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2010-04-17 , 20:16
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All apps from my app manager are missing, all songs and videos are missing in the media player, "Unable to send and receive messages..."

so yeah, needing to delete them from X term

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thats certainly an interesting way of thinking to solve your problem.

whatever or however you proceed - do one thing first: run backup app and backup

then no matter what other people may tell you and whatever you might try you can just reflash and restore and get back where you were.

if you do end up reflashing, you can get the effect you want by restoring all and just prior to the stage of re-installing the applications, disable the extras-devel repositories and then continue installing - it will reinstall all apps it can find at that time - so no extras-devel, no devel apps

i'm not certain how to identify currently installed applications from the command line tho, but it should be possible to find out.
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start by disabling extras devel and extras testing to give you some space - that will help, then pick the ones you dont want and uninstall!
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Indeed if its already messed up the configuration, the chances of uninstalling fixing the problem is pretty slim. Not impossible if its something minor that was changed, but it sounds like a lot of different aspects of the OS are messed up, I can't imagine uninstalling a few applications fixing such a major problem.
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2010-04-17 , 22:50
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Originally Posted by lcuk View Post
thats certainly an interesting way of thinking to solve your problem.

whatever or however you proceed - do one thing first: run backup app and backup

then no matter what other people may tell you and whatever you might try you can just reflash and restore and get back where you were.

if you do end up reflashing, you can get the effect you want by restoring all and just prior to the stage of re-installing the applications, disable the extras-devel repositories and then continue installing - it will reinstall all apps it can find at that time - so no extras-devel, no devel apps

i'm not certain how to identify currently installed applications from the command line tho, but it should be possible to find out.
Thanks you so much for responding
I have to reflash!!! No!!!
Anyway, what happens when you flash device? You lose all settings, all apps, all contacts, all calendar entries?
And if I backup my device, all of these things will return to normal?
 
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2010-04-17 , 22:52
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Originally Posted by noobmonkey View Post
start by disabling extras devel and extras testing to give you some space - that will help, then pick the ones you dont want and uninstall!
My application manager is not working. I can't...

Thanks for the response though
 
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2010-04-17 , 22:56
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Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK View Post
Indeed if its already messed up the configuration, the chances of uninstalling fixing the problem is pretty slim. Not impossible if its something minor that was changed, but it sounds like a lot of different aspects of the OS are messed up, I can't imagine uninstalling a few applications fixing such a major problem.
So you are saying I have reflash?
Can you answer my questions about reflashing that I asked a couple of posts above?
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2010-04-18 , 03:28
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What happens exactly when you flash the device? When you back it up, the back up itself does not get removed when you flash it, right?
So I am able to restore right after I flash?
 
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What happens exactly when you flash the device? When you back it up, the back up itself does not get removed when you flash it, right?
So I am able to restore right after I flash?
When you flash the firmware it overwrites the rootfs. This should leave all your user data and settings untouched - you'll need to reinstall applications but the configuration should persist.

If you reflash the eMMC then this will overwrite the user's home directory and the MyDocs directory as well. This will wipe out all user data and configuration settings.

The backup application can write to either the MyDocs directory or the SD card. If you write to the SD card then it will not get touched by any reflashing. If you write to the MyDocs directory then it will be untouched by a firmware flash, but will get wiped by an eMMC flash. It should backup the system configuration, contacts, conversations, a list of installed applications (allowing easy reinstall), and (if applications have installed a list of files to backup) application configuration.
 

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Originally Posted by thefoxtrot View Post
All apps from my app manager are missing, all songs and videos are missing in the media player, "Unable to send and receive messages..."

so yeah, needing to delete them from X term

n00b, here. So be gentle
1. Open terminal
2. write: df -h (to see if rootfs is full)
3. write: sudo gainroot
4. write: apt-get clean
5. write: apt-get autoremove
6. write: df -h (to see if the space is improved)
 

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