[Josb0411]

Even after battery pulls I only seem to top at 44 mb...i make sure i close out all apps after im done...any tips on getting it higher...is there a way to defrag or clean up the storm,is there something i should be doing regularly

[jk5one3]

44mb?! i only get up to 34

i know theres a thread here on how to free up some memory. someone care to link us??

[rsarno]

some are lucky to get near 50, but most people are in the 44 range.

seems like your doing fine

[DonNguyen]

if you've got VVM, docs2go, or bb maps...get rid of em...unless you use them, as they are memory hogs...

i've gotten as much as 57 on a fresh start up

[Josb0411]

alright just checking...just did some research on the forums and found this one post...says to go to options-security options-memory cleaning-change to enable and set to yes, yes, 5 min and yes...suppos to do memory cleans while phone is idle and help keep memory up

[PMurray633]

Every Storm is different, some people will get 40MB on a battery pull, others might get 55, it just depends on your phone.

[bigman2]

Even after battery pulls I only seem to top at 44 mb...i make sure i close out all apps after im done...any tips on getting it higher...is there a way to defrag or clean up the storm,is there something i should be doing regularly

Along with what everyone has said... Defragmenting on a PC doesn't free up space, it just shuffles the data around so all the pieces of a file are contiguous. It's also an archaic ritual that has no real purpose on today's computer, but that's not a topic for this forum.

You have 128MB total to start with, and in there you have to load the Storm's firmware and any other apps into that. I'm still not entirely sure on why that is, but I'm slowly coming to just accept it. So if you're in the 40-50 range, that's pretty good.

[jeramief]

I am only seeing 30-33 on a battery pull I would like to keep BB maps as I could see myself using that feature some....

[Josb0411]

[QUOTE=bigman2;1245146]Along with what everyone has said... Defragmenting on a PC doesn't free up space, it just shuffles the data around so all the pieces of a file are contiguous. It's also an archaic ritual that has no real purpose on today's computer, but that's not a topic for this forum.
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i know what it is, it was the only thing i can think of that related to speeding up an electronic device lol

[Josb0411]

should i enable the memory cleaning?..what does that really do?...does it even help, would it slow down the browser?

[jk5one3]

yeah im still only getting 36mb. i deleted vvm, word, excel, ppt, vznav. i have weatherbug on though, would that be why?

[DonNguyen]

weatherbug uses GPS correct?

[jk5one3]

weatherbug uses GPS correct?

ahhhhh **** it does. forgot about that.

[bigman2]

should i enable the memory cleaning?..what does that really do?...does it even help, would it slow down the browser?

From what I've been able to find on memory cleaning, it's not really what people think. It's more like a secure delete than a way to free up memory. That's why it's listed under security. It's useful if for some reason you had a bunch of government secrets on your phone, for example, and you wanted to make sure that any hostile foreign agents wouldn't be able to recover fragments of data from the device's unencrypted memory. So you would enable memory cleaning, which would add an extra process onto the normal garbage collection routine, that writes over that memory space a couple of times with zeros.

If someone has documentation showing it does something else, please do post a link.

[bigman2]

i know what it is, it was the only thing i can think of that related to speeding up an electronic device lol

My mistake then... I do PC tech support for a living, and sometimes it's all too easy to make certain assumptions.

[Josb0411]

not a problem...i have weatherbug running and im still around 45mb after deleting the doc to go's so weatherbug is not a problem for me

[jk5one3]

not a problem...i have weatherbug running and im still around 45mb after deleting the doc to go's so weatherbug is not a problem for me

did you delete bbmaps? i have garmin installed on my phone too if that makes a difference.

[Josb0411]

no i left bbmaps and i have weatherbug running...just deleted visual voice, vz nav and the doc to go's

[Josb0411]

just checked after my phone reset after the deletions and doing that memory clean i jumped up to 47 highest ive seen

[stormdevil]

is there any way to get these apps back in case I change my mind and want to use them?

[Josb0411]

i think u can get them back from the desktop manager

[Rooster]

I too think 44 is about right. Why do u want/need it be b higher?


You always dump more apps
for more space. Stuff like bz nav rr docs to go n vvm if u don use them. That should give u a decent starr space.

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[Josb0411]

i was just asking cause i kept seeing people talk about how theres was in the 50's but if 44 is about what everyone else has im happy

[tjs83]

How do you check to see how much memory you have?

[TekNiKal]

Quick question. Everyone keeps saying dump the apps. Does selecting the icon and choosing delete handle that task? Or is there more to deleting an unused application? After a battery pull the most free space I get is around 29. I've deleted VVM and VZ Nav. And I'm running .75 out the box.

I'm new to Blackberry. My wife has a Curve and I've always admired her phone. Now that I've had my Storm for a week and have adjusted to it, I like it! This phone does a lot of things well. Too bad so many people have had bad experiences.