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Phone Memory

3 replies · 1,815 views · Started 13 June 2008

Hi,

i just got a N95 8G. Just a question here.

Is the phone memory i saw on my phone, referring to the 128 MB SDRAM memory on the specification?

err... i got another question here.

the contacts (phonebook), how do i move all my contacts to mass memory?

as wat i seen in my memory details,
Phone memory --- 500kb contacts,
mass memory ----- 0b contacts.

is there a way to switch the two?
issit use the copy function? will it leave 2 redundant (duplicate) contacts in my phone or not?

And, the Nokia Nseries PC suite 2.0, is there a function to edit, manage the contacts infor in in phone? can seem to find things like "contact editor" in the option.

when i bought my n75 last year, it came with a PC suite version that let me edit all my contacts on my laptop and it updated my address book in my phone. i dont know that the newer version of PC suite does this.

regarding your memory, you want to keep your contacts on phone memory. especially with the n95 8GB, installing things to mass memory causes many problems. for example, people have problems installing apps like opera mini and google maps to mass memory. phone crashes etc. install everything to the phone memory is my opinion. same with contacts or any type of system functions that are going to be used often. mass memory read speeds are not good enough and it really just adds an additional level of complications.

the phone has 128MB of RAM which is your active memory like on a PC. and then you have 160 MB of phone memory for installing apps, which is like a mini hard drive. i install all my 3rd party apps to phone memory because that's what its for and there's plenty of it available.

to answer your question i dont know how you would get contacts to mass memory. when you open contacts, the left softkey options has copy feature. first i copy all my contacts to the SIM card so they are backed up. maybe this is what you are talking about. you definitely want your contacts backed up on the sim card, and also have a regular copy in phone memory.