[quote="JulesG"]The simplest and most useful change to the Pling of Peril* would be to add a message indicating "Your phone neets restarting".
Of, course this would require having a language lookup...
* ["Pling" being the old Unix term for Exclamation Mark][/quote]
I totally agree! Even without a language look up at least it could say in the standard english "please restart"... I can't think of anybody, not even outside the us, who would not understand those two words... I mean, when it first happened to me I looked a the screen and thought "damn, I'm glad I read that post about the 10 seconds thing..." 'cause otherwise it's quite challenging understand what the phone wants...
Well the first time I got it, I thought it meant the phone would switch off in 10 minutes because of low battery (it is SO informative), and after trying to desperately to switch it off (normally) or to find a button to dismiss the message, I took the battery out. When I powered on again, I was informed that the file system was corrupted and a reformat would be required!
Now having my phone do a scandisk, this I didn't expect for quite a few more years to come!
Another very annoying thing for those of you that go on about closing programs to keep the phone from crashing. How LAME can SE be? It doesn't include an Exit option in ANY of its builtin programs (e.g. Contacts, Calendar, Internet, Calculator, you name it). Result? Press the Internet button by mistake, up pops the browser. Guess what? you now cannot close it, just hide it. Want to see your calendar for today? Start CALENDAR, and guess what, you cannot end it (just hide it). If you get a File Manager app thats lists processes, you will get my point....A lot of things running and eating up memory.
What self-respecting programmer doesn't include an Exit button/option?
lordbyte
so it's not just me who was confused about what is running when since there are no exits for the built it stuff... I wonder how that's supposed to be..
used to hav same problem. this makes sense. tnx.
I think the way the SE apps e.g. Calendar work is that the memory pool is dynamic in that when they are not displayed, they don't hogg resources. The file manager only displays the potential memory requirements, no the actual usage.
To the matter of crashes and the yellow triangle of death 😃 I had it appear last night as my P800 sat in it's cradle. I held down the on/off button for the required 10 secs (seems like hours!) and saw the screen fade away. But when I tried to turn itt back on, nothing! Just the green LED. So I had to remove the Battery 😞 Things were back to normal again. Something for an updated Firmware fix methinks R2F??? :roll:
[quote="Anonymous"]I think the way the SE apps e.g. Calendar work is that the memory pool is dynamic in that when they are not displayed, they don't hogg resources. The file manager only displays the potential memory requirements, no the actual usage. [/quote]
We'll just have to pray the god that you are right or hope that somebody will volunteer to try to get a straight answer from SE (something I haven't had much luck at lately). Anyone?
[quote="Anonymous"]
To the matter of crashes and the yellow triangle of death 😃 I had it appear last night as my P800 sat in it's cradle. I held down the on/off button for the required 10 secs (seems like hours!) and saw the screen fade away. But when I tried to turn itt back on, nothing! Just the green LED. So I had to remove the Battery 😞 Things were back to normal again. Something for an updated Firmware fix methinks R2F??? :roll:[/quote]
Fingers are still crossed from before (hurts to type like this)
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I need a WindowsXP type OS on my P800, not a Windows98 one!!!
Sometimes I wonder what the P800 would've been like with the Microsoft mobile OS (Stinger) on it....
I don't know what Stinger is but if it is Microsucks I am guessing we are better off with Symbian, of course the BEST would be if the P800 had Linux on it (like the new Motorola palm/phone coming out Q3). If it had been Linux we'd be politically cool, we'd be open source meaning lots more software than the little there is for p800/symbian and we'd be fighting bill gates proactively... I would have loved it...