#galnet

Galnet logo and Netflix Recommendations Rant.

Netflix needs to redo their recommendation system. It has me as a 97% Match for Minions…

It thinks I would like Minions more than I would like Tiger & Bunny, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Miraculous Ladybug, Doctor Strange, the magic school bus, Ouran Highschool Host Club, and Sherlock!

No one else uses my profile. I rate every show I watch, and I’ve watched a lot of shows! You should know me better than this...

Minions. Really? Go home Netflix your drunk and no I don’t care if it’s a 98% Match stop recommending the live action Fullmetal Alchemist movie.

This fix will only work if you know what your doing. You need to have a rooted phone but then again if you are on MIUI (or any custom ROM) you will know what the below means.

I use the MIUI ROM from Galnet (http://galnetmiui.co.uk/landing/ics-builds/) ICS builds for my Samsung Galaxy S I9000. I noticed last night that a lot of my applications started force closing on their own. I looked at the force close error stacktrace and observed that all errors were caused by an SQLiteDiskIOException which means the applications were force closing simply because there were no space on the phone for them to store cache data.

This was insane as I had recently factory reset and flashed this ROM and had only a few essential applications installed instead of the usual 250 or so I had when I was on Darky ROM 10.2.2 EE.

The Fix -

I opened my terminal and ran this - du -dl /data/data | sort -n

I then realized that this was too geeky and used this instead - Disk Usage - a lovely app that shows you your disk space in a nice graphical interactive way.

I believe you can find more details on these issues with a search. According to some post, and I agree that this is not a permanent fix, it has to be rectified at the MIUI rom level.

\data and folders within this - this is where the user apps and related stuff are stored. this is where most of the rom storage is allocated.

\data\data - stores the apps configuration and run time data such as setting, lib, database For some reason (MIUI ROM Configuration I suppose), there is another folder, \datadata which stores the actual app data. Since \datadata is not under \data, it has limited storage space assigned. The \data\data is only a link to the \datadata folder, hence it has the same storage limitation. Hence, by moving \datadata to \data\data, you set \data\data to contain the actual app data. It also inherited the allowable storage from \data. The app starts to force close because it runs out of space in \data\data to store the app data.

The end :) Please use FileExpert to make the above changes or use App Cache Cleaner to clear cache occasionally.

With the unveiling of ICS and the Nexus Prime just under two weeks ago, it seems like everyone is eager to get their hands on a port of ICS to their device. Thankfully, the guys who are responsible for MIUI decided to try their hand at doing just this for the i9000. The build is currently in development status, and since source code won't be release until mid-November, I don't think we should be expecting much just yet. Still, it is very exciting to see what could potentially be running on all our phones in the coming months.

On page 11 of the thread are two working youtube videos demonstrating just what type of progress is being made on the port.