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Originally Posted by Rally1
So from this knowledge you almost want as much stuff in the 63M as you can to give you more available user storage, almost a contradiction of BigD5.
In an ideal world that ROM space would be adjustable. Because the one thing i dislike about so many apps on the ROM is the inability to upgrade them.
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Agreed. I know a lot of people like the bare and clean ROMs, but in my opinion, what makes the ROM customization and kitchen so valuable is using it to put things in the ROM so you don't have to install them later and lose storage space. I've been able to basically only use about 5 megs for programs because I've been able to put the others that I use on the ROMs using the great OEMs that everyone has been putting up. With the official ROMs, by the time I installed all the programs I used regularly, I'd only have make 15 megs of storage left. Now I have 30 megs.
I do think the upgrade issue will be a hassle though. I'm guessing that I may be able to export the registries for the programs I'm using and then recook a ROM with the upgrade and import the registries back in. As long as the install directory doesn't change (which should be \Windows anyway), it might not be a problem. The main issue would be if the upgrade creates new registry entries that were around with the older version. But importing a registry back in wouldn't overwrite those entries -- it would only affect existing entries, so it might work.
Either way, a lot of the stuff I put on the ROM doesn't get upgraded that much anyway, so it's not that big of a deal. I'm packing the ROM full anyway, so I leave out the more frequently upgraded stuff like PhoneAlarm to be installed into Storage so they can be upgraded easily.