How much free space do you have? and other memory questions

[Guest kkrull]

How do you find out how much memory is available on your phone?

I have been getting low memory error messages and I installed card cache as soon as I got the SP5. If I go to file manager and look at smartphone properties I show 3.45 MB in 131 folders and 152 files (with my MiniSD card removed). Seems pretty frugal to me.

Are there places I can't see from file manager?

Is there a better way to check free space?

Where is the most likely place my space would be used?

How many folders and files does a new phone show?

I must be missing something. There is no way a near empty machine could be out of space and have all these people expecting to put WM6 on their phones. Does a full install of WM6 fit on 64M ROM?

In looking at MobileGadget's diagram here http://www.modaco.com/index.php?act=attach...st&id=20980 it appears that my phone should have 11M of ROM free.

I use the A2DP hack but I have a lot of contacts with photos and a lot of exchange data that probably gets cached. Everything else should be on the MiniSD card.

Edited February 25, 2007 by kkrull

[Guest]

How do you find out how much memory is available on your phone?

If you goto

settings-->about

It will show how much space is free. If you sync all email and have a large exchange ac that may account for the lack of space. If you only sync the last few weeks mail it shouldnt be a prob. Have you deleted tem internet files?

gr

[Guest conan_troutman]

if you have lots of programs installed even if they are on the SD card goto /windows/Appmgr

and copy ever single folder you find in there except one called install to a safe place on your SD card or PC

this is where the uninstall info for each applet is kept.

it eats up loads of memory just remember when you want to uninstall a program restore the appropriate folder back here and reboot the phone before doing so.

[Guest tobbbie]

it eats up loads of memory just remember when you want to uninstall a program restore the appropriate folder back here and reboot the phone before doing so.

A reboot is not necessary, you can do that on the fly. I did the same and moved all apps-uninstall-info to the SD card.

If you are capable of reading some German, have a look at my post in this post:

http://www.mobilejoe.de/joeforums/showthread.php?t=16746

dealing with memory on a WM5 device.

bye

tobbbie

;)

[Guest conan_troutman]

Hi tobbbie

I merely mentioned to reboot as although you are quite correct that you do not need to reboot there are the random programs that refuse to budge until you reboot before uninstalling and then they dont go queitly you have to reinstall reboot and uninstall.

so when you do it on the fly I would recomend rebooting before hand just to bu sure.

[Guest kkrull]

settings-->about. It will show how much space is free. If you sync all email and have a large exchange ac that may account for the lack of space. If you only sync the last few weeks mail it shouldnt be a prob. Have you deleted tem internet files?

Ok, it shows 9.96 available storage and 17.94 total storage. 16.74 available memory and 44.69 total memory. What does anyone else have?

File manager only shows my "temporary internet files" as 16kb with 1 file in 5 folders, so if it is accurate then deleting those won't help much.

if you have lots of programs installed even if they are on the SD card goto /windows/Appmgr and copy ever single folder you find in there except one called install to a safe place on your SD card or PC this is where the uninstall info for each applet is kept.

File manager only shows my \windows\appmgr as 28kb with 4 files in 19 folders, so again if it is accurate then deleting those won't help much either.