Guest flashflash Posted February 12, 2005 Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 Ive just recently got a C500 after owning a Mpx200. Even when I'm not running anything and straight after turning the phone on, I only have approx 7Mb or RAM left... Is this right? Since my Mpx200 used to have over 13Mb and even with the WM03 update (Which I later removed) had over 10Mb.. Is this WM03SE eating all the ram? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Confucious Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 7 - 8 Mb RAM is the norm of the C500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xenophobe Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 (edited) Hmm... I always have between 8 and 10.2mb free.... 10.2 is right after a reboot, but thats on an SMT 5600 Edited February 14, 2005 by xenophobe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shaggyguitarist Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 I also just upgraded to c500 from mpx200, and noticed the same thing. Ihave task manager on speed dial 8 and i restarted the phone and went straight to task manager before the network had been found, and it says 9,856kb of free memory. I never tried this with my mpx but remember it having problems running stuff if the free memory dropped below 9000kb. Has anyone figured how it is so low? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Confucious Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 It is normal for the C500 - don't worry about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scottishdave Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 About 9mb free here. Question: is the C500 capable of emulating Virtual Memory? Would be useful for those with large memory cards!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BanziBarn Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 Please can someone explain a bit more about the memory on the C500 , and what its used for? In Explorer under System Info its divided into the following Storage Memory – 1.46mb total Program Memory – 21.62mb total STORAGE(Flash) – 27.98mb total Storage card – 14.02mb I know what the storage card is, but can anyone explain the others? I’ve worked out that Program Memory is used to store applications when they are running but is this separate from STORAGE (flash)? I guess I’m confused because on a PC, the RAM is used to run applications, where it appears that the 32mb of quoted ram for the C500 is not used for applications, and instead for storage of files (as the name STORAGE (Flash) suggests!) Is the Operating System stored in the Program Memory when the phone is on? If so, whats actually using up the big chunk of STORAGE (Flash)? But if the Operating System is stored in STORAGE (Flash), what’s using up the big chunk of Program Memory? Would I be right in saying that the STORAGE (Flash) holds the programs when they are not running, and then when you launch them, they load into the Program memory? But for the built in applications, aren’t they stored in ROM and if so, why would then need to take up any STORAGE (Flash)? I appreciate that programs such as Betapalyer which I have put on will have to go in STORAGE (flash) but thats the only extra program I’ve installed. And what is the Storage Memory totaling 1.46mb all about? I take it that none of the quoted figures in the ROM do they? As you can tell I don’t know much about this stuff! Any help to make sense of all this going round in my little brain would be appreciated! Cheers guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest squall Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 as i understand it: Flash - space taken up by the rom image (the operating system, the back up os which installs on hard reset, preinstalled aps etc) Storage - area of phone memory used to store games apps sounds and homescreens installed to the phones memory. program - the remainder of the phones memory used for running programs.Running elements of the os will be here. (remember this is only for things which are in use. If an element of the os which was in use is not being used the allocated memory will be freed) storage card - speaks for itself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BanziBarn Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 But in Explorer its listed as 'STORAGE (flash)' - which implies storage and Flash are the same thing, and then 'Program Memory' as a seperate amount of storage. Also, it looks like Program memory has about 20mb on top of the 32mb STORAGE (Flash). :?: One of the reasons I'm asking about this is becuase I want to work out what stuff in STORGAE (Flash) I can delete without it coming back on boot up... Other related questions are things like, Why are there two windows folders? (is the one at the root level the Rom information that gets copied to STORAGE (Flash) Windows folder on boot up? If so, which folders in STORAGE (Flash) are totally re created on boot up? And which ones are not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest squall Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 ie is most likely held in both Flash and storage as its part of the rom but will have to store local content. The memory allocation is dynamic, program memory is the remainder of the memory when you remove the flash and the storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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