrive, removing ATT junk. I am not sure which app it was but after I removed one of threm (one of the ones on your list) the phone started acting flakey and my application icons started disappearing. Only half my app icons would show up on subsquent reboots. I tried battery removals, reboots etc and nothing. The only way I could get my icons back was to erasse cache on the lg.menu app. It could have another app conflicting with the lg.menu or home or whatever, but is sucked erasing lg.home cache asfter every reboot.

I found that lghome launcher is pretty large (7M). Launcher pro is only 3M. ADW is 2M but seemed to randomly lag. EX and Go also . zeam is really tiny but doesn't have many customizations... One caution. The launcher must be on local memory. I accidentally moved mine to SD and nearly "bricked" my phone... I had to call myself, type in the hidden menu code, enable usb debugging, and use adb to install a launcher, in order to get the phone "back". Phew...
Unfortunately I didn't arrive at that solution until after trying to restore the "default" image with three key press [vol up][home][power]. Also realized it doesn't "load" a default rom just whatever stock was left installed so it didn't restore lghome, nor any of my apps...

 

[wlfpck]

Deleting all those AT&T apps frees up TONS of space. I don't get why AT&T puts their navigator on when google maps does the same thing better without the additional $10 a month....

Anyways... Rooting the phone also lets you overclock it. I think a safe overclock is 800 MHz up from the stock 600 Mhz.

 

[allenc301]

Hey people! Just wanted to add my two cents of experience with speeding up my Thrive. after i rooted using the Gingerbreak method, i installed Autokiller Memory Optimizer and used the preset setting called Extreme. it has since given my little guy new life and is much snappier at doing the simple things like opening apps and in some cases using them. I used Quadrant as a generic test bench to see if it made any difference in cpu performance and there was little to no incerease in my score before and after using Autokiller. But the phone does feel much faster than it did before when opening up the simple things like the dialer, calendar, or text messaging. No change in the performance of playng games but I don't use my phone for games much anyway. But for an overall faster feel to the phone I think Autokiller is a good choice for a free app on a rooted LG Thrive. Hope this helps the novice Android users such as myself.

 

[dmullens]

I just rooted my Thrive today. I removed the AT&T Navigation program, but it didn't seem to have any effect on the "internal" memory. Is there something else I need to do to the system apps in order to free up more rooms for user apps?

Would like to get rid of more of the ATT stuff, but if it doesn't free up memory for me to use, then it really doesn't do much good...

Thanks for any insight and/or advice.

 

[keynem]

I have installed titanium back up. I want to go ahead and remove some of the AT and T bloatware but I don't want to remove anything that will ultimately mess with the phone and it's ability to run and function. From those of you who have removed some of the bloatware which have you been able to remove without and adverse effects?
Can you delete the messaging app that the phone came with to use another one without messing up the phone? Are there any other files that i cant delete that would free up space that are pretty much useless?

 

[donavan]

I have installed titanium back up. I want to go ahead and remove some of the AT and T bloatware but I don't want to remove anything that will ultimately mess with the phone and it's ability to run and function. From those of you who have removed some of the bloatware which have you been able to remove without and adverse effects?
Can you delete the messaging app that the phone came with to use another one without messing up the phone? Are there any other files that i cant delete that would free up space that are pretty much useless?

Yes you can I acutally just did this today I use GO for my dialer launcher and messenger. When you decided to remove something do this and it should keep you safe. First create a back up of the ROM using CWM that way if you really hose things up you can always go back. Second once your Ti backup make a backup of the program you want to remove. Third freeze the app. Test out the phone for issues if none are present then go ahead and delete the program you can always restore it via Ti backup if you want to later as long as you backed it up first.

 

[keynem]

Yes you can I acutally just did this today I use GO for my dialer launcher and messenger. When you decided to remove something do this and it should keep you safe. First create a back up of the ROM using CWM that way if you really hose things up you can always go back. Second once your Ti backup make a backup of the program you want to remove. Third freeze the app. Test out the phone for issues if none are present then go ahead and delete the program you can always restore it via Ti backup if you want to later as long as you backed it up first.

I did try freezing it and using go messenger for my messaging and the only problem was that i couldn't receive MMS messages. I had to unfreeze the messenger that the phone came with and enable auto download MMS messages. I would like to use SMS go for me messaging like you have so any pointers would be much appreciated thanks

 

[donavan]

I did try freezing it and using go messenger for my messaging and the only problem was that i couldn't receive MMS messages. I had to unfreeze the messenger that the phone came with and enable auto download MMS messages. I would like to use SMS go for me messaging like you have so any pointers would be much appreciated thanks

I think there are two programs that deal with the messaging one is for the actually messaging program the other is for the backend stuff ... should be one over the other ... I didnt try it with MMS so its possible you cant get rid of it because of that but I have both turned off on mine right now and I can send and receive SMS no problem.


