Possible Memory Leak? - Page 2 - Motorola Q Forum

n99hockey · 07-13-2007, 09:51 AM

im going to start uninstalling programs (atleast the last few that i have done) to see if i did put it on the SD card...maybe i made an oopsie

anyother thoughts in the mean time would be welcome

n99hockey · 07-13-2007, 10:17 AM

so i did a little house cleaning...got my memory up to 13megs free...still not the 17-20 im used to but soooooo much better than the 3megs that i had....ill deal with that for now...
ill keep looking and see what else i can find...if anything at all its good summer cleaning...LOL

thanks RB and GEPTRONIXDJS for your thoughts

rudeboy · 07-13-2007, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by n99hockey

so i did a little house cleaning...got my memory up to 13megs free...still not the 17-20 im used to but soooooo much better than the 3megs that i had....ill deal with that for now...
ill keep looking and see what else i can find...if anything at all its good summer cleaning...LOL

thanks RB and GEPTRONIXDJS for your thoughts

you're welcome buddy.. i have supposedly 15 MB free, but then again which program will/can we believe :}

n99hockey · 07-13-2007, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by rudeboy

you're welcome buddy.. i have supposedly 15 MB free, but then again which program will/can we believe :}

yea i know...
i even check the standard Q memory manager with that WM5.0 task manager i found and they matched up...so there is something there...ill have to check out my emails that i have saved...maybe something crazy large got tranfered over that i didnt know of...

GEPTRONIXDJS · 07-13-2007, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by n99hockey

so i did a little house cleaning...got my memory up to 13megs free...still not the 17-20 im used to but soooooo much better than the 3megs that i had....ill deal with that for now...
ill keep looking and see what else i can find...if anything at all its good summer cleaning...LOL

thanks RB and GEPTRONIXDJS for your thoughts

quite welcome i am now in the process of removing some stuff to see if it works for me

braeleure2 · 07-13-2007, 01:06 PM

I suspect File Manager returns total RAM + ROM used to store the Windows directory.

Related side note - File Manager says my mini-SD is 2GB, but Memory Manager correctly says its 4GB.

applejosh · 07-13-2007, 01:08 PM

Well, I don't know where all your space went to, but I have an explanation for the memory sizes you're seeing. The Q has 64MB of RAM (real RAM, similar to the RAM in your PC) and 128MB Flash (similar purpose to the hard drive in your system) of which a lot is part of the ROM image (i.e. you can't selectively remove certain apps the phone provider and Microsoft feel are neessary). I believe it's in the flash memory where all your apps get stored if installed to the "device" rather than a storage card.

As far as other places to look, have you looked in the Application Data folder? I know if I use Opera mobile, it sticks loads of files in the Opera\cache4 subdirectory. Also if you horde today screens like I do, the Home subdir fills up pretty quickly. Also, Live Search and Google maps take up lots of space. Beyond that, what are the sizes of your internal databases (I think pim.vol and cemail.vol in the root directory are these)?

n99hockey · 07-13-2007, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by braeleure2

I suspect File Manager returns total RAM + ROM used to store the Windows directory.

yea i was thinking that too...but i guess i kinda talked myself out of thinking that was right...but its possible

n99hockey · 07-13-2007, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by applejosh

As far as other places to look, have you looked in the Application Data folder? I know if I use Opera mobile, it sticks loads of files in the Opera\cache4 subdirectory. Also if you horde today screens like I do, the Home subdir fills up pretty quickly. Also, Live Search and Google maps take up lots of space. Beyond that, what are the sizes of your internal databases (I think pim.vol and cemail.vol in the root directory are these)?

well i dont use opera....
only have a the screen i use plus the standard screens in the \home folder
pim.vol is 3mb
cemial.vol is 5mb
and all programs are installed on SD card....who knows....
just wierd that it disappeared like that when the week earlier it was much more

thanks for your input!

n99hockey · 07-18-2007, 07:20 PM

ok so i was going through my emails and removing misc. things and i came across my drafts folder which had '1' file in it
i dont remember making a draft so i go and look at it....somehow (im sure i did it but dont remember) there was an email in there i was attempting to send that had a 5meg attachement!!!!

i removed this email and bam...my memory is back up to 20megs free!

anywho...long story short...i found the problem and it was my own doing (as most of the problems that happen are

)

thanks for all your help and thoughts....