Guest mcfc2134 Posted January 7, 2003 Report Posted January 7, 2003 On the orange-today website it states the phone requires 4.4mb of available ram. Is this stored on the phone or SD card? How can I find out if I have enough? Plus, has anyone downloaded the game and played it? Is it any good?? Cheers in advance Tim
Guest spacemonkey Posted January 7, 2003 Report Posted January 7, 2003 It takes up some memory for the game itself, can't remember but it may be about 700K... this can be on the storage card. Some of the other Ram it's refering to is that the phone needs some free memory for the game to operate but this is shared memory used by active applications and freed up when they close. Like the analagy for your computer is that it needs 700K harddrive space and 3-4 Mb RAM. The RAM is affected if you load too much stuff onto the space on your phone. Basically if you have a nice big SDCard you wanna put everything on there and keep the phone clear for runtime memory. Their 4.4Mb requirement may be an over estimate but they'll be covering themselves so you can't come back and winge that it doesn't work when you've loaded up your phone memory with movies...
Guest mcfc2134 Posted January 8, 2003 Report Posted January 8, 2003 How can you check on your SPV how much RAM u have free?
Guest spacemonkey Posted January 8, 2003 Report Posted January 8, 2003 If you have All-Explorer installed, open it up, when you have Smartphone selected in the directory window go menu-file-properties When this comes up which gives you battery etc, choose info - memory. Or, for a bit harder to read without All-Explorer go to your settings list and choose option 5 - About. This will list a whole heap of guff and you're interested in Available Memory which refers to program memory. Available Storage in both of these is talking about the storage in phone and not refering at all to info about storage cards at all.
Guest SPiV Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 :!: You guys seem to be getting confused with the difference between 'RAM' and 'Flash' (which is EEPROM). When you install an App, it will be stored in Flash, be it on the phone or on the SD card. This has the analogy of a PC's hard disk. If it were stored in RAM, you would lose your App when the phone is rebooted. The RAM must be seperate stuff in the phone itself for holding temporary operating data (I'm pretty sure the SD card does not have RAM in it, because RAM has to be very fast and the bus used on SD and MMC is an SPI serial bus which is relatively slow.) Also, it would be very stupid of the developers to use flash as temporary storage as it is VERY slow to write to (but not to read from) compared to RAM and it has a finite life. eg. most flash has a life of about 1million write cycles. Fine for writing the odd file to, but if the phone is constantly writing to it as if it were RAM, this would very quickly get worn out!! Just felt like I had to set this one straight. If anyone KNOWS that I am wrong *for definite* please let me know. I would almost stake my profession on what I have said!! :D Neil.
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