Is the iphone memory separated ? i.e system is restricted to a certain amount of the memory? And if i keep installing hacks and stuff on springboard is it going to fill up and slow it down? and how do I reallocate memory?
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default size is all you should need.
You're wasting space with a 2.5G partition. You're only using 30% of it. I have a 930MB partition and use 71% of it. You're only storing IOS and a few files from Cydia. There's no need for such a large partition.
i was at 1GB before stock... and I was using 70%, its going to add up after a while Leave some wiggle room....i see lots of people on the other forums have 2 or 2.5 like me. Just testing to see how it works out plus 1.5gb more its not as tho I am using it for anything else.
You have a point. If you have the space, then it shouldn't be a problem. My experience is that I've always kept my partition size as small as possible and it's never been a problem.
That's my experience though, others may be different.
Henry
I found this online somewhere:
"You can increase the file size during creation of the iPhone custom firmware using Pwnagetool. On General Settings, specific any root partition size you want to reserve for your custom firmware, its recommended to set 1024 Mb, which can install up to 2 times of the number applications youve installed. Once Pwnagetool is done, restore or update your iPhone with the custom firmware through iTunes. The steps are similar to how you normally shift restore your iPhone, you just need to select the custom firmware instead. After restore completed, setup Cydia installer, go to Manage tab and select Storage and youll see System file size is 1024 Mb."
Thing is I jailbroke with greenpoison this time round. So I am kind of rusty with the whole pwnage tool thing so..... I have no idea how to set the root partition size. And I forgot.. am I supposed to download a stock IPSW from somewhere online point to that and let pwnage tool customize it?
Now I am on 4.2.1 and baseband is 03.10.01 I think and its factory unlocked. Greenpoison doesnt do anything to do this.. so I do not have to worry.. Is pwnagetool the same? I have 1Gb now but I was thinking of making it 2GB
THANKS
Yeah I redid mine AGAIN hehe and made it 2GB figured thats more reasonable double the stock 1GB
Yes I know I know about this stuff and I know you've just wasted space for absolutely no reason whatsoever. That partition is only used for a very small number of files and libraries that Cydia installs, such as mobilesubstrate. You will never ever fill that partition up. The only people who have a valid reason to increase it are developers running a working directory from there who need extra space. Really should check up on these things before you mess around with this stuff.
There's no way you can say this. I wish I'd taken a screenshot of mine before updating. I had 165 packages installed and 85% utilization. My iphone would rarely crash, but apps would auto close a lot and my free memory status bar hovered around 30mb. I had to force close as much stuff as possible to get my free mem close to 200mb and the phone running snappy.
Just upped mine to 1.5 and we'll see what happens.
None of your problems are caused by a small OS partition. They are caused by low free/inactive memory. Nearly everything downloaded via Cydia is placed onto the Media partition, not the OS partition. Plus, if you downloaded everything from Cydia onto an iDevice, you'd still have free space on your OS partition if its kept at its default space. That shows just how small the packages that do go into the OS partition really are.