internal memory low and install superuser on htc wildfire s

Hi there,

I bought HTC wildfire s a year ago in India because of its features but was unaware of the internal memory problem fact. HTC has given everything to it but internal memory. I got many problems because of low memory.Always had to clear data and uninstall apps which were needed as all other portion of internal memory was forcefully allotted to Google apps and other updates. So I wanted to delete the applications like plurk, peep, flicker and internet browser also.

The problem is the system is build on Linux kernel and it doesn't allow users to uninstall or move certain applications without superuser (administrative) privilege. So to get superuser access you will have to wait for your device to get out of warranty and then do the rooting or you can take risk but this will void your warranty.

My HTC Wildfire S current settings
I searched a lot and tried many things it took me 3-4 days but I finally changed my htc wildfire s A510e's configurations to its best. Now my phone has configuration like 806 MHz processor (over clocked) Internal Memory around 2.6GB which includes pre installed 150MB

I will explain how to get these exact super settings for htc wildfire s but first we need to increase some memory by simple methods.

Solution for low internal memory problem

You can reduce the occurrences of  low internal memory error with two ways.

1. Do as your phone asks you to do.
Clean some temp data and uninstall some applications so you will get some free memory.

Steps involved in freeing up your phones internal memory are,

1.A Uninstall apps which you never use.

1.B Delete sms and mms if not needed.

1.C Go to Settings then Apps(Applications) then Clear data of apps which you always use and of those applications which is more than 1 Mega Bytes

1.D Move every application which can be moved to SD card from same application settings page.

1.E Export your contacts from people  (i.e. contacts) to SD card from menu then people and export contacts to sd. Then go to  Applications manager and search for People and clean its data. After whole data is cleaned go to people from the Main Menu and import contacts. This will transfer your contacts from phone memory to sd card you will save 10 Mega Bytes of data there.

2. Root your htc wildfire s and install recovery with superuser
Few important terms which you will get in this article are HBoot, Recovery mode, Boot loader.

2.A Must have
Must have ample time and internet connection to download files of 300 MB(For computer applications) and 50MB for superuser and recovery image making it around 350 MB.

2.A.1     Memory card reader which has micro sd card slot.
2.A.2     Data cable of your htc phone.
2.A.2     Phone battery charged up to 60% or higher
2.A.4     Working condition phone keys.
2.A.5      Download and extract Android SDK, Java Runtime Environment and htc sync. Install ADB and Fastboot drivers. Create your user account on XDA forum just in case you need any help from the experts asap.
2.A.6     Run the Android SDK exe and wait till it loads all files and then after install package buttons is enabled install those packages
2.A.7     Enable USB debugging from application development section and check fast boot from power section of settings section of your phone.
2.A.8     Patience


2.B Procedure to install superuser on htc wildfire s.

2.B.1     Backup your phone data and SD CARD : Backup personal content of your SD card to your computer and if you want to have complete backup of your applications then install super backup from android market or Google play. And take backup of respective applications, contacts and sms backup to your memory card and then copy those on your computer(just in case if you do something stupid)
2.B.2     Either you can root your htc wildfire s to get your phone unlocked from htc dev dot com. Register there and select your phone model nad fallow the procedure.
     See How to Root your htc wildfire s phone?

Or

Connect your phone to computer and select fastboot from power settings menu. Now reboot the phone with volume down and power button pressed at same time like this.

Then on command prompt execute this command on command prompt
 fastboot oem unlock

This will unlock your phone root access.
2.B.3     Your work is half done you still need a superuser permission to access you rooted system now. So to install superuser for that, download these files ClockWorkMod Recovery Image and  SuperUser Zip place these files on your SD card.

Stay on the menu and connect your device to your pc with USB. If you get  UNLOCKED text in pink color at top of the screen then you can proceed to next step if not check redo the things you might have missed some point.
2.B.4     Create a folder on root of your c drive as android and place this file into your drive like this. Add Fastboot exe neglect other files.

Go to command prompt and type.

And press enter the custom recovery image will get installed on your phone.Now reboot your phone and come to hboot menu again go to recovery section.

2.B.5     On recovery menu navigate to "install from sdcard" and choose the zip file SuperUser Zip. Again choose yes to install from the next menu which comes.

