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I'm very tempted to upgrade my Desire to official 2.3.3, but I was wondering if I'd lose internal memory in doing this. I didn't find any info on the Internet, so I would like to ask that to someone that actually upgraded how much free internal memory there is after the process.

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I found a user reporting 123 MB of free internal memory after the upgrade, vs 134 MB on a stock FroYo, so you lose 11 MB when upgrading, although it seems that applications take up less space and app2sd is more efficient. I'd like to hear more stories though.

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I am surprised that there isn't more to find on this subject.. I was going to do a factory reset, so I thought I might as well update. After the update I installed almost all the apps that I had before, and instead of 15Mb free (that I used to have), I now have 75Mb free :p

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In the end there is less space than with 2.2. I'm not sure how much, but truth is I can install less applications. I think I'm going to install Cyanogenmod. – Dario Solera Sep 10 '11 at 6:48
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gingerbread is totally buggy about free space.

Ive even used A2SD, and moved that Dalvic Cache to ext partition, oki!, I got next 80MB, but it is still going down, each day. I am sad a bit from this.

I would recommend to root yours devices and go back to Froyo definitely, only I just now need to use application, which needs android 2.3, otherwise is not able to install it.

I am sad, and I like my HTC Desire, I dont consider it as so old as it should be replaced by a new device.

What can we do.. :-)

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So many strong statements without any reference. – roxan Nov 5 '11 at 7:50
What kind of reference would you like ? Have you tried that rom? – TraFoO Nov 5 '11 at 7:57
I happen to have the same experience. I even wrote about it in a post on my blog. The problem is that Android keeps eating space over time and there's no way to get it back but to wipe all user data. – Dario Solera Nov 5 '11 at 9:13

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