[cortez]

Originally Posted by mswlogo

That does not save any space at all. You are just creating a file in storage to hide the one in the rom. It is useful when you want to change behavior. Also some tools don't understand the difference between ROM and storage and will show changes in summary stats.

One way to test that theory is try deleting the dummy text file. You will be able to delete it and then the rom file will expose itself again. Because you never removed it.

are you suggesting that the values taken from Start-->Settings-->System-->Memory are incorrect? these are my Memory settings reported from the Memory applet: