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question about ram

9 replies · 2,963 views · Started 04 October 2003

I was wodering if it is possible with a bit of symbian knowledge to make an app that makes you able to use the phone memory for extra ram memory?😕

Lars, we've discussed the topic of using storage space as a swap file. Nobody has definitely said no but probably impossible.

1) System Tools
2) AppMAn

Application manager. It tells you how much RAM you have free and how many applications are running in the background. You can view a list of programs and processes that are running, hidden, at the moment.
Some are system files, but there is an icon beside these ones and a warning message will come up if you try to close one. You can choose to close any hidden applications or processes, view information about the application, kill an application (if one locks up and you can't close it by holding down the mrnu key), close all apps, restart your phone and best of all, compress memory. This can free up more RAM (different every time and depends on certain factors).

First off, with appman, choose the option to restart your phone. When it has restarted, open up AppMan again and close any apps you have running in the background (not the system apps obviously - I closed the phone app by accident and my phone restarted?!).
Then go to the processes and close any processes that do not have a little blue cog icon beside them.
Now go back to the main menu, and compress the memory.
Don't worry by the way. Once you turn off your your phone, all apps will be back running normally in the background as they were before when you turn it on again.

The second program is System tools. With this, you can compress the RAM, restart the phone, restore factory settings, format the phone and enter flight mode.
When you enter flight mode, the phone turns off. You then remove the sim card and turn the phone back on again. The phone will boot up without the sim card inserted (It doesn't work for me, unless I remove my memory card - there's obviously a confilcting app somewhere)
Flight mode is basically all the features of your phone, except the actual telephone.Since the telephone application is not running, there is an extra 1.5 - 2 mb RAM freed up.
If neither of the above methods work, and you are absolutely bent on playing a certain game or testing a certain app, then you can always format.
Before you format, make a backup of your phone's memory on either your memory card or pc (or both, for safety). When the backup is made, turn off your phone and remove the memory card. turn your phone back on. One more thing to do is to make sure the battery is fully charged (or is charging). If you format, and the battery cuts out mid way through, the phone is esentially useless. Even Nokia can't help you........
Now that you're aware of the risks, you can format either by using System tools or typing the code *#7370# into your phone. When the format is complete, install the game or app you want to use and you should have no problems running it. When you get bored or whatever, you can simply restore the backup you made earlier to your phone again.

Apocalypso,like Kiril said,lars is asking for a Symbian alternative to QEMM,a way to increase RAM by using phone storage or MMC card and not a program that can show free memory or compress it via user interevention.

apacalipso i know about system tools and appman but thanks for the help. i was asking for a way to use disk space for extra ram memory like ghostdog says but i found out it is not possible but anyway thanks for the replays

this subject has been covered at http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13636&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

to those saying that C: drive has nothing to do with the phone's working memory, here goes an extract of a text found on http://www.nokiagame.com/mobile/en/index.html:

"To play Nokia Game you need 3 MB free internal phone memory. If you have many applications installed on your internal phone memory or you have stored a large number of pictures, you can get out-of-memory errors while running Nokia Game. To prevent this, copy or move your applications and pictures from the phone memory to the memory card so they are deleted from internal phone memory."

...food for thought.

Even if they would exist, the phone will still be slow, because the MMC is not as fast as RAM is.