[Bilaal]

I've been experimenting with the length of boot time it takes for my BlackBerry to boot up. I found that certain aspects of the phone does highly affect the length of time to boot up the BlackBerry.

The obvious elements (that have an effect on the boot up time) are:

1. Which OS you have installed
2. How many applications you have installed
3. How many applications are set to open when the phone turns on

However, I searched "boot time" on CB and found out that things like

• How much storage your memory card upholds (in terms of MB/GB)
• Whether you have a custom wallpaper that is stored on your memory card
• Custom 3rd party themes
• Memory, such as messages, application cache and browser memory (history, cookies, cache etc)

ALSO have a mass amount of affect on just how long your phone will take to boot up.

So, that being, I moved my wallpaper (.jpg file) onto the phone memory, took out my memory card, removed 3 third party apps, performed memory cleaning and performed a battery pull. It took the phone 7mins to boot up.

However, after clearing out the messages, call logs, signing out of Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, cleaning browser memory and then finally, performing another memory cleaning push, I then pulled the battery out and it took me 3mins for the boot up (the bar) but anoter 40sec to get passed the "stop clock", before the home screen appeared. (keeping in mind, the memory card was still not inserted).

So, I was thinking, it would be interesting to see other users post their boot up times, detailing it specifically, such as:

1. Which OS version you have installed
2. How many apps installed (and set to run on startup)
3. Whether you have a memory card inserted and the storage amount
4. Custom theme/wallpaper?

I think, if we can pretty much tackle down the big elements that will decrease the long winded length in boot up, it will benefit BB users in the long run (until BB 10, perhaps? ;-) lol)

p.s. This is my first LONG post, ever on CB )

[jeffrey1027]

Mine boots and is ready to use in just under 3 mins.
Os 7.1.0.258
4GB memory Card
Custom wallpaper
BeeBuzz, Poynt,tinymeter, Fancy Smiley, Screengrabber Free and the stock apps installed
FB, Twitter always signed in.
180mb free at startup (shrunk os prior to install)

[PALeafs67]

It this curve 9360 2 mins and 20 seconds with a 16g mirco sd installed...

[PALeafs67]

OS 7.1.0.258 leaked
Toronto maple leafs Wallpaper
Twitter open
face book open

[Bilaal]

OS 7.1.0.258 leaked
Toronto maple leafs Wallpaper
Twitter open
face book open

How many apps do you have installed? 2 n half minutes is impressive.

[Bilaal]

Mine boots and is ready to use in just under 3 mins.
Os 7.1.0.258
4GB memory Card
Custom wallpaper
BeeBuzz, Poynt,tinymeter, Fancy Smiley, Screengrabber Free and the stock apps installed
FB, Twitter always signed in.
180mb free at startup (shrunk os prior to install)

I definitely have a lot more apps installed, but nothing set to open on boot up. I see a trend of 3mins..

[PALeafs67]

How many apps do you have installed? 2 n half minutes is impressive.

12 extra on the desk top and 4 games hidden
Opera mini
Toronto Maple Leafs App
Twitter Running
face Book sometimes running if i forget to log out
You Tube
Screen Grabber
Flashlight
Photo Editor
FM radio app
Tune in radio
BB mobile Conferencing
Rogers account app
i timed this as soon as i saw your posting..2 mins 20 Seconds up and running

[jeffrey1027]

My bold 9900 booted up in 1mins 30s when I was testing it a while ago after a fresh os reinstall.. This curve is about 2mins 40ish for me. What a big difference. But I rather have this device not nuke or brick on me!!

[hussam1988]

My 9630 boots and is ready to use in just over 3 mins.
Os 7.1.0.258
4GB memory Card
Custom wallpaper
whatsapp,flash light, caro game

[135]

1m 35s
custom wallpaper
leaked 7.1.0.258 - shrink-ed
4GB memory Card
apps opera mini + qr-scanner

[Bilaal]

My 9630 boots and is ready to use in just over 3 mins.
Os 7.1.0.258
4GB memory Card
Custom wallpaper
whatsapp,flash light, caro game

1m 35s
custom wallpaper
leaked 7.1.0.258 - shrink-ed
4GB memory Card
apps opera mini + qr-scanner

Are these the only apps you have installed additionally? 1m 35s for that is awesome.

