Will rooting help with space?

[Lumos]

Even putting things on the memory card, I can only have a few apps at a time. It's really starting to annoy me, especially since at 16mb it starts giving me messages. Will rooting give me more space? If so, how much? If not, is there anything else that's known to help, or does it simply not have much at all? I've got a year left still before I can change phones, and this thing is driving me crazy.

 

[anon(335536)]

Yes- it will. I have many apps. Since I am rooted, I moved things google updated (e.g. maps, search, voice search, street, etc) from the data partition to the system partition. THis freed up a lot of space. I also moved apps that I don't care to update from data to system as well.

And then I install to SD card as well.

 

[Lumos]

Do you know about how much it will give? I really don't want to put all the effort into it for just a little space...

 

[anon(335536)]

Look at the sizeof apps like Maps, Street, quick search, voice search. Those are easy candidates to move to system/app and save at least that much space (minus whatever data they use as data is always stored on the data partition). Then then I'd look into other large apps that you use a lot. For example, I put yahoo mail app there, as well as some apps I use for work that would otherwise be on my data partition. I can not give an exact number, but I'd say at least 30 MB if not more. On this phone, that is a lot.

Also, rooting is not that much effort. I'll put up a post in the next few days on an easy root method for those of you who are not on phoenix ROM.

 

[Lumos]

And they still work correctly? I figured there was a reason they wouldn't let it go to memory card, but if not I think I will take the plunge and look into rooting.

 

[RazzMaTazz]

Rooting itself doesn't free up any extra space, but if you root and install custom ROM (with the carrier's bloatware removed) it can free up some extra space. Of course, once you root the phone, you have more options to remove unwanted built-in apps.

 

[anon(335536)]

Lumos - they are not going to SD card - you need to copy them to your /system/app/ directory and then delete them from /data/app. Many of he google apps will not work on the SD card as you suggest. And as the previous post implies, you can also free up some space (in system/app) by removing bloat apps.

 

[fcjr77]

My son has this phone and hates the fact that he can only load like 3 apps. So if anyone can post a link to rooting or anything to be able to move apps to SD card to allow more apps installed that would be great.

 

[anon(335536)]

Stay tuned - in the next few days I'll post a one click root method to install a new kernel that is rooted, and then a simple batch file to complete the process.