The Market cache growing is not related to this issue. When I first heard about it I thought it might be, I investigated, its not.
I wasn't trying to label this as not a bug to say "oh look at our beautiful, bug free system", but as a semantic argument. I completely agree that most people would label this a bug. Its not worth the effort to carry on with this further, I'll rather just back pedal. Its a bug, its a bug! Cheers, Justin Android Team @ Google On Jan 13, 8:03 am, Justin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all - new to this, but have a (possibly related, possibly not) > issue - I tried the above, and it didn't change... I've seen a number > of folks comment on the size of the Market as reported in the > Settings->Applications->Manage Applications panel, and I still don't get why > > my Market is 21MB. Caching aside (as someone earlier in this thread > commented), that's huge. It *appears* to be keeping a copy of every > APK I've downloaded, just in case I want to re-install it, and there's > no way for me to delete them... is this another known bug, or is there > a work-around that I haven't found? > > Justin > > On Jan 12, 6:25 pm, "Justin (Google Employee)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Yes, your understanding is correct. Yes, you will need to unlock the > > screen and wait for the home scree to appear before shutting the phone > > down the second time. Shutting the phone down is better than pulling > > the battery. > > > Cheers, > > Justin > > Android Team @ Google > > > On Jan 12, 4:22 pm, "Stoyan Damov" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Justin (Google Employee) > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Here is some more information on what's happening. There is a problem > > > > in yaffs2 where unlinked files are not removed from a check-pointed > > > > filesystem. Whenever Android sleeps, it check-points the filesystem. > > > > When you uninstall an app the files are unlinked. If the device then > > > > goes to sleep before the unlinked files are actually removed, they > > > > won't be. > > > > > The proper way to work around this it to shut down your phone by > > > > holding down the end call button until you get a dialog asking to shut > > > > down your phone. Turn your phone back on. BEFORE your phone can sleep > > > > after it reboot, shut it down again. This will clean your unlinked > > > > files. > > > > Come again, I'm not sure understand that part. > > > Are these the steps for the workaround? > > > 1. Shutdown phone > > > 2. Turn on phone > > > 3. Unlock SIM card, wait for home screen to appear (do I need that?) > > > 4. Shutdown phone > > > 5. Turn on phone, and files will be deleted > > > > Thanks, > > > Stoyan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
