Multiple Maps Files on phone

[eagle2222222222]

At 92% capacity on my Evo and trying to eliminate programs and files I do not need. I have four Maps files that have the same date, version number, and file size. Are all four of these files needed for Maps or are three of them duplicates?

[mikewest]

Originally Posted by eagle2222222222

At 92% capacity on my Evo and trying to eliminate programs and files I do not need. I have four Maps files that have the same date, version number, and file size. Are all four of these files needed for Maps or are three of them duplicates?

What do you mean by "Maps files", I think you should be more specific. We need more information to determine that

Where are these files located? (on your phone, your SD card, in your Titanium Backup Folder, in your dropbox folder, etc....

Are they "files" as you state, or are they Apps? ( .apks?)

As far as capacity goes, I recommend using Titanium Backup to kill stuff you don't use or want. (I kill Nascar, Telenav, football, magic wallpapers, peep, Stocks and a few others...)

[eagle2222222222]

They are for Google Maps. They are located on the phone. When I go into my file manager there are four files under installed apps. I wonder if everytime the app updates if it leaves the old one on the phone.

[mikewest]

Originally Posted by eagle2222222222

They are for Google Maps. They are located on the phone. When I go into my file manager there are four files under installed apps. I wonder if everytime the app updates if it leaves the old one on the phone.

Although, you are not being specific, enough, it sounds like you are talking about a series of .PNG files that are left behind after you navigate somewhere. Those files are cached for your route, in case you lose signal during the trip and can not download the files at that time.

If it is what I am thinking it is, it should be a negligible amount of data. If it bothers you, I think you can clear it by going to HOME, press MENU, SETTINGS, APPLICATIONS, touch GOOGLE MAPS, then CLEAR DATA

[KIOWA69]

Originally Posted by mikewest

Although, you are not being specific, enough, it sounds like you are talking about a series of .PNG files that are left behind after you navigate somewhere. Those files are cached for your route, in case you lose signal during the trip and can not download the files at that time.

If it is what I am thinking it is, it should be a negligible amount of data. If it bothers you, I think you can clear it by going to HOME, press MENU, SETTINGS, APPLICATIONS, touch GOOGLE MAPS, then CLEAR DATA

That's not what he's talking about, under menu>settings>applications>manage applications>maps it will sometimes show more than one copy of the maps file, some roms show it and some don't, I was just on EvolvedRoms and it showed and I just switched over to Synergy Nightly and it doesn't show it so why it's like that I don't know, all I can say is if you want to try and delete those extra map files and then reboot the phone and then run either navigation or whatever you want that uses maps and make sure things run fine, worst that can happen is to have to factory reset/flash the rom again, but you can flash it over the rom now and shouldn't loose anything.

[mikewest]

Originally Posted by KIOWA69

That's not what he's talking about, under menu>settings>applications>manage applications>maps it will sometimes show more than one copy of the maps file, some roms show it and some don't, I was just on EvolvedRoms and it showed and I just switched over to Synergy Nightly and it doesn't show it so why it's like that I don't know, all I can say is if you want to try and delete those extra map files and then reboot the phone and then run either navigation or whatever you want that uses maps and make sure things run fine, worst that can happen is to have to factory reset/flash the rom again, but you can flash it over the rom now and shouldn't loose anything.

Is it possible that somehow the rom maker included it as a SYSTEM app, and separately as a normal app? Would this make it show up twice?

[KIOWA69]

Originally Posted by mikewest

Is it possible that somehow the rom maker included it as a SYSTEM app, and separately as a normal app? Would this make it show up twice?

I don't know exactly, it's kind of weird, like I said when I was on EvolvedRoms his had the multiple map files but then I switched to Myns Nightly and it didn't have it, and both times I used Titanium backup to restore apps with data so I don't know why it's doing it on one and not the other. But even with restoring 50 files I still have space so I don't know what he's trying to restore but it must be a crap load of programs to be running out of space, he should probably partition his sd card and move what he can so he can save space on the internal.