I have an 8gb card, I remember shriking the OS and I have installed the following:

1. BlackBerry Protect
2. Evernote
3. Photo Editor Ultimate
4. Screen Muncher - Holiday Edition
5. Poynt
6. Trainline Tickets
7. Sccope
8. Vlingo
9. Sky News
10. Flixster
11. Youtube (this is the icon, which directs you to the mobile site, I wouldn't classify this as an app)
12. Dropbox
13. Tiggit Controler for iTunes
14. Google Maps
15. Jingu Text
16. The Light (Flashlight)
17. Cricbuzz
18. FileScout
19. Rock File Manager
20. Yahoo Messenger
21. Twitter
22. Facebook
23. WhatsApp
24. Google+
25. Tumblr

Mine takes just over 3mins to boot. I reckon, that's impressive

[Bilaal]

12 extra on the desk top and 4 games hidden
Opera mini
Toronto Maple Leafs App
Twitter Running
face Book sometimes running if i forget to log out
You Tube
Screen Grabber
Flashlight
Photo Editor
FM radio app
Tune in radio
BB mobile Conferencing
Rogers account app
i timed this as soon as i saw your posting..2 mins 20 Seconds up and running

Check my above post, I got 25 additional apps installed, this excludes Social Feeds and BBM. I don't see why some people will complain the phone takes too long to boot. I think it may have something to do with OS 7

[iansantos17]

My boot time in 9360 (OS 7.1.0.258) is 00:02:20. Screenshot attached.

-Facebook (always sign in)
-Twitter (always sign in)
-Facebook Messenger (always sign in)
-Foursquare
-Battery Booster (enabled)
-PicStory
-MMDA
-Screen Grabber
-Crackberry

-Application storage; 105.6MB free
-2GB Memory; 118.5 MB free
-Event Log (off/Hide events)
-Custom wallpaper

[Berry_Pink]

v7.0.0.0.530
app storage left: 141.7mb
media card 3.2gb free out of 3.6gb
custom free os pink theme and custom family guy wallpaper
facebook always on

5 games downloaded and installed + games that came with the phone

apps installed not including ones that come with the phone:
-bebuzz
-flashlight
-google search
-lock for apps free
-blackberry protect
-youtube
-photoeditor free

took 2 mins 54 seconds to turn on

[dibbis]

v. 7.0.0.530
Storage: 139.9 mb
Media card: 2.9 gb out of 3.6 gb
Custom wallpaper

Apps (came with the phone, facebook, twitter etc are deleted)
1. BBM (enabled)
2. Documents to go
3. YouTube (I don't know if this is really an app)
4. BB Protect
5. BB Maps
6. Windows Live Messenger

Apps (downloaded)
7. Photo Studio
8. Weather Plus
9. WhatsApp
10. Google Maps
11. Bible App
12. How to tie a tie
13. ScoreMobile FC
14. Crackberry Forums
15. Shazam Encore
16. Rabobank
17. Mydoc2PDFConverter
18. NU.nl
19. Nobex Radio Premium
20. Bloomberg Mobile
21. Flitsinfo
22. iBlocker Lite
23. MyOrder
24. AppsLock Pro
25. Mobile Data Alerter (enabled)
26. Unit Converter Pro Lite
27. iTranslator for BlackBerry
28. OpMaat
29. Menu Utilities
30. UnzipMe
31. vScreenshot
32. RayOfLight

Games (came with the phone)
1. Brickbreaker
2. Word Mole

Games (installed)
3. Dots
4. Plumber

Took 3 mins 20 secs.. donnow if it's good or bad..

[jai_soni]

I have-
Facebook, twitter, whatsapp, google maps(latitude) logged in.
True caller, google map running at startup.

Wallpaper from media card, default theme.

It takes 7 min to boot.

Also my app memory is only 18MB I have only 10 apps installed on extra.
Media card 5GB free out of 7.2gb.

A application Memboo show my available RAM only 245mb.


What to do??

[ryanraven]

2 Minutes 19 Seconds
7.1 Bundle 1311 - v7.1.0.437 - Platform 9.6.0.60
apps
facebook
bbm
facebook messenger
my vodafone
app world

[2c]

apps
whats app
theme
seven point five
memory card
23 gigs class 4
and it takes almost 2 monutes to boot up.

i dont use 3rd party applications exept whats app.

[EPiiCxPHAiiLURE]

9360 Boots In Just Under 2 minutes 20seconds
OS 7.1.0.258
32GB memory Card
Own Photo Background
Ebay. Supertorch, Crackberry Forums
FB, Twitter always signed in, and Crackberry Forums ALWAYS!
Dont know how many mbs on start up haha

[bembang]

Bkackberry 9360
Insertion of batterry (no bar yet) - stop clock 0:03:07
Stop clock 0:00:41
OS official 7.1.0.523
No shrinking
8gb MMC
Custom wallpaper (saved in mmc)


Apps:
PuZZed
Facebook (logged in)
Twitter (logged &in)
BBM (active)
Advance OS and LED
Pocket Dictionary
Sh*t load of PDF, Doc, etc files
And other more apps

Didnt clean msgs or anything

[Mashari.F]

Curve 9360 on BB OS 7.1.0.336, official update
boot time 4m55s it used to be 3m
4GB sd card, half full
free Internal space 109.6MB (Damn apps updates)
free RAM ~250MB
apps installed:
Twitter
Facebook
Foursquare
eBuddy XMS
Whatsapp
BlackBerry Protect
App World
Youtube
Screen Muncher
Barcode Scanner
Fancy Smiley