I have decided to take a breath and not put a bullet through my 8310 Curve (because I can't afford an iphone at the moment). My issue lately has been the friggin hourglass. It comes up for no reason. Literally. A few times I have pulled my phone out of my pocket (it was locked) only to find that little hourglass mocking me. Laughing at me. As you can imagine, doing a battery pull two to three times a day takes its toll on someones sanity. Two and a half minutes may not seem like a long time until you need to use your phone (that's how long it takes my phone to restart). Currently I'm running OS 4.5.0.99 and have 12222149 bytes free. The apps I currently have are: opera mini, jivetalk, myspace, facebook, google maps, gmail, and google search. I close them properly by clicking close as opposed to just using the end button. I've dumped other apps to try to remedy that problem (foxnews, espn, cnn, weather.com) but the problem remains. Am I going to have to wipe this thing and start all over again?
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You are right on the brink of the low side of memory. 12mb or below and you start to have issues. I suspect your are dipping into the single digits in between resets. Facebook is more than likely the issue though if you are a heavy texter deleting all unneeded texts and emails will help alot.... There are many other things you can do as well
1. Delete all texts or unneeded texts and emails. People who save hundreds of texts will eventually have memory related issues.
2. Make sure you close all apps properly (menu>close) as well as move all media (ringtones, pictures, video etc) to a media card - if you dont have a media card its a good idea to get one to keep the pictures, ringtones off the device memory.
3. Clear your browser cache (browser>options>cache operations) as well as the event log........On your keypad hold down the alt key and type lglg and clear the event log (ignore the warning).
4. If you have too many themes or applications maybe cut down on a few you dont use. Facebook would be the first place I would go for an app that needed to be deleted.
Basic housecleaning is all you need to avoid this issue in the future....
Keep an eye on what applications are running hold alt & hit esc (button right of the trackball) it will show you 5. (phone, messages, bbm, home screen, browser) anything else in there is running and you should look into it.. After you complete many of these if not all - pull the battery with the phone on, wait 30 seconds, replace, when you boot back up check your new file free memory size.
Lastly this thread will help you even more with getting a better file free
