News: App Installation Limited to 64MB?

[chris]

As more apps get added to both the official App Catalog and homebrew catalogs, more and more users are seeing a “Sorry, Not Enough Memory” error. This error occurs despite having sufficient free space on their Palm Pre, which of course leads to frustration. We touched on the topic last week article, “Palm’s App Catalog Experiencing Growing Pains“. Rod Whitby of webOS Internals did further investigation in an attempt to figure out users were having trouble.


I’ve now webOS Doctored my Pre in the name of science, and have tested the limits of installing applications.
If you run “du -s /var/usr/palm/applications/*”, and add up all the numbers in the first column, then as soon as you hit the 62367 1K blocks limit of the addition of the sizes reported by that “du” command and the size of the app you with to install, you will get the dreaded “Sorry, Not Enough Memory” error from the Palm App Catalog application (and any other installer, like fileCoaster or PreLoad, which uses the palm appInstaller API). It doesn’t matter whether you have 192MB free in your /var partition, it will max out at just under 64MB of application usage.

We suspect Palm will figure out a fix to resolve this issue. In the meantime, you can read Rod’s complete analysis of the situation at his blog.

[chris]

For those who use homebrew, he's released an app via Preware that solves the problem. Fair Dinkum within Preware fixes the issue.

This however does not resolve a problem that affects those who are not taking part in homebrew. Palm has to be working on this, no?:dft005:frazzled

[AKITAYO]

I would need some help of Pre users with this post

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-lMpH2j84Y

[monkee82]

I hope they are fixing this, imo that's a big flaw that if I had known would occur, would have made me think twice about getting a Pre.... And I love my Pre, so that's actually saying *alot*

[AKITAYO]

Exactly it is a big flaw and 6 countries are going to have Pre this week I don´t Know what are they going to do with this.

IMO Quality in Europe is very demanding and storage capacity according to specifications , is part of it.

[chris]

People at webOSinternals, etc. do great work and it's much appreciated. That being said, these fixes need to be coming from Palm. The average user is not entering Konami codes. If they are, then the situation is even worse. Where is the customer experience?

[AKITAYO]

Totally agree with you, with customer experience
I will not like to use HB or Konami codes I will prefer native apps and features directly from Palm too

Maybe, the trend is showing me a future Pre 2 version full fixed.