BTW, reinstalling the app after each and every small change doesn't seem to me to be a good development practice unless you're learning Android development and are constantly experimenting with the SDK. Otherwise it smells like you're trying to do something, struggling with it and going the trial and error route which leads to, well, no memory on the device ;)
Cheers, Stoyan P.S. I've had a bit more coffee today and am trying to guess what you're doing, feel free to curse me :) On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately I'm not. Do search this list for "TERRIBLE BUG" where > you'll find me ranting about that, and Android engineers confirming > that there's a bug related to unlinking files, which causes your phone > memory the decrease after each reinstall (that is a failed attempt to > delete the app, and then the successful install) to the point where > you won't have any memory. I lost all hope until someone (can't > remember who, but God bless him) at Google confirmed the bug and gave > 2 workarounds. > > I feel your pain :) > > Cheers, > Stoyan > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Mark Nuetzmann <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> You must be joking... If I am developing/debugging an app we have to >> uninstall every time we want to test a change to some code. I find >> this very hard to believe. >> >> On Jan 29, 2:38 am, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I don't know the reason for this particular error message, but I >> > strongly advise you to always uninstall your app before reinstalling, >> > otherwise you'll run out of device memory and would have to do the >> > "double shutdown" or "battery pull" trick to get it back. >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Mark Nuetzmann >> > >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > I have been debugging my app for weeks now on both the emulator and >> > > device. All of a sudden I am getting the following error when I try >> > > to debug. >> > >> > > Failed to upload myapp.apk on 'HT841GZ03224': Too many open files >> > >> > > I figure I could simply uninstall the app and try again but is there a >> > > quicker fix? >> > >> > > thanks, >> > > Mark >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