Messaging 1.0 is the actual messaging program that GO replaces
SMS/MMS P...ssaging 2.3.4 I think is the back end but I even have that frozen and my SMS still works.

 

[keynem]

I think there are two programs that deal with the messaging one is for the actually messaging program the other is for the backend stuff ... should be one over the other ... I didnt try it with MMS so its possible you cant get rid of it because of that but I have both turned off on mine right now and I can send and receive SMS no problem.


Messaging 1.0 is the actual messaging program that GO replaces
SMS/MMS P...ssaging 2.3.4 I think is the back end but I even have that frozen and my SMS still works.

Ah thanks for that info. Yeah I tried it again. I use app quarantine to freeze messaging. When I do I can still receive regular text but any sort of Multimedia text never arrives. I had me brother text me a pic and then text me when he did I got the one that said sent not the pic. Soon as I unfreeze the standard messaging app I can recieve pics again? I'd like to get rid of the messaging app the phone comes with all together because as of now both it and Go have to run for me to be able to get picture messages so two apps running to do the same thing just wasting memory and battery. I've backed up the messaging 1.0 and the sms/mms using titanium but I'd like to be able to do as you have and simply use GO messaging

 

[donavan]

Ah thanks for that info. Yeah I tried it again. I use app quarantine to freeze messaging. When I do I can still receive regular text but any sort of Multimedia text never arrives. I had me brother text me a pic and then text me when he did I got the one that said sent not the pic. Soon as I unfreeze the standard messaging app I can recieve pics again? I'd like to get rid of the messaging app the phone comes with all together because as of now both it and Go have to run for me to be able to get picture messages so two apps running to do the same thing just wasting memory and battery. I've backed up the messaging 1.0 and the sms/mms using titanium but I'd like to be able to do as you have and simply use GO messaging

which one kills your MMS when you freeze it or does it need both?

 

[keynem]

Donavan thanks for all the help I think I've got it figured out. In the GO setting under a sub menu there is an option to check if you have uninstalled the stock messaging app and GO will take over all the responsibilities I checked it and that seems to be doing the trick to allow me to freeze sms/mms 2.2.2

 

[donavan]

Donavan thanks for all the help I think I've got it figured out. In the GO setting under a sub menu there is an option to check if you have uninstalled the stock messaging app and GO will take over all the responsibilities I checked it and that seems to be doing the trick to allow me to freeze sms/mms 2.2.2

Beautiful I was starting to get worried I would going to have to reinstall those to get MMS can you tell me exactly where the settings are that need changed

 

[keynem]

I guess i'm not out of the clear just yet Donavan. That option i was talking about is located in the Go SMS settings and then down at the bottom it says important. open that and it has a check box that says "if stock sms was uninstalled...."
However now here is the problem i'm running into. I froze the stock messaging app. Checked the box i told you about above and asked a friend to send a MMS message. She sent the pic and it should up in my in-box. I leave my data off because I have wifi most of the time between work and home. So the MMS message comes through but I canot download the picture to make it viewable. I unfroze the stock messaging app and tried downloading it so I cold view it and it worked. So as long as I don't freeze the stock messaging app, I seem to be able to download in the Go SMS app any pic messages i recieve. So now I'm trying to figure out that hitch

 

[donavan]

I guess i'm not out of the clear just yet Donavan. That option i was talking about is located in the Go SMS settings and then down at the bottom it says important. open that and it has a check box that says "if stock sms was uninstalled...."
However now here is the problem i'm running into. I froze the stock messaging app. Checked the box i told you about above and asked a friend to send a MMS message. She sent the pic and it should up in my in-box. I leave my data off because I have wifi most of the time between work and home. So the MMS message comes through but I canot download the picture to make it viewable. I unfroze the stock messaging app and tried downloading it so I cold view it and it worked. So as long as I don't freeze the stock messaging app, I seem to be able to download in the Go SMS app any pic messages i recieve. So now I'm trying to figure out that hitch

well keep me updated ... I would track this down but I have bigger fish to fry at the moment

 

[keynem]

stuck at this point. I am able to receive normal text and MMS messages. However when I attempt to download the picture sent to me in the MMS message (I leave my data off because most place I am have open wifi) GO sms/mms messenger fails to download the picture. If I use the stock app it will. Anyone have anyone had this problem/ have any input how to resolve this?