Memory leaks

[franzfume]

I experience a severe memory leaks in my 9105 At restart I have around 53 mb free
Then memory go down around 2-3 megs x hour
In my bold 9000 (I use it sometime) is even whorse
It start from 20 free and in a few hours free memory end.

I tryed some software for managing memory bt no success...
Pleas can someone help me to find the way to reduce or eliminate that?
I know I can do a daily reboot but is very annoyng is the most REAL and BIG problem of the BB platform

[JeffH]

A memory leak is caused by an application that does not properly release its memory when it is finished with it, or in the worse cause, by an app that acquires and holds more memory than it should, due to a programming error. In both cases, the rogue app prevents the OS from performing its normal memory recovery function, and your free memory decreases. The second scenario is the worser of the two, and in extreme form can cause your device to run out of memory and crash.

All apps use memory when they execute, and also require memory to hold them when they are not executing. The OS manages this memory. A fluctuation of 8-10 MB over the course of a day is not necessarily an indication of a memory leak. That's just the normal working of the OS. The term Memory Leak is often misused to describe normal memory fluctuations.

There isn't anything the user of a program can do to prevent true memory leaks, other than to not use the leaking program. Memory management software just takes up memory and cannot do anything the OS isn't already doing. Rebooting the BlackBerry will recover the memory and restore normal operation until you run the leaking program again. You can usually identify a true leak by deleting programs one at a time until you find the source.

[franzfume]

Many thanks! btw Im not incline in considering "wasting" around 9 mb at day a normal behaviour... At last is a thing not know in bot Android and iOS platform.
In my 9105 I can live whit that, just because at restart I have around 50 mb free.
But using my Bold (around 20 at start) I have very frequent crash and self restart just because in 6-7 hours the whole memory is erased! Last resort: I'll go to try some hybrid firmware on my Bold. maybe better? I hope so!

[JeffH]

A hybrid might help, if it freed up more memory or eliminated a section of code that happened to be exacerbating the problem. The bottom line is that many older BlackBerry devices simply don't have enough memory for all the apps users want to use. When you don't have enough memory to start with, it doesn't take much of a leak to quickly become a problem.

[franzfume]

Youre right! but even on my OLD Bold 9000 I manage to have around 20-22 free meg. at start, not bad ! Just I dont know why the os start to eat byte like charms

[mobibiz]

Please boot up your erring BlackBerry in safe mode and check and see if the issue persists, if the issue persists even in the safe mode then the issue is with the OS itself, and needs to be reinstalled. If the issue does not happen in the safe mode then you need to erase out the third party applications you have installed. Link to boot the phone in the safe mode :- Blackberry Safe Boot - (All Models - All OS Versions). Hope this helps.