The phone will give a log after installation and then you can reboot your phone. Now your phone is unlocked with superuser permissions.Note: Volume buttons are as up and down arrows and power button is for selection.
2.B.6     After this step you can actually get rid of the "low internal memory clear some data" by installing link2sd application from market play. Link2sd allows you to uninstall unwanted applications from your system so as to get more internal memory. When you open Link2sd it will ask you to allow the application for privilege
2.B.7     With this app you can uninstall the unwanted applications and shift apps from phone to sd card.


Updated 04/Feb/2013:
You can download all required files from link.
Download Android folder

how is htc wildfire s? An Android phone

Hi,


I am using htc wildfire S from last 10 months and now I consider myself well equipped with its experience. So  I am sharing with you as it may help you in taking decision.

The brand name is enough to attract your attention when you start your search of buying a Android phone.
The things which I wanted in my phone before buying this were all fulfilled but the memory.



Lets go into its details,
(All from my perspective)

Operating system : android 2.3 gingerbread earlier it came with 2.2 but now its updated to 2.3 and now waiting to taste ice-cream sandwich i.e. Android 4.0 (yet not listed ):D

Body : This phone has good outer body which is tough.Many times I have dropped my phone on floor mistakenly and once purposely to check its body build and it is still working fine as it was new.It comes in two color dark gray and white. Dark one is better.

Display: htc wildfire has good quality display bundled in it. Even the screen is of gorilla glass so you dont need to bother about scratches but do not totally rely on it.
TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors are enough for you to view videos and play games smoothly.


Memory: Memory is the star point if we talk about a phone and this phone lags in this basic user requirement. Htc could have given more memory to its users but even if they say they are giving 512MB internal memory with 512MB RAM its of no use. As after installing 10 apps on it you get internal memory low warning msg . They could have given some odd figure memory for this device as its cost was factor but memory only makes this mobile go into thrash.

It has preinstalled applications and they take around 137MB internal memory and system itself uses around 245.Approximately you get 130 MB memory which is you have to manage with compulsorily installed google apps which are required and have to mange in leftover.Finally after installing 5-6 apps you get warnings of low internal memory.

Solution is to move apps as you install it from internal memory to memory card and clear unused data in other routine apps.Right now this is the only solution for this device even the company doesn't seems to make new customers so those who have bought this use this trick others buy other phone XOXO

Battery: I don't consider battery as an important issue as its up to you how to last it long.So dont want to talk about battery it is upon your usage how many apps you keep active and blah blah blah... Only i can say is I use battery wisely.


Music: Music with htc's headphone is best at this cost. You take any software its headphones add an advantage to music.Full volume is best with this headphone : ) I love its music

Camera: Camera quality is fine. Use default settings and enjoy its camera with 5MP crisp images you will surely like the features provided like smile shutter, self portrait and ISO image settings.
It has only one camera so you don't need to install skype and wait like dumb to get a video call:P

Video can be recorded with fine quality 5 points for this out of 5 :D

HTC Sense:  For me there was no sense of adding htc sense in this device as the android os itself has its own sense techniques. htc is asking us to pay more for their sense technology so as others like samsung android phones.


Rating given by me is 3.5/5.
And I prefer you to buy other phone as its lags in memory which is most important part of this phone.
So you can add few amount into your budget if you don't want to compromise with memory and unusual hang ups.

Thank you.

Search with Google goggles an application for Android phone

In real life most of the time we come in situation where we need to tell the name of place to other person just by seeing it or by its photograph and we hardly remember or know its name.As we don't have habit of remembering all.

Keeping this in mind Google has developed an application for Android phones which will surprisingly show you name of the place,book,landmark,logo and contact information(So that our memory will be more weaker ;p).I thought about this technology about 2 years back and thought Chinese would definitely make it possible but Google did it .

Check this official video -



Google Goggles is an visual search application for Android phones. Rather than using words,and long text take a picture of an object with your camera phone. And after taking it Google visual search mechanism searches for the image details.Displays the result just like normal Google search result.

If you don't want to take a picture of local business buildings like music shop or a Hotel then by using camera preview mode Google searches for and displays its name directly just by pointing to that place.

I think Google will need to work on it very deeply as on earth when there can be more than one person of same face likewise there are many landmarks and places which have replicas of it.

Currently you won't be able to identify animals,plants and cars.Else it would have been much easier for me to identify cars as I hardly remember versions and model of different car companies but if Google Goggles identify cars too then ask me any thing about cars :D

Android user can download Google Goggles just by searching for it in Android market using "Google Goggles" keywords .