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Originally Posted by maacruz View Post
The 256 MB system flash has a compressed filesystem, so it holds about 1 GB of installed software. Unfortunately, it is true that it is quite easy to fill up, in particular with games which can have non-compresible data (images, music, etc).

To overcome this limitation, you have basically 3 options, but you need some linux knowledge to understand what you are doing and not become stuck at the first minimal mistake.

First one is to do as auouymous said, manually move data after each install and link to it. Sometimes it is tricky because the fat filesystem in the SD cards doesn't have permissions, but you can overcome this limitation by repartitioning the SD card and making an ext2/3 partition where to move things.

A more brave and risky approach (here, because it is usual in the desktop/server linux world) would be to make the partition, move an entire filesystem branch there (/usr/share is a good candidate, or even all /usr), and directly mount (or link) the partition in the filesystem branch.

And the last and easyest way, clone to SD, which in addition has the advantages auouymous already explained, but take into account what I said about the compressed filesystem and make a linux partition of at least 1,5 GB.

When partitioning SD, for performance reasons of the underlying hardware, make the partition always start at a 4MB bondary.

So, Nokia took a really shortsighted approach when designing the filesystem, but thanks to the power of linux, it is trivial to fix it.

About the browser slowness, try opera and tear.
And install CSSU, Diablo Turbo, Telescope and Advanced SystemUI, you'll see quite an improvement.

And make sure your wifi is transmitting at 100 mW.
Thank you for your help. I will go with the cloning as that seems to be the best idea. so if the device uses a compressed partition to make 256mb able to hold 1gb, can you use that same compression to partition you sd card to increase it's capacity? I have an 8gb sd, so 32gb in compressed form? or am I misunderstanding something here?
I will try those items to increase performance as soon as I free up some space. right now I'm not enjoying the device as much as I should be because of the space limitations and poor wifi and browsing problems. as I mentioned above I can't find a setting to change it's voltage so it's at whatever the default is. I assume changing it higher will affect the battery life but how much?
All I really want to be able to do is surf the web with acceptable brwsing speed,, watch flash video, check email, have enough space to install apps and have a conn that doesn't drop every 5 minutes. doesn't seem like to much to ask. I have a super cheap chinese 7" ipad knockoff tablet that does all of that and more and is faster...but the screen is not as nice and it won't fit in my pocket. Oh, and you can install apps to or from the sd, not issues at all. weird. the nokia device is of a higher build quality to be sure. it has better battery life and the battery is user replaceable which is nice. if I can get it to do this simple things I outlines I will have a winner. I can't afford data phone plans as I said so that route is out. one last thing. with the android tablets there is often customer roms that enable all sorts of things. is there anything like that for the n810? Thanks again.