App manager causing strange graphics behavior
 

Lately I have noticed a couple of strange things with my N810.

The first is that it seems that things have slowed down. For instance, the app manager takes a looooong time to load, for instance, the list of installed apps. It also takes some time to complete installation of a package.

The second is stranger. It seems like every other time I use the application manager to install something, I get some wierd behavior:

• Apps like FBreader take a longer than usual time to load a book.
• The little spinner on certain messages (like the "Updating" when appmanager or when an app starts up does not come up. The message is there, but the spinning dots are not.

It seems to occur only every other time I install software. Anyone seen this?

I was considering reflashing and restoring from backups, but I would also like to find time to set up dualboot/install to internal flash.

--vr

Re: App manager causing strange graphics behavior
 

That one can be fixed by doing - as root: "gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor"

A program you were most likely installing would have been running that above command and failed. Hence losing the spinning dots.

The most common cause for it to fail is lack of space. The JFFS2 filesystem used on the internal flash of your tablet wants as much space as possible.
Which may explain your slowness, especially around updating packages and installing things as that will do a lot of writing to the flash.

Re: App manager causing strange graphics behavior
 

Thank you, qwerty12. I didn't know why it was failing.

Yes, I had major space problems. I actually filled / at one point, but I have gone back and done some cleanup. I am now at 88% (28.9MB available), but I would like to clean up more. I have to figure out where I have multiple similar apps (especially some of the notepad-style apps) and get rid of the ones I am not using.

I'm guessing a lot of my problems with space would be solved by putting the filesystem on the internal flash...I just need to find time to read up and do it. The alternative would be to symlink things onto the flash, a habit I loathe doing.

Thanks qwerty12.

--vr