I’d like to add to the phone internal memory running low after installing too many apps discussion.
I am a proud owner of an HTC Desire, which is tech from almost 2 years ago. It’s internal memory is only 512Mb, worst of all after Android is installed, only 128 is available to me for installing apps. I ran out of space very quickly. Desire started out with Android 2.1 (Eclair), but OTA upgraded it to 2.2 (Froyo), and despite numerous times that HTC claimed it will upgrade the phone to 2.3 OTA, it never happened, at least not for me.
However, Android is about freedom. After I got tired of waiting for HTC’s official version of 2.3, I rooted my phone, and got the ROM from InsertCoin, now my phone is running Android 2.3.3, with HTC sense intact, better actually, free Car Panel navigation, and blazing fast. It’s pretty easy, I have no idea why I waited, especially when I build Android systems on development boards for my research…
The a2sd+ version of InsertCoin ROM i installed makes use of a 1.2GB EXT2 partition I created on my 8G sdcard. All the apps are now stored in that 1.2GB space, and I have no way of filling it. My internal memory is now 120MB, and did I mention it’s blazing fast?
So now it’s like a have a brand new phone. I can just reinstall my applications I purchased from Android market (no need to buy again), and the backup software allows me to return all apps to previous state (don’t have to redo angry birds or my 2010 MLB season).
Though all that’s thanks to Desire’s 1GHz Qualcomm snapdragon CPU. So if anyone wants to use Android and root the phone and try out custom ROMs, I suggest go for a phone with at least 1GHz CPU.
