[andonakis]

Hey guys, I know themes are great to change the look on your storm, but believe me I had several on mine until I decided to delete them all and just keep the one that came with it. It's like a whole different phone with out them.
These themes are huge memory hogs!!!! By the end of the day my app memory would go below 10mb and my phone would run very sluggish.
So after a few weeks of playing around with all sorts off themes I decides to just delete them. WOW what a difference!!!! I could not believe how different the storm performed. Try it so you can believe me. You will see a difference.

[theconfused1]

Yeah but RIM will probably fix the issues. Plazmic is limiting and the buggy OS doesn't help. Can't point fingers at the theme makers.

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[oneijose]

Yes Yes Yes! I’ve notice the same thing. Especially after upgrading the OS to .109. Unfortunately I’m having an identity crisis and I can’t leave with out Ax and my new Fav ubuntu!! Plus I’m not really a fan of Precision Zen.

I can leave with doing a batter pull a day.

[Eleni 22]

I've noticed more of a memory leak with the fully released plazmic themes then I did before with the beta anyone else having that issue?

[bthomasltd]

Hey there all, I too noticed the memory hogging! I have iVista2, Android, and iBerry Today Plus themes installed but do not have them running. I am waiting for the official OS from RIM to release. Even different OS builds do not make a difference. Currently, I'm running 114Hyrbridv2_reduced_java. Still no change in the response. I have more memory due to the hybrid builds but the leaking is still there. I agree though, the phone is totally different when using the Precision Zen. Good luck, have fun playing around. -BT

[ab345]

Running Android themes here too, noticing memory leak on my device for the first time on the recompiled theme using Official Plazmic - one step backward! Maybe we should ask theme developers to also make available Beta compiled versions of themes to test this.

[ClassaN0va]

I've deleted all the themes, and went back to precision. Problem solved. Not a big boost on "attractiveness", but it gets the job done

[drewbe70]

I still run .75 and themes do not kill my memory. I feel it is more your running beta OS's that contribute the most...I just find it odd with people blaming apps and themes all the time, when at least on my phone, any wierd memory fluctuations have been from running beta OS's...

[ClassaN0va]

I still run .75 and themes do not kill my memory. I feel it is more your running beta OS's that contribute the most...I just find it odd with people blaming apps and themes all the time, when at least on my phone, any wierd memory fluctuations have been from running beta OS's...

I agree. I havent moved off of .75

[drewbe70]

Yeah, not putting anyone down. I guess it just depends. I like the brilliant color of my display right now, I cant stand the color banding of any of the new OS's. I wish this had been more marketed as a business tool, with entertainment capablilites rather than a multimedia adventure, we would not have hlaf the people complaining about the phone we do now.

[ClassaN0va]

Yeah, not putting anyone down. I guess it just depends. I like the brilliant color of my display right now, I cant stand the color banding of any of the new OS's. I wish this had been more marketed as a business tool, with entertainment capablilites rather than a multimedia adventure, we would not have hlaf the people complaining about the phone we do now.

Precisely. I need my phone to function as such. I dont need an apple, a G1, or any of those. Like its hard for me to like a theme, when I use it and I'm over it in a matter of minutes. I try to stick to the basics, no bells and whistles.

[drewbe70]

I have been fine with my phone. The only thing i want is unless you have selected an app, that it never drops to landscape mode...Home screen or app screen, stays like it is until you select an app...If that comes about, I will be good to go...

[ClassaN0va]

I have been fine with my phone. The only thing i want is unless you have selected an app, that it never drops to landscape mode...Home screen or app screen, stays like it is until you select an app...If that comes about, I will be good to go...

Maybe I'm the only one, but I have an issue answering my phone correctly in ALL themes minus the Precision Zen.

[Payne78]

I don't know how some of you are still running .75, it's such garbage compared to .109 or hybrid .114. I held out on the beta's for quite a while, waiting for an official, but couldn't do it anymore and I'm glad I started upgrading. Obviously the theme's take up more memory, they're probably larger in size then the original and more graphics intensive. They certainly look alot better.

[smarkow]

I finally decided to delete all the themes except for the original theme. Phone is now running 10 times quicker than before.

I love the themes, but can't handle my phone being as slow as it was. Accelerometer wasnt working, and it took forever just to go to another app/screen. Until the memory issue is leaked then I will stick with the original...unless I find a theme that i absolutely cannot live without.

[andrewknight]

I'm using a 5300 with .78, I have tried and enjoyed several of the great free themes on CBerry. All had some effect on memory but android by e seems to have little or no effect. I however only keep only one third party app in memory at a time, why keep five or more when you can download them when you need them? My only regret is that I am currently dead broke and cannot donate at the moment. My two personal top two are android by e and appleberry by a dude who's name escapes me at the mo but who does great work.

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[dimented]

Do you actually have to delete them to get it running quicker? Or just not be using them?

[andrewknight]

Imo it makes a great improvement if you only have the rim theme and one third party theme on your phone. This is just my opinion of course and by no means definitive. I have noticed memory leakage even with only precision zen on my BB which leads me to wonder, what are non theme third party apps doing to memory?

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[mrsFAB]

I have found about 18 must-have themes. I love and use them all!!!!!!!!!!

[SoCalSpecialist]

not all..most but not all

i recently deleted all themes from my device and just put the "Colored Leather Zen" themes back on ( 5 altogether) ...im at about 38-40mb steady

that's including running about 4, 3rd party apps

[chuk1005]

I have found about 18 must-have themes. I love and use them all!!!!!!!!!!

U have 18 themes installed with no lag?

[General PattOwn]

This is exactly why I stopped making my custom Gators theme. There's no point in spending tons of time on creating a theme if I can't change EVERYTHING on the phone at the moment, and if there is a memory leak. It would run smooth for a few hours then all of a sudden I would get the hourglass when receiving phone calls, but the incoming call would not show up. I have very important calls I have to answer every day and it's not fun when you can't pick up the phone or see who's calling.

[RoscoeDpG]

i pretty much keep OG theme but if i do change any time i just keep one on and delete when i change

[jamesandyori]

Not all of them are:

http://forums.crackberry.com/f131/al...-theme-160303/

Here is my findings so far using the Alien Theme:

Saturday
43.72 = 05:21 pm
43.14 = 05:35 pm battery pull
41.95 = 06:00 pm organized icons
Just discovered the icons move on the home screen! WOW cool stuff!
38.00 = 06:30 pm @ park filming my 1 1/2 year old son via my Storm
Then in holster (sleep)
32.62 = 09:42 pm wake up.
38.55 = 09:50 pm twittered a bit. (My Storm always has dropped a bit when a asleep then picks up again when active.)
43.75 = 10:07 pm deleted a app and had to do a battery pull
40.71 = 11:00 pm just sitting around

Sunday
42.52 = 09:22 am After a night of charging! WOW mem is stable!

As you can see so far my mem is stable.
This theme is Awesome! And so clean crisp!

James