I have faced the same problem, and finally found the cause: If you are starting new instances of your application from Eclipse (as it was my case) after compiling, the new apk replaces the old one, BUT the original one is not deleted, only UNLINKED from the file system...
It is a problem similar to this one: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/4c377ed7e883deef/309bcf576a1fb7cb And the solution is to force the file system to clean the files, by removing the battery with the system being up!. To check if this is your problem, do: adb shell cat /proc/yaffs and see if you have many unlinked files... If this is not your case, you can try: ls -R -l /data > /sdcard/data.txt and review the data.txt file searching for files. On Feb 7, 9:05 am, Mariano Kamp <mariano.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess we're talking about /data/data/<yourpackagenamesgoeshere> > Did you check there? > > You can use "adb -d shell" to open a shell on your device and the cd there. > adb -d shell > cd /data/data/<yourpackagenamesgoeshere> > ls -l > > Btw. Do you use WebView in your app? It caches stuff until you remove it by > calling WebView.clearCache() or tell WebView not to cache. > > > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Rmac <ry...@mac.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Dianne. The odd thing is that I am NOT creating any files. > > And let me make sure we are talking the same thing... when I say > > "data", I don't mean the data directory... I am talking about going to > > Settings/Applications/Manage applications/myapp/Storage/Data... if > > that is the data directory then we are talking about the same thing. > > What else could go there besides files that are explicitly created by > > the app? Preferences? SQLite databases? Anything else? The data > > storage value seems to gradually grow over time while using the app... > > from initial size of 76K to nearly a meg. > > > On Feb 6, 11:51 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > > > Unfortunately it's a little tricky, because only your app (and some very > > > very low-level parts of the system) can touch your data. You can, > > however, > > > just add some code to your app that iterates through your data > > directories > > > with the standard Java File APIs and prints out what it finds. > > > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Rmac <ry...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > > I've had debugging on from the beginning. What I need is something > > > > that can tell me exactly what is in the application's "data" area that > > > > Android reports via Settings for managing applications. I am sure my > > > > application is adding to it somehow, but I have no handle to tell what > > > > content is stored there. > > > > > On Feb 5, 5:08 am, Chander Pechetty <cspeche...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Not sure if you can do this, but check outhttp:// > > > > code.google.com/android/intro/develop-and-debug.html#developin... > > > > > to understand the tools and limitations > > > > -- > > > Dianne Hackborn > > > Android framework engineer > > > hack...@android.com > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > > > forums, where I and others can see and answer them.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
